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5/20/2016

 
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Okay, so the above image is a little ridiculous if you think about it. That is a DJI Phantom quad-copter "carrying" or perhaps birthing an Amazon Echo smart speaker. While the form factor I have featured would never make it past R&D, I hope that it demonstrates the concept. For my purposes it will work just fine.
This post technically started when I first picked up the Golden Compass, by  Philip Pullman years ago. While the focus of his work was more or less to show that you can have The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe style fantasy without all that God allusion, I tend to read things for myself and draw my own conclusions. Sorry Phil, I enjoyed your works but remain convinced of the existence of a personal and loving God. The reason I bring this up in relation to the above picture though is because of a very neat concept that Mr. Pullman introduced in his novels: the daemons​. Today, we are hunting for daemons!

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Did anyone see that?

3/28/2015

 
The map shows the location of the Germanwings Flight 9525 that crashed on 3/24/2015. All 144 passengers and 6 crew aboard the flight were killed, likely instantly on impact. Several were Americans (though they were all people, so I'm not sure why we insist on adding that information to these types of stories), and the shockwave of the crash event has reverberated around the globe in a brisk fashion. There is a human cost to human action, which can be glossed over when we reduce casualties to simple numbers or we talk about how much the families are suing and who they are going after. Hopefully we can all take a step back and breathe and simply remember that there were real live people on that plane, with faults and foibles, dreams and abilities, and the world no longer gets the benefit of their life. Please pray for solace to those hurting, and for joy to come back to life swiftly. Tragedies are hard, and our memories can be long.

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