The Phantom City

You scored as Emergent/Postmodern. You are Emergent/Postmodern in your theology. You feel alienated from older forms of church, you don’t think they connect to modern culture very well. No one knows the whole truth about God, and we have much to learn from each other, and so learning takes place in dialogue. Evangelism should take place in relationships rather than through crusades and altar-calls. People are interested in spirituality and want to ask questions, so the church should help them to do this. Emergent/Postmodern 82% Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 71% Classical Liberal 61% Neo orthodox 46% Reformed Evangelical 43% Roman Catholic 43% Fundamentalist 39% Charismatic/Pentecostal 39% Modern Liberal 36%

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Emergent/Postmodern? Possibly true. A picture of Brian McLaren next to the results? Meh.

Link courtesy of Too Many Topics, Too Little Time.

Ah, rugged, deadly, sensitive, pretty, fuzzy. Sounds like someone we all know and love, right, Interested Cat?

No, seriously, I’m talking about me. Can’t you see it? Stop laughing.

I’m going to step out on a really wide, solid limb here, and say that the first season of Veronica Mars was the best show on television that year. (Yeah, that includes Lost.) The second season almost measured up to that standard. Then the CW decided to start messing with it, and then they canceled it. Thanks, CW, for saving us from quality television.

In the meantime, pick up Veronica Mars - The Complete First Season. You will enjoy it.

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Not sure how many folks make it to both, but phantom-thought is pretty much my stream-of-consciousness linkblog (or tumblelog, to be more correct). If I see something interesting that I’m not going to write a post about, it ends up there. Here are a few recent items that I think are worth the attention:

• Autism Unveiled - An article about an anthropologist’s research into autism that I found more informative than almost anything else I’ve read about autism this year.
• The U.S. Supreme Court may have just injected a bit of sense into our current patent system. In any case, it has rocked a system that badly needs reform. Now, if they can just reinforce fair use in copyright law.
• Junebug - Good movie. Exhibits the same quality as Garrison Keillor’s earlier Lake Wobegon novels, where it evokes emotion through familiar characterization rather than forcing it through plot. That being said, I was probably just jazzed because I grew up in the same area where it was set and filmed.
• Jail time likely to fuel Hilton’s fame - Kudos to Sandy Cohen of the Associated Press for working Fatty Arbuckle into a paragraph with Martha Stewart, Robert Downey Jr., Bobby Brown, and Heidi Fleiss.
• Scottish revolts never seem to turn out well.
• You? B-List, at best. Bacon on a Cat? A, definitely.
• “Why, anybody can have a brain.” - I love the Wizard.
• Twitter: The Evolution of Cat Blogging
• “In Romagna, the realm of all stupidity…” - The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
• I’d rather deal with communist pirate ninjas without unicycles, but you take what you get.

Wasn’t that interesting, folks? Oh well, at least someone found it interesting, right, Interested Cat?

That’s right, buddy. I can always count on you on a Friday.

Your results:
You are Dr. Doom

Dr. Doom 71% Lex Luthor 66% Apocalypse 63% Magneto 58% The Joker 58% Mr. Freeze 52% Mystique 49% Venom 49% Green Goblin 45% Riddler 44% Kingpin 44% Dark Phoenix 43% Juggernaut 41% Two-Face 37% Poison Ivy 35% Catwoman 24%

Blessed with smarts and power but burdened by vanity.

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I’m reading an article about a framework in ColdFusion designed to handle object dependencies, and the author relates everything to making a car — A car object needs an engine and transmission — to make things clear. That’s a metaphor with a long history, but I don’t build cars. I handle users, reports, forms…mentally translating from cars to those kinds of collections of data doesn’t really put me ahead at this point. Too bad we have the Factory pattern name; I think it just encourages it.

A tool called Gender Genie tries to tell whether you are male or female by analyzing your writing. I’ve tried a few pieces, and so far I’m hitting 50% male, 50% female. Interesting thing is, though, my email messages tend to be more “female,” according to the algorithm, while my blog entries are more “male.” Hmmm, might explain why I keep getting spam that reads like this:

I’m a hot girl who’s coming to your town and would like to meet up. Send me an email at [email address]. - Steve

Link courtesy of Twenty Sided. (Perhaps my most definitive mark of geeky maleness is knowing what the “twenty sided” refers to.)

Update: I put the Bill Simmons article into it. He’s male. Good work, Gender Genie!

I’ll agree this sounds strange, particularly as the first paragraph in an article about sports:

It’s easy to discount the spiritual impact of basketball crowds if you haven’t attended a playoff game with special fans before. There’s no way to understand it unless it definitely has happened to you. Then you know. As strange as this sounds, it’s like a woman being unable to tell whether she’s ever had an orgasm. If she thinks it might have happened, or it felt like it kind of happened one time … it didn’t happen. When it happens, they know. Then they feel stupid for all the other times when they thought it had happened.

Thank you, Bill Simmons, for your insight and sensitivity.

Link courtesy of Kissing Suzy Kolber.

Are you ready for some Canadian Football?