My Favorite Books

Stained Glass
Witness
Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography
The Iliad
James
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Animal Farm
Doctrine of Endless Punishment
Marco Polo, If You Can
Who's on First
From Silence to Song: The Davidic Liturgical Revolution
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1984
The Hunt for Red October
A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss


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Links

National Geographic and the 1980s

When I was born, my grandparents gave me the wonderful gift of a lifetime subscription to National Geographic magazine. In addition to supplying a curious young boy with many years of amazement over the wonders of creation, at 50 years and counting it must have been a great value—especially when one factors in the rampant [...]

Five Cities That Ruled the World

I just finished reading about the second city, Athens, in Doug Wilson’s Five Cities That Ruled the World. I love the concept. And love Doug Wilson. But while the book so far has presented a pretty good history of each city (Jerusalem and Athens), I didn’t learn why each city ruled the world. This aspect of each [...]

The Real Things Haven’t Changed

I ran across a great quote this morning to help us remember some of the things that really matter for which we can be grateful at this time of Thanksgiving:
“The Little House Books are stories of long ago. Today our way of living and our schools are much different; so many things have made living [...]

Computer Prices and Creative Destruction

I ran across a 1989 product comparison of several top-of-the-line computers. Including one from Dell, which featured an 80286 (20 MHz) processor and a 40 MB hard drive, all for the bargain price of $4,099!
I remember consistently paying $3,000 for a new computer from Tandy (my first one, with an 8086 processor purchased in 1986) and [...]

A Blast from the Past

Watch this 1981 news report on something very new and exciting: reading the newspaper on your computer at home: