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Isn't rain fun? Here are my observations from the weekend:

(1) My friend ML is completely Newtonian. I'm not sure how he feels about this, but I'm sure it makes me feel more secure. I spoke with him on the phone and discovered he hadn't heard Einstein's ponderations about the passage of time and light. He read this blog recently and decided it was nonsense, but nice. He told me that if I kept on as I am going, I might match Lewis Caroll. Apparently I'm not there yet.

(2) Chattanooga is too big for its britches. I went around to several offices yesterday, noticing that we have lots of people thinking and working on urban development and community engineering. Can our infrastructure support this much belly-button gazing? And do we have the industry? And can several handfuls of executives really accomplish any worthwhile community change all cooped up in their air-conditioned offices? At times, I wonder whether we aren't shooting ourselves in the foot. It would be interesting to gather more data on our city before deciding whether my wonderings match reality. But I'll never know unless I write a stunning grant proposal for this study and get it all paid for...

(3) NH thinks Nick Barker is a genius. We spoke of it Sunday night and he added Christopher Smart to my reading list. WHICH currently consists of:

Annie Dillard
Anne Lamott
Chris Smart
Banana Yoshimoto
Kathleen Norris
Deitrich Bonhoeffer (spelling?)
Francois Truffaut
Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr.
Moliere
Clyde Kilby
Gustave Flaubert

Any ideas on who to add to or strike from the list?

(4) Checking an empty post office box is even more disappointing than checking an empty Covenant College mailbox. It drives one to making random blog posts.

Posted by nickles at August 24, 2004 04:36 PM