Well, it is nearing Thanksgiving in the US and deer season is in full swing in my home state of West Virginia. This will be the first time in several years that I haven’t been able to get in the woods with a gun for…I don’t know how long. While I may not have always made opening day, I ALWAYS made muzzleloader season.
So, while you are in the US suiting up in the morning, eat a bowl of oats (with rasins added at the last minute) for me. Enjoy your time on the stand. And when you get cold, take a short mijander (meander?) through the woods for me. Once you get your harvest, thank God for giving you one of His creatures.
Have a safe hunt and enjoy the time with family. Have a great Thanksgiving too.
It’s snowing in Cacak! A big cold front blew in last night after pretty mild weather yesterday. The ground is still too warm, and also too wet from the rain that fell through the night, for anything to stick. But it’s still snow, even if it’s mostly some pitiful flurries 🙂
Our first snow in Serbia! We are very excited and even have some pics of snow on the ground in the hills/mountains outside of town. The flurries didn’t last, but the view from our window is still awesome and we’re ready for “mnogo sneg.” Volimo sneg (we love snow)!!
Continuing on our prayerwalking theme, we went out again last Wednesday (12 Nov) and wanted to share some sights with you. Just like the last time, this post will have multiple pages…you’ll have to click in to read more.
I had a friend that had some problems with his Linksys wrt54g (version 8) wireless router. The problem was that via ethernet, the speed was acceptable; however, over wireless, the speed dropped off to well over half speed (indeed it was more like he was only getting 1/3 to 1/4 the speed he should have). If affected both of his computers as well as anyone else who hooked up wirelessly. I looked and looked for a solution.
I tried tweaking the wireless settings, g only, channel setting (tried several of them), the MTU, and just about everything else that I could find. But nothing worked. He was still getting poor wireless bandwidth but acceptable wired bandwidth.
As a last ditch effort, I flashed the router. I hated to do that because I was worried about bricking it…but I ran out of ideas. His router had the original version 8.0 firmware on it and linksys had a newer version available (I think it was 8.05 or something). The release notes didn’t say anything about fixing wireless speed, but I was out of ideas. He was willing to let me flash it, so I did. Lo and behold, post-flashing, the speed issue was fixed.
I don’t know what the problem was. I think it was some problem with the version 8.0 firmware and not a harware issue. Why else would it have worked?
Oh well, i’m blogging this in the hopes to help someone else out there that is having the same problem. I searched and searched on the net and no one ever mentioned this problem or idea. If you find the article…good luck.
I know I haven’t blogged in quite a while (a week) or done a podcast. Cyndi and I were able to get out of town last week and we were gone over the weekend. We’ll get the podcast done this week and posted…it may be a tad longer than normal. We’ll also post the pictures of our trip (there aren’t many…sorry). But, as a teaser, here is us. Eating Chinese Food. Overseas. And it was good. It wasn’t a buffet (like the Super King in Richmond), but it was good. And they had Chopsticks.
Before you ask, yes, we did take Lydia…she was sitting off to Cyndi’s left. I don’t know why we didn’t put her in the picture too. She was there.
Remember me blogging about cases way back when? Well, I got an example of a few cases we use in the English Language (although not the kind we speak in America or West Virginia). By the way, if you go read those articles, I don’t know how else you would say some of the things…of course father rhymes with bother. And pin and pen sound the same. I mean…come on!
Which rendering is correct in each of the following groups?
VeteransÂ’ Day, VeteranÂ’s Day, Veterans Day
FathersÂ’ Day, FatherÂ’s Day, Fathers Day
English MajorsÂ’ Society, English MajorÂ’s Society, English Majors Society
BankersÂ’ School, BankerÂ’s School, Bankers School
International ExecutivesÂ’ Association, International ExecutiveÂ’s Association, International Executives Association
To ask which rendering is “correct” in these groups is actually to pose a trick question: if these were not proper names, all of these choices could be grammatically correct depending on the context.
Let’s begin by examining how these phrases differ from one another:
The first choice in each group is a plural noun in the possessive case (FathersÂ’, VeteransÂ’, MajorsÂ’, BankersÂ’ and ExecutivesÂ’).
The second choice in each group is a singular noun in the possessive case (FatherÂ’s, VeteranÂ’s, MajorÂ’s, BankerÂ’s, and ExecutiveÂ’s).
The third choice in each group uses a plural noun that is not in the possessive case. We refer to it as an attributive; that is, it functions as a modifier and does not need to be possessive.
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Unfortunately, one rule does not govern in all instances when it comes to deciding when to treat a noun as merely attributive and when to make it possessive. The Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed., University of Chicago Press) admits that “the line between a possessive or genitive form and a noun used attributively—as an adjective—is sometimes fuzzy, especially in the plural.” This style manual suggests that writers omit the apostrophe “in proper names (often corporate names) or where there is clearly no possessive meaning” (p. 284):
Publishers Weekly
Diners Club
Department of Veterans Affairs
Did you catch that…the posessive, or genitive form. I thought it was interesting. If you want to read more, view it online.
It you want a neat looking 3d game you have to assemble, go here. It’s only available until the end of october 2008. Just so you know, it is based on the Haunted Mansion at Disney World/Land (the one in Flordia).
[Update 2012-12-26 15:54:08] The domain for the game went down and was throwing errors.  It was at http://disneyexperience.com/halloween/
I’ve just finished my first Master Life book–well, I finished it late last week actually. It was a good study…I’d recommend to just about anyone to do it. It was fairly basic stuff, but it was good to review and get a different perspective on things.
The whole study focused around The Disciple’s Cross with Christ at the center and various ministries (such as prayer, evangelism, etc…) forming the four “bars” of the cross. I’m uber cusious about how this will come into play in the later books in the series.
For now, though, I’m taking a break and just spending some time reading the Bible. I haven’t figured out where to go so I’m kind of wantering right now.
But, you probably remember that I made up some electronic copies of the lists in the book. Well, after using them, I decided they were too big. So, I redid the files and set them up so I could print 4 per page. Below are the updated copies. You’ll have to monkey with your printer settings so that you’ll get 2 pages on the front and 2 pages on the back. Below are the links:
