1787, Beethoven did indeed went to see Mozart for tutelage. Beethoven was 17, using Max Franz's recommendation letter to gain Mozart's audience. Mozart was tired indeed, wasn't interested to listen to Beethoven. Beethoven played Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, but Mozart stopped him to have Beethoven play his own piece.
Then Mozart indeed proclaimed to the public, but mainly his wife Constanze: "Stanzi, Stanzi," he said, pointing back into the music room, "Watch out for that boy. One day he will give the world something to talk about."
Unfortunately, urgent news of Beethoven's mother's illness prevented Beethoven to be tutored by Mozart despite Mozart's agreement to take him on as a student.
10/25/2023JBL TUNE120TWS Earbuds disassembly. Only video I found that went through the entire process to replace the battery (when battery life is shortened):
10/23/2023Baby boomers, Gen X, Millennials/Gen Y, GenZ, what do they all mean? Here's a nice chart from LinkedIn explaining them (I guess I am considered LATE Gen X, I do find people in my age group interestingly rare):
10/19/2023On Pastoral succession: This came across my mind before, particularly from Laura Lin's case: What does it mean to succeed a failed pastor? Succession of the former pastor does not impute sins of the former to the latter. Which is what many Christians naturally fail to see. However, what the former did to the church does influence the later: Is the new pastor succeeding a failed church, having to start from scratch (from zero), or continuing what is already great of the church. The one who discerns this will be on the path to victory.
animated gif made by A.I.: just type in description and it will generate animated gif for you to share. Not bad, not the best, doable.
This is interesting. Came across this TLDR news about a site that can help you detect squatters to your domain. It takes a given domain and tests it against a ton of permutations of possible domain names that look similar to the one provided.
I did a test on nygcinstitute.com and it turns out that nygcinstitute.org, which is not ours, points to zoni.edu. I wonder if Zoni felt threatened by our school. ZONI is a big ESL school, probably the biggest in the country, I wonder if they paid to get this done or if they have someone on the inside doing this, pointing all possible competitors sites to their site instead.
This is a study on "eschatology precedes soteriology".
It tackles questions such as "Did Christ come into the world for us? or we came into the world for Christ," which, as Mark Jones calls the latter, is a form of Christological supralapsarianism.
The Son (as theanthropos) must be at the centre of God's creating purposes, not simply his redeeming purposes. The creation of the world exists for the sake of the Son, otherwise we can make no sense of Colossians 1:16, which has in view the Son as God-man (i.e., Christ), not the Son simpliciter. Hence, Adam and Eve were created for Christ and by Christ. ~ Jones.
Jones: Salvation from sin is not the highest end of humanity, but rather, the eternal communion with God. Because of the Creator-creature distinction, God must nevertheless condescend before we can "ascend."
Mark Jones however focus the eschatological solution solely in incarnation. He did not touch on the Tree of Life at all. I would not want to close the chapter with a slam dunk in just incarnation, but am open to other types of ending/beginning apart from incarnation or rather, a different kind of incarnation. One which allows Lane Tipton to hold his "[current type of ]Incarnation - to solve a covenantal problem and not a ontological problem, given sin and not given creation." Therefore, if this were a different kind of incarnation, it would be an ontological ascension, given creation. To stay with Tipton and not with Rome, Schleiermacher nor Barth, I would posit two different kinds of incarnation. If we must use incarnation as Christ's rule in a sinless Adamic world. I am well open to other ends apart from incarnation of Christ had Adam stood. However, I want to ground my argument on the Tree of Life, as a precursor of Christ, incarnation or not.
10/6/2023Using people's photos for free. I personally don't care about Western privacy law on using faces of others as long as they were taken in public. But since we must abide local laws, here's a site for it: https://userstock.io/
“lán” (咱 = Kita) and “guán” (阮 = Kami) in Taiwanese 閩南主禱文 the Lord's Prayer. Interesting take from Alex on FB. He then went on to distinguish the Cartesian "I AM" from "triune I AM". The former is mere substantial, while the latter is more relational, especially in expounding the imago dei. To fail at getting this, is the result of progressive autonomous individualism, according to Dr. Tseng.
