Posts from January, 2009
This isn’t exactly news, but I wanted to post it. Jimmy Fallon is hilarious. I’m pretty stoked that he’s taking over for Conan who is taking over for Leno. This might just draw my attention away from Letterman… TiVo? Nah… I don’t watch that much TV.
I really, really, really, enjoyed him geeking out with Felicia Day, but even sweeter is that Engadget got to do an impromptu live video with him. Priceless.
update: I had originally, mistakenly, said that Fallon was taking over for Leno… was in a hurry with about 10 other things going on simultaneously… see, there it is again, I’m not God :-).
A neat little write-up on the way that whitehouse.gov is coded, focusing on optimization, SEO, architecture, etc.
Before I list reasons four, five, and six, I realized I did not do so good a job giving a basis for my non-God-likeness at each point. One comment was made on the last point about our being made in God’s image. I do not intend to give a defense of the Christian doctrine of Imago Dei, but rather I’d like to point out that the commenter has it a bit backwards.
Reasoning that “because we are like this so must God be like this. In brief, we are made in God’s image (in the true sense of the word: an image being a two-dimensional representation of a three dimensional reality… read “Flatland” for a more thorough philosophical explanation of this topic.)
The doctrine of Imago Dei usually refers to our capacity for reason, abstract thinking, relational need and ability, awareness of a higher power, and relational needs. Much more, however, it refers to God’s concern for us, as we are beings made in his image. And because of this, a human life is a very sacred thing.
Enough of that digression. here is part two of my 9 things. Read part 1 here.
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