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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
A gang of us went to see Innocence last night, and, well, I wasn’t too impressed. The visual imagery was incredible, and the story was pretty involved, but as with any Mamoru Oshii movie, the story gets bogged down in a bunch of existentialist mumbo-jumbo. Of course, you can’t really expect much more from a […]
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What is RSS?
You may have noticed the RSS links at the bottom-right side of this website, linking to some weird XML data. These links contain the feed data for our website. Hacking Netflix has written up a summary on what RSS is, how it works, and how it can be useful to you. I highly recommend taking […]
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Death and Burial
There are many aspects of life that we often take for granted, culturally, without considering them from a Biblical perspective. I take a certain pleasure in challenging those cultural assumptions, especially when challenged by our postmodern culture. The question becomes, why do we do things the way we do, and even more importantly, is there […]
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Cigars at Midnight
Wow… I am smoking the strongest cigar ever. “Buzzing” is too weak a word for what I’m going through right now. It’s called a “La Aroma De Cuba“, which, with even my broken spanish, is “The Smell of Cuba”. Now, my understanding is that, under it’s current dictatorial regime, Cuba really stinks. This cigar, however, […]
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Hypocracy and Other Bullshit
Matt 5:22b “Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council. But whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of hell fire.” I love the fact that English translations never translate “Raca”… they leave it there in all it’s phonetic and scandalous glory, as a two syllable sound which could […]
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Public School Teachers More Likely to Send Their Kids to Private Schools
Surprise, Surprise! Who best would know about the conditions of America’s public school system than the teachers who work there? If their opinions of the public schools are best observed from their actions, then their opinion is that the public schools are a bad choice. World Magazine’s Blog has information coming out of New York […]
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What Happened to Expository Preaching?
Well, the PCA web-magazine, By Faith Online may actually have restored a little bit of my faith in it. For a while, it seems that the magazine has been publishing a lot of fluff, and not much real content, but a recent article by Rev. Alistair Begg entitled What Happened to Expository Preaching? is an […]
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The Evils of Pietism
So, what is pietism, and why is it evil? Doug Wilson defines it by saying, “though piety is nothing more than simple godliness, pietism is a thorough-going sentimentalist idolatry. It is evil.” His article in the latest Credenda Agenda, on pietism explains well why protecting our children from the evils in the world will not […]
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God the Dangerous
Credenda Agenda has a new issue online with a powerful photograph on their front cover of a coyote’s corpse dangling on a barbed wire fence. The author then uses the image as a reminder of the futilty of atheistic thinking: Some might consider it a disturbing image. But we didn’t do it. We didn’t put […]
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The Nature of Marriage
As Sarah and I were driving home this past Sunday from my sister-in-law’s wedding, we were discussing the nature of marriage. I think the conversation came up because Bethany and Mike had a mini communion service in the middle of the ceremony (for just the two of them), and I had a knee-jerk “THAT’S CATHOLIC!!!” […]
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Are Government Redactions a Joke?
The Memory Hole wrote up a quick little investigation into an instance of the United States Justice Department‘s attempt at hiding information. “Redaction” is the fine art of “cleaning up” information for public release. For example, oftentimes, police reports containing information about minors will have their names blacked out to protect them. However, the recent […]
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We’re Home
I’m a little bit upset with my Internet setup at home. While I was down in Australia, I discovered that the website went down. As if that’s not enough of a pain, Sarah had already left for Indiana when it went down. My brother was sitting the house, and Sarah asked him to reboot the […]
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How to Blog
Simon World has an informal list of dos and donts for bloggers. Some of the interesting ones include #15 “Learn to spell or how to use a spell-checker.” and #22 “[P]lagiarising is encouraged” Although… I think my favorite is #36, “Logic and reason are for the weak. Knee-jerk and off-the-cuff reactions are for the blogger.” […]
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I Broke My Camera!
I can’t believe it! I was out at Pebbly Beach today with Bob Becker and Larry Butler, and I got hit by a freak wave. My camera was soaked, and now it won’t power up! I am so upset, as it’s one of the primary way I keep in touch with my family while I’m […]
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Wonderful Evening in Canberra
Today I experienced a “Australian” evening. We went to the Wig ‘n Pen Brewhouse, and spend a good two hours there with the site guys after work. Had a great time, and some of the guys got some Vietnamese takeout, and brought it into the pub. Didn’t have too much to eat, and I was […]