Random

This is an unusually long list for a Saturday. It's been an interesting day -- lots of activity worthy of note.

• Happy birthday to Gary -- my youngest brother -- who is still 40-something -- for another year.

• The mangoes are ripe. Guamanians should expect shortages of dental floss in all the stores.

• We listed our condo last evening and it's now available through MLS ~ link

• Tomorrow is Pascha (Easter) for our Eastern Orthodox brothers and sisters. I'd love to join them for the celebration but at this point there are no EO congregations on Guam.

• Our friend Miriam Notehelfer spoke at the Fuller Women’s Legacy Award Luncheon. Miriam was one of the first women to study at Fuller Theological Seminary. She earned a MRE degree in 1959. ~ link

• New study: People with the biggest smiles in their high school yearbook pictures divorced less later on. It's interesting research but it sounds like a spurious correlation. I'd like to see a larger sampling. ~ link

• You know the world has changed when the Wall Street Journal launches a social networking site. ~ link

• Cold Stone Creamery experienced a double-digit sales spike after it added ice cream cupcakes to its menu in February. ~ link

• The Mail has an informative story on Susan Boyle, the world's most popular woman this week. ~ link

• The Atlantic Bluefin Tuna population could be wiped out three years from now. Good-bye sushi. ~ link

• If I have adjusted my Skype settings so that I "Allow IMs only from people in my contact list" -- why do I occasionally get random IMs from people I don't know and prefer not to know?

• CT has a story on Doug Wilson, the somewhat shrill voice from Moscow, Idaho. At one point Doug's family and I were a part of the same small bookstore ministry, which Elmer and Jean Hiebert started. I was working in the store in Tempe, Arizona and Doug was, I believe, helping at the store in Pullman, Washington. (It's all fuzzy -- lots of Wilsons in the operation back then -- 30+ years ago.) Subsequently he's developed a bit of a reputation. ~ link

• Yes, you can grow calamansis on the mainland US. That's good news because I've become fond of them. Calamansi is the Filipino word for what Americans call calamondin -- a small tart citrus. ~ link