Getting Debianized
The time has come. The inevitable can be postponed no more. I’m switching my desktop computer to Debian Linux. I should have embraced Debian from the beginning. Please allow me to offer my excuse for not having done so 26 years ago.
NewsNation Rewinds to a Better News Era
After the long holiday weekend, the cable news talking heads returned to their flashy sets. One led with an impassioned speech about the horrors of the October 7 attack on Israel and the tragedy of the hostages killed this weekend — and didn’t immediately pivot to score a partisan point. That encapsulates upstart network NewsNation’s approach.
Where Is Naomi Wu?
It was such a cute gadget. A tiny computer, brushed aluminum on the outside, with a decent keyboard (albeit with chicklet keys), a Thinkpad-ish pointing stick that would even take a grippy Thinkpad “cat’s tongue” insert. A fairly fast X86 Intel processor, enough storage, and 8 gigs of memory. And now it was on sale at a low price.
Amateur Hour Needs to End
In Vice President Harris’s nomination speech, she labeled President Trump an “unserious man.” She was right, but she should know: she could wear the “unserious” label just fine herself.
It's Worse Than Alvin Predicted
Alvin Lee was a rock-and-roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter of some note. Anyone who has seen the “Woodstock” movie surely remembers him and his band, Ten Years After, performing “I’m Going Home.” It didn’t impart the sense that Lee was high in the intellectual hit parade. But he was at least a talented predictor of future events, as I was reminded this week.
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This Week's Devotional: Of What Advantage to Us is Christ’s Ascension? (September 8, 2024)
Pastor Tim helps us think about the next question in the New City Catechism (“Of What Advantage to Us is Christ’s Ascension?”).
You can read Catechism Question #51 right here that Tim refers to below. Then, please join us 15 minutes after our 5:30 p.m. service today as we pick back up with this question and question 51.
Sermons and Devotionals
| The Low and Slow of Trials (September 2, 2024) |
| This Week at Little Hills: What Does Christ’s Resurrection Mean for Us? (August 25, 2024) |
| Flopping on the Deck (August 26, 2024) |