Sam Harrelson's Comment Forum - Latest Comments

Re: Candybugs

tani001 — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:12:41 -0000

Nice. Will be waiting for the new ones. Keep it coming.

Re: Candybugs

xenonbd99 — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:53:33 -0000

Candybugs, a puzzle.our brain has mainly two parts.sometimes our small parts of the brain does many special thing.a spirit which we can get from, by it we do something special.a vigorous can conqueror his life as well.

Re: Twitter as Graffiti

RozD — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:59:37 -0000

I think that's a helpful perspective. Though there's not much of a learning curve on Twitter, there's an adaptation curve. "What will this give me and how will I contribute?" is an evolutionary process.

And there's always the charitable response to fall back on. If someone I follow tweets "Can't decide whether to walk or bike today," well, Rainwater+Duck's back = move along. It cost me about 8 nanoseconds of my time unless I allow it to distract or irritate me.

Re: In Between

samharrelson — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:10:28 -0000

Thank you, Carole.

Re: In Between

facebook-1313858484 — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:41:42 -0000

I really love In Between. So thoughtful with very few words. Thank you.

Re: Great How To for Arguing with Biblical Studies Profs

Bryan — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:52:54 -0000

"Who knew such wisdom could come out of FU?"

Well, it's just because I have to deal with such backwoods ornery students, you know, unlike those well-mannered Terriers. :-)

Re: Come on, Thomas… Let’s Go

samharrelson — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:19:20 -0000

Awesome, we'll pick you up on the way.

Re: Come on, Thomas… Let’s Go

Tim_Jones — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:10:26 -0000

I'm totally in! Only a couple hours north of the Cape, anyway...

Re: Come on, Thomas… Let’s Go

jangro — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:35:09 -0000

I would totally do this, though the timing's bad as I'm out of town the week or two prior. Let me know the schedule as you work it out.

Re: Come on, Thomas… Let’s Go

samharrelson — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:54:38 -0000

Serious? Come on down! Thomas lives near Charlotte, so we could def pick you up from the airport on the way down.

Re: Come on, Thomas… Let’s Go

jangro — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:35:37 -0000

Pick me up in Charlotte?

Re: Cosmos Now on Hulu

Wayne_Porter — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:09:29 -0000

Thanks for the link. I am queing them up for the kids (I am not allowed to show them militant Dawkins).

What amazes me is how little revision is needed for a series from the late '70's. Good stuff.

Re: Mass Consumerism is the Problem

SpaceyG — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:16:19 -0000

Individuals, and their unique perspectives and experiences and situations, will stand at the center of this growing conscience - with family, state, church, community, social networks (in no particular order) all providing support. This I hope.

Re: Twitter Sanity

samharrelson — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:09:30 -0000

That just seems completely inefficient to me (having tried it).

I'd much rather find people that are interesting via search.twitter.com or through a RSS feed of keywords on terms/ideas/issues/locations etc in which I'm interested.

Opening the floodgates and then paring down dilutes the stream and quality of people I'm following and who are already interesting.

Re: Twitter Sanity

David Rose — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:03:19 -0000

What about an auto-follow strategy to see if the person who just followed you may actually be an interesting follow? Over time, if they don't contribute much, then unfollow.... How else would you know?

Re: Twitter Sanity

Robert Nelson — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:40:10 -0000

Me too. I got involved in some sort of autofollow, followme website that about ruined twitter for me, and that was just with 200 persons. So I have spent the last couple of days unfollowing, subscribing to RSS feeds for several, and reducing the list of people that I follow down to those that I really care about. And as I drop people I am being dropped, but since I am using twitter to increase my knowledge, does not really matter.

Re: Twitter Sanity

samharrelson — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:08:12 -0000

I'm primarily a TweetDeck user on the desktop (both on my Macbook Pro and my Windows 7 laptop). Following thousands of people isn't that bad if you're only relying on TweetDeck since you can segment the people you are really interested in hearing into specific groups.

However, I love the PowerTwitter FireFox plugin which makes the website interface incredibly useful and usable. Additionally, I'm always on the move and like to use Tweetie on the Touch or TwitterBerry on the Blackberry. With those solutions, following more than a few hundred or so people makes Twitter unusable.

So, I'm back down to about 120 now and I'm loving it!

Re: Twitter Sanity

AndrewWee — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:37:52 -0000

how're you keeping up with the updates from people you're followings?

keyword-triggered search.twitter.com ?

i find it sucks up all my time if it's above a couple of hundred people i'm following.

Re: Twitter Sanity

samharrelson — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:52:08 -0000

Of course you made the cut! You're my token politically conservative friend!!

Re: Twitter Sanity

Tim_Jones — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:36:35 -0000

You and Jangro both make good points on the use of Twitter. I got much more out of it when I was only following a couple hundred people. Although TweetDeck makes it much more manageable, I still only (really) pay attention to the same few hundred people.

BTW, glad I made the cut. :)

Re: What is a High Church Baptist?

thomaswhitley — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:18:32 -0000

Nice post. But does #4 really fit in to the description of being "high church"? I agree with you about the importance of #4, but I'm just not sure that should be included as a descriptor of "high church," especially if it deals with "worship preferences."

You follow that up by saying that it "includes views on sacraments, liturgy, the lectionary and theology (and anthropology)." While I agree that differing views on theology and anthropology should be included as descriptors of distinction between high and low church, what sort of methodology should be used to determine what theological and anthropological views get labeled "high church" and which ones get labeled "low church"?

Re: Thinking.FM’s First Show

samharrelson — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:16:09 -0000

mea culpa.

fixed.

Re: Thinking.FM’s First Show

thomaswhitley — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:34:30 -0000

Smooth move. Your link to my website is wrong. You used my Twitter name. My website, as you should know, is www.thomaswhitley.com.

Re: Eisenbrauns is on Twitter

James — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:54:26 -0000

Thanks for plugging our new Twitter sales.

James

Re: Julian of Norwich

serena — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:04:51 -0000

What a fantastic article! You realize I now have to go home and re-read my college text book on Catholicism in the 14th century.
Serena