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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Control Your Cheese
#Wal Mart<Toddler Boy> walking down the aisle at Wal Mart whacking things with a bag of string cheese
<Me> Son, stop whacking stuff with your cheese.
<Toddler Boy> defiantly looks at me and whacks something else
<Me> If you can’t control your cheese I’m going to take it away!
<Me> looking at my wife Wow, that’s something I never thought I’d say to another human.
Birth Control to 11 Year Olds
What kind of a world do we live in that gives birth control to an 11 year old and then is legally prohibited from telling the parents? Yikes! Dave Monreal chimes in with a succinct and wholly accurate article on this very issue.
Slideshow Pro With PHP, CSS and JS
Slideshow Pro with PHP, CSS and JS. Linked for posterity. Chris is a genius.
Gabe & Max’s
Hey, bing-bong, you got your emails
Hello Dalai
The Dalai Lama spoke at downtown Atlanta today … and I missed it. Darn it. There are several people in the world that I would love to have lunch with and the Dalai Lama is one of them. Even though he’s of a completely different faith than me I would love to spend some time in the presence of this guy. Another person I’d like to spend the afternoon with is the Pope.
“A good person means someone with a good heart, a sense of caring for the welfare of others, a sense of commitment, a sense of responsibility. Education and the warm heart, the compassion heart — if you combine these two, then your education and knowledge will be constructive. Then you are yourself on the way to becoming a happy person.”
— the Dali Lama, 1998 Commencement speech at Emory University
Alabama Picks a Bible Textbook
Alabama Picks a Bible Textbook. Probably won’t raise too much ruckus as long as they don’t turn the class into a church service.
Fearing Crime, Japanese Wear the Hiding Place
Fearing Crime, Japanese Wear the Hiding Place. Quick! Make like a vending machine and … disappear!
Why I’ve Moved From Vista to Ubuntu 7.10
Why I’ve moved from Vista to Ubuntu 7.10. Accurate article. Worth a read.
Top 7 Ways to Speed Up Your WebSite
Top 7 Ways To Speed Up Your WebSite! Unfortunately much of this article is incomplete. No mention of caching software (especially for WordPress), failure to recognize basic CSS shorthand techniques, and the advice to host images somewhere else will not speed up your site, it will only decrease your bandwidth usage on your server. In fact, I find that hosting images at third party sites slows down my site.
Inside the Mind of a 9 Year Old File-Sharer
Get inside the mind of a 9 year old file-sharer. If you work with kids and/or teens you’ve probably had countless conversations like this already with them.
Starcraft Shortcut Cheat Sheet
Starcraft keyboard shortcut cheat sheet. I totally can’t wait for SC2!
Safety First, Yes, but Today’s Overprotected Kids Need to Live a Little
Safety first, yes, but today’s overprotected kids need to live a little. The wussification of American children is a relatively recent phenomenon, but a very real one.
Panel: Kids Shouldn’t Use Cold Medicines
Outside panel advises FDA that kids shouldn’t use cold medicines. I’m not sure what to make of this. Mostly because I think to myself “I used cold medicine and I turned out fine.”
What Is the Cost of Sin, and How Did Christ Pay for It?
I ask this question because it’s something I’ve been wrestling with for the past week. I first stumbled into this dilemma as I was explaining double imputation to my high school students last Sunday in Bible study. Yeah, I know, pretty heady stuff for high school students but what can I say, they’re extremely bright and love asking very complicated questions.
The question was “How did Jesus pay for our sins?” Or, to word it another way, “How, in His death, were our sins paid for?” So I started explaining double imputation in a similar manner as R.C. Sproul did in this video. And then I came to the part where Jesus paid for our sins by dying on the cross.
Now, I have this question that I’m still thinking through. If we don’t accept Christ as our Lord and Saviour and we die we are eternally separated from God. That’s the cost of sin.
But when Christ took on our sins and He died, He didn’t have to suffer eternal separation from God. He suffered only temporary separation from God (if you can call that separation at all).
It seems to me that if the cost of sin is eternal separation from God that Jesus should have had to pay that price and not get a kind of discount “because He’s God.” Does that make sense?
Why didn’t Jesus stay separated from God?
Raggedfaith: God’s Not So Scary
“Jesus is the divine connection with humanity that makes connection with God the Father possible …”
Chocolate Milk for Lunch
#Living roomToddler Boy: Daddy, I’m hungry.
Me: What do you want for lunch?
Toddler Boy: thoughtful pause
Me: Do you want grilled cheese?
Toddler Boy: Um … nope.
Me: A hotdog?
Toddler Boy: Um … nope.
Toddler Boy: Chocolate milk?
Me: sigh OK, chocolate milk with grilled cheese.
