Row one (left to right): Burl Troyer, Jeremy Stutsman, David Schrock Shenk, Gina Leichty, Gretchen Morningstar, Grace Hunsberger, Earlene Nafziger, Eric Kanagy. Row two (left to right): David Daugherty, W. Earl Taylor, Jim Kroemer, Scott Woldruff, Virgil Snyder, Janette Yoder, Allan Kauffman, Tom Stark, David Swihart, Tim Near, J.C. Schrock, Brad Weirich, Jim McKee, Julia [...]
This is the part that stuck out to me in his speech: In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted — for those [...]
I spent some time this weekend working on a client project that required spidering the USPTO website and parsing 51,882 patent numbers out of 1,038 pages of search query results. I used Perl, of course, to do all this, my favorite language to date, especially for large text processing jobs like this one. As I [...]
I got a call from an Obama campaign volunteer this past Thu to see if I could volunteer today at the early voting location here in Goshen. I agreed to be there for a couple hours and ended up spending most of my Saturday there with a break for lunch with my cousins. There was [...]
As admited several times before here on this blog, I am a political junkie. And in my personal opinion, this election just keeps getting dumber (although, apparently, not as dumb as some previous elections). Recently, there was a bit of a flap over “real”, pro-America and anti-America cities, congresspeople, and presidential candidates. I don’t really [...]
My older sister, Laura, is getting married this wknd to Randy Hoover. I’m taking a 3 day mini-vaca to help out. Trying to work as little as possible…if that’s possible. Bye till Monday!
Forbes just ranked Goshen College, where I spent my geeky college days (college group housing photo to the right, see if you can spot geeky activist Eric) playing frisbee, trying to change the world by being an activist without ever leaving my one-square-mile home, breaking into buildings and playing with computers (Counter Strike all night, [...]
My Grandma (my Dad’s Mom) passed away this Sunday morning around 1:30 am. She was 90 and had never been bed-ridden her entire life up until about a week ago. She had 13 kids and was one of the most loving people I’ve known — it didn’t matter who you were, what you thought, what [...]
I’m at a family reunion this weekend. And yes, still checking voicemail/email. My uncles recently bought a campground we’re staying at that borders a farm we just took a walk to. There we met Amos, an 88 year old Amishman. Amos is my grandpa’s mother’s dad’s (my great great grandfather Jonathan’s) nephew. Jonathan’s father, Gideon, [...]
Wow. What was I thinking??? I just ran across this spreadsheet I made to estimate the cost to startup RedPost (hint: it totals $27,354.28). A disclaimer: I created this spreadsheet at a time when I was intellectually bored, without full time work, and just trying to figure out what to do with myself. By all [...]
