tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-144055002011-04-21T20:25:53.533-07:00the one way road to a two-dimensional worldThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.comBlogger881100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-31002062487780999312008-04-22T14:16:00.000-07:002008-04-23T07:30:02.319-07:00The move happened quicker than I anticipated. Jenny and I are now blogging at <a href="http://ericritchie.wordpress.com/">Two-Point Perspective</a> : Life from a Christian Worldview -- head on over and check it out.<br /><br />Pizza.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-3100206248778099931?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-63817732020856756522008-04-21T08:19:00.000-07:002008-04-21T08:49:24.770-07:00Thank you Jesse for keeping up with my blog. It is true that I have been away for more than a year. I hope to post again with regularity.<br /><br />Coming soon...<br /><br />Pictures of Jenny and Me<br />My thoughts on Together for the Gospel<br /><br />Eric<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-6381773202085675652?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1171914897369653622007-02-19T11:51:00.000-08:002007-02-19T11:54:57.390-08:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/4784/1302/1600/564880/IMG_2413.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/4784/1302/320/709200/IMG_2413.jpg" border="0" /></a> We finally got pictures taken!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-117191489736965362?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1165820736488127362006-12-10T22:58:00.000-08:002006-12-10T23:05:36.503-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/4784/1302/1600/736149/Jenny%27s%20Ring.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/4784/1302/320/568092/Jenny%27s%20Ring.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/4784/1302/1600/646897/Eric%27s%20Ring.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/4784/1302/320/568978/Eric%27s%20Ring.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The first is the pearl ring that I designed for Jenny (obviously) it was made by J. Keith's Jewelers<br /><br />The second ring is the one that Jenny bought me to wear whilst we are engaged. It came from James Avery.<br /><br /> A picture of us together will come soon.<br /><br />Eric<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-116582073648812736?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1165735050389024592006-12-09T22:51:00.000-08:002006-12-09T23:17:38.876-08:00Well, I just thought that I would announce that Jenny and I were Engaged tonight. For those who care about such things, I was playing We Five on my Hi-Fi when I asked her.<br /><br />I did get on my knees, because we always kneel down. I also asked before dinner, I had to ask her before dinner because the prospect of sitting at dinner really gave me butterflies. It really worked out wonderfully.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/4784/1302/1600/493726/DSC00328-2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/4784/1302/200/958959/DSC00328-2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The most surprising thing to me was that she didn't even expect it. : )<br /><br />Elated<br />Richly Blessed<br />Intoxicated<br />Certain<br /><br />Eric.<br /><br />"...won't listen to reason."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-116573505038902459?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1161056608293066102006-10-16T20:33:00.000-07:002006-10-16T20:43:28.306-07:00Well I tried something out last night that didn't turn out so well.<br /><br />I decided that I would build a fire in the fireplace and enjoy the nice heat with the lights all out. It was very pleasant until the fire started to die down. The smoke then ceased going up the chimney and decided it would go anywhere it liked -- which mostly consisted of the whole apartment.<br /><br />Today it seemed to be worse, and Brent (my roommate) couldn't take it anymore (not that I was complacent about the whole matter but my efforts to this afternoon didn't really help). He busted out the febreeze and all 6 candles he owns and proceeded to fumigate the apartment.<br /><br />It smells really nice now. The intensity of the candles this evening are second only to antique malls or very gifty gift shops selling ceramic figurines (well okay, almost). But it really is way better than it was this afternoon that is for sure.<br /><br />Looking forward to going home the end of this month : )<br /><br />Signing Off...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-116105660829306610?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1160695940225320772006-10-12T16:32:00.000-07:002006-10-12T16:32:20.290-07:00<div class="audblog"><a href="http://www.audioblogger.com/media/97856/417340.mp3" class="audLink"><img src="http://www.audioblogger.com/media/images/audioblogger.gif" class="audImg"border="0" alt="this is an audio post - click to play" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-116069594022532077?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1160021924937554212006-10-04T21:11:00.000-07:002006-10-04T21:19:50.276-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/DSC02243.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/400/DSC02243.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Being there was one of the most incredible things I have done since I started college.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-116002192493755421?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1152342941439155562006-07-08T00:15:00.000-07:002006-07-08T00:15:41.513-07:00<div class="audblog"><a href="http://www.audioblogger.com/media/97856/381668.mp3" class="audLink"><img src="http://www.audioblogger.com/media/images/audioblogger.gif" class="audImg"border="0" alt="this is an audio post - click to play" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-115234294143915556?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1151637456599909262006-06-29T20:03:00.000-07:002006-06-29T20:17:36.616-07:00Well I am sorry that I haven't been saying anything lately. I have been working hard at SMA + Architects and in my free time I have been trying to get my new (actually used) iPod working. In fact I am going back to work on it now.<br /><br />On a quick side note - Our town, Wylie, of the great state of Texas is playing host tomorrow night to none other than the great <a href="http://www.emersondrive.com/">Emerson Drive</a> (truly one of the best Country Pop acts of our day).<br /><br />Boot camp is this coming week- I am going to be there for the first night. Whoopee!<br /><br />Go visit <a href="http://themulltrain.blogspot.com/">Mulltrain's Blog</a> to keep up with her stay in Rome.<br /><br />Signing Off...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-115163745659990926?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1150605767204648922006-06-17T21:01:00.000-07:002006-06-17T21:42:47.230-07:00I can't believe that has been a month and a half since I last posted.<br /><br />So many things have happened since then, I think one of the most important things that has happened was my hiring by <a href="http://meierarchitects.com/">SMA Architects</a> as an intern for the rest of the summer. I get to start that job on Monday woo hoo.<br /><br />Harmony Hill ended today, I believe that it was a great year. They often are great but somehow they are all different. Now that it has ended I am sad and in a kind of shock. I also missed those who couldn't make it this year. The Kitchens family, Andrew, the Rogers boys (I'm sure there are more that I can't think of now)<br /><br />I took as many pictures as I could - here are some:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/DSC01738.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/DSC01738.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/DSC01743.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/DSC01743.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/DSC01765.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/DSC01765.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/DSC01786.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/DSC01786.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/DSC01789.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/DSC01789.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/DSC01791.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/DSC01791.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/DSC01807.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/DSC01807.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/DSC01821.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/DSC01821.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/DSC01816.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/DSC01816.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/DSC01812.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/DSC01812.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-115060576720464892?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1146379864340380952006-04-29T23:45:00.000-07:002006-04-29T23:51:04.356-07:00Something Very Exciting!!!<br /><br />I just saw this pop up on Challies and it has got to be one of the most exciting things I have seen in a long time --<br /><br /><a href="http://www.challies.com/archives/001826.php">Together For The Gospel Statement</a><br /><br />I would love to see what other people have to say about it and if anyone knows why it makes me excited. I will post later but I just want to see other peoples take first.<br /><br />Eric.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-114637986434038095?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1145511722590751152006-04-19T22:32:00.000-07:002006-04-19T23:00:49.116-07:00I wrote this a few weeks ago- it concerns my class "Urban Theory" if you want to know more, I give you the finest advice of MAMA -- "Look it up!"<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The concept of Urbanization is about making living conditions better. The fundamental problem when solving broadreaching issues like reducing crime and making people happier you have to deal with the fact that man is corrupt. </span><span style="font-style: italic;">In admitting this, it must be allowed that the problem cannot be solved by making a better city or by secluding yourself from society. The problem is personal and spiritual.<br /><br /></span>I could also present the example of the search for utopia all through the middle ages and the renaissance as an example of a failure of this quest of Urbanism-- we could go on all night. The point is, man is still looking for utopia, he didn't find it then and he won't find it now -- at least not with the methods he currently employs.<span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-114551172259075115?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1144716539787045052006-04-10T17:23:00.000-07:002006-04-10T17:50:32.106-07:00Below is a link to a song, this was recorded by some friends of mine recently (if you frequent <a href="http://andrewbeauchamp.blogspot.com/">Shed of Emotions</a> you may have already heard it.) Because of the medium quality recording and the stomping I am reminded of one of the old Alan Lomax Sacred Harp recordings.<br /><br />I reccomend that everyone listen, <a href="http://www.audioblogger.com/media/96960/339822.mp3">here</a> is the link.<br /><br />Here are the words:<br /><br />Now to the power of God supreme<br />Be everlasting honours given;<br />And I don't care to stay here long!<br />He saves from hell, (we bless his name,)<br />He calls our wandering feet to heaven.<br />And I don't care to stay here long!<br /><br />Right up yonder, Christians, away up yonder,<br />O, yes my Lord, for I don't care to stay here long.<br /><br />Jesus the Lord, appears at last,<br />And makes his Father's counsels known;<br />And I don't care to stay here long!<br />Declares the great transaction's past,<br />And brings immortal blessings down.<br />And I don't care to stay here long!<br /><br />Right up yonder, Christians, away up yonder,<br />O, yes my Lord, for I don't care to stay here long.<br /><br />He dies! And in that dreadful night<br />Did all the powers of hell destroy;<br />And I don't care to stay here long!<br />Rising, He brought our heaven to light,<br />and took possession of the joy.<br />And I don't care to stay here long!<br /><br />Right up yonder, Christians; Away up yonder!<br />O, yes, my Lord, For I don't care to stay here long.<br /><br />Right up yonder, Christians, away up yonder,<br />O, yes my Lord, for I don't care to stay here long.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-114471653978704505?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1144334804491451112006-04-06T07:44:00.000-07:002006-04-06T07:50:30.493-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/weather.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/400/weather.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Weather = Dust<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-114433480449145111?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1143504134870801622006-03-27T15:51:00.000-08:002006-03-27T18:44:29.320-08:00I was doing some hands on research for the current project this afternoon. First we went to Hemmele Hall on campus and watched the university orchestra practice (sounded pretty good too) then we went around the music building.<br /><br />After class was out several of us went to the Civic Center to see the City Theater and it was a good bit nicer. The Lubbock Symphony Orchestra plays there as they had obviously put a little more time into designing it.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/DSC01591.3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/320/DSC01591.1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />The project we are designing right now is a multi-use facility (like before) but this time it is a perfomance hall/music store/music school/apartment complex and it is located in Lubbock.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-114350413487080162?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1143327013446308632006-03-25T14:21:00.000-08:002006-03-25T15:12:27.930-08:00Well I finally found my camera (it had been missing since spring break) and so I now have the priviledge of showing two pictures I am proud of - the first is a little fuzzy I had a hard time getting a good picture but if you have discerning eyes you can see that it is a Dodge Viper.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/Viper.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/320/Viper.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>This car is a little rarer than the Viper - I thought at first it was a Lamborghini Diablo but it is not. It is in fact a Lamborghini Countach Anniversario - manufactured some time between '88 and '90 . Pretty Cool eh? Well the coolest part about it is that "they" keep track of cars this rare, according to the registry there are (a minimum of) 8 of these registered in Texas. Most of the 657 (that is all they ever made) of these are in Europe.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/Diablo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/320/Diablo.