tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-106218202012-02-16T11:28:44.805-05:00Life in MalibuCurtnoreply@blogger.comBlogger461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10621820.post-21732316964569260432007-04-20T23:53:00.000-04:002008-12-09T22:44:35.601-05:00

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One of the things that draws people to Malibu is the unique combination of ocean and mountains. There are a dozen roads that lead up from Pacific Coast Highway into the Santa Monica Mountains where you have amazing views of the ocean.Point Dume from Encinal Canyon:Point Dume from Corral Canyon:Palos Verdes from Corral Canyon:

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South Bay from Pepperdine:Palos Verdes from Pepperdine

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The view from my chair. Houdini the hawk sometimes sits in the tree outside my window:

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A picture is worth a thousand words, right?Surfrider Beach and the Santa Monica Bay from the conference room on my floor:

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Blogging from Malibu. I finally have internet access again. The weather's perfect. But you already knew that, didn't you?More later.

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Spent a very nice week at the beach in North Carolina with my family and in-laws. For what it's worth, I have great in-laws.

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Mila 18 begins as an easy read about Warsaw, Poland on the eve of World War II. People and places are established. Histories and relationships are explored. But the book turns dark and gloomy as the Nazis blitz across Poland and the Jews of Warsaw and forced in a walled ghetto. The evil and depravity of the Nazis (and their Polish and Jewish co-conspirators) is impossible to comprehend. The

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In Atlanta, if you want a great burger, I think everyone will agree to try The VortexI had lunch there today with two good lawyer friends of mine. The burgers were great, of course, and so was the conversation. Since it may be a while before I see either of them again, I am very glad I got a chance to sit down and get caught up.

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My wife wants me to say that she will first miss our friends, and second sweet tea.

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We had a very nice time with some of our best Atlanta friends last night.

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My wife is a self-confessed "sweet tea addict". When asked what she will miss the most about Atlanta, the answer is invariably the sweet tea.It's hard to believe that in large swaths of this country most people don't even know what you mean by "sweet tea", but it's true. In California my wife will be, gasp, forced to make her own sweet tea. Please keep her in your thoughts.

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I started reading Mila 18 by Leon Uris. It's pretty good.I discovered Uris a couple of years ago. I do not normally enjoy historical fiction, but I have found his books very interesting. In particular, I enjoyed The Haj, although the ending was quite disappointing.

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We will miss Bruster's. For the longest time, it was very hard to find good ice cream in Atlanta. The only exception (in my opinion) was the Ben & Jerry's in the Highlands. But then Bruster's opened a dozen or so stores and ever since then we have been in ice cream heaven.Tonight I tried the chocolate marshmello. It was VERY good, but it doesn't actually contain chunks of marshmellos, which

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Krispy Kreme is the perfect pre-yard sale food. We held our first yard sale today. It went well and we actually made a nice little chunk of change, BUT we didn't even make a dent it the pile of stuff we need to get rid of before we leave.

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We had a very nice dinner with Dignan and his wife at Stoney River last night. GREAT steak. Cooked perfectly. It's nice, especially when you have kids, to be able to linger over dinner, drink coffee and just talk. It's the type of thing you take for granted before you have kids and is much too rare after.

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You can get a great after work margarita at South City Kitchen (as Glenn and I found out on Thursday).

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For fried chicken and other southern food, Bobby & June's Country Kitchen is the place to go.

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By now you may have noticed a trend in my Atlanta posts. I've never thought of myself as a food person (in law school I ate the same thing every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner), but there really are a lot of great places to eat in Atlanta. Even more important than the food though is the people you eat with. (Maybe all those foreign films about food really are on to something.) Good food

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In Atlanta, you can't beat Fellini's for pizza. Last night we met up with Dignan's family at Chastain Park for a little playtime for the kids, then made the short drive across Roswell Road to Fellini's. As usual, the pizza was excellent.

