No more boring airplane trips.
The first season is now available at ITunes. I missed an episode of Commander in Chief and found it available for download within days.
I would like it if religious liberals learned to produce video that could be put on a computer and watched when the spirit moved me.
It has long been held that Preachers and Priests make for lousy TV, one can't make a decent action adventure story out of the day to day work of the clergy, and it would people in the United States might find the idea of situation comedy in bad taste. (The British have a different sense of the comic.) The television series The Book of Daniel (which is action packed in a Desperate Housewifes sort of way) is catching some attention from those who are attuned to the media's portrayal of religion. Albert Mohler asks "is this a satire on Liberal Christianity."
See also Jesus Politics.
In an article entitled "We shall overcome . . . Liberals, " writer Micheal Goldberg reviews a Philadelphia political rally held by religious right leaders who have openly entered into the political struggle to confirm Samuel Alito. The so-called Justice Sunday appropriated the rhetoric of the civil rights movement for its drive to gain control over the federal judiciary.
Meanwhile liberals wonder whether or not the IRS will investigate us if we mention that Jesus was a pacifist and would object to war stance of both Bush and Kerry. The use of some African American clergy for right wing rallies will not change the democratic, pro-civil rights orientation of African Americans, but it will lend legitimacy to the political right. Check it out
I was an early adopter to the IPod. In fact I liberated my SO from captivity to Windows (but there are no applications for the Mac) by giving her a IPod. Now she is now a liberated (and computer virus free) IBook user.
So I have a few gadgets for my IPod (this one is my second, my first is functioning usefully as a Linux voice recorder.) I have a connector to plug it into my car radio cassette recorder, and a mike attachment to turn the IPod into a voice recorder. Since the IPod carries an electonic calendar, address list, and notes I have not needed a PGA for three years. I never did get that graffiti thing down. So, I can be sold an useful IPod accessory.
But what the hell is this good for? Mathew Honan writes: "Is that a joystick in your pocket? Why, yes it is. Levi's announced its new line of RedWire DLX Jeans, available worldwide in fall 2006. The jeans feature a built-in iPod docking cradle, joystick and retractable headphones.
Designed for both men and women, the jeans are designed to be compatible with most iPod systems. A special joystick is built into the jeans' watch pocket, with four-way controls to allow the wearer to play, pause, track forward, track back and adjust the volume control without ever removing the iPod from the pocket.
An iPod docking cradle is housed within a side pocket. Levi's designed the pocket so that the iPod buldge is "virtually eliminated." The cradle has a red conductive ribbon that allows users to remove their iPod from the pocket to view its screen while staying connected. The jeans are machine washable once the iPod is removed.
A white leather patch and joystick, bluffed back pockets with hidden stitching, and minimalist buttons and rivets allude to the iPod's famously pure design."
Since 34 million of IPods were sold last year, I guess I will have to get used to such announcements. There was a spartan purity to be a Mac user before the IPod.
That geek test gave me a 7.662% and dismissed my application.
I read Latin, and a few other languages in addition, and know my mythologies. I have programmed a mainframe with punch cards in Fortran, run statistical analysis and I am a historian.
Alas I bought a Mac in 1985 and have kept up had to learn to write some applescript, and keep up with the shareware.
Star Wars got old, and the Lord of the Rings was slow.
So they have very definate ideas about what it takes to be a geek. I just follow a different drummer.
A man has applied for and received a U.S. patent for a religious shrine, in particular a miniature replica of the Garden Tomb in Jerusalem as described in the New Testament of the bible. In a modification, the top cover of the shrine can be raised by a mechanism activated by rolling the round stone at the entrance into an open position.
See the patent and read the comments in Godlorica.
