Some websites just aren’t down with posts in Cyrillic…
Oh well… Good news is that I made the required amount to ride in the Tour de Canal. As you can see, even V. Putin took time out of his busy schedule of taking over Georgia to donate to the cause.
James Traub On The Russia-Georgia Conflict (NPR)
Another reason against an American Idol president.
Maryland living, Shenandoah hikes, and a triathlon…
Some pictures from this summer.
Fun times. I’m sitting on the phone waiting for billing support from Verizon since they decided to double charge me for installation fees (which are pretty ridiculous to begin with since any monkey could run the setup program the technician ran to ‘install the Internet’ on my computer). Every time I’ve had to call Verizon and speak with the computerized I’ve been incorrectly routed to a half dozen over 15 places.
It’s funny how these computerized systems claim to help the process but it would be much better just to talk to a live person.
Grr… I’m about one misrouting from going back to dialup.
Good Article in The Washington Post:
The majority of Georgetown students I know are fairly knowledgeable about religion. They can talk intelligently about Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism. The glitch is that they talk from the perspective of anthropologists and sociologists and historians. These are valuable perspectives. But they are not enough. Of course we need to raise young people who can be smart, savvy, sophisticated participants in international affairs. What we also need are young people who can be all of those things while at the same time knowing and understanding what it is to live one’s life with a commitment rooted in faith.
So I decided to do a 100-mile bike ride in September. I need to raise $500 in donations for the ride by the end of July. Here’s your chance to do something good as well as encourage me to ride 100 miles on a mountain bike. The link for donations is below. Go ahead, donate something, I know you want to.
Don’t forget.