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Professor of Biblical Studies at Heritage College. Fan of Toronto sports and nerdy humour. Mostly posts about curling 🥌
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Seriously, if this was the Leafs, after that 1st period it would be about 7-0 right now. Amazing resilience from Edmonton
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also, weirdly, he was just featured in a Christianity Today interview
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Canadian fantasy author. Very poetic and lyrical style. Most of his books are set in something close to this world, with a "quarter-turn" to the fantastical.
His best work is either the Lions of Al-Rassan (based on the Spanish Reconquista) or the Sarantine Duology (Justinian's Byzantium)
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yeah, fair enough. Just finished Kay's most recent book last night so he was on my mind.
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Guy Kay
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Knows enough for a magnificent 4 hr youtube documentary by the great Jon Bois
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It was also a terrible decision in terms of story-telling. All of a sudden, we're just back to Empire vs. Rebel Alliance like the original trilogy never happened.
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Indeed. What a book can mean to an individual reader when it hits them at the right time and place can be pure magic, and well beyond what any author could foresee.
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boooo! boooo!!! (nicely done)
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I don't think you can label anything set to be complete in 2041 as a "priority."
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--namely preventing the runner on third from scoring to second base --not to contest the runner's advance to second base."
Apparently, I've been robbing kids of steals for well over a year now.
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However, another parent alerted me to the comment Rule 9.07g in the rulebook which reads in part "the official scorer should ordinarily credit a stolen base when the runner advances to second, if, in the scorer's judgment, the defensive team had a legitimate strategic motive
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I kinda saw the twist coming, but still, brilliantly executed and an emotional bulls-eye
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yup. Likewise
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have you done Jenny's Evermore or Star Wars hotel videos? Equally captivating, if slightly less theologically fraught.
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Yes
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time for the Elam Ending