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Zune is Gud
Henry Imler September 22nd, 2008
Zuen should be gud (and so should comics). Zune is gud. at least according to ArsT. Read the review here :: Redmond strikes back: a review of the new 3G Zune.
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Links of Note
Henry Imler September 2nd, 2008
Google Chrome – the nets are abuzz with the news that Google has developed a browser from scratch and intends to release it later today. Wonder who it will hit the hardest? IE, Opera, Safari, Firefox? Some say this is the wrong question to ask. OOHHH!!!! You can now DL it here
Should you translate ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ as “the kingdom of God” or “the rule of God?” I favor rendering it as “the kingdom of God,” but technically, I think you can do it either way. If you have an interest in this topic, or know Greek, I encourage you to read what Hank has to say and contribute to the convo over there.
Jews or Judeans? There has been some debate as to whether or not the use of the term “Jews” is an appropriate translation of Ἰουδαῖοι. There are a slew of posts on this topic over at ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΟΝ on this topic. See Judean and Syrian, and Being a ‘Jew’ or a ‘Judean’. Elsewhere you can find John H. Elliott’s article on Jesus the “Israelite” and Was there such a thing as ancient “Judaism”?: Steve Mason’s recent article on “Judeans” (Ioudaioi) in antiquity. Me? It depends on the context and who is writing. I think that most of the time "Judeans" should be used in the gospels, but in other sources, such as Paul’s letters, "Jews" should prob be used.
#108 Appearing to enjoy Classical Music from Stuff White People Like - Love it. I am one of those people. Sort of… I enjoy some classical music, but I can’t tell you a darn thing about any of it. But then again, I am the same way with a lot of music.
Damn Dirty Skrulls: What We Know Now 11 - Yet another great installment on the ongoing Secret Invasion "event." If you aren’t buying all of the tie ins (and who can blame you?) check here for some hilarity. Here is what they say about New Avengers #44:
Like many recent Avengers books, this Avengers book doesn’t really star the Avengers. And that’s okay, because neither does one of this week’s other Avengers books, and neither does this week’s Spider-Man tie-in. In fact, this is becoming such a recurring theme that other media are starting to catch on; I understand that there will soon be an episode of The Hills that isn’t filled with vacuous, talentless mannequins.
Dear Al,
Henry Imler August 11th, 2008
I know you are a big-wig among Southern Baptists. I get that. But something has been a buggin’ me for some time. Every once and a while I’ll visit your site. I don’t go there for instruction, but to get and idea where other Christians are coming from and I usually leave frustrated. It’s not just just the content of your posts that frustrates me, it’s something much more subtle that, when recognized, produces a glaring hole in my happiness that cannot go untended. Please, please, for the love of the tubes, stop calling the previous posts “blogs.”
A blog is a collection of posts, the sum of the parts. A post is a individual item on a blog, a part of the whole. I know you are out of touch with modern notions of science, marriage/reproduction, and the like, but this switch is an easy one. Just follow these simple steps:
1. Change the word “blogs” to “posts.”
Pretty easy huh?
While you are at it, call me up and we can talk about other changes to make.
The Olympic Desktop
Henry Imler August 11th, 2008
Don’t really know why I am posting this – but I can. This is my laptop setup at the school right now:
Working in Word 2007, listening and recording music via Pandora’s Jar, and watching the Olympics on NBC’s web-player.
Popcorn on the Go.
Henry Imler August 1st, 2008
My buddy Jake tipped me off to this:
Snopes says: A no go. Alas, I am saddened.
Fix the Fox in 6 steps
Henry Imler July 23rd, 2008
Now that Firefox 3.0 has been out in the wild for a few weeks, and everyone has adopted it because of its lower memory footprint and time-saving new features, here are some ways to spruce up your browsing experience.
1. Fix Google and it’s services :
- CustomizeGoogle – like privacy? dislike ads? Then add this and you’ll get so much more.
