The Kindle Fire: A Simple Media Tablet

The much hyped, very mysterious, ultra inexpensive Kindle Fire has arrived. I’ve had mine for a little over 48 hours.

I’ve been waiting awhile for something like this. A dead-simple-yet-capable, ultra portable, affordable computer that gives me full access to the web, multimedia, and various documents1. In many ways, the modern tablet is the new [...]

Why I Chose the ESV

This blog post is pretty much inspired by Carson’s post on the NRSV, since he got me thinking about Bible translations, and why I’ve chosen the ESV. Although we have different preferences for our primary translation, I really appreciate the reasons he chooses the NRSV over the ESV, and in fact he’s the one that convinced me [...]

J.J. Abram’s Star Trek is Awesome – My Full Review

Star Trek in almost all of its  forms is special to me. Star Trek: The Next Generation and the original series movie franchise played particularly important roles in my childhood; many good times were had with my family watching Kirk, Picard and company save the universe episode after episode and movie installment after movie installment. [...]