Awesome!

[rms10]

There are several awesome things floating around that I need to share:

1. My brother got into a maritime archaeology program in Denmark, and will be spending two years in Denmark! Yay! That is so exciting, and the eeee! and I are already planning a trip to Denmark and Norway.
   
   
2. I was pointed to a Pirate Dictionary recently. It has all sorts of real navigation terms, and . . . actually, it's a bit short on things like pirate insults. But the fact that it exists is pretty awesome.
   
   
3. Someone on a recent Left Behind Friday post pointed to an excerpt from Kingdom Come, one of the later Left Behind books. The writing is so, so bad, that it must be seen to be believed:
   

   "When you see My throne, join those on My right, your left."
   
   The words of Jesus were more than impressed on Rayford's heart.
   
   [...]
   
   
   Rayford deduced that the sun was brighter without being hotter, because Tsion Ben-Judah taught that its light was somehow enhanced by the ever-present glory of Jesus. A simple contraption out in the open allowed Rayford to concentrate the light through a magnifier and heat vegetables he and Irene and Raymie had gathered for a special feast. Irene had made butter from milk she had collected from a cow, so when everyone had assembled, they were met with steaming piles of fresh produce, drenched in butter.
   
   [...]
   
   And strange about Cameron and Chloe's relationship was that they still loved each other, but not romantically. Their entire hearts' desires were on the person of Jesus and worshiping Him for eternity. In the Millennium, they would live and labor together with Kenny and raise him, but as there would be no marrying or giving in marriage, their relationship would be wholly platonic.
   
   "It's bizarre," Chloe told Cameron. "I still love and admire and respect you and want to be near you, but it's as if I've been prescribed some medicine that has cured me of any other distracting feelings."
   

   
   I'm not saying that I'm any sort of expert on post-millenial dispensationalism, but none of that makes any sense.
   
   
4. Speaking of making no sense, Mark Trail clearly takes place on another planet. The Comics Curmudgeon has barely mentioned the current plot, so here goes: a little girl wins an essay contest about responsible pet ownership. As a prize, she wins a puppy, because clearly the first rule of pet ownership is "pets make great surprise gifts for people!" The puppy cures her of the depression she's suffered since her deadbeat dad left the family. But then she dumps the puppy outside and he vanishes. So now let me enumerate the stupid things that have happened since then:
   
   
   
   1. Mark Trail offers to replace the puppy, because she is a responsible young woman and pets are interchangeable.
      
   2. Mark Trail also assumes the dog was snatched, rather than it simply ran away and/or was hit by a car.
      
   3. A van was spotted, and apparently this is suspicious.
      
   4. Mark Trail is going to bait the thieves with his own dog.
      
   
   WTF?
   
   
5. There was a one-day conference here for local people on Friday, to see the range of research in the department. Eight-minute talks all around! Mine was originally twelve minutes, and I thought I had pared it down, but apparently not well enough. Hence, when I got the two-minute warning during my talk (and was definitely not 3/4 of the way through my material) I let out an "Oh my gosh!" mid-sentence. This got me the award for "Best Reaction to the Two-Minute Warning." Yay?
   

I hope you all have fantastic weeks! My workload is not insane this week, and my brother will be here this weekend. Hooray!

Comments

[rms10.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

And I was one of the last talks of the day, so I think I at least woke people up!

[eirias.livejournal.com]

Yay Little S.! Where in Denmark? I have a friend who lived there for a year and might be able to provide some info/advice if he's interested.

I do not think I could eat any food that had been described to me as "steaming piles."

[rms10.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure, but googling is pointing me to Syddansk University, just outside of Odense. (I got that from google maps, so that might be a Danish spelling -- it has Copenhaven as Kobenhavn.) Anyway, all advice would be greatly appreciated! I'll bug you about it when it gets closer?

And "fresh produce, drenched in butter" does not sound appetizing. I like some vegetables cooked in a little bit of butter, sometimes, but grilled or just raw in a salad is also good. It just sounds like a description of "delicious" vegetables by someone who doesn't actually eat or like vegetables.

[eirias.livejournal.com]

Sure, bug away!

It just sounds like a description of "delicious" vegetables by someone who doesn't actually eat or like vegetables.

Hee! Hee hee hee. Yes, exactly.

[rms10.livejournal.com]

Ah, after talking to my brother, he'll be at the campus by Esbjerg.

[zoje-george.livejournal.com]

"...My right, your left"

Paaaahahahahaha.

[rms10.livejournal.com]

I know!

Even if you really need the people at Jesus' right hand, there are a million ways to phrase that better.

[zoje-george.livejournal.com]

And they're all in the Bible already, if these guys had actually read that book as well as they say they have.