PersonalMDiv.com

I’ve been slow­ly stew­ing an idea in my brain for a few days now, and I final­ly decid­ed to act on it. I noticed the cre­ation of personalmba.com with inter­est, but did­n’t think much about it until I saw that Jor­don Coop­er was inspired to cre­ate a com­pa­ra­ble M. Div. list (thanks to Andrew Jones for point­ing it out).

Any­way, I noticed that there was some crit­i­cism of the over­all idea and of the spe­cif­ic book choic­es (some of the crit­i­cism was thought­ful, some was knee-jerk). I thought it would be great to cre­ate a wiki to let the broad­er com­mu­ni­ty craft a list of books, arti­cles, and projects that would real­ly make a dif­fer­ence in some­one’s min­istry.

So I did. I present PersonalMDiv.com.

Have at it.

Everyone Has A Blog…

There’s a few small things I’ve been mean­ing to post for a while, but that I just haven’t got­ten around to:

One of our stu­dents, Alan Asbeck, was fea­tured on tele­vi­sion for a patent appli­ca­tion involv­ing a wall-climb­ing robot. How cool is that?

My pas­tor has a blog now: check out Scott Aught­mon at Ran­dom Ram­blings of a Church Gath­er­er.

In fact, more and more of my friends are blog­ging.

And those are just peo­ple that I actu­al­ly have a real-life, 3D rela­tion­ship with. If you count peo­ple I’ve met at con­fer­ences (such as Andrew Carea­ga) or in pass­ing (like Mark Bat­ter­son), the list would be ridicu­lous­ly longer.

Media Shout 3.0

I final­ly got my upgrade copy of Medi­aShout in the mail yes­ter­day.

Wow.

This release fix­es every­thing I’ve ever dis­liked about Medi­aShout and adds tons of new fea­tures I’d nev­er con­sid­ered.

The three best upgrades:
* You can play just a spe­cif­ic, cus­tom clip from a DVD. So you just want to play from 1.54.36 to 1.57.12? Done.
* All songs now have per­ma­nent for­mat­ting stored in the data­base. No need to refor­mat every stink­ing time you use the song!
* You can edit text cues direct­ly from with­in the program–no more ran­dom RTF files lying about.

Also, it looks like they’re try­ing to break into the VJ market–the new ver­sion includes bet­ter sup­port for mix­ing video feeds on the fly. Still, it just does­n’t com­pare to Arkaos in that depart­ment.

The one thing I real­ly wish they had done was include the Greek & Hebrew Bibles (they include the Latin Vulgate–why not the orig­i­nal text?).

Over­all, I’m thrilled.

Happy Birthday, Paula Kay!

For the record, today is Paula’s birth­day. Feel free to email or call her with good wish­es.

I love you, Paula–have a great day!

In-Laws

My in-laws are on a cruise to Hawaii, and their cruise ship is cur­rent­ly on a day excur­sion.

Where do they go?

Wal-Mart.

For the record, this is not an aber­ra­tion. Once we were all in New Orleans togeth­er and they decid­ed we would go eat at Den­ny’s.

Wal-Mart in Hawaii and Den­ny’s in New Orleans. My in-laws ARE red-state Amer­i­ca.

Google Earth

If you have broad­band and a fast enough com­put­er, you’ve got to vis­it http://earth.google.com/ and down­load their soft­ware.

Absolute­ly incred­i­ble.

On The Facebook

I don’t know if I’ve ever men­tioned this on my web­site, but I’m on the Face­book.

I bring this up for two rea­sons:

  1. If you’re a new stu­dent com­ing to Stan­ford feel free to scope us (Chi Alpha) out online. Also check xaStanford.org and Chi Alpha on the Face­book. Feel free to join our Face­book group with­out any sense of long-term oblig­a­tion.
  2. If I’ve met you at a con­fer­ence or some­thing you can feel free to add me as a Face­book friend. Just do a glob­al search for Glen Davis at Stan­ford (the glob­al search link is at the top of the page under the fa in face­book).

Superfluity of Naughtiness

I rarely look at the King James trans­la­tion, but today I hap­pened to glance at it while prepar­ing for a con­fer­ence:

Where­fore lay apart all filth­i­ness and super­fluity of naugh­ti­ness, and receive with meek­ness the engraft­ed word, which is able to save your souls. James 1:21, KJV

That’s right: we are to avoid a super­fluity of naugh­ti­ness.

What beau­ti­ful phras­ing.

Half Blind In Bangkok

I’ve been mean­ing to men­tion this for a while, but my broth­er is half-blind in Bangkok right now. He’s on a mis­sion trip and got some sort of infec­tion behind his eye­ball (yuck).

It sounds like he’s going to be A‑OK, but I’m sure it’s quite dis­turb­ing to fall ill in anoth­er coun­try. Espe­cial­ly a non-West­ern one.

On the plus side, he had trav­el insur­ance and so every­thing is paid for. It’s far bet­ter for him finan­cial­ly than it would have been in Amer­i­ca. And what­ev­er he has isn’t some­thing he got in Thailand–it was devel­op­ing before he left.

Any­way, he should be com­ing back this week­end. Until then, I’ll keep think­ing about Mur­ray Head­’s One Night In Bangkok.

Absolutely Amazing

I lis­ten to MP3s when I bike to cam­pus. Not music, as I real­ly don’t like music all that much; rather, I soak up lecture/seminar/sermonic stuff. I get a lot of them from Dis­ci­ple­ship Library and I’ve recent­ly start­ed down­load­ing some from IT Con­ver­sa­tions.

Any­way, I recent­ly lis­tened to Ben Saun­ders’ amaz­ing sto­ry. He made a solo expe­di­tion to the North Pole and real­ly knows how to spin the tale. I was agog. High­ly rec­om­mend­ed.