Monthly Archives: February 2007
The Bible As Narrative
I’m reading N.T. Wright’s book The Last Word. It’s about the Bible, and how to read it honestly. At least that’s what he says in the preface. I was pretty excited about it, really, b/c this is something that’s been nagging at me. If anybody can read whatever they want into the Bible (and let’s be [...]
Linux Bores You
I haven’t blogged in a little while. That’s mostly because I haven’t really felt like I’ve had anything to say. Linux is running ok right now–I installed KDE, and while it’s pretty resource heavy, they didn’t hide EVERYTHING like gnome, so I’m wanting to pull my hair out. I’m going to try xfce here in a bit. [...]
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Poetry Exercise
I’m trying to start a poetry blog to get myself more motivatd to really write. To kick it off, I posted a lets-all-participate exercise, a sort of word-association kind of thing. Check it out.
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Creationism Comments
Jonathan posted a very interesting comment on my post about creationism. He says that it’s not so much a new thing–it’s just new to the masses, because we can finally read when the debate rolled around this time. That’s a very intersesting point, and one I’m willing to consider. I haven’t listened to the ConC podcast [...]
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V for Vendetta
I just watched V for Vendetta. It was pretty freakin’ awesome, actually, just the right blend of comic book fun, a good script and some serious thematic goodness. I think it raises some great questions about how terrorism as a threat gets used by government to squash our freedom in very accesible way. Good stuff, that.
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Flock Sucks
Flock fails. It’s slow and resource heavy for no apparent reason. And since it’s based on Firefox, it has few built-in features that I’m used to like Opera–you need extensions to really make it usable. But a Firefox extension won’t necessarily work on FLock. As it turns out, the Tabbed Browser extension breaks Flock altogether [...]
Macs
Ok, this is hysterical: an article about why Macs suck. I haven’t laughed this hard at the internet in a long time.
Decatur Electronics
I work at Decatur Electronics. We make radar guns. In fact, we pretty much invented it. The local paper just ran a story about us. You can also see pictures here. That’s my hand holding that first antenna. I’m a famous hand model!
Creationism
I’m reading this book about American evangelicalism’s anti-intellectual streak. And it’s freakin’ mind-blowing. Seriously. This guy says that literal creationism, particularly in its most pseudo-scientific forms, is a relatively new development. Like since the 1930s. And, in fact, this idea that our faith hangs on the Genesis account being literally 7 days, etc, is a [...]
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