Kent G. Budge, 2019. Olympus TG-5 on auto setting.
Also, the serpent is more subtil than any other beast of the field …
I hear a lot of talk about the Environment, but I am beginning to become doubtful if those who talk loudest actually want genuine solutions. (more…)
Tolkien Week starts the calendar week of Sept 22nd, which is Bilbo and Frodo’s birthday.
It is a sport for men, taught by older men.
During the year my wife was dying, there were a few Killers songs that ran around my mind. Some of them came unbidden, and others I sought out. There are two events in Brandon Flowers’ (Killers vocalist) life that connect to the songs I will mention below. The first was the death of his mother Jean Barlow Flowers (1945-2010). The second was more recent manifestation of mental illness in Flowers’ wife Tana. Even with songs that are mostly unconnected to the listener’s circumstances, there will be lines and snippets that can be stolen to other purpose. So, sit down and hear five songs that I snatched or that snatched me.
BYU Admissions Office, 2023
No one noticed the mistake until the phone calls started coming in.
“How did my daughter, a student body president with a 4.8 GPA and a 36 ACT, not get in? There must be some mistake!”
Now, of course every year there are “there must be some mistake” calls, but those usually involve a delusional parent or a panicked email from a bishop asking them to please disregard his ecclesiastical endorsement. But the sheer volume of calls told them that this time there really was a mixup.
This was the first year that they had hired an outside contractor to handle the high volume of admission/rejection letters, a contract they shared with BYU-Idaho. After a couple of tense hours of investigation, they discovered that the girls whom BYU had intended to admit were sent rejection letters, but were also sent acceptance letters to BYU-I. Meanwhile the girls who were supposed to get rejection letters from BYU and acceptance letters to BYU-I got the reverse. The boys’ letters were unaffected. (more…)