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Now eminent apologist and bestselling author Norman L. Geisler, who was one of the original drafters of the "Chicago Statement," and his coauthor, William C. Roach, present a defense of the traditional understanding of inerrancy for a new generation of Christians who are being assaulted with challenges to the nature of God, truth, and language. Pastors, students, and armchair theologians will appreciate this clear, reasoned response to the current crisis.
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William C. Roach (BA Southern Evangelical Bible College; MA Southern Evangelical Seminary) has served as a research assistant to Dr. Norman Geisler, is an ordained minister, active speaker, and writer. He is currently a PhD student at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and resides in Wake Forest, North Carolina.
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devotedcanadaAge: 55-65Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5February 11, 2014devotedcanadaAge: 55-65Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5This review was written for Defending Inerrancy: Affirming the Accuracy of Scripture for a New Generation.this is another excellant work from apologist Norman Geisler.
A glossary of terms would be helpful for us lay people, but with the lack of sound teaching in many churches it is a good review or reminder of the continued truth of His word.
NeilSafford, AZAge: 45-54Gender: male4 Stars Out Of 5Book doesn't succeed in what it sets out to doMarch 19, 2013NeilSafford, AZAge: 45-54Gender: maleQuality: 4Value: 4Meets Expectations: 4This review was written for Defending Inerrancy: Affirming the Accuracy of Scripture for a New Generation.The book begins with an official sdescription of Biblical Inerrancy - as defined by the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy (ICBI). The authors do not begin with any arguments on whether or not there is any absolute truth to the notion of Inerrancy - nor whether the articles of inerrancy are even Biblical.
I was fine with it up to that point. But then there were some theology clubs that sprang up using the ICBI statement as a basis for membership. A number of Christian colleges also adopted versions of the statement. Still, fine.
But then, some people moved to eject theologians from those organizations, societies and colleges if they in any way disagree with the statement or (even more shocking to me) what the original framers of the statement MEANT by the articles in the statement. In other words, after the statement was framed, the framers became the sort-of supreme court on how the statement must be interpreted. I suppose that's fine; but some people were actually advocating the ruin of some peoples' careers based upon their disagreement with the theology of some of the framers of the ICBI statement! I got the very strong feeling that the articles of the statement achieved the level of inspired Scripture in the minds of the authors of this book.
As I read through the articles of the ICBI statement, I personally agreed with most of the articles but I didn't fully agree with all of them. I though to myself: It is fine with me if people want to adopt this statement. Some of the articles can be interpreted in a way with which I agree or possibly in ways I disagree.
The very first person the authors ambush is Clark Pinnock. Because Pinnock has a few really out-there positions (I counted one: that some of the accounts in the Bible are actually legends rather than actual chronicles), his whole theological approach to God is held in contempt. Best I can tell, the authors' real problem with Pinnock is that he rejects Calvinism. I also reject Calvinism so I took personally nearly every attack agains Pinnock.
The next victim is Bart Ehrman. He's an athiest (former believer). It made no sense to me that they attacked Ehrman - nor did the attack on Ehrman make any sense.
The bulk of the book went through and criticized various people for their rejection of the ICBI statement.
It's not till around page 300 that the authors actually try to defend inerrancy. Their support for it, in my humble opinion, is very weak. I bought the book hoping they would give strong arguments; but they started with a definition of inerrancy that I cannot fully embrace and then tried to tell me that the statement comes from Scripture. It doesn't.
We Bible students assume a lot - like, somehow, the 66 book cannon is closed. Everything that should be in is in and everything that's out should be out. I hold that view too; but it's an assumption and I know it. I believe the Scriptures are doctrinally inerrant but to think that it is historically inerrant is silly. There are too many cases in which small historical details are out of place in the scriptures.
One example: 2 Samuel 17:25 says Ithra is an Israelite. 1 Chronicles 2:17 says he's an Ishmaelite. One of them (2 Samuel) is incorrect. That does not mean the theology in 2 Samuel is in any way suspect. Doctrinally, it is inerrant.
Chris LandWichita Falls, TxAge: 25-34Gender: male4 Stars Out Of 5Good resource to have on a pastor's bookshelfFebruary 18, 2012Chris LandWichita Falls, TxAge: 25-34Gender: maleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 4This review was written for Defending Inerrancy: Affirming the Accuracy of Scripture for a New Generation.Inerrancy has become an issue not talked about among Evangelicals. The issues of marriage, sex, the doctrine of the Trinity, and church discipline seem to be the hot buttons today. This was not even discussed during the Elephant Room. Inerrancy has become, as someone said, the monkey in the room. There has not been that many books on the subject as of late.
In Defending Inerrancy, Norman Geisler and William Roach take on the issue of Inerrancy (the belief that the Bible is without error). The book is divided into three parts, the history of inerrancy controversy, recent challenges to inerrancy, and reexamination of inerrancy. When talking about the history of inerrancy, Geisler & Roach discussed the formation of the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy (ICBI), which this book made several references to. The second part, talks about pastors and theologians who have either challenged, denied, or have some weird theories regarding the issue of inerrancy. Some of the men talked about were Bart Ehrman, Kevin Vanhoozer, and Brian McLaren (I was surprised that he was mentioned in this book). The third part of the book looks more in depth into the issue of inerrancy. There are chapters that talk about the nature of God, truth, language, hermeneutics, and the Incarnation in relation to the doctrine of inerrancy. The final chapter takes the major objections dealing with inerrancy and responds to them.
A lot of great information in this book. There is so much that you try to read all at once, your brain will go into information overload (thank you Sportscenter for that phrase). This is good book for all pastors (in fact all lovers of God) to have on their shelf when dealing with inerrancy. It is lengthy but a valuable resource to have.
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i have a 1996 eclipse gs and everything time im driving it stalls on me and i fix eveything i could think it would be and it was not my problem i dont kno what do to..in order for me to turn on the car i have to disconnect the ecu plug cables and connected back in in order the car to turn on am so sick of this problem idk what to do.. plssss help me i changed da filter and fuel pump i think is my ecu but how can i kno its me ecu messing up?? - mralokatroniko
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75331332015-07-03T00:04:00.546-06:00Dubious QualityBill Harrishttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7533133.post-71176017096094338362015-07-03T00:04:00.000-06:002015-07-03T00:04:00.552-06:00Friday Links!This is a staggering piece of data visualization: The Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person for the Entire U.S.

