So eerily quiet
Apologies to those who tried to comment here and were frustrated. Apparently, notfrisco's host shut down comments on all its...

Always pain before a child is born
I'm back home from the lovely and generally freezing Carolinas. Christmas went remarkably well considering that it looked for a...

Merry Christmas, all!
I don't like to cut out in the middle of an interesting discussion, but tomorrow morning I'm flying off to...

A little favor
I don't like to put prayer requests on the blog, but can anyone who feels so inclined pray for my...

Categories
This blog now has archives by category as well as by date. I decided to do this as an aid...

A resurrection
Eighteen months is a long time in the blogosphere. In February last year, I was still going to Christian Assembly,...

Blogwatch
Abroad as I was walking One evening in the spring, I heard a maid in Bedlam, So sweetly she did...

I'm only a man in a funny red sheet
I've been suffering more than common grief at the death of Christopher Reeve. Not least because of the extremely mundane...

Offline, in more ways than one
My home computer's off getting an upgrade, so I probably won't have Internet access this weekend. Maybe now that the...

Devotion
Back before I started the blog, I used to hang out at the Straight Dope's message board, posting under a...

How the blogosphere works
So such small hands links to this piece. I see it and, on a whim, email it to Telford, thinking...

New to the 'hood
I've made a few additions to the blogroll lately, all of them pastor blogs: Among the Ruins, Michael Spencer and...

The haps
As if my last post weren't grim enough, I now find out that Josh Claybourn has lost his mother at...

Mortal thoughts
While I was away I missed Lynn's announcement of her father's death. By the time I got back the funeral...

Traveling
I'm posting today from my hometown of Mill Valley, California, where I'm on the first leg of my vacation. In...

The minutest particular
So that's where Mark's been the last couple weeks. Congratulations!...

Better late than never
Pointing out, somewhat belatedly, some interesting happenings in the blogosphere: Eve and Andi had a very interesting discussion of sublimation....

He's tanned, rested and ready
So a month after I figured Telford had abandoned blogging, he switches blogging software and makes a comeback. Can't live...

Blogroll boogie
Telford told me he tried to post his baccalaureate address from a few weeks ago on his blog, but Blogger...

Is 33 the beginning of old age?
Apparently so, because after my birthday on Saturday I somehow threw my back out and it hasn't been right since....

Ack!
Peter is deleting his blog! Well, he says he's going to save it offline somewhere, so maybe I can bribe...

Yes, I am a flake
Haven't been in the mood for blogging lately, and tonight and tomorrow night I'm going to be busy. I have...

The blogfather speaks
Telford is wondering if he should keep (or rather, resume) blogging: I have enjoyed doing this, but my experience has...

Accidental discipleship
So last night I was reading and chowing down from a little tub of calimyrna figs I got from Trader...

The cold became a flu...
... and I'm still recovering from it, but I'm feeling a lot more alive. (Thanks for asking, Allen.) One plan...

Please stand by
Have come down with a nasty cold, hence my rude disappearance. I will be back once my brain has returned...

Just wondering...
Ever since I did that post about Christ descending into hell I've had visitors now and then who were Googling...

An exit and a return
Kynn has announced he's closing up Shock & Awe on the blog's one-year anniversary. It was originally intended to be...

Memo to the padre
Yes, I like your new template a lot. The only things I'd change are a) make the headlines a bit...

While I was out
Stuff from around the blogosphere: Kynn is offering a course on blogging with Movable Type. MT has worked great for...

Unexpected referrals
I was wondering why I was suddenly getting referrals from Telford's old links to me, but now I think I...

High on the desert plain
Whew! I sent my mother off at the airport this morning, after a very busy trip. Most of it was...

Hallelujah here she comes
Well, the last time I took off for a week everything disappeared except the last entry, but this time the...

Blogrolling on
We're not gonna be getting any polaroids of Armageddon any more, because Hernan Gonzalez closed up shop. But, as if...

On hold
Sorry I've been so quiet. I had an episode with the virus that's been going around, which I managed to...

For unto us a child is born
Pen's little pacifist arrived a bit ahead of schedule, but all seems to be well. Congratulations!...

Out to lunch
Sorry for the absence of posting; I've had no time. Just got back from L.A.'s downtown library (a fun place...

Out on a Blogwatch
I'm not feeling up to full-blown posting today, but at some point I do want to address Andi's incisive response...

Hover through fog and filthy air
In church yesterday we prayed for the victims of the fires, and came outside to a literal reminder: a great...

