Archive for July, 2009

I Won’t Come Home Til After I’ve Shaken Hands With Native Lands

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Ambulance LTD - Swim

How Many Memorable Quotes Can One Fit Into A Single Movie?

Friday, July 17th, 2009

I watched "The International" again last night on DVD. When I saw it in the theater I remember thinking, "Wow, the writers of this movie actually spent more than two seconds working on the dialog. That is unusual for a 21st century Hollywood movie. There are some ...

Post-Modernism: Clarifying Faith

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

R.C. Sproul Jr. wrote a recent piece regarding how philosophies have infiltrated our thinking and their relation to Christian faith. Here are some noteworthy excerpts: “We, His creatures, are willing to submit only to those standards that we have first accepted. This concept came to us in America through the ...

T-Shirts!!!!!

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

About a year ago, I was looking in my closet, and realized that all my T-Shirts were about 5 years old, and starting to get kinda gross. Thus I set off on a quest to upgrade my T-Shirt collection. Fortunately, the interwebs has made this rather easy. ...

Auto Tune In The News

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

This was too funny not to post. via yewknee

Post-Modernism: The Government As God

Monday, July 13th, 2009

(I meant to post this awhile back, but only just now got around to posting it.) Since when, really, did everything become the government's job? When I was growing up I don't remember the government having to be responsible for this magnitude of our every day lives. Sure I ...

Moon

Monday, July 13th, 2009

I saw the movie "Moon" last night at the Belcourt. I am a sucker for philosophical space movies. "Sunshine" comes to mind, "2001" also. This one carried on the tradition quite well, although it had more of a mystery feel to it than the heightened suspense that ...

The Future Was More Interesting In The Past

Sunday, July 12th, 2009



The Future of C#

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Here's a video from the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference that I attended last year in Los Angeles. It was probably the best talk I heard while I was there. This is not really suprising, since Anders Hejlsberg is basically the guy that created the language that half the ...