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From The Edwin Garcia Links Machine, and man, this is special: Road to the Stars (1957). Here's a brief description from the YouTube page:
Road to the Stars (Russian: Дорога к звёздам) is a 1957 Soviet film directed by Pavel Klushantsev. It combines elements of science education films and speculative science fiction. The film was groundbreaking for its use of special effects to depict life in space.

The film was far ahead of its time in terms of cinematic special effects. In particular, it shows wheel-shaped space station eleven years before Kubrick's famous film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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This is a fascinating story, if you ever wondered what life on a submarine is like (seriously, who hasn't?): Confessions Of A U.S. Navy Submarine Officer.

Bill Harrishttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7533133.post-18517643961303217982015-07-02T15:16:00.000-06:002015-07-02T15:16:00.053-06:00The Wonderful, Wonderful Manual (your e-mail)From Tim Steffes:
I too remember those days of long in the past where you'd get not only an excellently designed manual, but lots of other goodies along with it. Included is a so-so cellphone shot of my Wing Commander 1 collection, from back in the day where floppy discs were actually floppy, and games (good ones at least) included forms to mail in your discs to get the other sizes instead.

As a bonus, WC1 includes four posters that are also 'technical specs' of the ships you fly, and a manual that is actually written 'in character' as if you're reading a magazine on board the ship you spend the entire game on.

It even includes something you'll never, ever find in modern PC gaming - the comment card.

I have its sequel around as well, but it's not quite as old-school looking as it actually has 3.5 inch discs in it (but I did buy a 'speech pack' instead for the game, as things like 'sound cards' and such were just becoming a thing for IBM PC Compatibles). Also, Wing Commander 3 was never on disc that I know of simply because it was absolutely filled with FMV (and very well done FMV at that). CD only.

Since I saw you mention Origin in your last story, as well as ancient PC gaming, I figured I might as well show off some little treasure of mine from that era.

One last bit - some of the screenshots on the back of the box, as well as on the front itself, are doctored or preproduction pictures (mostly there's something wrong with all of the screenshots of you in the cockpit). Everything else is real though.

I've mentioned this before, but I played Wing Commander on the 3DO (it was titled "Super Wing Commander"), and it was just fantastic. The 3DO version was CD-based, and it was substantially enhanced (both graphically and with full speech) from the original PC version. But I don't think I got all that cool stuff.
Bill Harrishttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7533133.post-10795103137838011972015-07-01T20:57:00.002-06:002015-07-01T20:57:54.419-06:00The Wonderful, Wonderful ManualTim Lesnick's pictures reminded me of how much I miss manuals.

Actually, I miss the entire unboxing experience, really. Playing a game in the old days was a process, not booting the game and playing within fifteen seconds. Open the box carefully, because some of the boxes were works of arts in themselves. Look at the finery inside. A nice manual, at least, plus maybe a cloth map if you were fortunate. Maybe even a coin or some kind of trinket.

I think that felt more personal to me than what we have today.

The last great box I remember (and it's been so long that I'm not sure I even remember this correctly) was Morrowind. A wonderful game, obviously, but so was the box. A beautiful manual, and I think a second book about Tamriel. Plus a lovely cloth map and a coin.

And if that's all wrong, I do have pleasantly enhanced memories, apparently.

There was just something about a well-written, entertaining manual that let you know the developers cared about their game. It established a relationship with you before the game was even booted up.

Thinking about manuals led me, strangely, to the end of Origin and games like Strike Commander. I'm still very sorry that no one wrote a book about the development process of Strike Commander, which came on 11 3.5" floppies. Just installing it took over half an hour. Also, if I remember correctly, it ran like total ass unless you had a supercomputer and an inconceivable amount of memory.

There was another Origin game that came on 20+ 5.25" floppies. I'm guessing it was Wing Commander III, but (again) I'm probably mistaken.