Mark Zuckerberg's Interview in virtual reality with photorealistic avatars, which is impressive.
9/30/2023 Flooding in NYC these past few days. Complained also by some staffs at NYGC.
9/29/2023On Time Management: The Pomodoro Technique Based on 25-minute stretches of focused work broken by five-minute breaks. Longer breaks, typically 15 to 30 minutes, are taken after four consecutive work intervals. Each work interval is called a pomodoro, the Italian word for tomato (plural: pomodori)
It's something I must have contemplated before before hearing this method, but did not bother to look into because I feel I need my long train of thoughts in my thinking process often times. However, I'm posting this here to note its existence.
9/28/2023Color Schemes - Interesting illustrations of different color schemes for different goals specifically for web pages.
Websites such as Indeed, StackExchange, etc. are blocking GPT's A.I. web crawlers. But unless the federal court is enforcing something, what's the prevent GPT's crawlers to go anonymous? This is probably an American/Western fad. This would certainly be an interesting battle of copyright matters. The balance of whether internet free information is public or not. I think it will self collapse, this American notion of self-righteousness in copyright matters, because it's grounded in greed.
9/27/2023Want to know keyboard shortcuts/hotkeys for popular designer apps such as Adobe Illustrator, After Effects, Photoshop, etc.
Another list from TLDR of recommended AI tools for meeting summaries, data enrichment, etc:
The team at Factors.AI volunteered to organize the list into an Airtable with details on all the things including pricing, if you have to talk to a human to buy it, # of G2 reviews and more.
HERE ARE 7 OF MY FAVORITES FROM THE LIST OF 50 Jitter - Animate your Figma designs really easily with very little skill needed. I discovered this one from your recommendations
Databar.ai - Data enrichment for anything you can think of in spreadsheet format. Enrich your data, scrape the web, and run complex data flows
Twine AI - Actually really good AI-meeting summaries that understand all my marketing jargon
Akkio - I personally haven’t tried this because we don’t need a BI tool at MKT1 (yet?), but looks amazing. Lets you “chat with your data”.
Byword - My favorite generative AI tool for for drafts of marketing content--plus it integrates well with Webflow
WithSURFACE.com - Been looking for a “conversion flow in a box” type tool and was recently sent this by a former teammate. If you want to build better demo request & sign up flows, check this out. They are in very early days
Toolflow.ai - This is in alpha right now but is about to blow your minds and make all your workflows easier. Join the waitlist and try it as soon as it’s available. (MKT1 Capital is an investor in this, but I invested b/c I was blown away)
Hopefully, when you are looking for a tool to augment your marketing workflow you can refer to this list and not waste your time trying a million things things that don’t cut it.
Access the full list through factors.ai or in my paid newsletter, link in comments
Because of social media, User-Generated Content (UGC ads) is a thing now.
God owes us nothing of any good things we do, nor God's goodness for us is conditioned upon something deserved. ~ John Calvin.
Additionally, Calvin adds, that we are in the active:
"...But I think the sentence has a more extensive meaning, namely, that let men strive ever so much to lay themselves out for God, yet they can bring no advantage to him." ~ John Calvin.
In conclusion, Calvin summed up:
"...When we imagine that there is any good thing in us, we need not wonder if he reject us, as we thus take away from him a principal part of the honor which is his due. But, on the contrary, if we acknowledge that all the services which we can yield him are in themselves things of nought, and undeserving of any recompense, this humility is as a perfume of a sweet odour, which will procure for them acceptance with God."
v. 3: The saints are my joy and example, they are not my jealousy nor standard I seek to defeat and claim my merit for my goodness is an undeserved one. It is therefore meaningless to seek merit in being better than the saints, though it is not meaningless to strive so much of it for God.
