Sam | April 30, 2007
I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow is not looking good either.
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
Tell me what you need, and I’ll tell you how to get along without it.
Accept that some days you are the pigeon [...]
Sam | April 30, 2007
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Do I have sympathy for this young lady? I feel sorry for her that she spent a great deal of time, money, and energy working towards a goal, but will now not achieve that goal. However, by her complaining and her sense of entitlement, my sympathy fades quickly. As a teacher education student at Seward [...]
Sam | April 26, 2007
A theologian who is interested in using technology in his studies has three options, BibleWorks, Logos/Libronix, and for strictly Mac users, Accordance. Before the advent of Boot Camp and Parallels, Mac users were stuck with running a painfully slow program called VirtualPC in order to run windows programs. Now, with Parallels, Mac users can run [...]
Sam | April 24, 2007
At Seward, Macs were in a definite minority. Only two professors that I knew of, outside of the art department, used them. Thank goodness things are different at the seminary! I’m sitting in the library right now and out of the six laptops that I can see, four are Macs! I can think of at [...]
Sam | April 11, 2007
I grew up in a congregation that had communion two or three times per month. However, after I started at Seward I got used to having communion once or twice a week. We had a full communion service once a week in chapel, plus I would receive the sacrament at St. John in Seward two [...]
Sam | April 11, 2007
This screenshot makes me feel dirty. Parallels Desktop for Mac is an amazing piece of software. The ability to run windows inside OS X is impressive. All of this is for Logos/Libronix. Well worth it.
Sam | April 11, 2007
Yeah… I’m a freak. I really hadn’t written a true paper that required library research in about a year. I have to say that I missed it. In college you’d regularly see me with books and papers stacked all around my desk. It was a great feeling. Tonight I had three hymnals, two copies of [...]
