So I just got word that an old friend from high school and college killed himself last week. Obviously, my heart goes out to his family. I didn’t really know anyone that knew my friend and didn’t like him. He was absolutely brilliant, but he was so kind that you would never know it unless [...]

Over the past three years, I have noticed that people like to make excuses for suffering in their lives. They are usually similar, like “well it’s hard, but it will work out for the best,” or “I just have to stay positive.” We even have our Christianized excuse: “God will work good out of it.” [...]

NTReader – A freeware app to aid in translating the New Testament. It features: Tischendorf’s 8th edition Greek New Testament (with Morph Tags) Strong’s database Intuitive parsing for passage lookup Copy functioning for the Greek Text (great for reports and research), using Mac native Unicode. Lightweight (approx 2.5mb download) Minimalist UI Automatic Updates. Requirements: At this [...]

I wouldn’t believe it either. The infamous update bug that plagues Illustrator CS3 (read about it here) seems to have been fixed by the latest leopard update. To be honest, I haven’t the foggiest clue as to why or how, but I do know that after I rebooted, the Adobe Updater showed up. I figured, [...]

This is a reaction to Bad-Astronomers’ post on faith and science. I do not intend to prove you wrong. But there are other points of view – not particularly antagonistic to science – that are rarely heard. I don’t think we have to split faith and science dualistically. When splitting like this takes place, the [...]

I was prepping a Macbook for deployment, when I realized that something didn’t seem right. It took me a few minutes to actually see it, as I am very slightly dyslexic: It works just fine, of course…. Share and Enjoy:

The last 4 were taken by a friend of a friend at Pepperdine University. The others were taken by a family with whom I grew up. Obviously, the fires were way too close for comfort. Considering I have many friends and most of my family out there, the more awareness, the better… Share and Enjoy: