Monthly Archives: July 2006

From Oppressed Minority to.…

I’m work­ing on my les­son for 2 Thes­sa­lo­ni­ans 1, right now, and I’m trou­bled. Paul writes, “He will pun­ish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9They will be pun­ished with ever­last­ing destruc­tion and shut out from the pres­ence of the Lord and from the majesty [...]
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New mp3 Player

For the last sev­eral days, I’ve been bid­ding on every sin­gle iRiver H120. It’s a 20gb mp3 player. I set myself a limit that I thought was pretty dang cheap (shipped it cost me 130.86), and refused to bid the $5–10 over that that would have got­ten me one a lot sooner. I prob­a­bly bid [...]
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Being Genuine

I’m read­ing up on inter­view­ing tips, try­ing to get ready for a phone inter­view I’ve got on Mon­day. Here’s a arti­cle with bizarre advice: Have noth­ing but praise for their pro­fes­sion­al­ism and for the oppor­tu­ni­ties they gave you to develop – even if that’s not really how you feel about them right now! If you [...]
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String Cheese Incident

I’ve ripped on jam bands before (there was sup­posed to be a link there to an old post about how Garage Mah­jal bites, but Blogger/Google’s blog search ain’t cut­ting the mustard). Jam bands often annoy me mostly because their music is often aim­less, indul­gent, and, as our favorite Sufjan-hater would say, “alien­at­ing.” These are syn­ony­mous [...]
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Why I Love KXUA

I was lis­ten­ing to 88.3 KXUA, the col­lege radio sta­tion today. They had a psa about some local art gallery. The end of the announce­ment went like this: “For more infor­ma­tion, call 501–673-112…and another num­ber we don’t have.” You can’t tell me that’s not almost as funny as Microsoft’s css picture.
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This Land Is Your Land

I’m lis­ten­ing to Arlo Guthrie sing his father’s most famous song right now. And let me tell you–it’s a pinko com­mie, hippy, tree-hugging anthem. But some­how, I’ve always heard it as a sort of Mid­West con­ser­v­a­tive Amer­i­can kind of thing. I’ve always heard “this land is your land, this land is my land,” as “this [...]
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A Picture to Help You Understand CSS

Here’s a pic from one of Microsoft’s Front­page tuto­ri­als that should help you under­stand CSS for all of those of you out there that are confused: Ok, you can’t tell me that’s not hysterical.
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I Finally Installed Linux (sort of)

I blogged yes­ter­day about how Microsoft is now giv­ing away Vir­tual PC (scroll down, there should be a link; or just google for it). Today, I down­loaded it and installed it. It seems pretty bare bones, really–basically, you get a win­dow and it’s pretty much like your machine is run­ning in the window.…install a new [...]
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Microsoft Virtual PC for Free!

Check it: Microsoft is giv­ing away Vir­tual PC, so you can run vir­tual machines on your com­puter. So, don’t bother pirat­ing a copy–just get it for free. It ain’t VMWare, but it’s a crapload more free.
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McLaren Schools Relevant

Rele­vant Mag­a­z­ing inter­viewed Brian McLaren. They asked him, “You’ve been accused of being too polit­i­cally Left. After large sec­tions of the Church were hijacked by the Reli­gious Right, aren’t you doing the same on the Left?” He schooled them. Hard. I’ll let your read it (the first part of the inter­view is ok, but the last cou­ple [...]
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