I got Gmail

I am now the happy owner of a gmail account dwightk@gmail.com...

I'm just testing it out, so don't start sending me emails there. It really sucks because I have to use a different browser, but otherwise it looks alright.

More to come

Confessions

I have been using artificial passions. Today I was watching the Mavs-Kings playoff game, and realized that I was way too wrapped up in the outcome. I don't even know who won game 4 (the mavs were down 5 with a couple minutes left.) I know every Mavs player, and what their strengths are, and I know most of the starters for every other team (at lest the good ones.) I have been following other sports rather closely too. Also I have been playing lots of video games (2-3 hrs a week,) but at the same time I complain that I don't have time to do stuff that really matters, like hang out with all the people who are graduating this year. Two weeks ago, I stopped reading 15 blogs a day. This week I am going to stop worrying about sports so much.

My problem is this: I need a new passion to replace my old one. I want to convert all this passion to passion for God, but I don't know how. If you have any suggestions, please offer them. I'll be praying...

Thought

Couldn't think of a better title... sorry.

I have never been a very social person. I prefer a good book to a person 7 times out of 10, but I went ahead and attended the last two St. John's social events, a waltz party a couple of weeks ago, and a cotillion tonight, following the Croquet Match between SJC and Navy. (thats a mouthful)

There were some skills I had to dust off: Small Talk, and Swing Dancing. There were some new skills I had to learn: Dealing with Drunk people, Avoiding Cigarette Burns, and Finding a place to Dry Clean my Jacket. I told my brother this stuff, and then told him, "It sure is easier to just sit around, and also, when I am not able to do all this stuff, I won't miss it." I was right, but I don't care. I have been sitting around all my life, always doing just the minimum... I really need to get of my butt.

Is it a coincidence...

that both Doonesbury and Get Fuzzy have been running series of comics on amputated legs of soldiers in Iraq? Did I miss some big news story or something?

I'm Back

...Had a good week... I was kinda fasting from Blogs, and stuff... it was refreshing. I am going to be doing a lot less blog reading from now on...

My external Hard Drive crashed this weekend, which is why I stopped uploading pictures (I have started again)... It looks like it will work again, so my massive photo library and music library won't be lost forever...

Those new new powerbooks are hot... and by that I mean awesome...

Stars got kicked by the avs... Mavs are down 0-2, and the Rangers are tied for 2nd in the AL West (moving to lone possession or possibly tied for 1st soon )

ugg (go rangers!)

Take a break

I'm gonna take about a week off from posting... I will keep putting new pictures on my fotopage if you wanna check those out...

What I did this Easter:

Just got back from a Russian Orthodox Easter service, in English and Russian, it started at 11:30 ish and went to 4 ish. It was quite an experience. I might be able to put some of it into words at some point in the future...

Now I am listening to Bach's St. Matthew: Passion until sunrise, then I will probably sleep for a while, and go to the Christian Fellowship Easter dinner around 5ish.

There are some Easter related pictures at my fotopage

Easter

Tonight I am going with my friend to an Orthodox Easter service. Usually Orthodox Easter is on a different day than Catholic/Protestant Easter, but this year they are the same. (I deleted three ellipses in the last two sentences, I realized that I have started using them for periods or commas, and they don't really make sense...) ;-)

I will try to give my impressions here when I get back (around 3 am)

MavTalk

404'ed... the system is down yo...

I think that they should get it back up running, so I can post again...

http://mavtalk.com

Love

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness... There is kindness in Love: but Love and kindness are not coterminous, and when kindness is separated from the other elements of Love, it involves a certain fundamental indifference to its object, and even something like contempt of it. Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object--we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals [or abort babies] lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering. As Scripture points out, it is bastards who are spoiled: the legitimate sons, who are to carry on the family tradition, are punished [see Heb. 12:8]. It is for people whom we care nothing about that we demand happiness on any terms: with our friends, our lovers, our children, we are exacting and would rather see them suffer much than be happy in contemptible and estranging modes. If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than kindness.

