Wednesday, March 23. 2011
Sometimes people get a lot of style, sometimes people get a lot of class. It is very rare for one person to get a lot of both.
Rest in peace Elizabeth.
Sunday, March 20. 2011
Began at 50: my first time reading the Bible straight through
I have always "read around" in the Bible, reading individual books, or a sub-set of books. I've read many books many times, but could not tell you with any confidence that I have read every book.
A while ago I started reading it from front to back, starting at Genesis 1. It is interesting how you get an entirely different perspective when you read it this way. The way the stories unfold, first flying over, then getting closer in and revealing more detail. It is incredibly beautiful how all the books fit together into a bigger whole. That aspect of it was a complete surprise to me.
It has been slow going, just a few chapters a week. I am now at Isaiah. I've always loved this book, but wow! what an amazing book when read as part of the sequence of the entire Jewish Testament narrative. I'm closing in on the NT books, and though I have read them many times over, I'm wondering if their message will have the same newness of perspective that Isaiah now has.
If you're like me, and you have never read the books of the bible straight through from the beginning, I HIGHLY recommend it. It can be difficult at times (the genealogy records, and the engineering descriptions of the temple, for example), but it is worth the effort. It is very different from reading a book, or a sub-set of books from within the whole. For me, the best way to deal with those many times my attention starts to wonder, is to simply put it down, and come back to it later when I'm ready to be fully engaged (hence, the slow going).
For those who, like me, have not yet done this; when you're ready to do it you will, and you will not be disappointed.
-John
Friday, February 18. 2011
Thursday, January 20. 2011
Most restaurants fail to properly strain ravioli. This ruins the tomato gravy by bathing the ravioli in what can best be described as a puddle of red dishwater in the bottom of the plate.
Consequently, people who love ravioli the most are the least likely to order it when they go out to a restaurant.
Monday, January 17. 2011
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"We've learned to fly the air as birds,
we've learned to swim the seas as fish,
yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth
as brothers and sisters."
- Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
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Monday, December 27. 2010
Got it? People who garden love gardening, so they didn't mind the snow.
Note to the accountants and suits in the NFL: IF YOU DON'T LOVE FOOTBALL YOU'RE IN THE WRONG BUSINESS !
Perhaps you should try gardening.
-djr
Sunday, December 19. 2010
Lunar eclipse (total from all of U.S.) Tuesday 21-Dec. Begins: 01:32 (am - EST). Totality is achieved at 02:41 and lasts for 72 minutes.
Best time to look?
At 03:17 am EST the Moon will be in deepest shadow, displaying the most fantastic shades of coppery red.
Why Red?
From the article at NASA:
" A quick trip to the Moon provides the answer: Imagine yourself standing on a dusty lunar plain looking up at the sky. Overhead hangs Earth, nightside [facing you], completely hiding the sun behind it. The eclipse is under way. You might expect Earth seen in this way to be utterly dark, but it's not. The rim of the planet is on fire! As you scan your eye around Earth's circumference, you're seeing every sunrise and every sunset in the world, all of them, all at once. This incredible light beams into the heart of Earth's shadow, filling it with a coppery glow and transforming the Moon into a great red orb. "
Last time a lunar coincided with solstice?
1638 DEC 21, Next time it will happen? 2094 DEC 21
Tuesday, December 7. 2010
So...
What's the word for when you bolster your own sense of moral superiority by belittling other people's attempts to do good, or show an affirming flame?
-djr
Sunday, November 28. 2010
The reason people don't like a particular musical genre has nothing to do with how they feel about the good songs in the genre. It's because they never hear the good songs.
Every genre is a mountain of coal with a few diamonds scattered and buried inside. People who don't like a particular genre are put off by the crappy songs. . . the coal.
It has to be this way. If there were mountains of diamonds, then diamonds would be looked upon in the same way we look upon coal. In fact, if diamonds were as plentiful as coal we would burn them in our furnaces.
That is the nature of genres.
-djr
Wednesday, November 24. 2010
Monday, September 6. 2010
Wednesday, June 16. 2010
A Computer Scientist Says:
"This code is very reliable. There is only about a one in a billion chance of it ever failing."
Exact Same Statement Made by a Programmer:
"On a typical laptop, this code could fail about once per minute."
-djr
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