I don't claim to observe Ten Commandments, just two - Love God and Love Thy Neighbor. These encompass the traditional ten anyway. But lately I've been troubled about the second of the traditional ten: "Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain". What does that even mean? People say "oh God" or "oh my God" or any of a zillion permutations and mincings of Jesus's name as an exclamation, some more blasphemous than others, all day long. Wikipedia isn't particularly helpful; according to it, ... (...more)

I'd got a feel for the 10:45 services at Hammock Street Church, and decided I'd see what the 9:00 service is all about. Turns out it's basically the 10:45 with lighter attendance and no interruption to herd the kids off to Sunday school. The homily started with the observation that society seems as discontent as ever, and more polarized than ever. So what can/should we as Christians do about it? The general answer comes from the Sermon on the Mount, via Matthew 5:14-16 ("You are the light of the world")... (...more)

a pussy's a pussy no matter what race i love a wet pussy on top of my face Woke ~9AM, lazed a bit before deciding to get an egg+chz and catch the 10:30 showing of Iron Man 3 at Shadowood. It's been out a few weeks and time to get the theater experience was probably getting short. $8 is a tolerable movie ticket price; another $6 for a large popcorn is extortionate. I went with a $2.50 small coffee. I was favorably impressed with the story and the pacing was better than Avengers. I thought the kid was ca... (...more)

So jQuery's AJAX is pretty cool, but I've hit another wall. As discussed under the entry on collision check patterns, I'm working with an app that has to first check the data in the browser form fields against the database to make sure we're not in danger of accidentally overwriting existing data with a mistaken identifier. I use jQuery's $.post() to POST a key identifying form datum to a piece of PHP middleware, let's call it Collision.php. If there is a collision, then Collision.php responds with comp... (...more)

Under the weather in a bad way. Could be worse, though... could be Oklahama, where they're getting pounded with tornadoes. Started the day (after first coffee of course) with a chopped-olive variant on the scramble dog wrap. Yum. Second coffee around noon did not help my mood. Finished last night's chicken-beans-rice-and-greens stirfry for lunch. Around 4:00 I picked up an onion and 4# (well... ok, 3.75# technically) of ground turkey from Western Beef, and some catfish and ice cream from Publix. Catfish sa... (...more)