Archives for November, 2002
Bene Diction blogs again
With a great looking new redesign by Rachel Cunliffe. I remember reading in Rachel’s blog about her wondering if she could make a living designing sites. By looking at Bene’s new blog, I would think she can. One of the better looking and creative blog designs I have seen in a while. Then again it may just be the Canadiana feel to it.
Christmas Tree Season
Well tomorrow Wendy and I will venture out and buy our yearly Christmas tree. It is kind of a Cooper tradition to buy them this early that was brought upon by our Aunt Beth. Aunt Beth never married and kind of adopted us as her family and would spend most holidays with us. Aunt Beth was also a chain smoker who smoked what seemed to me to be hundreds of cigarettes a day. She would arrive at our place around the middle of December and was a lot of fun but also a lot of Player’s Lite if you know what I mean. It wasn’t bad in the summer because she would smoke outside but at Christmas, all the filters in the world couldn’t keep the tobacco smell away. Anyways, Mom and the rest of us really liked the smell of Christmas trees so we would put it up at the start of December and get our two weeks of pine smelling in and then take it down on Boxing Day. Even though Mom and Aunt Beth are gone, the tradition lives on. The tree goes up tomorrow and on Boxing Day, you would need a crew from CSI into prove we celebrate Christmas.
Lousy stupid feeling
I am not a feelings kind of guy. When I take those personality tests like Myers-Briggs I am actually considered an undeveloped feeler. The problem with being out of balance in the whole feeling thinking thing is that when I feel some emotion, I am just frustrated at myself because I have no idea how to deal with it. I irritate myself somedays more than you would believe.
While I am on the topic of things I do that frustrate me, I lost my keys today and I remember putting them someplace and thinking, “I will never find these again”. What does it mean that I am sub-consiosly hiding my keys? Where is Freud when I need him.
Now live from my basement.
Well the transition from an office at Lakeview to an office at home is almost done. Wendy and I have set up a work centre in the basement bedroom for us. We have to move my library in here now. Since I have a broadband connection here I will get my webcam set up for some live shots. That being said, I think it may be time to stop blogging. First of all as I mentioned earlier, even Barbie is blogging (although Wendy said it would quite funny if her blog was quite dark and disturbing). Secondly, I found myself watching and getting into curling on TSN today. Anyone who finds curling fun to watch should not have a weblog.
Doug Pagitt’s new blog
Doug Pagitt has also jumped on the blogging bandwagon. I heard Doug for for the first time at Soularize and he did an excellent job of setting the tone for the learning party with one of the better talks I have heard.
Sweet Family Drivel
Today’s orthodoxy essentially has its abode in the cordial drivel of family life. This is utterly dangerous for Christianity. Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it is opposes this flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God’s unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission. Nothing is further from obeying the either/or than this sweet family drivel.
Dan Hughes’ new online home
TheyBlinked has it’s own domain name and a new look. Dan’s blog is one of Wendy’s and mine favorite blogs and has a great international flavour to it along with a dry wit. A great blog gets better.
The Tyranny of Presentation Software
Sad thing is that many churches think that the things he is complaining about is cutting edge communication still. ugh
Spirituality and the Contempative Life
I wanted a place where I can list some Merton and Nouwen books in the bookstore. The whole store area is under construction. I have been taking a lot of books out of rotation and adding quite a few more. By Monday it should be looking good and be an easier place to find some stuff.
The Cellular Level
The Cellular Level is a regularly published online magazine which exists for the edification of the Cell Church movement around the world.
I found it via the Vines and Branches weblog which I found through Alan Creech’s, which I found via Wendy’s, which I found by surfing through my referral logs, which I was looking at because Wendy is at work and I am kind of lonely tonight.
Maybe being a moron isn’t bad after all.
No moron but a sociopath… “Bush is not an imbecile. He’s not a puppet. I think that Bush is a sociopathic personality. I think he’s incapable of empathy. He has an inordinate sense of his own entitlement, and he’s a very skilled manipulator. And in all the snickering about his alleged idiocy, this is what a lot of people miss.” Miller’s judgment, that the president might suffer from a bona fide personality disorder, almost makes one long for the less menacing notion currently making the rounds: that the White House’s current occupant is, in fact, simply an idiot.
Harsh article in the Toronto Star. The article goes on to say that W. is a dark and angry man like Richard Nixon. It will be interesting how historians take a look at articles like this and the man himself.
Liz Creech has a new design
Her blog that is and it looks really good.
Vintage Faith Church
Dan Kimball is leading a movement of house churches/corporate worship as a new church plant out of Santa Cruz.
Saddam conceals weapons well
It amazes me to hear some of the inspectors talk about the incompetence of Iraq’s scientists and engineers. These are people who rebuilt all of Iraq’s services — ranging from power stations to refineries to bridges — after the Gulf War (news - web sites). They seem uninformed because of Saddam’s instructions. Back in 1973, when I was head of the physics department, which was involved in the planning of the nuclear-weapons program, and Saddam had taken over as Atomic Energy chairman, his words to us in a meeting were clear: ”Pretend that you are not as well informed or as bright as you really are. A bright Iraqi is perceived as a danger to our enemies, but a mediocre one is not.” That meant telling inspectors: ”I don’t understand the question, and I have no idea what this means.”
We also got a lot of inadvertent help from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is also participating in the latest inspections. The IAEA had formed the International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation (INFCE) group to tell the world how nuclear-weapons programs are concealed. Its massive report, published around 1980, had a volume specifically dedicated to the telltale signs of weapons. The INFCE volume was must-reading for all Iraqi department heads. It was translated into Arabic and distributed free to all who might need the information. It was a handy how-to guide for throwing inspectors off course.
Our Cabin Weblog- Recently listened to music
- David Gray – Be Mine October 19, 2008
- David Gray – December October 19, 2008
- David Gray – Knowhere October 19, 2008
- David Gray – Real Love October 19, 2008
- David Gray – Last Boat To America October 19, 2008
- Recently additions to my library
- Messy Faith: Daring to Live by Grace by A. J. Gregory October 28, 2008
- Rediscovering Church: The Story and Vision of Willow Creek Community Church by Lynne Hybels October 26, 2008
- The Teeth of the Tiger, A Novel by Tom Clancy October 26, 2008
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John C. Maxwell October 26, 2008
- The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy October 26, 2008
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