Monthly Archives: November 2015

Orthotics

Just a personal note… I rode my bike to the VA today. I waited a couple of hours in the prosthetics department to be evaluated for some kind of orthotics. This involves measuring my legs for an apparent disparity in … Continue reading

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Sunday Coffee Chatter

Come in and have a seat; let me pour you a mug of joe. WordPress told me that I have just passed the eight year mark here with them. I must be full of it, because most of those days … Continue reading

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Psalm 76

Many scholars are convinced this psalm celebrates the miraculous deliverance of the city during the reign of Hezekiah by slaughtering the besieging Assyrian troops. But regardless of any particular historical reference, this psalm has almost surely been rewritten from it’s … Continue reading

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Browser Extensions that Steal Your Privacy

Some browser extensions for Google Chrome and Firefox allow outside parties to track you indirectly. The extensions themselves are passing this information without informing you properly. Yes, they obey some obscure rules, but how many uses know those rules and … Continue reading

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Proverbs 20 (Part 1)

This chapter contrasts the difference between judging on the basis of human perception versus relying on the heart to grasp divine moral justice. 1. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whoever goes astray by it is not … Continue reading

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Pastoral: Fear Not WW3

If you read much news you’ve already heard mention of WW3 as a varying possibility — the possibility varies with who is saying what, and in what context. Most current chatter focuses on Russia and/or China versus NATO and friends. … Continue reading

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Cycling: Giant Loop

I really don’t know how far I rode, but it took 5 hours and my body said it was farther than I’ve ever ridden before. I suppose it felt about like 45 miles. From the apartment complex I headed west … Continue reading

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Parabolic Heart

In this realm of existence, parables and symbolic logic are the only way we can indicate where to find God’s truth. One of the hardest mental habits to break is the binary approach to reality. On a certain obvious level, … Continue reading

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November Update to Win10 Broken

I’m not mocking Microsoft, just declaring things end-user need to know. There’s a post on Infoworld that seems to describe three big flaws in the most recent updates to Win10 (AKA “threshold 2”). 1. If you have any SD cards … Continue reading

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World Trying to Catch Up

The rest of the world is trying to catch up with us, but it will take a very long time. The BBC asks Is Another Human Living inside You? Well, duh. We are all multiple people, and that’s part of … Continue reading

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