Meeting Dean

I joined Dean and wife Amy yesterday for a fun afternoon at a CMC music festival, surrounded by a beautifully pastoral forest setting. Great day, great company, and they have a cute kid, too. (And no, I didn’t turn out to be a psycopathic internet-stalking axe murderer.) :D

Pink Whitmer

Gotta love Wayne’s new look. It’s so pretty! (Update: Well, he’s back to being “manly as football and power tools.” Hooyah.)

Jesus is Omnipresent.

If Eli Soriano does indeed argue that God is not omnipresent, I wonder how that relates to Ephesians 4.10: “He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.” (Note that Paul is saying that Jesus fills all things.) Eli Soriano is wrong on that very important count. Ergo, he is a false teacher. Case closed.

More from an ex-member. The ADD cult’s official message board is now password-restricted, but you can still get a taste of that ol’ Kaanib goodness from me. Kaanib.net.

More on the PBMA Cult

More newsclips on the PBMA Cult from this message board post. His followers really did look on him as a reincarnated Jesus, omnipresent and omnipotent. Maybe he just felt that way from all the drugs.

Invisible Cities

Reading assigned for Interactive Design class: Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities,” a fictional retelling of Marco Polo’s accounts to Kublai Khan of the cities he has seen. Except that all the cities are, in one way or another, amalgamations of Venice. I can’t shake the feeling that I’m just re-reading Plato’s Republic in little bite-size nuggets.

Through the course of the semester, we will be required to make an interactive multimedia experience out of at least one of the Cities. Anyone who has read the book, do you have any preferences?