Give me a break.

~Jason

The writer approached this story in a different way. If myths of history are generally based on fact, what real story could the myth of King Arthur arisen from?

He crafted a tale of a Roman “Artorius” who led knights from Sarmatia. Their job: to maintain the peace in England as Woads, Saxons, and other dissenting groups battled for power. He was motivated by his unwavering faith in Christ and an idealistic view of Rome as a place of freedom for all men.

It was fabulous. There was a lot of blood, but I was rivetted to the screen. This is a movie I must watch again. (And there were a lot of scenes I can imagine us using in church someday).

~Jason

Thanks Amy,

~Jason

UPDATE:
So is Joanne:

Julia Steinmetz and Michael Mandiberg live on opposite sides of the United States, but are in constant contact — courtesy of their unlimited cell-phone plan.

The couple spends hours “together” each day, talking, messaging and, yes, even sleeping on the phone.

Makes me want to get a cell phone so I can stay connected with Joanne 24 hours a day.

~Jason

Here’s the point: so many churches are all about building people, giving them skills, helping them discover their gifts, growing them up— but they never stop to think “why?”

Why are we doing this? Is the point just that I’ll be more mature? Or is there a greater cause here? Is there something greater than myself that’s at stake?

The author makes a great point, backed up with real-life stories and many examples from the Bible, that the point of all this is to serve the poor, the hungry, the destitute, the prisoners… they’re the ones Jesus was speaking of when he said, “Whatever you have done for the least of these, you have done for me.”

This book comes at a perfect time as Philpott Church starts to look outside itself, at the community we find ourselves in. Perhaps it is no accident that we are dead center in an area of poverty, of new immigration; of need.

Get this book and read it. It will help you to think bigger than your own needs, and remember the point of this adventure: to glorify our God by giving him hands and feet to do his work on the earth. He doesn’t need us— come on— He’s God! But we will find ourselves changed as we participate with him in doing his work.

~Jason

Not so, with Rama 2. This was well thought-out, and carefully crafted. It delved into areas of spirituality. There were Christian characters and other spiritual types who find themselves stranded on a second visitation from an alien craft. They discover the purpose of the Rama ship while simulateously realsing their own inner purposes. Very entertaining.

I heartily recommend Rama 2. All Sci-fi buffs should read it.

~Jason

Philpott Radio Station

~Jason

Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 300 employees and has the following statistics:

• 30 have been accused of spousal abuse.
• 9 have been arrested for fraud.
• 4 have been accused of writing bad cheques.
• 95 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses.
• 4 have done time for assault, 55 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit.
• 12 have been arrested on drug related charges.
• 4 have been arrested for shoplifting. 16 are currently defendants in lawsuits.
• 62 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year. 

Can you guess which organization this is? 

It is the 301 MP’s in the Canadian Parliament.  The same group that cranks out hundreds of new laws designed to keep the rest of us in line.

Which one did you vote for? 

Hat tip to ChurchMarketingSucks.com

~Jason

The point of all this is to further organize information. If I write about Perl scripts, for example, then other people writing about Perl scripts will know about it, and people interested in Perl scripts can go to one place to find out more.

Neat, eh?

So I’m going to modify my blog script so that these ‘more information’ tags are inserted automatically based on the categories I use.

~Jason

I love automation. 6 years ago I would have had to do that with HTML, and try to remember to delete the new icon after it wasn’t new anymore. How easy is letting computers do all the hard work for you!!?!!

~Jason

It’s not that I’m on some fitness kick, like Christie, and want to compete in races or something like that.

It’s not because I want to lose weight— though that’s necessary and it’s a good enough reason right there.

It’s only because gas is so freakin’ expensive. I figure I can ride my bike. Anyway, it’s good for the environment, right? And my legs. (Though I did make an observation riding home the other night that my belly hangs over my belt while I ride and doesn’t seem to be benefiting from any arobic effects.)

I do love being outside. Fresh Wind slips down in my lungs and stretches his arms out. I feel larger inside than outside. I actually have a clearer head, I think, though that may just be Fresh Wind whistling through my brain cavity.

So it’s 20 kilometers a day, ten each way. And it’s downhill all the way to the church and so I can make it in 25 minutes if I hustle. It’s uphill all the way back and I’m still somehow chiseling out 22 minutes for that jaunt. Or I enter some kind of time vortex. Haven’t figured that one out. How can it take so much less time to come back?

Maybe it’s the psychological, I’m Going Home! effect. Or maybe it’s not really down hill to get here— maybe that’s the optical illusion.

~Jason

Update: Still going strong— six days now! That’s a total of 120 Km! Whuh. Actually, 110, ‘cause Joanne gave me a lift downtown one day. I biked back.

~Jason