Neat-o OS X

If you hold down CLICK, it is equivalent to CTRL+CLICK (which is the Mac equivalent of right-clicking). Sweet, finally true one handed browsing!

Just one of those neat lil things that bring you great joy when you're learning the ins and outs of a new operating system.

Btw, I love scrolling trackpad....mmm..

Kev

EDIT: Seems like this is Firefox only. Oh well, good enough for me.

And My Part Is Done

Yesterday I finished my last job this summer at our new house. I tell you this: laminate flooring looks easy and quick, but it is 99% mind numbing, repetitious work - and it ain't that quick. But it's done and over, and I think I breathed enough green synthetic laminate dust to kill a small animal. If you notice me coughing up green stuff and/or blood, lemme know. But I gotta say, it does look nice when it's done.

Our move date is this Friday, and it looks like we're gonna make it. I won't have a room till Saturday since the carpet won't be in until then, but that I can deal with. We're feeling the effects of the Telus strike though; we won't be getting our land line switched over till who knows when. But Telus said that we can use one of our cell phones as a temporary land line. Meh, whatever.

I really should start packing soon, that would be a wise thing to do.

Oh, 'The Ring 2' is no where near as good as 'The Ring'.

Kev

Just a Thought

Lots of talk about summer camp goin on as all the peeps are back and fresh from camp. I just shrug: I've been to a few camps, missed a few camps, it's all the same after a while. In three days you can begin on a new direction in life, but you can't change a person in 3 days - you can't change your character in 3 days. No, that takes months, years...a lifetime. And I've seen it/experienced it before, in two weeks everyone is back to their normal selves.

I dunno, maybe three days in a crack house on hastings; or maybe a refugee camp in one of countless places around the world; or maybe the low-income projects where a single mom is workin two full time jobs just to feed her kids another day. That sounds like a cool retreat.

Run from the world...or into it. Just a thought.

Cheers. Don't bite too hard.

Xanga, poor Xanga

I decided to bite another blog bullet and sign up for a Xanga account. Most of my friends use Xanga (I feel bad for them...Xanga is craptacular), and I can't comment on their blogs without a Xanga ID, nor can I join their whoop-de-doo blog rings. So, I signed up, and set a redirect on my Xanga blog to herd people on over to this site.

Because of Xanga's craptacularness, the 'setTimeout' JavaScript function is disabled, so people won't see a warning page before their browsers send them off to this page - that is, unless they have a really slow computer and/or browser.

My apologies if the sudden redirect has left you baffled.

Cheers.

Mid-Week Randomness

So I had a wonderful weekend. A bunch of us went up to Golden Ears Provincial Park near Maple Ridge for an overnight camping trip. Packed our sleeping bags n tents and set off for a 2.5 hr hike to a nice cozy clearing and spent the night. We sure cut it tight though, about 2 minutes after we arrived it started to get real dark (8:30ish PM I think). In terms of scenery, the views on this hike weren't as stunning as some other hikes I've been on. However, that would likely have been different if we went for the full 10hr hike to the mountain peak. But there were a few nice vistas here and there, and it sure was a great time to just get away and relax in the woods.

After the trip, I had a couple days off from construction while the painters did their thing. In two days (7AM to 7PM) these guys finished off 2500+ sq ft of house...and that's just the lower floor and the basement. Blazing! But now I'm back to work - time to install hardwood laminate flooring. Who knows how long this will take. Whatever, more money for me.

Alas, my lunch break is over. Back to work I go.

Construction

The end of school brought with it a wonderful month of summer vacation. And what have I done with it you ask? - work! We're moving two weeks today so it's a mad dash to finish enough of the house to live in. This means plenty of good stuff for me to do. The great thing is not only do I get paid, but I learn stuff that will be very handy when I'm older and have to manage my own household.

Mostly I've been doing carpentry. Some stuff I've done lately:

- Installing Doors
- Assembling and Installing Cabinets
- Finish carpentry - elaborate moulding around doors; crown moulding.

I really like the fine detail work of finishing. I'm not the biggest dude, so stuff like framing would be hell for me. But working with small pieces of wood, at precisions of less than an eighth of an inch, I can do. I've always loved details, I guess it just fits.

In other news, the pondering over a career in medicine continues. And the scales continue to tip...

Peace,
Kev

Must Quote

I was readin through this week's "Left Behind Friday" at slacktivist's blog and I came across this little gem that I just had to quote in full:

One common riff used by evangelical speakers involves John 3:16 -- the verse made famous by Bannerman. As a reminder of God's love for each of us, the speaker will quote that verse as a fill-in-the-blank, urging the audience to insert their own name: "For God so loved [your name here] that he gave his only begotten son, that [your name here] shall not perish but have everlasting life."

This illustration turns the verse into something like the parable of the Lost Sheep ("ninety and nine all safe in the fold"), which is a valid point, but not the point that John's Gospel is making.

John 3:16 says, "God so loved the world," or literally, "the cosmos." It's not a good idea to substitute yourself for the entire cosmos. Part of what this passage is saying is that God loves the world, so you should love it too. That message is lost if you make it all about you.

If it's all about you, then it doesn't really matter what else or who else God loves. God doesn't even really matter that much, except insofar as you get helped out. You're the hero of this story -- God is just Peripheral Chorus Guy writ large, just another one of those faceless chorus members cheering when you walk into the room.

Right on the money, slacktivist.

Queue the music...iBook'ed

My iBook arrived last night!

I love it.

OS X pwns WinXP.

I love chillin on the other side of the house with wireless rippin along.

The PC is being relegated to (a) Games, (b) Graphics/Multimedia, (c) TV, and (d) Music.

More tinkering...blog later.

Kev

Careers, oh Careers

I've been seriously considering a career in medicine lately. These past couple years I've just been considered medicine as an open possibility, but not my primary focus. However, now I'm really beginning to consider it as a real possiblity. I dunno if this change in thinking is going to be permanent or not, time will tell.

More to come, I'm sure.

Kev

Shipped!

Good news.

My iBook has shipped from...wait for...Shanghai, China. I wonder, why Shanghai of all places.

FedEx International Priority, maybe it'll be here on Monday. That would make for a wonderful start to my week.

Book me

14 inches of wonderful goodness. Ordered and preparing to be shipped as I type. New generation iBook too!
Specs:
- 1.42 GHz PowerPC G4
- 512 MB RAM
- 14.1" TFT Display
- ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 (32MB Video Memory)
- 60 GB Hard Drive
- Combo Drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW)
- Built in Airport Extreme
- Built in Bluetooth

Goodie goodie!! Should be here by the end of next week.

Interesting Essay

This is a neat read:

Leaving Evangelicalism: When You No Longer Belong