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Gig: Passionate Heart 08 in Lahti, Nov 22
23 years ago
The good people of Lahti have asked me back to DJ at Passionate Heart 08. It’s an evening of music, dance and community outreach, and this year it will be in their newly renovated facility building, which I hear is great.
Passionate Heart 08
@ Wanha Walimo (Vesijarvenkatu 25, Lahti)
Nov 22nd, 6-10ish
Free entrance
Come on out to hear yours truly dropping some of 2008′s finest trance and progressive music.
English Hothouse Cucumbers, and other innapropriate forms of measurement
13 years ago
by Jonathan Puddle
in Personal
Maija subscribed us to a number of pregnancy emails regarding the development of our baby. We get a couple of emails each week, updating us with how big the baby may be, and providing advice and various pieces of information. It’s all quite good and informative, except for the sometimes strange choice of fruits or vegetables used to describe the size of the fetus (or foetus, if you prefer). They range from recognizable, common fruit (which gives us a good idea the size of the baby), to ambiguous and mysterious food items, which surely isn’t helpful in letting us know much of anything.
I present to you a list of the ways our baby’s size has been described, over the last 16 weeks. Italicized, are those I find amusing.
- a head of cauliflower
- an English hothouse cucumber
- an average rutabaga
- an ear of corn
- a large mango
- a spaghetti squash
- a carrot
- a large heirloom tomato
- a bell pepper
- a turnip
- an avocado
- an apple
- a lemon
- a medium shrimp
- a lime
- a fig
- a grape
I’m sure kumquat was listed one week, but I can’t find it now.
HIV cured via bone marrow transplate
23 years ago
by Jonathan Puddle
in Uncategorized
Slashdot is reporting the intriguing news that a German doctor has cured a patient of HIV (2 years free of the virus) with a bone marrow transplant from a person naturally immune. Very exciting stuff.
Jesus and the Canaanite woman
13 years ago
There’s a great discussion going on over one of nakedpastor’s recent posts, about Jesus talking to the woman who’s daughter was tormented by a demon (Matthew 15: 21-28). Check it out, you might enjoy the conversation.
Persistent Truths | nakedpastor.
Nakedpastor:
I think this sheds light on Jesus learning obedience (Hebrews 5:8). The story begins with him possessing a rather fundamentalist mindset, but ends with him perhaps surprised that faith can be found in other than the people of God as he understood it (”Woman, great is your faith!“). I love this story because it exhibits his humanity… a man forced to come to terms with truth foreign to what he is already certain of. He has to adjust, or amend, his theology because of the arguments of this woman.
A commenter:
Even at 12, Jesus knew He had to be about His Father’s business (Lk. 2.41ff). As He ‘continued to grow and become strong, increasing in wisdom; and the grace of God was upon Him’ (Lk. 2.40), I believe that means He matured into His human understanding of His Christological and soteriological purposes that did not need further illumination from a Gentile. That’s why, in my earlier post, I wrote that I would be uncomfortable agreeing with our gracious host’s suggestion of the encounter leading to Jesus amending His theology. But I continue to be fascinated with the ‘Christ of faith and the Jesus of history’ (thanks to faithlessinfatima), which is how I understood the primary direction of Rev. Nakedpastor’s post to take. Certainly at face value, the encounter with the Syrophoenician woman implies a debate with Jesus that ended with Jesus ‘capitulating’ to her request. It is reminiscent of Abraham bargaining with God over the doom of Sodom (Ge. 18.22-33) and Moses speaking to the LORD in a way that God ‘changed His mind about the harm which He said He would do to His people.’ – Ex. 32.14 (NAS) My Reformed Theology friends really have difficulty with that one.
BBC News flash player goes to 11
13 years ago
by Jonathan Puddle
in Uncategorized
Hahaha… so good! Look in the bottom right corner at the volume control.
Amazon’s new packaging initiative: Oh please oh please!
03 years ago
I came across Jeff Bezos’ announcement on Amazon yesterday, regarding their new packaging plan. Slashdot reported it as well. Basically, they’ve convinced a number of manufacturers to simplify and green-ify their product packaging, and are hoping this will catch on over the next few years.
All I can say is good freaking job Amazon. Here is a company using it’s clout to effect some positive change. I am sick of the massive amount of plastic and crap I get sent when I order just about anything, from just about anywhere. Simplicity of opening is one thing, as I have certainly sliced my fingers (and mouth) when trying to open plastic sealed RAM and memory cards, not to mention toys. But the materials used are what urks me the most; so much plastic for often small items. It’s very wasteful.
My only fear is that this may result in some cases of mindless box sizing. Like the example I posted previously of HP sending ridiculous packaging, we get the same thing from Ingram Micro and CDW. They generally have a set number of box sizes, and the minimum size may be much larger than some of the items they ship. Periodically you’ll get a USB hub smaller than your fist arriving in a 1 foot by 1/2 foot box. Sad really.
But if companies can avoid this pitfall, then more power to Amazon and this great initiative!
Firefox 3 still chews the memory
23 years ago
by Jonathan Puddle
in Tech
It seriously does. I provide the following as evidence. This was taken when I had 10 or so tabs open, usual stuff, Gmail, and some other generally light browsing.
Insane.
It’s dark outside
33 years ago
by Jonathan Puddle
in Personal
4:30 and the sun has already set. It’s only going to get darker :)
In other words, we’re home from Canada. We had a really superb time, got to see *almost* everyone we wanted to, and returned home exhausted.
Our next project is to get out of debt. Baby’s not far off, and we’d like to clear all all our short-term debt before then, which is a very attainable goal for us at present. If you’re the praying kind, pray for wisdom for us, and provision.
Exercising
33 years ago
by Jonathan Puddle
in Personal
I exercised my democratic right to vote today, in the Canadian Federal Election. My first time out. I would like to say that I added Keyser Söze to the ballot and voted for him, but I did not.
I’m also missing the regular exercise we get in Finland. I fear I’m gaining weight in this country already. We miss the slower pace and the long walks. But it’s nice to be here, all the same.
Memory is a fickle siren’s song
13 years ago
by Jonathan Puddle
in Personal
We arrived in Paris on Sunday evening, and spent Monday sightseeing in the city. We hit up a number of monuments, that I will list later once I can spell them correctly. We visited a small church in Belleville where I lived for a time as a child. I remembered some parts of it, but much had changed.
We spent yesterday in Versailles, which was really lovely, and today back in Paris and travelling out the countryside where we are now. Tomorrow we’ll be exploring the country village I spent 6 months growing up in. A lot can (and has) changed in 15 years, it would seem. It is quite strange, walking back in memories many years old. I keep expecting my mind to go *bang* and all these memories start coming back, like Jason Bourne. Not that I’ve lost any memories perse, but you know what I’m saying.
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