Everyone wants to be great, I’m sure. But the extent of this actually varies tremendously from person-to-person. When seen from a wider perspective, all of life seems meaningless. We will all die, and in a few hundred years’ time (with a few exceptions), be completely forgotten. There’s no escaping it. I was reading 1 Kings…Continue Reading…
Should we follow King David’s example in 2 Samuel 12:15-23?  15 After Nathan returned to his home, the Lord sent a deadly illness to the child of David and Uriah’s wife. 16 David begged God to spare the child. He went without food and lay all night on the bare ground. 17 The elders of…Continue Reading…
It’s mildly distressing that I read the Bible much more closely when I’m doing it for a class than when I’m reading it for myself. Maybe I’m seeing new insights because I’m reading a different translation, so the same worn-out stories don’t look the same anymore. But I’m really being struck by what I’m reading…Continue Reading…
You’d think that with all the talk about the podcasting (or netcasting) revolution, someone would’ve made it easy by now– and with any MP3 player. Well, it’s not true. You can do it with an iPod and iTunes easily enough, but for other MP3 players, the market is extremely fragmented. I started off looking for…Continue Reading…
My comments on an article from a few years back called What the Bubble Got Right. I found myself talking recently to someone from Hollywood who was planning a show about nerds. I thought it would be useful if I explained what a nerd was. What I came up with was: someone who doesn’t expend…Continue Reading…
I have a terrible, highly-selective memory. There are some things that I remember very well, some things I don’t remember at all. Most things I don’t remember at all. I forget things easily. The good part about this is that if there’s something I don’t want to remember, I simply forget it. If I really…Continue Reading…