What a long, strange trip it's been
My blog is one year old today! Counting from the genesis on Blogspot, that is. It's been an amazing year....

Low rise
I've been waiting for this trend to go away since about five minutes after it started, so I was pleased...

The great foggy north
My trip to the SF area went well, though I didn't see as many people as I'd have liked. My...

I shall return
So I've come back ... to announce I won't be posting again for a few days. I'm going back up...

Mmm, back scratching
I've now reciprocated some blogroll links: Hernan Gonzalez at fotos del apocalipsis, the aforementioned fantastic planet, and Bolo Boffin, which...

Going native
Joel was interviewed by Jenny of 111:2, and made a point about California's beauty: I prefer that people who come...

Back!
My computer's back, and it's working! But they had to completely reinstall Windows and reformat the hard drive, so there's...

Worse than a broken computer
Get well soon, Dash!...

The spirit is willing, but the flesh has issues
Well, the upgrade is not going smoothly. I took it home yesterday, turned it on, everything worked great, except ......

Camassia enters the twenty-first century!
People may have been confused by the extremely off-topic exchange I had in the comments with David (not David Heddle,...

The madhouse
I dreamed this morning I was working in an insane asylum. Somehow I fell into conversation with one of the...

Carving new pigeonholes
My blogroll was getting too long and I have not been visiting everyone regularly, so I trimmed it down. Sorry...

Blogwatchin', across the universe
Recommended reading: The Real Live Preacher on being seduced by the Word. Mark Kleiman has a proposal to curb teenage...

Blogroll changes
Goodbye, Ted Barlow (sort of -- he's on Crooked Timber now). Hello, Fr. Jim Tucker, who has shown the good...

Labor day
I've been busy today with long-deferred cleaning and organizing, and I'm too beat to post substantively right now. One thing...

New to the blogroll
Welcome to the delightfully named Captain Inertia (which I always imagine in that Saturday-morning-cartoon voice: Captainnn Inertiaaa!) and Allen Brill,...

Personality to the letter
Father Jim Tucker is collecting the blogosphere's Myers-Briggs types. He's charted his results so far here. Interesting, but not surprising,...

Odds and ends
Sorry for the light posting, but as you can see I have made some changes to the template. To the...

The storm before the quiet
I'm having a mondo busy day at work trying to wrap things up before vacation. Then I go home and...

Work and play
Yesterday I finally met up with Telford at church, and as I suspected he's just been swamped with the move,...

The feline invasion
So, while I've been wasting time writing about God around here, I know what you've all really wanted to know...

Day in, day out
If anyone's wondering what's happened with the Jesus book, I still haven't been able to communicate with Telford. I thought...

Holy cow
All my life I've been eating dairy products by Clover Stornetta. Since I grew up about 30 miles south of...

So I'm not the only one
It felt too dorky to ask this, but now that Eve has blazed the trail, I feel emboldened to ask:...

More naming
Dash asked a question that I think other people have been wondering also: how do you pronounce my blog-name? Although...

Interregnum
Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I've been feeling lethargic about writing lately (maybe it's the heat), and what...

Home improvement
So after some friendly ribbing from Peter about the blankness of my blog ("It looks like a Quaker meeting hall"),...

Another Movable Typist
I'm a little late for this, but congratulations to Bill Allison for his spiffy new digs. Bill doesn't do a...

Talking to yourself
Since I posted my rules of commenting, a couple of people have asked me what a "sock puppet" is. That's...

Professors get together
Chris Bertram, Kieran Healy, Henry and Maria Farrell, and Brian Weatherson have formed a cool academic team blog called Crooked...

Cooler heads prevailing
Sorry my post yesterday was so snippy -- I violated the rule against posting while angry, but I really felt...

Laying down the law
All right -- in light of some recent goings-on in my comments, I think I'm going to have to create...

Updates
It looks like my visit count is going to crack 100 for the first time today, and a look at...

I think I have a cat
Or at least, I share one. There's this large black-and-white beastie -- I'm guessing male, based on the size --...

Tabula rasa
All righty, I put a new template style on that, being blank, should be easier to personalize, and that seems...

Doing my bit for the Google hits
Eve Tushnet links to a study comparing male and female responses to video erotica, and found that women were more...

Weird
It's the first day of summer, and it rained here in L.A. last night. Or drizzled enough to wet the...

Setting up shop
Thank you, Lynn and Joel, for taking me in to the notfrisco collective! Once I've figured out how, I'll jazz...

New Blog
This spot is reserved for Camassia. A new blog here at notfrisco2.com....