collin park

Got a year of essays on the One Year Bible, a few articles on fatherhood, home improvement, management, recipes.

Saturday, February 09, 2013

How to `convert(1)` foo.pdf to bar.png with high resolution

Short version: use convert -density 300x300 I'm an occasional (→non-expert) user of the ImageMagick's marvelous convert program...

openSUSE 11.3: printer won’t print some PDFs

So I have a PDF file (it's from the social security administration's BSO, but really, it could have been from anywhere). I opene...

Tuesday, February 05, 2013

“The reason why we do things so badly…

…is that we are not content to do what we can.” Merton, No Man Is an Island 7.5 (p. 124) Merton continues: We insist on doing what is ...

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Vegan apricot pie!

It only occurred to me after the pie was half gone: there were no animal-based ingredients in this pie. Crust (source: http://allreci...

Praying for Indifference

I've been reading Ruth Haley Barton's marvelous Pursuing God’s Will Together , whose 2nd chapter mentions three kinds of prayer I...

Thursday, January 24, 2013

The "Self"?

I've been thinking a lot about the "self" lately. Not my self in particular, but about what the concept means. At Christm...

Tuesday, January 01, 2013

New Year's Eve Party

One of my great pleasures is that of preparing food for people I love and enjoying it with them. There were 21 of us enjoying appetizers ...

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Who is this guy?

Collin: I've worked in the computer industry for over 40 years. During that time, I met Jesus (1978), became a member at MPPC, met the lovely Carol and married her, moved to Japan, then back after about 6 years. We have two daughters, no longer teenagers, who are smarter and more spiritual and kinder and nicer and more talented than we had any right to expect.

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