In elementary I used to get this old comic from the school library and it wasn’t Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon but something like that. I loved the retro style and tales of space adventures and foiling nasty Russians facinated me.

I was thinking the other day about that and our depictions of the future and thought it was kind of funny that although it didn’t really feel like it I was actually living in ‘that future’. Satellites, GPS, mobile phones, iPhones, skytrains, jumbo jets, flat-screen tv’s, microwaves, computers, mapping DNA and Hubble telescope, modern medicine and …hot showers. For thousands of years folks have had to live without this stuff and in the last 30 to 100 we get to benefit from it all.

Dick Tracy watch? We have the technology but wouldn’t want one. Weird space jackets, tight fitting space apparel with lots of pockets, ribs and fins or simple togas? Again we have the technology, but no desire to go that way (The 80’s was a brief attempt but thankfully it didn’t fly). So although it doesn’t seem like I’m living in the future because and iPhone isn’t a Dick Tracy watch, and jeans and a t-shirt aren’t a rubber space suit – I am. The future has just cleverly disguised itself as the present.

“The real mistake in all of these ‘Victorious Christian Life’ programs that people are being inundated with is they think that CONFLICT is something that should make you DOUBT your status; actually conflict is introduced by the Gospel. The reason you have conflict going on, the kind of thing Paul talks about in Romans 7 is because you ARE justified, it’s because you are BEING sanctified. It’s because you ARE baptised into Christ that the world, the flesh, and the devil are at your throat!”
~Michael Horton (Latest Whitehorse Inn)

I’ve enjoyed the Burger King near work predominantly because in the past there has mostly ladies behind the counter. For some reason whenever I see young guys in the back in a fast food joint I lose my appetite and I think it has a lot to do with the fact that I don’t believe they’re very vigilant about washing their hands after bathroom visits. Maybe I’m being silly but having experienced men’s rooms on occasion I can bear witness to the fact that men, being as efficient and pragmatic as they are, will sometimes skip the whole troublesome washing hands part.
Well today there were a couple of new guys behind the counter at Burger King and I have to eat a sandwich they most probably had contact with……ok, here goes.

I was looking for Don Ross stuff on YouTube and found Andy McKee. Wow. I love fingerstyle but hadn’t seen it done up close…just pics in guitar mags and you kind of get a picture of what they’re doing from the sound, tapping on, harmonics, and the like. But it’s great to watch. As a musician it must be an amazing high to be in the midst of the firestorm of notes and hand movements as you pull one of these pieces off successfully. It’s a high just listening and watching.

I had an experience today that rekindled my faith in humanity. I was putting up one of those cheap plastic no name shower curtains on the inside of the tub under a nicer one hanging on the outside and they both had the EXACT same number of holes! Two different shower curtains from two different companies, presumably manufactured in different parts of the world and they had the same number of grommets! There was no extra holes! There wasn’t too few! How did they know?! How are they communicating? Is there a standard? Well I guess there must be, but who set it and how did they all agree on it? Was there like a shower-curtain UN where all the manufacturers got together and after much disagreement and debate were able to come to an accord? How did they arrive at the perfect shower-curtain-grommet number?  Was there endless scientific analysis and testing in arriving at it?   Was there corporate espionage and intrigue as different manufacturers raced to be the first to discover this perfect number? Did anyone die in the process?

As with so many things in the world thinking about it just creates more questions for me so I’ll just revel in the knowledge that humans can have accord and come to agreement without hate and war (at least I cant think of any wars owing to the number of shower curtain grommet holes), and the fact that I was able to put up my new cheap shower curtain with no trouble at all in less than five minutes.