Intellectual Defenestration

Fragments

I have work projects, term papers, finals, Greek homework, and out-of-town traveling all coalescing in the next week (can you hear the violins playing?), so here come the bullet points.

• One of the more meaningful experiences recently was having my family up for Samuel's baptism and having my dad administer the actual baptism. I've grown to appreciate covenant theology more lately - as Calvin noted, the ultimate point of it all is the graciousness of God, who both promises to work and care for our progeny and then gives clear and visible signs (such as baptism) to reaffirm the promise.
• That being said, parenting is hard and close to being too humbling for my personal taste.
• I've been messing with Yahoo!'s Desktop Search utility and am impressed by it. At the least, it hasn't screwed up my computer, as a certain other desktop search utility did.
• Gmail's new 2GB (and growing) limit is nice. Very nice.
• All the books I've been reading lately have been using a generous dosage of the "post-" prefix: post-evangelical, post-liberal, post-foundationalist, post-modern, etc.. It's getting old. After a while it seems mildly arrogant - "we're not X. We're better than X: we're post-X." And can't anyone come up with a new term?
• Recent words learned: illative, hylomorphic, veridical
• Maybe I should start a vocab side-blog. Hmm ...