Archive for May, 2010
Here’s the fastest way I know to get an apache server serving up files from your user’s public_html directory at address “localhost/~USERNAME” in Ubuntu:
sudo tasksel install lamp-serversudo a2enmod // (and then select the "userdir" module)sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
I just watched this and it was surprisingly encouraging and challenging to me.
I wonder what it would be like to get it in my head that I work hard all week and then there’s one day where I only rest.
Currently, I either work really really hard for hours with no breaks, get a lot done and feel really destroyed and dangerously disconnected from reality afterwards, or I fight the need to do work, get nothing done, sinfully waste tons of time and feel awful afterwards.
I’ve got one more year to go at Cornell, and I don’t feel emotionally, physically or spiritually prepared. It’s just too much work, and next year Katie won’t be right here by my side to support me. Intentionally (I do it sporadically and unintentionally all the time) taking a Sabbath day out of my week on which I only rest seems pretty stressful, but maybe it could help a lot.
This is a non-trivial question to me. I’m at Cornell. I am not a genius. I feel like I need every day I can get. What if taking a Sabbath one week means getting a zero on a homework assignment?
Your thoughts?
From Francis Chan’s “Lukewarm and Loving It!” (22:15), on Revelation 3:14-19:
(It’s more powerful to hear him say it.)
“What else is there to think about? Ok, so you understand what lukewarm is? So you’re gonna be spit out of the mouth of God, and you just go ‘OK’. I go, Man… You shouldn’t do ANYTHING until you figure out how to be on fire for God. You should be down on your face – You shouldn’t eat again until you come before God and just fast and pray, ‘God get me on fire, I’m not on fire, you’ve gotta get me on fire for you. I want to be in love with you. I’ve gotta see how valuable you are compared to all this other junk. Get me here!’ That should be all you care about. Don’t go to work tomorrow if you’re lukewarm. Man, sell your house, just move, live in the- Do whatever it takes! You can’t end your life lukewarm. You get that? I mean, why are Jesus’ words so strong? He says in the next verse, verse 19, why does he say it so harshly? Verse 19: ‘Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline, so be ernest and repent.’”
Last post made things kindof awkward after a couple of months, so this is just to clear the waters so I can post again.