Month March 2005

They’re Baaaaaack!

Remember the burkha-clad Iranian policewomen? LGF has a video of the graduation ceremonies, courtesy of MEMRI TV. It features such memorable moments as: A group kung fu demonstration. Cadets rappelling down the side of a building. Cadets leaning out of…

Star Trek v. Schiavo

I’ve had a few intense conversations with friends and family over the course of the last week or so regarding the eventual fate of Terry Schiavo. I come solidly down on the side of “leave the tube in, because there’s…

Weekend Blahs

Yesterday and today have been a bit, well, uneventful. My wife and I spent most of our day yesterday over at my parents’ house, enjoying food, family and a rousing game of “Scattergories”. A good time was had by all.…

Further Musings On Job

As human beings, we tend to have a bit of trouble keeping our eyes and thoughts concentrated on the things that God would have us focus on. We have short attention spans and a variety of physical needs and desires…

Slow. Work. Day.

Ugh. Today’s just dragging along. Service ticket volume is low today (incredibly so, in fact). I do have a long-term project that I should be working on, but I just can’t seem to gin up the requisite willpower to tackle…

“Forced” Firefox Usage

I’ve recently upgraded my primary desktop at work to a rather beefy AMD FX-55-based box (running the recently-released RedHat Enterprise Linux version 4) and while I love the speed gained by moving to a 64bit processor and scads of RAM,…

Job 42:10

Our pastor has been conducting a sermon series on the book of Job over the last several weeks and he finished up this past Sunday with a runthrough of Job 42. Here’s the verse that struck me (Job 42:10) surrounded…