No, I haven’t seen it yet. But what seems clear to me from watching the trailer and reading reviews is that the film doesn’t emphasize the purpose for the brutality of the Cross of Christ. Viewer reactions of disgust and bewilderment evidence little understanding of why Good Friday’s horrors were necessary.
One of my favorite writers, […]
Posted on February 26th, 2004 by Nils
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I was just using Yahoo! Maps and something caught my eye. Apparently somebody at Yahoo! is (or was) a Rockets fan. This is the approximate location of Compaq Center (formerly called The Summit, and soon to be the new site of “The Oasis of Love”) where the Rockets summited the NBA championship in 1994 and […]
Posted on February 22nd, 2004 by Nils
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A few months ago I got the chance to see my sister perform at Kennedy Center. But I never left Houston; in fact, I was in my office at the time, watching a webcast of the event. They’ve archived it (RealOne Player required), so I’ve been able to enjoy repeat viewings.
The program begins with Three […]
Posted on February 21st, 2004 by Nils
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Larry O’Brien predicts that e-mail civilization as we know it has no future; its final demise will come about ultimately through the escalation of the spam arms race.
So what are you waiting for?! Download SpamBayes and do your part to protect posterity’s inboxes!
Or, if your inclinations are less bellicose, tell your congressman that you want […]
Posted on February 19th, 2004 by Nils
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I just read Roger Ebert’s review of the film Luther. I haven’t seen the movie, so I can’t vouch for the accuracy with which it portrays Martin Luther. But as far as I can tell, Ebert has no more business assessing this than I do.
Posted on February 12th, 2004 by Nils
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“Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.” (Robert Persig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)
A few months ago I read a paper by Erik Meijer (et al.) that proposed marrying native support for XML and relational data to the object-oriented programming features of a language such as C#. The […]
Posted on February 10th, 2004 by Nils
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A few weeks after my dad and I took in that celestial light show in the Texas Hill Country, I started adapting the words of Psalm 19. I finished the song this week, but the result is not strictly speaking an adaptation; it’s more like a meditation on the text (thus the name). At least […]
Posted on February 6th, 2004 by Nils
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Stephen Wolfram has put the entirety of his book A New Kind of Science on the web for free.
Have sales been so sluggish that he’s giving it away less than two years after the publication of a book that took more than a decade to write? Generally, only people—such as myself—whose ideas have zero economic […]
Posted on February 6th, 2004 by Nils
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(I thought this entry was begging for an interlinear translation.)
Posted on February 4th, 2004 by Nils
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I understand why Eric’s “overjoyed” that he ended up having nothing to do with the Super Bowl halftime show. The “mishap” near the end (which, thankfully, I missed—we kept changing the channel because most of the rest of the show was not family friendly, either) was only the straw that broke the camel’s back; everybody […]
Posted on February 2nd, 2004 by Nils
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