This weekend I watched Green Lantern at my local theater. It's not the movie to end all superhero movies, but it did a few things most reviews seemed to skip over, which I thought were worth pointing out ( Read more... )

Several months ago, pazuzuzu asked me to clarify my stance on why I believe the mainstream Christian Church is off-target in a lot of its activities. So this is it: the big computersherpa manifesto post. Non-Christians may not be interested in what I have to say here. Apologies to the folks on Myst Blogs who are about to be buried by a wall of text.
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• Playing one in Dungeons and Dragons? Check.
  
• Playing one in World of Warcraft? Check.
  
• Creating a lookalike in Fallout 3? Check.
  
• Researching their fantasy and real-world history on the Net? Check.
  
• Ordering history books and epic poems about them through Amazon? Check.
  
• Buying multiple t-shirts about them? Check.
  
• Purchasing an authentic steel sword and ( Read more... )

...Unluckier still was [the astronomer] Guillaume Le Gentil,
whose experiences are wonderfully summarized by Timothy Ferris in
Coming of Age in the Milky Way. Le Gentil set off from France a ( Read more... )

There's a Jewish saying: "God created man because he loves stories." I think that has a lot of truth to it. But not only does God love stories, he loves the people whose stories are being told moment by moment across the globe. And I'm amazed that the story of my choices, mistakes, regrets--the story of my life--actually matters to God ( Read more... )

Genre: What if?
Word count: 1,446
Premise: The only reason God allows the sin in the world to continue is that the only alternatives are to override free will or to end the world before everyone has had a chance to accept Him.

( What if the world could be ended without bloodshed? )

When I lived in Russia (think 1996 era) our first cat was a stray by the name of Tiger. My father maintains that this cat was possessed by supernatural influences, and he is probably right. The first adjective that anyone ever associates with Tiger is always "EVIL". Tiger liked to lay in wait for us in hard-to-see places, destroy random objects ( Read more... )

"I thought it wasn't real."
"Your mind makes it real, Neo."

The word story has a certain amount of power ( Read more... )

A long time ago, in a kingdom far, far away, there was a knight ( Read more... )