Category: General

Makes Me Jealous

I don’t read my sister’s blog nearly as regularly as I should. I have been being lazy and only reading the blogs that popped up as “recently upadated” on my list. Blogger doesn’t ping the Proper Places, and so a certain subsection of my list (including family!) wasn’t getting read.

But now the blogroll is broke and it’s caused me to do some exploring. And Lo! I discovered that my sister updates her site.

Back in the day when she introduced me to blogging, her site was ridden with youthful angst about how she hated her job. Nowadays it’s dedicated to the mundaneities of raising 3 children.

I’ve never seen someone acquire children so fast.

Makes me jealous. The gir’s four years younger than me. Almost five. She gets married first, gets a house first, has three kids. Three!

Understand, our current target date for the first child is in about 6 years. Meanwhile I’ve got nephews. I’m nervous that I may be shirking my avuncular duties because I’m too busy and too far away.

Anyway, if you love family life, take a peak in [On Fragile Wings](http://on-fragile-wings.blogspot.com/). She’s playing Kanga with little Roos.

Imago Dei

This is a late recognition, but I want to point out that Serge at [Imago Dei](http://www.imago-dei.net/imago_dei/) has a really good blog going on. Dentist by day, crack philosopher by night, Serge has provided a lot of grist for the mill since I started checking him out.

I’m starting to realize that “Imago Dei” is more than just the name of the blog. It’s actually the focal point of everything that he writes about on it. *Imago Dei* is the technical term for the doctrine that man is created in the image of God, with the implication that we each have intrensic value and certain characteristics that separate us from the rest of creation. Among these characteristics would be reason, an ethical sense, and certain inalienable rights. So we get discussion on creation vs. evolution, abortion and other human rights issues.

He gets added to the Religion category, which is now too cumbersome and needs to be divided into subcategories.

I have only one disappointment: Never once have I seen a thoroughgoing discussion on why it is that ***everyone*** has to get their wisdom teeth removed.

The Food of your God?

Priests may not make bald spots on their heads, shave the edge of their beards, or make gashes on their bodies. They are to be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, because they present the fire offerings to the LORD, the food of their God. They must be holy. They are not to marry a woman defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God. You are to consider him holy since he presents the food of your God. (Leviticus 21:5-8)

The priest presents the food of your God? What’s up with that? What about,

If I were hungry I would not tell you,
for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
Do I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of goats?
(Psalm 5012-13)

My confused.

Amazing Maze

With my blogroll not updating, I’ve found other amusements for myself, including some attempts at improving the layout of this site. So I’ve been looking into a lot of web design.

That said, [this](http://www.stunicholls.myby.co.uk/menu/amazing.html#) is amazing. he has a maze that’s build entirely out of CSS, that’s Cascading Style sheets – what most people use to pick their font size and the color of their hyperlinks..

Wow.

(yes mom, I’m doing my homework).

Routine Maintenance

I hate cars.

I wonder if it’s still too late to finish carriage training Donna. (Donna is the horse that I saddle broke and started carriage training at my gma and gpa Walker’s farm. She’s still there but it’s been several years now since I’ve been on her back.)

The maintenance manual said that it was time to replace the sparkplugs on my car again. Continue reading “Routine Maintenance”

Belated Pings

[The Jargon File](http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/index.html), an online compendium of all things [hacker](http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/H/hacker.html), defines a [“ping”](http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/P/ping.html) as “a slang term for a small network message sent by a computer to check for the presence and alertness of another.” In this case, as a blogger, I’m using the term erroneously: The pings for the things mentioned below will only happen once they find out that I’m talking about them. Not to mention that theologians are notoriously inactive on the web, so some of these people may never get the notice.

It’s just more fun to say “ping” than “slug.”

Plus I wanted to link the Jargon File.

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