--C.S. Lewis The Problem of Pain

MP3Concept Trojan Horse

Intego reports that there is a virus out for Mac OS X. Be careful opening mp3 files from shady sources.

** This can apparently also affect other types of files. Just don't type in your administrator password if some file you downloaded off the internet asks you to when you double click on it and you should be safe.**

***Because of the way this trojan horse works, it has to be encoded if it is to be transmitted. So don't open any mp3's that you get which are "foo.mp3.sit" or "foo.mp3.hqx" or .tar or .dmg, or anything else you have to decode before you can open.***

Sports Report

I am excited... The Mavericks are going to the Playoffs, The Stars begin playoffs against Colorado tomorrow. The Rangers are looking young, and exciting, although they lost their season opener (4-5), they were in it, and it was the A's for heaven's sake. (Kenny Rogers lasted 6 innings for the no decision) Also the Cowboys are looking a lot better than they have recently.

LaunchBar vs. Quicksilver

I posted recently about Quicksilver, another application launcher... I was pretty impressed, but the morning after, it has lost its glitter... Also, LaunchBar Beta 4 is out. It is faster than LaunchBar3, which was my main problem with it... 4 is also faster than Quicksilver...

I hope the competition heats up... Quicksilver does some cool stuff, but LB is about 1/2 the size (and 2x as fast)

The jury is still out, but for now, when I log in, LaunchBar automatically launches.

What Country are you?

[I'm] Thailand!

Calmer and more staunchly independent than almost all those around [me],
[I]have a long history of rising above adversity.  Recent adversity has led to questions
about your sexual promiscuity and the threat of disease[???], but [I] still manage to attract a
number of tourists and admirers.  And despite any setbacks, [I] can really cook a good
meal whenever it's called for.  Good enough to make people cry.

Take the Country Quiz at the Blue Pyramid

What Book are you?

[I'm] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!

by Douglas Adams

Considered by many to be one of the funniest people around, [I am]
quite an entertainer. [I've] also traveled to the far reaches of what [I] deem possible,
often confused and unsure of [my]self. Life continues to jostle [me] around like a marble,
but it's shown [me] so much of the world that [I] don't care. Wacky adventures continue to
lie ahead. [My] favorite number is 42.


Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

(Thanks to Unedited Ravings for the link)

Man's wisdom vs. God's Wisdom

Is a good idea always a Good idea? Reading C.S. Lewis' The Problem of Pain this afternoon, something struck me. He says something along the lines of:

If God's wisdom is greater than Man's, not everything God does is going to make sense

So, when I see really good ideas, but have a feeling that I shouldn't partake, could it be that this really good idea isn't a real Good idea?

Ladykillers=Big Lebowski + O Brother Where Art Thou

Ouch

Pin the Tale on the Donkeys (thanks to IP for the link)

Everything you ever wanted to know about Dwight

Dwight: "Dwight is the 257th most popular male first name in the United States; frequency is 0.058%; percentile is 76.538"

(there are lots of Dwight towns in the Midwest)

DVD Menus

Ok... umm why can't people make a real loop for DVD Menus? I've never seen a DVD that didn't come to a screeching halt, and begin again at the beginning of the Menu video. Lets just get this one right guys...

Cleaning out my "MISC" Bookmark folder

Here are sites I have visited that I thought were worthy enough to drag to my MISC drop box on my bookmark bar.

• World Wide Study Bible
  
  http://www.ccel.org/wwsb/
• PROJECT GUTENBURG
  
  http://www.theosophiabooks.com/project.htm
• Descartes' Meditations Home Page
  
  http://philos.wright.edu/DesCartes/Meditations.html
• HTML Cheatsheet
  
  http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/html_cheatsheet/
• Project Wittenberg
  
  http://www.ctsfw.edu/etext/
• SuperDrive Firmware site
  
  http://superdrive.cynikal.net/
• Junk Matcher
  
  http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~benhdj/Mac/junkMatcher.html#Download
• Free Music Lessons
  
