Monthly Archives: November 2007
eBay Countdown
A few days ago, I sold a guitar pedal on ebay for the first time in a while. It went pretty good, but as I was watching the auction close, refreshing the page a million times to see if the price changed, I thought to myself: why doesn’t ebay write a little ajax applet that will [...]
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Flock, Firefox and Other Browsers
The new version of Flock is out now. I’ve test-driven it a couple times while it was still in beta. When I tried it out about 6 months ago, it was a laggy resource hog. But, it’s rather Mac-esque and seemed like the kind of thing that would make me feel smart about myself, so [...]
Paste Magazine on The Cheap
Looks like Paste Magazine is following in Radiohead’s footsteps: subscribe for a year for whatever price you decide is fair. Yup. That Paste. The music magazine with subtle Christian undertones. So subtle that the magazine is actually good. So, go now. Subscribe. Totally. Whatever you pay will be totally worth it. I promise. Thanks to Brent for [...]
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Ethics (more Kierkegaard)
I’m still reading Kierkegaard. And I haven’t been ignoring Jonathan’s question about what my Isaac is, either. I’ve been thinking about it, and wondering what the answer is (bizarrely, I only realized a second ago that it was Jonathan’s question, not jnthn’s). I’m still working on that one, but I’m reading more into Fear and [...]
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Authorial Intent and Scripture
In a comment on my recent post about authorial intent, Wick brings up an interesting point, namely, how does God play into all this. This is a really interesting question, if for no other reason than because it’s what gets a lot of conservative people (myself in college, included) het up about the whole issue. “If you’re [...]
The Scriptorium Strikes Again: Authorial Intent
Well, once again, the Scriptorium did it: they wrote something great. This time, it’s one of the most coherent and sensible articulations about authorial intent I’ve read. From the intro of the article: How seriously should we take an author’s intent while reading a book? The answer is: very seriously, but his or her intent is not the [...]
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Jake’s Blog
Last night, I blogged about Soren Kierkegaard, faith, and other stuff. Wick commented on it, asking ‘Do we each have our own “Isaac”?…What are we being asked to kill, knowing through the absurd that it will all be “okay”?’ I wrote a big long comment in response. But rather than post it there where nobody will [...]
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Knights of Faith and Knights of Infinite Resignation
I’ve been listening to this course from Berkely about Existentialism in Literature and Film. I posted that link before, but now I’m really getting into it. The first reading is Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling, which is a very complicated book about faith and the Abraham/Isaac/Mt. Moriah story, while all the while being a metaphor about Kierkegaard [...]
Better Than “Your Mom”