I have spent most of the day scanning old photographs for Kansas Lake Lutheran Church, who are closing this year. Among them were pastors going back to 1871, including the Rev. P.J. Eckman, circa 1900, who looks awesome:
And now I’m thinking that if I am survived a century or more by a photograph, I want it to be one where I, too look like I might crush you with rhetoric.
My name is Matthew Xavier. I live in Minnesota, read books, and write software (for fun and profit).
Many years ago at a friend's high school graduation, I spent an hour at a table with my brother and our band director. We were strange people. I ate one mint for half an hour, our band director made faces in his salad dressing, and my brother melted things in the decorative candle.
One of the things my brother melted was a plastic fork. He carefully heated it only just enough that the tips of the tines curled neatly into little coils. We examined it and decided that surely it was no longer good for stabbing people...or food. Thus was born the original safety fork: harmless, but useless.
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