“…reading some of the hymns, I concluded that the book would do as it stood for an anthology of bad verse”
– George Orwell, commenting on an evangelical church’s hymn book in Down And Out In Paris and London (1933)
Odds and Ends
Assorted things that are new in my life:
- I’m married now and have returned from a wonderful wedding and honeymoon and am now getting back into the swing of things. My wife is the wonderful, sweet, beautiful, smart, talented, amazing Jenn aka Mrs. Nenadov
- I’ve driven a 26 foot u-haul truck across a border
- I’m a cat-owner
- I’ve become an Android-ian giving up the urge for an iphone
- I’ve returned to the caribbean for the first time since January 2008–I went to Jamaica and I’ve been able to add 7 new observed species to my wildlife life list
- This is a bit older news, but a few months ago I bought a house and moved into Essex, Ontario
- Possibly a few other things
- Some of this may explain why I’m not blogging as regularly as I theoretically did at some point in time
Links of note:
- If you are ever looking to identify a reptile or amphibian from the caribbean, Caribherp is a fantastic fantastic fantastic resource (Caribmap is also fascinating if you are into old maps)
- Ojibway Naturalist Paul Pratt has an interesting post regarding an Anna’s Hummingbird that was seen in Cottam, Ontario — this is the first recorded sighting of this bird in Ontario and it happened in a tiny community about 10 minutes from my house
- Check out these Audio Recordings of J. Gresham Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism
- The Art of Manliness has hit the nail on the head with its 12 Most Infamous Moustaches Of All Time