We’ve had the “sick” work it’s way through our sons this last week. This weekend with my parents staying the night, we had our oldest son sleep on the floor in our bedroom. When we asked him about his all-night-long-cough he cryptically replied “Yah, I’ve been coughing like a radio”. Does anyone out there know what that could possibly mean?
that means my machine transfer worked! I have decided to start hosting my own website on my own server. Yay
A creative community called The Glue Society has created a series of works called “God’s Eye View”. The project is something of a mixture of actual Google Earth images and some very clever “photoshopping”. As someone pointed out here:
I think the relationship between satellite images and trust is an interesting one. Whilst a vast number of people trust the technology to find their way around using devices such as sat-nav, others will claim that their government are using it to spy on them, thus negating that trust.
I think these works scream the question - is seeing really believing?
Is seeing believing? Well the Bible is full of accounts that answer that question with a resounding “Not Necessarily!” The Israelites saw God work miracles daily and it seemed to have little effect on their faith. The crowds on the river banks at the time of Jesus’ baptism explained what they saw and heard as being the beginning of a storm…
Here are some shots of the exhibit scooped from here…
A piece entitled “Cross”…
A piece entitled “Moses”…
A piece entitled “Ark”…
A piece entitled “Eden”…
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It appears the world needs a bigger internet…
US analyst firm Nemertes Research predicted a drastic slowdown as the network struggles to cope with the amount of data being carried on it.
Such gridlock would drastically affect how people use the web and could mean the next Google or YouTube simply doesn’t get off the ground, it said.
The report said billions needed to be spent upgrading broadband networks.
It put the figure at around $137bn (£66bn) globally.
For users, the slowdown could see a return to the bad old days of dial-up, the report predicts.
Consumer demand for bandwidth could see the internet running out of capacity as early as 2010, a new study warns - causing an Exaflood. The BBC reports.
US analyst firm Nemertes Research predicted a drastic slowdown as the network struggles to cope with the amount of data being carried on it.
Such gridlock would drastically affect how […] Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Net gridlock by 2010 study warns
It all reminds me of one of my favourite passages in Ecclesiastes…
7 All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.8 All things are wearisome,
more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,
nor the ear its fill of hearing.9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
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The world lost of it’s most interesting entertainers on Friday. Evel Knievel died of natural cause in his home in Clearwater, Florida. Read the whole story in Sport’s Illustrated here…
For many years I did not like olives. Now most people are quite content not liking certain kinds of food. Not me. So every year, round about this time, I would take advantage of the fact that olives would be made available at Festive gatherings. If I didn’t like them … no big deal I try again next year. No fuss, no muss and no committing to an entire jar of olives! Through this very rigorous process science prevailed I actually acquired at taste for olives.
I figured the same could work with facial hair…
Up until a few years ago I had not been able to grow respectable facial hair. I started things out with a chin patch. At first it was a no go. Not enough critical mass to form anything respectable. With a little persistence and hard work I built that chin grass up into some respectable chin turf. A few vacations later I tried a goatee. However, I lacked the connection between the ’stache and the chin patch. I kinda looked like Colonel Sanders’ grade 9 photo. A few years later I discovered much to my delight that I could grow a nearly respectable chin strap (without the sideburns I lack those connectors too).
Here is me pictured with the winner of a Moustache Growing Contest on an Air Force base outside of Moose Jaw. I asked him for advice. He had none. However, just standing next to his glory was fuel enough for me to keep going on my own personal project.
Last year I thought I would try for the holy grail of facial hair: the full beard. I lasted a week.
This year I endeavoured to try once again for the full beard. And this is how far I got …
Not bad… but definitely not good either.
I am still missing the required pieces between the stachial region and the chinulus maximus.
Making things even worse I am missing the connectors for the sideburners and the jawral zone.
I have committed to seeing where I can take the sideburn nonconnectus issue for the rest of the Xmas period. I figure if I can crack the burns I could be sporting a full Abe Lincoln in 2008. God being my helper.
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I am currently enjoying some time off from work and just getting to “be” with my family. Life is full of playing video games with Soren, house hunting in Kitchener, drywall repair, painting, and catching up on some Lost Season 3. We have been trying to fix up our house to get it ready to put on the market. We had a lot of friends (Glenn, Scott, Lisa, John, Lisa, Mark, Ike and Leah) come over to help us with some painting. The house is really starting to take shape.
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I am getting off work early today and meeting my parents at our house in Guelph. They are taking the boys to spend the weekend in Zurich. That way Kathy and I are free to spend a nice romantic weekend alone doing drywall, painting and plumbing.
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