Adkins Family Blog

Tim Hawkins – The Government Can

Brian — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:47:59 +0000

Tim Hawkins is hilarious in this video

Bugatti Veyron Top Speed Test

Brian — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:00:47 +0000

Amazing what you can do with over 1,000 HP

One Score Of Joy With The Love Of My Life

Brian — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:46:27 +0000

One score of joy with the love of my life,
How many times I’ve thanked God you’re my wife!
Joy yes, though some sorrows mixed in too,
Have only increased my love for Him and you.
Ten years times two, we both said, I do,
When the bride met the groom on the ninth day of June.
Eight years of marriage and our second arrived.
Seven days a week how our love is alive.
Almost six years in our first house, time to move down south.
Five years of union and our first came to be,
Four is our family in God’s sovereignty.
As our God is Three in One, O Blessed Trinity,
So the twain became
One flesh.

Happy 20th Anniversary Andrea!

Cat vs. Printer

Brian — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:38:51 +0000

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