This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
No Blog Post This Week
Nov
19
2021
Rough week over here. Tune in next time.
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German Accent
Jul
8
2020
I realized I mentioned the German accenterator wasn’t working but I never indicated that it was back online. I had to re-write the whole thing from, well not from scratch but mostly new. I’m pretty sure it’s not exactly how it used to be, but it makes one sound more German than nothing.
Go visit the German accent page to try the accent.
Foreigners pretend obedience to me; As soon as they hear, they obey me.
2 Samuel 22:45
East to West
Jan
29
2020
Common knowledge says that before Columbus, people thought the world was flat. I think that’s a bad generalization.
Consider what the Bible says in Psalm 103:12 “As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.”
I have heard that explained a number of times as a good description of an infinite distance – no matter how far east you go, you’ll never be west. Unlike north and south – if you head north, eventually you end up going south, and vice-versa.
And that all makes sense, we can picture that on a globe.
Of course, like all analogies there is a weakness. If your sins go west and you go east, you’ll end up meeting when you circle around. But as far as your direction goes, if you go east you’ll always go east.
But that description and that explanation means that people in the Bible (that Psalm was probably written around 1000 BC, so 2500 years before Columbus) knew the earth was a globe and that north and south were the poles.
I think we need to give people of the past more credit. And the Bible too.
As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
Psalm 103:12
Merry Christmas 2019
Dec
25
2019
Since today is Christmas, I won’t take much of my time to write anything lengthy here.
But I am posting this public service reminder that Joy to the World is not a Christmas song. It is actually a song about the next arrival of Jesus. But since we don’t have a day to celebrate the rapture and all that, I suppose Christmas works.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Revelation 21:4
Spring Break
Apr
3
2019
I’m on spring break. No real content this week. I was going to discuss how Kentucky will let you get married younger than they’ll let you get a driver’s license, but they changed the law last year so now that’s no longer the case.
Why would I pick on Kentucky like that? Because we can drive the country from top to bottom (Canadian border to Miami) using I-75 and that’s the one state where my teen driver can’t drive because of their driving laws.
Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage”
Luke 20:34
Sundry and Various Thoughts
Feb
20
2019
Here are some thoughts I jotted down that aren’t quite sufficient for their own individual blog posts. If you’re the type of person who likes Twitter, pretend each of these are tweets.
- “Dollar-cost averaging” could be summarized as “two wrongs don’t make a right, but lots of little wrongs are okay”.
- No, the station is not supported by viewers like me. Viewers like me never contribute anything.
- I wonder how many parents would pay extra for Lego sets to be in silent packaging. Just for the fun of being able to surprise kids with Legos for Christmas or birthday presents.
- Now the other way is easy: any present can be made to sound like it is a box of Legos by throwing a handful of Legos (excuse me, Lego bricks) into the box. Or buy a small box of Legos and wrap it together with the other surprise present. Any shaking of said present will then produce a Lego sound and the child will not expect the non-Lego gift.
- If “cat” is pronounced “cat” and “cate” sounds like “kate”, why isn’t “caterpillar” pronounced “kay-ter-pillar”? Shouldn’t it be spelled “catterpillar”?
Now suppose one of you fathers is asked by his son for a fish; he will not give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?
Luke 11:11
Tension Rod
Jul
19
2018
I was shopping around for a new curtain rod for the shower and I noticed that they were all titled “tension rod”.
They were titled that because they are held in place by pressing against the walls, rather than by being fastened to the walls.
But from what I learned in college, that’s wrong.
The curtain rod is pushing against the walls so it is being compressed. It should be a compression rod.
A tension rod would be somewhere that needed to prevent two walls from spreading apart.
Maybe a better way to do this is to picture a spring in the middle of the bar. To get the curtain rod to stay in place, you wedge it in place – what happens to the spring compared to its normal state? It is compressed. When a tension rod is in use, it is experiencing compression.
Whoever named that thing a tension rod has some explaining to do.
You shall break them with a rid of iron, You shall shatter them like earthenware.
Psalm 2:9