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Amazingly I saw these both on the same day, Sunday at the beginning of Spring break. I need to thank Mulltrain for rummaging around in the back of my car to get my camera out of my boot so that I could take these pictures. Fun times.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-114332701344630863?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1142961864853535212006-03-21T09:21:00.000-08:002006-03-21T09:24:24.913-08:00Well spring break is over and done. Emily is married and back from her honeymoon and everything is going well. I am enertaining my brother at school for the better part of this week and we may post some recordings soon of songs we have recently done. Got to go have lunch now-- Bye.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-114296186485353521?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1141920911279459842006-03-09T08:03:00.000-08:002006-03-09T08:19:13.660-08:00Today one of my daily reads in the design world had a post on spectacular storms. They had some of the most beautiful pictures but more than that it was one of their comments that caught my eye.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/Storm06.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/400/Storm06.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The comment that accompanied this picture was "An almost theologically intense supercell, photographed by <a href="http://www.extremeinstability.com/05-8-17.htm">Mike Hollingshead</a>"<br /><br />The Mike Hollinghshead part is true - and he has a great website, he also sells prints of his pictures.<br /><br />The part I take offense at is how the writer at <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/">BLDGBLOG</a> thinks this is an "almost" theologically intense storm. Sad that some of the most beautiful arkwork of all, Nature, is an accident to them - as I have quoted before: <span style="font-style: italic;">The heavens declare the glory of God, </span><span style="font-style: italic;">and the sky above</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> proclaims his handiwork. </span>Psalm 19:1<span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-114192091127945984?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1141690127745987782006-03-06T16:00:00.000-08:002006-03-06T16:08:47.746-08:00Here is my desk as I work on the <span style="font-style: italic;">Lubbock Music Center Project:</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/DSC01529.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/DSC01529.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Pretty organized huh? I cleaned it all up after the last project. Take note of the drink LN...<span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-114169012774598778?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1141504160875488302006-03-04T12:28:00.000-08:002006-03-04T12:29:20.876-08:00How is this new color scheme? Can everyone see all the fonts on their monitors? Let me know so that I can get it right.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-114150416087548830?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1141274639627988082006-03-01T20:23:00.000-08:002006-03-01T20:43:59.646-08:00Tim Challies is at it again--<br /><br />Right now he is "LiveBlogging" the <a href="http://www.gracechurch.org/shepnew/">Shepherd's Conference</a> at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, and from what I have read so far he has already gotten some really good teaching.<br /><br />I encourage all to read his <a href="http://www.challies.com/">blog</a> and learn. There are so many good and edifiying biblically based blogs out there to read. Some, like <a href="http://faithandpractice.blogspot.com/">Faith and Practice</a> are basically like reading tough sermons (though they are a little shorter) and some, like Tim's or The <a href="http://teampyro.blogspot.com/">Team Pyro</a> Blog are a little easier to swallow though they have their moments too (and over my head some times)<br /><br />Have a Good Day!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-114127463962798808?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1141153804204138892006-02-28T11:04:00.000-08:002006-02-28T11:10:04.223-08:00Here is one of the renderings I was working on last night -- this is <span style="font-style: italic;">Case Study House #21</span> by Pierre Koenig.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/Ext-w-Lights2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/320/Ext-w-Lights2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-114115380420413889?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1141108256830234032006-02-27T20:59:00.000-08:002006-02-27T23:30:57.956-08:00As I am sitting here working on my computer renderings I am playing around a little more with those blocks like the other day - oh, by the way, a quick clarification, all these I have posted have been edited in photoshop after being rendered in VIZ.<br /><br />My goal with these is to create some really nice backgrounds -- I think I have come up with a few. Here is a set of four:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/blocks11.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/blocks11.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/blocks11-1.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/blocks11-1.1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/blocks11-2.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/blocks11-2.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/blocks11-3.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/blocks11-3.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-114110825683023403?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1141080695819657352006-02-27T14:51:00.000-08:002006-02-27T14:51:35.866-08:00<div class="audblog"><a href="http://www.audioblogger.com/media/97856/317754.mp3" class="audLink"><img src="http://www.audioblogger.com/media/images/audioblogger.gif" class="audImg"border="0" alt="this is an audio post - click to play" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-114108069581965735?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1140790385839980492006-02-24T06:01:00.000-08:002006-02-24T06:13:05.860-08:00Well I just had my first all-nighter this year (I think) it was a good one though. For some reason working on a model all night is harder to do than drawings by hand or on the computer (which I was working on). Presentations are today at 1 pm and all I have left to do now is the layout and write down notes to help me in presenting.<br /><br />This is the first presentation I will have done in about 1.5 or 2 years. Usually you present your work regularly but up until this year I have gotten teachers who rarely (if ever) actually had us present. So needless to say I am a little nervous, we have outside reviewers coming which means we will not recognize their faces.<br /><br />In the mean time, we have been learning lighting in our computer rendering class and so I made some little vignettes as exercises.<br /><br />Here are two:<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/blocks07markers.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/320/blocks07markers.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/blocks08.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/320/blocks08.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/blocks07markers.jpg"><br /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-114079038583998049?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1140719281537934322006-02-23T10:24:00.000-08:002006-02-23T10:29:45.743-08:00An update on the last post.<br /><br />I have posted a few more of Evan's songs on the web, (these are my personal favorites) including the ever-popular "<span style="font-style: italic;">Talkin' Bad Dream Blues</span>" : ) that he posted the lyrics to a few weeks ago. They are at the same <a href="http://wylietex.byethost31.com/ECR/">site</a> as the previous song was.<br /><br />Enjoy Again.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-114071928153793432?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1140287434888653842006-02-18T10:22:00.000-08:002006-02-18T10:32:52.773-08:00over Christmas break the four oldest kids in my family recorded our own CD on our home computer- it wasn't very good but there is promise there.<br /><br />In the meantime, Evan has been recording on his own. I have been making sure that he sends me copies so that I can hear what he plays. Two days ago he sent me his version of "Take to the World" (a cover of a Derek Webb song) on which he had figured out how to stack two tracks -- in other words, he is playing lead and background guitar and also harmonizing with himself.<br /><br />He wanted me to post it so I have it <a href="http://wylietex.byethost31.com/ECR/">here</a> for your enjoyment. And it is downloadable, just right-click and "save link as"<br /><br />Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-114028743488865384?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1140218569085469852006-02-17T15:18:00.000-08:002006-02-17T15:26:47.236-08:00Here is some of what I have been working on for studio. This project is ending next week, we present on Friday.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/SanAntonioCafe.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/320/SanAntonioCafe.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The building houses a gallery, cafe, bookstore and is about 7500 square feet. (Not all in this picture is my building, the gray block is the building adjacent to mine)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-114021856908546985?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1140069395189793272006-02-15T21:54:00.000-08:002006-02-15T22:01:25.296-08:00<table style="width: 400px; height: 468px;" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><br /><br /></td><td>You scored as <b>SG-1 (Stargate)</b>. You are versatile and diverse in your thinking. You have an open mind to that which seems highly unlikely and accept it with a bit of humor. Now if only aliens would stop trying to take over your body.<br /><br /><table style="width: 380px; height: 264px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><p><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;" >SG-1 (Stargate)</span></p></td><td><table bgcolor="#dddddd" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="81"><tbody><tr><td><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;" >81%</span></td></tr><tr><td><p><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;" >Deep Space Nine (Star Trek)</span></p></td><td><table bgcolor="#dddddd" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="75"><tbody><tr><td><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;" >75%</span></td></tr><tr><td><p><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;" >Enterprise D (Star Trek)</span></p></td><td><table bgcolor="#dddddd" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="75"><tbody><tr><td><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;" >75%</span></td></tr><tr><td><p><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;" >Moya (Farscape)</span></p></td><td><table bgcolor="#dddddd" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="75"><tbody><tr><td><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;" >75%</span></td></tr><tr><td><p><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;" >Serenity (Firefly)</span></p></td><td><table bgcolor="#dddddd" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="75"><tbody><tr><td><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;" >75%</span></td></tr><tr><td><p><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;" >Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix)</span></p></td><td><table bgcolor="#dddddd" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="75"><tbody><tr><td><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;" >75%</span></td></tr><tr><td><p><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;" >Babylon 5 (Babylon 5)</span></p></td><td><table bgcolor="#dddddd" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="69"><tbody><tr><td><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;" >69%</span></td></tr><tr><td><p><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;" >Bebop (Cowboy Bebop)</span></p></td><td><table bgcolor="#dddddd" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="63"><tbody><tr><td><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;" >63%</span></td></tr><tr><td><p><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;" >Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda)</span></p></td><td><table bgcolor="#dddddd" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="44"><tbody><tr><td><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;" >44%</span></td></tr><tr><td><p><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;" >Millennium Falcon (Star Wars)</span></p></td><td><table bgcolor="#dddddd" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="44"><tbody><tr><td><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;" >44%</span></td></tr><tr><td><p><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;" >Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica)</span></p></td><td><table bgcolor="#dddddd" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="44"><tbody><tr><td><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;" >44%</span></td></tr><tr><td><p><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;" >FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files)</span></p></td><td><table bgcolor="#dddddd" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="31"><tbody><tr><td><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;" >31%</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a href="http://quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=111863">Your Ultimate Sci-Fi Profile II: which sci-fi crew would you best fit in? (pics)</a><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;" >created with <a href="http://quizfarm.com">QuizFarm.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />I can't tell you how much I wish I was part of the DS9 crew -- I was tempted to go back and try but oh well...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-114006939518979327?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1140024122660950862006-02-15T09:11:00.000-08:002006-02-15T09:22:02.676-08:00Not much to post about today, I have been slaving the last couple of days to get a project finished (which was turned in yesterday thankfully)<br /><br /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/320/DSC01305.jpg" border="0" /><br />I was walking through the art building the other day when they were having a sale and I saw this - and had to get a picture.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-114002412266095086?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1139723503576362102006-02-11T21:48:00.000-08:002006-02-11T21:56:38.886-08:00I wrote a poem about how cold it is tonight.<br />____________________________________<br /><br />Frost and Fires are wonderful smells<br />smells that belong to Christmastime<br />Christmastime and not February<br />February is a warming-up month<br /> but not in Lubbock.