Ken Martin's Blog

Well, it turns out this page was crashing for my mom and Helen; both on Mac OS 10.3 using Safari. I thought it might be the Greek text via Unicode below, but it turns out it was the [graphic of Jack (below)][1] which I’d saved from Apple’s Preview! Bad JPEG. Hmph. Well, it’s fixed now. [...]

My mom is cool. For Christmas, she donated a [dairy goat][1] in our name via [Samaritan's Purse][2]. It will supply milk, butter, and cheese, and the “surplus can be sold to pay for other essentials like medicine and schooling”. Very cool. [1]: http://www.samaritanspurse.org/gift/catalog/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=36 [2]: http://www.samaritanspurse.org/

Helen and I got a rare movie date, and went to see *[King Kong][1]*. One of us wanted to; the other kindly agreed. We both left impressed. Very well done. Stunning visually. Sometimes a bit much on the modern gooey/buggy creepiness for me, but that’s just the way things are done nowadays for some reason, [...]

Hello fellow MacLaurin Greek students! Here’s a round-up of some links. The first one is the Greek New Testament I’d mentioned in our last class. – [Greek New Testament PDF][1] – Mounce’s site: [teknia.com][2] – [Perseus][3] – Greek reference material. A little complicated. The following line should actually appear in Greek letters. Please let me [...]

Here’s #3 on Christmas morning a couple of years ago. It’s a [QuickTime][3] video and you can download a [large file][1] or [small file][2], depending on how fast your internet connection is. “Goodness goodness gracious!” [1]: http://kpmartin.com/Media/thankful.jack.mov [2]: http://kpmartin.com/Media/thankful.jack.small.mov [3]: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

I’ll be transitioning to this WordPress driven site over the next weeks. You can find the old stuff [here][1]. It will just be a lot easier and more fun to have a simpler interface. Hopefully that means I can post more content and think less about the code. We’ll see. :) [1]: http://www.kpmartin.com/old.lasso