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| OK, fellow travelers...
That last blog was most definitely unfinished. I have the bad news sitting right there, rather unhopeful and unsightly. Unhopeful because it only gives the bad news with no message of joy; truth indeed but not in word, without the whole story. Unsightly because when only half of the story is told (especially the worst part!), it tends to turn people away, because it is without resolution; who cares whether it's truth or not, when they could go just a few blogs down Mormon Joe's Coffee Shop.
You see, that is my problem with leaving things half-finished; because Mormon Joe may tell the whole story. But would he be telling the truth?
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Iranian politics. Ipod touch. Instant Messaging. Itinerant
politicians. Indiscriminate crime.
I am.
You've seen it all over the news, the chaos, and the illusion of order. You've
heard about the senator who is suing God. You've seen the desperation in many
lives, and you wonder... what is going on? You hear about all these events, and
ideas, and religions in the news, in the lives of your friends, in your own
experience, and it begs the question.
It's a question each one of us considers at some point; the
question runs the whole gamut of personal ideology. It is philosophical, it is
religious, it is intellectual, it is familial, it is important. Your question
is yours and yours alone to ask; it is personal, you own it, and your life
depends upon it's answer. It may take many attempts to respond adequately and
discover the answer.
Whatever your question is, there is an answer, a response
that satisfies it. It can be settled only by one means, and if you miss it,
then someone will try again to give you the same answer. Your life depends upon
it; and you must know the truth, nothing else will do. The truth is said to be
found in the Bible, but you may have never actually considered it fully.
Has anyone ever taken a Bible and shown you the answer to
your question? The profound relevance may surprise you, and it may ask you to
commit to something you're unprepared for. Yet the key is there. In Romans
3:23, Paul writes 'All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.' There
is not one way we can ever come close to God's glory... permit me to explain. If I challenge you to throw a rock to the Arctic, we might both be able to throw it out of sight, and one of us might throw farther than the other. Neither of us, however, would ever make it to the North pole that way.
Just as neither of us can make to the Arctic with a rock, so it is with sin. We might be really moral, or think we're good enough, but our goodness is nothing in comparison to the Glory of God. It pretty much means that you and I are screwed for the rest of our lives, seeing as how both sinners and can't get to heaven.
The penalty for our sin is death. Each one of us must answer before God's justice.
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Everything is Excess
by Aaron Huggins
1.
When it goes too far
Some things you can’t take back.
Like the time in the back of your car
Something good made bad.
And there are lots of things
We haven’t enough of here
But when you do too much,
You lose everything that you hold dear.
Chorus:
‘Cause everything is excess
When it goes too far.
Sure, too little is wrong,
But too much is too bad.
‘Cause it’s excess
When it goes too far,
Sure love is what saved us
But stop talkin’ love my friend –
…And give
me some discipline!
2.
Oh time with the Lord is great
But don’t glue yourself to the page.
I think Jesus said lots about friends
So share time with someone your age!
And we’ve got a nation of fat kids
With their fat parents
And fat grandparents
And fat great-grandparents
Cause all we ever talked was love!
Sure love is the greatest of these fruits but please use…
…Self-control
Bridge:
New life came by the Spirit
By a loving sacrifice;
But it doesn’t excuse excess
That our God had love.
We can’t keep crossing sins line
Just because He paid the price.
I’m tired of hearing about love because love ain’t love when
love let’s you
Go too far…
(C) copyright 2006 by Aaron L. Huggins. Public use
encouraged and greatly appreciated.
http://www.xanga.com/ComposerDude
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| Okay, so this blog will never become a technology review. I'll post another lyric tomorrow, having written a new song this past week, but today it will be a note.
First of all, the internets been down for almost two weeks for all of Dubuque, Iowa. It's been insane. But that isn't what this post is about. This post is concerned with nostalgia gaming on handheld consoles. I know, you just heard the sound of an LP rip, and saying "Yeah, but the title says Nintendo!" Frankly, Nintendo put out the Gameboy shortly after the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES for you, the uninformed); however there are many good emulators for it and when I say hand-held console, I'm talking about your ipod, or iriver, or archos, or gigabeat.... any number of MP3 players.
Rockbox, my friends, is an alternative firmware for your MP3 player; they support many of the most popular, and I really suggest you check them out. They have a plugin for their software called Rockboy, and it emulates a gameboy so you can play your old roms on your MP3 player. But what they don't have is an emulator for the NES.
So I've started work on porting one. It's going to take months, I'm telling you, but I'm a persistent nostalgia gamer and an amateur coder. The only thing I would love is some help. It will be written in plain ol' C, so anybody interested in further specs or discussion should go here. That's where I'll be hanging out when I'm noting reading the code to figure out the mess, or reading a codebook to brush off the rust I have, or writing code to try and begin the task of porting. In the meantime, if you're one of those legal rom gamers, happy gaming!! Everyone else can just wait for my port, slackers.
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| Being a listener of good music and a musician myself, I could not help
but anticipate the release of the next iPod, because the next
generation would happen without fail even if I couldn't own one. As if
the advent of the marvelously Apple mp3 player wasn't enough, the next
step that Steve Jobs has taken his company in really takes the cake.
You see, I'm also the son of an old-school programmer, and deeply
entrenched myself in its culture (no matter how much I'd like to get
away!), and paired with my devoutly religious following of the iPod
made me aware of Apple's next product very early on. I had heard
rumours of Apple failing with their first PDA, and had been involved
with using Rockbox on my nano and iPodLinux development. But the
rumours and technical press releases coming out of Apple sounded a lot
like something out of a familiar Roald Dahl story.
Remember Willy
Wonka and those golden tickets in his chocolate bars? Secretly laboring
away for years with his scientists and OompaLoompas deep in the bowels
of Wonka Chocolate Factory, the whole world anticipating every new
flavor and innovation that came out to their surprise...
Now, there
weren't any golden tickets to search for, and there's certainly no cute
little genius working for Apple. But there is people like Steve Jobs,
and Jonathan Ives, and their creative crew working in developement on
something like musical chocolate.
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