<br />____________________________________<br />It is actually 21 degrees F right now.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113972350357636210?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1139689271688392852006-02-11T12:03:00.000-08:002006-02-11T12:22:20.910-08:00Howdy to everyone out there.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/DSC01227.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/DSC01227.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Just this morning I taped (well I didn't actually "tape" it) a radio show from Austin in which Andy Hedges was interviewed (along with Andy Wilkinson and Amanda Shires) by the Scottish fellow who runs the Folkways radio show at the UT Public Radio Station. It was good, Hedges sang two songs and talked a little, though the show centered more on Wilkinson.<br /><br />I put the <a href="http://wylietex.byethost31.com/Hedges/">mp3s</a> up for everyone to listen to. Enjoy!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113968927168839285?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1139507933485601432006-02-09T09:57:00.000-08:002006-02-09T09:58:53.556-08:00<span style="font-family: arial;">My mother sent me this, it is an excellent read.</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"><br /><br />Being Mocked: The Essence of Christ’s Work, not Muhammad’s</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">February 8, 2006 — Fresh Words Edition</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">By John Piper</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">What we saw this past week in the Islamic demonstrations over the Danish cartoons of Muhammad was another vivid depiction of the difference between Muhammad and Christ, and what it means to follow each. Not all Muslims approve the violence. But a deep lesson remains: The work of Muhammad is based on being honored and the work of Christ is based on being insulted. This produces two very different reactions to mockery.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">If Christ had not been insulted, there would be no salvation. This was his saving work: to be insulted and die to rescue sinners from the wrath of God. Already in the Psalms the path of mockery was promised: “All who see me mock me; they make mouths at me; they wag their heads” (Psalm 22:7). “He was despised and rejected by men . . . as one from whom men hide their faces . . . and we esteemed him not” (Isaiah 53:3).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">When it actually happened it was worse than expected. “They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head. . . . And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, ‘Hail, King of the Jews!’ And they spit on him” (Matthew 27:28-30). His response to all this was patient endurance. This was the work he came to do. “Like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth” (Isaiah 53:7).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">This was not true of Muhammad. And Muslims do not believe it is true of Jesus. Most Muslims have been taught that Jesus was not crucified. One Sunni Muslim writes, “Muslims believe that Allah saved the Messiah from the ignominy of crucifixion.”1 Another adds, “We honor [Jesus] more than you [Christians] do. . . . We refuse to believe that God would permit him to suffer death on the cross.”2 An essential Muslim impulse is to avoid the “ignominy” of the cross.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">That’s the most basic difference between Christ and Muhammad and between a Muslim and a follower of Christ. For Christ, enduring the mockery of the cross was the essence of his mission. And for a true follower of Christ enduring suffering patiently for the glory of Christ is the essence of obedience. “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account” (Matthew 5:11). During his life on earth Jesus was called a bastard (John 8:41), a drunkard (Matthew 11:19), a blasphemer (Matthew 26:65), a devil (Matthew 10:25); and he promised his followers the same: “If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household” (Matthew 10:25).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">The caricature and mockery of Christ has continued to this day. Martin Scorsese portrayed Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ as wracked with doubt and beset with sexual lust. Andres Serrano was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts to portray Jesus on a cross sunk in a bottle of urine. The Da Vinci Code portrays Jesus as a mere mortal who married and fathered children.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">How should his followers respond? On the one hand, we are grieved and angered. On the other hand, we identify with Christ, and embrace his suffering, and rejoice in our afflictions, and say with the apostle Paul that vengeance belongs to the Lord, let us love our enemies and win them with the gospel. If Christ did his work by being insulted, we must do ours likewise.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">When Muhammad was portrayed in twelve cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, the uproar across the Muslim world was intense and sometimes violent. Flags were burned, embassies were torched, and at least one Christian church was stoned. The cartoonists went into hiding in fear for their lives, like Salman Rushdie before them. What does this mean?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">It means that a religion with no insulted Savior will not endure insults to win the scoffers. It means that this religion is destined to bear the impossible load of upholding the honor of one who did not die and rise again to make that possible. It means that Jesus Christ is still the only hope of peace with God and peace with man. And it means that his followers must be willing to “share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death” (Philippians 3:10).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Footnotes</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">1 Badru D. Kateregga and David W. Shenk, Islam and Christianity: A Muslim and a Christian in Dialogue (Nairobi: Usima Press, 1980), p. 141.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">2 Quoted from The Muslim World in J. Dudley Woodberry, editor, Muslims and Christians on the Emmaus Road (Monrovia, CA: MARC, 1989), p. 164.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113950793348560143?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1139268725024605992006-02-06T15:35:00.000-08:002006-02-06T15:47:36.376-08:00Here is a step by step example of my photoshop work - starting from a picture I took the same day as the others.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/DSC01263.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/DSC01263.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/surreal0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/surreal0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/surreal1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/surreal1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/surreal2.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/surreal2.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/surreal3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/surreal3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Just playing around by the way. For my own tastes I probably could have left it at the third picture.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113926872502460599?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1139124523167310622006-02-04T23:15:00.000-08:002006-02-04T23:32:12.793-08:00Here are some pictures I took today-- take note of the striking difference between the color and B&W copies (I did adjust the contrast but otherwise they are unedited)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/door.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/door.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/DSC01274.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/DSC01274.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/building.0.jpg"> </a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/DSC01278.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/DSC01278.jpg" alt="" border="0" /> </a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/building.1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/building.1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113912452316731062?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1138895555207738202006-02-02T07:51:00.000-08:002006-02-02T07:52:35.216-08:00This posting is prompted by the quotefest on e-systems, but also because my roommate thought some of these lines were the funniest he had heard yet. Believe it or not, I play Dylan often enough that he caught himself singing one of the songs as he was walking to class.<br /><br />This song has some of the funniest lines, though you need to hear it to get the full idea of the song.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Talkin' World War III Blues</span><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bob Dylan</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Some time ago a crazy dream came to me,</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">I dreamt I was walkin' into World War Three,</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">I went to the doctor the very next day</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">To see what kinda words he could say.</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">He said it was a bad dream.</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">I wouldn't worry 'bout it none, though,</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">They were my own dreams and they're only in my head.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">I said, "Hold it, Doc, a World War passed through my brain."</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">He said, "Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane,"</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">He grabbed my arm, I said "Ouch!"</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">As I landed on the psychiatric couch,</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">He said, "Tell me about it."</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Well, the whole thing started at 3 o'clock fast,</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">It was all over by quarter past.</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">I was down in the sewer with some little lover</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">When I peeked out from a manhole cover</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Wondering who turned the lights on.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Well, I got up and walked around</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">And up and down the lonesome town.</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">I stood a-wondering which way to go,</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">I lit a cigarette on a parking meter</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">And walked on down the road.</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">It was a normal day.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Well, I rung the fallout shelter bell</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">And I leaned my head and I gave a yell,</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">"Give me a string bean, I'm a hungry man."</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">A shotgun fired and away I ran.</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">I don't blame them too much though,</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">I know I look funny.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Down at the corner by a hot-dog stand</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">I seen a man, I said, "Howdy friend,</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">I guess there's just us two."</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">He screamed a bit and away he flew.</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Thought I was a Communist.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Well, I spied a girl and before she could leave,</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">"Let's go and play Adam and Eve."</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">When she said, "Hey man, you crazy or sumpin',</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">You see what happened last time they started."</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Well, I seen a Cadillac window uptown</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">And there was nobody aroun',</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">I got into the driver's seat</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">And I drove 42nd Street</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">In my Cadillac.</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Good car to drive after a war.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Well, I remember seein' some ad,</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">So I turned on my Conelrad.</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">But I didn't pay my Con Ed bill,</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">So the radio didn't work so well.</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Turned on my player-</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">It was Rock-A-Day, Johnny singin',</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">"Tell Your Ma, Tell Your Pa,</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Our Loves Are Gonna Grow Ooh-wah, Ooh-wah."</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">I was feelin' kinda lonesome and blue,</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">I needed somebody to talk to.</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">So I called up the operator of time</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Just to hear a voice of some kind.</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">"When you hear the beep</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">It will be three o'clock,"</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">She said that for over an hour</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">And I hung it up.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Well, the doctor interrupted me just about then,</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Sayin, "Hey I've been havin' the same old dreams,</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">But mine was a little different you see.</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">I dreamt that the only person left after the war was me.</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">I didn't see you around."</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Well, now time passed and now it seems</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Everybody's having them dreams.