Interesting Word reading The Lifebox, The Seashell, and the Soul

MSN Search: define logician: "Definition:
logician logic specialist"
Bet it looks great on a resume.

The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul

Here's an interesting combination of philosophpy and computers. Might put it on my Christmas list.

We're presently in the midst of a third intellectual revolution. The first came with Newton: the planets obey physical laws. The second came with Darwin: biology obeys genetic laws. In today’s third revolution, were coming to realize that even minds and societies emerge from interacting laws that can be regarded as computations. Everything is a computation.

Does this, then, mean that the world is dull? Far from it. The naturally occurring computations that surround us are richly complex. A tree's growth, the changes in the weather, the flow of daily news, a person's ever-changing moods --- all of these computations share the crucial property of being gnarly. Although lawlike and deterministic, gnarly computations are --- and this is a key point --- inherently unpredictable. The world's mystery is preserved.

Faith's Brian Kiss

Couldn't resist posting this one.

Family and Baby Brian

Beautiful Baby and Mom

Here's an interesting link, its a search engine that finds all mention of the word sojourner in the Bible.

Here's another one in Hebrews; hey, look who he was sojourning with, "... dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob..."

Also, here is the verse that Michael and Nancy gave. In several versions, the word 'sojourner' is replaced with pilgrim. This is the entire chapter 11 and commentaries on this chapter about faith.

Is this intentional on Michael and Nancy's part? Choosing a name from a chapter speaking of Faith?

Hello Brian Sojourner Brough

Hip Hip hooray!! And yeah for Aunt Nancy, at 9 lbs 13 ozs I think we have a new rugby prop on our hands.
We weren't sure the definition of sojourner, but here's a couple of guesses. We'll have to wait for the parent's explanation. We're ready for playing!!

Great quote of the day

Great quote of the day
Found an awesome quote to celebrate getting a house.  But, it applies to anyplace you feel at home.
Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey "May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility."

Document for Michael - How to be published quickly

One more comment on your paper Michael. Your mother mentioned when we saw her during the summer, that she found herself reading your papers with a dictionary in hand. I wanted you to see the power of the web. http://www.writely.com/View.aspx?docid=af65sc5fcjr

You can link words or phrases that you think might be difficult, or you want to give a concrete exemple of to web sites, or as I have done, a Google search. Click on your phrase 'jus ad bellum' or the Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman's name. This makes your document extremely dynamic, people can get as much out of it as they need.

I didn't want to publish your entire article, but will with your permission. Then, instead of giving people a copy, you can just give them a link. I've also made it so you can revise this copy.

New House

Take a look at the new house on Google maps. Very cool! Nancy inspired this post with her question.
What you can't see in the map is the bayou in our back yard.

Hello World

Hello World.  This is my very first online document.  I should be able to link to it from my blog, and you should be able to read and click links hopefully.

 

How about different colored text.

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Even a line, and even a spell checker.

 

I can even post to the document. http://www.writely.com/View.aspx?docid=af6tnhq96nz

 

But, how about images?  Yes, images work too.  This is NASA's image of the day.  The Boomerang Nebula.  Even a link, how cool!

 

New Pics of Isaac

Some recent pics of Isaac. Isn't he a cutie.

Isaac and Christian at the Beach

I wish we would have got one of these guys surfing. You'll have to take my word for it. The little guys were definately the best.

On the Ferry

We went to Galveston for the holiday with some friends. This is the ferry ride on the way back. We saw lots of dolphins playing with the jelly fish.

Gulf (of Mexico) War

Gulf (of Mexico) War
Despite the author’s obvious political slant, he makes an interesting play on words in the title.  Commenting later that “the literal meaning of homeland security is that you secure the land you live on…”