Monthly Archives: August 2007

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August 20, 2007 | Leave a comment
I stum­bled onto a blog by the­olo­gians at Biola called The Scrip­to­rium via Col­losians Three Sixteen’s weekly crier (I think). Although, about two or three posts down, I decry them for being self­ish evil Cap­i­tal­ists, over­all the site is quite pos­si­bly the most even-handed con­ser­v­a­tive blog I’ve ever read. They’re intel­li­gent, gra­cious and firmly-rooted in their [...]
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Tufte Meets Jesus (and Homer)

August 20, 2007 | Leave a comment
A while ago, I got inter­ested in Edward Tufte and the graphic rep­re­sen­ta­tion of data. We were work­ing on a dash­board at work and I didn’t really know any­thing about how to dis­play numbers. So I read a cou­ple of his books (they were suprs­ingly inter­est­ing). To say his the­sis is to cre­atively max­i­mize the [...]
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Jesus Hates Free Health Care

August 20, 2007 | Leave a comment
Here’s an argu­ment that Jesus would oppose state-sponsored health­care for all, on the basis that “Jesus never intended such action to be forced on peo­ple by the state. Such acts were to be vol­un­tary and from a freely given heart of compassion.” In some ways, I think there’s some point to that. How­ever, I’m not buy­ing [...]
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Enlightenment again

August 20, 2007 | Leave a comment
This week­end, after I plugged my almost com­pletely full mp3 player into my lap­top, things start­ing work­ing poorly. For some rea­son, when I opened a win­dow to my home folder (or any other folder), it took FOREVER to open up. So, first I installed xfce hop­ing it’d be better. It wasn’t so I unin­stalled it. Then [...]
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Tire Sandals, pics and all

August 20, 2007 | Leave a comment
I posted my tire san­dals on Instructa­bles. It’s got pics and every­thing (taken, bizarrely, with my phone). I didn’t really edit the tuto­r­ial, which I prob­a­bly should have. But I was try­ing to get it done before Jonah’s brain exploded–he really wanted a snack. I assume I can edit it still, so if you see some­thing [...]
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Lori Sings for Katrina

August 17, 2007 | Leave a comment
Well, I’m going to do it again. First it was an lolgeek. And now it’s an embe­ded youtube video. I can’t help it. Here’s Lori Chaf­fer (of Water­deep fame) singing over images from Katrina:
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Lots of New (old) Waterdeep Up

August 16, 2007 | Leave a comment
Some­body just uploaded 4 new Water­deep shows to archive.org for your lis­ten­ing plea­sure. Which is strange, b/c I’ve been lis­ten­ing to a cou­ple shows of theirs yes­ter­day and today. It’s all free and legal, trade-friendly live stuff. And it all seems to be from 2001. Here’s the list: One Fes­ti­val on 2001-06-16 Kansas Union Ball­room on Sep­tem­ber 30, 2001 [...]
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I Made This

August 15, 2007 | Leave a comment
Thank you, Lan­guage Log.
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Opera icon 128×128

August 14, 2007 | Leave a comment
The icon to start Opera in my gnome tool­bar looked hor­ri­ble: it was clearly too small and when it got blown up to even a tiny bit big­ger than Really Small, it got ugly. Fast. So I started look­ing around for a big Opera icon that would resize down well. All the rest of my icons [...]
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Doner and Gyros

August 14, 2007 | Leave a comment
Here’s some­thing inter­est­ing: I always thought that the meat you put in a gyro is called doner. Of course, it’s not doner if you don’t slice it off a big roll with a big sword of a knife. In any case, the Lan­guage Log is inves­ti­gat­ing why Cana­di­ans call gyros don­air. He doesn’t come to any [...]
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