01/09/2026 Friday
I learned from Facebook that you can report public problem in NJ (i.e. traffic light problems, etc.) at this gov website: https://www.njdotproblemreporting.nj.gov. So I did for the Eastbound traffic light closest to our home on Rt. 35, which constantly gets stuck at RED as if the sensor is not working. When it happens, we have to get out of the car to push the pedestrian WALK button or wait until the Westbound cars across the street to trigger their traffic light sensor.
I also called to leave a message at the Borough of Sayreville (As this is outside of South Amboy but part of Sayreville)
167 Main Street
Sayreville, NJ 08872
Hours: Monday - Friday from 8 AM - 4 PM
Borough Office Phone: (732) 390-7000
01/08/2026 Thursday
First time attending Crossroads Small group with Nadia at Pastor Joe's house. First great impression. There's about 10 people. Nadia kept marveled at the level of education folks at this church hold, in comparison to GCC.
01/07/2026 Wednesday
Someone posted about Philip Yancey's affair, so I responded this on Facebook:
買讀他人之書籍就等於已與人家團契，認識了嗎？這豈不是重犯約伯的罪。
今天基督徒最不懂怎樣團契。這個搞不懂，不論是美女計或是救美女，都是措手不及，在上帝面前無法站立得住。
説來也是，楊腓力這個人我聼都沒聽過，可能您們都比我懂。所以他的書您們不要燒掉，廉價賣給我吧。什麽時候我們來相會吧？
01/06/2026 Tuesday
Disabled printing spooler service on two NYGC workstations: 505, 509. So teachers can't print.
MBC Unhindered (Pastor Dave) brought up Charles Spurgeon vs. Karl Marx. Apparently they were both in London. It's interesting of this competing view of theirs:
CP: "All that is mine is yours"
KM: "All that is yours is mine"
It's easy to google these two figures competing each other as they are contemporary of each other. My take is: One comes from grace alone, the other comes from justice alone. But since these are human agents, it's not surprising we would prefer the ones who practiced grace wrongly than the ones who did justice wrongly. But perhaps the one deprived of grace came from a foundation of grace, taking grace for granted and thus only see the enforcement of justice.
01/05/2026 Monday
How Browser works: Someone took the effort summarizing, worth a save.
Lessons from 14 year Google developer - Addy Osmani.
Ethan Evans. Former Amazon VP on Engineer Promotion.
01/04/2026 Sunday
2nd week Pastor Jeff Jou preaching at Crossroads. Looks like he'll be selected as the Youth pastor of the church. At the church's family lunch, Jou was put on the spot to be questioned by lunch eating audience. I asked "Why Jersey?", his answer was like the rest, standard. I don't really remember. Nadia seemed impressed by the whole session. More intellectual for her. As for the pastor himself, I think not bad. Started RUF from zero in Queens. Worked at prison ministry. Theology seems solid. But all these are only surface, I don't know well enough.