Filler alert:
I thought I would cut'n paste this paragraph from a commencement speech made a while back by Steve Jobs:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Now I ask you - how can you obey this advice without at the same time disobeying it?

Pentateuch
final tomorrow. That is the reason for the lack of writing of late. I'll be back.

I am playing around with Picasa -
which is a photo management software offering from Google. It has a bunch of features that may be useful. One of them is an auto-blog feature that is hooked up to blogspot. It may be hooked up to others as well, but I doubt it. It may even be that Google itself will host blogs.

I haven't posted much lately. I am too wrapped up in reading to care much about some of the things that have come down my pike. I had thought about a post on Tiger Wood's dad and what he had prophesied about Tiger. I also considered a post on the 'cultural mandate'. I suggest you Google that topic and see what you think. I also had considered writing about the CRC synod statement on what constitutes a 'just war'. What actually happened to these ideas is that my mother's 'rule #2' took over. What is that rule you ask? "If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything".

The photo you see here is the staircase in the San Francisco city hall.