Author: Benjamin

Easy E-mail Encryption

For those seeking to work on their tin-foil hat I’d like to recommend an extremely easy way to keep cyber crooks, the [insert your government’s eSpy agency here], or Google from reading your emails. Simply go to mailvelope.com and follow the documentation to set up the Mailvelope plugin. The process basically involves creating your own… Continue reading Easy E-mail Encryption

Visiting Moscow

I recently got to go to Moscow for a conference and it fully delivered on gorgeous yellow (birch or oak mostly) forests, cold, snow, and massive malls which made me tell a friend, ya’ll are great capitalists. Click to browse and see info on the photos and don’t miss the video. Changing of the guard,… Continue reading Visiting Moscow

Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe is awesome and you should read it, especially if you love Robin Hood.

Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010

Coming Apart by Charles Murray sheds some light on two parts of America I don’t completely understand, finding myself between them both it seems. I’m no statistician so I skimmed a bit of part one, and probably would recommend others to do the same, go back & dig later depending on your interest. Basically he discusses… Continue reading Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010

Spurgeon – Dallimore

Dallimore’s Spurgeon is a relatively easy, short read that offers a glimpse of the life and accomplishments of CH Spurgeon. It is more topical than chronological, though within that constraint he does organized chronologically as much as possible. (Everything pre-Metropolitan Tabernacle is before that, most of his last days are in one section, etc.) However,… Continue reading Spurgeon – Dallimore

God is great, just cause we get strawberries, then raspberries, then blackberries all spring-summer long. Such a delightful succession.

It’s nice to be able to borrow a car for a while, but it makes you really think about when a car is most handy. It doesn’t do much for the commute, sure it’d be shorter, but then I’d have to deal with traffic. It’s best for when you want to go about a mile to pick something up from a friend but don’t want to walk or wait for public transit. Also for getting out of town and jumping in a lake.