</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Everybody sees themselves walkin' around with no one else.</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Half of the people can be part right all of the time,</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Some of the people can be all right part of the time.</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">But all the people can't be all right all the time</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">I think Abraham Lincoln said that.</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">"I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,"</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">I said that.</span><br /><br /><br />Copyright © 1963; renewed 1991 Special Rider Music<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113889555520773820?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1138774771216455962006-01-31T22:10:00.000-08:002006-01-31T22:21:34.896-08:00I liked Ludwig's <a href="http://andrewbeauchamp.blogspot.com/2006/01/i-would-feel-like-i-was-depriving-all.html">picture</a> but I also must concur with Mr. Rogers that Grace Kelly is higher on the most beautiful list. I have for about 5 years had a picture in my Palm Pilot (though for a while it was Emily's Palm) of the beautiful Grace Kelly.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/Kelly3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/320/Kelly3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>You may recognize these eyes as the center set in the header. They are in fact the same set and they were chosen specifically because of their striking beauty. I also think this is one of the best close-up portaits I have seen.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Man! just stare at this picture for a few seconds and you will have to agree with me.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113877477121645596?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1138486482146563782006-01-30T15:15:00.000-08:002006-01-30T15:16:10.776-08:00I was looking yesterday for the facts of whether bread mold is bad for you or if (as I thought) it was harmless. Well I did a Google search and found out that some strains of the fungus that mold grows from can produce toxins. I didn't see any statistics that predicted how often the toxic strains occur appear so I really don't know if it is half or a whole lot less than half. Most of the scientific reports talked about the toxic strains like they seldomly were found.<br /><br />When I searched Google the automated ads popped up to the right as usual though they were a little funnier than usual.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/breadmold.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/400/breadmold.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113848648214656378?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1138480064095673962006-01-28T12:23:00.000-08:002006-01-28T13:54:51.476-08:00Well, I got a new decoration for my room. I won't try to explain it but I will give pictures:<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BEFORE</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/DSC00815.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/DSC00815.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">AFTER<br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/DSC01216.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/DSC01216.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Notice any difference?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113848006409567396?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1138387934807081212006-01-27T10:32:00.000-08:002006-01-27T11:02:08.033-08:00This post is going to be more boring than normal:<br /><br />I recently found a free program that lets me check all the blogs I want to without actually logging on to all 15 sites. The program is called <a href="http://www.feedreader.com/">Feed Reader</a> and it's free.<br /><br />It works by you subscribing to your favorite blogs through their RSS feeds- then the program will automatically check for new posts every hour or two (or if you are not on the internet all the time it has a button which allows you to check). The interface is like a mail program, the unread title appear bold and turn normal after you click on them.<br /><br />I just checked and my version of IE seemingly had no way to pick up the RSS - Firefox does work though, you can hit the little orange RSS button in the bottom right corner while on your favorite blog. After which you will need to copy the address to the program, it might take a little while to work it out but it is a great reward in the end.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/Feed%20Reader.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/320/Feed%20Reader.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />It really helps me spend less time browsing around and get everything read.<br /><br />Another nice point is how each post has a link at the bottom to let you surf to the actual post - allowing you to see any comments.<br /><br />Now it isn't perfect, this is version 2.90 they are offering for download and it still has a few glitches though they are minor.<br /><br />I hope this proves informative to all of y'all. The day I first got this I was totally excited - I've been wanting to write this post since then. Software can be so wonderful!<br /><br />All right, I'm a nerd.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113838793480708121?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1138259315558923002006-01-25T22:49:00.000-08:002006-01-25T23:19:07.250-08:00With Dan's wine list <a href="http://teadrey.blogspot.com/2006/01/wine-practically-perfect-cups.html">1</a> <a href="http://teadrey.blogspot.com/2006/01/wine-movie-zen.html">2</a> <a href="http://teadrey.blogspot.com/2006/01/wine-blanket-fetish.html">3</a> being compiled I have been thinking about things which are particularly close to my heart.<br /><br />One word comes to my mind: MUSIC<br /><br />So many things in my life are connected with music. I don't know if I can say any more than that.<br /><br />One of the most remakable properties that music has is when it associates itself with certain events or times, of course part of that is in my own head. The list of connections between music and memories is endless but some that pop into my head now are:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Norah Jones'</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Come Away With Me</span> and 222A Gordon Hall (with the white Christmas lights strung up)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lonesome River Band's</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Talkin' to Myself</span> and My Grandparents House<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Maroon 5</span> and Panama City, FL<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bob Dylan's</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">You Ain't Going Nowhere</span> and Evan<br />Just about any <span style="font-weight: bold;">Simon & Garfunkel</span> and being a little kid (4 or 5) at Pine Cove<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tim McGraw's</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Everywhere</span> album and delivering pizza in my '87 Civic<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Walls of Time</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Ricky Skaggs</span> version) and Cripplegate<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Long Line of Leavers</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Caedmon's Call</span>) and my Car Wreck<br /><br />The list goes on and on, I obviously didn't cover Sacred Harp or various other Sacred Music - and only because it is a little complicated to put into words.<br /><br />I hope Dan won't be mad 'cause I jumped into "his pool," as it were.<br /><br />Signing Off...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113825931555892300?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1137716227759577712006-01-19T15:58:00.000-08:002006-01-19T16:17:07.783-08:00Happy Birthday to Robert Edward Lee!<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/leeharpers.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/leeharpers.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />I might have missed the toast for JRR Tolkien but I am sure going to toast ol' Robby tonight.<br /><br />and the drink is going to be straight Orange Juice<br /><br />(that would be Black Lid M.M.)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113771622775957771?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1137560772784091022006-01-17T20:29:00.000-08:002006-01-17T21:14:59.573-08:00Several days ago I bought a Smokey Robinson CD entitled <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000929AVE/qid=1137561238/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-8897466-4547265?s=music&v=glance&amp;n=5174"><u>My World: The Definitive Collection</u></a>. I honestly don't know from my own experience if it is definitive but every one on there is good.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/smokey.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/smokey.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>I bought this CD because while I was still on break, my father played a few of his favorites (Papa likes R&B? didn't really know that :) and I liked them so much I listened to the whole CD on Rhapsody and then the other night I found it for 12.88 at wal*mat so I bought it. It was a good buy, I have listened to it through about 4 or 5 times and I really like it think that I have also succeeded in driving my roommate crazy though he hasn't told me.<br /><br />On a different note -<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What started out a playful game ended in disaster for two college students today in Lubbock.</span><br /><br />Tuesday Night- Eric Ritchie and Jerry Chen were walking to the local Sam's Place joking with each other and discussing the class movie as they normally would. When they reached the door to the Chitwood/Weymouth complex they had their usual banter about who would open the door for the other. Jerry says "I always try to be the one to open the door for the other person."<br /><br />It's true, we found that he has a reputation around the College of Architecture for standing for 15 minutes at a time to hold the door giving time for everyone to make it to class. Eric on the other hand is a "stuck up, self-satisfied prig" according to classmates who didn't want to be identified.<br /><br />At the first door Eric conceded to Jerry and allowed him to hold the door open. Given the chance to hold the second door Eric took the chance, at that point Jerry dived for the other door, determined not to let Eric hold the door for him. Noting that Jerry was not going to accept the favor Eric went to cut him off and keep him from opening the second door. An eyewitness said "Yeah, I don't know what that white kid's problem is. It looked like assault to me..."<br /><br />Regardless of motive, all agree that Eric pushed Jerry into the glass fronted fire extinguisher panel. The resounding crash could be heard all over the expansive lobby. Eric's only response was " it was already broken". Use of the particular panel was discontinued in 1993 when more up to date methods of fire suppression were retrofitted into the building.<br /><br />School officials said they have not yet decided if they will press charges.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">-Our Special Correspondent<br /><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113756077278409102?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1137131982945880722006-01-13T21:04:00.000-08:002006-01-13T21:07:50.806-08:00Lately I have been on a mission to immerse myself in creativity - you might have noticed, part of that channeled into my revamped blog. Last night I surfed to the website of the man who originally designed the template for my blog (and quite a few others). His name is Douglas Bowman and his website is:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.stopdesign.com">www.stopdesign.com</a><br /><br />From his website I followed a link to another talented designer's site. I bet everyone in the world has seen this guy's work. Looking through his projects I saw that he had designed the Mozilla Firefox logos along with some really cool websites.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/">http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/</a><br /><br />Everyone ought to check it out, it's really cool.<br /><br />Additionally, I stumbled on to some really interesting Architecture blogs that talk about new things happening in the world of ... well, Architecture and design. One thing that particularly interested me is the article on the prefab work of a lady named Rocio Romero, you will find that a couple posts back on Inhabitat.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/">http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.inhabitat.com/">http://www.inhabitat.com/</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113713198294588072?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1137131022467521142006-01-12T21:30:00.000-08:002006-01-12T21:47:48.723-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/camping.3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/400/camping.1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />I found this picture randomly as I was surfing the web this evening, it looked intriguing and so I thought "I will put this on my blog" and then I said "ok, that's a great idea Eric" and then...<br /><br />anyway<br /><br />Here are some of the thoughts that ran through my head as I was looking at this picture:<br /><br />what are they thinking? who took this picture? who drinks wine and eats apples at the same time? is that elderly gentleman a former german spy? does his wife know he was a spy?<br /><br />I found this picture on this website <a href="http://www.camping-toegemannsfeld.de/">www.camping-toegemannsfeld.de</a> after running it through babelfish it made more sense.<br /><br />By the way... what would a good caption be for these folks?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113713102246752114?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1137081010061819322006-01-12T07:47:00.000-08:002006-01-12T07:52:10.606-08:00First of all, Happy Birthday to Emily--<br /><br />Second, as y'all can see I have a brand new header for my blog, I was just playing around this morning and I thought it came out looking cool. It would seem that I have a fascination with eyes<br /><br />-- So, can anyone (besides my family) name the people who belong to these eyes?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113708101006181932?