Mar
11
Centerpiece
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Have you ever noticed that no matter how much storage space or garage space you have, stuff seems to fill it up? We seem to attract things that will eventually fill all available space in our lives. The same thing happens to my computers. I buy bigger hard drives and they seem to fill up [...]
Mar
10
Like Lego Bricks
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I had and still have a love affair with Lego. As a kid, I could not get enough of the bricks and enjoyed building a variety of things over and over. I loved that they allowed me to be creative in a very left-brained kind of way. Lego bricks are not a completely freeform art [...]
Mar
9
You’re Not the Star
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I will admit to still feeling like a little boy with all of the cool sci-fi, fantasy, and comic book movies being made in the last several years. The technology has finally reached a stage where the fantastic worlds and characters I read about in books and comics can be done justice on the big [...]
Mar
8
Don’t Break the Chain
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There is a classic scam known as a Ponzi scheme or pyramid scheme. The idea is that you start with a small group of people telling them they’ll reap impressive returns with a modest investment. You pay the returns with the investments of other people. Since you’re paying out more than you were given, paying [...]
Mar
7
Spoken by a Fool
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There are many things in life of which I am ignorant. This is not something I’m proud of or ashamed of. It is simply the truth because nobody can know everything. However, it is a pet peeve of mine when someone who is ignorant of a subject I know well attempts to convince me that [...]
Mar
6
All Planned Out
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I have the common struggle of trying to balance my knowledge that what God does is always for His plan and His purposes and perfectly planned against my human instinct that His actions don’t make sense or that He’s shooting from the hip.
Time and time again, I look back and can see where the path [...]
Mar
5
Clarity
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Anyone who has been part of commercial software development knows about crunch mode or the extreme cases known as death marches. These are the last few days and weeks of a project when the ship date is fixed and the amount of work is growing. The only solution is for the majority of the team [...]
Mar
4
Our Only Hope
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Years of study and expensive training can produce human beings that are nearly perfect at their assigned duties. This country can produce the best brain surgeons, the best snipers, the best fighter pilots, and the best football players in the world. But all of those people, their trainers, and those who paid for it would [...]
Mar
3
Those Who Teach
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People who choose to teach the Word will quickly come to understand a very real consequence: To choose to teach is to choose to come under fire, to be held to a higher standard, and not be afforded any special considerations. You are signing up for combat duty.
“Let not many of you become teachers, my [...]
Mar
2
Natural Dysfunction
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Our society is very good at ignoring a crisis. In fact, we have turned many societal crises into entertainment. These are otherwise known as reality shows. Some are based in reality: cop shows, intervention shows, disaster shows, etc. while others that are called reality have very little to do with anything I know as real, [...]