archshrk

September 2008

• Monday 29 | Walnut Creek or bust

  I should have posted this last month when it happened but things just seemed to get away from me (as things often do – silly things). As you may recall, I’m working towards my Architectural License and had my California Supplemental Exam (CSE – aka my Orals) last month. What I didn’t [...]

• Saturday 27 | hahaha – babies are funny

  Laughing Baby Video

  I swear I had a similar experience with Corbin, unfortunately it’s not on film. You never think to tape things until after they happen.
  Kan man ha roligare? means “Can you have any more fun?” It is Swedish.
  In other news, we had some friends over for dinner last week and we spent a [...]

• Friday 26 | Google takes a stand – sort of

  digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/politics/Google_takes_a_stand_sort_of’;

  Official Google Blog: Our position on California’s No on 8 campaign

  Google has come out with an official company position regarding Proposition 8, which is fine to do but – when they do, they should actually explain their position.
  When Proposition 8 appeared on the California ballot, it was an unlikely question for Google [...]

• Friday 26 | Crimson Permanent Assurance

  In the bleak days of nineteen-eighty-three, as England languished in the doldrums of a ruinous monetarist policy, the good and loyal men of the Permanent Assurance Company– a once-proud family firm, recently fallen in hard times– strained under the yoke of their oppressive new corporate management.
  Pushed beyond [...]

• Thursday 25 | Some things to remember when engaged in apologetics debates

  When they quote scripture for their beliefs, it’s called “scriptural support”.
  When you quote scripture for your beliefs, it’s called “prooftexting”.
  When they provide bible verses that support their opinion, it’s called reading scripture “in context”.
  When you provide bible verses that support your opinion, it’s called “cherry picking verses”.
  When they make a distinction between two slightly differing [...]

• Wednesday 24 | Looking for Link Love

  In an effort to reach a broader audience and to increase general awareness of my sites, I have agreed to be nominated for Blogger Choice Awards. I doubt I’ll win but you can still vote for me. Vote for these three sites…
  Blogogetics – Best Religious Blog
  archshrk – Best Blog about Stuff
  PhotoJulia – Best [...]

• Tuesday 23 | How Long Could You Survive Chained to a Bunk Bed with a Velociraptor?

  Found this one at SEOmoz today. Had to share (and rub it in)
  I could survive for 1 minute, 25 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor
  Makes me want to make a silly quiz too.

• Monday 22 | Santee Lakes

  We spent a little time Saturday afternoon at Santee Lakes. I highly recommend spending more time outside. [view pictures]

• Monday 22 | to exegesis or exegete

  Turns out neither is correct.

  In studying scripture we tend to come at it (or away from it) in two ways. One is the critical explanation or interpretation of a text or portion of a text. The other is the process of interpretation of an existing text in such a way as to introduce [...]

• Friday 19 | Pirate’s Cove by Days of Wonder

  Since it’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day (TLAPD for short), I thought I’d sing the praises of one of my favorite games – again.

  In Pirate’s Cove, players take on the role of ship captains as they battle for the rights to plunder and become the most famed and feared Pirate the world has ever [...]

• Friday 19 | Shiver me timbers

  Here it is September 19th and I totally forgot – again!
  September 19th (every year) is International Talk Like A Pirate Day.
  For them o’ ye who dasn’t seem t’ know how t’ enjoy life an’ find interestin’ ways t’ express yersef, TLAPD be simply a tide t’ celebrate eccentricities.
  Simply put, swabbies love t’ re-invent they’s self [...]

• Wednesday 17 | What Cartoon Character are you?

  Have you ever asked yourself what cartoon character do you most resemble? Everyone has a personality of a cartoon character. A group of investigators (supposedly) got together and analyzed the personalities of well known and modern cartoon characters. The information that was gathered was made into this test.
  Answer all the questions (only 10) with [...]

• Wednesday 17 | State Of The Nation

  Every now and then I get an email that I feel is worth sharing. Usually it has to do with some cute story or crazy scheme or just plain stupid ideas but sometimes they are just interesting links to some fun or useful sites.
  the Lord came unto Noah, who was now living in the [...]

• Saturday 13 | Apparently Photoshop is now too easy to use

  This poster was featured in a post on the Photoshop Disasters website. It turns out that Dane Cook has a few issues with the movie poster for his upcoming movie, My Best Friend’s Girl.
  Now before you head on over there to read the whole story, take a minute to watch this trailer to get [...]

• Saturday 13 | Palin is bringing sexy back

  First, a word on extremism.
  John Cleese makes some very relevant points about extremism in the party political broadcast he did in 1987 for the SDP/Liberal Alliance (who got slaughtered in the election and went on to become the Liberal Democrats)

  As an extremist, “You can be as nasty as you like and yet feel your behavior [...]

• Friday 12 | Is spam made from sharks?

  I was in a recent email conversation with someone and they were telling me that they think they got an email from me but it was marked spam and before they realized it, they deleted it. Turns out it wasn’t me but my dad’s email.

  Anyway, in the course of the conversation I mentioned that [...]

• Thursday 11 | Don’t Let’s Start

  Can’t sleep. Somewhere nearby is a smoke detector that needs a new battery.
  This is unrelated but I thought I would share it anyway. As you know, I’m a big fan of TMBG so here’s a classic from They Might Be Giants (with lyrics to sing along with)

  Don’t, don’t, don’t let’s start
  This is the [...]

• Wednesday 10 | Kathi Burg is back

  Kathi Burg has released a new album which I’m looking forward to very much. It’s titled Sun In Rain and you can listen to it on her MySpace page.
  I first fell in love with Kathi’s music a few years ago when she performed at The Courtyard as The Kathi Burg Band. Her new [...]

• Tuesday 9 | Tweaking your WordPress Website

  I’m constantly making changes to my website in ways you probably don’t notice. Like when I changed my site so that, from a code point of view, both sidebars come after the content. On the surface, there was no difference for you, but if you were visually impaired and were using page reading [...]

• Monday 8 | The World, Brave New or End of

  The other day, Gil, from the InkTank forums shared something he found on the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). If your not familiar with what that is, here’s the basics:

  The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. It [...]

• Tuesday 2 | How NOT to Fight Club

  This has been floating around the emails lately and shown up on a blog or two, but in case you are out of the loop…here it is.

  Pretty messed up ain’t it. That’s what I thought when I forwarded it to a few friends and family. But then I learned something interesting. Thanks [...]

• Tuesday 2 | Browsin’ with my homeboy

  Well, it appears Google is launching its own open-source browser (Chrome) sometime today. You can learn more about it by reading their informative comic.
  Chrome, said Google’s vice president of product management, Sundar Pichai, is based on the same WebKit engine that powers Apple Inc.’s Safari, and like Microsoft Corp.’s new Internet Explorer 8 [...]