Dear reader, if you are a fan of strategy games like Civilization, I have a recommended (and free) game for you. It is called Ikariam. A few coworkers and I are playing the game and are creating an alliance. You should join us. If you are interested, join on the "Ny" server and shoot me an email so we can chat and collaborate.
Hope to see some of you on there.
I thought I was hot, but Grantham said I was pathetic. So now I am sad.
But that's okay. I found something that will help me feel better. I bet it will help you too.
A friend (Edward) sent me to a link that is surely scientifically backed since it perfectly conforms to what I expect. If I were a university professor, I would likely be teaching a language (Greek) or classes in biblical studies. So clearly, as you can see from this link, I am mega-hot.
Go ahead and disagree, Chuck, but science has my back.
Do you? I did not until fairly recently.
Mark’s language is simple, but his composition of the story of Jesus betrays a subtlety that it not to be ignored. This was driven home to me very clearly when thinking about Mark 6 for the Sunday school lesson a couple weeks ago.
I'm on twitter now: http://twitter.com/Mallioch. Anyone else? Does this finally make me hip and cool?
Watch this video. You will have a deeper appreciation of both the usefulness of YouTube and the power of Benny Hinn. Thanks for the link, Edward!
A number of years ago some friends and I started a company and produced an interactive software tutorial for learning to diagram in Greek. Tonight we are putting this software out for free for personal use. You can download it off of the Lexel Software website. I hope you find it useful.
And, of course, stay tuned for other useful Greek resources!
Random thoughts before bed.
As I have already mentioned, there are a number of things that I want digitized. Fortunately, a couple I mentioned are already digitized and not restricted in copyright. I found that The Little Sailing has both all of Pseudo-Apollodorus' Bibliotheca and a good deal of Plutarch done.
Recently I asked one of the members of my Greek reading group (Nina) to do some digitization work for me. I started typing up Pseudo-Lucian's "The Ass" and have made some progress, but I haven't had enough time to make a lot. So, I decided to pay her to do it for me. She said she was interested but I don't really have her on a time frame, so I am not sure when it will be completed. When she is done I will, of course, share it with all of you.
I would image the large majority of you really don't care, but just in case you do, here you go. I am now restarting my technical blog again. I even have a new design. There you will see my ramblings on being a developer with a focus on the various tools that I use to do my job. Just in case you didn't know, I do programming between 40 and 60 hours a week as my main source of income (and one of my sources of fun). So I actually spend more of my time thinking about programming than Greek or Early Christian studies.
I've been wanting to do this for quite some time. Over the last few months I've worked little-by-little on a reader for the Protoevangelium of James. I am finally to the point where I want to release part of it. So, for those of you who have new years resolutions to read more Greek, here is something to help!
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I hope it totally rocks for both of us.
