• There are a couple of new blogs on the List-o-Blogs to the right. Mark and Carrie (who chose one of my favorite quotes of all time as her blog title - yay, Carrie! Wissmanized, I suppose it would be: "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies enjoy bananas"...). Interesting reads, both - they're only two posts in, each, and they've already covered economic theory, the angst involved in trying to figure out where the time's gone, and theories on Biblical interpretation. Welcome to the blogosphere, kids! Come and waste time with us!


• I learned earlier tonight that John Hermanson (of Storyhill/Chris & Johnny, Alva Star, and Olympic Hopefuls fame) is, in addition to being a busy performer and running a profitable studio, the music director at his church in the Twin Cities. He's working on liturgical music, which seems very appropriate to me; a lot of his music has a worshipful feel to it (Boulder River and Absaroka Air are the first two that jump to mind). Talk about living the dream; between him and Rich Bruxvoort-Colligan I'm optimistic that there's money to be made for people interested in trying to be part of the church music and folk music worlds at the same time. Of course, I'm not worthy to hold either of those guys' picks, but it's a big country; there must be some un-staked-out territory out there somewhere.


• The mystery of Exactly What Happened To Adam Kamp After He Left Oregon was resolved yesterday when I walked into the new Mongolian barbecue place in Coralville and there he was, dining with his family. He's living in Moose Lake, which he describes as being "two-thirds of the way from Minnesota to Duluth." Seems to be doing well, although we didn't get a chance to talk for long.


• Over this last week I've gotten reacquainted with an old friend when my copy of X-Wing: Collector's Series came in the mail. Ah, the many hours I whiled (piddled?) away in Jason's room back on Clinton Ground North saving the galaxy from the Empire, receiving accolades from the Rebel High Command, and generally being cool. The graphics (even in the updated-for-not-so-much-DOS Collector's Series) are dated, but the gameplay and storyline are still first-rate, and programs like Kali make multiplayer much simpler than in days of yore (when you had to call someone else's computer directly or fill out punch cards full of 1's and 0's and mail 'em to the other player).


• Summer camp is underway at EWALU, and even though it's been seven years since my last summer there it's still weird for me. Seems like when summer starts I should be heading off to the woods; I wonder if that will ever go away. I'm going to be a volunteer for a week in July, which is exciting but a very nerve-wracking prospect. I want to be part of a summer camp experience again, but I'm not at all interested in being the weird staff alum who can't let the place go. Nifty, isn't it, how almost any experience can be turned into a frightening prospect if you just go looking for things that might go wrong?


• This was pointed out to me by Mark (I think), but I was so amused by it I simply must post it here - isn't Obi-Wan's line in Revenge of the Sith, "Only the Sith deal in absolutes!" funny? If Anakin had just replied, "Only the Sith?" it would have made up for the whole "This is a drag" series of horrid one-liners in Attack of the Clones


• From the Fun Things One Can Find Out On The Internet file we have www.quizyourfriends.com. You can make a multiple-choice quiz about anything at all and have it out in cyberspace for people to take. Fun stuff - here's mine. It's a variety of questions pulled from high school, college, and camp; I guess I'll be a little surprised if anyone can get 'em all, but I sure do encourage you to try! Check out the scoreboard to see how you did. Certainly gives one a little more respect for teachers putting together multiple-choice quizzes; it's hard to think of three wrong answers for each question. Of course, this time of year I have basically no sympathy for teachers at all, but that's a whole new tangent that I'll not go down here.

Snippets R Us. Coming soon - Meaningless Musings Quote Fun, Part III (or perhaps III)! Since I'm sure I won't post again before Sunday, Happy Father's Day to my dad and any other fathers (or you two fathers-soon-to-be) out there.

// posted by Charlie @ 11:07 PM