My brother-in-law John – who used to let me sit in his room and we’d play games, watch Nowhere Man, and various other manly things like fart, have push-up contests, and eat ice cream – just got a Mac. A 12″ Powerbook with Superdrive. Welcome to the Apple Tree – sure there are some low hanging fruits here, and sometimes people get a little distracted by the OS… but its OK, because we’re all, unitedly, thinking different 😉 Enjoy the ride.
JVC – Model GZ-MG30
They’re Here! JVC – Model GZ-MG30 are camcorders that start, and remain digital. They’re hard drive based video recorders and they are going to be ubiquitous in the next 10 years or my name’s not mud Randy Peterman. I have spent hours of computer time recording video onto computers and the editing afterword is time intensive as well. These sort of devices will remove one of those steps and allow for much greater efficiency.
Opera 8.5
I’m a Firefox user due to my love for many of its features. Opera 8.5, a different browser, was released earlier this week. This is the first recent version of Opera that is free [they had a free version that had banner ads at the top]. I’m rather impressed in general, but it lacks a certain familiarity for me since I knew many/most of the shortcut keys in Firefox. I’ll probably switch back to Firefox, but I just thought I’d let you know this is out there because most anything is better than Internet Exploder 🙂
Surely That’s the Wrong Sign!
By earth2marsh.
There isn’t an international sign for “No hiking, you will die.”
However, after seeing these signs, I think there should be.
Funny.
Three Weeks Cheeze-it Free
I have officially been Cheez-it free for at least three weeks. I’m hoping to stay clean for a long time – its a good thing for me to reduce my carb and cheese intake, that is until the next time Jessica makes cheesecake. But who knows? I could be healthy in my eating habits for weeks and months until the holidays hit 🙂
The Road from Rita
Tonight as I saw the lines of cars on the news I realized something very incredible: People were going to run out of gasoline and the gas stations on their way away from Rita were going to be closed because the people responsible for running the stations were going to be leaving, too. Further, police and various other sources of security and protection are going to be leaving at some point in time simply because it is not safe for people to be in the path of this hurricane. Even worse: elderly and handicap will be left behind in this. I don’t know who, I don’t know where but there will be reports of people who were simply left behind.
I’m praying for the folks in the route of this, including my co-workers, and I am trusting that God, in His wisdom and strength, will protect a large amount of people, and those who die will do so in His mercy. Death is not evil, bad or nasty, but it is a change – may God’s glory be shown in this time of what looks like chaos.
How To Go To Hell on the Internet, Don’t Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200.00
This is a completely satirical look at what will make you go to hell. This is not biblical, it is not true, it is me being weird. That being said, “Here’s the way to go to hell on the internet.” Oh, and sorry for the technical nature of this post if you’re not a junky like me.
[start from the bottom, it’ll be better that way]
- React to those emails as if they’re true.
- Forward Emails that have been forwarded by at least 20 people before you without clearing out the cruft.
- Use the ‘‘ tag on your HTML page.
- Be a domain squatter – this is a guaranteed eternity in hell.
- Disable Google ‘Safe Search’ on their image search while searching for pretty much any female name. This is straight up
pr0nsurfing. - Using Peer-To-Peer file sharing for non-educational purposes.
- Using Internet Explorer 5.5 or less to surf the net on Windows – 6.0 will cost you 7 weeks in purgatory**.
- Using Mosaic – any version – to surf the net.
- AOL – no need to say more.
- Writing about what time you woke up in the morning on your blog… every day.
** No, I don’t believe in purgatory
Are We All Sinners?
I just heard on a podcast the insinuation that we’re all sinners. I can’t stand this since as Christians we have been identified with the righteousness of Christ rather than the wretchedness of sin. The image below displays a timeline of sorts. It illustrates the fact that we’ve got an eternal new nature as believers in Christ, but also an adamic nature something that the non-Christian has. This is why Paul recommends in Romans 6:11 that we reckon our old self to be dead. We are identified with Christ and not with anything else that could be pointed to as who we are. In Christ we are not sinners.
Click image for a larger version of this image.
We are not sinners, we are more than conquerors.
Moore’s Law
My wireless router went out last Friday. I got the exact same router last night. I bought the first one two years ago for $110.00 [USD]. Last night I paid $32.00 with tax. I figure that by the time Abby is old enough to have her own computer these things will be so cheap that I’ll be able to use them for skeet shooting 🙂
Cow Room
Check out my sister-in-law’s cowroom shirt site.
This is one of many shirts to come with funny Chinese->English translations. The first says in Chinese “I have no clue what this means” and then the same in English. You can’t go wrong with that – its funny to all parties who understand at least one of the languages!