Eli 13.11 has no idea what it's like to sit down and read a manual and get thoroughly excited about a game. I'm hoping that will happen for him at least once.Bill Harrishttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7533133.post-51340259074895188072015-07-01T10:20:00.000-06:002015-07-01T10:20:00.101-06:00A Blast From The PastLook what Tim Lesnick sent me:

That's right. 5.25" floppies.Bill Harrishttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7533133.post-11412286059613362982015-06-30T18:46:00.000-06:002015-06-30T18:46:00.250-06:00The Easy DayEli 13.11 and I work out in the upstairs section of a hockey rink. It's a dedicated workout area, and that's where we do the workout I described a few weeks ago.

I do 1/3 of what he does. Seriously. And I'm sore the next day.

Eli had been sick for a couple of days last week, and when we go to the rink, I expected him to go at less than full speed. Told him that, even. I figured we'd go at about 80%, have a nice dinner after, and go home.

He was warming up when an AHL player we know (who is the nicest, most courteous guy on the planet) walked upstairs.

Eli looked at me and got a huge smile on his face.

This fellow used to play for the Texas Stars, then signed with another organization last summer, but still comes to Austin to do his offseason work. We've seen him work out before, and he works hard. HARD.

So even though Eli had been sick, it was clear that this was going to be no 80% workout.

After skipping rope, I stretched out the tape measure for the standing broad jump, which is one of the favorite things we do now. Three jumps.

On my second jump, I jumped 7'2". Boom (for me, anyway, as an old man).

Eli threw down this sequence:
8'4"
8'4"
8'5"

Utterly ridiculous. I think Eli was jumping with the hope that he was being watched. He wasn't, but what an incentive--having an AHL guy working out within thirty feet of you.

Here's one of the super not-normal things he does: one-legged squats on a balance ball.

In other recent news, he may be training with the trainers who will forever be known as the "Oh, SHIT!" guys. It seems like a good fit.

They did an "evaluation" workout yesterday. Vertical leap measured at 27" (that was after he worked out--I'm guessing it's a little better than that when he's fresh). He jumped onto a 42" high platform from a standing start.

Plus, they interviewed him.

One of the trainers/coaches asked "What is your goal? What is your true goal?"

Eli said, "I want to be the best goalie and the best person that I can be."

Good answer.Bill Harrishttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7533133.post-8816025984147764372015-06-29T11:50:00.002-06:002015-06-29T11:50:52.488-06:00Well, Hell: Contest Won In Record Time, Story AttachedJaby Jacob let me know that the quote is, indeed, on Google. Of course it's on Google.

Jaby wins the contest, since he was the first to e-mail, and here's the story. I've taken this from Fordlandia, Greg Gandin's brilliant investigation into Henry Ford's Fitzcarraldo-esque attempt to build a rubber plantation and "American civilization" in the Brazilian rainforest.

It's a brilliant book, both for the main river of content and all the little tributaries that pop up. The most interesting, to me, concerns Alberto Santos-Dumont, a Brazilian who was instrumental in development of both the dirigible and the airplane.

Here's the story, and it's haunting:
Villares probably didn't welcome the scandal's publicity. Yet for the nephew of Alberto Santos-Dumont, who Brazilians insist was robbed of the credit for inventing the airplane, there were worse fates than to be known as the man who bested Ford. Claiming to be suffering a nervous breakdown, Villares, induced by "threats, together with the payment of a sum of money"— both courtesy of Governor Bentes— boarded a steamer headed for France to retrieve his aviator uncle, who really had suffered an emotional collapse.

The disappointment of Alberto Santos-Dumont's life was not that he didn't get credit for inventing flight, though he did resent that the Wright brothers won all the acclaim. His real heartbreak was that he lived long enough to see the machine he helped develop be used as an instrument of death. Santos-Dumont wasn't an ideological pacifist like Henry Ford, but he did hope that airplanes would knit humanity closer together in a new peaceful community, just as Ford had believed that his car, along with other modern machinery, could bring about a warless world and a global "parliament of man." Both were of course proven wrong by World War I, which broke the conceit of many like Ford and Santos-Dumont that technology alone would usher in a new, higher stage of civilization. "I use a knife to slice gruyere," Santos-Dumont said when war broke out in Europe, "but it can also be used to stab someone. I was a fool to be thinking only of the cheese."

Ford dealt erratically with the fact that, after all his high-handed opposition to World War I, he turned his factories over to war production. He continued to speak out provocatively against war, maintaining his position that soldiers were murderers and quoting Tennyson's "Locksley Hall" to the end of his days. Yet Ford's faith in America as a revitalizing force in the world led him to say that he would support another war to do away with militarism. "I want the United States to clean it all up," he said. No wonder the Topeka Daily Capital said that Ford put the "fist in pacifist."

Santos-Dumont, in contrast, was crippled by just his mere association to a machine that was used for mass murder. He held himself "personally responsible for every fatality" caused by his "babies," that is, airplanes. "He now believes that he is more infamous than the devil," commented a friend. "A feeling of repentance invades him and leaves him in a flood of tears."

