Sunday, February 13, 2005

The LDS online Interactive Church Music Player is awesome - it'll not only play hymns for you, but also transpose the music on the fly, then let you print out the modified version. Very handy.

Doxology (a short prayer or hymn of praise that extols the glory and majesty of God) is a word with a long history. Thomas Ken's "Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow" (Hymn #242), is a famous example of a doxology. His words are apparently based upon either Psalm 86:12 or Psalm 184:1-2 (according to different sources), but I don't see how - the words aren't even close on either one. The funny thing is that this entire song's lyrics are actually just the last verse of one of his much longer hymns ("Awake, My Soul, and with the Sun").

Tried three new food products this weekend: Quaker Lower Sugar maple and brown sugar instant oatmeal, featuring sucralose and 50% less sugar; Bottled IBC Diet Rootbeer, with evil aspartame and saccharin; Log Cabin Sugar Free low-calorie syrup, again featuring sucralose. The first two of these items tasted pretty good, but the latter was just downright nasty. Two for three isn't bad, though.

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