My friend John asked me to take a look at Nehemia Gordon's video titled The Hebrew Yeshua vs. the Greek Jesus. I gave me a link you YouTube so I pulled out the handy YouTube downloader and grabbed it as MP4 to put on my phone. The meat of the material was a better translation of some difficult passages in Matthew based on Shem Tov's Hebrew version ( Read more... )

I think the Navy is going for a new record on how many stops it takes to get from point a to b. This is the route I am taking from Bahrain to Naples - Bahrain, Kuwait, Amsterdam, Rome then Naples. Check out from Bahrain went kind of smooth. Because I am returning in a little more than a month I did not need to do more than half the check list, ( Read more... )

Denzel Washington continues to impress me with the quality of movies he involves himself with. This was an amazing movie. I have been reading more and more about the black history of America these past few years. This movie did a great job of touching on many of the more difficult points. Overall I think the issue were handled well - while not ( Read more... )

This is one of the best movies I have seen in some time. If you took the acting of Anthony Hopkins alone it would have been a great movie, but the story is outstanding. I have had this movie on my list to watch for some time and today was far too late. This story was such an encouragement and joy to watch. The story brought to my mind so many ( Read more... )

Two refreshing days in Salalah, Oman after 19 days at sea. Due to circumstances we went from “Thai National Tasking” to CTF tasking while at sea. This extended our duration at sea over 10 extra days ( Read more... )

Guns, Germs and Steel (book review ( Read more... )

The Bible of Unspeakable Truths (book review ( Read more... )

Ender's Shadow (book review) by: Orson Scott Card ( Read more... )

Today I turned in my final two projects for computer programming class in C# (C-Sharp). The last structured computer programming course I took was my first year in college over 17 years ago. I guess the fundamentals of programming will never change, but C# is much different that Fortran ( Read more... )

 Xenocide (book review ( Read more... )