After the war he vainly called on governments and the League of Nations to "demilitarize' the airplane (a call that the surviving Wright brother, Orville, didn't support. Orville invoked a different kind of technological utopianism, insisting instead that the plane itself "has made war so terrible that I do not believe any country will again care to start a war"). But the slaughter continued, and death from above became a constitutive fact of modern life. Britain, for instance, encouraged by Minister of War and Air Winston Churchill, regularly bombed and strafed Arabs as a way of maintaining cost-effective control over its colonies. And on July 16, 1927, just a week after Ide and Blakeley arrived in Belém, US marines in Nicaragua staged their first dive-bombing campaign, against the rebel Augusto Sandino. Marine pilots descended to three hundred feet to fire four thousand rounds of ammunition and drop twenty-seven bombs on anything that moved. Hundreds were killed in the slaughter.

Throughout the 1920s, Santos-Dumont found himself checking in and out of various European sanatoriums, refusing to eat and losing weight. Death seemed to pursue him. Persuaded by his nephew Jorge to return to Brazil, Santos-Dumont arrived home a hero. A dozen of Brazil's leading politicians, intellectuals, and engineers boarded the Santos-Dumont, a bimotored seaplane, to meet the steamship that carried the flyer and his nephew as it entered Rio's harbor. But celebration turned to tragedy when one of the plane's motors exploded, plunging its passengers and crew members to their deaths and Santos-Dumont deeper into depression. When the ship landed at the quay, the aviator was "greeted with profound silence by the multitude."

And the killing continued. War broke out in early 1932 between Bolivia and Paraguay over a stretch of worthless, hellishly hot scrubland thought to hold oil. It was a fully mechanized slaughter, with both sides borrowing copious amounts of money from foreign banks and petroleum companies to purchase tanks and planes. By the time it was over, more than a hundred thousand Bolivians and Paraguayans were dead. That same year, after witnessing the aerial bombing of his beloved city of São Paulo by federal forces putting down a regional revolt, Santos-Dumont committed suicide. Having sent his nephew Jorge out on an errand, he spoke his last words to an elevator operator as he returned to his room to hang himself: "What have I done?"

Bill Harrishttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7533133.post-44686764577178803552015-06-29T10:51:00.002-06:002015-06-29T13:29:24.329-06:00A Small Contest [UPDATE: CONTEST OVER!]Google has ruined obscure knowledge contests, obviously.

However, after not having one for years, though, I have a quote that isn't found in Google.

This quote is from a man who surely had one of the most poignant lives in history, filled with brilliance, pain, and tragedy.

Here's the quote: "I was a fool to be thinking only of the cheese."

Who said it?

Oh, and don't bother with wild guesses. I 100% guarantee you will be incorrect.

What's the prize? $25 in Steam games of your choice.

I'll put up the answer tonight, if anyone has answered correctly. And I'll tell you the story, too, which--as I said--is poignant and terribly sad.Bill Harrishttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7533133.post-2053756616513261062015-06-26T00:09:00.000-06:002015-06-26T00:09:00.580-06:00Friday Links!Sorry, a little light this week, but there's some good stuff here.

Opening up, this is audacious and spectacular: In pictures: 3D art in China's rice paddy fields.

From Sirius, and this is fantastic: Smithsonian Digitizes & Lets You Download 40,000 Works of Asian and American Art.

From DQ Reader My Wife, and man, this is incredibly useful: How to never have a serious poison ivy rash again. Also, and you cannot watch this video without laughing, it's When you're having a bad day... then your jam comes on.

From 3Suns, and this is amazing: What the abandoned Silverdome looks like 13 years after the Detroit Lions left. Also, and this is a terrific arrangement: Miguel Rivera - Beat It (Michael Jackson) - Solo guitar. Also, and this is hilarious, it's Meanwhile I can't even stretch correctly.

From C. Lee, and these are amazing images: The American civil war then and now.

From Jim Bradley, and I rode yesterday, so I can really appreciate the skill here: Unicycle Hockey.

From The Edwin Garcia Links Machine, and this is INSANE: Isle of Man TT Sidecar Race Compilation. Also, and this is outstanding, it's Big Pun Bird. Also, and this is a fascinating presentation of data: The Arrogance of Space - Paris, Calgary, Tokyo.

Well, this is certainly something: Can the Bacteria in Your Gut Explain Your Mood?Bill Harrishttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7533133.post-52080650354184800192015-06-25T17:31:00.001-06:002015-06-25T17:31:54.780-06:00LimitsThe same lady has been cutting my hair for almost 30 years.

She's also been cutting the hair of the husband of one of Gloria's best friends for that long. I always get updates about what's going on with them from the haircutter, and I assume she gives him the same updates about us.

Today, we actually ran across each other.

He'd just gotten his hair cut, and I was next. It was great to see him.

"Hey, I saw Bert today," I said when I got home.

"What?" Gloria asked. "Getting his hair cut?"

"Yep," I said. "I was right after him."

"How long did you talk?" she asked.

