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Monthly Archives: May 2009

The Variety of Perfections

4 CommentsMay 29, 2009

I turned on the radio just now and caught the tail end of Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 as performed by the Estonian National Orchestra. I don’t normally listen to classical music, but something about the sounds I heard kept me from changing the station. The last few chords of the piece sounded out—deep, rich, [...]

Posted in faith, music, science

The Idea Economy

2 CommentsMay 28, 2009

Could anyone really think that the world was created by four-foot tall scientists from another planet who appeared to a French journalist and revealed to him the secrets of free sex and salvation? You bet they could: 80,000 of them, proponents of the Raelian Movement. Could anyone still believe in Leprechauns? How about a leprechaun [...]

Posted in faith, thinking

House of Shadows: Tech Demo

11 CommentsMay 27, 2009

House of Shadows is a Flash-based web game I’ve been working on for quite some time. It is set on Halloween night. You are a young boy trick-or-treating with your little sister. As you inch past a creepy old house, she decides to run up and knock on the door. It opens and suddenly she [...]

Posted in games, programming, technology

Spinning Up and Spinning Down

3 CommentsMay 26, 2009

So you want to write a novel. Or learn to play guitar. Or exercise regularly. But no matter how hard you want it, you never can seem to fit it into your schedule. You tell yourself, “If I could just write two hours a day, I could finish my novel in less than a year. [...]

Posted in productivity

A Timeline for Geeky Fathers

2 CommentsMay 25, 2009

After our son was born, the book that was ever under my wife’s nose was What to Expect the First Year. It had endless charts telling what was normal, subnormal, and downright weird for a child to be doing at various milestones. Gas smiles at one month. Real smiles at four months. Picks own nose [...]

Posted in family, programming, technology