This afternoon, the office was somewhat abuzz with coworkers in my area trying out what3words, a geocoding system developed back in 2013 that uses words instead of numbers to define coordinates for map locations. I had heard about the system in the past but hadn’t tried it out in a while. It was fun to play around and find the approximate location of our “specific” desks in the office building, using the satellite imagery as a very inaccurate guide.
This evening after returning home from work, I saw a fly in the bathroom. Not just any fly. It was huge. The thing had to be at least three-quarters of an inch long. My wife thought it might be a bee initially, but no… it was a fly. I tried (in vain) to take some decent pictures and even a video with my phone, and eventually got out the flyswatter.
Today’s Bible reading led me to Romans 4, where Paul describes Abraham’s belief in God being different from the “works” of those who are trusting in their own righteousness. What jumped out to me is that Abraham’s faith didn’t weaken when he considered physical limitations (Rom 4:19).
Over lunch today, I read this article from Desiring God about what you look at. The message was especially relevant for our day, and specifically to the kind of things that have a tendency to draw me away from a closer relationship with God.
One of my favorite tools for Mac is Alfred, a launcher app that’s effectively the “Swiss Army Knife” of my computer experience. Alfred can search files and websites, open, calculate, process data, expand text, and even play music. Best of all, Alfred is completely expandable via “workflows”, plugins that allow users to do whatever they want within the Alfred toolset.
I got an email this week from Instapaper, with an announcement that they’re bringing back their Premium subscription model. Upon reading the email, I felt a major twinge of subscription fatigue1 yet still almost pulled out my wallet to start yet another subscription.
