By Evan on July 23, 2008
Wildlife photographer Hal Brindley has caught on camera the first known case of a leopard attacking and killing a crocodile. The pictures are unbelievable.
Via mollywood on Twitter.
Posted in Just for Fun, World Wide Wonder | Tagged crocodile, Hal Brindley, leopard, photography, wildlife |
By Evan on July 16, 2008
If you’re a gadget geek and you’re worried about your gadgets getting stolen, you might turn to a new gadget to keep them safe. Kwikset has an impressive new lock that can be re-keyed in place, in just a few seconds, using the current key and a “learn tool” that comes with the lock. Just the gadget you need if someone is after your other gadgets.
"SmartKey" Lock
Via Crave.
Posted in Inspecting Gadgets | Tagged Kwikset, lock, security, SmartKey |
By Evan on July 14, 2008
This headline probably isn’t of much interest to most people, but since most of my work is for Anheuser-Busch I’m posting it anyway. My blog, my rules. =D
Anheuser-Busch Agrees to InBev Sale
Whether this merger/buyout will have much impact on the “common worker” beyond the name change remains to be seen.
Posted in We Interupt This Program | Tagged Anheuser-Busch, business, InBev, merger |
By Evan on July 13, 2008
This is the post that I was trying to get up on the 4th. Now I’m back to a normal internet connection and life is peachy.
It is now approaching a quarter of a millennium since our founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, which is a long time in human years, but not so long in celestial ones. In the year 1006 A.D. a supernova was observed on earth, the remnants of which are shown in detail in this photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, featured as NASA’s picture of the day. At the time it was the second brightest object in the night sky after the moon, and is estimated that the resulting shock wave has traveled at up to 20 million miles an hour over the last 1000 years.
Via LGF
Posted in From Me to You, World Wide Wonder | Tagged astronomy, NASA, photograph, space, supernova, technology |
By Evan on July 10, 2008
I’ve been camping with my aunt and uncle’s church since Friday. It’s beautiful here in Mammoth Lakes (and they have a nice library where I can set up my laptop). Yesterday some friends and I went on a 18 mile hike to Thousand Island Lake and back. We looped around and came back on part of the John Muir Trail past Emerald, Ruby, Garnet and Shadow lakes. We got some spectacular views of Mt. Ritter, Banner Peak, and the surrounding area.
Thousand Island Lake and Banner Peak
This trip has been incredible in so many ways. God has been teaching me more than I ever expected to learn here, and being in such an awesome setting makes it all the more exciting.
Posted in From Me to You | Tagged camping, church, God, hiking, life, outdoors, personal |
By Evan on July 4, 2008
I’ve been working on a special 4th of July post, but I’m having some technical difficulties with part of it. So for now, happy Independence Day. May those of us blessed to live here never forget the sacrifices made to establish and protect it, or the God who has allowed us to live such a free and prosperous life.
Posted in From Me to You | Tagged 4th of July, greeting, holiday |
By Evan on July 3, 2008
The Washington Times has reported that the U.S. has permission to use Predator drones against Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, if he is found there. According to their sources, Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf made an agreement to that effect early in the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan, despite denying requests to allow additional CIA agents ground access to the country.
Posted in I Can Haz Politkz, The Peacemakers | Tagged bin Laden, CIA, military, Musharraf, Pakistan, Politics, Predator |
By Evan on July 3, 2008
Psalm 72 is a prayer of David, asking God to bless his son Solomon as he assumes the throne over Israel.
Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to the royal son!
May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice!
Let the mountains bear prosperity for the people, and the hills, in righteousness!
May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor!
- Psalm 72:1-4
But much of the psalm is similar to the prophetic verses about Christ elsewhere in the Bible. For example, the idea of all nations bowing in submission:
May all kings fall down before him, all nations serve him!
- Psalm 72:11
For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living. You, then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you look down on your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. It is written: “‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will confess to God.’”
- Romans 14:9-11
Or the promise of all nations being blessed:
May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun!
May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!
- Psalm 72:17
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
- Genesis 12:3
It gives an interesting perspective on the term “Son of David” used in reference to Jesus. He was David’s descendant by birth, but beyond that He was, in a sense, David’s “perfect son,” fulfilling the promise of bringing peace, righteous judgement, and blessing to the world that Solomon could fulfill only partially and imperfectly.
Posted in The Big Picture | Tagged bible, Christ, psalms |
By Evan on July 2, 2008
O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.
So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?
- Psalm 71:17-19
Posted in The Big Picture | Tagged bible, encouragement, psalms |
By Evan on July 1, 2008
Rail guns have long been a favorite weapon of sci-fi fans. The ability to use electromagnetic pulses in place of traditional explosive propellants to lob projectiles over hundreds of miles with high precision and little warning is a tantalizing idea, though still mostly limited to the realm of fantasy. But reality has a track record of catching up with fantasy these days, and the U.S. Navy has begun testing a 32 Megajoule specimen developed by the U.K.’s BAE Systems. (That’s enough energy to lift the three thousand ton Saturn V rocket about 1 meter off of the launch pad, if my calculations are correct.) This prototype can supposedly launch projectiles at up to eight times the speed of sound, however there are still many technical hurdles to overcome before rail guns can be put into active service.
Posted in The Peacemakers, The Time Machine | Tagged military, technology |
