Web Theologian

>A mean old lady just got on. In her arms she has copies of The
Watchtower displayed. Mistake #1 with evangelism… Not liking other
people

It's funny because she has the. Prominately displayed toward me. She
knows I need it:)

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Here in Seattle was the first time I was really introduced to rowing culture.  Honestly I didn’t get it.  Back East it was something that Ivy Schools did, which is funny coming from someone who played lacrosse.  While we lived in Oakland a rowing club would have breakfast right next to our Men’s Bible Study on Saturday mornings, and I would often catch myself not paying attention to what we were supposed to be studying and listening to the rowing clubs conversations, and I still didn’t get it.  Rowing to me seemed too early to wake up, cold, wet, expensive, lonely (even on a team your just looking at the back of someone’s head), and just outright odd.

So why am I writing all this?  Because I read a quote that helped me understand and I wanted to share it with you,

"Rowers have a word for this frictionless sate: swing…Recall the pure joy of riding on a backyard swing: an easy cycle of motion, the momentum coming from the swing itself.  The swing carries us; we do not force it.  We pump our legs to drive our arc higher, but gravity does most of the work.  We are not so much swinging as being swung.  The boat swings you.  The shell wants to move fast: Speed sings in its lines and nature.  Our job is simply to work with the shell, to stop holding it back with our thrashing struggles to go faster.  thriving too hard sabotages boat speed.  Trying becomes striving and striving undoes itself.  Social climbers strive to be aristocrats but their efforts prove them no such thing.  Aristocrats do not strive; they have already arrived.  Swing is a state of arrival."

–David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

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An amazing line that takes so long to get to, but worth every moment.  Last night, now that family has gone back to Maryland, we sat down to enjoy a movie together.  There Will be Blood lived up to all of my hopes, actually it was better.  I was expecting an extremely violent movie, while the violence was detailed and intimate it was not unnecessary.  In other words it made it’s point.  I also was expecting over the top freakiness from the characters, as strange and disturbed as they were it seemed true to me, not a caricature at all, but believable people. 

The part of the movie that I was looking forward to the most was the music.  Jonny Greenwood (aka Radiohead’s guitarist) did an amazing job, some may say heavy handed, but I loved it.  There were moments where the music was so loud and powerful it overtook the dialogue, it was the musical version of mud/blood hitting the camera which was also done in this movie.  I like the reminders that we are watching a creation rather than being fooled we are participants.  Anyway I cannot remember a movie since The Shining that so creeped me out by the music.  I know my recommendation/review comes well after most have probably seen it, but if you have waited like we did you won’t be disappointed.

>Jumpcut – Trees and Shrubs and Other Things

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If you haven’t my friend Steph has started a new, and incredibly funny (and cynical but true) blog,

Stuff Christian Culture Likes.  Check it out when you have a chance or sooner:)

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Recently I have been thinking about where all my data is kept, the cloud is the hip new phrase for it.  This happened because of the crash of my home laptop’s hard drive.  I had very poor backup.  Currently I have Time Machine running and have a backup on my desk.  But like most people my information is all over the web, perhaps I am alittle more extreme than most.  I am currently using Google’s Cloud, which starts with gmail and leads all the way through to Google docs.  I have had a .mac membership which is now switched over to MobileMe. My data is backed up there as well.  Also Microsoft’s Cloud service, Mesh, is a third place where I am currently placing files.  I also include Facebook in that mix because I put my photos there, also twitter and facebook is where I do most of my sharing.

What does all this mean.  First I am hedging my bets, I’m not sure which service is going to be the best and which one will win the space so I’m in all of them.  Second, while I have everything backed up it is not consistent, and things are left all over the place.  It is like having three or four different offices and each one varying to some extent.

So the benefit of the iPhone?  I am sycing all of these.  because I back up my Outlook Exchange, then push that information up to MobileMe, Both Facebook and Google have amazing apps for the phone!  So despite of all these companies being all over the map, the device is still important, and in my opinion is king.  Yes work on a PC at work and could set up the same thing with MobileMe, currently Mesh does not have a connection to Mobile or Mac Computers so my personal computer is left out of the loop except through Parallels, which seems like a very lame work around to me.  Where will all this end up?  I don’t know I need to have more time figuring out my own personal workflow between all of this, at this point I have only done that which is easy for my iPhone.  I would like a world where I could have multiple clouds connected so that I am not dependent upon one single device.