movie

Dietrich Bonhoeffer After Tony's we went to Blockbuster to rent a movie. We really could not find much to rent. We were hoping the Luther movie was out but is was not. I did find a nice documentary on Bonhoeffer. I know it does not sound like a romantic anniversary move to rent, and it was not, but one thing about Leslie and I is that we normally try to rent foreign films or documentary if we can. I did not know anything about Bonhoeffer, but had heard quotes from him. We were nervous that we would not get the true story of his life and that the movie was made by some history changing, God's name deluding individual whose agenda would be antithetical to mine. Don't get me wrong, I dislike movies, documentaries, and literature that do not tell the whole truth. I think in the Christian community, journalist and authors tend to focus on the good aspects of a story and miss the truly human side of life. One thing I love about the bible is that it always tells the full story. You hear about king David's whole life good and the bad, and get to see how God still loved him and pursued him.

...back to the movie.

I had always wondered where the German church was during world war II. I always wondered why they did not try to stand up to Hitler. That being the case this movie answered a few questions I had about the German Church during World War II. I look forward to reading Bonhoeffer book on ethics it should be a good read. The documentary was pretty high level, but good nonetheless it was plenty enough to get me interested.

last night

Yesterday was Leslie and I had our 8 year wedding anniversary. I probably should have a lot of gushy things to say, but i don't. I love her and could not imagine life without her, she is beautiful and a great mother to John David. She is funny, and has a hard time not choking when she drinks any kind of beverage. I would not want to be married to anyone else.

... we went to Tony's Pasta Shop last night and had the worst waitress I think we have ever had. It was a big disappointment. This waitress (Loren) was just never there. Our food was cold and my glass was empty. She forgot to bring the bread out until about 30 seconds before the food came out. When we got our food is was cold lukewarm. I think when the chef completed cooking the food and put it on the counter she was not there to hear him say the order was ready, so it just sat there until she noticed it. All in all it was a bad experience. So much so that when i got home i called the manager to complain. He was very nice, but at that point it was too late to salvage the dinner experience. He said that the next time we came in he would give us two entries at half price. I am sure we will take him up on it, but it will probably be awhile.

blogging tool regrets

At this point I am a bit bummed out that I installed Movable Type. Before installing it I searched around for a blogging tool written in php, and never really found one that was worth installing. Within just a few days of getting MT installed Michael installed wordpress. I have to say at this point I am torn between the two blogging tools. I think I am going to stick with MT for a while and them move to WP.

Posted by J. David at May 19, 2004 10:15 PM

What were they thinking

This makes moving to North Georgia sound pretty good! I think only in Tennessee would someone have thought up this one.

Tennessee School Holds Cow Drop Raffle

Where the bovine ultimately decides to do her business will mean big bucks for the lucky person who bet on that portion of the field.

getting started 2

Well, I have been itching to have a blog for about a year now. So much so that Jason and I started writing our own home grown blogging tool. Though, there was no project manager so it never got done. My job was to write the library that would generate the rss feed. I did get my part done and Jason got his part done, but we never put them together. I think his code is somewhere on his other site. All that said, I thought I would install Movable Type to support Mark in his new job. I do like what I have seen so far. Though, it is in perl and I prefer php myself. I have to say that I have a much better understanding of perl after going through the hairy Movable Type install. I think it would have been very straight forward if my server had allowed me to execute cgi scripts from anywhere on my site, but due to security reasons my host only allows cgi scripts to be executed from the cgi-bin. Imagine that. All in all it took 3 attempts and 6 hours to finally get it running. Yea I know that it is pretty embarrassing but my lack of knowledge is not to blame for it all. My first problem was that I uploaded all the cgi scripts as binary on accident and did not realize it. I spent way too much time trying to get their scripts to run before I found out what the problem was. My other big problem was that, and I don't know if this was my host or my ftp tool, but my permissions for just about every file on my site just kept changing. I am not sure how I ever got everything working again. Argh..

Well I am taking the next few days off, so I will not be around until next week.

Later

getting started

Originally May 12, 2004

Getting this installed was a lot more work than I thought it would be!!