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Comment on Santa Claus by Burt Kallander

Burt Kallander — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:46:32 +0000

I will often, at Christmastime, tell people about the real Saint Nicolaus who saved an impovershed man’s three daughters from slavery by supplying a dowry, tossing a purse of gold coins in the window onto the hearth. In imitation of Christ he purchased their freedom. Lived in Asia Minor and helped to write the Nicene Creed, which contains a basic Gospel. “What did Santa really believe?” It’s one of the creeds with somewhat broad acceptance among denominations, I think.

I just read your paper on Psalm 117. It was very good, helpful to me. Thanks!

Comment on Obama, Our Savior by Elizabeth Schuh

Elizabeth Schuh — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:21:17 +0000

I’m hoping you don’t see this as offensive but this sounds like the same ol’ Obama rhetoric.The fact of the matter is Obama has done very little of what he promised.

Comment on Universal Praise – Psalm 117 by Oralia Esmiol

Oralia Esmiol — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:40:46 +0000

This is actually really good stuff. Thank you

Comment on Blindly Hurt My Precious Avatar Heart by Em

Em — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:12:47 +0000

Oh, I meant to quote this part first:

“It’s not that I actually terribly care, but I want to be able to meet any friend or acquaintance on their own conversation territory rather than pulling them into mine.”

Comment on Blindly Hurt My Precious Avatar Heart by Em

Em — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:12:04 +0000

Aha… the REAL reason you took that Intro to Psych class then…

Comment on iPad by Stephen Paul Weber

Stephen Paul Weber — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:58:03 +0000

“you cannot expect a corporation trying to maximize profits to build a broad open platform”

Windows and OS X are both pretty open platforms that seem to disagree with your statement.

Solaris is even libre, beyond being an open platform as well… and that seems like a large profit-seeking company (Sun) to me…

Comment on iPad by Stephen Paul Weber

Stephen Paul Weber — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:56:23 +0000

I think you’ve misunderstood the freedom camp. It’s not about vorbis or hacking, it’s about freedom.

You say “DRM” as though you don’t believe the iPad’s OS has any. Yet what else would you call a system that uses cryptography to prevent the user of the system from using it for a particular purpose (in this case, to prevent the installation of alternate OSs or unapproved applications). That’s the definition of DRM.

The other large fear (DRM and other freedom issues aside) is the “generativity” fear. We hackers and coders got our start tinkering with systems. If the iPad had been the ordinateur-de-choix in my house (instead of MSDOS PCs) I would never have tinkered, and never become what I am today.

Comment on ChetMancini.com by Ryan Rahn

Ryan Rahn — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:48:37 +0000

Looking good! I like the monochromatic style.

Comment on Christmas Pet Peeve by Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:17:36 +0000

“This year we need to get away from the rush and commotion of Christmas to focus on the person and work of Christ.”

I would pay more attention to that.

Comment on Tuesday Morning Blanchard by Em

Em — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:00:07 +0000

So weird that you’re actually there.

Way to make me homesick. Geez.