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Eric Scheske

1958-2003

This site (link) [http://www.basichip.com/vertigo/main.htm] offers a variety of "then and now" pictures from San Fransisco. The "then" pictures are from Alfred Hitchcocks' Vertigo. The "now" pictures are the same locations, in 2003. I've never been

Perplexed?

Around age 19, I caught a reading bug and started reading everything that could possibly help settle dozens (millions?) of both precise and vague questions that bothered me. A constant but undisciplined reading frenzy continued for about three years, then I ran across James Schall's Another Sort of

Family Dinners

This WaPo article [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/29/AR2005082901798.html] talks about the important of the family dinner. I tend to agree with all of it, but I'm one of the biggest offenders against the venerable tradition. How does a person arrange

Mormons and New Orleans

Kind of interesting: The Mormons opened their priesthood to blacks back in 1978 (at least according to their resources). But it takes a long time for realities and perceptions to change. > Asked whether he would relocate permanently to Utah after being brought here as a refugee from Hurricane Katrina,

Something for Sunday Morning

> The more recollected a man is, and the more simple of heart he becomes, the easier he understands sublime things, for he receives the light of knowledge from above. The pure, simple, and steadfast spirit is not distracted by many labors, for he does them all for the honor

Odd Consumer News

Well, it's not really odd consumer news, but it's a nostalgiac trip. A page dedicated to toy toasters. I didn't have any sisters, but I remember the neighbor girls with these in their rooms. Link [http://www.toaster.org/toys.html].

No Comment Needed

It's Saturday evening and the wine is flowing, so I'm posting this pointless little story: > A man attempting to walk the length of Britain in the nude was jailed overnight for two weeks for his antics by an Edinburgh court. > So-called "naked

Texas at OSU

Four tickets on the 40-yard-line? $4,400, if this eBay-er gets his opening bid. Link [http://cgi.ebay.com/4-Ohio-State-Texas-Football-Row-11-40-Yard-tickets_W0QQitemZ6559429941QQcategoryZ16122QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem] . I'm glad I didn't spend that kind of cabbage on the UM/ND

My Kind of Town

I live two hours from Chicago (it take me 2 hours and 15 minutes to go from my driveway to the parking plaza at The Water Tower). I really like the town and have even ventured there a few times with all children in tow (crouching down and yelling at

Sounds Great

A new movie, The Exorcism of Emily Rose [http://www.theexorcismofemilyrose.com/movies/theexorcismofemilyrose/], is intended to make people think hard about demonic possession. Link [http://www.bdtonline.com/articles/2005/09/09/lifestyles/01rose.txt]. Excerpt: > The movie was inspired by the story of Anneliese Michel, a German