Blognitive Dissonance

“Mann trakht und Gott lakht”

Wall-E

danithew | June 28, 2008

We saw Wall-E today.
The theater messed up at first.  It was kind of odd – because the obligatory movie pre-views were for very intense (violent) or mature films.  One of the previews was for a movie called Deathrace.  Another was for “Burn After Reading” – an upcoming Coen Brothers film.  Parents were in the theater [...]

New York Philharmonic in Central Park

danithew | June 26, 2008

Tuesday night the New York Philharmonic Orchestra gave a free concert in Central Park.  In the morning we laid down a sheet and when we came back in the evening we had a front-row seat to the whole thing.
The past couple of years, this concert’s initial schedule date has been rained out and they’ve had [...]

Awesome Highlighter

danithew | June 22, 2008

The Awesome Highlighter (yes, that’s what it is called) website provides one of the most convenient applications I’ve seen for marking up and commenting online articles of interest and then saving the links or even posting them to another application (such as Facebook, Delicious, Twitter, etc.).  There’s also a Firefox add-on (scroll all the way [...]

Bdellium

danithew | June 22, 2008

Every now and then, when reading the Genesis creation story, I’ll hit the word “bdellium,” look it up and then shortly thereafter forget what the word refers to. It’s not exactly a word that’s come up in conversation.  That is because “bdellium” is defined as “an aromatic gum resin, similar to myrhh” – something [...]

A River Went Out Of Eden

danithew | June 20, 2008

Genesis 2:10-14
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
12 And the gold of that land is good: there is [...]