Archive for June, 2004
Flying North for the Weekend
Okay, now I’m heading over to Dulles, from where I shall fly (on the new Independence Air) up to New Jersey to visit Amy and her folks over the weekend. Tomorrow we’ll be joining her church group on a canoe trip through the Pine Barrens. With any luck, I may not even touch the internet [...]
Victims
Guillermo Sobero, Martin Burnham, Daniel Pearl, Nick Berg, Paul Johnson. May God grant peace to their families, and swift justice to their killers.
Philippines According to Blogs
The Sassy is trying out a new collaborative Filipino journal project, The Philippines According to Blogs. Unfortunately, the potential for abuse obviates the use of trackback-like pings, which would make it an easier, more dynamic project, kind of like Blogroots. I’m wondering if there isn’t a feed-oriented XML-based way to go about this or something [...]
More Social Volcano Spewage
Some op-ed output from the ‘Pinas on this idiotic “congressional canvas of votes” farce: Amando Doronilla, Rasheed Abou-Alsamh, Max Soliven, and Teddy Benigno. Benigno, of course, is brimming with the requisite “social volcano” gloom and doom scenario, predicting — yet again — that this is what will finally cause the Philippines to boil over into [...]
Lunch Hour: Instant Replay
Just had lunch at Chipotlé with Salim, who has been freshly implanted from Boston. Coming from MA, he has delightful things to say about John Kerry — as delightful as the things I had to say about Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Fernando Poe Jr. Salim, who posts so fast that his entry about lunch was up [...]
On the Priority of Eschatology
The exaggerated importance of adopting an eschatological position, via Aaron’s link to a lengthy treatise on J. Gresham Machen by John Frame. Oof. I was just speaking with Amy about this a few nights ago. Having “left behind” mainstream rapture-crazy dispensational premillenialism years ago, I’ve been wondering which eschatological outlook to adopt. Postmillenialism’s promise of [...]
McDivitt
Weird blue mannequin inside the spacesuit of James A. McDivitt aboard the Gemini 4 capsule, Air and Space Museum. Photo taken with a Palm Zire 71.
Enterprise
Model of the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701, used in the original Star Trek series. It is now on permanent display in the basement of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Store. Photo taken with a Palm Zire 71.
GMail Contest One: The Dane
UPDATE: This contest is cancelled. You all lose. I have spare GMail invites and no need for another couch, so I’m thinking of offering them as prizes in three separate contests. Contest Number One: First person who can get The Dane to start posting to his blog again, gets a GMail invite from me. Offer [...]
LHC Decade
As Anj and Row point out, last Thursday, June 10, marked a full decade since our first day of college. We’ve been friends for ten years. So thanks, Toni, Anj, Row, Ganns, Krn, Bok, Erik, Chiqui, and well, Tiff. Couldn’t have made it through college without you, and I’m glad we’re still in touch after [...]