Author Archives: Charles Sebold

Good question

HT: Deo Volente.

The pressure of sysadminning cr.yp.to

Speaking of sysadmins, raise your hand if you’ve ever had to deal with stupidity like this. I feel for DJB, I really do. Read that list of outages.

Sysadmin Appreciation Day

Yippee skippy, it’s System Administrator Appreciation Day. (My employer’s appreciation has been shown to me this year by allowing me to keep my job.)

Boo-hoo

Doulogos: zounds, he doesn’t mince words! “But what of the person who finds themselves with no other alternative but to attend a church where they believe differently? I say, hogwash to that. No other alternative? Pffft. Look you lazy sloth, the Queen of Sheba crossed half the earth to listen to King Saul speak, [...]

Executive function

A Scientific American article about how executive function breaks down in normal people who are overexercising choice: Tough Choices: How Making Decisions Tires Your Brain. You’re going to hear more about things like this.

New theme

Like the new look? I saw Shades of Gray at the Sandbox Design Competition and I thought that it would be a nice addition to the site.

Dembski, Bentley, autism, and false revivals

William Dembski talks about taking his autistic son to one of Todd Bentley’s meetings in this Baptist Press article.
There is so much to say about this article, and some of them can be shared, and some can’t. First, it is a good thing to believe that miracles still happen, regardless of the stories that [...]

Stay tuned

I’ll be upgrading the blog to Wordpress 2.6 soon, so don’t be surprised if things look funny sometimes in the next day or two.
(And with this, I have a chance of keeping at least one post on our front page! And there was not much rejoicing.)
Update: Actually, I’m done, I think. It went [...]

Veith and Doctor Who

I have been enjoying following Gene Veith for the last few months (even when he repeats the canard that Calvinists aren’t Christ-centered, yadda yadda yadda), but I think he earned a permanent spot in my newsreader when I discovered that he’s into Doctor Who.

Psalms

I have posted my sermons from the last two weeks at the GCBC website, if you care to listen to them (Psalm 122, Psalm 88). Sorry, the Psalm 122 one was a bit of a mess. My fault for trying something different.

What’s in a name?

Apparently we have a new poll. Check it out.

Everything comes together

There are spoilers. Oh, boy, are there spoilers. I would be sore about the spoilers, but I’m just too gobsmacked by what I saw here. Every Doctor Who spinoff (SJA, Torchwood) comes together here.
Following is the trailer for “The Stolen Earth”:

Wordle

I haven’t shown anybody, and I do mean anybody, my NaNoWriMo novel yet. It needs a lot of work. But I did Wordle it, if you’re curious.

Eleven days

In the next eleven days, I am:

Leading the kids’ lesson at Bible study tonight
Leading the adults’ lesson at Bible study tonight
Filling out some bank forms
Fighting with another financial institution or two over a lost receipt
Preparing and teaching adult Sunday School
Preparing and preaching Sunday’s sermon
Serving the Lord’s Supper
Making up for lost Mothers’ and Fathers’ Days with [...]

A curse

This is the most graphic thing I have ever watched about abortion. I hesitated (and still do) in posting this. But sometimes we need to stop talking about abstracts and deal with reality. Sometimes politics are important… and sometimes politics are shaped by the cold, hard truth.

Just like a person could support [...]

The actual opposite

So, we decided to be gloriously lowbrow for a night, and check out Celebrity Circus, mostly to see Peter Brady garf it. (In fact he, or Christopher Knight I should say, was the best thing we saw on the show.) We didn’t know it was a full-blown reality show; we figured it would [...]

Punishment

Just in case you forgot what the point was, this November.
(Hattip: Homeschool and Etc.)

A children’s lesson in textual criticism

I was caught off guard yesterday and found that I needed to prepare the kids’ lesson for our Wednesday night bible study. I came up with something that seemed to be helpful, and I thought I’d share it.
I cut out 32 pieces of paper, each about 3 inches by 3 inches. On one [...]

Fading like a Rose

This is a review, containing spoilers, for the Doctor Who episode “Partners in Crime,” which aired in the US about a week and a half ago (what can I say, I’m behind).

Giving

Pastor Rob preached a very good sermon. It wasn’t groundbreaking, in the sense that he brought out any novel interpretation of Scripture; however, it did clearly declare the conditions in which those who are in Christ are to give. It was really good. They’re all good but this one really stood out. [...]

Unsinkable

Lacking my favorite literary-pretentious expositions of Doctor Who episodes since the end of Series Two, I have decided to try my hand. Thankfully, the US is only three weeks or so behind the UK this time around, although the Christmas special was nearly four months back.

Snake-handling fundamentalists

“The Fundamentalists who say the most ignorant things about evolution are wrong on their side. And Dawkins and Myers and their ilk, who dare to call people of faith ’stupid’ (while their own atheism requires as much faith as any snake handling fundamentalist), revolt me.” Original, linked here, found here.

Abortion as art?

Even if this never actually resulted in a bona-fide abortion, it’s still horrible. (This is a pretty sad/angry thing to read, so be warned.) (Update: wasn’t even true. Still a pretty horrible thing to deal with, though.)

The transcendental ethics of God

The “problem of evil” has a lot of problems of its own. It’s a favorite of atheists and other people who argue against the God of Christianity, and it generally runs something like “if God is all good, and all powerful, then why is there suffering (or evil; or, why do bad things happen [...]

Protesting Protestants

I neglected to mention the protest about the cancellation of Issues, Etc. which happened at work on Monday.

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