A purpose driven life
Life
A perfectly hot day to do nothing, was definitely Saturday Well, I did get to see parts of Closer, but the little innuendeos there made her switch it off. So Uptown Girls it was (and that was a good show), and Vanity Fair was just way too confusing for us. We’re now also reading A Purpose Driven Life, so I’m on Day #2/40. What interesting reading I’ll have, to find my purpose in such a timely fashion right before my birthday.
Sunday came and it presented itself with my house warming. Lots of people came over, and I missed my first F1 of the season. Monday, seemed like a good day to unpack the rest of my machines, and after fiddling around, I’ve ended up with a net plus of one 20gb disk. Exercise regime has started - light walking to a bit of jogging.
Fedora
LUV meeting yesterday. Gave a talk on Fedora. Re-jigged from what I did at LWE, added some screenshots, and preached about why it was cool. Got some interest in possible Extras contributors. Todo: fedora-marketing style presentations. Damn, if I wasn’t so busy this would have already happened. Also found out that folk are moving away from RHEL3 because of lack of XFS support to FC3. Troubling in some way, but also interesting enough to want to get XFS fixed I guess…
My laptop (which is what I use daily) is now running Rawhide completely. Xen is cool. Really. Rawhide is also usable. One thing that annoys me is the Metacity “lets not steal your focus” feature. Damnit, at least raise my window, it really helps when I’m having an IM chat in GAIM. Also, doing an rsync of /home seemed to work just fine (since I really wanted to go LVM this time around), I just lost some GNOME settings. system-config-lvm looks like it could use some love…
April 13th, 2005 at 11:53 pm
My wife bought this book at her church. After flipping through it and realizing that it was nothing more than “God Has A Plan” jibberish, I bit my tongue while she waded through the first few chapters. Once she started parroting the book’s trite slagans, ie, “You are not an accident”, etc. I had to speak up. I first asked her if God had such a great plan for everybody, what was he thinking while they died in the Nazi gas chambers, or got their hands hacked off in Rawanda. For this I was rewarded with a copy of this book flung at my groin by my newly minted Jesus freak of a wife — I guess that was God’s will. Her ranting continued in front of our distraught 3-yr old daughter, and I am supposed to accept this as “God’s will”. Thanks, Mr. Warren, for helping my wife abandon all reason and her family as she embraces your dime-store irrationality and blind-faith garbage of a book.
April 28th, 2005 at 1:39 am
Kevin, or anyone els who reads this, you have every right to think the way you do. The first instinct is always the best, like when you know you shouldn’t do something before you do it then later your kicking yourself for not acknowloging your first instict. I have repented of my sins and it had nothing to do with some stupid book that tries to make everyone feel good about themselves while some fat dude in California makes a ton of money off all these people who get that worm fuzzy fealing, like its their first kiss. I’m just going to quote you a bible verse, it’s from a book that’s been around for 2,000 years and still studies by millions; although thanks to Rick Warens book that number is shrinking rapidly, but anyway here it is just think about this.
2Ti 3:12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
It’s not what is God thinking, its what the heck is the world thinking, they seem to hate his Word yet people still cling to it, and it dosn’t seem like Rick Warren is excpriencing any of this persicution, kind of makes me wonder, the bible is true, and its the only thing with purpose. Chose to read it and accept it or don’t whatever you want, everyone who has ever lived will know the truth when they die, then what.