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1137002048975854792006-01-11T09:48:00.000-08:002006-01-11T09:55:07.510-08:00<span style="font-family:arial;">So about a month ago I was given the new Nickel Creek album by my brother and I really like it - I was listening again this morning, particularly to Sara's rendition of Bob Dylan's song "Tomorrow is a Long Time" and it made me want to hear the original. I listened to it and I must say that I think that the original is better then the cover. Dylan's version can be found on Greatest Hits Vol. 2 Disc 2</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Here are the lyrics:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Tomorrow is a Long Time</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Courier,Courier New;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > If today was not an endless highway,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > If tonight was not a crooked trail,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > If tomorrow wasn't such a long time,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > Then lonesome would mean nothing to you at all.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin',</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > Yes, and if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin',</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > Only if she was lyin' by me,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > Then I'd lie in my bed once again.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > I can't see my reflection in the waters,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > I can't speak the sounds that show no pain,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > I can't hear the echo of my footsteps,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > Or can't remember the sound of my own name.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin',</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > Yes, and if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin',</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > Only if she was lyin' by me,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > Then I'd lie in my bed once again.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > There's beauty in the silver, singin' river,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > But none of these and nothing else can touch the beauty</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > That I remember in my true love's eyes.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin',</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > Yes, and if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin',</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > Only if she was lyin' by me,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > Then I'd lie in my bed once again.</span><br /><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113700204897585479?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1135807711924999842005-12-28T13:58:00.000-08:002005-12-28T14:08:31.943-08:00I read an excellent short <a href="http://www.tolkiensociety.org/tolkien/biography.html">biography</a> today of JRR Tolkien on the Tolkien Society website. I reccomend that y'all should read it.<br /><br />In addition, I am pasting in a section from another part of their website:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"On January 3</span><small style="font-style: italic;">^rd</small><span style="font-style: italic;"> Tolkien fans around the world are invited to raise a glass and toast the birthday of this much loved author at 21:00 (9 pm) your local time</span><abbr style="font-style: italic;" title="Grenwich Mean Time"></abbr><span style="font-style: italic;">.</span> <p style="font-style: italic;" align="center"><strong>The toast is "The Professor".</strong></p> <p style="font-style: italic;">For those unfamiliar with British toast-drinking ceremonies: </p> <p style="font-style: italic;">To make the Birthday Toast, you stand, raise a glass of your choice of drink (not necessarily alcoholic), and say the words 'The Professor' before taking a sip (or swig, if that's more appropriate for your drink). Sit and enjoy the rest of your drink.</p> <p style="font-style: italic;">Here is the <a href="http://www.tolkiensociety.org/toast/2006/enter.html">entry form</a>."</p> You can count me in on this one.<br /><br />Hope everyone is having a great school holiday.<br /><br />Signing Off...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113580771192499984?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1135702705218513922005-12-27T08:19:00.000-08:002005-12-27T20:08:06.463-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/FWTC.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/FWTC.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Through strange circumstances yesterday I ended up driving around the new <a href="http://www.firewheelretail.com/">Firewheel Town Center</a> three times. Once to put a little extra gas in Ellen's gas tank so she wouldn't run out - then we spent a little time in Barnes and Noble and after running another errand we came back for Ellen's car. All of these trips (but especially the mid-afternoon one) made me think back to my Site Analysis Class when we had to design parking lots.<br /><br />Now their parking lots are not a problem that I can see. The real problem is that when they designed the roads between the shops they neglected to design for large amounts of traffic. I think that since they were trying to "pull off" this special new design they had the incentive to do it right the first time. and I think that they failed---<br /><br />That might sound a little harsh but consider this, in regular malls people don't have to worry about getting run over walking from one shop to the next. If this is supposed to be better than a real mall I don't see it.<br /><br />Originally (and I suppose it still is) one of their big selling points was that you could drive up to the store you wanted to go to park, shop and then leave (kind of like a normal shopping center) but yesterday not only was that practically impossible but it was so congested they had hired people to direct traffic for at least one of the intersections. Now I have no problem with guys directing traffic, in fact I think that if the designers had made provision for traffic guys it would have been great and added to their design. As it is now there was no room in the road for them to stand so they were sqeezing between cars and standing in front of others.<br /><br />In conclusion- I think that their concept, while it might sound nice, is flawed. If they have to hire "emergency" traffic directors on the first day it gets busy then something is wrong with the picture. Perhaps cars do not belong on the interior--<br /><br />Signing Off...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113570270521851392?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1134503403370760422005-12-13T11:45:00.000-08:002005-12-13T11:50:47.543-08:00I know I just posted but I have to put up these song lyrics. This song is from the first Indelible Grace CD and it has a great melody in addition to the great words.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">If Thou Hast Drawn</span><br /><p style="font-style: italic;" class="body">1. Draw me from created good,<br /> From self, the world, and sin<br /> To the fountain of Thy blood,<br /> And make me pure within</p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="body">Chorus: If Thou hast drawn a thousand times<br /> (Oh draw me Lord again)<br /> Around me cast the Spirit’s bands<br /> (Oh draw me Lord again)</p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="body">2. Lead me to Thy mercy seat,<br /> Oh draw me nearer still<br /> Like Mary, draw me to Thy feet,<br /> To sit and learn Thy will<br /> (Repeat chorus)</p> <p style="font-style: italic;" class="body">3. Draw me all the desert through<br /> With cords of heavenly love<br /> And when prepared for going home,<br /> Oh draw me up above<br /> (Repeat chorus twice)</p> <p class="body">©1997 Kevin Twit Music /<br /> Nomella Music (ASCAP).<br /></p> You can hear a sample of it <a href="http://ruf.org/sounds/mp3/IfThouHastDrawnaThous.mp3">Here</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113450340337076042?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1134502042889549762005-12-13T11:09:00.000-08:002005-12-13T11:28:05.960-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/PC130006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/PC130006.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>So this afternoon I was walking back to my room after checking for mail and I saw that someone had thrown out a monitor in the first floor trash room.<br /><br />In my experience when people throw out computer equipment that means it is broken. Despite the fact that chances were good that it was broken I decided to take it back to my room and check it. Well it turned out that it did work so I now have a nice desk ensemble.<br /><br />Having two monitors really is nice because you can keep several windows open at the same time. For instance, right now I am writing this blog and also keeping an eye on the iTunes window so that I can select a new song when one I am listening to finishes. Maybe a little extravagant sounding but it was free.<br /><br />By the way I am listening to "The Love of Christ" on <span style="font-style: italic;">For All the Saints: Indelible Grace III</span> sung by Derek Webb -- in my opinion one of the best all-round songs he has done.<br /><br />Signing Off...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113450204288954976?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1134431613010958432005-12-12T15:35:00.000-08:002005-12-12T22:59:03.683-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/lampost_full.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/320/lampost_full.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>On Saturday night I saw The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and I was very impressed. The fact that it was so close to the book was the second best part. The first best part was that the move was executed without totally overdoing the special effects. The overall effect was a great movie that I could probably watch over and over if I wanted to (or if I was around the little kids).<br /><br />I must say that I was crying (not bawling) off and on for probably the first 30 minutes because, more than any other story I grew up with I have wanted to see this done, and done well. I am happy to report that it was done well. To those of you who are wondering about LotR -- for me that story wasn't really an important thing to me until I was about 12. TCoN was read to me at a very early age by my father and then I picked them up soon after.<br /><br />Particular things I liked in the Movie: the Landscapes and outdoor sets, The actors (particularly Lucy - or was it a young Eleanor Green?), the dialogue was good (if not great), Tumnus was excellent too... can't think of any more but I know I will pick up more when I see it again.<br /><br />I can't wait for the other 6!!!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113443161301095843?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1134245853379397622005-12-10T12:12:00.000-08:002005-12-10T12:17:33.410-08:00Well I finished my first final yesterday evening and I am sure it went well, our teacher doesn't even like giving finals so he always gives them a twist -- this time we were allowed to use our notes in any form we had them (which includes booting up your computer or using the textbook) needless to say I had them all down except for a couple.<br /><br />but I still have one more to go -- it is today at 4:30 and it is the tough one. So I will bid you farewell and go back to studying.<br /><br />Eric<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113424585337939762?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1133822311653422582005-12-05T14:21:00.000-08:002005-12-05T14:40:57.080-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/PC040022.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/320/PC040022.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Yesterday afternoon Jenny and I spotted about three fires on our weekly drive to Hale Center. This one was by far the largest of those we saw and actually was just outside the city limits about a mile from her parents house.<br /><br />After lunch Mrs. Mull announced she was going to Plainview to Wal-Mart to get some more Christmas lights for their tree and Jenny went with her (they didn't find them by the way). This gave Mr. Mull and I a chance to test out their<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/PC040025.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/320/PC040025.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> new car's 0-60 ability (talk about a new twist on the Sunday afternoon drive). The car went 0-60 in 9.4 seconds. It is a Olds Intrigue but I don't remember the year. After we tested the car we drove to the other side of town and drove around the fire. during lunch the fire had gotten bigger and was putting out a lot of smoke. In fact it was putting too much smoke to be just a grass fire so our take was that they were either burning a barn full of tires or some kind of "evidence".<br /><br />In other matters, School is not too busy but it is just busy enough to drain me of most good ideas for blog entries.<br /><br />Signing off...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113382231165342258?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1132211764060920732005-11-16T23:07:00.000-08:002005-11-16T23:16:04.076-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/DSC00667-2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/DSC00667-2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>I was filing through my pictures from earlier this semester and I found this one. I suppose that I was interested in the connection of the walls to the floor or perhaps it was the difference in textures.<br /><br />Whatever it was-- this has to be the most boring picture on my computer and yet I like it alot.<br /><br />I don't suppose that boring always means bad...<br /><br />Well I have managed to write a whole (but short) blog entry about a picture of a corner. Hmm<br /><br />Signing off...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113221176406092073?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1132011562228255872005-11-14T15:05:00.000-08:002005-11-15T22:03:02.070-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/DSC00750.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/DSC00750.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">Here, for your enjoyment, is a picture I took about a month ago at a church campout.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">We drove north of Lubbock to Palo Duro Canyon and spent one night at the State Park there. It was fun but it was COLD! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">If I went again I would have to be a little better prepared. I didn't have my sleeping bag with me at school so I tried the old "two blanket trick" but it was way too cold for that.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I like how in this picture if you look really hard you can see the sky in the background. It was a timed exposure (length was about 5-8 seconds) and so you ge the cool blurry effect.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Signing off...