Archive for the 'General' Category

Washington Pictures

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

Tuesday night, I went to the GatheringNW, a campus ministry sponsored by my DC area church on the campus of American University in their cool looking Kay Spiritual Life Center. After the service, I went into southwest DC and took some night time shots of the city. These pictures were taken between 11 and midnight, […]

Google Picture Post

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

Instructions: Use the picture you like best from the first (no clicking around for 44 pages) page of the search results on Google Image, and then answer the following questions. 1. The city and state of the town you grew up, no quotation marks. 2. The town where you currently reside. 3. You name, first […]

What’s in a name?

Monday, February 27th, 2006

A question I get frequently is “What is a bolt in the blue?” Since I’ve been known to give bad answers, I’m hoping that this post will clear up the confusion. First of all, I’ve been using variations on “bolt in blue” to identify myself online since 1997. The story of where I learned the […]

Busy week

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

Just a quick update to let you all know that I’m in a busy stretch.  I’ve already had a test this week, I have another one tomorrow, I have a project with formal report to do, and also a third test next week.  I’m also going to Ohio State over the weekend.  I have a […]

Three things

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

It’s been a while since I did a three things post, so here you go for your random Wednesday morning enjoyment. Three things you may not have known about me: I’m ambidextrous. I am an INTJ. My high school issued me an official fake ID card.

Valentines, Fire Alarms, and Snow

Monday, February 13th, 2006

Busy weekend here. Friday evening was the annual homegroup guys make the girls dinner and affirm that they’re good people, even though largely single people night. Cory (grad student cory, not roommate Cory) cooked spaghetti with meat sauce, chocolate covered strawberries, angel’s food cake toppings, and attempted to cook fried ice cream. The fried ice […]

And now to insight a riot . . . my rankings of coffee shops in Blacksburg

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

Coffee CupBest to worst, judged based on the quality of their espresso and their standard drip coffee:

  1. Mill Mountain Coffee and Tea
  2. Easy Chair Coffee
  3. Starbucks
  4. Bollo’s
  5. Deet’s Place

For a detailed review of each, click the link to the full post.

Also, feel free to debate the merits of each shop with me using the comments.

Wind Rock and Board Games

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

It was over 60 degrees here today, so Justin, Jason, Tim, and myself jumped in the car and went up to Wind Rock for sunset. We were coming back for a game night, so we didn’t have time to have a campfire and make s’mores, but it was still a great trip, even though the […]

Interesting last few days

Friday, January 27th, 2006

It’s been an interesting last few days. Wednesday, I drove up to Lexington, VA for traffic court. A reckless driving ticket, which I initially thought was a criminal charge, ended up becoming a plain speeding ticket during the trial. I was very thankful–I got a fine, and it looks like my license will only have […]

Awesome weekend

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Just a quick post to say that I had an awesome weekend. I had no homework to do, and I had plenty of time for relaxation and catching up with several friends. Friday, I was able to visit one of the campus ministries that sponsors vtONE that I had never personally visited before, which was […]