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My Introduction to ScienceOnline (#scio12)

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:32:52 +0000

This upcoming weekend, I will be attending ScienceOnline 2012. For years, I’d heard whisperings about the science conference that Duke’s own “Mister Sugar” helped organize, but my interest was never quite piqued enough to attend. This year, I heard AV Flox and Jason Goldman were coming, and that was enough to push me overboard. Since [...] Related posts:

Peace Games: Game Theory and Peace (PJSA Presentation)

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:29:21 +0000

It’s my birthday weekend, and for my birthday, I’d like to give you a gift.

After a long delay, I finally sat down and recorded the presentation that I gave at the Peace and Justice Studies Association national conference. People have been asking for it, but life has been busy, and it is just now here.

The basic question is how game theory can inform nonviolent activism, and how nonviolent activism might inform game theory. I go through much of the history of game theory without getting bogged down in mathematical notation.

As always, it is published under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 license. More information here:
Peace Games: Game Theory and Peace by Robert Fischer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. In short, feel free to pass it around.

You may want to download the file in order to avoid some squishing action in my lame player. The full-quality version is downloadable here.

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Post tags: Game Theory, Martin Nowak, Negative Peace, Peace, Peace and Conflict Studies, Peace and Justice Studies Association, Positive Peace, Retributive Justice, Robert Axelrod, Satyagraha, Satyagraha matrix, Tit for Tat

Sermon: Possessing the Church

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:55:30 +0000

This is my last sermon for Preaching class (and possibly my last sermon ever!). The manuscript is mangled, because I wrote enough for 15 minutes without reading the scripture, so I had to do some on-the-fly editing and improvisation. It begins with my translation of Matthew 9:35-10:23 and then launches into a critique of the church’s social engagement based on Jesus’s call to His disciples.

You probably want to download the file and play the downloaded version: the file is big and your player probably won’t stream the file, so if you just press “play”, it might take a minute or two for the sermon to actually start playing.

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Post tags: Matthew, Matthew 9:35-10:23, Occupy Wall Street, Preaching, Preaching class

My Sermon: "Vain Worship" (Now in MPEG format)

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:22:28 +0000

This is my sermon, “Vain Worship”, which was previously published on the blog. The manuscript is here. I’m re-releasing it in MPEG format, since my entire world seems to be filled with Mac users who can’t see the WMV file.

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Post tags: Matthew, Preaching, Preaching class, Vain Worship

Sermon: Vain Worship

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:15:04 +0000

Here is my sermon for preaching class. Enjoy!

(If you’re curious or textually inclined, the manuscript is here.)

My Story at The Monti: The Night of the Fire God

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:20:03 +0000

Among the numerous awesome things that we have here in Durham, North Carolina, is The Monti. The Monti has two series: a storytelling series which brings some of the great storytellers in the area onto the stage, and a StorySLAM series, where average Joes and Janes put their names into a hat (really, a beer pitcher), and if they are lucky enough to be drawn out, they get to go up and tell their story.

A couple StorySLAMs ago, Alicia and I were judges at the StorySLAM. (Our judging team name was the Judgey McJudgersons.) At the end of that night, the MC announced that the theme for the next week was going to be “Heat”, and I knew I had to tell my story about the Night of the Fire God, which was the death of one of my Boy Scout uniforms…and nearly my own death, as well! I spent all month working on the story, and it seemed to go well. You can hear the story in the player below, or find me on the Monti’s archive.

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Post tags: Durham, Fire God, Humor, North Carolina, The Monti

DZone Videos of Me and What I’ve Been Up To

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:34:20 +0000

In case you fear I've fallen off the face of the planet completely, here's some evidence to the contrary. DZone put up two video interviews of me: one on Gradle and open source and one on Grails plugins and domain objects. Related posts:

Bush vs Bush

The Indie3 Project is Live!

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:11:46 +0000

Introducing The Indie3 Project: commit to keeping independent music alive by buying three albums a month. Related posts:

Ellen Davis and Krista Tippett

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:00:41 +0000

It's finally out! One of my favorite professors is on one of my favorite radio programs! Related posts:

“That’s Great. Now What?” (The 7 Minute Sermon)

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:39:02 +0000

I preached this sermon at Plymouth Presbyterian Church. The sermon title is "That's Great. Now What?", and it's about the Christian experience of being given revelation and left to sort out the details for ourselves. Related posts:

EnfranchisedMind Podcast Series: Looking for a Name

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:57:48 +0000

Being in the M.Div program, I’m going to have to do some preaching. I’m also signed up to do preaching December 27th at my parent’s church (Plymouth Presbyterian Church). In order to explore my pulpit voice and just to get some thoughts out of my head and into the wider world, I have a few [...] Related posts:

Podcast Sample: WebDev Radio (featuring CouchDB!)

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:01:48 +0000

This sample podcast would have been recommended earlier, but I have trouble remembering that everyone isn’t already listening to this gem. The podcast is the WebDev Radio podcast, hosted by Michael Kimsal (who is also the primary host on WebDev Geekly, which I’ve been on). Every now-and-again, Michael Kimsal presents an interview or a bit [...] Related posts:

“What is a BarCamp?”, Featuring BarCampRDU 2009

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:49:51 +0000

After a BarCamp really hate hearing, "I would have made a pitch, but I wasn't sure how to." So I created this podcast, which goes through BarCampRDU's pitch process and then runs through the pitches that were made at BarCampRDU 2009. It features Matt Frye and Tanner Lovelace as unwitting co-hosts, and background music from Durham's own Permanent4. Related posts:

Wanted: Day-of Help for BarcampRDU

JavaOne Interview: This Ain’t Your Dad’s Java

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:08:30 +0000

While at JavaOne, I sat down with Eric Klein and David Bryant of the This Ain’t Your Dad’s Java podcast. Eric is VP of Java Marketing at Sun, and David is Sr. Director of Java Marketing at Sun, so we talked about what brought them to doing a quasi-unofficial podcast, the nature of Sun and [...] Related posts: