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You never realize how good you have it until you don’t.

The only Blue Bell in Seattle is at Outback Steakhouse.

The only bagels in Austin are terrible.

The only Collections in Java 1.4 are collections of Object.

(sigh)Object;

Downtown is going UP. Anyone who lives here has to have noticed the tower cranes, but the level of development is far more than is immediately obvious. http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/downtown/downloads/emerging_poster_april07.pdf

The fact that you can run one operating system in a program running on another operating system with any kind of performance is mind-blowingly amazing. The other things that VMWare purports to do (vmotion) i’m not convinced is actually legitimate, it is like some kind of black magic that simply should not be. That is all.

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.  For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the cleverness of the clever I will set aside” Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. ~1 Corinthians  1:18-21

I had some good conversations tonight about God, religion and Christianity. One of the things that I personally enjoy about geek culture is the raw objectivity of it. Language is almost always overly precise, concepts are explored fluidly at high levels and at excruciatingly low levels. The problem as a Christian is that God explicitly states that one of His purposes is to frustrate the wisdom of this world. It seems fortuitous that geek is so close a word to greek, and that in terms of philosophy, desires and demands they are very close. You can basically read the following ignoring the r in greek and it will be perfectly true.

For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong. ~1 Corinthians 1:22-27

I wish earnestly that by my words I could convince my friends and acquaintances of the joy to be found in God, but He has ordained that that is not how His purposes will be achieved.