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Language defines, or at least provides structure for our thoughts and therefore our actions. A language without singular pronouns is probably used by a culture that sees the world as made up of groups. How would this culture act versus a culture whose language uses the first person singular pronoun in every sentence? Would one [...]

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More thoughts and observations that just can’t seem to make themselves into a fully formed blog post, but worth mentioning all the same. I can tell that the use of Foursquare is growing because my mayorships have shrunk from the teens to 4. In a major metro area you have to check in daily or [...]

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Yes, that’s right, while I do not have a “personal relationship with Jesus” he is stalking me on the Twittersphere. Does that make him my disciple? Oy. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fttrumble.com%2Fi-have-a-follower-in-jesus%2F’; addthis_title = ‘I+Have+A+Follower+In+Jesus’; addthis_pub = ‘TTrumble’;

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The Age of Persuasion: How Marketing Ate Our Culturemade it to my bookshelf because of the dust jacket (I was a sucker of the Mad Men style graphic) and its being stocked in the staff recommendation shelf of Porter Square Books. A quick perusal of early chapters led me to believe that it was a [...]

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Summer is officially over. Labor Day is behind us, the kids are back in school and it’s sure getting dark later these days than it was in July. Our family had a lot of travel between the end of June and the middle of August so we focused on making the most of the last [...]

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