February 2008
45 posts
it's lent time folks
I’ve been thinking about the upcoming Lent observation. In the Christian calendar this year the time starts Ash Wednesday, Feb. 6th and goes until Holy Saturday, Mar. 22nd. I have to admit this observation isn’t something I normally do and this is the first year I’ll actually try to seriously stick with something during this time of reflection and prayer. I think I’ll be...
January 2008
22 posts
There Will Be Blood
Although I’m not a movie critic I would like to share some thoughts on There Will Be Blood because there were some strong impressions made that I have yet to fully unpack. This is me trying to unpack those impressions here. Just a warning, there are spoilers ahead. From the opening scene of a bleak landscape and horrendously unresolved tones in the musical score I immediately got an enormous...
10 stunning ultra-geeky home cinemas →
I have no words to describe the colossal waste of money these are. Then again, they are so amazingly cool that I can forgive them.
Internet monitor cleaner →
This is pretty ridiculous but I had to post it…
“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can...”
– Stephen Hawking
A Little Girl's Name
I’ve never given much thought to girl names but now that we are expecing the birth of a girl it’s probably the time to start. We have a few ideas of our own already but if you are so inclined consider this your chance to get in on the fun. Leave a comment with your favorite name for a girl and we will consider it, unless it’s horrible.
RSS and the Power of the Internet
RSS is one of those things that is very well known in the geeky sectors of the internet and in my mind is one of the most important ways to get information. Essentially RSS is a summary list of recent activity on a given website, blog, forum or just about any other web technology out there. There are 7 RSS feeds that I track using a desktop widget. I’m a PC guy and widget technology...
Comments installed
So, I know a few of you asked for some interaction in the form of a comments section on the posts. Tumblr doesn’t have the comment capability native yet so I found a nice little add-on that was easy to install and integrate. It’s called Disqus (get it, DisCUSS? oh yah, puns are neat.) ANYway… you can create a profile, it takes literally 3 seconds if you can type fast, or you can...
Behüte Mich Gott - Protect Me God This is one of...
Taizé service
It is interesting to me how some people can be very particular about their favorite brand of Christianity. I recently attended a Taizé liturgical service with some friends and something happened during the service that was very interesting to me. One of the guys in the group didn’t partake of the open communion that was served near the end of the service. It wasn’t because he...
For my friends the readers
Here are some great sites for readers in the ol’ web 2.0 era. Good Reads - A site to show books you’ve read to your friends in the hopes of sharing and sparing them from books within your own library. I’m starting to use mine more. Swap Tree - Here you are able to upload and unload those books and other media that you will never read/watch/listen/play again. I’ve got a few...
WatchBurke Lecture: Stanley Hauerwas: Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Truth & Politics fyi - it’s an hour long but well worth it
22% Broadband penetration in the U.S. →
Who doesn’t have broadband yet? I thought we were in the 21st Century. And there has to be a better word to use besides “penetration.”
Betamax is back
It looks like Sony has won the first few battles in the new format war. Blu-ray vs. HD DVD
trying something new
So I’ve tried this “blogging” thing once before, I wrote about various theological things and there was some good interaction with friends. It was fun and I enjoyed writing but the demands of life took over and I found that I wasn’t able to keep pace and eventually the site became a graveyard. Now we come to my tumblr experiment. I work on the computer all day long and...
my amazon wishlist →
in case you are feeling generous! :)