"Fifteen minutes," I said. "I'm comfortable with one minute for every year I haven't seen someone, and I hadn't seen him in fifteen years." Eli 13.10 started laughing. "With some people, I'm comfortable pushing that to ninety seconds per year," I said.Bill Harrishttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7533133.post-44192036292315228822015-06-25T17:27:00.001-06:002015-06-25T17:27:49.246-06:00A Nice Guy MomentGood friends of ours moved to Chicago a few weeks ago, and last week, they were at O'Hare Airport.

So was Jonathan Toews, Captain of the Chicago Blackhawks and fresh off winning another Stanley Cup.

He took a picture with them.

That may not seem like much, but I think hockey players do it more often than players in any other team sport. And it was awesome.

Sorry, I'm not posting the picture for privacy reasons, but I've seen it, and everyone (including Toews) has a huge smile on their face.

Oh, and here's the funny part: Eli's friend, who is a few months younger than Eli and absolutely huge, is as tall as Toews. He even looks slightly taller in the picture.

He's also a goalie, and there must be something in the water down here, because he's 6'1", there's another goalie who is 14 and 6'0", and Eli is 5'9" and growing like crazy.

This is abnormal.Bill Harrishttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7533133.post-80733249869137438302015-06-24T15:10:00.000-06:002015-06-24T15:10:00.159-06:00The Mutability of Music (more of your e-mail)From Daniel:
Michael's response was an interesting angle, and I'd like to expand upon it.

I think his concept of "performance" is incomplete. I think all forms of art include "covers".

The success of the Da Vinci Code launched a wave of "covers". Bookshelves were filled with novels about a smart professor-type who stumbles across an age-old mystery solved by re-examining real legends and historical artifacts. (National Treasure is basically a film cover of the Da Vinci Code).

The success of Harry Potter launched a wave of "chosen kid discovers secret world hidden in the real world where he has special powers". Percy Jackson is probably one of the most notable.

New Sherlock Holmes books are still being written, so are new James Bond novels.

All that said, there is an interesting challenge when understanding the concept of a cover.

How do you view the cover of a song like Jonathan Coulton's "Baby Got Back", where he takes the words but otherwise completely re-invents the song?

And how does that compare to The Shakespeare Manuscript, which is literally a paint-by-numbers copy of the Da Vinci Code (lost secret, cover-up, clues hidden in artifacts, race to discover the truth, 'shocking' betrayal of major character)?

Is the art the principles underlying it? Or the execution? Is there much difference between Dave Matthews selling 50 CDs of different recordings of the same damn songs and Dan Brown selling 4 books that all follow the exact same plot? (I'm really being hard on poor Mr. Brown here, but the example stands).

This brings something to mind that I hadn't thought of originally: the accessibility of mutability.

Mutability is easier to explore in music because it's song-focused. An interesting cover of an existing song is probably 3-5 minutes in length. A book, though, is a many-hour investment of time. So mutability is certainly more accessible in music, which may have influenced my perception of its frequency.

There are occasionally full album tributes, though. Dub Side of the Moon is pretty fantastic as a reggae tribute to Dark Side of the Moon (you can listen to it here), and my favorite version of Holst's The Planets is Tomita's electronic version. They just take a huge amount of time to create.

Bill Harrishttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7533133.post-70883585899133691112015-06-23T14:54:00.001-06:002015-06-23T14:54:10.622-06:00AhFrom Chris, who saw this in a Reddit thread:
Thailand. They put water soluble paint on the bottom of the jet skis the tourists hire. It looks fine when you pick it up but then the paint comes off when your using it revealingly a bunch of scratches on the hull. When you return it they point to all the scratches, say you must have run over something, and keep your deposit.

The bottom gets painted again and they wait for the next sucker.

Different country, but that sounds exactly the same.

I don't think that's indicative of most people in Thailand (or anywhere else), but there are people everywhere who will seek every advantage, legal or not.Bill Harrishttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7533133.post-11779276094026946602015-06-23T11:56:00.001-06:002015-06-23T11:56:16.246-06:00ParadiseOne of my buddies took his family on a vacation to St. John this week as a graduation present for his daughter (who is an absolutely great kid).

St. John, in case you didn't know, is a small island just east of Puerto Rico, and one of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

"It's like paradise," he said, the day they got there.

This morning, he called.

"Do you know any good personal injury lawyers?" he asked.

Here's what happened. They boarded a ferry that eventually ran onto a reef. He was asleep in his car, and his knees got slammed badly enough that he's only able to walk with quite a bit pain. His wife was cut in several places, and it was awful all around. Now the lawyers for the ferry company are hounding him about signing a release, which he is clearly not stupid enough to do.

Wait, there's more.

Yesterday, his daughter and her boyfriend took out some rented kayaks, came back after several hours, and the the person operating the shop tried to charge them an outrageous amount of money for "scratches" on the bottom of the kayak.

"Why the hell would anybody care if the bottom of a kayak is scratched?" I asked.

"I don't know," he said.

"If they want to pull that crap," I said, "then they should take a picture of the bottom of the kayaks before they rent them. That sounds one hundred percent sketchy."

