blivet 2.0

Oscars #

Cool. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King sweeps the Oscars. Dori and Andy did the blogging I occasionally checked during commercials. I am a happy Rings geek.

Very Brief Thoughts… #

… on Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.

Obligatory caveat: I have not seen the movie and I am not a Christian, though I was raised to be one.

Judging by the way reactions are to this movie, from yea to nay, it would seem that the rejection of the post-enlightenment world is alive and well in the popular culture of the West. All observations elsewhere of Mr. Gibson (and his father’s) politics and faith aside, this work would seem to be the very call for a return to the world of divisive theology. To only lightly reference the central teachings of Christianity such as the Sermon on the Mount while focusing on the final part of the Passion (first definition) is to advocate a return to that ‘good old-time’ Medieval faith and a summary rejection of the central teachings that lead to the faith today.

Just as there is a small, but vocal segment of other faiths that wish a return to the happy certainty of the Middle Ages, a segment of the Christian community must look back there with nostalgia as well.

I was in a pre-seminary college for the first three years of my undergraduate studies. I took some 24 semester hours of biblical and religious studies in addition to being involved in who knows how many hours of Bible study on campus. So this isn’t entirely shooting from the sidelines and the hip. I’m not saying I know anything here, this is just how it strikes me. At 0145. [some edits]

Thirty Days Hath September, … #

I just had to post something on February 29…

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FTP #

On the slim chance that anyone was wondering, I got a license for Transmit. I also upgraded to the current version of BBEdit. I seemed like the right thing to do. Besides, ‘It doesn’t suck.®’

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Happy Birthday Scott! #

PapaScott Hanson is today’s birthday boy!

FTP Clients for OSX #

I’m trying to make a decision about an ftp client for use here at home. Fetch and Anarchie (now Interarchy) are favorites from my MacOS 8.6 days, but I haven’t investigated things since I moved to OSX because I have been doing command line ftp for 15 years. Suddenly it struck me, ‘I don’t have to do all this freakin’ typing…’ Any favorites out there?

later: Alwin speaks highly of Panic’s Transmit. It sounds and looks good. Is that what you all are using too?

"It’s about seeing one’s shadow" #

I am glad to see Dave Rogers return to this neck of the woods with Groundhog Day. Good to see you again.

A Western Bias? #

Everyone else was doing it, so I figured, ‘why not?’ I think I lean to the left half of the country. It is interesting to me because I realized I had not been to a state and stayed less than 24 hours. Create your own visited states map