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No, it’s not the strong wind that never seems to let up on Stinson Beach. It’s the book The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. The Tipping Point has given me a lot of ideas for how to better strategize on development projects in the third world. [...]

Ride the rainbow hippopotamus.
Your tears like rain falling are jewels of blessed light.
God carries you through every storm in your life.
A steed of polychromatic power carries you!

Ride in His strength. His legs are strong.
His hide shimmers in green and red and violet and yellow.
God smiles on you like the sun.
A watermelon springs up where every [...]

Let me begin by thanking everyone who contributed drawings in this year’s contest. I really enjoyed seeing everyone’s creativity. After careful consideration, I decided to give the award to my favorite picture. Take a look at the winner, leave your congrats, and see my comments on that picture for why I selected it. Click [...]

Update: Oops! The $100 was money that was given several months ago.  But since then I have noticed a $15 contribution did come in. Only $15 to go! Um, wow! Two anonymous benefactors have already contributed $100 toward my goal of $30! Thanks a lot. I’m stunned. What [...]

I’ve just been informed by WordPress that my memory upgrade is about to expire. This means that after August 31 I will no longer be able to upload and share mp3s and movies on my own blog unless I dish out another $15. I’ve also been thinking I’d like to register the domain lingamish.com which [...]

I’m the family photographer so I rarely feature in a picture unless I’m shooting a weird self-portrait. But here’s a picture of yours truly taken by Hilary. And here’s the gal: You can see more Stinson beach shots (minus my ugly mug) at: Stinson 2008.

I’ve pretty much decided who is the winner of the Hand-Drawn Hippo contest for 2008. However, I’m willing to be swayed by you if you would like to put in a plug for the amazing artistry of yours or someone else’s artwork. Click here to see the gallery of works [...]

That’s the name of a brief muse of mine on Alter’s The Book of Psalms over at Better Bibles Blog.

If you want to see some nice photos to take you away from the office and into the waves check out http://stinson2008.wordpress.com You can subscribe to it here: http://stinson2008.wordpress.com/feed/ Enjoy!

We hit the road Monday morning for a trip down to Stinson Beach where we’ll be hanging out for a couple of weeks with friends (yes, I know, life is hard). Here’s a photo of Stinson from our last trip in 2006: Send me your hand-drawn hippo before midnight [...]

Say that three times fast! Thanks to HASH for that bit of trivia. Here’s the story: mobile-phone manufacturing plant for Mozambique