The Watertown Daily Times is reporting that Dr. John W. Deans (left, with Congressman and current SECARMY-Nominee John M. McHugh) is expected to be named today as the Interim President of Broome Community College. Dr. Deans previously led Jefferson Community College as President from 1992-2002 and again on an interim basis in 2006.

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Since late 2004, when my wife first bought me a copy of the English Standard Version, the ESV has been my Bible translation of choice for most applications. I pre-ordered the ESV Study Bible when it was announced, and was very pleased when it was released last fall. It’s an incredible resource, and I highly recommend it to any of my church members interested in seriously studying scripture.

Crossway has released the ESV Study Bible materials for a variety of platforms, including Accordance for Mac. (Incidentally, it’s not available for the cross-platform Libronix Library System, which I love… but I digress.) However, I don’t have Accordance, and didn’t want to buy a different application to use it on my Mac.

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For some time now, I’ve had lenflack.com (powered by WordPress) configured with Twitter Tools to automatically update my Twitter account with an announcement of any new blog posts. I’ve also had Facebook configured to pull my tweets as a status update. This essentially keeps all of my major social media outlets linked together, and requires less work on my part to keep others updated.

A month or two back, I changed how Facebook imports my tweets. I tweet quite often, so I didn’t want it to automatically use every tweet as a status update. To solve this, I began using Selective Twitter Status. This allows me to manually choose which tweets are posted to Facebook by appending the hashtag “#fb” to the tweets I’d like posted. Continue Reading »

I’ve written in the past about my health and related goals. I lost 40 pounds in 2008, and had been aiming to drop another 60 in 2009.

Unfortunately, around the first of the year I hit a brick wall. I started feeling bad. Really bad. Like crap, really. All the time. Long story short, I’ve got arthritis. It’s genetic, but my weight doesn’t help.

So, with an adequate treatment plan for that in place, I’ve been back to work on my weight loss goals. Continue Reading »

I recently mentioned the awesomeness that is my wife’s buffalo chicken wing dip. Here is the recipe, for anyone who is interested.

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 lbs boneless skinless chicken breasts
• 9 oz hot chicken wing sauce
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 12 ounces blue cheese dressing
• 1 bag Tostito corn chips

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Place chicken in a pot with enough water to cover. Bring to a boil and cook 25 minutes, until chicken juices run clear. 
3. Drain liquid from pot and shred chicken. 
4. Mix wing sauce and butter into pot with chicken. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and simmer 10 minutes.
5. Spread cream cheese over the bottom of an 8×8 inch baking dish. 
6. Pour chicken mixture over cream cheese. 
7. Top with dressing.
8. Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven, until hot and bubbly. 
9. Serve with Tostitos.

I recently discovered an awesome utility for Mac OS X called GeekTool. The author’s site describes the software like this:

GeekTool is a PrefPane (System Preferences module) for Panther or Tiger to show system logs, unix commands output, or images (i.e. from the internet) on your desktop (or even in front of all windows).

In other words, GeekTool allows you to run shell scripts and terminal commands in the background, and output the results in visually appealing ways on your desktop. (And yes, it works with Leopard, too.) Check out the screenshot of my desktop. Continue Reading »