Satur-deja Vu

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? There are over 31,000 verses of text in the Bible and apparently they can all be etched onto a necklace bobble. I’m going to ignore Christians call it a miracle; let’s pretend we didn’t see that. The entire Bible can be etched onto a tiny necklace, which leads me to ask, why? If you cannot possibly read it, what’s the point of printing it? There’s an old riddle about a tree falling in the forest that asks if no hears it, did it really make a sound? The answer depends on your definition of sound. Unless you have a scanning electron microscope, you will not be reading that necklace. It becomes nothing more than a good luck charm. You could claim you are keeping the Word close to your heart, but again it cannot actually be read and that’s the way to keep the Word in your heart and mind. Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. And this item says nothing more than “Look what I have.”

Continue reading

Satur-deja Vu

Google Maps will soon change Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. Google’s policy regarding geographic features is to list them as they are recognized by official federal sources. Mount McKinley was renamed Denali during Obama’s second term and Google relabeled it as such. The label will now change again to reflect current federal policy. On US versions of Google Maps, the label Gulf of America will appear. On international versions of Maps both names will appear since, outside of the United States, the name is in dispute.

Continue reading