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A few days ago, our community here in Palo Alto had a conference call with Millard Fuller, whom you may remember from my entry a while back on Koinonia Farms. Millard founded Habitat for Humanity after being at Koinonia, but was recently fired from the company he started for “philosophical” reasons. The way he tells it, he was trying to put more money back into housing projects, whereas the rest of the board was trying to become a Big Corporation. Anyway, the conference call was the result of some chance interactions that several in our community had with Millard (which, incidentally, were the reason I heard about Koinonia, etc…), and the purpose of it was to see if there were any good ways for us to partner with Millard’s new organization, the Fuller Center for Housing. This new company aims to help people who are “too poor” for Habitat to work with.

Google just released a special add-on for their maps service today, in honor of the anniversary of the first moon landing. I was looking at all the different landing sites, and I was surprised to see, as I looked very close, that the moon is actually made of yellow cheese! Who would have thought? Thanks, Google, for this huge contribution to modern astronomy.

Ever since I was a child, up until about the time I left for college, one of the great loves of my life was reading. I proved this love in a very obvious way: I read all the time. Whether it was in the car on the way to school, sitting in class after I’d finished my work, during lunch time, waiting after school, in between classes, on an airplane… Wherever it might be, I had my nose stuck in a book. ...

Over the past couple weeks, this server has been experiencing some major issues. As the guy who’s supposed to be running the thing, these major issues have been quite trying for me. **What follows is a rather uninteresting account of some nerd stuff**

That’s right–we finally have a home! After 8 months of bumming around Palo Alto and East Palo Alto, crashing with friends, and sleeping in my sleeping bag, I am the proud (if somewhat cynical and ironic) new resident of an old but well-kept apartment in Palo Alto. I’m living with 4 other guys from my community, as we were able to get two 2-bedroom places right next to each other, and indeed in the same building as our beloved married couple. ...

For our celebration of America’s independence this year, a few in our community went up to an apartment in San Francisco to hang out and experience the fireworks shows. While waiting for these shows, we had the opportunity to watch the critically-acclaimed independent film, Aliens vs Predator. It was truly amazing; I’ve never seen the mix-two-sci-fi-thriller-worlds-and-everybody-dies genre so full of promise! After the fireworks, we watched a slightly different film.

Welcome to my e4:online weblog! I am not sure what I will be writing here at the moment, but hopefully many things of great importance. I may also copy over some entries from my old Excelsis or jonathanlipps.com weblogs, just to have some data here. Well, stay tuned!

I’m sitting on a plane right now, from Dallas to San Jose. This is something I’ve done quite frequently in the past few months, between all the family events going on at home and flying back and forth for Teleios (the company I now work for–it’s the same one as before, we just got bored of our old name). I typically hate this particular leg, since it’s a decently long flight east-to-west (4 hrs), and since it consists primarily of businesspeople, who of course are all Platinum or Executive Platinum on American. ...

Tonight, after wandering around the streets of College Terrace in Palo Alto, looking for a 3-bedroom house for rent, it became dinner time. My wandering companions all had prior commitments, and none of the few others I called were available, so I ended up going to a small and reasonably-priced Chinese restaurant on El Camino, alone. I’d eaten there once before, also by myself on that occasion, and I remembered it as a place where I could relax, take my time over the meal, drink some soothing tea, and reflect without interruption. ...

I’m forcing myself to write, simply because I haven’t in so long. The ironic thing is, of course, that there’s no lack of things to write about. In fact, as an interesting historical note of particular relevancy, I even made a little sticky of some topics to blog about at one point, since I thought they were good topics. Now this is something I’ve never done, so I was pretty sure that I would get around to writing about these topics, seeing as I’d made a reminder to do that and all. No luck! ...