Archive for February, 2007
The Tomb of Jesus
Monday, February 26th, 2007According to this
article, a documentary that will air on the Discovery Channel March 4th, will claim to have discovered the burial site of Jesus. The Jesus. Not surprisingly, there has already been a lot of criticism of this finding, despite none of the critics having yet seen it.
How can such a claim be […]
How People Are Finding Me
Saturday, February 17th, 2007I’ve been running Google Analytics on JamesTharpe.com for a while now and have learned a few interesting things from it, such as:
Most newcomers find the site through Google, by searching for some variant of my name. Variants include: James Tharpe, Jim Tharpe, and Jamie Tharpe. This accounts for just over five visits per week.
Others have […]
The Art of War
Monday, February 12th, 2007I was browsing around Project Gutenberg today and came across a 1910 translation of The Art of War by Sun Tzu, translated by Lionel Giles. It turned out to be the same translation I was first exposed to.
I remember my stepsister buying a very old copy for herself at a used book store in […]
Creativity, Education, and ADHD
Saturday, February 10th, 2007Where do they come from? Where do they go?
Thursday, February 8th, 2007Today I went to Waffle House for lunch. I sat at the bar next to a little old lady who wanted to make sure that I knew "they have good eggs here."
"They sure do," I responded a little too enthusiastically, "but my favorite is the hash browns."
"Yeah! And they have good eggs too!" She seemed […]
On the front page of Helium
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007A short while ago I thought I'd try out Helium, a website that encourages people to write for their site by sharing ad revenues with writers. I wrote an article on exercising at home to […]
Under the Banner of Heaven
Monday, February 5th, 2007I finished Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer about two weeks ago. This was a disturbing book that covers a history of Mormon fundamentalism as a background to the […]