John's Junk Drawer

Life In A Northern Town (Little Big Town, Sugerland)

2010-09-06T16:25:49Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iq0zK2IcTw

inescapable creed

2010-08-26T16:11:18Z

We don't stand AGAINST the bullies
We stand WITH those whom they are bullying
This is who we are
This is what we do
We have always done this
And as long as we are here
we always will.

I stand with the children, the parents, and the siblings of those who have lost their lives at ground zero.

Me? I'm just a lawnmower.

2010-07-24T06:18:48Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1tFQMjc-IE

That's Life

2010-07-09T07:15:00Z

As funny as it may seem...
Some people get their kicks
stomping on a dream...

Computer Scientist vs Programmer

2010-06-16T21:53:25Z

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 will fail about once per second."

-djr

Amy Grant - Better Than a Hallelujah

2010-06-14T15:57:15Z

Better than a church bell ringing. Better than a choir singing out.

We have a choice in everything, except not choosing

2010-05-12T18:17:18Z

Eastern philosophy = "Nothing matters"

Western philosophy = "Everything matters"

They might both be wrong, but which one would you rather have working on your mission-critical engineering project?

-djr

Ahhh... Baseball...

2010-05-06T19:06:49Z

Nine innings of wholesome, regimented, fun.

And if you go a little crazy, and have a spontaneous moment, that's okay too...

...Our tazers are charged and ready.

Note to celebrities

2010-04-29T18:32:41Z

You know you've truly arrived when newspapers keep a draft of your obituary on file.

-djr

Pretzel Logic.

2010-03-16T01:01:00Z

Having so much faith in logic that you believe it eliminates the need for faith.

-djr

Limitations vs. Blessings

2010-03-06T21:40:34Z

"All things work together for good to them that love God..." -Romans 8:28

All of creation is limitations. It would have been great if we had mental telepathy, for example. But mental telepathy wasn't in the design, so we learned other, more interesting ways to communicate.

In doing so, we discovered that those other ways we learned --to overcome the limitation and express ourselves-- have their own beautiful characteristics. Those beautiful characteristics would have been unimaginable, and completely hidden, if we had been "blessed" with telepathy, and were not limited in this way.

Consider... music, poetry, dance, paintings, and sculpture, for examples of what would never have been.

Within every limitation there is some new, previously unseen and unknown thing to learn, and learn about. And with the learning, comes the purpose.

-djr

This Too Shall Pass

2010-03-06T05:55:53Z

Great video.

I like how the previous attempts (previous takes) become part of the final work. The colors on their outfits for example. But also check out the messed up, and broken props, which can be seen in the backgrounds of each area. Left-overs from previous takes.

Amazing --Actual-- Image of A Single Molecule

2010-02-19T05:15:43Z

IBM has found that picking up a single carbon-oxide (CO) molecule onto the tip of their AFM (Atomic Force Microscope) allows them to get a much sharper "point" with which to obtain much sharper images of atomic scale entities. This image is simply amazing...

View the IBM Press Release (w/video)

-djr

Amazing Grace

2010-02-12T20:35:20Z

One of the best renditions I've heard.

As sinners go, the guy who wrote this song was right up there with the worst of them. Amazing! Salvation... offered, and accepted, and the angels celebrate by giving us one of the best songs ever written. Sometimes it's not hard at all to know what's important to them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V84STSWVp3g

One afternoon, in a Belgium Train Station.

2010-02-06T02:49:29Z

Observer As Art