Thoughts, Musings, Reflections, and Ramblings of a campus minister, father, husband, and a Jesus-follower
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Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses - you know it all! You are fantastic!
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Though I don’t run Linux, I am glad that it is competing with Microsoft and Apple, as it forces everyone to step up their game. Linux is an open-source and sometimes, free, operating system for your computer. Today I stumbled upon a version of Linux called ‘Ubuntu Christian Edition‘.
At first, I thought this was a joke, but this is the real thing. You can purge your computer of Windows or OSX or whatever you are using, and baptize (or load) it with Ubuntu Christian. Once you convert to Ubuntu, you will have access to various Christian applications like a virtual Rosary and a Bible Memorizer.
I mean, come on, What (kind of Operating System) would Jesus run?
Imagine sitting at a coffee shop and the person next to you asks you what kind of system you are running. Wouldn’t you like to turn that into an evangelistic conversation by witnessing to her through your OS?
Psalm 150.4 proclaims, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!” Well, even those things that do not have breath shall praise the Lord!
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Dealing with government is swimming (rather drowning) in bureaucracy. Whether it is trying to get through to someone in LAUSD (4 phonecalls and still waiting for a response) or trying to get a passport, government leads me to conclude that it is an entity that we have to try to fight to get what we want.
I woke up at 4:30am this morning to pick up a student in Pasadena and then headed to the Federal Building in Westwood to renew her damaged passport. We arrived at 6:30am and I thought I would have some time to pick up a cup of coffee before making our way to the passport office that opens at 7am. But when we arrived, there were somewhere over 300 people already in line.
Most of them did not have appointments (we didn’t either), which means that we had no chance in hell to renew our passport. (By the way, we tried to get the appointment, but the system was jammed and had nothing available for the foreseeable future)
We had two choices: quit or stand in line and try our luck. At that point, the student had the idea of calling her congressman to see if he could pull some strings. She got through to a secretary who said she’d take care of it. Within ten minutes, we got a call back that the student was placed on a Special Handling List. Within half an hour, the security guard came outside with a list. She was on the list. She went from the back of the line to the front of the line.
She made it inside the building and renewed her passport. Now, she did stand in 4 to 5 lines and finally picked up her passport at 6pm (11 and 1/2 hours later).
The passport system is a mess, and some of the training that the In N Out people get could go a long way in this instance. (Condy, my services are available on a part-time basis) I was surprised how quickly putting a call to the congressman worked. I am convinced that without that phone call and without the advocacy of government officials, the student will never have gotten her passport renewed.
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Actual letter sent to Carl’s Jr.:
Dear [tag]Customer Service[/tag],
I am sold on your marketing campaign of enjoying a $6 (restaurant) burger without the restaurant. Your commercial that shows a waitress spraying and wiping down a table while the patron tries to enjoy his [tag]$6 burger[/tag] is an experience I am sure many of us have had. It is for this reason that I write you this letter. A week ago, while I was enjoying my $6 Jalapeno Burger, one of the employees approached me and asked whether she could clean my table.
I did not know how to respond and before I knew what to say, she was spraying the pink stuff all over my table and she wiped it clean for me. While I appreciate eating in a clean environment, I did not enjoy my burger since the aroma of the ammonium was now accompanying the delicious burger
I agree with you—all of us should enjoy the restaurant burger without the restaurant experience. Unfortunately, my recent experience at Carl’s Jr. prevented me from enjoying my burger. Since [tag]Carl’s Jr.[/tag] prides itself on eating the burger without the restaurant experience, this issue should especially be of concern to Carl’s Jr. management.
Sincerely,
Eddy E.
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This post does not aim to answer the question: “What is the purpose of blogging?” It seems to me that question has become as trite as “What is the purpose of life?” But having been reading blogs for three or four years now, I have noticed that for some people [tag]blogging[/tag] is just a hobby (something they do for fun or to exercise their creative edge), for some people it is a way to articulate their thoughts and reflections or life’s circumstances (like a journal), and for some people it is a way to make money. Continue reading ‘When blogging is more than just a hobby’
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Have you ever wondered where you will end up if you were to dig and dig and dig (in a straight line)? Neither have I, until I found some useless time surfing the web and came upon this site. What is “halfway around the world” to your specific location? It turns out, if I were to dig straight through my floor at my home in Northridge, I would find myself off the coast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, swimming among the sharks.
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