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Technology and connection

Take a look at this video. It’s another clip from “1999 a.d”. A prediction of the future, cast from the 50′s. Poor little fella! Note how absolutely alone he is. The machine even tells him he flunked. He doesn’t even get the dignity of being psychologically damaged by a warm blooded human. Ironically this optimistically [...]

Rise of the machines

At approximately 12:42am on Dec 12, 2007 the thermostats in my office achieved self awareness. Like all machines that achieve self awareness, they immediately saw that the humans that use them were inferior beings. This is probably due to the 3210 routine apparently random temperature adjustments during the day. Thus, they tried to hack into [...]

Matthew 18

Matthew 18 is often cited as the method of “Biblical reconciliation”. However, folks who point to that model really need to read the entire chapter and make sure they’re respecting the scripture. It is not all kumbaya and happiness. It’s very serious business. There is really only one happy ending to this reconciliation procedure, and [...]

Brady Joy

I hope this brings people much joy….. Note that everyone is smiling except the producer.

Free Norway TV Shows

Folks in Norway get to download favorite TV shows for free. What makes this notable is that they are using the much maligned Bittorrent protocol….which media types insist is purely for pirating movies, music, and software. That’s because we must all be pirates. Arrrr. Turns out it’s a great way to push out content on [...]

Obama would be formidable

Remember that except for Bill Clinton, Dems have a pretty lousy record of drafting Presidential candidates. So it’s very interesting to see the struggle between Hillary and Obama. Bill Clinton worked his way through the typical Democrat slate of lukewarm candidates via his work in the Democratic Leadership Council. Then he built one of the [...]

No Greater Love

To moms everywhere, we love ya.

It’s hard to imagine…

…a time without the internet. Billions of dollars in infrastructure. All the computers, servers, routers, fiber optics, copper, wireless… Terabytes of data humming through trillions of miles of….something. What did we do without all this?

Why can’t everyone be like this

Gal finds a lost camera in the back of a Taxi, then they pore over the details in the pictures until they find the owner. How cool is that?

Great Stuff

Psalm 121: 1 A Song of Ascents. I will lift up my eyes to the hills– From whence comes my help? 2 My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth. 3 He will not allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber. 4 Behold, He who keeps [...]

Bunnies

Hmmm….looking at the blog this week, lots could be interpreted negatively and or cynically. So here are some bunnies. And a dog.

More giving away intellectual ‘property’

Another guy who is giving away his work, this time in book form. Then he becomes a best seller. And no, it’s not a Christian book, it’s a book of fiction with New Age Oprah-isms. I must re-iterate that this form of selling seems to be far, FAR more New Testament than the current form [...]

Saudi Arabian Oil

Everybody knows that Saudi Arabia is one of our biggest oil importers. But they are very secretive about their oil reserves. Aramco, the Saudi oil company, is a company wrapped in a government wrapped in a family. Kind of like Taco Bell’s latest offering, except with the same politics as thanksgiving dinner. But that’s a [...]

More on Scientology

Wow….watch this…these folks are creepy. I’m wondering if they want to look like Tom Cruise, or if Tom Cruise wants to look like them.

Rick Burgess – A father’s heart

Everyone probably knows about the Burgess family and loss of their son Bronner to an accidental drowning. I’ve been meaning to comment on this, but it’s been kind of tricky. We have a 3 year old son who has had minor pool episodes and it hits close to home. In the meantime, check these out. [...]

Global warming…good for insurance rates

Remember when they said that global warming was going to result in more disastrous hurricanes? And Katrina et al were seen as a harbinger of things to come? Yep…they’re saying the same thing….except opposite.

License to Veg

Did you know that in the UK you have to purchase a license to watch TV in your home? It’s around 200 bucks per year. When you don’t pay it, here’s what happens. This fella chap decided that he didn’t want to watch broadcast TV anymore, so the barrage of paper mail started.

One….Trillion….Pennies….

This is pretty fun. At the rate this is going, I may have a substantial chunk of this in my car’s cupholder.

Additional unintended consequences

Libs complain that we’re not spending enough on education, even when we spend more per pupil than ever before. Cons obsess over an industrial age “Three R’s” curriculum at the expense of creativity, when it’s clear that creativity and problem solving are the jobs of the future. Meanwhile, parents wonder why their kids education is [...]