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Name: Zeke
Country: United States
State: Michigan
Metro: Ann Arbor
Interests: anime, archaic weapons, archery, art, b-movies, bicycling, biking, biking to work, bill cosby, black and white photography, blind guardian, books, bookstores, brave saint saturn, british humor, c.s. lewis, calvinism, camp barakel, celtic design, chaucer, cheese, chess, comics, computer science, computers, cooking, css, cthulhu, culinary arts, dictionaries, dirt, douglas adams, dragons, drawing, dumpster diving, elves, english, etc, etymology, fae, faeries, fairies, fairy tales, fantasy, firefly, five iron frenzy, foreign films, frolicking, garage sales, german, god, graphic novels, green tea, hats, heavy metal, introverted people, j. r. r. tolkien, japan, japanese culture, joy electric, knitting, latin, left-handed people, libraries, linux, literature, lord of the rings, lovecraft, manga, middle english, movies, music, mythology, narnia, neil gaiman, norse mythology, old english, pain, pedantry, philology, philosophy, photography, poetry, probability, procrastination, psychology, rambl
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Member Since:
9/12/2005
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| aravis ~ # cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid5]
md0 : active raid5 sdb[4] sda[0] sdd[3] sdc[2]
937713408 blocks level 5, 32k chunk, algorithm 0 [4/3] [U_UU]
[===========>.........] recovery = 59.7% (186862720/312571136) finish=119.6min speed=17510K/sec
unused devices:
It's
ironic that the first time I've had a hard drive with data that
mattered on it fail was a week after I set up a disk array which would
be able to recover from a drive failing.
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| Christians shouldn't blog
Whatever this guy was smoking, I want some.Now consider the quizzes generated by different sites that people can post so others learn more about them. Some surveys detail every vile preference under the sun. Here is a sample question: “If you had one day to live how would you live it?” Among the options given, one was, “I’d kill myself and get it over with.”
What!!? Other questions ask about lying; which teachers are hated the most; how many boyfriends or girlfriends one has had; and so much more. Let me stop and say this: The young people of God CANNOT get involved in such things! Not even a little! Oh noes! Teh intarwebs can be used to be stupid! Think of the children! I can go to the bookstore and buy a book filled with humorous limericks[*]; does this mean that Christians shouldn't write books? Scalpels can be used to murder; does this mean that Christians shouldn't become doctors? Blogging is a tool; as with other tools, it is not in itself virtuous or immoral. Prayer can be used to exalt the person praying; preaching can be used to extort money. This does not mean that we should never pray, or that we should never preach.
Out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks. Teenagers' blogs are filled with stupidity due to the simple fact that teenagers are stupid. Even if they weren't using this particular medium to express their unique brand of inanity, that would not change the fact that they are stupid teenagers.
I know people that use blogs to discuss matters of theology, an endeavor which, the last time I checked, the Bible encouraged. They could have the exact same discussion in person, if it weren't for the fact that they live on opposite sides of the world; this author would tell us that the fact that this discussion takes place via a specific medium it is somehow evil, and something that no good Christian would do?
I'm speechless.
[*] The limerick packs laughs anatomical
Into space that is quite economical.
But the good ones I've seen
So seldom are clean -
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| When: Friday, September 8; 6:00 PM
Where: Near Depot Town in Ypsilanti. If you need more specific directions, ask.
What: Party. Specific activities have not been finalized. May contain one or more of the following: board games, television, aestheticization of violence, card games, literary criticism, theological debate, wasabi, the dead rising, charades, and knitting.
Who: Well, if you're reading this post, chances are I wouldn't mind you showing up. Space in the apartment is somewhat limited, but that just means if too many people show up we're going to be shoving the less wanted guests (such as me) into a closet or somesuch. If you're interested/planning on coming, leave a comment so I know approximately how much pizza crust to make.
What to bring: Pizza and various beverages will be provided, but if there's a specific pizza topping or (non-alcoholic) libation that you have your heart set on, you're welcome to bring it. The same thing applies to activities; I have several movies and a few games, but more choice is always good. | | |
| I'm actually updating this before I got around to updating my LiveJournal.
I moved! Into an apartment in Ypsilanti, near Depot Town (if any of you know where that is). I'm only paying around twice the amount I was before, and this is an actual apartment rather than a bedroom. It's about twice as far from where I work, so I have to decide whether I'm motivated enough to bike twenty miles a day once it warms back up (or I find my coat). Alternatively, the bus does come near the apartment, so I could catch the bus and only have to ride about six miles. Or I could suck it up and take my road test so I could drive my truck. Decisions, decisions.
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