A member of my congregation forwards all his viral email to me. I don’t mind; I’ve been deleting email since 1979, so a little more won’t kill me.
This one, however, was so bad I felt I had to comment on it:
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But is it better than "Le Royal"?
Apparently the hamburger has become haut cuisine. Who would have guessed?
(via IP.)
Remembering Midway
I was surprised and pleased when I saw that Wired’s interesting historical fact of the day for today was the Battle of Midway. Good on yer, Wired!
(It’s an interesting observation they make. The “tech angle” here that this was the 2nd naval battle in which the fleets never made visual contact with each other. That is, it was a naval battle decided not by battle ships but aircraft carriers. We lost only one, the Yorktown. I’ve been aboard the aircraft carrier Yorktown, but it wasn’t the one sunk at Midway.)
iPod Movies
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I’ll be doing some air travel this summer, and ever since I got my iPod — egad! I never wrote a blog entry about the wonder that is my iPod! what kind of lazy blogger am I? I’ll do that Real Soon Now. Anyway, about my air travel…
So, I went to the iTMS store to see what it would cost me to get a movie for the trip. I was stunned to see how much they cost. (For example, $14.99 for The Incredibles.) Very quickly I decided that I would have to make my own, because the store-bought ones were just too spendy for my limited budget. I already got a copy of The Incredibles, for example. So all I had to do was learn how to rip dvds for ipod.
By that query was I introduced to Handbrake. And you know what? It just works. I give it a “Cool Tool” award. Thumbs up.
Three Christians Speak About the Bible
Here’s what Stanley Hauerwas has to say:
No task is more important than for the Church to take the Bible out of the hands of individual Christians in North America. Let us no longer give the Bible to all children when they enter the third grade or whenever their assumed rise to Christian maturity is marked, such as eighth-grade commencements. Let us rather tell them and their parents that they are possessed by habits far too corrupt for them to be encouraged to read the Bible on their own. [1]
Tony Blair on his faith
The former PM speaks out:
One of the oddest questions I get asked in interviews, and I get asked a lot of questions, is: Is faith important to your politics? It’s like asking someone whether their health is important to them or their family.
Evangelism Lesson
From my sermon this morning:
Some excerpts from the text:
I’m having fun with my toys
and I don’t want to share them.
It’s hard to share.
Could I do it?
Maybe, if I really tried.
I can share when I want to.
I can do it!
I did it!
updated blog software
security upgrade. who has time for this?
Erwin on Risk
I’m reading Chasing Daylight and liked this:
Long before September 11, I made it my personal mission to crusade against a long-standing Christian cliche. … I lament that it has become an accepted part of pop theology that the safest place to be is in the center of the will of God. …
… [T]he center of God’s will is not a safe place, but the most dangerous place in the world. God fears nothing and no one. God moves with intentionality and power. To live outside God’s will puts us in danger, but to live in His will makes us dangerous. … When we begin to seize our divine moments, we do not begin to live risk-free, but instead become free to risk.
This from the last page of chapter 6, “Risk,” on p. 151 of the paperback edition.
command history
All the top programming-blog people are doing this. Why not small-town pastors, too?
90 cd 77 l 57 mv 42 llr 29 ll 25 rm 18 open 16 clear 14 cp 11 cat
Clearly, the thing I do most is look around: l is an alias for ls, ll for ls -l, and llr for ls -ltr. As a result, I don’t care how bad the finder is, most of the time.
A cool tool? open. I’d like to have something like that on Linux.