Author: Jesse
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We would sit at the dock late into the night and listen to the loons calling to each other. They were ghostly, haunting cries that echoed across the inky hills. The sound carried so well over the lake that you could make out conversations between campers on the far shore. And we used to swim... Read More
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Have you noticed that most of my posts lately have either been about great big issues or odds-and-ends from around the internet? I’m going to change things up today and do something novel: write a post about me. It’s been a while, so forgive the rust. Here goes: Busy, busy, busy. But then, I think... Read More
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Ingredients: A Mac: specifically terminal and textedit The full text of your favorite book: try Project Gutenberg or the Christian Classics Ethereal Library for starters. Directions: Copy the entire text of the book you want to a text file. Save it to your desktop as “booktitle.txt” (obviously replacing booktitle with the title of your book).... Read More
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Your Church on a Scale from 1 to 4
Emerging, emergent, evangelical 2.0 or new reformed? Where does neofundamentalism fit in this scale? My two cents: Today’s church in my experience does a very poor job making the Bible relevant to the world around us. Part of that is the shrinking role the church has in it’s own member’s lives and part of that... Read More
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A few weeks ago, during one of our ProNet phone calls when Tim brought up the fact that creating static pages still requires alot of hoop-jumping, I started thinking about a way to implement default page templates that would allow easy management of pages via the MT interface but separate from templates and entries. The... Read More
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I am a walking paradox. My dream house is a cabin in the north Maine woods, yet I live 10 minutes from Philadelphia and my apartment looks out over I-95. I am a song leader at our church, yet I thrive on electronica. And here’s the kicker: I am professional web designer with three computers... Read More
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Heroes vs. 24, Part 2: Television Makes Me Cry
Well, 24 has officially become “that thing I do on Monday night” while I’m daydreaming about what’s happening on Heroes. I can only put up with so much of Jack Bauer bloodying up people. How sad that the idea of Wayne Palmer dying made me yawn (goodbye terrible acting!), while the idea of HRG dying... Read More
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Some of us have a life. Then there are others of us who call up Primatech Paper and leave threatening messages on Mr. Bennet’s voicemail. Congratulations, Chuck, your fanboyism got you listed on Hana Gitelman’s “secret” site. Check it out, he’s voicemail #4 (direct link). (Those of you who don’t watch Heroes, move along, nothing... Read More
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Hello, and welcome to the iPhone’s coming out video. This is Apple’s first ad for the iPhone, and was about the only excitement I experienced during the 2007 Oscars. A hundred points (redeemable at all participating Waffle Houses) if you can name each actor/actress. A hundred thousand points if you buy me one. PS: The... Read More
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Scientific Progress Goes Boink
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An artist can see something that everyone else sees in a way that no one else can. Icaro Doria is a true artist. He created a series called “Meet the World” that uses the colors of a country’s flag as a graph represent relevant topics for that country. They used real data from Amnesty International... Read More
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Perfect music for eyes closed on sunny Saturday mornings… Biege Finger – Tristeza Weather Report – The American Analog Set Love and Some Verses – Iron & Wine Clarity – Midwest Product Chicago (Acoustic Version) – Sufjan Stevens Passenger Seat – Death Cab Know By Heart – The American Analog Set Look For Me As... Read More
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I woke up this morning with a rotten stomach ache. I drove into work, thinking it was our Valentine’s Dinner still giving me grief; but it kept getting worse and worse and pretty soon I felt that achy chill on the back of my arms and across my scalp. I lay on the floor of... Read More
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I was “digging” through my old digital photos (now that’s a funny phrase) and I came across some that really evoked alot of memories, so I thought I’d put them up there for your perusal. The New Life gang will probably find them the most meaningful. Enjoy. Odds and Ends » (You remember how this... Read More
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From the “outside-looking-in” department: How to Start Your Day at 5:00am I can’t tell you how much I’d love to be able to do this. But here’s how my day breaks down: I usually wake up around 8:30am. I don my big, fuzzy bathrobe and check my email, my blogs, Drudge and Digg, a process... Read More
