Mass Effect and Other Foolishness

It’s been busy lately so I haven’t been able to keep up with posting as much.  Our new project at work is really picking up speed so I’m trying to keep up with that.  I’m doing a lot of script writing (programming for AutoCAD) just so I can alleviate a lot of my work load.  When I have had a moment to spare at work I’ve been working on another 3D project.

School is going well.  I got a 97 on my last paper, in regards to the unreachable and there salvation.  I’ve come to the conclusion that it is an absolute, not relative to a situation, that salvation is through Jesus.  If even one person can get into heaven without knowing Jesus then Jesus’ death was for nothing.  I believe if a man is truly searching for God with his whole heart God will shed more light in a way that he can know about Jesus (Jeremiah 29:13).  Whether it be through a missionary, a vision, or an Angel God will provide a way for that man to know Jesus.  John Piper said “I believe they’re all [the unreached or unreachable] lost, and will go to hell if they don’t hear the gospel. But they will not be indicted for not believing the gospel which they haven’t heard- they’ll be indicted for suppressing the truth they had.”  God is sovereign in everything He does and will always do what is right.  He is in control.

If you’ve read the news or watched Fox News at all you may have seen there story on the video game of Mass Effect.  Typically I’m all for Fox News, they have good stuff.  But this story they ran last week about the game was plain ignorance.  They were making a huge deal out of a love scene in the game and called pornographic.  They had some dumb woman on Fox, who had never played the game and I’m not even sure if she even saw the scene in question.  She was on Fox to talk about how traumatizing this scene is to younger kids and it’s a problem and blah blah blah.  First of the game is rated M for mature, so parents do your job and don’t let your kids play M rated games easy solution.  Second of all I’ve played the game and I’ve seen the scene they were talking about and there is no nudity.  Actually, if you turn on your local Fox channel you see worse stuff on any TV show after 8:00.

Is There Hope

I’ve started reading an article yesterday for my theology class that I need to write a critique on.  It’s a very popular question and a very difficult question to answer.  Do the people that have never heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ have any hope?  No I am not talking about the hermit who lives in his mother’s basement.  I am talking about the tribes deep in the Amazon.  the Gospel is clear on what salvation is and how to obtain it, but not everyone has heard the Gospel.  We were created in God’s image and Romans speaks of the moral law written into our hearts.  So it’s only natural to be aware of what sin is.  Just look at any 2 year old who barely understands the word ‘no’ let alone the Gospel of Christ.  My paper is due Wednesday night and I still do not have a full answer for it.  I do know this though, even when we were separated from God by our sin He found a way to restore that relationship and that was and is through Jesus Christ.  I know God will find a way for those people and will not abandon them.  This does not mean we are to sit back and let God handle it.  We are called to actively spread the Gospel.  There are many Christian missionaries looking for support in anyway possible.  They are doing what we cannot or will not do so why not support them?

I got an interesting e-mail from one of my old bosses the other day.  He lives in Miami and is looking for some AutoCAD consulting and some actual work in the future creating a block library and maybe doing some 3D stuff.  I’ve casually mentioned to Jen that I feel comfortable enough with AutoCAD to possibly start my own business.  Maybe this will be a way to really determine how comfortable I am with AutoCAD.  I’m sure there are plenty of AutoCAD technicians who believe the samething that I do…so we’ll see.

By the way GO GIANTS!!  I watched the Packer Giant game and it was an amazing game. Hopefully the Superbowl this year will not be a blowout.

Cloverfield the new Godzilla.

So lastnight my neighbors upstairs decided to invite me to their party…by the way it was 3 in the morning.  About 2:30 I woke up to loud bass and screaming.  I laid around hoping it would stop, but finally about 3 I had enough.  I ended up going up and saying something to him.  I don’t mind people having parties, but seriously 3 in the morning.

So before the party a bunch of us went and saw Cloverfield it was a good movie.  If you’re going to go see watch the ending when they are Coney Island and stay till the end of the credits.  That’s all I will say. What a movie it was, the filming reminded me of the Blair Witch Project, but better.  It is truly amazing how real movies look today.  I can only imagine what a director from 1920’s would say.

So for some time now I have been very interested in Chernobyl.  How the daily living was left in the evacuations, how nature has taken over everything and the just whole thing.  I guess because I am very curious in nature.  Anyways I found a site that will give an all day exclusive tour.  I don’t know how exclusive “exclusive” is, but it looks good.  For a one person tour it would be 538, but if I can get 7 people it would be 104.  Then there is the whole ticket thing which for a round trip to Kiev, Ukraine is anywhere between 700 and up.  Jen made a comment we could go for our 5 year anniversary….maybe.

So it’s snowing again and I’m excited.

Fixes

I made some adjustments to the Star Trek Enterprise and Optimus Prime (still working on him).  They were small, but they were really bothering me.

Latest and Greatest

As of Monday school has officially started and believe it or not I’m happy that it has.  I’m happy mostly because my Xbox is broken and I don’t have that to occupy my downtime.  The funny thing is that my Xbox broke the last day of class which was also a day I was home sick from work.  I look forward to those days because I can veg out and play video games…not this time.

Work has been getting really busy lately.  We’ve just started work on a new contract so that takes up a lot of time.  However, when I do have free time I like to work on my 3D stuff.  My latest is Optimus Prime from one my childhood cartoons, Transformers.  I still need to make some adjustments, but for the most part he is complete.  Originally I was going to do Airwolf, but because of the lack adequate blueprints I moved on.  Oh well maybe another time.

Tonight and tomorrow they are calling for winter mix of snow, freezing rain, and rain.  I look forward to that.   By the way, our cat Luna finds it very humorous to break into our draws and pull everything out of it.  Okay, it’s mainly my draw she does this to.  Apparently she has been working out because she is now pulling out my whole draw…oh joy.

See Ligers are real!

Napoleon Dynamite would be proud.

New Section!

Since I’ve been doing so much 3d stuff lately I’m going to add another section up top for my 3D stuff.  I just completed, well almost completed, the original Star-Trek Enterprise (NCC-1701).  I also made a few changes to my Batman.

It is finished

I finished the new picture that I’ve been working on that I mentioned in my last post. I am proud to present the finalized image of Lego Batman.  Originally it was suppose to be just a lego man and  I finished lego man.  Once I finished it though I thought this is boring I need to do something else with him.  So here we are….lego batman