Librariers or Book Borders

I just accidentally typed Libraries and instead typed librariers.  Librariers are clearly the things preventing me from getting my books back on time.  To put this in perspective last year I spent more money on late book fees at the library than I did video rental fees.  Scary.  I think that the Librarians see me coming and fear for their books and other patrons because they know that my family returns books so slowly that some authors have probably written and published new children’s books in between our picking up their previous 16 page special and when we’ll eventually return it.  Librariers exist because goofy patrons like us forget that we can renew the books online… if we remembered we had them.

And that’s why we can’t have nice things.

What Realy Happened Today for Work

In real life I worked hard to get a project done, I will continue to work hard on that project tonight after the girls go to bed.  But in fantasy land…

I worked on a super-cool video game, and in one afternoon I singlehandedly created the most brilliant first level ever conceived.  And then showed it off to the world via a video on youtube that got more hits than any other video has ever gotten.  While I waited the approximate 10 minutes that the viral video took to garner the worldwide attention it deserved I recorded one of the songs for the album I’m making this year.  It was the most fruitful 10 minutes in recording history.

The fantastic world that I live in is way more exciting than real life.  The meticulous project I’m working on is going to have to be produced in stages.  Not stages for acting, but sequential layers of completion.  Completion that seems far off, even if the requirement is that it is done in only a few weeks.  Fortunately I’m working with a group of other coders who have their stuff together so we’re making great headway.

ET Would Be So Jealous!

So Apple announced the iPhone yesterday.  Its not much of a phone, in fact more than anything its a mini-computer that happens to do telephony.  Its the most amazing device – I predict that soon it will work as a remote control for my Apple TV device.  And by ‘my’ I mean the one that I lustfully wish that I would own.  Some day maybe.  But I think that the new iPhone is truly one of the most innovative devices because it does integrate so much more than any other phone, it has an interface that blows me away, and frankly, for the power that it offers, is worth the $499.00 price tag (or $599.00 if you get more storage capacity).

If Apple lets developers write applications (and I think they will) then we’re going to see people doing amazing things on that phone.  My inner-geek is on overdrive.  Jessica is tired of hearing me talk about it.  I want to be able to surf the net, chat on the phone, text message and listen to music all on the same device – and have the interface look good, too.  RIM (who makes the blackberry) is really probably dreading June when the device will be available on the market.

We Missed the Apprentice Season Premier

And boy are we sad.  We were really hoping to catch the sappy intro wherein the Hair Flair Scare gets greeted by his super-model wife and child who has more hair than him and then he tells us about how the apprentice is going to finally be selected from a group of cannibals who have no qualms eating their opponents for breakfast, lunch and dinner [and if Taco Bell sponsors it again, “fourth meal”].  Can you believe we missed that?

I would have loved to have seen the opponents get briefly introed as successful business people, brilliant students and quadrillionaires.  Which leads me to my next point: why doesn’t Donald Trumpt do an ‘Apprentless’ show where people compete to work in the mail room.  Normal people.  People like you and I?  What?  You don’t want to filter through Donald Trump’s email?  Me neither, but it would be a good candidate for the Discover channel’s Dirty Jobs show 🙂

Prepare for the Deluge

I’m going to be rather busy for the next several months.  This is common for this time of the year and about 2 years ago I worked insane hours for three months – last year I worked insane hours for about a month.  Usually I think I will blog less, but I find that I probably blog the same or more.  This means that you will probably not notice anything different or care about the change in things posted here, but I like to communicate with you the readers.  It makes me feel like a good personal blogger.

I also have some extra complications because I have several development jobs going at once so I’m going to be even busier than normal plus more busy which can be equated to busy, busy.  Or, in mathematical formala-like expressions:

Busy1 + Busy2 = Insanity3.

I find blogging to be a solace.  Not quite like the Scott Joplin song, but it still helps me to relaxe.  Music does, too, but blogging is faster to complete (thus the typos and the bad grammar).

The Eternal Nature of God

While the topic of this post is probably worthy of a book (which I probably would have to devote huge amounts of time to) I wanted to touch on the idea of God’s eternal nature.  Often I hear, and just moments ago I heard it again, that our lives are like the lifespan of a gnat compared to the timeline of God.  Does God exist only inside of the time-space continuum?  Does God have to sit and wait?  Instead I believe God looks over all of time and space at once (and as Norm Geisler says in his Encyclopedia of Christian Apologets, He knows every alternative futures as well).

God is eternal in history and future (to force a time vocabulary onto a non-time based God) as recorded in Psalm 90:1-3.  If He has no beginning and has no end why would you take the powerful nature of God
and try to describe it in finite terms?  Considering the discussion of time my 9th grade history teacher drew a long line across two very wide dry-erase boards and then took a piece of paper and scratched a minuscule slice out of the black ink on the baord and said, “That is the length of your life.”  He then proceeded to tell us that the line didn’t start and stop on the board, but instead he explained that it went from end to end infinitely.  Why would a secular teacher (who did not like Christianity) explain infinity better than a pastor in a sermon [I was listening to Joshua Harris in this MP3 message]?
Describing the beginning and end of God in a sermon illustration was not his point, his point was to describe the finite nature of our lives.  However, it rings in my ears when I hear people describe our lives in comparison to God.  The importance, as J. Harris explained later, is that we recognize the eternal nature of God and our residence in Him!  In God you have eternal life, and that life is not bound by the time space continuum.  You attempt to use the word eternal because it is a finite way to describe that which is infinite.  Infinity itself is still a concept we try to grasp as humans because we want to think of infinity as being still within the constraints of knowledge.  Is the pursuit of the infinite outside of God silly?  Certainly, but if God was before the world and will certainly be after the world we should be resting in His eternal hands – trusting that we are not like gnats, nor are we like any other creating thing because our identity is within Him, the uncreated one.

New Years Resolution

So this year’s resolution is to write, record and produce an album by the time I’m thirty.  Sure, that gives me one quarter of the year to do nothing, but since my birthday is at the end of September (the 25th for those who have to know the exact date) that actually moves the deadline up.  I’m working on creating a website for my musical outlet (it is make believe at present) but you can keep your eyes out and (plug your) ears at music.randypeterman.com.  As I record things I will post them there, then, when all of the songs are recorded I will have to figure out what else to do with my pseudonym, “Scream Apparatus.”  I don’t see touring in my future.