Prius, sooner than we thought but better late than never

So the new car is…a Prius!  It was a lot of compromise, and it’s our first new car ever.  I’d only heard about how challenging dealing with car salespeople can be and it didn’t turn out to be totally false–we were practically ushered into a sale every time we took a spin in a [...]

Saving the world (or not), one car at a time

Well, it looks like we’ll be getting a car.
I think somewhere in my mind I’ve worn the “I don’t have a car, and I’m saving the planet” badge and now I have to take it off. It seems to flow that environmentalism means not having a four-wheeled vehicle or else you’re contributing to the [...]

Stormy tech

Well, the storm got me. Today, around eight o’clock, power was out in the building meaning no heat, no hot shower, and, gasp, no computer!
Fortunately the XO laptop arrived yesterday! This won’t win any speed awards, and the mini-keyboard practically means learning to type again (two-finger typists will have thier revenge), but this [...]

I Am Legend: Christian movies in diguise?

One thing that I didn’t expect from I Am Legend was its Christian underpinnings. Not to go on a spoiler-bender, but I had to write about this since it seems to have escaped the reviewers (though it does appear here, here, and here)

Like other in-disguise Christian apocalyptic movies (The Matrix, Constantine, etc.), we have [...]