"I didn't pay it," he said. "The kids swore they never ran over anything, and they never showed us the bottoms before they rented them. But I got into a hell of a shouting match with the owner."

"I'm glad you found a relaxing place to take vacation," I said.

"I've had enough of paradise," he said.Bill Harrishttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7533133.post-61282938317821340332015-06-22T11:22:00.005-06:002015-06-22T11:22:51.357-06:00ShenmuePenny Arcade captured the essence of Shenmue perfectly today: You Had To Be There.Bill Harrishttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7533133.post-66848878966311679432015-06-22T11:07:00.001-06:002015-06-22T11:07:55.232-06:00Father's DayAs many of you know, I have an unshakable routine that I follow every morning.

No matter what else might be happening, I swing by P. Terry's for a big piece of banana bread and a Diet Coke. And I sit there for half an hour, at least, reading or checking the Internet for morning news.

This has gone on for a few years. Every morning, if I'm in town, I'll go do this. It's very calming, and it helps me settle in for the day.

Because I go every day, I know everyone who works at P. Terry's. I know who's going to college, who has kids, the kind of music people like. They know that Eli plays hockey.

It's nice.

So for Father's Day, Gloria and Eli 13.10 agreed to eat at P. Terry's with me for breakfast. Eli's never gone with me before.

I walked in. "BILL!" someone said. Eli laughed.

We placed our order and sat down. "The lady who took our order likes rap music," I said. "That's who I talk to about Fetty Wap and Young Thug."

Eli laughed again, harder this time. "How do you know all this?" he said.

"I ask questions," I said. "And I listen."

Then the manager came out from around the back. "Bill! Happy Father's Day!" she said.

"Thanks!" I said. I waited a few beats. "She just changed her hair," I said.

Eli almost did a spit take.Bill Harrishttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7533133.post-78410554625258498792015-06-22T10:58:00.003-06:002015-06-22T10:58:57.567-06:00JuneteenthI should have posted about this last week, but Juneteenth is the oldest commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States, and it was celebrated last weekend. Here's a description:
Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free.

If you're interested, here's a primary Juneteenth website.

I assume that all of you have--by now--heard and read about the massacre at the South Carolina church last.

What you may not know, particularly if you're not American, is the incredible, reprehensible nature of the debate that has followed. It's nauseating how many people have contorted themselves into logic pretzels arguing that this isn't about racism (because racism doesn't exist in the U.S. anymore, remember?) or guns (because it's never about guns, right?).

I know I don't usually right about anything even remotely political--we all prefer it that way--but this has broken my back. What a sad, disturbing time for this country.

Bill Harrishttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7533133.post-22773907832612803382015-06-21T20:27:00.001-06:002015-06-21T20:27:16.832-06:00U.S. OpenThe last round lasted so long I needed a meal plan.Bill Harrishttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7533133.post-4684133328551058482015-06-19T00:05:00.000-06:002015-06-19T00:05:00.379-06:00Friday Links!From Sirius, and this is amazing: Absurd Creature Of The Week: This Bug is Big as a Gerbil. Fortunately It Loves Carrots.

From Cody, and this is such a great story: NHL Star P.K. Subban Joined A Street Hockey Game, Got Stopped By An 8 Year-Old.

From Craig, and these are amazing images: Workers discover preserved writings, drawings on slate blackboards at OKC high school.

From Shane Courtrille, and this is terrific: If I Knew Then: Advice on careers, finance, and life from Harvard Business School's Class of 1963.

From The Edwin Garcia Links Machine, and this is a wonderful gift for a wedding: Rolando's Wedding Song. One more, and it's a brilliant mash-up: Bloodsport Mentos Commercial.

From Steven Kreuch, and this is a long, fantastic article: What Is Code?

This is a fascinating article: Where Have You Gone, Secretariat?

Yes, I'm a sucker for cute animal links: 22 Before-And-After Photos Of Pets Growing Up With Their Favorite Toys.

From J. R. Parnell, and this is such a great story: When a little boy lost his stuffed tiger at the airport, airport staff took him on an awesome adventure.

From C. Lee, and this is just awesome: This cat and old guy pair go motorcycling together, are incredibly adorable.

From Hennie van Loggerenberg, and this is highly useful: The Best And Worst Airlines, Airports And Flights, Summer 2015 Update.

From Jeff Fowler, and this is slow loading, but amazing: Abandoned Soviet Shuttles.Bill Harrishttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7533133.post-75484210028529959282015-06-18T12:49:00.000-06:002015-06-18T12:49:00.233-06:00Eli 13.10 In NetIt's been quite a while (years, I guess) since I actually showed you video of Eli 13.10 playing in goal.

I'm very crappy about taking video, because it takes me out of watching, and it never seems to be quite the right time to take it, etc.

Last weekend, though, for once, I finally took some video of him during a drill.

Here's the setup. The three kids shooting are from 15-17 years of age. The kid in yellow (who is a great kid, and the other two shooters are as well) is huge, as you can see, and he shoots with the power of an adult.

Here's how the drill works: one of the three shooters takes a shot, then the other two rush the net. In other words, if you give up a rebound in this drill, you get killed.

