A bumper sticker on a sign on the Mt. Evans Highway, Colorado: Grace and Peace
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Bad kitties
Gracie likes to lay down on the laptop keyboard. Cinder likes to be in the way when I'm trying to type. That is the price I pay for having a little piece of nature in the home. Grace and Peace
Happy pi day
Today is pi day (3.14). Click here for my pi day jokes from last year. Click here for pi to one million decimal places, just in case you ever need it. Click here for the official Pi Day web site. Pi day just also happens to be Albert Einstein's birthday. That seems appropriate. Grace and …
Mars and Valentine’s Day
This item was originally posted in February 2007. It is now part of my blog recycling program. Because I have new readers of The GeoChristian, I will occasionally go back and re-use some of my favorite blog entries. Today is Valentine's Day, so... Is Mars the planet of war? After all, Venus was the Roman …
Medieval Norwegian tech support
Ever have problems opening a file? Ever worried about losing data? Watch this video. Grace and Peace
Pop vs Soda
I like to have meaningful conversations at the dinner table---we are usually all together for the meal---but often I have little control over where the conversation ends up. Tonight we got back to the "pop" versus "soda" discussion that we have fruitlessly gotten into many times before. Shirley and I both grew up drinking "pop," …
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Forget "White Christmas" and "Miracle on 34th Street." THE movie to watch for Christmas is "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians." (click for the movie at Google video) The Wikipedia article says this film "regularly appears on lists of the worst films ever made." It is so bad it is actually fun to watch. Internet Movie …
Wisdom from Sally Brown
I was looking for a quote from the "Peanuts" character Sally Brown. These are from her reports written for school: When writing about Church History, we have to go back to the very beginning. Our Pastor was born in 1930. This is my report on Rain. Rain is water which does not come out of …
A Montana Native’s Perception of New York City
A couple days ago I commented (click here) on a map of Montana printed by The New Yorker Magazine. (I got the map from Strange Maps). Those Easterners know that Montana has everything from militia groups to radical environmentalists, but they didn't know what part of the state to put them in. I was thinking …
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A different map of Montana
A few weeks ago I commented on the new geologic map of Montana. A beautiful work of art. Strange Maps has a map called Montana: The gorgeous mosaic: This map, from The New Yorker Magazine, is proof from once again that Easterners know nothing about Montana. The "obsessed environmentalists" are really concentrated around Missoula, in …
Feline diet program
Cat survives 19 days with jar on head
Despair.com
Welcome to The GeoChristian. Out of over 600 posts on my blog, this one on demotivational posters is the one people find most often via search engines. The purpose of The GeoChristian is twofold: 1. To enhance science literacy within the Evangelical Christian community. 2. To present a Biblical Christianity that is hostile to neither …
Woolly Pocket Change?
A few weeks ago I noted that the Royal Canadian Mint is issuing a series of $4 coins for collectors featuring dinosaurs (click here). They have also minted a one ounce platinum coin with a face value of $300 with a picture of a woolly mammoth. You better order it soon, however, as they only …
Cool Ski Areas
It is time to start thinking about snow. Famous paintings of ski areas, produced for use as the base for trail maps, can be found at James Niehues -- Resort & Panoramic Illustrator. This image is of Vail, Colorado Grace and Peace
Sand Sculptures
Cool sand sculptures. Grace and Peace
Wiping away environmental guilt
From grist.org: The Wipe Stuff: Which recycled TP brand is best? We wipe away all doubt. Deciding what kind of toilet paper to buy is a delicate issue. Perhaps most significantly because you want to protect those delicates---but what about this delicate planet of ours? According to the NRDC, if every household in the U.S. …
A new world atlas: “Our Dumb World”
From The Onion: Our Dumb World: Atlas Of Planet Earth Misunderstand Your World. Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas Of The Planet Earth is destined to become the most important book of the new century—perhaps the most indispensable volume in your home reference library. In fact, go ahead and throw all of your other books …
2007 Ig Nobel Prizes
The 2007 Ig Nobel Prizes have been awarded ("For achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK"): MEDICINE: Brian Witcombe of Gloucester, UK, and Dan Meyer of Antioch, Tennessee, USA, for their penetrating medical report "Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects." PHYSICS: L. Mahadevan of Harvard University, USA, and Enrique Cerda Villablanca of …
Toilet House
From Yahoo News/AFP: Clean loo campaigner to open toilet-shaped home Seoul -- Sim Jae-Duck was born in a restroom and now he plans to live and die in one -- a 1.6 million dollar toilet-shaped house designed to promote his tireless campaign for cleaner loos worldwide. Click on the link for the full story and …
Strange Maps
An endlessly entertaining blog for a map junkie like me is Strange Maps. This site has been up for a little over a year, and already has 3,000,000 views! Here are a few sample strange maps: Grace and Peace P.S. No one has indicated that they have figured out Where in the World #5 yet; …
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