The web is divided into the haves and the haves-not. The haves have Gmail, the haves-not will. Thanks to my good friend John, I'm now one of the haves. (Finally).
On the same day, I ran across a web site that was offering free gmail invites, one of which I got. So....if you want gmail, I have one invite to give. The first person to ask for it gets it. Either leave a comment or send an email and it's yours.
UPDATE: My Gmail invite has been given away. To those still looking try Aimless Words or Gmail Watch. Good luck.
It's official: Blade Runner Is The Best Sci-Fi Film. I don't normally agree with Richard Dawkins, but he's right about Blade Runner. It's an excellent film, and it's good to see other people recognize it.
From Christian Quote of the Day
We must be ready, indeed eager, to see God's Name being hallowed outside the Church as well as inside. It may be that today the philosopher is honouring the Name af God when he insists that we should know what we mean when we utter our religious language and that we should be ready to have that meaning tested. It may be that other philosophers hallow the Name when they refuse to allow us to withdraw it to some supernatural realm, but insist on wrestling with the unknown God in the agony and joy of existence, crying with Jacob, "Tell me, I pray thee, thy Name." And is not the scientist honouring the Name when he patiently and obediently follows where the evidence leads? Or the social scientist when he asks us to understand what is before we begin pronouncing what ought to be? God does not spend all His time in Church.
... Howard Hewlett Clark (1903-1983)
Nice.
Just finished watching The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick, a documentary on the life and thought of PKD. Interesting how sci fi writers dicuss philosophical issues. The producers didn't have a big budget, but they did manage to capture some of Dick's more interesting ideas.
One of his short stories, A Scanner Darkly, is reportedly being made into a movie starting Keanu Reeves. More philosophical appetizers courtesy of Hollywood. Nice.
We visited the Reagan Library yesterday. Fun stuff, lots of things to see. One of the cool exhibits was the replica of the Oval Office. You can check out the video I shot here. [5 MB]. Click here to see a stitched photo.
More pics on Time Slices.
It's been a week since my last post here, but don't fret little campers, I'm still alive and blogging. It's just that I've been playing around with my new photoblog, which I call Time Slices. Thanks to the new Blogger and a neat little program called Hello I can upload pics free and easy. I can also audioblog, thanks to Audioblogger. For a sample, click here.
Journeys with Tim will remain my main blog for thoughts and ideas, so stay tuned.
From Christian Quote of the Day:
Slowly, all through the universe, that temple of God is being built. Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone. When, in your hard fight, in your tiresome drudgery, or in your terrible emptation, you catch the purpose of your being and give yourself to God, and so give Him the chance to give Himself to you, your life -- a living stone -- is taken up and set into that growing wall. Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely ways, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple. Oh, if the stone can only have some vision of the temple of which it is to be a part forever, what patience must fill it as it feels the blows of the hammer, and knows that success for it is simply to let itself be wrought into what shape the Master wills.
... Phillips Brooks (1835-1893), The Law of Growth [1902]
Once again I'm reminded of the importance of vision. Without it, life would be impossible.
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