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Monday, August 11th, 2008
“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.” - Albert Einstein
Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
It’s the time again where the Christian political machine is revving up for another presidential election. This is a time, as a Christian, I truly dread.
This is the time where human sexuality, abortion, gay marriage, etc., rule the voting consciences of many Christians. It comes down to a simple principle:
The religious right believes you [...]
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But the new generation of evangelicals is sick of being labeled as backward rednecks because of their association with fossils like Dobson. There are many evangelicals like Cizik too who are not all about homophobia, nationalism, war-without-end and American exceptionalism or the Republican Party. Like Cizik they believe that the America has a responsibility to [...]
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Firefox 3 was released today. Download now and help Firefox get into the Guinness Book of World Records for the most downloads on a single day!
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
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It dawned on me (with a friend’s help) that “The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim” when translated completely to English is: The The Angels Angels of Anaheim”
Couldn’t we just call them Los Angeles of Anaheim?
Or better yet, why not.. the Anaheim Angels. Gee, why didn’t they think of that one?
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I’ve seen Zito pitch twice. Once he threw a complete game shutout against the Angels in Anaheim (and I was in the city of Anaheim’s box… and I invited an A’s fan who happened to be wearing his A’s stuff when I called about an extra ticket…). This time, it was the Giants who got [...]
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
Whether he took HGH or not, I don’t know. But when he talked to Mike Wallace, he looked like a liar to me.
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
OpenSong is software for the Mac which can run your multimedia presentation over a projector. And the price is great: free.
Definitely worth a look for those of you who use projection for your times of community worship.
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
I’ve begun a standard practice of checking any purchase I am thinking about on iTunes with Amazon MP3. I love being able to download an MP3 instead of a file I can only play on my computer or iPod (or burn it to a CD… for a set number of times.
So right now, I’m downloading [...]
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