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Nathan Smith, fellow graduate from Multnomah’s undergrad school and now in the Seminary at Multnomah, is starting up a couple projects that I want to announce on this blog.

One is The Free Library of Christian Scholarship, a space where people can upload their own theological works for reading and discussion.

The second is part of The Free Library of Christian Scholarship, a blog aggregator, that so far includes Nathan, Chris Layton and myself.

Its a fledgling project right now, but it has the potential to grow - I’m sure Nathan would welcome interested people. Go give ‘em a look.

Woo hoo! Futurama is back! I just finished the dvd they released a few days back. It was great. Classic Futurama, one might say. Whee! It reminded me of the Simpson’s movie - an hour and a half of good times. I can’t wait for the next three dvds.

Nudist Alien 1: Like all rich people, we’re gonna need weapons to shoot poor people.

Nudist Alien 2: In self defense?

Nudist Alien 1: Yes, that too…

This is from the BBC:

More than a million people have backed comic Stephen Colbert’s fake candidacy in the 2008 US presidential election on social-networking website Facebook.

In nine days, more than 1m users joined an online group set up after the Colbert Report host announced his bid.

…The group grew so quickly it caused technical problems for the website, which has nearly 50 million users around the world and is said to account for 1% of all internet traffic.

I think I could actually vote for Colbert. Well that is to say, I’d vote and then repent, or something like that. Then again, voting in Alaska means nothing on the national level. At least he’ll think about the issues and tell us his reasoning. Yeah, I know he is a comic, but he’d be honest me thinks. Also, the man has guts, sticking it to the president at the correspondents dinner? Wow.

I’m a big fan of the comic on academics, Piled Higher and Deeper. I’m also doing quite a bit of writing right now and between school work and applications for life beyond the MA, I am this guy.

I am kind of a sports fan, that is to say, I like to play ‘em, but whenever I follow sports, its normally a communal affair or at the urging of others and not so much out of my own volition. This semester though I’ve been keeping an eye on the baseball playoffs, but not nearly as close as a friend here has. He made this observation that I completely missed: the Cleveland Indians kicked the Yankees out of the playoffs on Columbus day. Ha! That still cracks me up, so much so that I wanted to make sure the whole internet realized the irony. Hence this post. Anyways, as you were.

From the Times:

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - A new hub for Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” headlines a slate of two-dozen targeted Web sites that Viacom’s MTV Networks will launch by the first quarter.

TheDailyShow.com, which launches in the fourth quarter, will archive the entire video history of the show including headlines, interviews and the “Back in Black” feature. The portal also will present the previous evening’s episode in its entirety an hour or two after its broadcast.

Woo hoo!

So I created a myspace account and a facebook account awhile back, partially to stay in touch with those I left behind in Oregon when I graduated; however, I found as I began to post more and more on the myspace page, that myspace is not the kind of atmosphere that really facilitates discussion. Anyways, I’ve now moved over to here, blogspot, to post words - by and large theological words. Ta da.

I will repost some of the posts from the myspace page, but if one is curious as to all the posts, then go here.