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Here's a blurb from The Gospel Coalition's paper entitled "Human Flourishing":

Another change brought about by technology is that students now submit assignments electronically. This frees professors to set deadlines for assignments at midnight or 6 am. When I was a college student, students had to physically hand in papers that were due during the day or by 5 pm, the time when the departmental office closed. As a result, this drew a clear boundary between the school day and the evening. Now professors contribute to a “work around the clock” way of life by having middle-of-the-night or weekend deadlines, thereby encouraging students to work at all times. Because work can be accomplished anywhere at any time, students feel pressure to always be working. There is a blurred distinction between day and night, and sleep schedules are often erratic.

I'm trying to get back to "normal" hours, but last night I didn't get a whole lot of sleep. It wasn't so much due to a midnight or 6am deadline - more a matter of just not being able to fall asleep - but it may be an end result of a schedule that's tended to incorporate too many odd hours.

This whole sleeping at appropriate times thing seems to require that self-discipline be improved - either that or life in community - the presence of other individual(s).

Weather expert says prairie 'dry cold' a myth

"That old winter prairie refrain: "Oh, but it's a dry cold," is, in fact, a myth. ... Rather, underlying weather factors like sunlight, cloud cover and wind chill have a greater effect on the relative pleasantness of the winter."

Mossad's Most Dastardly (Alleged) Plots

"From Munich to the Mabhouh assassination, the secretive Israeli intelligence agency has pulled off some pretty elaborate operations in its time. But lately, Middle Eastern media outlets and politicians have been getting a bit carried away. "

Calvinism, Eschatology, and the New Media

"Don't mistake me. Google does make many of us stupid, but only in the same way that libraries have made us stupid for many centuries. Libraries make a handful of people really wise, and provide many others with artificial props for their footnotes."

The Missing, Ctd

"There’s no shortage of children to adopt; the waiting list exists solely because adoptive parents want to wait for the 'right' kind of child. Please don’t perpetuate the myth."

Perhaps the best way to introduce this clip is via the description on this blog:

Would you like to hear the testimony of a man who spent twenty bucks on a hooker on his way to church to lead a candlelight service on Christmas Eve

(HT: Z)

Deleting about 2/3rds of my RSS feeds from my feed reader. We'll see if this helps me find a little more time for other stuff.