Weather

Up until yesterday, riding to work has been a breeze. Outside of day here or there thanks to sickness or my cranky back, I’ve ridden to work nearly everyday since I started. But yesterday, I realized that things are about to get harder. The ride home included temps in the 40s and driving rain. Those […]

A Retraction of Sorts

After a fine discussion yesterday via email with a climbing friend, I’ve decided that my critique of Christopher Hitchens’ article about the Ten Commandments was a bit, well, over the top. After re-reading his piece and then my post, I realized that at the time, I just didn’t get the satire. So Hitchens can make […]

Rallye de France Wrapup

Finally, something new to report besides Petter Solberg winning and Sebastien Loeb taking second. Markko Martin set a blistering pace all weekend in his Focus, and beat Loeb by over two minutes. Ford was set to sweep the top two places, but Francios Duval had engine trouble on day three and didn’t even make the […]

Rallye de France Day One

As usual, the Rallye de France is providing some surprises, best of which is the fact that the top two positions aren’t held by drivers named Loeb or Solberg. In fact, Ford is finally showing some speed, with Francois Duval and Markko Martin holding the top positions going into day two. Sebastien Loeb has picked […]

Well, That Explains It

Thank you, Christopher Hitchens, for your brilliant deconstruction of the Ten Commandments. For all his intellectual gibberish, Hitchens should really take a moment and do a bit of research into theology before saying something like this: One is presuming (is one not?) that this is the same god who actually created the audience he was […]

Hacking

Gideon Strauss has written what seems to be the theological and philosophical basis for being a hacker: I really like the notion that most of us are vocational experts in a limited number of areas of life, and at the same time responsible for being thoughtful amateurs in several more areas of life. That’s the […]

Yanks v. Bo-Sox

I’m really not a baseball, at all, but I sorta wish I could watch the Yankees/Red Sox playoff series. Honestly, regardless of what happens in the World Series (even if an NL team beats this series’ winner), this is the best thing to happen to baseball.

Jacques Derrida RIP

One of the founding fathers of deconstruction, Jacques Derrida, has died. Leave it to Gregg Easterbrook to write a moving eulogy: The philosopher Jacques Derrida died Friday. Few thinkers have had more impact for such recondite ideas. Derrida was given to gibberish pronouncements such as “deconstruction, if there is such a thing, takes places as […]

Chit Chat

We had the first of (hopefully) many discussions at our house last night with a few other folks from our church. The idea is to find interesting/challenging articles and papers about “faith in the public square” and how we should interact with culture as Christians. First, a quick rundown of who was there: * A […]

Alleycat

There will be a halloween alleycat here in Pittsburgh, albeit on October 30. Not many details yet, but it’ll start at the Mr Roboto Project in Wilkinsburg at 8:30pm. Cost is $5. A good time will be had by all.