Idle musings of a bookseller

Idle musings by a once again bookseller, always bibliophile, current copyeditor and proofreader. Complete with ramblings about biblical studies, the ancient Near East, bicycling, gardening, or anything else I am reading (or experiencing). All more or less live from Red Wing, MN

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Pacifism continued

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Scot has taken up the pacifism theme again on his Jesus Creed blog. Excellent comments and discussion. I urge you all to take a look at ...

What in the world is "silent sports?"

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I have had some people ask me what in the world "Silent Sports" are (see my profile). Since there are only 3 people who appear on ...
Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Catching up

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One of the problems of being away from the office is coming back, especiallly after being gone for 2 weeks. I have a stack of mail--both e-m...
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Monday, November 28, 2005

Biblioblogs

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Nice post on NT Gateway about "biblioblogs" as a result of the SBL session (which I missed).

Fun little church history book

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Over the weekend I read a fun little church history book, Age of Knights and Friars, Popes and Reformers . Church history has been a intere...
Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Philly and flight home

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After taking care of the booth, I checked my backpack and laptop at the hotel and went for a walk around Philly. Walked up to city hall and...
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Tuesday, Day 4

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Wow, what a convention. I heard there were over 10,000 here this year. The sales were a bit slow for the last day, but someone told me tha...
Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Day 3

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Monday always feels like a Wednesday. You know that you are over halfway there and can make it to the end. As you can see from the picture, ...
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Monday, November 21, 2005

Day 2 evening

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I went to the Brill/Mohr Siebeck reception last night at the Kent Museum, a 6-7 block walk. It was a beautiful evening, making me wish I had...
Sunday, November 20, 2005

Day 2 continued

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I am about to run off to the Brill reception, but wanted to add a few comments. I had lunch with Ellen from Brill today and was able to purc...

Day 2

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Another busy day. We have sold out of 5-6 of the 20 new releases we brought with us. I have been dividing my time between meeting with vend...

Day one

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Some photos of the booth before we began selling. Needless to say, the stacks are much lower now than they were yesterday. The book exhibit...

Sacred Bridge

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These are pictures of the Sacred Bridge before the first day and then after. Watch the stack go down each day. Joe Cathey has a nice lit...
Saturday, November 19, 2005

SBL setup

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These are some pictures of setup. There were 8 of us, counting Emanuel from Carta and Darryl from SIL. Large crew, almost too many because...
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ETS breakdown, getting to Philly

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Wow, what a day. It started early, at around 6:00. But I managed to get the recumbent bicycle this time. Breakfast was expensive, and the se...
Thursday, November 17, 2005

Food

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Well, I am forced to retract some of my harsh statements about the food here. I went to the same place I had gone on Tuesday night and asked...

Workout room

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I went down to the workout room again this morning at 6:00. Somebody was on the recumbent bicycle already, my favorite workout machine when ...

ETS Day 2

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Another day done. It started early with breakfast with Michael Thomson from Eerdmans. We had a problem finding a place to eat. We both asked...
Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Snow!

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I just got off the phone with Debbie (my wife) and she told me that it is snowing in Indiana. Well, it isn't here, it is raining. I lo...

Accomodations

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I am staying at the Radisson here. They have the "sleep number" beds. I found out that I am a 90, which is the highest it goes. ...
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