- Gmail Manager
- Better Gmail
- Better Google Calandar
- Better Google Reader
2. Maximize your browsing space – Ok, you have moved all of your navigation buttons, address bar, and search bar up to the “file” bar and turned off the “navigation bar” to maximize your screen real estate. Here are your next steps:
Tiny Menu – Reduce “File – Edit – View – History – Bookmarks – Tools – Help” to “Menu” - Download Statusbar – We all hate that lil’ box that pops up when you go to download a file – integrate it into your status bar with this handy, dandy plugin.
- FaviconizeTab – Run Pandora or some other site all the time and you don’t want it taking up a lot of space, or you like your tabs super small? This puppy will reduce your tabs to their favicon.
3. Geep on Twiddin on :: TwitterFox – write and receive twids from your browser
4. No. More. Ads. :: Adblock Plus – simple, really – zap those ads.
5. I love thing page, but it needs…
- Stylish – easily modify a site’s CSS; all kinds of readability improvements can be had over at Userstyles.
- Greasemonkey
6. There is a research paper due tomorrow - Zotero
The Grocery Store, Viruses, Police Chases, Oh my!
Henry Imler July 9th, 2008
Paper or plastic? – Cloth, of course, but what if you don’t have the option? How do you navigate the thorny environmental issues? Reading this article by Tree Hugger will help :: Paper Bags or Plastic Bags? Everything You Need to Know
Is AVG ok? AVG is OK! Popular, effective, and free antivirus software from Grisoft was doing some dang dubious dealings with it’s weblink scanner. After people complained, they righted the ship. Hooray! (‘Cause I use it on three computers and recommend it to everyone I know.)
Police Chase from Scott Parsons – my buddies Scott and Sarah saw this go down last week. Ten minutes later, I went by the scene on my way to pick up Meredith and saw them towing away the car – exciting stuff.
Interviews with the Devil: Divisions in the Church and Money. Brad tipped me to this one. After watching several of them, they get old, but when they are fresh slides be splittin.
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Lust.
Honzo December 8th, 2007
No, not lusting after the flesh, but after the tech. It is that time of year again where I find myself looking lustfully at the few technological devices that would complete my life and make it whole again.
Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 2.0 500GB Hard Drive -Why do I need this? My Xbox 360 recently level up to a L54 Mage and learned the ability to play Divx video files over my network. This makes me want to encode all of my DVDs into divx files and keep them on the 500GB HD. How sweet would that be? Just fire up the Xbox and peruse a digital library of movies and TV shows…. I wonder if you could hook it up to the 360 directly?
Apple Laptop - any kind - As Meredith’s laptop is giving us fits (there is a loose video connector in there somewhere) and I lug my heavy HP around, I am tempted to get a super thin, super light, super slick apple notebook. Only two problems… I don’t need one and I don’t need to spend the money.
Mass Effect, Bio Shock, Super Mario Galaxy, Assassin’s Creed, and Call of Duty 4 - So many video games, so much work to do. I totally need all of these games all at once. You know, because I still need to finish Metroid Prime 3 and Lego Star Wars.
An HD TV - Yea. Because the TV I have now totally still works.
I wonder what else I don’t need to buy?
Link of the Day: Gyminne
Henry Imler October 21st, 2007
I found Gyminne on Digg today and I think I like it.
Nice little way to track your nutrition, exercise and fitness goals.
I have entered in my goals and tracked my food for the day.
Pretty sweet, huh? I guess I should stick to Tea over Mochas and not eat a bag of gummy worms every day!
Why the H3LL are you not using GMAIL?
Henry Imler June 24th, 2007
I am not an activist for many things - I never go to peace rallies
(I am always at work); I never get onto people for eating meat (It is
too darn good to stop eating in gigantic quantities). However, I am
passionate about people using bad technology when switching to a better
and cheaper product is easy. Gmail is one of my crusades. I am a
baptized believer in the cult of gmail. Come to think of it, why aren’t
you?
