family, theology and culture… and a bit of geekery
Although I’m not quite sure why, over the years I’ve had a handful of opportunities to be featured on television, radio, podcasts, and other forms of media. With the exception of one incident, all of them have been enjoyable experiences. But none compare to my first-ever media appearance.
The Watertown Daily Times is reporting that Dr. John W. Deans (left, with Congressman and current SECARMY-Nominee John M. McHugh) is expected to be named today as the Interim President of Broome Community College. Dr. Deans previously led Jefferson Community College as President from 1992-2002 and again on an interim basis in 2006.
Since late 2004, when my wife first bought me a copy of the English Standard Version, the ESV has been my Bible translation of choice for most applications. I pre-ordered the ESV Study Bible when it was announced, and was very pleased when it was released last fall. It’s an incredible resource, and I highly recommend it to any of my church members interested in seriously studying scripture.
Crossway has released the ESV Study Bible materials for a variety of platforms, including Accordance for Mac. (Incidentally, it’s not available for the cross-platform Libronix Library System, which I love… but I digress. [Edited 7/29/09: As Kent pointed out below, Logos is now offering the ESV Study Bible Notes on Pre-Order, with or without the ESV text.]) However, I don’t have Accordance, and didn’t want to buy a different application to use it on my Mac.
For some time now, I’ve had lenflack.com (powered by WordPress) configured with Twitter Tools to automatically update my Twitter account with an announcement of any new blog posts. I’ve also had Facebook configured to pull my tweets as a status update. This essentially keeps all of my major social media outlets linked together, and requires less work on my part to keep others updated.
A month or two back, I changed how Facebook imports my tweets. I tweet quite often, so I didn’t want it to automatically use every tweet as a status update. To solve this, I began using Selective Twitter Status. This allows me to manually choose which tweets are posted to Facebook by appending the hashtag “#fb” to the tweets I’d like posted.
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I’ve written in the past about my health and related goals. I lost 40 pounds in 2008, and had been aiming to drop another 60 in 2009.
Unfortunately, around the first of the year I hit a brick wall. I started feeling bad. Really bad. Like crap, really. All the time. Long story short, I’ve got arthritis. It’s genetic, but my weight doesn’t help.
So, with an adequate treatment plan for that in place, I’ve been back to work on my weight loss goals.
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