curiosity drives me... cum barba...

so... one thing that really defines my personality is that i'm curious... i really like learning things, getting inside it and figuring out how it ticks... i'm pretty sure that's why i can talk to anyone... it might not be anything substantial, but i can talk to them. my teachers in elementary school used to have to make me sit alone in class, which never really worked because i would often talk to myself...

so i love facts and things of this sort... if you ever watch TV there's a jack daniel's commercial that tells the story of the No. 7 on the bottle, well.. it doesn't really... it actually talks about how no one knows what it's really for, the problem with this commercial is it is ineffective, i don't want to drink, i want to resurrect Jack Daniels and ask him, be like, "BRO, u gotta tell me, i'll never tell anyone, ever, honest." and then bludgeon him until i get the information i want.

you can watch that commercial here.

the thing is this, i love facts, tid-bits and ideas... i think in pictures and graphs and lines and colours, sometimes i outline my thoughts before i speak, other times, they outline seems to pop into place while i'm talking, it's amazing... but people say "curiosity killed the cat" and i've always wondered, "why? why do cats die from curiosity? do they eat things they shouldn't? do they get into places they shouldn't? why cats?" then i get on google and find out that it was originally written in the play Every Man in His Humor by Ben Johnson (i actually just looked that up) and that Shakespeare also says something similar to it... but the thing i this... people should be more curious, why are things the way they are? what makes something work? is there anything i can do to make the world a better place?

the answer to that third one is simple. yes. i'm not going to give you some generic answer, but listen here, everyone can make the world a phenomenal place, they just have to be curious as to how... now go explore, do something, be someone to another individual and remember, even if curiosity killed the cat, the cat died happy.

Q source, who source?

there's this idea that some New Testament text critics have that goes like this:
The four gospels are so similar that they had to have written from an earlier manuscript that we don't have. they call this source q-source. The idea is that it's a list of the sayings of Jesus so that it could be distributed around to the new church of Jerusalem and then the gospel writers took it and made the stories that we have today from that list...

i find this to be a load of crap, sure you can believe it, but i don't think it has any clout whatsoever. first off, there's no document or reference to a document for these sources, second, they're jewish, in the first century jewish culture stories and tales are not only how to you instruct your children (and disciples) but they're also how you relate the scriptures and the practices of the faithful. there's reasons the old testament talks directly about leaving markers in order to tell the story to their children.

so there you have it, two solid reasons, BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!!! the greek used in the four gospels is so dramatically different that i don't believe they could have borrowed the sayings of Jesus from one source, and secondly, there's places where the sayings show discrepancies, now, i'm not saying that Jesus didn't actually say those things, but i am saying that he taught the same lessons so often when he went places that it would be easy to quote him from different teachings... also, Jesus was a Jew (if you disagree with this, go read a book) and in being a Jew he taught in the traditional rabbinic way - telling stories with meanings, these stories are often called parables... either way, it's simply amazing!

a brief note on fonts...

...because fonts are important.


a good font has a few requirements:
first off, it should be elegant, but not noticeable, the characters should help your eyes flow one into the next... a few fonts i really like are the standards: Times, Arial, Arial Narrow Bold, Cochin and Euphemia UCAS (but only when used with smaller fonts, otherwise it's overbearing)

one of the ones i hate the most though (no, i'm not a ComicSans hater) is calibri, why in the love of all that is intellectual and easy to read would the new MS Word DEFAULT to calibri?!?!

also, sometimes, i'll pick up a book at the library, completely written in point 8 size with this terrible out-dated font that is next to impossible to read... after a page or three you're ready to burn the book and accept the fine from the library!!! the closest thing i can find to it online is called JSL Ancient. not a terrible font, but in 8 point and for 3 hours of research... it gets bad. so, if you have a favorite font or a most hated font (other than ComicSans, u're not allowed to complain about that one on here) just post a comment!!!

oh, and i found a really great blog here!

so there you have it, with the aid of that blog, and whatever ideas i might have implanted in that wonderful brain of yours, you might be able to become a bit more picky on your fonts :D