A few days ago Dairy Queen - where I work - got a new menu board. The ice cream section of the menu was bright icy blue and white. It made me think about something I had asked myself months earlier while looking at a gum wrapper. Why is bright blue considered cold?
I put the [...]

No man ever mad greater allowances for human infirmities, and for the errors and follies of men. He knew that we must take men as they are, or not at all. But in the number of natural infirmities he never reckoned falsehood and knavery, to which he gave not quarter. Human weaknesses were invincible; but [...]

There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
(Prov 30:18-19)
I say, as [...]

As you’ve probably noticed, Abdiel Blog just  got a new theme and a new title. I’m in the process of merging Abdiel Blog with Abdiel Press (why have two websites when one will do?). Thanks for putting up with the disorganization.

“Do you get the idea? The whole harm in the anecdotes is in the point, you see.”
~Mark Twain, Essays on Paul Bourget
What Mark Twain means in the quotation above is that any pointed comment or joke needs to have a bit of truth in it, or it doesn’t sting. The context is this: Twain [...]

So I missed the first Monday - my excuse is that I had a hard time getting an internet connection. But here we are.
“The reason the Qwerty keyboard was invented,” a friend told me one time, “is that the first keyboard worked so fast that the typewriter hammers all got jammed. So the inventor arranged [...]

Dear Readers,
I have recently become aware of the importance of posting regularly to my blog. As one person put it, “If there’s not a new post then, honestly, people won’t return regularly.”
Therefore, I promise now to post at least every Monday. No more months like June of this year, with just one post. Every month [...]

I just finished my first visit to The Electric Typewriter, the blog of a friend I met at work. He has a post called “My Simple Guidebook to Life” that is so full of wisdom you’ll be amazed that you didn’t have to visit a wizard on a mountaintop to get it. Here are some [...]