Now what?

A mishmash of thoughts on religion, life, technology, and whatnot.

Wrestling with Theology

And I do mean wrestling.... We just finished up going through Rob Bell's Velvet Elvis in our Sunday School class this last week. It's one of the books that was very formative for me a few years ago. I hope the rest of the class got as much out of it as ...

More War Mongering

"War is the health of the state." Randolph Bourne The election of Obama was just what the neocons needed to continue their war mongering. When it was Bush's war(s), the anti-war left was active, now that it's Obama's war(s), the anti-war left is completely silent. Turns out all they really wanted was ...

The Case Against Glenn Beck

It's not that I don't agree with some of what Glenn Beck says, it's that I wonder if he agrees with what he says. I used to listen to him a few minutes at a time back when he was just on the radio. I found my self disagreeing most of ...

Here Comes the Sun

Signs that we're raising Anna right. She was very excited about the Beatles' RockBand coming out. She wanted to sing Here Comes the Sun. That's one of the advantages of her being such an advanced reader. We play a lot of RockBand and she does the singing. She's fond of ...

Summer Tech Rewind

Drop 7 Image by Dan Callahan via Flickr So I missed some opportunities to comment on Apple and tech related stuff in my summer blogging hiatus: iPhone 3gs: Absolutely worth it. This is my third iPhone. Jamie took my iPhone 3g, and she loves it too. She had a Samsung BlackJack ...

Is This Thing On?

So, my last post was months ago. Some updates... Senior High 1 at Sumatanga I've really just been that busy this summer. In May, it was the winding down of the school year, and the windup to Senior High Camp 1 at Sumatanga, which went really well. I actually started my post-mortem ...

Twitter Thoughts and Signal-To-Noise

Timeline of blogging platforms by whiteafrican via Flickr The Twitter revolution is in full swing at work. Several months ago, I had decided to experiment with using Twitter as a news outlet for the school, but with the explosion of press on Twitter, I decided that it was ...

Google Voice

Image by marcopako  via Flickr Life has been really busy lately, with camp rapidly approaching, and the sprint towards the end of the school year. I'm trying to get phase 1 of a new website for the school up and running by the time I run off to camp, and ...

Ron Paul supporter detained for carrying cash

Backstory:US Gov't domestic intelligence agency in Missouri (one of many throughout the US) tasked with monitoring "terrorist groups" leak reports that Ron Paul supporters and supporters of third party candidates should be monitored as likely terrorists. I just posted about this last week. While at St. Louis airport, man with Ron ...

GiveBackToCamp.com

It's no secret that Sumtanga and the summer camping program are extremely important to me. Timmy Collins, a former summer team member, has decided to start a grassroots campaign to make some improvements around the Pool Camp. The camp knows and approves of his plans, but this is not some ...

May 27th 2010
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Apple Passes Microsoft

The New York Times posted a graph showing the stock price of Apple and Microsoft over the last 20 years. It was announced a couple of days ago that Apple's market capitalization put it ahead of Microsoft, making it America's largest tech company. I've been an Apple fan since our Elementary school ...
May 5th 2010
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The single best month for music….ever?

There's a lot of good music out this month, there's more good stuff coming out this month than usually comes out in a year. They say that in economic downturns, creativity goes up. Maybe that's what's going on, regardless... I'm listening to all of this stuff: I didn't count MGMT's new ...
April 18th 2010
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The iPad After 2 Weeks

So, it's been couple of weeks, and I've gotten used to using the iPad, and I'm addict to it. I purposely set out to only uses my iPad for home tasks when possible for the first few days. After the first couple of days of that, I don't reach for my ...
April 6th 2010
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The iPad After a Few Days

My impressions of the iPad after a couple of days of using it. First off, this thing is a little heavier than it should be. I wouldn't mind having just one battery, with the ability to add on our snap in the additional battery. I think the limitation of only having ...
February 23rd 2010
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Ron Paul 2012?

I think that the neoconservative pundits underestimated the Ron Paul Revolution's staying power. Over the weekend, while I was working at a retreat, I walked in front of a tv screen and was pleasantly surprised to see that Dr. Paul won the CPAC straw poll. Immediately, the neocons in the Hannity and ...