Seriously. Every time I think about emailing someone and I am not sending it to username@gmail.com,
I actually get upset. Physically upset. A few emo kids had to die once,
after I emailed some cat with a hotmail address. (But they were wearing
long, dark jeans at the pool and whining all the time - they were just
asking for it.)
There is simply no reason not to use it.
- Its free
- It works better than 100% of the other email systems out there.
- It can import and constantly check any other email accounts you have with pop3 access
(i.e. everything except hotmail) I use it to check my university email
account. If any of you MU students want to know how to do this, let me
know. - If you do have hotmail - it is worth manually forwarding all of
your saved email to your new gmail account because you won’t use
Satan’s span, hotmail. (I am 75% sure the book of Revelation and a
couple of Gnostic Gospels mention hotmail in the same terms - and I
think we all know that if a Gnostic gospel says something - it must be
true… Well if you are a TV network or other media type) - It is all about the search. Just archive all the email you get,
sans the marketing crap, and just search for that email you got 3 years
ago that had that one person’s address in it. - Spam is only for bad lunches. Gmail takes the spam and deletes
them, eats ‘em, uses ‘em in the bathroom, flushes it into the sewage
plant, and blows the sewage plant up. So there’s no way spam is a
problem. It’s gone (OK, two things - A) I stole that one from Shaq.
B) It doesn’t really do that to spam, but it is the best spam manager I
have ever seen, and I have had a million email accounts)
Anyway, if you need a gmail invite (think it is open now, but I am
not sure and too darn lazy to check), let me know. You don’t want me to
hate you. Ok, you probably don’t care if I hate you and if I do hate
you, I will more than likely will forget about it after about 20
minutes.
Zune Windows Theme
Henry Imler February 12th, 2007
A few months ago Microsoft added a new free theme for Windows XP to
coincide with the launch of the Zune, similar to the Royale theme and
the Media Center edition of XP. The theme is dark orangish-brown and
black-gray depending what programs you have open. Here is a sampling:
Personally, I like it the best over the stock monstrosity and
Royale. Best part is that you don’t have to purchase add-on programs or
mess with system files to get a dark theme on your Windows XP machine.
Download Link: Windows Zune Theme
P.S. In writing this post, I also came across another formulation of the Royale theme that is pretty nice, Royale Noir.
Google Reader Update
Henry Imler December 6th, 2006
For those of you that are still on the bloglines’ or livebookmark’s
train due to a lack of folder control on Google Reader, it is time to
hop off at the next exit and take a gander at the latest changes they
have made. It is so much easier to manage folders now. Every time you
add a feed you can select what folder you want it to be in. Also,
anytime you view a feed you can change what folder it should be in. As
a matter of fact, they have also made applying bulk changes of feeds
and folders a (
almost) snap.
Just a side note - why the frack does UPS try to deliver stuff at
12:50, 12:19, and 12:39pm and wonder why no one is there to sign for
the package? Just leave it there or leave a sticker on the door asking
what to do with it. Now I have to said another week to get the post
card, mail it back it in, and hopefully get my 2 1GB SD cards that I
got really cheap on Black Friday. Gorram UPS.
More awesome deals
Henry Imler December 2nd, 2006
At SlickDeals.net, I found a couple of Ultra products that were free after rebate, an ATX case and a 500W power supply.
I have a bit of an affinity for Ultra products. The case and power
supply I have right now for my gaming desktop are Ultra products. They
have been rock-solid since the day I got them. And I have had my share
of bad power supplies. I have had two of them blow-up in my face this
past month. Even typing about it sends shiver through my skin. Also,
when I built Grant’s computer a few years ago, the PSU that came with
the bare-bones kit kicked it not three weeks after XP was installed for
the first time.
If they are rock-solid, then why are you getting new ones Henry?
Well, my left-brain, I might be building a system for my parents and
free is awfully cheap for a decent case and an good power supply.
If you don’t have a good (read: if you have a stock or cheap-o)
power supply in your computer, you should really consider getting the
PSU.
