North Park University is evacuating two of it’s undergraduate dorms that have proximities close the little Chicago river tributary we live on. I’ve never seen it this high. There are homeless undergrads wandering around all over outside. And it’s supposed to keep raining.
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Our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot. For the “content” of a medium is like the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind.
The effects of technology do not occur at the level of opinions of concepts, but alter sense ratios or patterns of perception steadily and without any resistance. The serious artist is the only person able to encounter technology with impunity, just because he is an expert aware of the changes in sense perception.
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man : Critical Edition
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I know it looks like someone painted it, but this is sorta the daily view out our front porch.
And I’ve almost been too busy to see it. I think I’ve set a record for me: almost 10 days of not posting! Geesh, even during final exams I threw a few notes up here. But this first “pre-week” of Colorado LT has been 15 hour work-days for me… although it’s felt awesome, being such a change from studying. I’ve gone from being best friends with my laptop computer to meeting about 140 (not making it up) new people in the last week, and trying to remember names! Not doing too badly.
Anyway. More about my summer adventures soon.
Comments rss TrackbackI’m taking a few days off. “Reading Week” or “Spring Break” is this week for North Park, and I’m being lower key for a couple days. More posts in the near future.
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Oh Monday. Did I mention that my new life as a grad student includes four straight 8 o’clock-in- the-morning classes each week?
My body is tired (bedtime, what?). My brain is tired (3hrs15mins of classroom time). And I won’t be remembering any more names for approximately two years (seminary chapel, seminary info/activity fair, university bookstore).
Away to the dark, quiet, welcome land of the Sleep.
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Jay Phelan is president of North Park Theological Seminary, and he gave a short address to a still somewhat bleary-eyed room at 9am in the morning. But his topic was the four pedagogies of theological education. Approaching the various disciplines within theological study, we must keep in mind:
Comments rss TrackbackWelp. it’s about 2ft by 4ft, but I think I’ve managed to fit at least some of my old furniture in. No word on where I’ll store the rest. 
I really like the view out the back windows though – big trees, and the water flowing through the small banks of the north branch of the Chicago River.
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Some amusing quotes from Donald Miller at this morning’s big session:
“I’m 1% left brained, meaning 1% of my brain balances my chequebook”
“GK Chesterton wrote, ‘It’s the mathematician that goes mad, not the poet.’
{Laughter, clapping.}
Whoa, I love this audience already! This is usually where they start booing. Quote that at a Reformed conference, and they’re not as friendly… (uh, don’t tell people I said that.)”“I was out with my friend talking and drinking large cold pints of… coffee. In your part of the country this might be a sin, to have this particular kind of coffee… It’s regional; sin is regional.”
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A BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT. SNOW…HEAVY AT TIMES…WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE DAY ACROSS CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS …WITH 10 TO AS MUCH AS 15 INCHES IN A FEW LOCATIONS EAST OF THE ILLINOIS RIVER.
NORTHEAST WINDS WILL RANGE FROM 25 TO 35 MPH WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS OF 45 MPH AT TIMES THROUGH THIS EVENING… PRODUCING BLIZZARD CONDITIONS IN MANY AREAS…
whee!
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