http://cameronwatters.com The Life and Times of Cameron Watters Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:26:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sure, it's theologically a mess. That's been covered. What boggles my mind, though, is that anyone thinks it's well-written. Even ignoring the theological issues, it's downright painful to read. It was so bad, I couldn't bring myself to continue past the second chapter. http://cameronwatters.com/archives/date/2008/06/25/regarding-the-shack/ I've heard it said that "thirty is the new twenty". I certainly hope so. http://cameronwatters.com/archives/date/2008/05/26/thirty/ It's that time of year again when I'm trying to draft a running partner or two (or more) to tackle the Bellingham Bay Marathon in the fall. I ran the Portland Marathon in 2005 (5:17:34) and the Bellingham Bay Half-Marathon last year (2:16:24), and I think I'm going to make it ... http://cameronwatters.com/archives/date/2008/03/07/a-little-running-anyone/ More personality tests by similarminds.com http://cameronwatters.com/archives/date/2008/02/23/what-classic-movie-are-you/ John Piper: We need to live in this hope again and again: fearsome enemies can become precious friends. Adversaries can become advocates. Critics can become comrades. For most of us its pretty easy to believe that an intimate disciple can become a deadly betrayer, like Judas. Thats the way the world ... http://cameronwatters.com/archives/date/2008/02/10/100/ How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever?     How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I take counsel in my soul     and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? Consider and answer me, O LORD my God;     light up my ... http://cameronwatters.com/archives/date/2008/01/23/psalm-13/ Yesterday, I ran the half-marathon event in the inaugural Bellingham Bay Marathon. I was joined by my friend and pseudo-coworker (same office, different companies) Brian Rollo and Nate Glass. Brian and I trained together for most of the summer and had actually run portions of the race course a couple ... http://cameronwatters.com/archives/date/2007/10/08/bellingham-bay-half-marathon-race-report/ Joel Spolsky" Um... excuse me? Hello from Seattle? That has, I'm afraid, none of the same resonance. It evokes nothing. Boeing and rain, maybe. Kurt Cobain's unhappiness. For some reason, this essay evoked a picture of the hapless middle-aged dork with a hat, zinc oxide on his nose, an inflatable lounge wearing ... http://cameronwatters.com/archives/date/2007/10/05/94/ Paul Graham: ...there's nothing magical about a degree. There's nothing that magically changes after you take that last exam. The importance of degrees is due solely to the administrative needs of large organizations. The link points to an article about the future of startups, but this snippet stood out to me as ... http://cameronwatters.com/archives/date/2007/10/04/93/ Tim O'Reilly: That's a particularly hard challenge when the company's chief sources of revenue are not necessarily aligned with its creative vision. A great tidbit about what happens when a company replaces a meaningful founding vision with purely financial motives. Make no mistake, profitability is a high priority, but the goal is ... http://cameronwatters.com/archives/date/2007/10/02/92/