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One of the best places to eat breakfast in Atlanta is OPH: Original Pancake House. You get heaping portions of pancakes, eggs, french toast, waffles, oatmeal, bacon, you name it. Their bacon is made from thick slabs of pork and tastes like candy. One of our weekend rituals is to meet the Browns and Zelnaks at OPH. On Sunday we scheduled just such a meeting before church. We pulled into the

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My son told me he wanted to go to Waffle House. Since Waffle House is such an institution in Atlanta, I decided that should take him before we moved. It was packed, of course, and we squeezed into the last two spots at the counter. We ordered a waffle (my son's request) and a triple order of hashbrowns, covered and chunked (just the way I like them). Matthias proclaimed his waffle, "the best

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One of my favorite memories of living in Atlanta was the time Dignan and I went ice-blocking. If you haven't tried ice-blocking, it's hard to explain just how fun it is. Basically, you get a huge block of ice (I think they run 10 pounds or so), you find a nice long, grassy hill (golf courses work well), and you ride the ice block down the hill the same way you would a sled on snow. To get a

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One of my favorite activities my first few years in Atlanta was just sitting at the window watching the thunderstorms. I loved the sound of the rain pouring down, the rumble of the thunder and the crack of the lighting. I grew up in California and I know I never witnessed a thunderstorm like the ones I've enjoyed over the past 13 years.

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Eats is a restaurant in Atlanta. It's not a fancy restuarant. It's not an expensive restaurant. In fact, it's cheap and a little bit grimy. But Eats has arguably the best jerk chicken in the world. At least, it's the best I've ever tasted. I got take-out from Eats last night. Mmmmmm. So good. Just one of many thingss I will miss about Atlanta.

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Job asks the (rhetorical?) question, "should we accept good from God, and not adversity?"This is not always a simple question to answer, as the two often come in pairs. We have good things in life in the midst of crises. And we have unbearable adversity in the midst of great joy. Someone dies and within days a child is born. In my own life, I have prayed for every good thing under the sun.

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Sometime next month, my family will be moving to Southern California. I'll be working (and hopefully living) at Pepperdine University in Malibu.

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Three funny stories about our 4 year old:1. My father-in-law drives a FORD Explorer. My son is now fascinated by pointing out every Ford on the road or in a parking lot and saying "that's a car just like Big Guy drives." ("Big Guy" is Matthias' name for his 6'4" grandfather).Well the other day, Matthias saw a Ford, pointed and said, "look Mommy, it's a three, just like Big Guy drives."2.

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"At one time I grappled with the problem of the authority of the Scriptures. But the problem resolved itself when I finally said, "Lord, I take the Scriptures as thy revealed Word - by faith!" Billy Graham, What Ten Years Have Taught Me. During graduate school, I was bombarded with all the standard arguments AGAINST the inspiration/authority of Scripture. But reading this quote by

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This would be sweet justice:Weare, New Hampshire (PRWEB) Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter? A new ruling by the Supreme Court which was supported by Justice Souter himself itself might allow it. A private developer is seeking to use this very law to build a hotel on Souter's land.Justice Souter's vote in the "Kelo vs. City of New London" decision

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This is funny.

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Steve Jobs gave a great speech at Stanford:Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you

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I'm a fan of Russian literature in general and Russian religious fiction in particular, and one of my favorite discoveries in graduate school was Soloviev's A SHORT STORY OF THE ANTI-CHRIST.

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An interesting article on conservative thought in the last half-century(particularly the role Hayek played in economic theory). Some good quotes:The Road to Serfdom advanced two broad themes, one negative and the other positive. The first was that socialism leads almost inevitably to tyranny and the loss of liberty in all of its forms.As for present-day conservatism, in Hayek’s view it suffered

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Interesting article on the decline of atheism...and the rise of paganism.Two developments are plaguing atheism these days. One is that it appears to be losing its scientific underpinnings. The other is the historical experience of hundreds of millions of people worldwide that atheists are in no position to claim the moral high ground....the rest of Europe re-Christianization is by no means

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I read somewhere that the flu epidemic of 1918 had a 2.5% fatality rate and killed 20-40 million.The bird flu has a fatality rate of 75%!!!!!

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Full Force Gale Like a full force gale I was lifted up again I was lifted up again by the lord And no matter where I roam I will find my way back home I will always return to the lord In the gentle evening breeze By the whispering shady trees I will find my sanctuary in the lord I was headed for a fall Then I looked up and saw the writing on the wall Like a full force gale I was lifted up

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