</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113201156222825587?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1130525674094476832005-10-29T00:29:00.000-07:002005-10-29T17:48:27.580-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/leather.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/320/leather.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Well, I just fulfilled one of my childhood dreams (no I didn't ride a bull). I would have to say that it was one of the more foolish things I have wanted in my life. Generally you could say that I hardly ever entertained the idea because under normal circumstances it would be an expensive waste.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I am talking my friends about leather pants. Yes I got some. No I didn't buy them new. Yes they came from a thrift store. Yes they are REAL leather. Only three dollars. Yes, I wore them in public tonight when I took Jenny out to dinner. And yes, I asked her first.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I actually found them looking for a pair of polyester slacks and I couldn't pass them up. I figured I could sell them if I had to, the return would be good.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Well, have at it : )</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113052567409447683?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1130536816331464562005-10-28T14:51:00.000-07:002005-10-29T02:48:10.556-07:00<span style="font-style: italic;">"<a href="http://www.nononsenseinnovember.com/kkk">NO TO THE KKK AND PROP 2!</a></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Stop the Klan! Vote against hate.Click above to: Get a mail ballot! (Deadline 5pm Nov 1) Find out where to vote! Protect the Texas Bill of Rights!"</span><br /><br />So apperently the KKK is holding a rally in favor of Proposition 2 (declaring formally that marriage is between a man and a woman only) in Austin. Since their associations are so vile it only takes liberals a small hop to jump to the conclusion that if you are a reasonable individual then you can't share views with the KKK. I think it is regrettable, honestly, because I do support proposition 2 despite the fact that the KKK supports it.<br /><br />I found this ad on Facebook of all places, I reported it before I realized that the KKK is actually involved. oops, well I guess I wouldn't mind if they did remove it.<br /><br />Signing off...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113053681633146456?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1130157993736522722005-10-24T05:46:00.000-07:002005-10-24T05:46:33.836-07:00<span style="font-family: arial;">Well what do you know, I am actually blogging again.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: arial;">Actually I have been really busy the last couple of weeks and will continue to be so up to the end of the semester. I am as worn out as I ever have been. The Reformation party will not come too soon.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: arial;">When I am this worn out, I always end up remembering the IIIrd Tyme Out songs "I Pray My Way Out of Trouble" and "I Feel Closer to Heaven" they both remind me that no matter what my earthly troubles I have a Father in Heaven who listens when I pray and that makes me thankful even more for his great gift of the Son. Those things keep my mind off of feeling sorry for myself.<br /><br />Signing Off...</span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><br /><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: arial;">Col 3:23,24 "Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will recieve the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ."<br /><br /><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-113015799373652272?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1128219645915756882005-10-01T19:11:00.000-07:002005-10-01T19:33:28.653-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/battlefl4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/400/battlefl.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Here is a quick post from home -- (I may talk about home later)...<br /><br />Yesterday I recieved a very interesting e-mail with a linguistic test to check your Dixieness/Yankeeness -- It was pretty cool.<br /><br />My score was <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />"83% (Dixie). Do you still use Confederate money?"<br /><br /></span>You can take the test <a href="http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html">here</a><br /><br />Good Luck!<br /><br />Signing Off...<br /><br />______________<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Oh, by the way, if I had any Confederate money it would probably be in a frame on my wall.<br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112821964591575688?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1127717429502312362005-09-25T23:38:00.000-07:002005-09-26T00:12:38.846-07:00Just the other day I was at a thrift store and on my way out noticed that there were some old Life magazines in their dumpster out front. If any of you know me, I think you know what comes next...<br /><br />That's right, I pulled them out -- most of them turned out to be from the mid 1960's.<br /><br />I really haven't had much of a chance to look at them until today. When I was at my girlfriend's house her parents and I were looking through them. I was mostly loking at the really cool car ads - like the <a href="http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/Myrtle/1125/056f7060.jpg">1969 Chevelle SS</a> and the <a href="http://www.torinocobra.com/images/page2and3.jpg">1970 Torino line</a> (this is the actual pic I have) and the <a href="http://encyclopedia.classicoldsmobile.com/toronado/66.html">1966 Olds Toronado</a> or one of my personal favorites, the <a href="http://people.ucsc.edu/%7Edgurzi/Ranchero1.jpg">1966 Ford Ranchero</a>. Man the cars back then were so cool! too bad they drank gas like I drink milk.<br /><br />One of these days I am going to get me a muscle car, something with a HUGE engine that makes lots of noise and really can push you back in your seat, Mazdas only do so much : )<br /><br />Signing Off...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112771742950231236?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1127486997232918392005-09-23T07:37:00.000-07:002005-09-23T07:51:59.546-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/cp_valjean.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/320/cp_valjean.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I'm Jean Valjean!</span><br /><br />"(No, really.) Some people may see you as a little sanctimonious, but though you care deeply about doing right, you're not above a little skulduggery in a good cause. Being in touch with your spiritual side doesn't make you an easy target... on the contrary, in fact."<br /><br />Well, be that as it may, I'm a little skeptical about this survey.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mv.com/users/ang/fanfic/quiz.html">Which Les Mis Character Are You?</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112748699723291839?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1127338957936432202005-09-21T13:20:00.000-07:002005-09-21T14:42:37.970-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/map600x405.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/map600x405.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Just a quick post today.<br /><br />Please pray for those who have homes on the gulf coast of Texas. I hear that the storm is supposed to hit right on Galveston and sweep over Houston. Weather.com says that the storm is up to Category 5 and still growing.<br /><br />Specifically, there is a girl in my studio who is from Houston and she has basically given up hope of seeing her home or her grandparent's home ever again. Also I met a girl from Victoria whose parents had called and asked what she wanted from her room and that she had two boxes space to work with.<br /><br />Looks like the storm will hit Dallas on Monday morning if it keeps up.<br /><br />Signing Off...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112733895793643220?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1126740910101770112005-09-19T09:52:00.000-07:002005-09-19T09:54:28.076-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/Cornelius1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/Cornelius.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">There is an eccentric black gentleman who rides around the city of Lubbock on his modified bicycle. The bike has no seat; but rather has the pedals there where the seat should be. This sounds awkward you say? Yes it kind of is.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Another thing I have seen is that periodically he will wear a black cape, I have been told that he is the unofficial mascot of Texas Tech, who knows.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Because his pedals are where the seat goes it requires him to perch up high, it can't be comfortable but you always see him in this fashion. In fact many people have seen him, just about every one has some story about meeting him or a friend meeting him. But I never could find out his name.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Well yesterday night I met him for the first time. He was riding in front of Varsity bookstore and he asked for some change, I was sad to inform him that I had none but I promised him I would give him twice as much next time. Well he turned and started to ride away but I called after him to ask his name.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">He told me his name was Cornelius</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Signing off...</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112674091010177011?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1126135407330285332005-09-07T16:17:00.000-07:002005-09-07T16:24:06.026-07:00<span style="font-family:arial;">At the risk of repeating myself I would like to point back to Challies.com to a post he put up today on</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.challies.com/archives/001297.php#more">"Open-Theism in Action"</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Young people need to identify this currently popular heresy and know why it is wrong. It is easy to say "I don't believe that" but more important to know (and be able to explain) </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >why</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> it is wrong.<br /><br />Make sure you read the comments too.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Signing Off...</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112613540733028533?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1125450566475434462005-08-30T17:56:00.000-07:002005-08-30T18:09:26.493-07:00<span style="font-family: arial;">Well a strange thing happened in my first design class today. So the teacher introduces the basic format and everything but instead of telling us what we are going to be designing he has us come up with our semester-long project.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: arial;">Now that is all well and good but he didn't moderate either. I was beginning to think I had walked into a political philosophy class or something because all of the sudden everybody had "the best" way to choose the best project out of a list and no one was really taking anybody elses views into consideration. I won't go into the different and bizarre ways we picked but needless to say we ended up going with the choice of the majority.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: arial;">It really makes me glad that we have a representative government so that I can choose someone to do all these dealings for me. I also see the clear benefits of a set system where lawmakers don't have to come up with a new way to decide every time.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: arial;">Signing Off...</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112545056647543446?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1125351638989976192005-08-29T14:37:00.000-07:002005-08-29T14:43:17.233-07:00<span style="font-family:arial;">Hey second post in one day--</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I just was making the blog rounds and found a great one that you guys should take time to read and think about.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">From Tim Challies at Challies.com: </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.challies.com/archives/001264.php#more">Pragmatism</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Signing Off...</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112535163898997619?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1125350367782669122005-08-29T14:06:00.000-07:002005-08-29T14:19:27.786-07:00<span style="font-family: arial;">Whew!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Well I just got out of my first class of Studio III, I think I am going to like my teacher but we'll see about that. He is an Indian fellow and very interested in seeing us design European type structures. Which means small and efficient.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">I had never thought of American houses as extravagant but when you compare how much free land there is in a medieval town to say, Dallas or Lubbock you realize that you have to be much more frugal in general. The average family (about 2 bedrooms) house runs about 800 or 900 square feet. Makes me thankful for having room to stretch out at home.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: arial;">Here is the link to our class page if it interests you </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.arch.ttu.edu/courses/2005/Fall/3501/">ARCH 3501</a><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: arial;">Well, so far I am still working at the bookstore and it's a good thing because I am actually going to have to buy some books for studio and the discount really helps.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112535036778266912?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1124568505453720822005-08-20T12:56:00.000-07:002005-08-20T13:08:25.460-07:00<span style="font-family: arial;">Well this has been a busy week, Ellen came home on Wednesday and so our family went for dinner at Campisi's (Ellen is fine by the way). But for pretty much the rest of the time I have been working. </span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: arial;">My manager is very generous, since this is my last week at home he has been working me as much as possible so that I can earn as much money as possible. Too bad that the side effect is being worn out.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: arial;">It does have a good return though. Money is useful stuff.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: arial;">Signing off...</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112456850545372082?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1124167117843043192005-08-15T20:54:00.000-07:002005-08-15T21:46:31.883-07:00<span style="font-family:arial;">"..she knows his love's in tulsa and she knows he's gonna go, it ain't no woman flesh and blood it's...