Phil
Full of Impotent Rage, I blog!Tuesday August, 31 2010 05:52 PM PDT
Originally published at Phil. Please leave any comments there.
WTF? The CU/CSU game is not being broadcast on any sane television network. The only way you get to see it on TV is if you have “The Mountain” – read that as: DirectTV or premium-level of cable only.
Apparently this is because it’s a CSU home game and “The Mountain” has rights to all of those.
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot, CSU…
Todd
amosTuesday August, 31 2010 01:42 PM PDT
I've been reading Amos. Quite a book.
The book of Amos shows me what God cares about (what pleases him) and what He finds offensive (what angers him). My findings may be different than you might first think. Check em out:
What Angers God:
Injustice - v. 5:7, 12
Exploitation/oppression of the poor - v. 1:9; 2:6-7; 4:1; 5:11-12; 8:4
Violence - v. 1:3, 13; 2:1
Rejection of his law - v. 2:4
Religious hypocrisy/show - v. 3:14; 4:4-5; 5:21-23
Material indulgence - v. 2:8; 3:15; 6:3-6
What Pleases God:
Justice and righteousness for all people- v. 5:15, 24
Seeking good not evil - v. 5:14, 15
Seeking of God not religious ritual or hypocritical worship - v. 5:4-6
So, what does this mean for me?
It teaches me that following the way of God is not about religious ceremony, but about loving people and seeking justice for the oppressed. It reminds me to be mindful of what I purchase and who I purchase it from. It shows me that I should support companies and institutions that promote just, ethical and socially responsible practices. It motivates me to oppose oppressive marketing practices, corporate exploitation of the poor, child abuse, and unjust governmental law.
Amos teaches me that God is concerned with the oppressed and so should we, as Martin Luther King Jr. once so famously quoted: "But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream" Amos 5:24
The book of Amos shows me what God cares about (what pleases him) and what He finds offensive (what angers him). My findings may be different than you might first think. Check em out:
What Angers God:
Injustice - v. 5:7, 12
Exploitation/oppression of the poor - v. 1:9; 2:6-7; 4:1; 5:11-12; 8:4
Violence - v. 1:3, 13; 2:1
Rejection of his law - v. 2:4
Religious hypocrisy/show - v. 3:14; 4:4-5; 5:21-23
Material indulgence - v. 2:8; 3:15; 6:3-6
What Pleases God:
Justice and righteousness for all people- v. 5:15, 24
Seeking good not evil - v. 5:14, 15
Seeking of God not religious ritual or hypocritical worship - v. 5:4-6
So, what does this mean for me?
It teaches me that following the way of God is not about religious ceremony, but about loving people and seeking justice for the oppressed. It reminds me to be mindful of what I purchase and who I purchase it from. It shows me that I should support companies and institutions that promote just, ethical and socially responsible practices. It motivates me to oppose oppressive marketing practices, corporate exploitation of the poor, child abuse, and unjust governmental law.
Amos teaches me that God is concerned with the oppressed and so should we, as Martin Luther King Jr. once so famously quoted: "But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream" Amos 5:24
Phil
The problem with being married…Friday August, 27 2010 10:09 AM PDT
Phil
WeekendFriday August, 27 2010 09:12 AM PDT
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Lots to do this weekend, but I think I’m going to take Saturday morning as “Phil time” and get a haircut, take the bike out for a while and go have breakfast somewhere fun, maybe come back and install some doorknobs in the house…
That evening my highschool friend Jamie’s getting married… at 10,500′ altitude so dressing for the occasion could be fun. Glad I’m not Lia – pants are a definite help when the weather’s going to change as drastically as I’m suspecting.
Helping out at the Loveland Corn Festival tonight by standing in the United Way booth with Lia. I have no idea what you do at a corn festival, but I will probably end up eating something deep-fried for dinner.
Speaking of dinner, last night Lia made a vegetable lasagna with zucchini and eggplant layers in place of noodles. I got to grill the slices. One of our friends gave us a zucchini the size of my arm – sliced up, it covered both tiers of the grill completely. That’s a lot of zucchini.
Phil
Shiny!Friday August, 27 2010 09:06 AM PDT
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Google’s finally integrated GMail and Google Voice, so I can now make and receive calls entirely on-line right from my GMail interface. That’s pretty rockin’. I need to figure out where my Bluetooth headset’s gotten to and hook it up to the Mac at home and try that out.
Phil
A case of mistaken identityWednesday August, 25 2010 07:13 AM PDT
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Dear World,
I am not Phil Miller, low-level rigging grip for any number of film production companies.
Neither am I Ian Brown of Newmarket, England, seeker of extremely sketchy loans.
Both of these men are people who have no idea what their email address is. Here’s a hint: it’s not mine. So quit using it.
Love,
The REAL Phil Mills
Todd
gotchaMonday August, 23 2010 09:01 PM PDT
"YES! HA HA HA HA HA! WE CAUGHT THE GROUNDHOG!"That is what I declared to my kids Friday night when to my delight we caught the groundhog. I can't tell you how happy I was. I have been trying to catch that bugger for the past month (I've been like Bill Murry in Caddyshack). He was an illusive, sneaky and fat rodent. When I would spie him in the garden nibbling on veggies he would stealthy slip into the bushes or hide under the shed. I finally found one of his hiding spots and placed the trap (full of carrots) right in front of his entrance. Two days went by and nothing. Then on the evening of the third day, walla, he took the bate. My garden gopher is finally gone!
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"YES! HA HA HA HA HA! WE CAUGHT THE GROUNDHOG!"
Phil
Going Post-al.Monday August, 23 2010 12:25 PM PDT
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I need to get back on the posting wagon, here.
So: since last we saw our hero, he’s managed to get Comcast to give him “Basic” cable which gets him all the local networks in HD plus a few extra channels for under $20/month. Also: cable Internet, which toddles along pretty well just under 20Mbps download on a good day. Certainly good enough to watch Hulu stutter-free or stream movies off of Netflix.
I signed us up for a free month’s trial of Netflix. So far, so good – streaming quality is pretty decent on newer movies (like Julie&Julia that we watched on Saturday) and good enough on older stuff (Robin Hood: Men In Tights, which looked really compressed. My first real DVD is supposed to deliver on Tuesday, so that’ll be exciting.
I’ve got a wedding this weekend that I still need to get a gift for; we tried getting something (anything!) at Sears and that was about the most frustration I’ve had while shopping in a while. No staff to speak of, a broken printer on the registry station, no way to match up descriptions to product short of finding a manager to punch the UPC into the system, not one of the “available in stores” linens actually available in the store and – the coup de grace – the item we finally settled on (because we could find it) turned out to be a nearly empty box when we finally got it home late last night. This morning I got disconnected twice before someone at the store figured out how to use the phone system to get me connected to a manager.
Sigh.
Anyway, I get to watch Kick Ass once it shows up on Tuesday.
While we were out shopping on Sunday I finally bought a new pair of shoes. My feet are getting kind of hard to fit right – I need a pretty wide toe-box – so Keens have been about all I can really find recently.
