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A noble life is not a blaze
Of sudden glory won,
But just an adding up of days
In which God’s will is done.

From Dr. Garnes Notebook

Much too young to think about God.
Much too smart to think about God.
Much too happy to think about God.
Much too busy to think about God.
Much too tired to think about God.
Much too smug to think about God.
Much too worried to think about God.
Much too old to think about God.
Much too late to think about God.

From Dr. Garnes Notebook

Yeah. I’m an apple fanboi. Some days I wish I could quit. Herewith
a status update on various aspects of fanboi-dom.

1. Macbook Pro – a late 2007 model. Hanging in there. Lost the HDD when
it was 2 weeks old, replaced at their expense. Been using TimeMachine
with an external after that. Lost the right arrow key over the summer.
Replaced at their expense. Nothing serious.

2. iPad – mid 2010. Not entirely useless. It is good for reading ebooks.
Not much else. Not good for family sharing, email, documents, music,
pictures as it can only sync with one iTunes. Not good for kids since
there is no Flash (i.e. no Webkinz). No Google Chrome. No logins and
passwords. No parental controls. Very disappointing.

3. MacPro – late 2010. 27″ Cinema display died after 3 days. 2 Hours with
support, rebooted about a hundred times. Sent it back, got a new one.
Out of commission for six days. The display has no power button and not
even a little light to indicate that it is getting power. Seems like something
that should be added in a future rev. Most folks thought of that back in the
’60′s.

4. MacOS X 10.6. Ok. The system wanted to give me a new JDK (1.6 update 2)
Wednesday night. Took it. Now none of my JNI code compiles. What? There is
a symlink to jni.h that points off to nowhere. Is that file optional? Did no one
else ever check that a jni.h file was included in that release? Word on the street
is to get the JDK 1.6 update 3 from the Apple Developer Connection. Right.
It does have the jni.h file but it’s still in the WRONG PLACE APPLE! And it
reports the exact same version number as update 2. Unbelievable. Update 2
is unfixable, but here is how I fixed update 3

1. cd /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home/
2. sudo mkdir include
3. cd include
4. for f in /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/A/Headers/*.h; do sudo ln -s $f .; done

5. The MacBookPro 2007 cannot connect to the 2010 27″ Cinema Display. Without buying
an adapter. No mini-DVI plug on the MBP 2007 model. For the price yous guys could
have included the stupid adapter.

6. A new version of iLife was just announced. Bummer as I just bought the update to the
previous version. I wonder if they will make that right?

The disappointments are sort of piling up. This is no where near the tipping point for
me personally, but it does start to affect how much I recommend Apple stuff.

Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

The Lord sometimes puts His children
in troubled waters. Not to drown them,
but to cleanse them.

Abraham did not know where he was going,
but he knew whom he was following.

Conviction is worthless unless
it is converted into conduct.

You can learn a lot from reading the BIble.
You can learn still more by practicing it.

When the outlook is bad, try the uplook!

Rare is the person quiet enough to hear God speak.

From Dr. Garnes notebook

A type is a prophetic symbol, a person, thing, institution, or event which refers to Christ and His redeeming work. “A shadow of the good things to come” (Heb 10:1; 9:11; Col. 2:16-17), a setting forth in advance of the “heavenly things.”

A symbol is a visible cover of something invisible, a material garment of a higher truth, an impression and expression of something spiritual and supersensual.

Figure

signifies anything painted or feigned by the mind. It consists either in words or in things generally: e.g., on paper, wood, stone, etc., thought, speech.

Emblem

that sort of figure of thought by which we make corporeal objects to stand for moral properties; thus the dove is the emblem of meekness; the beehive is the emblem of industry

Symbol

that species of emblem which is converted into a constituted sign among men; thus the olive and laurel are symbols of peace

Type

that species of emblem by which one object is made to represent another mystically; used only in religious matters; e.g. offering of Isaac, type of Lord’s death.

Definitions

Type

an institution, historical event, or person that is ordained by God to prefigure truths later revealed through Christ.

Symbol

a person, institution, office, event, action, or thing about which an explanation is given somewhere in the Bible

Parable

A narrative constructed to convey one central, important truth alongside of it. An earthly story with a heavenly meaning. They were used to hide God’s revelation from undiscerning minds.

A Biblical type is an OT picture, pattern, or model of a NT reality.

From Dr. Garnes notes

What food is for hunger,
drink for thirst,
light for darkness,
joy for sorrow,
ease for pain,
health for sickness,
comfort for trouble,
rest for weariness,
wealth for poverty,
friendship for desolation,
safety for peril,
shelter for storm,
guidance for perplexity,
freedom for bondage,
victory for defeat,
strength for conflict,
acquittal for accusation,
pardon for guilt,
love for hatred,
power for weakness,
key for lock,
medicine for every ill,
life for death,
SO IS CHRIST TO THE CHRISTIAN.
My Everything.
— Psalm 73:25

From Dr. Garnes Notebook

I bought an iPad. I didn’t do my homework. It took 5 minutes
with the device to figure out that it won’t work for us.

• There are no logins and passwords. No separate accounts. That means
  • Email? Nope. Too much caching and user switching are not compatible.
  • Games? Nope, someone else just advanced a level or started over
  • Documents? Nope. Security, privacy issues.
• It does not run Mac OS Parental Controls
• No Google Chrome browser
• No Hulu. Without a 9.99 per month subscription. Zero chance of that happening.

I would also put “No Emacs”, but I never expected that.

After looking around I think the Samsung Galaxy Tab suffers from the same
fundamental issue.

These devices are toys, not practical for our family to use.

If you need an iPad cheap, let me know.

God sent us to catch fish,
not to clean up the pond.

We must not be swayed by
commendation of condemnation.

You cannot choose your ancestry,
But you can choose your destiny.

Silent assent is easier than creative thought.

Life is a battleground,
not a playground.

Character is not something we inherit;
it is something we build. Man is both
the marble and the sculptor. – Alexis Carrel

A crisis does not make a man,
it shows what a man is made of.

God does not promise to make us comfortable,
but He does promise to make us conformable.

Today’s furnaces are refining the gold
that will make our crowns when Jesus comes.

From Dr. Garnes Notebook