Archive for June, 2002
Mount Vernon Bike Trail
Today I did my usual weekend skate down 16th Street, past the White House, around the Washington Monument, and down the Reflecting Pool to Lincoln Memorial; but from there I deviated a bit and tried crossing the Arlington Memorial Bridge. That’s where I found something which I can’t believe I didn’t know about before: the [...]
Too much espresso
Starbucks put too much espresso in my Grande Iced Skim Mocha this morning, so that it tasted more like an Americano into which a few drops of milk had been accidentally spilled. As a result, I am feeling far more alive and vibrant than I should on a warm Sunday afternoon. Palpitate.
Conrado De Quiros on Cults
De Quiros on Filipino cults. The PBMA is in good company: they are but a dark mirror reflecting the often nasty foibles of religious sectarianism in our culture. Speaking of which, I’m suddenly back in the pertinent search results. Maybe the Googlebot was just making tampo.
Spam to encoded email
Disturbing. I’m getting spam on an email address that I had thought was safely javascript protected. This means that unscrupulous mass email marketers have either broken through the encoding, or they’re harvesting addresses manually to add to their insiduous spam lists. How much spam do you get in a day?
Leaderboard
The Leaderboard, a link-ranking of Christian blogs. I’m happy to be in the Top 10 — at the moment — but I’m not quite certain that the results are all perfectly accurate.
Sword of the Samurai PC game
I never get tired of playing Sword of the Samurai. Last night I couldn’t sleep, so I fought my way to daimyo of the clan Murakami. And when a rival hatamoto was chosen because he had more troops and land, I assassinated him. There.
PBMA Ecleo search referrals
Curious. Yesterday, I got amost 200 hits for PBMA and Ruben Ecleo searches, but today there are none; my page is suddenly no longer cached, so even a search for “PBMA Ecleo and Brownpau” turns up only Ganns’ page. I wonder if this blog entry had anything to do with my getting pulled from the [...]
Saul of Tarsus identifies Jesus as the God of Israel
We may not all agree with other facets of Mark Horne’s theology, but I really love this particular essay:Saul of Tarsus identified Jesus as the God of Israel. Not just “a god,” and not just “almighty small-letter-g god,” but Lord God, as in, “one in being with the Father” God. When Jesus said, “I am,” [...]
Spaceports cgi-bin linking problems
Tim and Raffy now have comments, the former through Sensus Plenior, and the latter through Enetation. Several new links added, including but not limited to: Gary, Peps, SinglePinay, Reybelde, Nheo, and Yoshi. (Yup, lots of Pexers!) Those last two links were a bit of a problem: you can’t hyperlink to sites hosted on the Spaceports [...]
Ruben Ecleo, False Messiah
As painfully evidenced by Ruben Ecleo and the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association, we can see how popular a strategy it is for cultist leaders to claim to be Jesus reincarnated; not just in rural provinces of the Philippines, but elsewhere in the world as well. Jesus had words for the generations after his ascension, a [...]