Our Favorite Homeboy

We've heard rumors about it. We started to create its myth. But ladies and gents, I have found the Holy Grail, in sorts. Click here to get the t-shirt transfer from e-bay.

Bad Book Buys

Ok, time to rant. At the seminary I attend, we have a Fall bibliophilic ritual. Let me rehearse this ridiculous tradition. Toward the beginning of October, the student body pines with anticipation for a 16 page pdf document containing the a virtual cornucopia of theological, linguistic, and philosophical works. After reviewing this manuscript like a student of the dead sea scrolls, the gitty customers submit their orders to Eerdmans and with juvenile Christmas-like anticipation eagerly await the arrival of their new found joys.

Seriously, this group needs to wake up. The majority of this group misinterprets the "sale" being advertised as some sort of major savings. Please! Listen, do a quick price comparison with http://www.bestbookbuys.com/, and all of you will realize that you are beginning duped. You are still paying too much for these books. As a fellow bibliophile, I exhort you all, "Make your money work for you!!!" I would rather take a "used" book with a roughed edge than pay three times as much for a book on "sale." Anyways, don't be duped and try to balance quantity with quality.

Collectorz, G!

No, this is not a typo; and no, I am not falling prey to the “hip-hop” culture that permeates our day. What I am referring to is a program that is a need of any true bibliophile out there. Collectorz.com provides visually interactive database programs that allow collectors of nearly any type of media to record and catalogue their entire cache. These databases cover music, movies, comics (Baylor, this is just for you), MP3’s, games, photos, and most importantly books!

For those who want an encompassing program to track their collections, this is it. After what my wife labeled as “an impulsive” buy, I think we were both presently surprised. The first thing I noticed was the user-friendliness of this program. With just a click of a button, Book Collectorz Pro places you within a user friendly wizard through which you can input any of your books by just entering the ISBN. With the compatibility to utilize a barcode reader, this system becomes that much more user friendly! The wizard completes the process of adding a book to your collection by importing data, such as book summary, pages, publisher, even cost, via the major book sellers and libraries.

Another aspect of this program that piqued my attention was not only its ability to excessively query your own personal databases but also to print or export to multiple formats the finished queries. This makes sharing recommended lists or the more important wish-lists easier than ever! Wed to all this the ability of Book Collectorz Pro to track all of your book loans with a touch of a button, unlimited free updates, and an incredible user-friendly visually based interface, Book Collectorz Pro becomes an easy decision for any bibliophile. For only $39.95 for the full unlimited download, it becomes an easy decision for a book collector on any a budget. I would highly recommend this product for anyone serious about maintaining an extensive yet user-friendly database of their book collection. That’s it for today. Word to you mother, collectorzzzzz!

Tag. I'm it!

Of course, I have to post on a "chain-blog" and not on something serious. Thanks, Tim. Schmuck.

1. One book that changed your life: Though not technically a book, it was reading the Westminster Confession of Faith my Senior year of high school which turned me into the 5 pointer I am today!

2. One book that you've read more than once: Biblical Hebrew Syntax. If anyone says I need to get a girlfriend, I read it before I met my wife.

3. One book you'd want on a desert island: Bible - HCSB

4. One book that made you laugh: Kaiser's Toward an Exegetical Theology. Read his intro, and you will see why. Also, so people do not pigeon-hole me as too much of a nerd, The Rule of Four.

5. One book that made you cry: Anything by von Rad.

6. One book you wish had been written: How to Interpret the Old Testament by Paul with the rest of the Apostles.

7. One book you wish had never been written: Contributions to Old Testament Introduction by De Wette - basically, the OT had little or no historical value.

8. One book you're currently reading: Ancient Texts for the Study of the Hebrew Bible by Sparks.

9. One book you've been meaning to read: Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times

10. Tag 5 others: Conley, my Wife, . . . .

The Prodigal Blogger Returns

The rumors of my being shuffled off this mortal coil have been greatly exaggerated. For those of you who are still out there, I am back!!! What you might ask has brought about this miraculous about face? You can thank, reluctantly of course, the expert news casting of CNN. One of their “breaking” stories was on the role of blog and other electronic forums play in the contemporary dialogue. As you can guess, it was more than I expected. Ergo, I am exchanging my garb as a mere observer in for the more appropriate and necessary uniform of a participant. So let’s get this hagim started!