This video shows Eli doing almost everything: stick saves (directed to corners), blocker saves (directed to corner), glove saves, you name it.

The objective of a goalie during a game is not just to make saves. Their high-level objective is to make "safe" saves: catch, corner, or cover. A glove save is a catch, or the puck can be directed into a corner (no shots possible from there), or cover or trap the puck for a face-off.

Here's the video, and it will be more fun to watch if you enlarge it to full-screen size. It's easier to see the shot speed that way.

Bill Harrishttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7533133.post-50413217440116008442015-06-17T14:24:00.000-06:002015-06-17T14:24:00.089-06:00The Mutability of Music (your e-mail)Michael sent a beautifully crafted and thoughtful response to my post last week about the mutability of music, and he graciously agreed to allow me to share it with you.
***

I hope you'll indulge a ramble. Your post "On the Mutability of Music" sent me down some paths and I've got, I think, a bit of an angle to consider it by.

So, the difference between an art like music and an art like literature, and why one thrives and grows with variations on the same work and the other doesn't, or hasn't: Hemingway talked about the distinction in "Death in the Afternoon," where he makes a case for bullfighting as art (something that seventy years on is so morally untenable as to hit the ear wrong). He references the permanent arts and compares them to the impermanent, the arts of record to the arts of experience.

Our modern arts are all, by dint of a breadth of technology that makes every experience recordable in some fashion, a combination of the two. Music is obviously recorded, and has been in some form or another for centuries . And we have, as you pointed out, Shakespeare's folio. So music and theater are both, obviously and in a way, recorded. They are permanent. But they are also directly experienced by the senses, and so are in a way impermanent.

And distilling down to the essences, I would suppose that the real difference of variations-on-a-work between an art like music and an art like literature is the media involved--specifically when performers, people, are part of the medium. It's people that deliver music into my head. They may read from pages, permanently recorded pages, but they create an experience and deliver that experience to me. Literature comes into my head from the code on the page; there's no one else between me and it.

No one's interested in "covering" Michelangelo's "David." People replicate it, sure, and there are plenty lifelike Adonises. But if "David" were a piece of choreography we'd have a thousand versions by now.

Films are remade all the time. How many Tarzans do we have? How many Herculeses? There are THREE versions of "The Omega Man" on film. "The Departed" is "Infernal Affairs" and the US made an "Old Boy" only ten years after the original. Film is performance. Film is people putting the art into our senses through their expression. So film is covered, remade, and we're (mostly, because Jesus, Hollywood) fine with it.

So I have to think that if we still listened to storytellers instead of reading from the page ourselves, we could have multiple versions of popular works and love them all.

Maybe having performers as part of the medium keeps the audience from taking full ownership of the work, makes the consumption of the art something more akin to relationship. I'm not interested in copies of things I own. But strangers who remind me of friends, that'll pique me.

Bill Harrishttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7533133.post-82880415983718740732015-06-17T09:53:00.003-06:002015-06-17T09:53:45.024-06:00Startling

Coincidence? I don't think so.Bill Harrishttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7533133.post-78920279367355192892015-06-16T12:18:00.001-06:002015-06-16T12:18:27.594-06:00E3Not anywhere near as exciting as it was in the old days, but E3 is still interesting. Here's a brief recap of Microsoft/Sony press conferences, using the same format as last year.

MICROSOFT
Sequel
Sequel
New Keiji Inafune IP (not this year)
**backwards compatibility with 360 (limited)**
New Elite $150 controller
Sequel
Titanfall on EA Access
Sequel
Sequel
Sequel
The Division (not this year)
Sequel
Gigantic ("team action game", this year)
Indie (Goat Sim, Superhot, Ark, Cuphead, Tacoma, Ashen, Beyond Eyes)
Early Access
Dean Hall new IP (Ion, space game, not this year)
Sequel
Rare Collection
Sea of Thieves (new Rare IP, not this year)
Sequel
Valve and Oculus VR
Minecraft on Hololens
Remaster
Sequel

In brief:
--backwards compatibility with the 360 is fantastic, if they support it. If you have the original game disc, inserting it into the Xbox One will trigger a download of the compatible version. The only catch is that while they're claiming 100 games "to start", the list they put out only had about a dozen games.

This is a significant point of distinction from the PS4 (where you have to pay for the download) if they choose to focus on it.
--strong assortment of indie games.
--Sea of Thieves (new Rare IP) looks terrific.
--apparently, Microsoft has totally abandoned Kinect and is now focusing on Hololens and working with Oculus and Valve. While it's frustrating to see companies abandoning technology they spent hundreds of millions of dollars on marketing to convince you to buy it in the first place, Hololens does look much more promising. The Minecraft demo for Hololens was staggering.
--Crackdown 3 was not mentioned. Boo.

