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So, my beautiful bride and I had an opportunity the other night to spend the evening without two of our children, which left just the two of us and our beautiful daughter (we’ll call her Kiwi here). We enjoyed a few serene and peaceful hours at the local Borders, looking through whatever books we [...]

28
July

So, you can have your iTunes and Linux it too!

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 1 comment Posted in: Music

This is absolutely the coolest Open Source thing, by far, this month. In fact, it might be the coolest thing I’ve seen in a couple of months. Jon Lech Johansen (you might remember him as the guy who largely made it possible to watch those pesky little DVDs that you paid good [...]

17
July

Mere Christianity, Sunday BBQ

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. No comments Posted in: Books, Life in General

After talking with John from KKSM, I ordered and received Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. I read the preface thus far and underlined about half of it. It is SOOOOO good!! I absolutely love C.S. Lewis’s writing style. He is both precisely clear and creative at the same time. [...]

08
July

London, under attack

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. No comments Posted in: Life in General

This turns my stomach.

07
July

The Da Vinci Code

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 5 comments Posted in: Books, Life in General

So, my sister Jenny was reading The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown when she came out for her vacation and since she bought the bigger version (with pictures), she gave me her old one. And thus I got hooked. She had me read a couple of pages in the middle of [...]

04
July

Wisdom from Ben Stein

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. No comments Posted in: Life in General

I just had a good friend point this article from Ben Stein out to me. Wow. It is extremely well-done. I’ll paste a few excerpts from it…
Beyond that, a bigger change has happened. I no longer think Hollywood stars are terribly important. They are uniformly pleasant, friendly people, and they treat me [...]

04
July

More muscle than you kin handle

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. No comments Posted in: Life in General

Just finally got a chance to sit down at the laptop for half an hour and uploaded 50 pictures or so from the great time I had over the last couple of weeks. My sister (Hi Jenny!!) and her 2 youngins (Hi Nate and Elijah!) were out for 2 weeks. We had a [...]