I'm angry. No, i'm enraged.

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The relationship album of the year? Gahhhhhh! Who writes Christian music and calls it a "relationship album"? Did you know there are more books on dating at Lighthouse than discipleship? What's. Up. With. That?

Angels to have new bobble toy

I'm looking for children 14 years and younger to attend at least the first half of an Angels baseball game on July 12. Space is limited, apply today. (Apr 19 or Apr 26 acceptable as well)

Steven Curtis Chapman - All About Love

<boggle> Why don't you people tell me that SCC released a new album? With a cover song featured, no less! Bah! Why do i even keep you around?

Superbowl Sunday Alias.

Best. Show. Ever.

Ever. Ever!

Your word I have stored up in my heart, that I might not sin against you. - Psalm 119:11

I need to memorize more Scripture.

Join the Clone Army, the Easy Way

Bryant calls this culture jamming. This is the bomb. I'm sending in for one. You should, too.

How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture - Francis Schaeffer

This book has really captured my imagination-- it identifies in a cogent way the problems with human-centered philosophy... the parallels between the American and French Revolutions, and where they diverge, are chilling. It's what i'm reading now, along with The Philosophy of the Simpsons and Mason & Dixon. (Yes, still. Curse you for judging me.)

Chris's new linking method is lame. It took me ten minutes of perusing the HTML 4.01 spec to figure out what the SPAN class did and how i could use it to create anchor links.

And who looks at source these days? Honestly!

He should write a script to pull up the relevant entry when the id('s) are passed as GET requests, then generate a small hyperlink appended to each entry. That would let you use right-click-copy-link to cut and paste the appropriate hyperlink. As it is, my links to his page will link to the complete blog-- i think he's well over 200k (320k. Bah.) now. =(

Maybe i'll figure out his db handle and write the entry-grabber myself. =)

chriswong.org
Chris should insert anchor links with each of his entries; only problem is, the page references change, so i guess it should link to some sort of dynamic script that automagically generates that appropriate entry and perhaps some relevant context.

Yeah. That would be dope. But i wanted to comment on Smallville-- this past week's episode was the bomb-diggity. I especially liked the intro.

Gah. I'm just another yuppie.

The Simpsons Archive: Simian References

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Wired News: Porn Strategy: Share and Snare

As porn goes, so goes the rest of the Internet.

Yeah. Chris is about ten billion, trillion times better than me at NBA 2k3.

Evite: Christmas Eve Potluck.

My mom is using Evite now?

Roger stayed for Sunday School yesterday, too.

Truly, the apocalypse is upon us.

The Sacramento Bee: Factoring age and connections into the 'teacher shortage'

This is the saddest thing i've read in months.

I'm trying out Xanga so i can subscribe to people's blogs. It's kind of ghetto and ad-laden. Like AIM. I imagine that's why these kids like it.

Apple - iSync

I suspect the time to get Mac OS X 10.2.2 is upon me. =\ Anyone want to make it easy and take my laptop off my hands? $1400 gets you a better Powerbook than you can get from Apple today @ $2000... =)

Traffic stinks. It's 7:06, i'm still at the office, and i still see slow traffic all the way out past the 605. =(

On the upside, most of bigzoo email appears to be working as advertised.

Wow. I have Palm Pilot envy. Want a new one.

But i'm being good. Saving money, you know?

I finished The Stars My Destination today. It was a quick read-- probably 3 or 4 hours in total, while Jeff was playing Splinter Cell. I'm really intrigued by this higher-class science fiction, with a strong message and, in some ways, a call to action.

I like that Presteign's name sounds like prestige, but the portrayal of his wealth was definitely limited. Compare to Herr Virek from Count Zero, who's so rich and powerful that his wealth has taken on an existence unto itself... such that it can (and does) come into conflict with itself because of its sheer size. Gibson, for all his limitations, definitely had the wider and more revolutionary vision.

I mean, let's be honest... PyrE, in the end, is just another McGuffin. It happens to convey a powerful message, but it's really just another McGuffin. There's nothing wrong with the concept, but if it's already filtering into CCG's (the 10K Bullets set from Shadowfist), then it's probably long since passé. Maybe i'm being too picky-- the copyright on the book was 1956 (which is why the gutter-speak doesn't roll off the tongue), but good sci-fi tends to transcend era. PyrE is just so... early cold war. =) I think i only made the parallel because Jeff happened to be playing Splinter Cell, and the cutscene centered around some of the classic memes from Tom Clancy's genre... the protagonist's daughter is kidnapped by terrorists; he must go "rogue" against his own government's misguided agents but, mercifully, does not kill them; and the generally linear method of chasing down non-combatants with secret, almost tribal knowledge.