SONY
The Last Guardian (not this year, but in 2016)
Horizon: Zero Dawn (open world RPG, not this year)
Sequel
Sequel
No Man's Sky (no release date)
Dreams (Media Molecule's new game, not this year)
Firewatch (indie, no release date)
Sequel
Sequel
Sequel
Final Fantasy 7 remake
Shenmue 3 Kickstarter
Morpheus (no release date, no price)
Sequel
Sequel
Sequel
Sequel
Sequel

In brief:
--a strong collection of games (very strong, at least for my tastes), but none of the new IP they mentioned is coming out this year. That's painful.
--the Shenmue kickstarter needed $2 million to be funded. It's about to hit $2.5 million in less than 24 hours. It's going to get $10 million+ easily, and maybe much, much more. It's been so long that many people don't even know what the Shenmue games were and why they were important, but for anyone even vaguely old-school, this might be the biggest announcement of E3.

Believe it or not, both of these presentations were stronger than last year's--at least, what I remember from last year.

Bill Harrishttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7533133.post-57674522476364733842015-06-15T20:12:00.002-06:002015-06-15T20:12:21.370-06:00True StoriesThis is from DQ Fitness Advisor Doug Walsh, in response to the picture of the gigantic 64 oz. soda cup last week.

I was in a convenience store in the Dallas area (Plano). I had just gone running. It was early Sunday morning and I was going to be headed to Gearbox after a quick shower. The guy in front of me has this massive 64oz bucket-with-a-handle travel mug of soda. I watched him fill this thing with Coca-Cola, a few ice cubes, and a splash of Orange soda on top. Not a bad combo, if I do say so myself.

Anyway, he gets to the cashier and she says, "Is that going to be it for you today?" To which he replies, "Yeah, this is all. I tend to get thirsty in church."

I will never forget this moment for as long as I live.

Bill Harrishttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7533133.post-38427466157572474812015-06-15T09:52:00.000-06:002015-06-15T09:56:56.679-06:00The Eagle Has LandedEli 13.10 was in a local goalie camp this weekend.

It's the first time there's been a local goalie camp, and he thoroughly enjoyed himself. Plus, in addition to on-ice work, they went to a local training facility for very, very tough off-ice workouts.

The guys who run this training facility are ex DI football players (the highest level of college football), and they look the part. I'm going to guess that all three of them were either cornerbacks or safeties in college, to give you an idea of their size.

Their trainer for the first workout introduced himself and said that before they started training, he wanted to see how far they could jump. He stretched out a tape measure to 8'0", then asked one of his partners to come over and demonstrate.

He exploded off the line and jumped 8'1". The kids oohed and aahed.

Goalies started jumping. Eli was at the end of the line (a dramatist at heart). When he stepped up to jump, the longest jump before him had been 6'11".

He'd already been on the ice for an hour and a half earlier in the day, and he didn't warm up before he jumped.

Like I said, though, he has a flair for the dramatic.

He walked up, set his feet, swung his arms three times, and jumped. "Oh, SHIT!" said the ex-D1 football player as Eli landed beyond the tape. One of the other trainers put his hands on his head and ran in circles.

8'5".

I forget sometimes how ludicrous it is when he jumps. To me, it's just normal. It is clearly not normal, though, and I'm reminded of that when other people see him.

Here's a terrific photo of him during the workout (I didn't take it, so no complaints about the aspect ratio!):

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From Matt Kreuch, and this is a very, very large shark: Largest great white shark ever videotaped underwater?

From Marc Klein, and this is a remarkable story: Larry Sanders Walked Away From the NBA and $27 Million, and He's Never Felt Better.

Remember those toilet swirling videos from last week? Thanks to Ian Tyrrell, you can now see them synced and side-by-side: The Truth About Toilet Swirl.

From Steven Davis, and these are very poignant: Remembering World War 1 | Remembrance Weekend | Some of Britain's finest actors read poetry from World War I. Next, and this is quite fantastic, it's Students Build Pedal-Powered Wooden Monowheel. Next, and this is stunning, it's Incredible Balloon Sculptures of Animals and Insects by Masayoshi Matsumoto. One more, and this is fascinating: Process: How to Hand-Carve Mahjong Tiles. Wait, there's even one more, and it's astonishing: A Self-Folding Origami Robot That Can Walk, Climb, Dig, Carry, Swim and Dissolve into Nothing.

From Ted, and this is outstanding: Chris Hadfield's 'Most Canadian Music Video Ever' Is So Darn Nice.

From Sirius, and this is absolutely fascinating: The Mystery of the Margate Shell Grotto. Also, and this is outstanding, it's Newly Identified 'Hellboy' Dinosaur Sported Unique Horns, Scientists Say.

From DQ Reader My Wife, and this is a fantastic read: Your Memory is Like the Telephone Game.

From 3Suns, and this is both interesting and frightening: SEAL Team 6: A Secret History of Quiet Killings and Blurred Lines.

From Chris Pencis, and this is another excellent bit of xkcd: Up Goer Five. Next, and this is clever parody: Space Weird Thing.

From Mike Gilbert, and this is both tremendously sad and very profound: This Animated Data Visualization Of World War II Fatalities Is Shocking.

This is a very good dog: Service Dog Throws Self In Front Of Bus To Save Blind Owner's Life.

This is an incredible story, but it's also intense and painful to read: More Than 80 People Died In A Single Racing Crash 60 Years Ago Today.Bill Harrishttp://email@example.com


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