Category Archives: My Thoughts

My first sermon titled, “Self-esteem Vs. God-esteem”

Self-esteem vs God-esteem

I was a bit nervous before hand, but had a great time encouraging the congregation at Harbor Chapel. The central message is “God loves _____” with your name in the blank. This sermon teaches that we should not measure ourselves by what others think of us. Our self-esteem can be low because of some petty thing that we think we have failed at. God’s love for us shows us our “actual” self-worth.

The message was recorded at a terrible quality and I did what I could to clean it up, but it still has a nasty hum. If you’d like to hear it, here it is. Download link below.

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Sermon – Self-esteem vs. God-esteem

This USB computer keyboard is probably not worth the asking price

Expensive keyboard

We’ve seen overpriced items appear on Amazon before. But this is some amazing over-pricing right here.

http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Illuminated-Keyboard-Technology-6-Gaming/dp/B000S2K1F4/ref=sr_1_14?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1464207816&sr=1-14&keywords=usb+keyboard&refinements=p_n_feature_browse-bin%3A11036341

It is backlit, but I doubt that justifies the $75,509.03 price tag.

Amazon customer Gamerman claims in his 1-star review that he’d “rather eat poop than buy a keyboard for 76k”. Fortunately, we don’t have to decide between these two foul options.

I think I’ll instead go with the no-poo platter and this keyboard here.

I’ve got some slogan ideas for the Cauliflower industry

Lately, I’ve been thinking that it might be fun to do some freelance advertising consulting. Here are some samples that the Cauliflower Industry could use to spark an interest in their product.

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I’m leveling up in Math

I have never been good at math, but lately I’ve been aiming to change that. I started using the wonderful resource khanacadamy.org and picked up in the “pre-algebra” course. I accomplished it in roughly 33 hours and I’m hungry for more math!

I was always told to “show your work”, so here it is. Continue reading →

Cursed dashed, broken lines in AutoCAD 2016. Be gone!

I am known for having unique technical problems. When I call tech support for various services and software, it’s rarely anything that the manual covers. I am blessed with the ability to discover bugs and “unintended features”.

At work this week, I upgraded a years-old-laptop to a Microsoft Surface Pro 4 with an i7 processor. I don’t do a lot of CAD work, but I do work on controls drawings for our MACS Coolers periodically. Because of this occasional need, I picked up a higher-end Surface Pro 4, if not for the AutoCAD work, an i5 would have been plenty.

Since I was overly curious about the new AutoCAD and installed our company’s latest version, AutoCAD 2016, and I was on a Surface Pro 4 running Windows 10, the newness of it all was doomed to end poorly.