“Every once in a while, I find myself in the presence of purity—purity of spirit & love—and I always cry. It always reaches in & grabs me.” Steve Jobs

I have to share this n+1 article ‘Post What?’ by Dushko Petrovich, a clever musing on the ridiculousness and/or absurdity of contemporary {pretentious-high} culture. Some of the post which he discusses: Post-minimalist Post-Brooklynist Post-racist Post-graduate I just wonder what the Post-Post What? would look like?

{full disclosure: To comply with federal regulations, I want to state that I received this book in return for my review. I did not receive any other compensation for this review.} I just recently received a copy of The Voice’s translation of the New Testament. I have read through parts of it already, as they [...]

With the start of the new year, new terms for school, studying, & teaching, the first real thrust of winter; things have been busy. Here are a few different articles that I found worthwhile enough to save. How To Spot a Church Movement – Tall Skinny Kiwi Andrew Jones passes on some wisdom that he [...]

So I was introduced to a new site, posterous.com, recently for posting media to multiple sites with simplicity. I am still learning the possiblities that it can offer. This really is simply a test to see how it exactly works. Posted via email from jonathan perrodin

image by flickr user ajrpix This will be the first of a series of posts, based upon simple practices my family has incorporated into our lives to live simply. It is very much in the line of modernity to find a device that we must all buy that will solve all our problems. When this [...]

I’m signing up technorati. It’s supposed to tell me how cool or uncool my blog ranks up against other blogs. We’ll see what the results are. m9dt6yn5vh

Here is last weekend in review. Instead of writing about what Rob Bell, Peter Rollins, or Shane Hipps talked about, I give you the experience in visual form. I feel compelled to muse in light of Shane about how the image will affect your experience shape the message I am presenting, but I will refrain. [...]

Being a somewhat fanatical library patron I have come to realize I have certain preferences in the structure of library systems, (1)book cataloging (2)check-out processing. (1)book cataloging For those who don’t get out to the libraries too much or you frequent book sellers of various sorts often you would probably think that book are ordered [...]

Something things in life you just can’t let go off. For different reasons, we hold onto things. For this watch and me it boils down to pure will. I am damned if I am going to buy a new watch when  this one still keeps the time just fine. Recently it has gone through some [...]