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To church or not to church…
A couple of Sundays ago my wife and I went to a matinee showing of The Bourne Ultimatum. The theater was packed and I jokingly said to my wife, “Don’t people go to church on Sunday morning anymore?” The irony being that we, while considering ourselves good Christians, haven’t darkened the door of a church [...]
R.I.P. 1959-2007
I found out today that my cousin, Edmund Rodriguez, Jr., passed away on Thursday. He was 47 years old and would’ve turned 48 in two weeks. We weren’t as close as we could’ve been for several reasons. Both our families were a bit dysfunctional when we were growing up. My mother was a Jehovah’s Witness [...]
Funny Bit Torrent Cartoon
I came across this cartoon (The First Bit Torrent User?) this morning and thought it was pretty funny. Some of you are going “What the heck is bit torrent anyway?” Bit torrent is a way of distributing large files over the internet quickly and without the original distributor incurring all the costs of hosting the [...]
What I’ve Been Up To For the Last Seven Months
Been a while since I’ve posted or even thought of this little corner of cyberspace with my name on it. I’ve just been too busy with work and school and life to write. Even when I have a few spare moments, I’m usually just too tired to do anything but actually relax with my leisure [...]
Happy New Year… and stuff
Christmas is over. A new year has come. I am back at work. Classes start again tomorrow. I had hoped to get a lot more studying done over the break, but I got absolutely zero studying done. What I did do was sleep, read, watch TV and play World of Warcraft. I finally got around [...]
Greek Withdrawals
After a full semester of going full throttle–work/school-study/homework-sleep–now that the semester is over I am finding that I am going through withdrawals. I was a bit depressed last weekend after taking my final exam on Thursday and found myself directionless for the first time in months. It wasn’t until Sunday afternoon that I realized, “Oh, [...]
Buy Nothing Christmas
My wife and I are really struggling this year. We both love Christmas but for various reasons, haven’t been very highly motivated to purchase gifts this year. Part of the reason is that we’re trying to save money for a couple of fairly expensive things we would like to have in 2007. We’d like to [...]
Fat man’s guide to losing weight fast
I googled the title of this post for grins and giggles this afternoon, partly because I really am a fat man in need of losing weight and partly because I was wondering if anyone else had thought of writing or searching for the same thing. What was I thinking? In a country filled to overflowing [...]
Am I a heretic?
You scored as Chalcedon compliant. You are Chalcedon compliant. Congratulations, you’re not a heretic. You believe that Jesus is truly God and truly man and like us in every respect, apart from sin. Officially approved in 451. Chalcedon compliant 75% Pelagianism 50% Monophysitism 50% Adoptionist 33% Nestorianism 25% Modalism [...]
I really meant to study
I meant to study today, I really did. But I’ve hit that point in the semester where every feeble attempt at study seems pointless. I lost my way shortly before the midterm and have been scrambling to catch up ever since. Koine Greek is like math in that sense: each lesson builds on the last [...]