I like keeping up with the GTD tag” at de.licio.us, but found the duplication of links annoying. So I’ve written a little script to (hopefully) prevent dupes.
You can find it here.
How it works in a nutshell: I get the rss feed from de.licio.us every 30 minutes. The first time a link shows up it gets added to a database. If it’s found again it’s ignored. Then it spits out a rss feed of the latest 30 links.
I’m sitting in the rooftop balcony of the Library Hotel in Manhattan. Life is rough, yes.
I’ll be in NYC til Sunday. Then we trip on up to Camp Joy/Camp Hope where we’ll stay till July 30.
Glad to be in New York again. My parents came up with us, too, so it’s cool to be able to show them around.
More posts and pictures where I get back
Yesterday was my and Amber’s fourth anniversary. Go us.
Main celebration is scheduled for Saturday. Right now I’m just glad we’ve made it this far without killing each other.
So this Neil Harvey guy is depriving himself of soft drinks for a month. Reading about it has made me think about my love/hate relationship with cokes.
Many moons ago a friend of mine gave up coke for Lent. I wasn’t a Christian at the time but was at the age where, if my friend did it, I was gonna do it. After the allotted time I found I could not stand to drink a soft drink; too sweet, too syrupy, and — honestly — they tasted like crap. This lasted for a number of years.
Somehow — and I’m not really sure how — I got back into drinking carbonated beverages. At one point I was doing 2 liters of Dr Pepper between 8 and 5 which is, you know, not too healthy. I’m not that bad now, but still find that work hours are the hardest for me. This is most likely due to the vending machine near my cube.
I’ve quit drinking these things at various times, usually going through the headaches and other symptoms of caffiene withdrawal. Not a lot of fun, but I’ve decided to do it again. Starting today, no more soft drinks for me, for at least a month. Hey, if a reporter can do it, so can I.
Word to non-southeners: the word “coke” refers to a broader branch of liquid refreshment referred to as “soda” by some and “pop” by others. I guess calling even Pepsi “coke” comes from Coca-Cola’s southern roots, or maybe not, who knows.
Any church that allows itself to be used by a politician should be shut down. When so many people are hurting, and so many starving for the gospel, they can’t find anything better to do than give airtime to a politician?
Amber and I were discussing this last night. Conservative Christians always point at new-agers as an example of what the antichrist will be like: Accepting everything as truth. I think it’s just as likely he will be from a baptist church; one like this one, which can fool people into thinking the most important thing we can do is reform the world through political process.
“I have got a child now that I wasn’t planning to have and I believe the hospital should take some responsibility for that,” she said.
Funny how she gets on them about being responsible for their actions.
Your Linguistic Profile: |
| 60% General American English |
| 40% Dixie |
| 0% Midwestern |
| 0% Upper Midwestern |
| 0% Yankee |
Found here.
Yes, I know it’s after Easter, but Ravi Zacharias’s website has some good stuff:
The depravity of man is at once the most unpopular of the Christian doctrines and the most empirically verifiable. We have within us a basic sense of our desperate condition. We are aware, or often reminded, that we not quite what we were intended to be. Something went wrong, something we yearn to see made right, but somehow find ourselves incapable of restoring.
In the book The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, Lesslie Newbigin observes, “It is obvious that the story of the empty tomb cannot be fitted into our contemporary worldview, or indeed into any worldview except one of which it is the starting point.” You can’t have Buddha and an empty tomb; you can’t have Western Imperialism and an empty tomb; you can’t have an innocuous Jesus and an empty tomb. Many have tried to fit these things together as a puzzle, but the power of the empty tomb repels anything that competes with it.