</span> "<br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">RODEO!!!<br /><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/cowboys.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/cowboys.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">I had a blast last Saturday night, a group of about 12 kids from church went to the Mesquite Championship Rodeo and while I can't presume to speak for everyone I think it was a good time for all.</span> <br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I had never been to the rodeo until </span><span style="font-family:arial;">today but I have been a fan for at least a year or so. Particularly of bull riding -- the Outdoor Living Network (or whatever it's name is) shows PBR events every week and I usually didn't miss them all last year.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />I still have a dream of riding a bull in competition sometime. I have had many people try to talk me out of this but I ain't gonna be talked out of it. My mother said she would prefer it to riding a motorcycle, the lesser of two weevils, she says.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />One day...</span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />The picture is: Evan, Me, David Lamb and Austin Sword on David's jacked-up Dodge</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112416711784304319?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1124077832223087762005-08-14T20:00:00.000-07:002005-08-14T20:52:28.250-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/Pioneernight2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/Pioneernight.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">Our family had an interesting episode tonight. We were planning a night of movie and light dinner but right as we were preparing to put in the movie, the power went out and stayed out for an hour.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">So instead, we had a pioneer night. We built a fire and lit candles and mused about how we only had a little time between the indian attacks to eat our dinner.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">After we ate I read a little out loud --no not Little House on the Prairie but from an old Tom Swift book of my dad's.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">It is fun to do imaginary things every now and then, the imagination is a wonderful gift. Just about the only thing we didn't do was get out the guns and fight the indians. That will be tomorrow night...</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112407783222308776?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1123453674827572682005-08-07T14:56:00.000-07:002005-08-14T21:16:32.850-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/DSC00364.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/DSC00364.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">You know, I love storms. We are currently experiencing a rainless strom right now. In other words we are getting a lot of wind and there are big storms to the south and west and there is lots of lightning. It really is exciting...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />My love of storms goes back about three years...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Best I can recall it was February of 2003 and I had just started delivering pizza for Domino's. It was a dark and stormy night (it was!) and we were BUSY. Sometime after dark it began hailing and the hailstones got up to the size of racketballs - it was scary. Just trying to drive down the road was an event, the hailstones were pounding like hammers and scaring me to death. Several times I had to take refuge behind buildings and at one point I ran into a 6 or 8 inch deep pool of water in the road. It stopped the car like I ran into a wall (I was probably going 25 miles an hour). I had to fetch the pizza off the floor on that one (silly old inertia) but the pizza was ok.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">During that storm I was not particularly enjoying it, but one verse was running through my mind the whole time:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork</span><span style="font-family:arial;">. Psalms 19:1</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I believe that God protected me during that storm. Since then I have come to enjoy storms more than fear them. Every time a heavy one blows through I think about the power that God's storms are created with and it amazes me.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Signing off...<br /><br />Big Wave's related <a href="http://thebigwave.blogspot.com/2005/08/power-of-jesus-christ.html">post</a><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112345367482757268?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1123304676824373832005-08-05T21:47:00.000-07:002005-08-05T22:05:03.610-07:00<span style="font-family: arial;">Wow, you know I have been in a rather heavy mood lately. Probably thinking too much about the real world...not that we should ignore it, but it does bear down on you.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">I have a hard time blogging while I am in this mood so I am going to post the lyrics to a great song by Blue Highway.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">Some Day</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> Some day when my last line is written</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> Some day when I've drawn my last breath</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> When my last words on earth have been spoken</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> And my lips are sealed in death</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> Don't look on my cold form in pity</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> Don't think of me as one dead</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> It'll just be the house I once lived in</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> My spirit, by then, will have fled.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> I'll have finished my time here alotted</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> But I won't be in darkness alone</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> I will have heard from heaven</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> The summons to come on home</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> And when my body is in the grave</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> Don't think that I'll be there</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> I won't be dead, but living</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> In the place Jesus went to prepare.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> And after all is said and done</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> Know that my last earnest prayer</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> Is that my loved ones be ready</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> Someday to meet me there.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">One of my mother's favorites, I suppose that I have now deprived her of putting it on her blog. But I am sure she won't mind.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112330467682437383?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1123215556257967032005-08-04T21:19:00.000-07:002005-08-04T22:12:31.216-07:00<font style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="arial">An interesting thing has happened to me, this past week I have listened to more talk radio than music-- and not only talk radio but political commentary.</font><font style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </font><font style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="arial"><br /><br />*gasp* -- not that!</font><font style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /><br /></font><font style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="arial">I have actually enjoyed it (otherwise I wouldn't have continued) and I have found it is more of an amusing waste of time than a help. On the one hand I am learning about the most current events, on the other hand all the information I get is spun so hatefully that you have to wonder how much is real and how much isn't.</font><font style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </font><font style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="arial"><br /><br />This week I have listened to two shows consistantly. On the liberal side of things is the show called "The Majority Report" -that one is consistantly Bush-bashing. On the conservative side of things is the show called the "Savage Nation" the fellow who runs this show, Dr. Michael Savage is of the Bush-is-a-sellout crowd of ultra conservatives. There are certainly middle of the road shows out there I just don't have experiences with them.</font><font style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </font><font style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="arial"><br /><br />Now I won't go deeper into what these shows say, you can look that up for yourself, but there was one similarity that struck me about them and that was how both radio hosts felt that if Bush kept having his way about things that the US (yes, the nation as a whole) would disentigrate. Both shows exude this feeling of hopelessness that is saddening.</font><font style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </font><font style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="arial"><br /><br />Very saddening...they seem to have no hope.</font><font style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </font><font style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="arial"><br /><br />But there is hope, but not through political channels,</font><font style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </font><font style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" color="#00004a" face="arial"><br /><br />"<font style="font-style: italic;">Not by might, not by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts</font>" Zachariah 4:6</font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112321555625796703?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1123130319266299082005-08-03T21:07:00.000-07:002005-08-03T21:42:53.966-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/DSC003181.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/DSC00318.jpg" alt="" border="0"></a>Today, August 3rd, saw the grand opening of the newest IKEA store in Frisco, Texas.<br /><br />For those of you not aquainted with IKEA, it is a swedish-based furniture store with an equal amount of space devoted to kitchen and home furnishings.<br /><br />I was there, as you probably guessed, and had a lot of fun too.<br /><br />The place was packed and I mean PACKED! We waited 30-40 minutes to get inside then when we went to the check out the line it was about 400 yards long (seriously, four football fields).<br /><br />Amazingly, they planned this VERY well and there was not a time when we felt neglected; From standing in the sun, when we recieved fold up screens and cold bottled water to the checkout line when employees walked up and down with granola bars and orange juice.<br /><br />I regret to say that in walking around, I really didn't get to look at the furniture. I hope that some day soon I will be able to go back for a more thorough look 'round.<br /><br />If you ever find yourself with the chance of getting to visit an IKEA for an afternoon then I would reccomend going at least once. Before you go take warning: hide your credit cards and allow yourself a limited amount of cash -- because if you are like me it is easy to add it up...<br /><br />While you are there ponder "the consumer" and its place in the food chain.<br /><br />Signing Off...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112313031926629908?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1123006577714239382005-08-02T11:02:00.000-07:002005-08-02T23:52:24.343-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/P72400111.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/P7240011.jpg" alt="" border="0"></a><font face="arial">The Sunday before last I was at my grandparent's house in Granbury and thankfully I had my camera with me when the sunset came. (right)</font><br /><br /><font face="arial">Their house is on the Brazos River and though the river there is not the best for swimming it is really nice to be able to walk down there whenever we want to and just enjoy watching sunsets or skipping rocks or whatever.</font><br /><br /><font face="arial">This sunset reminded me of another that I</font><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/P4160020.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/P4160020.jpg" alt="" border="0"></a><font face="arial"> experienced this year. (left) Though the location was San Angelo and the time was April 16th.<br /><br />They say that people are generally prone to create the same composition when given the chance and that seems to be the case here. </font><br /><br /><font face="arial">Sunset and sunrise are two of the most beautiful times of day, in my opinion.</font><br /><br /><font face="arial">Signing off...</font><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112300657771423938?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1122946932520672042005-08-01T18:26:00.000-07:002005-08-01T20:33:38.856-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/bunyan3.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/320/bunyan3.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >"So I saw in my dream that the man began to run. Now he had not run far from his own door when his wife and children, perceiving it, began to cry after him to return; but the man put his fingers in his ears, and ran on crying, Life! life! eternal life!"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Our family reading tonight was the beginning of Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. This quote was interesting to me, the thought that he was resolved, that he saw the need to actually flee, is inspiring. Too many times I find that I have put earthly things in rank above heavenly things. To the end of actually giving in to the temptations of sin.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The point Bunyan is making is straight out of Luke 14:26 which says:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >"If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The most important thing is to take up our cross and follow him...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >"Whosoever doth not bear his own cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. Luke 14:27"<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">If you follow the link to the right you can read this in context, which I reccomend.</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" ><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112294693252067204?