  http://www.berkleeshares.com/
• Movie Mistakes
  
  http://www.moviemistakes.com/
• Comic RSS Feeds
  
  http://dwlt.net/tapestry/



• xxxchurch
  
  http://www.xxxchurch.com/default.asp
• crosswalk
  
  http://www.crosswalk.com/
• Woodbury Lutheran Church Media
  
  http://www.woodburylutheran.org/media/index.php
• Lord, Liar or Lunatic
  
  http://www.greatcom.org/resources/whoisjesusorig/lordliarlunatic.html
• The Gutenberg Bible
  
  http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/gutenberg/web/pgstns/01.html
• Online Daily Office
  
  http://www.missionstclare.com/english/index.html
• Canonical Hours
  
  http://www.breviary.net/comment/commenthours.htm
• NET Bible : The Biblical Studies Foundation
  
  http://netbible.com/
• SermonIndex.net - audio sermons, mp3 sermons, free sermons, audio preaching, leonard ravenhill, aw tozer, mp3 sermons
  
  http://www.sermonindex.net/
• SermonAudio.com - faith cometh by hearing
  
  http://www.sermonaudio.com/main.asp
• The BOC Int. - Welcome
  
  http://www.theboc.com/
• The BLOC
  
  http://theboc.com/bloc/



• ECUMENICALISM
  
  http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_ec.htm
• Beliefnet
  
  http://www.beliefnet.com/
• Spiritual Humanism
  
  http://www.spiritualhumanism.org/
• Love Spells & Wicca Spells
  
  http://www.calastrology.com/spells.html
• The Political Compass
  
  http://www.politicalcompass.org/
• spl's soapbox -- religion
  
  http://www.haxial.com/spls-soapbox/religion/
• GoVeg.com: Vegan and vegetarian 101 with recipes to literature to news.
  
  http://www.goveg.com/
• Broken Saints
  
  http://www.brokensaints.com/#
• The 28 Hour Day
  
  http://www.dbeat.com/28/
• Polyphasic Sleep Experiment: aka. Uberman sleep
  
  http://polyphasic.blogspot.com/
• Plants In Motion
  
  http://sunflower.bio.indiana.edu/~rhangart/plantmotion/starthere.html



• Dublin Dr Pepper
  
  http://www.drpep.com/
• Automated Workflows
  
  http://homepage.mac.com/applescriptguru/Automated_Workflows/aw_index.html
• iCalShare
  
  http://icalshare.com/
• Tinderbox Wiki: TinderboxWiki
  
  http://www.eastgate.com/bin/wiki.cgi
• Yahoo! Photos - Thumbnails View
  
  http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/briana_56
• PowerLabs Electromagnetic Weapons!
  
  http://www.powerlabs.org/emguns.htm
• PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Winter 1992
  
  http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/1992/dunlap.htm
• Guide to Philosophy on the Internet (Suber)
  
  http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htm
• TinyApps.Org : Blog
  
  http://www.tinyapps.org/blog/
• Skeptic's Annotated Bible: The King James Version presented from a skeptic's point of view.
  
  http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/
• Crosswalk.com
  
  http://www.biblestudytools.net/
• Evil Bible Home Page
  
  http://www.evilbible.com/
• Imagine Yourself as a DCO
  
  http://www.csp.edu/OHSCO/imagine.htm
• DigiSuperStore - Smart Shoppers Shop Here First! Your Digital Outlet for Computer Parts, Flash Memory, Card Readers, Flash Pen Drives, Portable Hard Drives, Hard Drives, Memory, Video Cards, Enclosure Kits
  
  http://www.digisuperstore.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=DF-MIMK-FW
• ‰ΩúÂìÅÁõÆʨ°
  
  http://www11.ocn.ne.jp/~origami/phototop.htm
• KtB - God's Own Knowledge, page two
  
  http://www.killingthebuddha.com/dogma/gods_own2.htm
• graffiti archaeology
  
  http://www.otherthings.com/grafarc/inside.html
• Acid trip 1
  
  http://www.cowboybooks.com.au/html/acidtrip1.html
• Malin Space Science Systems Home Page
  
  http://www.msss.com/
• Earth Science Picture of the Day
  
  http://epod.usra.edu/
• Lunar Photo of the Day - LPOD
  
  http://www.lpod.org/
• EO Newsroom: New Images Index
  
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images_index.php3
• Do plants act like computers?: Leaves appear to regulate their 'breathing' by conducting simple calculations.
  
