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Well, you knew we'd eventually get to Mark Driscoll if we started talking about deconstructing and reconstructing my faith, right?[insert heavy sigh here]PostmodernityIn the spring of 1997, I attended the GenX church planting conference...
While Tacoma troubles may have prevented me reaching the summit of Waucoba Mountain on the first day of my trip, my failure to reach the top of Mt. Tom on the second day had me hoping for a bit of redemption. Luckily, I had a final day...
I last updated this yesterday lunchtime when we were in sight of Scotland. Overnight we have travelled further north to The Faroe Isles. As Scotland receded into the distance, the wind increased. As the wind increased so did the boat's...
Two weeks ago I quit my job. I had been working as a staff engineer at this startup for the last 2.5 years. The people, pay, and workload were all good but it was time to move on. I have worked with most of the team before this job and I...
Capcom's action and horror gameplay mash up like never before with the split campaign of Grace Ashcroft and Leon Kennedy. Flexible perspectives and scenarios makes for a nostalgic, celebratory title. It felt more like a "cover album" to...
I finally hit 1,000 days of doing math daily! Early on in my journey I was a lot more aggressive with my XP targets, but settled into a low-volume rhythm as my goals evolved. I worked from MF1 (Math Foundations 1, lowest level) into MF3,...
Max Kozlov for Nature: Inside the new political screening that’s stalling NIH grants. The plot to murder American science in the style of Rasputin (poisoned, shot, shot again) is well under way, and this is the slow-release poison. Choke...
I saw a guy wearing a nylon shirt and matching cargo shorts, both clean but faded from too many washes, a plain non-matching ball cap, black sneakers, about 30 tools clipped to his belt, and a couple of ID badges. He was a phone lineman,...
Don't get dizzyThe Leucanthemum vulgare is considered in some places to be an invasive species. That does not prevent one from taking a closer look at the spiraling floret of the ox eye daisy.
A new piece of work which I completed recently, this is a poster for a short film, Stone Elegy, written and directed by Shane Smith. The film is a drama set in Ireland during the Iron Age, with a narrative that encompasses lost love,...
I’m sure Tom Gauld‘s latest cartoon for The Guardian will resonate with a few folks around here… I liked Tom’s recent New Yorker cover too…
New Vite TypeScript/React apps create themselves like this: createRoot(document.getElementById('root')!).render(<App />); What’s going on with that !?
While talking about different ways to transfer designs to the substrate for lino (and eraser) carving, I had this kind of silly idea. One common way to transfer designs is to trace them in pencil, then rub the pencil drawing onto the...
This week note covers the week of 22nd–28th June. Life# I took the whole last week off to recover from illness and fatigue. I’m happy to report that all three of us are doing much better now. I had a sinus infection, not major, but...