Entries Tagged as ‘Other articles’

July 4, 2009

Why German is an Excellent Language to Study

I wrote this on Suite101.com. (Link)

June 26, 2009

A Critique of Fluenz French

(Link) I wrote this article on Suite101.com.

June 23, 2009

How to Play Ultimate in the Wind

Click here to read the article.

December 25, 2008

The Voice (Wikipedia Page)

“The Voice” is a [[Biblical translation]] project established “to rediscover the story of the Bible.”
<ref name=”Book”>[New Testament, The Voice Edition (Website: http://hearthevoice.com/books/profile/27722)]</ref> It employs writers with artistic, theological and musical backgrounds in order to differentiate its work from scholar-centered translations.
<ref name=”Book”/> The Voice’s first publication was a [[New Testament]] translation, which came out in [[October]] [...]

September 20, 2008

A quick guide to quick typing

A quick guide to quick typing

9/20/08

Kenneth Burchfiel

 
Throughout our lives, we receive plenty of education on what to type. It is the question of how to type that does not get enough attention.

One could make the argument that how fast one writes does not make much of a difference. After all, if it takes someone an [...]

September 9, 2008

In search of the fleeting pingy sound

9/9/2008

Kenneth Burchfiel

 
Imagine, if you can, a distant age when the internet was a foreign phrase. When today’s billionaires were yesterday’s garage programmers and software hackers. When the dawn of the computing age was yet to shine on the horizons of technology.

An age when keyboards made a pingy sound.

 
We have progressed so far in the realm [...]

September 8, 2008

The Sentence Party

[Quite possibly the shortest article you will ever see on Schreiben Depot.]

The Sentence Party

9/8/08

Kenneth Burchfiel

 
The Sentence Party’s View:

The ideal government is strong enough to keep its citizens from restraining one another, limited enough to keep the government from restraining its citizens and simple enough that its whole philosophy can be expressed in one sentence.

August 25, 2008

Why it’s time to boycott Ryanair

The following is the text from a petition I recently put up on “Petition Online.” The following URL links to that site and a chance to sign, should the reader be interested. http://www.petitiononline.com/RynrBC/petition.html

8/25/08

(With research help from Wikipedia and “Dave” of http://davefaq.com/Opinions/RyanAir-Sucks/ )
Why it’s time to boycott Ryanair

Kenneth Burchfiel

Sources used in this story are marked with [...]

August 13, 2008

Tokyo Thoughts

Tokyo Thoughts

8/13/08

Kenneth Burchfiel

[Written on the bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto. Having spent the first year of my life in Japan and the next sixteen in the United States, it's hard for me to tell whether I am now the furthest from or the closest I have ever been to home.]

It would be presumptuous of [...]

August 8, 2008

Reflections in the Ice

Reflections in the Ice

8/8/08
Kenneth Burchfiel

It was the Arctic Ocean’s off season, but she still put on a memorable show.
The clouds lifted just as our plane began to scrape the northern edge of Alaska. I saw the barren grey of the tundra, the pale blue of the Arctic; and then, in a hue so white that [...]