Bibliomania

Bible Software in the Classroom

Computers in The Classroom

There's a post on the Logos Blog about Logos in the Classroom. Actually it's a commercial for a 15 minute talk by Senior VP Dale Pritchett, which itself is basically a commercial aimed at Seminary professors to convince them to replace their single classroom textbooks with the full Logos Digital Library. If you have the 15 minutes you should listen. If you only have about 7, do a quick read of the PDF transcript.
I have two simple observations to make.

Upgrade the audio please

The audio is probably over compressed. It's either that or the audio is the result of several takes and a bad patch job. Dale comes into various sentences sounding completely different and it seems with different breathing patterns; almost as if they've taken two or more clips and sliced and diced them into one speech. The only reason I mention this is because I found it annoying to listen to. I'm tempted to say it's over compressed because I've experienced the same phenomena with other Logos media. Michael Heiser's excellent lecture "The concept of the Godhead in the Old Testament" was plagued in it's Camtasia format with horrible over compression that introduced all sorts of nasty audio artifacts into the speech. It's worth downloading the MP3 on that one instead of listening to the stream.

Yes, But...

I agree wholeheartedly with the principle message of Mr. Pritchett's speech. But I also see a problem

Want a Boxabooks?

I'm completely flabbergasted that the counter here is rolling closer to 50,000 visitors. Site Meter So for a little fun I think I'll stick a few semi-random books into a box and get it ready for posting to the person who hits the magic number. Of course I have a fair collection of overflowing bookshelves so let's select the books as well.

Do I Really Need that Book?

Do I Really Need that Book?

What I'm reading

I've never been able to read one book at a time. Chalk it up either to being moderately ADHD or over-juiced on caffeine; whichever you prefer. So this is what I'm reading at the moment. I've tossed in relevant links to CBD for anyone interested in reading along. (and one to Amazon since CBD doesn't have it.

  1. The Bible
    Because
    It's
    Best to
    Live for
    Eternity.

Books everywhere

Hello, my name is Thomas and I'm a... a... bibliophile.
in unison the group responds: "Hi Thomas"
I am among friends.
I'm sitting in my office working today and I happened to look down at my desk which is littered with books laying in nearly every conceivable direction, not to mention the stacks of books open at my feet - many of them in complete disarray. I looked up and stared at the rows of bindings on the bookshelf above my desk.
Books above me

Do I really need that Book?

Do I Really Need that Book?

I'm terrible when it comes to buying books.

Just For Fun

If anyone wants to buy me a good book I'll take this one