  
• The Morning News - The Non-Expert: IKEA
  
  http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/how_to/the_nonexpert_ikea.php
• I'm Not Sorry | Metafilter
  
  http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/30944
• Scotsman.com News - UK - Government adviser: killing children with defects acceptable
  
  http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=93982004
• smack the pingu!!! (Yes i ripped it)
  
  http://meph.eu.org/
• Xplanet on Mac OS X
  
  http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/OSX.php
• Link
  
  http://web.mit.edu/dryfoo/www/Info/condiments.html
• Link
  
  http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp;jsessionid=KNBHENHKEGCH?id=ns24321
• crackspider
  
  http://www.crackspider.de/
• Brian McLaren: The Three Postmodernisms: A short explanation
  
  http://www.anewkindofchristian.com/archives/000071.html
• PCTHiker.com: Pepsi-G Stove Assembly Instructions
  
  http://www.pcthiker.com/pages/gear/pepsiGstoveinstruct.shtml
• Everybody! Everybody!
  
  http://homestarrunner.com/
• Introduction to Tibetan Orthography || kuro5hin.org
  
  http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/5/01839/12103
• The Skeptic's Dictionary
  
  http://www.skepdic.com/
• Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science | Online
  
  http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/
• Kant
  
  http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/kant.htm
• NOVA
  
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html
• St. John's College - Seminar Reading List
  
  http://www.sjca.edu/resources/seminar.phtml
• The Zoology Dragon Theme Tune by Joel and Alex Veitch
  
  http://www.rathergood.com/zoology/
• geek ramblings :: Blog Service Pinger
  
  http://dougal.gunters.org/pingform.php
• Teri's Kitchen - The Well-Stocked Pantry
  
  http://teriskitchen.com/pantry.html
• E-TABS [guitar tabs archive] - Guitar Tablature for somewhere over the rainbow (2) by israel kamakawiwo ole
  
  http://www.e-tabs.org/tab/israel_kamakawiwo_ole/somewhere_over_the_rainbow_(2)
• The Geek Hierarchy | The Brunching Shuttlecocks
  
  http://www.brunching.com/geekhierarchy.html
• Benjamin Han: Fight spam with Mail.app + JunkMatcher
  
  http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~benhdj/Mac/junkMatcher.html
• Bonsai Care
  
  http://www.brusselsbonsai.com/care/index.shtml
• del.icio.us
  
  http://del.icio.us/
• Homosexuality and the Bible
  
  http://www.bridges-across.org/ba/wink.htm
• SNL Celebrity Jeopardy
  
  http://www.sennicam.com/snlcelebjeop.htm
• Mactracker - Get info on any Mac
  
  http://www.mactracker.ca/downloads/
• Nothing in Particular
  
  http://shreela.f2o.org/
• Japanese for Nerds (II) || kuro5hin.org
  
  http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/25/32218/1824
• speech accent archive
  
  http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/
• Dialect Survey Results
  
  http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/maps.php
• 2RSS.com :: RSSlib,RSS2HTML,RSS2JS,RSS feeds,RSS directory,RSS software,RSS scripts,RSS articles,RSS syndication,XML,RDF,news ...
  
  http://www.2rss.com/software.php?page=atom2rss
• Wired News: 16,000 Things to Do With GPS
  
  http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,62808,00.html?tw=rss.TEK
• index
  
  http://www.corruptchristianmusic.com/home/index.html
• my funny stuff
  
  http://www.starterupsteve.com/content.html
• newsmap
  
  http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm