Shh, Don't Tell Mom

After a day of sleeping in, a soccer game, gardening, putting together a new yard swing, and cooking Heather’s nearly-famous ribs, Dylan decided he wanted to show off by going up to the roof. This is not unprecedented; he’s done it many times before, and some of the Oakridge youth pioneered it before him.

Yeah, don’t tell the parents either.

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I have been collecting yet another set of links and web pages that I wanted to share with you. It’s a Link Farm Saturday Night!

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Do you remember the earthquake from a few weeks ago? Heather told me that morning that she felt like someone was shaking the bed, and wondered if there had been something like an earthquake at that point in the morning. I was skeptical because I had slept through the whole thing.

Surely enough, I turned on the news, and there was a blurb about it. Details were still coming in.

Well, crap, I missed it. However, I remember the Earthquake of 1987 that shook my boyhood home. I had just come home from Warsaw with a new ghetto blaster – that’s what we called them twenty-one years ago, you know. I was playing some extremely loud and obnoxious music to test it out. I felt the floor shaking under me, and was amazed at how powerful the stereo was. Fearing for the safety of my personal belongings, I turned the stereo off, but the shaking continued.

I ran downstairs and out into the front yard. My parents were already there, and we gawked at all of the neighbors who were in their yards as well. We all got a chuckle out of that for a few days.

I don’t remember what the newspaper said about the earthquake the next day. Even if I had read it, I simply did not remember any details. However, in a purely self-indulgent exercise, I researched the earthquake, and found the details in the links that follow:

Northwest Indiana Times article.
A History of Earthquakes in Indiana from Indiana University.
Indiana Earthquake Information from the United States Geological Service.
Today in Earthquake History from the United States Geological Service.

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For sports geeks only: in my usual searches for articles about my high school alma mater, Tippecanoe Valley, I came across this page listing high school, college, and professional all-time high scorers. Two men from my high school have scored fifty or more points in a game, so they made the Indiana list.

Some of the lists are almost ridiculous because of the nature of the leagues in which the scoring took place. For example:

Alaska Recreation Leagues Scoring Records
Blytheville Y.M.C.A. League
Chico Area Recreation Department (CARD)

Yeah. A little dubious. Nevertheless, many of the lists arefascinating, and give an insight into the colorful pasts of high school sports in all fifty states.

While on the page, I found a curious reference about Max Edward Palmer, a 7’ 7” player from Mississippe. One thing led to another, and I found this article about him in Time.

If you take a step back to the root directory of the web page owner, you don’t see an actual web page itself, but you can explore the subfolders he provides. His various pages on basketball history are amazing in their detail and obscurity. Did you know that women played six-on-six basketball in high school for many years?

The sole article on football concerns itself only with long field goals. Women kickers are included!

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I have not had a chance to look through the entire document yet, but a team of Evangelical scholars has come up with An Evangelical Manifesto. In essence, they are taking back the word Evangelical, and are giving the world a clear definition of what is to be Evangelical.

buck on 05.11.08 @ 12:03 AM EST [link]