11.11.07
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at 01:39
The other day I made a culinary faux pas while cooking dinner. I added a bit too much cumin to a split pea dal I was preparing. I told my roommate that if it should prove inedible, it would be my own damned fault. I would have to admit that I’d had it ‘cumin,’ then desert my efforts and have just ‘desert.’
This led to a discussion of the spelling of “just deserts.” Many people seem to think that this phrase refers to the after dinner sweet it sounds like. But “the cake is a lie.” Actually, it refers to getting what one justly deserves. “Desert” in this sense is the nominal (noun) form of “deserve.” Thus my last comment was not a literalised metaphor, but a criminally bad pun.
And just to set the record straight, “come-uppins” are not a type of bread pudding. “Humble pie” in the original sense had nothing to do with humility. It is an actual thing made with the entrails–the “humbles”–of an animal, especially a deer. (With my excessive arrogance and repeated use of puns in this post, it sounds like the kind of dessert I’m worthy of.) Although one can argue that humbles historically being eaten by those of lower societal status would indicate some kind of etymological relation. I dunno, ask your philologist next time you go in for a checkup.
In any case, I ate my words with fork and spoon and my dal with some rice. It turned out just fine.
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04.06.07
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at 00:19
Today is Maundy Thursday. The day Jesus instituted the Eucharist. The day He washed His disciples’ feet. Tonight is the night He suffered agony and travail in the garden of Gethsemane. The night He was betrayed for a handful of coins by someone a lot like you and me. Just something to think about.
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01.02.07
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at 00:34
Maybe the depressing movie I just watched has something to do with it, but I’m in a rather pensive mood. I’m a senior in college now, and the thing I’ve longed for and dreaded for the last few years is at hand. One can only cower in the ivied halls of Academia for so long before the real world comes to get one. Though I’ve been plotting my escape and wondering what the future holds since freshman year, I can’t help but second guess my eagerness as my friends begin to go on their merry ways and discover that college was a bit easier and more fun than real life. I fear the inevitable scattering of my closest friends to the farthest reaches of the world. When I graduate in December and find a real job and a place to live, will I be disappointed, scared, excited, relieved, or all of the above at the same time? When New Year’s Day of 2008 rolls around, where will I be, and what will I be thinking of?
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08.01.06
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at 22:47
I am taking a sabbatical from my blog until further notice. I feel like this is what God has asked me to do.
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05.28.06
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at 18:52
It’s warm, but not hot in the brindled shade of the ancient willows and cottonwoods that flank a modest, slow-moving river. Tiny ripples of water spread and collide and turn, splashing sparks of golden sunlight. Seeds plumed with white fluff wander lazily through the air in every direction. One drifts slowly upward, stalls, and finding a current, bends swiftly to the left. The sky is a palish blue, marked by a few high clouds. The air smells of dry leaves and grass, and of water. Birds chatter and cry to one another, and somewhere out of sight, swifter currents churn and babble.
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04.16.06
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at 21:54
I just wanted to wish all y’all a happy Easter. He is risen. :)
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07.23.05
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at 21:35
I shall spare the reader tiresome details about the progress of my website, however, I thought it worth mentioning that jackalblog now has a project page at SourceForge:
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/jackalblog/
There are no files there yet, but an alpha release will accompany the grand opening of my site.
I’d also like to take this opportunity to pitch trackbacks. What are trackbacks? They’re a nifty feature that facilitate blogging as a conversational medium. On the respondee’s blog, trackbacks appear very much like comments, however, they are actually posts in the respondent’s blog. Why not just write a post about someone else’s post? Well, you could, but then the respondee would probably never know about it. Then why not write a post and then comment on their post with a link to your post? You try telling another blogger’s readers that they should read your blog and tell me how it goes ~_^ Plus that’s a lot more work. In many cases, trackbacking is as simple as including a link to the post you are replying to. So how do you get trackback if your blog doesn’t support it?
There are a few options:
- use a different blogging service
- discover that your blogging service does support them afterall (yea!)
- use an external comment/trackback service like haloscan (my current solution)
- gripe (politely) at the developers of your blogging service
- if you coded your own blog, maybe it’s time to start coding again or to
- get jackalblog (when it comes out (sorry, I couldn’t resist)) or a similar project or even just
- read the code of jackalblog (when it comes out) or a similar project to understand the mechanism.
For further reading:
http://www.movabletype.org/trackback/beginners/
http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/docs/trackback_spec
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06.29.05
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at 20:43
I think this might be a first. Me posting a quiz. This is a really good one though.
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You scored as Fundamentalist. You are a fundamentalist. You take the Bible as the foundation of your faith and read it very literally, and it shapes your worldview. Non-fundamentalist Christians have watered-down the Gospel in your view, and academic study of the Bible stops us from ‘taking God at his word.’ Science is opposed to faith, as it contradicts basic biblical truths.
| Fundamentalist |
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89% |
| Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan |
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79% |
| Charismatic/Pentecostal |
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71% |
| Neo orthodox |
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64% |
| Emergent/Postmodern |
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46% |
| Reformed Evangelical |
|
46% |
| Classical Liberal |
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39% |
| Roman Catholic |
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25% |
| Modern Liberal |
|
18% |
What’s your theological worldview?
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I don’t actually think good science contradicts biblical truth. I think that clinging tightly to unproven theories is bad science at best, false religion at worst.
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06.25.05
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at 23:44
…whether having absolutely no fear* of anything indicates perfect faith, or perfect lunacy?
*the Fear of the LORD doesn’t count in this question. You can fear God and still be fearless.
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06.14.05
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at 21:58
My site is still under construction. I broke the blog posting mechanism while implementing some new features. I’ve also only been working on it about one day a week.
I suppose I had just as well come out and say it. You might already be suspicious. I uninstalled my instant messenger client. I think permanently. It’s been good. I felt really dumb talking to people while mostly preoccupied anyway. Or spending an hour discussing twenty minutes worth of material. Call me. Or e-mail me.
I recently discovered an antiquated device that’s still quite useful. It’s called a radio. Sort of like television, but without the picture. There’s actually one built into my radio-alarm clock. Imagine that. It comes in handy when I want to listen to Rush Limbaugh, since don’t have an i-pod or 24/7 membership.
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