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1122010863653031072005-07-21T22:34:00.000-07:002005-07-25T17:04:32.693-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/dwebb5croppedjpg2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/320/dwebb5croppedjpg1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">A friend of mine wrote this poem, his work is rather original in my opinion...this comes from his life work *in progress* called <font><span style="font-style: italic;">The Book of Nonsense</span>. </span></span><font><font><font><font><font><font>(he is just to my left in the blue shirt)<span style="font-style: italic;"><font><br /></span></span><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font>Chapter The Twentieth<br 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style="font-size:100%;"><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span></span></span></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font></span><font>One day while I was bright and merry,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><o:p></o:p><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><br />Standing up on certain ground,<o:p></o:p><br />As sunlight glew upon a cherry,<o:p></o:p><br />Moonbeams were falling all around.<o:p><br /></o:p><br />When suddenly, my life was battered,<o:p></o:p><br />And my brains were out of control,<o:p></o:p><br />As peace was quite quickly shattered,<o:p></o:p><br />I felt such agony in my soul.<o:p><br /><br /></o:p>For hark!<span style=""> </span>Hark! saith I.<o:p></o:p><br />Gaze upon the horizon blue!<o:p></o:p><br />For falling from the cloudless sky,<o:p></o:p><br />There cometh drops of 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thought I, in ignorance and folly,</span><o:p></o:p><br />It surely will stop as night draws nigh!<o:p></o:p><br />But the rain brought melancholy,<o:p></o:p><br />And continued falling from the 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out of the blue expanse,</span><o:p></o:p><br />My rescuers I saw,<o:p></o:p><br />For pink elephants made me wet my pants,<o:p></o:p><br />And they flew through glue and all!<o:p> </o:p><br 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I thought at last,</span><o:p></o:p><br />They’ve come to help me through.<o:p></o:p><br />And indeed they carried me away quite fast,<o:p></o:p><font><br />As we plowed through the fading storm of glue.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112201086365303107?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1122008121884957362005-07-21T21:07:00.000-07:002005-07-21T22:25:59.776-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/meeting1.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/320/meeting1.jpeg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Federalists.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">I think that in the very near future we will be hearing some about these folks. I will take this chance to try and give a little background.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Historically, the federalists were the faction that backed the Constitution. They held to the ideals that the counrty would be better run by a strong central government along with all the trappings that would hold such a government together. It is important to mention that John Madison, John Jay and Alexander Hamilton are all federalists. Ever heard of the Federalist papers?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Their opponents were the anti-federalists. Basically living up to their name they fought for an alliance of stronger state governments which they believed would allow each to be run more effectively. Coincidentally, the Articles of Confederation (their document) didn't work well enough to run the country for very long. Anti-federalists include Patrick Henry, Tom Paine and George Mason.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">The newly apppointed Supreme Court Judge, John Roberts Jr., is a member of the Federalist Society- though they do not hold on to the exact same points as their predecessors, their issues stay the same for the most part, one of their key purposes is to take deep interest in the decision at hand...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;">* The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order. It is founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">I think this is a wonderful idea personally, but I have a feeling it will not be totally accepted by a large part of the populace. I can't wait to see what our new Judge will do.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Signing Off...</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112200812188495736?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1121926333049749852005-07-20T22:54:00.000-07:002005-07-20T23:24:40.033-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/wrinkle.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/400/wrinkle.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">A little note on the title of my blog.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />In the recent past (the last two years) I started reading the books written by Madeline L'Engle including her first chronologically in the Murray series -- </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >A Wrinkle in Time</span><span style="font-family:arial;">. These were always around our house but I never read them until recently.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Aside from her theology I really like these books, enough so that when I had to put down a title for my blog and my eyes alighted on the copy of <span style="font-style: italic;">A Wrinkle in Time</span> that I had finished earlier that day I typed it in without giving it another thought. The little subtitle comes from a scene in the book where they "tesser" onto a two dimensional planet accidentally.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The second reason why I chose this name was because every time I start something like this online (i.e. blogging or Instant Messaging or posting to a forum) it seems to steal away my time. It becomes a time-wrinkle which I am sucked into. Hence my subtitle "the one way road to a two dimensional world"<br /><br />Signing Off...<br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112192633304974985?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1121889677663411682005-07-20T12:08:00.000-07:002005-07-20T13:07:48.440-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/P7180034.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/P7180034.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Ahh, what a fun couple days - I stayed both Sunday and Monday nights at the Stokers ranch outside of Chico Texas. The second night we spent on a houseboat on a beautiful creek and took potshots at turtles and buzzards with our .22s.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">An interesting thing occured to me on Tuesday afternoon.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">On monday morning I prayed at breakfast that they would get some rain, their tank is about 10 feet low. By the afternoon a few showers had passed over and they got a little bit of rain. It wasn't until the next day that I realized that my prayer had actually been answered and I had not even been bothered to be thankful for it. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I don't know how to wrap this up but needless to say I think I should be more Godly minded - answered prayer is an amazing blessing which shouldn't be taken lightly. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield. Psalm 5:3,12</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112188967766341168?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1121575224453067162005-07-16T20:39:00.000-07:002005-07-16T21:40:24.456-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/top_logo.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/top_logo.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Wowie, Pretty Scary.<br /><br />My switch to working full-time at Domino's is complete - obviously because I have worked about one of the last three days there. I had forgotten how full-time feels, I am rather tired now.<br /><br />I delivered somewhere close to 60 orders in the last three days and put about 125 miles on my car each day. Yesterday was one of the busiest days I have seen, we were $40 short of $5000 in sales... That is a whole lot of pizza!<br /><br />Well because of the long hours I have been able to save more money (makes sense) incidentally the reason I wanted long hours was to make more money. So it works out, plus I get cool stories to tell about the funny things people do. Like today for my tip a lady gave me a gas station cookie bag containing 96 cents in assorted change. Guess she cleaned out her car seat this morning...<br /><br />Anyone else have funny work stories?<br /><br />Signing off...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112157522445306716?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1121395348222174572005-07-14T19:38:00.000-07:002005-07-20T14:11:25.523-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/Andrew.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/Andrew.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Name:</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">A.P. Beauchamp<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Occupation:</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Plantation Owner<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Holdings:</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">1,001,000 Acres in Virginia<br /></span><font><span style="font-weight: bold;">Crop:</span></span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><font><font><span style="font-family: arial;font-size:85%;" > Tobacco</span><br /></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112139534822217457?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1121288343709982442005-07-13T13:46:00.000-07:002005-07-13T15:43:56.966-07:00<p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">This is one of my favorite poems-<br />I went to sleep to it last night.<br /></span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Praise to God for Our Redemption</span><br />Isaac Watts<br /></span></p> <p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Blessed be the wisdom and the power,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> The justice and the grace,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> That joined in council to restore,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> and save our ruined race.</span></span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Our father ate forbidden fruit,<br />And from his glory fell;<br />And we his children thus were brought<br />To death and near to hell.</span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Bless'd be our Lord that sent his Son<br />To take our flesh and blood;<br />He for our lives gave his own,<br />To make our peace with God.</span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">He honored all his Fathers laws,<br />Which we have disobeyed;<br />He bore our sins upon the cross,<br />And the full ransom paid.</span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Behold him rising from the grave,<br />Behold him raised on high;<br />He pleads his merits there to save<br />Transgressors doomed to die.</span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">There on a glorious throne he reigns,<br />And by his power divine<br />Redeems us from the slavish chains<br />of Satan and of sin.</span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Thence shall the Lord to judgment come,<br />And, with a sovereign voice,<br />Shall call and break up every tomb,<br />While waking saints rejoice.</span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Oh may I then with joy appear<br />Before the Judge's face;<br />And with the blessed assembly there,<br />Sing his redeeming grace.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112128834370998244?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1121229979885106742005-07-12T21:24:00.000-07:002005-07-12T22:14:16.413-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/ArialHome2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/200/ArialHome.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">My father introduced me to a very interesting program last night.</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /><br />Google has recently released "Google Earth" a very comprehensive collection of satellite photos which are nearly completely searchable. It amazes me to be looking at New York City and then type in my address and watch it zoom across the country and zero in on my house.</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /><br />On the one hand it is scary, I mean this is how you zoom in and look for missle targets. On the flipside of the coin this technology is being used to find guys like Bin Laden.</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /><br />I think is is a fun toy but what are the practical uses? most of these satellite pictures I could date (WTC, school construction and my house) told me the pictures are about 4 years old so they are definetely out of date.</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /><br /><a href="http://earth.google.com/">http://earth.google.com/</a></span> <span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /><br />What Next?</span> <span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /><br />Signing Off...</span><br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112122997988510674?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1121143408118324462005-07-11T21:34:00.000-07:002005-07-11T21:46:22.950-07:00<span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/1600/talktofunkycows.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4784/1302/400/talktofunkycows.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>I just stumbled onto this picture this evening.<br /><br />What a great crew.. I would love a reunion some time. You know I could go on for a while about how sad it is we can't all get together more, but despite the fact that we can't - we still share the Christian bonds referenced in <span style="font-style: italic;">House of the Lord<br /><br /> </span>You may value the friendships of youth and of age,<br /> And select for my comrades the noble and sage,<br /> But the friends that most cheer me on life’s rugged road<br /> Are the friends of my Master, the children of God.<br /><br />Signing Off...<br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112114340811832446?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14405500.post-1121134910112310372005-07-11T19:17:00.000-07:002005-07-11T19:21:50.116-07:00<span style="font-size:85%;">My name is Eric Ritchie<br /><br />This is my new blog and I at this point don't know what it will be about.<br /><br />I would like to make it a discussion of spiritual matters, we will see about that.<br /><br />Signing Off...<br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14405500-112113491011231037?l=wylietex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>ThePizzaPizzaManhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619251986125885348noreply@blogger.com0