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It's Your Fault
This Sunday my chaplain, most likely along with every other chaplain in the nation, gave a sermon regarding the Virginia Tech Tragedy. I found it moving and profound, so I wanted to share some of it with you. What follows is an excerpt from the sermon:
As the whole nation responded this week to the terrible tragedy at Virginia Tech, I had a ( Read more... ) -
Oh Yeah... So About... Life...
It would appear that I have dropped off the face of the earth. However, that is simply not the case. For those of you who were wondering what's going on, I have but 2 words for you: the usual.
As with every other semester, this one hit hard and fast. I was working on the PCM website hardcore over break, and it was hard to slow down working on that ( Read more... ) -
Oh Yeah... So About New Orleans... (Part 2)
Well dang! It's been a whole week and I haven't posted the next installment of my New Orleans experience yet! That just goes to show you how much effort I've been putting into this website - I wake up, code, eat at some point, code, shower at some point, code, should go to sleep but don't, code, and finally crash. This week's gonna be different, ( Read more... ) -
Oh Yeah... So About New Orleans... (Part 1)
I did say I was going to be "divulging my experiences" during my trip to New Orleans, didn't I? Well... ok. I'll try to keep it short and in summary form, but you'll have to understand that there's just so much to talk about! As for what's been keeping me busy, I'm working on re-redesigning the PCM Website to make it the awesomeness. You can be ( Read more... ) -
Back at the Big Red C
That's right! I'm back in Ithaca already. I flew up here from New Orleans so as to avoid the complications of having to find a ride back here. Also, I've got work to do. "What?! Work?! It's winter break!" True, true, young padawan. But I've a website to (re)build! :D And... I really gotta earn some cash at ACCEL while I have the chance.
And yes, I ( Read more... ) -
Celebrate! :D
Well, I'm off to New Orleans for this "Christian leadership experience like no other" called Celebrate! At the River. My plane leaves tomorrow at 8:30am. Afterwards I'm headed straight back up to Ithaca for 3 weeks of relaxing, web programming, and earning some cash. Woohoo! :D
Feel free to gimme a call on my cell phone (703.209.6086). I'll call ( Read more... ) -
The War on Christmas
I just read a really interesting blurb about the "war on Christmas" from Jim Wallis' God's Politics blog. I didn't really see this going on very much this year, and I recall being wished a Merry Christmas pretty much wherever I went, but I thought I'd share this anyway. It pretty much sums up what I think about this (ridiculous) conflict, so I'll ( Read more... ) -
Ouch! My Eye!
Here's something that the Sojomail Verse and Voice on 11.30.2006 brought me - some OT evidence against blindly following the eye-for-an-eye mentality. Not just OT evidence, but Pentateuch evidence! Of course, Jesus explicitly strikes that doctrine down, but some reason so many Christians and "Christians" still think that way, and I find that rather ( Read more... ) -
American Spiritual Challenges
It would appear indeed that America does face spiritual challenges unique to the American condition:
American preachers have a task more difficult, perhaps, than those faced by us under South Africa's apartheid, or Christians under Communism. We had obvious evils to engage; you have to unwrap your culture from years of red, white and blue myth. ( Read more... ) -
Applied Databases Project
I'm taking a class called CS 330: um.. something having to do with data-driven web applications (my professor mistakenly labels things "web-driven web applications" :P). I just finished with my latest assignment. It was pretty cool, but really intense. I've been working on it for the last 3 or 4 days straight, which includes cutting out on sleep ( Read more... )