Death Of An Icon

My first introduction to Netscape Navigator occurred during my college years where ensconced at a prestigious engineering (premie) university, I traversed the internet with reckless abandon--chatting,
downloading music from our college wide intra-net, emailing and surfing.

Those heady days may be over (I've moved onto Mozilla Firefox) but I'll never forget my first!

Vaya Con Dios Navigator, Vaya Con Dios!

hot oil

since when did cooking oil become such a dangerous commodity?

Thank You Jason Clark!

Mr J. Clark's entry was too good to pass up, so it is here in all it's goodness>

"One session on the writing course I was on this week, was on ‘idea generation’ and ‘creativity’.

A background idea to creativity that I have often heard and believe, is that creativity is something to be practiced, and that you learn with practice.

Some of the highlights/tips from Nick Page for practicing creativity that you could use for blogs ideas, talks, books, anything, were:

1. Bisociation: Make use of bisociation, a term coined by Arthur Koestler to describe how two different semantic fields produce a different meaning.

In other words combine things from different worlds, and see what it produces. Do this with words, ideas, themes, topics. We see this with inventions, where someone observing a fly on a ceiling, gets the idea for velcro. Ideas and inspiration come from association.

Evangelism and mission involve bisociation, the entering into of other people’s worlds.

2. Environment Scanning: Go into different book sections in a large book store, scan and read from a wide variety of areas, to enter into other peoples worlds and get more ideas, from bisociation etc.

I do this monthly already, over a coffee and a few dozen books and magazines from Borders.

3. Ideas Bank: When you have a great idea and think you’ll remember it, you often don’t. Carry a notebook, use a memory system, or something, but make sure you record your ideas. Build an ideas bank. I use a memory system, and in particular a memory bank route (journey method) that lets me park potential blog ideas for later use, and doesn’t rely on a notebook.

4. Ideas Matrix: Make a grid with event, place, time, purpose, people and put 10 ideas in each, and then look for patterns an associations, between ideas. You can generate 100,000 ideas from this simple matrix, and maybe at least one will be useful.

5. Reverse Thinking: Look at the opposite, flip things around, turn them upside down. Think of the opposite extreme and move it back a notch.

6. Question: Don’t be defensive, question and let other question your ideas, it leads to better ideas."

thoughts move what time will not

a man may kill for another man or woman but he will die for an idea...

a question of past or future

Would you rather meet your great great grandparents or your great great grandchildren?

Why?

one for you, one for me

the ideas are not new -- empowerment of the "plebian majority", education as the key to upward mobility; charity beginning at home.

the technology is not new either -- we now have the capabilities that were once only a figment in Gene Roddenberry's fertile mind.

neither is the incentive -- earning for me and for you

so why did it take so long?

chasing good literature

ever finished a good book from a good novelist and wondered if there were more?

check out this map that links authors by readers

sublime

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He was with God in the beginning.

Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
In him was life, and that life was the light of men.
The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.

There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John.
He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe.
He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.

The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.

He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.
He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.
Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.
We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John testifies concerning him.

He cries out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.' "

From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another.

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father's side, has made him known.

from whence they came

They say all of western literature emerges from the womb of two: The Bible and Shakespeare

I must admit, Shakespeare did have a way with words...

but Jesus is The WORD!

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