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Murder at the Met

A couple of weekends ago, 14 friends and I gathered to try our hand at Murder at the Met scavenger hunt, hosted by Watson Adventures. For those who are not familiar with Watson Adventures, they stage scavenger hunts in cities across the U.S. Some of the NYC hunts include The Gangsters' New York, The Ghosts of Greenwich Village, and The Wax Attacks (held at Madame Tussauds). Most of the hunts are targeted for adults (meaning the questions can be tricky/complex...

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Book Review: The Case for Christ

(I have been posting more book reviews lately for a good reason: I will be moving soon and am currently going through my mountains of books in an effort to divide them into "keep" and "donate" piles. Obviously, there are certain titles that hold dear places in my heart, and I cannot help but re-read them and share them with you.) In light of Easter, I decided to write about a popular piece of Christian literature: Lee Strobel's The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus. I first discovered the field of Christian apologetics, which, according to this Wikipedia article, is "the field of study concerned with the systematic defense of Christianity," in my early teenage years and it has always been a...

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Meet My New Baby

...my new MacBook Pro! I constantly have memory-intensive programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Quark all running at the same time....with music playing and Firefox and Safari opened to 12 different pages. As a result my old PowerBook G4 (which is now almost 4 years old) has been suffering a bit in the past year. I knew I needed to get a replacement laptop since the fall of 2007, but I also knew that updates to the MacBook Pro line were imminent with the annual MacWorld conference coming up in January. MacWorld came and went with the announcement of the MacBook Air, but not even a whisper about the MacBook Pro. I troweled all the Mac fan message boards and rumor sites...

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