The Old Testament Song

Taylor and her best friend Sydney sing the books of the Old Testament for our church's talent night.

Smugmug

I'm experimenting with a new photo sharing site called Smugmug. I've loaded most of my Peru pictures up there. Check it out and tell me what you think.

Is Google making us stupid?

My friend Scott brought this article to my attention.

Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle....

The challenge is to read the entire article. It is quite fascinating and a little disturbing.