Hey guys. This is just a short post to say how awesome I think Jon Foreman is. Mostly I guess it's for Mike, but every time you see this post you can think of me thinking how much I like Jon's music; that should be about right.
Here's the part mostly for Mike: the new Summer EP has not disappointed me at all. There's another sweet song that sounds directly from the prophetic books, one from Psalm 23, and I think I found one that goes really well with Learning How to Die, so that's all really cool.
The question is, do you want to get the Spring/Summer set when it comes out or do you want me to get one, to accompany our Fall/Winter set? :) Hee hee.
If the rest of you guys (or whoever) don't have a clue what I'm talking about, here's the link:
http://www.switchfoot.com/jfweb/index.html
Please, enjoy.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
Turkey farming
Well, I've never done this before, so this is sort of a trial run for me too. For lack of much better subject matter, I will use this space to explain my new name. For some time now there has been a "flock" of turkeys residing in our back yard, consisting at present of one big tom and three hens. This is profoundly strange at first, especially since they spend much of their time eating at the bird feeder right under our kitchen window. I was initially unaware of this, but they sleep in our yard at night as well, meaning that they rarely if ever actually leave. Last night my dad left the barn door open, and in the morning there they were, trooping out of the barn. My mom says that makes us official turkey farmers, so there you have it. I also hope you're all having a good summer, and look forward to hearing more. Cool!
Peace,
Dan R.
Peace,
Dan R.
Hey!
This is a shout out to all my Parlett house boys. Yo--next semester is going to be off the hizzle!!
I hope that you guys are all having a good summer so far. I'm in Ithaca doing research at Cornell with Dr. Hoffman (Physics Prof. at Houghton). I'm working with a machine that's worth a half-mil and hoping just about every day that I don't break anything. It's really not that bad, but it is concerning when something isn't working right, or smells like it's burning and I don't really have any experience to draw on. I'm glad the Dr. Hoffman is working with me, because he will take the a lot of the responsibility if something does go wrong.
I'm working with UHV (Ultra High Vacuum), which is about 10^-10 to 10^-9 Torr. It's fun trying to type exponents on a blog. Atmospheric pressure is about 760 Torr. The pressure that we are capable of reaching in our vacuum chamber is lower than the pressure in deep space! Now that's a vacuum!
This also means that we have to be VERY clean and careful about touching things. Rubber gloves most of the time, and a lot of alcohol cleaning. If there's a finger print in a vacuum like ours, it will ruin the vacuum for months.
We will eventually get to use this expensive machine to make samples (thin metal films) that we will do research on, but for now, we're trying to get everything working well.
I've been running around Ithaca a lot, and there are a bunch of cool places to run. There's a creek just a block from my apartment here and there are at least 6 miles of trails. There are also skinny dippers (welcome to Ithaca), or so I hear (from Dr. Hoffman and his wife...and the book on waterfall hikes that they bought). He he. How would you feel about naked people regularly dipping into your town's water supply? It's filtered and purified I'm sure.
I leave on Wednesday this week to go visit Susanna in Italy =).
I'm SO excited to see her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And in Italy.
I'll be meeting a lot of her mom's side of the family over there, and I'm sure they are all wonderful people. I know that Susanna's family on here mom's side are not Christians, and I am praying that Susanna and I will be a clear witness to the love and goodness of Christ.
Zan tells me that we're going to travel up to the Alps in southern France and do some hiking, which I'm sure is going to be AMAZING! I just bought a digital camera, so hopefully I will come back with some beautiful pictures to put on the blog (or maybe facebook...or both).
That's all for now.
In Christ,
Dan
This is a shout out to all my Parlett house boys. Yo--next semester is going to be off the hizzle!!
I hope that you guys are all having a good summer so far. I'm in Ithaca doing research at Cornell with Dr. Hoffman (Physics Prof. at Houghton). I'm working with a machine that's worth a half-mil and hoping just about every day that I don't break anything. It's really not that bad, but it is concerning when something isn't working right, or smells like it's burning and I don't really have any experience to draw on. I'm glad the Dr. Hoffman is working with me, because he will take the a lot of the responsibility if something does go wrong.
I'm working with UHV (Ultra High Vacuum), which is about 10^-10 to 10^-9 Torr. It's fun trying to type exponents on a blog. Atmospheric pressure is about 760 Torr. The pressure that we are capable of reaching in our vacuum chamber is lower than the pressure in deep space! Now that's a vacuum!
This also means that we have to be VERY clean and careful about touching things. Rubber gloves most of the time, and a lot of alcohol cleaning. If there's a finger print in a vacuum like ours, it will ruin the vacuum for months.
We will eventually get to use this expensive machine to make samples (thin metal films) that we will do research on, but for now, we're trying to get everything working well.
I've been running around Ithaca a lot, and there are a bunch of cool places to run. There's a creek just a block from my apartment here and there are at least 6 miles of trails. There are also skinny dippers (welcome to Ithaca), or so I hear (from Dr. Hoffman and his wife...and the book on waterfall hikes that they bought). He he. How would you feel about naked people regularly dipping into your town's water supply? It's filtered and purified I'm sure.
I leave on Wednesday this week to go visit Susanna in Italy =).
I'm SO excited to see her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And in Italy.
I'll be meeting a lot of her mom's side of the family over there, and I'm sure they are all wonderful people. I know that Susanna's family on here mom's side are not Christians, and I am praying that Susanna and I will be a clear witness to the love and goodness of Christ.
Zan tells me that we're going to travel up to the Alps in southern France and do some hiking, which I'm sure is going to be AMAZING! I just bought a digital camera, so hopefully I will come back with some beautiful pictures to put on the blog (or maybe facebook...or both).
That's all for now.
In Christ,
Dan
Sunday, June 22, 2008
I hate the internet!
I seriously just spent half an hour trying to get this to work. I'm going to laugh when/if no one ever uses this... Grrr.
A Test!
This is the future home of the blog for the six members of the Parlett House 2008-2009. Travels, pictures, general updates, and maybe a devotional thought every now and then. And maybe, no posts after this week? Who knows? Come back every once in a while and you can find out!
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