Podcasts

OK. I’ve finally gotten some broadband internet.

Anyone have any suggestions for podcast receivers, pod catchers, or whatever they’re called? Let me know and thanks.

Fahrenheit 451

I’ve been thinking about getting one of those little ear things for my cell phone. I’ve written about it here, but I still haven’t gotten one.

But I always think about Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 when I look at the different kinds on line. It’s a little creepy.

Campaign Slogans

My favorite campaign slogan ever “Cthulhu for president…why vote for a lesser evil?” I put in the link for the Science Fiction challenged…its OK though, you’re probably better off that way.

Extreme Sci-Fi Geek

I found this courtesy of Dan Phillips Biblical Christianity Blog. It was a fun SF quiz based on sounds from movies. I blew two 1950ish classics and scored:

Your Score : 85 credits
You’re an extreme sci-fi geek! You’re probably wearing your very own homemade TRON costume right now!




	I received 85 credits on The Sci Fi Sounds Quiz How much of a Sci-Fi geek are you?
Take the Sci-Fi Movie Quiz

I’ve never made a TRON costume but when I found the 20th anniversary re-release I bought it AND watched it.

Wireless Mouse

This was invented by C.S. Lewis in Prince Caspian. Reepicheep, of course, had his grown back but the idea stuck.

I’ve got one or two and they are fantastic. Anyone else?

Golden Compass

I haven’t read these yet so my information is rather scarce, actually. This article by Dr. Mohler paints a fairly grim picture about what it represents but, I have to say, the armored polar bears in the commercials look really cool. I’m kind of a Sci Fi and Fantasy geek though and I always have been so the idea that a popular writer’s ‘magnum opus’ is all about destroying Christianity isn’t much of a shocker. Most of the popular Science Fiction authors write from a perspective that isn’t devoid of God–which you’d expect from atheist writers–but lean toward marginalizing or making the reader feel that religion in general is just a crutch. At least they usually slam all religions equally. The Golden Compass appears to be aimed specifically at the Church in general.

Here’s the part where I’ll likely get some criticism. Can we blame them? I mean really if we have spent the last couple of hundred years preaching about a God who begs and pleads and is now all squishy and nice and ‘omnibenevolent’ or whatever how could these intelligent people not be turned completely off? As far as I can tell the hard-core of athiests in general is made up of very smart folks who remind me a lot of the Bereans. They think and evaluate and consider before they just take something at face value. They are like Thomas who had believed once, came to the conclusion he was tricked, then, when faced with the living Christ recanted and fell at his face. Perhaps these people are like that. They’ve never been confronted with the Christ of the Bible or any of his people who are actively living out his Word. If thats the case then of course what we’re saying doesn’t make sense to them. The reality is that until our message matches up with the Word of God we can’t really be angry with these folks. And even when it does, the Bible says that there are some who are going to do all they can to not believe. I’m fine with that. It’s what the Bible says. It confirms what the Bible says in fact.

Read some of the comments here on this thread over at the Two Headed Blog. This is where I first saw comments about the movies.

I think I’m going to have to get these and read them to see what the hub bub is about. That may have been part of the plan but Phillip Pullman is supposed to be a really good writer. Maybe I can pick up some writing tips.

Dan Phillips has some good points about it here.

Tech Crime

I think they’ll have to invent some charges for this one.

Insert eyeroll here.

Pirates of the Carribean

Nope. I haven’t seen it, nor do intend to do. Didn’t see the othe two either except thst once I think one of them was on TV but after about five minutes we turned it off.

In an escatological note, ‘the worlds end’ IS coming, but it’s not a matter of where but when.

I recently got accused of preaching right here on this very blog (which I took as a compliment) so I’ll leave it at that.

Catch of the Day…

Catch of the day…good links without that fishy smell…

Just click through and read it. Man.

Challies writes about a Presbyterian Healing Service. I think they’re the only ones who wouldn’t freak completely out about this and cut a book deal with Zondervan.

Dan Phillips tackles the issue of modesty and womens dress. Tough one that.

This is a great post for praying parents.

The hand that rocks the cradle… this is the plain truth.

I’m still geeking out about this one.

Snap

Rather than clutter up Joe Thorn’s excellent blog with my nasty comments I’ll just post them here regarding this Snap thing that appeared suddenly a few months ago. I suppose WordPress thinks its a cool widget but I am grateful that someone has allowed a way to shut the thing off. As soon as I figured out how to do it I did.

Snap is annoying. It gets in the way. It makes it practically impossible to copy a link–which appears to be its major feature. I cannot help but think thats why the thing exists anyway, mostly as a marketing tool for someone else. The comments I have read defending it by the folks who made the thing tell me it’s ‘usefulness is subjective’ and, essentially, that there’s been so much traffic that it has to be useful. First, spinning it so it sounds like you’re doing me a favor isn’t going to work, I don’t think. So in a way, you’re right, it probably is useful…just not to me. Second, a jillion involuntary hits don’t count. Counting all the times someone scrolls over a link is, I’m sure, just cool for you, but its an empty number.

What do you all think? Feel free to comment.