The Living Person of Jesus

A reflection for Jn 1: 35-42 ... Come and see... (Jn 1: 39)

An elderly lady once sued the Disneyland organization because while in the parking lot, her three grandchildren were shocked to see three Disney characters get out of their costumes. These children were shell shocked to know that their favourite characters were not real but human beings dressed up in disguise!

What do we tell our next generation about our faith? Whom are we leading them to? Caricatures, models, statues, doctrines, structures... or the living person of Jesus Christ?

Substitutes for Microsoft Picture Manager in Linux

While I really do not miss anything much of Microsoft, one thing that I really felt lacking in quality was Microsoft Picture Manager. For someone like me who is not adept at Photoshop and neither intends to be, doing some basic touch up on a picture can at times be a herculean task. While with Microsoft, the Picture Manager did best and it was really great. Once I switched over to linux, I really didn't find anything already existing as good and easy as Microsoft Picture Manager... not until today!

I came across two simple and easy methods to fiddle with pictures and photos from linux itself: gthumb and mirage! The former is much better than picture manager of microsoft!

Cell phone put to use!

During my journeys there have been several occasions when I wished I had a camera to click photos of something I knew are really 'different'. This wish of mine seems somehow to be true since I have with me a cell phone with a camera (how I came in to possess one is a long winding story, though!). This time on my trip to Bangalore and back, I did come across something really hilarious. One such is what I found in the Visakhapatnam railway station... a banner of an official railway stall. Check out the first line! I did click a couple of other photos too, but someone lost them while transferring them to my laptop. Anyway, next time!