I'm not saying it's bad, or even that Clancy is formulaic, but he, like those games, is definitely becoming predictable. I think Mike Huang might be on to something, with his recent rebellion against gaming.

I've noticed that i only play social games now. Shadowfist, Napoleon, Apples... the desire to do something even as (relatively) non-interactive like Black Isle's Icewind Dale series has fallen off dramatically. I think this is probably good, though there are those days where i miss really powerful fictional worlds, like the Fallout universe.

Other Bester-related thought: does he always line his protagonist up with a bevy of beautiful babes? Does he transform them into supermen? Or is Gully Foyle unique?

Eh. Does it matter? I'd read another Bester book. =)

Mmm. Need to read more. It gets me thinking.

When stumbling upon other guys watching a sports event, you may always ask the score of the game in progress, but you may never ask who's playing. - Arcaholics

There's so much truth in that statement that it makes me want to cry. In other news, i found my firewire cable, so iPod bliss is within easy reach during the Mammoth trip.

Guess i'm doing this skit for the missions conference on Sunday. Neat. I really like this stuff, especially when it's low-pressure and organized by someone else-- i like keenly feeling someone else's purpose and contributing what i can for God's kingdom. I'm in search of vision myself these days.

The other thing was, Belinda agreed to take part, too. I mean, the girl's getting married in 9 days. If she's got time, how can i possibly make excuses?

That would be unpossible.

<giggle> Does anyone else think find it funny that there are not one, not two, but eleven iterations to Final Fantasy?

As an undergrad, i went to a techtalk on OceanStore. Looks like their prototype source code is up. And it's got a diving monkey for a logo.

Apple - PowerBook G4 12"

Oh my. The just-bigger-than-subnotebook. Ehhhhh. I'm happy with my TiBook, but if someone wants a six-month-old Powerbook on the cheap, i'll be happy to sell it... =)

Ohhhh... 2.4 kernels come with aacraid in Debian. Much becomes clear.

Yes, Tivo lets me dump to VCR. At its highest quality, Tivo is comparable to VHS-- static scenes and audio are probably a bit better, while lots of movement in bright light (basketball games) have a lot of artifacts and compression garbage.

Caring too much about TV is a problem. That's why i got a Tivo, so i don't have to think about it.

Belinda asked me to usher for their wedding. Then they made head usher.

Oh yeah. Head usher of two. Better start practicing.

"Jeff, seat those people. Jeff, open that door. Jeff, put down that guitar. Jeff, get me a sammich."

Okay, i think i'm ready now. =)

San Gabriel Valley Alliance Church slideshow

Please just download once-- our bandwidth is limited for now. Blessings.

I joined the tivolution today. So far, my season passes, in order, are NFL Football, Alias, Buffy, Animaniacs, and The Simpsons, with a wishlist for NBA Basketball.

winterspeak.com

Zimran Ahmed. Smart guy. Likes plaintext.

I've been thinking about the order of operations in our church today. It seems like the only normal, acceptable order of operations is as follows: get a girlfriend, buy a house, get married, and buy an extremely expensive yuppie car. Doing anything that deviates from that is, well, deviant.

The amount of abuse Patrick endured, until late, was a bit stupefying. I was definitely not looking forward to it.

In light of that dark path i've begun to walk down, i've resolved to do things backwards, so as not to "bite off" (clw's term) my peers, who are definitely "doing things in the right order." My next (or should i say first?) milestone will be to buy an obscenely overpriced luxury import. I'm currently consdering the Humvee, a gigantic green beemer, or (wait for it) a black Cadillac sedan with tinted black windows. Suggestions are welcome.

The women don't seem to go through this. They all drive eminently practical Hondas or minivans, and the ones who aren't married... well, they may not relish it, but they don't complain about it, and they don't get razzed about it.

Is this an acceptable model for the American evangelical church? I wonder sometimes.

Blizzard Entertainment - Unix Admin

Soooooo tempting.

I spent the day at Knott's Berry Farm with Gail and her friend Lorie, as well as Lorie's friends and family. It was a wonderful day-- i've learned how to pace myself in those parks, and gracefully bow out of things i'd rather not do... and manage to have a good time. Boysenberry pie is pretty good stuff.

I also stayed up until 2 AM last night playing Doomtown with Jeremy and talking. It was a good time.

We have satellite television at Bridwell now. Pray for us all. Tivo is coming. =)