Adkins Family Blog

This Too Shall Pass – Rube Goldberg

Brian — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:34:51 +0000

Got this from my Uncle Gates on fb. Pretty incredible Rube Goldberg

Animator vs. Animation (revised)

Brian — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:54:46 +0000

I saw the original version of this a long time ago and enjoyed it. The author has made a new version – still fun HT Rick DeNatale.

Wear Your Seatbelt

Brian — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:44:02 +0000

I felt this video was very well done.

Stargate Studios Virtual Backlot Reel 2009

Brian — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:43:12 +0000

This is pretty cool – shows some imaginative uses of green screen effects work. Thanks to Fred Medlin for the tweet:

C.S. Lewis responding to Augustine

Brian — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:31:11 +0000

Daniel Baker quoted C.S. Lewis in his sermon last Sunday. I thought the quotes were very powerful and worth sharing, so here it is:

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In response to St. Augustine’s conclusion that it’s best not to love too much the things of this world because they will not last, C.S. Lewis says the following:

“I am a safety-first creature. Of all arguments against love none makes so strong an appeal to my nature as ‘Careful! This might lead you to suffering.’

“To my nature, my temperament, yes. Not to my conscience. When I respond to that appeal I seem to myself to be a thousand miles away from Christ. If I am sure of anything I am sure that His teaching was never meant to confirm my congenital preference for safe investments and limited liabilities. I doubt whether there is anything in me that pleases Him less….We follow One who wept over Jerusalem and at the grave of Lazarus, and, loving all, yet had one disciple whom, in a special sense, he ‘loved.’ St. Paul has a higher authority with us than St. Augustine—St. Paul who shows no sign that he would not have suffered like a man, and no feeling that ought not so to have suffered, if Epaphroditus had died (Philippians, II, 27)…..

“There is no escape along the lines St. Augustine suggests. Nor along any other lines. There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket and coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell”
–C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves, 110-112

The Known Universe

Brian — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:55:21 +0000

Christmas Decoration

Brian — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:01:55 +0000

I got a kick out of this. I may try it out next year

ESV Bible 2007 Update Textual Changes

Brian — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:06:20 +0000

I found a web site that lists the textual differences between the 2001 and 2007 ESV text.

Which IM network do you prefer?

Brian — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:06:01 +0000

I realize that many/most of you may have multi-network IM clients, but if you had to use only one IM network, and all your contacts (that you want) would also choose the same one, which would it be? If you vote for “other”, please add a comment about the one you prefer.

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National Debt in Miles Per Hour

Brian — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:48:23 +0000

Noticed this on Jordan Liggitt’s blog. It provides a nice visualization of the rate of increase of the national debt.