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While the other Republican candidates for president are busy quoting Ronald Reagan every chance they get, Mike Huckabee is creating Reagan quality quotes of his own.
I am trying to get rolling on learning something new. I feel that my learning has been stunted for the last 7 years or so, and in the IT industry, that is a pretty bad thing..
I have been playing with Ruby on Rails a bit. It appears to be a powerful way to build database driven applications with minimal effort.. I am good at figuring out how databases are useful, and I am pretty lazy when it comes to pounding out code, so it may be a pretty good match.
I also have been hacking on the church website a bit... Moved it over to PHP so that I could use server side includes to reduce the hassle involved in updating it.. I downloaded a test version of Textmate on my MacBook. Now I have 28 days to dig up 58 dollars.. I am looking for a good embedded podcast player if anyone has some suggestions.
In other news, Julia earned her Jr. Yellow belt. Nathan is going to test for his next month. I made Bratwurst's for dinner, but I fell fall short of making anything Big Al worthy. Maybe next time. I had to work today. They where moving servers around down in the data center, so it was slightly more exciting than your average saturday. I get to work graveyard shift on Sunday night / Monday Morning. That should be fun. It is kinda like going back home.. We are eliminating our graveyard shift in a week or so. So this will likely be my last visit to that shift.
Donnie Johnson has picked up blogging again. Check him out if you get a chance: Overflow
I found 64squar.es, a place where I can play chess960 online.
Chess960 is just like chess, except the pieces are randomly positioned at the beginning of the game. This eliminates a lot of the routine memorized moves and makes you have to start scheming from the very first moves.
At bible study the other day, we had an interesting conversation about 1 Cor 2:15. It reads:
The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. (ESV)
Of course a lot of the guys where concerned with this passage, as it seems to contradict the many places in the bible that tell us not to judge.
I am no greek Scholar, but now I can pretend these days by looking at zhubert.com
I think it does aide understanding quite a bit to be able to identify the word that is used, ἀνακρίνει Then click on it and see where that same greek is used elsewhere, and how it was translated. In this case, the ESV almost always translates the word with Examine or a variant of that word.
I think that this mean that the Spiritual person has the capability to understand and comprehend the secular world and the spiritual world, but the secular world cannot really understand the spiritiual world without the aide of the Holy Spirit.
Wired is running an interesting story about Mark Cuban financing ShareSlueth.com by shorting stocks that they are about to expose with investigative journalism.
The gut reaction is that this is unethical. But after thinking about it, I am not sure that it is. Cuban is paying for the research. He is shorting the stock that he believes is overvalued. He is sharing truth that he discovers with the public. If a stock is overvalued because of fraud or deceit, the public does deserve to know.
Of course if they make a mistake and badmouth an undeserving company, there could be a lot of very nasty consequences. I would guess that this is not too much of an issue, because there is no shortage of deserving companies to badmouth.
Andee and I have a couple of hours a week now to spend alone.. We usually go and have lunch, and run around and do some church errands. We found a relatively inexpensive home cooked Tex-Mex place near our house that we like pretty well. I had the afterburner sauce yesterday. It was HOT!
Yesterday we went to the dollar store and bought 20 porcelain vases.. The lady at the counter got out her newspaper to wrap them up, but we said "No thanks, we are just going to take them home and break them anyway!" I think she thought we where a bit weird.
We had a lot of fun breaking vases. Andee has a little less fun gluing them back together. These vases are intended to be used as an illustration of 2 Corinthians 4:7-12 which talks about how as we are stressed and cracked as Christians, we show the treasure stored inside. Kinda Interesting that Andee would cut her hands while preparing an illustration about how God uses affliction in our lives. Her fingers hurt pretty bad, but at least she will have a good story to cherish.
Last week we spent a good deal of time running photocopies. I have had quite a fondness for the smell of toner ever since my High School Debate days.
We are very busy these days. One parent is out doing one thing or another M-F every evening. We have Saturday and Sunday evening to play together as a family. I am working Tuesday through Saturday, With Church and BSF on Sunday and Monday, it seems like I hardly get a break..
Why we all love Mark Driscoll: