Ken Martin's Blog

Helen and I have not been able to post lately because we're suffering a severe case of Pass The Buck Crossfire, where both the phone company and the ISP say "it's not our fault your DSL is down." Down for three days now. Seriously. Ugh.

UPDATE: For a few glorious hours yesterday, it was working. In fact, working better (faster) than ever. This only after a lot of time on the phone and getting a "Tier 2" support person who herself had to go to "Tier 3". But, alas, I woke up this morning to no connection. Back to the phones.

If one more tech person asks me if I have rebooted my modem, you will need to visit me in prison.

Q: How many people with ADD does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: HEY! Let’s ride bikes!!!

After The Lord's Supper - Part 1, I spent some time wandering the internet in search of how folks have come to their opinions on whether wine should be used in the Lord's Supper. I found a number of things which I'd like to follow up on and add to what I've started here. ###"It really wasn't wine." One resource I found was the web site of a Baptist church. I have chosen not to link to their web site because I do not wish to single out any one fellowship. They are not unique in their view, and I intend to address what they argue in a very generic sense. The foundation for their stance was that "To [assert Jesus turned water into wine] makes the Lord Jesus to put an intoxicating drink to the lips of his neighbors in clear violation of scripture," and so it must have been juice used at the Lord's Supper, too. They even go so far as to have a header called "The Absolute Prohibition of Proverbs 23:29-31" which reads:

Christopher Walken floating through space.

I've just been overwhelmed with the Mambo projects I took on. I wish I could have taken them on in a year, by which time Mambo should be producing non-hideous code. It's just a bear for a "modern code" guy like me to code through. I spend so much time understanding their content-plus-presentation/nested-table code, I've got no brain cells left for design. Ugh.

Here's a funny little thing I can give you for visiting (since I'm otherwise so uninteresting right now): I needed to do some admin work for a dsl connection via Qwest. I couldn't find what I was looking for, and since I saw this cheerful little button...

...I thought I'd click it and ask for help.

But alas, I got a page with this...

Look at him. Laughing at me. "I know you wanted help, and I laugh at you for visiting here only to have your hopes dashed! HAAAhahahaha...."

Hat tip to Jeep who posted on this today. So funny! :)

Ugh. Second aorist. Sure, I get it, but all those verbal roots! I'm having a hard enough time with vocab, and now I find out I should have been memorizing not only the lexical form (1st person singular, present active indicative), but the roots, too! Oh well... I'll get it.

First aorist looks easier. We'll see.

Vocab vocab vocab.

Book Recommendations:

• Fee, G. The First Epistle to the Corinthians, NICNT
• Thiselton, A. The First Epistle to the Corinthians: A Commentary on the Greek Text NIGTC
• Martin, R. 2 Corinthians, WBC
• Thrall, M. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Second Epistle to the Corinthians (2 vols), ICC

Preview:

• understand form difference between 1st & 2nd
• tense formative

Homework:

• Read: Chap 23
• Vocab: Chap 23
• Wkbk: Parse all
• Wkbk: Translate all
• yes all... I need it

Cage Match:

• 1 John 3:4-9 Young's Literal Translation vs New Life Version

This week I was promoted to Vice President of Production and Technology for Simply Retail, Inc., and I will be going full time starting in April. (I've been four days a week until now.) Very exiting stuff! :)

Co-workers emailed me congratulations, and I replied: "By the time I got home, I was so drunk with power that I fired all the kids."

It's been a while since I blogged on my Greek class. I've been too busy to even do a thorough job on the homework let alone blog on it! The travel, the (thankfully now past) illness, and now this month I'm teaching Old Testament book overviews... lots going on.

Not the dance; the CMS.

I am setting up some sites using it, and as I dug in, I found some of the generated html code to be - as I described to my client - hideous. (Sorry Mambo guys... just not my style.)

But, I hopped online and posted my woes to their forum, and got a really good answer back. What I would change is something core to the system, which would mean everytime my client would update their Mambo installlation, my changes would get wiped out. But they planned ahead, and allowed a way for me to keep such custom files safely tucked away in the template folder. Very cool. Nice work Mambo guys!