Good; Not Good
Henry Imler October 24th, 2006
Good: Mac Book Pro with Core 2 Duo.
Not Good: Not having Mac Book Pro with Core 2 Duo
Good: Not needing to have the good.
Not Good: Struggling with the not needing to have the good.
Google New RSS Look
Task: Folder Sync
Henry Imler August 27th, 2006
I have a notebook and a desktop computer. I spend a considerable
amount of time on each of them. I use both to listen to music and to
work on school work. My problem is making sure I have the right files
in font of me when I go to work or listen to music. I wanted something
that would sync up folders for me. I wanted something that was easy to
use, fast, and reliable. I had looked for some open source solutions,
but they all had problems with my three requirements. Then I stumbled
on SyncToy,
a powertoy that Microsoft developed for digital photo users. Dispited
this, it works with any folder set and any file contents. I have set it
up to sync my music and MU folders. You can set it to run every day at
a certain time. You can also set what type of sync-ing you want to do:
- Synchronize: New and updated files are copied both ways. Renames and deletes on either side are repeated on the other.
- Echo: New and updated files are copied left to right. Renames and deletes on the left are repeated on the right.
- Subscribe: Updated files on the right are copied to the left if the file name already exists on the left.
- Contribute: New and updated files are copied left to right. Renames on the left are repeated on the right. No deletions.
- Combine: New and updated files are copied both ways. Nothing happens to renamed and deleted files.
A year ago today
Henry Imler August 24th, 2006
A year ago today, I bought a Tivo.
I don’t think I could ever go back to watching bare-bones TV. The
ability to pause, rewind, and fast-forward TV is incredible. I don’t
know how many times Meredith and I have been watching TV somewhere else
and went to pause it so that we could go cook dinner, or use the
restroom for example, and suddenly realize that great inconvenience
that is being tied to the moment.
The best way to find shows to set season passes for is to use the online search feature.
It is a whole lot less clumsy than trying to use the peanut to find
shows. Speaking of season passes - they are awesome. No matter how many
times ABC moves around Greys Anatomy, the Tivo will catch it for
Meredith.
Sure, I have had my issues with the networking of the Tivo, but I really like some of the features once you getting it up and running.
Tivo Desktop is great.
When we have people over for dinner, or Ticket to Ride sessions, we
take advantage of Tivo’s jukebox feature. We have the music pumped over
the network to the Tivo from our computer in the office and then on to
our stereo in the living room.
The other online services like weather, traffic, and movie tickets are nice, but I would rather use other services.
We have played around with using Tivo to Go to make DVDs of shows,
but it ends up being a hassle. It is actually easier to download a TV
show that a friend has missed rather than using the Tivo to Go
service to transfer it over to our computer and burn it to disc. The
MySonic software is terrible. It came with my new HP Laptop and it
screwed up every single time I went to burn a DVD.
We have liked our Tivo so much, we bought another one for our
bedroom. Now I can watch my Glenn Beck and Chappell Show while Meredith
is watching her Grey’s Anatomy and Gilmore Girls. No longer will
Oprah’s season pass conflict with STtNG’s.
Bottom line? I heart Tivo.
Roll Out
Henry Imler June 13th, 2006
Is this right? The Xbox360 is going to be a transformer?
The Movie Reporter’s Robert Sanchez writes, “I almost
forgot to mention one of the most stupid scenes in the script … For
reasons that I won’t get into, we see an iPod, Xbox 360, and plasma
screens sprout legs and transform just a bit.”Hmmm, well, yeah. Just a bit? Like the 360 transforms into a
360-with-legs? If there’s a PS3 in this movie, we can expect a whole
new metric for measuring the console wars, and just going on the two
console’s colors, we’re guessing the 360 is an Autobot. Just sayin’!Commence Energon cube jokes … now!
I think if anything, it should be a Decepticon. Well, I am sure that the old Xbox was big enough to be an actual transformer.
