Archive for category: Personal

This is my current desktop background. I was playing with an old fractal I had made a few years ago. In the parameters file I had created three layers, and the colors/effects were created by the interaction of those layers. Well, I was trying to get a particular outcome, so I made one layer completely solid so I could work

I wish I could get a tie with the background of this fractal brightly printed on it. 🙂

Blogs are supposed to be sorta personal, and I do enjoy sharing some elements of my life here (though I also recognize the inherent danger of doing so in a public format when you have many folks who will twist your every word listening carefully). So the following personal note I hope will be taken in the proper context. This

I know, I had been doing real well with my fractals back in July and August, but then I ran out of time again. Well, I recently upgraded my Seractal screen saver program, and the new version creates, randomly, some very nice fractals. This one showed up this evening on my laptop (notice the odd screen resolution), and so I

My wonderful, patient, and MUCH younger wife, informed me a few weeks ago that we would be celebrating my birthday a day early. I knew that meant that something was afoot, but I simply haven’t had the time to devote to try to figure out what she was up to. I just knew that as soon as the Dividing Line

M500 owners are a strange lot. One of our favorite things to do is to compare the S&W 50 Mag cartridge to…well, anything, actually. Here’s why. On the left in the picture is the tried and true .22 LR (yes, first real round I ever fired, too). Next to it the ever popular 9mm, veteran of many a police side-arm.

I know I risk offending (without cause) the far left here, but yours truly is a Life Member of the NRA, believes the 2nd Amendment is perfectly in line with God’s command for men to protect their wives and children from those who would prey upon them, and enjoys that (very, very rare) opportunity to get out of the city

I showed this to some folks in channel and they got a hoot out of it (click the image to see it full size). This is from Spring of 1981, the Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald at Independence High School. I’m the prosecutor there in the suit. Yup, real hair, 140 lbs., massive glasses. And check out how even the

But beyond this, my son, be warned: the writing of many books is endless, and excessive devotion is wearying to the body. (Ecc. 12:12) (Yes, I’ve received my author’s copies of Scripture Alone and we are just waiting on the main shipment).

Yes, I am officially retiring…from tennis. There was a day, more than two decades ago, when I could give anyone a run on the court. But I played Mike O’Fallon yesterday morning, and it was terribly frustrating to know what you should do but simply lack the ability to do so. But then the true idiocy exploded when I played

These small button versions tend to get pretty dark. I lightened this one up a bit. Click to see my entire blog collection. This one should make you folks who like red happy. BTW, I use a default 1280×1024 size (guess what the resolution of my main system is?).

Sorry, for those of you who do not appreciate fractal art, but this thing suddenly appeared on my screen as I was tweaking a setting and I must say, it is one of the most amazing fractals I’ve ever produced. You can’t tell from this image, but if you download it from my website (click on the image) and view

Yes, that’s me, March, 1981, sitting at the controls of KWAO FM 106.3 in Sun City, Arizona. I worked there in High School and into college, working six to midnight Monday through Friday and noon to six on Saturdays. And though that image is small, you can note that 1) I weighed about 140 lbs and had a 30 inch

For the half dozen of you who are enjoying your desktops more these days….I upgraded one of the two fractal programs I use, and have found Orbital Trapping a wonderful arena for exploration. (Actually, I’ve had a couple thousand visits to my fractal pages since I started posting a few samples here. I hope those who have downloaded a few

This is a simple 5th Order Newton M-set with the color tweaked out a good bit. Looks like neon lights behind the alien mother ship. 🙂 Or something, like that, sorta…I will have to talk about fractals sometime. Not only are they gorgeous, but I find some great theology in them as well.

Between May 5, 1993, and November of 1998, I rode right at 29,000 miles on a bicycle. I rode my first century race (100 plus miles) less than six months after starting, and finished in less than six hours. At one point I owned a Bianchi ELOS with Campy Record components, and a Nishiki carbon fiber with Dura-ace components. I

I had over a thousand visits to one of my fractal pages last week after I noted one I had made a few days ago (I’m making fractal backgrounds to go with various Object Desktop Suites I have on my system). Here is one of today’s efforts. I’ve added it to the same page but I have a previous page

I was indulging my love of creating fractal art when I messed up saving a file; I set the size too large, and in the process “zoomed in” on one part of an image while saving it. And the result was considerably nicer than what I had tried to save in the first place. Don’t you love when that happens?

I asked my parents a question as we sat at a reception for the graduates at our church Friday evening. “When I graduated, did you sit there thinking, ‘Wait, this can’t be happening, because I graduated just a little while ago myself?'” And they confirmed that this is in fact a normal response. I feel better knowing that. Congratulations, Josh!

This evening I preached at PRBC from Acts 2. When I finished, I then had a privilege that only a few fathers have in this life: I baptized my daughter upon her profession of faith. I baptized my son last summer. Both of my children have now professed faith in our Lord and Savior, and I have had the inestimable

I confess, I am somewhat hesitant, given the vociferous nature of the opposition we face regularly, to say almost anything personal on the blog outside of theological issues, but I’ll trust the Lord on this one. 🙂 Yesterday I was the best man in the wedding of one of my closest friends in the world, Warren Smith. Warren is a

Yeah, yeah, I’m going to see the film….but can we talk about something else a second? I’ve been re-doing my personal info page, mainly because though I enjoyed sharing things about my personal life (hobbies and the like), I have had to remove that material. Far too many unfriendly folk in the world today, it seems. Anyway, I have been

I was going to comment on some more material in Bryson’s book, but I’ll leave that for Tuesday evening’s DL. I’ll content myself this Lord’s Day evening with noting Paul’s words to Timothy in 2 Tim. 3:14: “You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them.” I grew up

OK, I know, Baptists are not supposed to know, or at least use, words like “advent” since that sounds way too liturgical and all. But, it is a good biblical word, describing that tremendous historical event when the eternal Son of God, the one through whom all things were made, entered into His own creation, taking on flesh, being made