About ME!
University of Pennsylvania Grad
Central High School 244th
Married to Sylvia
We live in Philadelphia
Tenth Pres. Church
I work at SIAM
on Cold Fusion apps.
Personal quirks!
Neil Gaiman's The Sandman
My Ebay Auctions
CAPO
James B. Jordan
Reformed theology
SF author Gene Wolfe
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- Lupine Nuncio (Gene Wolfe)
Recommended Eyeball Resters
I enjoy The Sandman, a comic book published by DC, and written by Neil Gaiman. It's very well written and the story is dense with resonances to myth and legend. Annotations for every issue are available. While The Sandman has finished it's run, it is available in trade paperback editions.
Other good comics that I read include
Tales of the Beanworld (see my Beanworld MtG expansion), Tom Strong,
and Cerebus.
I have a whole site about Science Fiction author Gene Wolfe. Check it out, especially my blog news page. I also recommend Cordwainer Smith and Charles Williams for some of the more mind-bending speculative fiction available.
Theological Writings
Some papers I wrote for a seminary class at Philadelphia Theological Seminary (Reformed Episcopal) taught by Ray Sutton are available here. The latter was a paper I did for myself, to give to my session.
This is quite an effective ad against Obama's candidacy. All voices of Democrats, and Obama himself from 2004 saying he didn't think he was the kind of person to be ready to be president four years hence.
I was very struck by this moving "geeklist" from a Crohn's disease sufferer. Its a unique look at how a community of affiliation (boardgamers) are using the tools of the internet to reach out. Wow.
I know of two sufferers of this disease myself, and the dialog he posted is very illuminating.
Call me depraved, but I found Cracked.com's The (Mentally Ill) Idiot’s Guide To Amazon.com to be pretty funny, especially the wishlist part.
Cracked.com is pretty hit or miss, but the hits are good.
When "narrative" becomes an excuse - Reformation21 Blog
God's word is more than narrative. It is divine revelation.Yeah, so?
Its divine revelation in the form of narrative. Its revelation of a narrative, and in a narrative. (Plus other stuff, I think everyone grants)
"Would-be" theologians are apparently undermining the normative authority of scripture by appealing to narrative (who?)
Duncan doesn't give me enough here to do anything but suspect a false antithesis.
Peter Leithart was discussing hermeneutics, in reference to Jorge Gracia’s Theory of Textuality. Gracia uses the example of the playing of games to illustrate how an author can "intend" one thing, but a different or wider meaning can result. A player might not (often doesn't) know the full import of his move for the game as a whole.
Intriguing.
Also interesting because I've noticed in playing games with my kids (see Ticket to Ride, left, for the latest...) that they can become quite bothered by the fact that what they intended by the move isn't actually the result of the move. She "meant" to take my Knight, not leave an opening for my Bishop to take her Queen. Often times the kids want their full intentions realized in the play of the game, and when that doesn't happen, it can be frustrating.
I'm sure all my fellow TMBG friends already knew this, but apparently, TMBG recorded a "simlish" translation of their song Take Out The Trash. Simlish is the pidgin nonsense language that the characters in Maxis "The Sims" game speak when interacting.
Pretty geekily amusing.
"Took a la treesh!"
