Zach Uram's Blog

  • Winter's End












  • Amen

    dio,ti pa/sa sa.rx w`j co,rtoj kai. pa/sa do,xa auvth/j w`j a;nqoj co,rtou\ evxhra,nqh o` co,rtoj kai. to. a;nqoj evxe,pesen\ to. de. r`h/ma kuri,ou me,nei eivj to.n aivw/naÅ tou/to de, evstin to. r`h/ma to. euvaggelisqe.n eivj u`ma/jÅ (1 Peter 1:24-25)
    Soli Deo Gloria

  • More Blizzard Photos






































    34″ of snow accumulation so far

  • Photos from Blizzard of Feb. 2010































  • Netrek

    Oh game sublime
    You enchant me still

    With base oggs
    And delicate dogfighting skill

    A game so balanced
    In perfect harmony

    Strategic richness coupled
    With tactical mastery

    Succeed as a team
    All acting as one

    Conquer the galaxy
    And have much fun

    But alas I doth lament
    At its slow and sad decline

    Now go young newbies
    And learn a game truly divine

    The more you invest
    Greater is the return

    In netrek every fresh ship
    Is a chance to learn

    So bring on the carriers
    To doosh and escort

    The core agri is popping
    Now for real sport!

    May you phaser lock often
    And your torps aim true

    Keep improving and growing
    By observing old clue

    Some will leave netrek
    In the fullness of time

    For me it’s transcendent
    Thus endeth my rhyme.

    — Zachary Uram
    02/07/10

  • iPad – iDon't

    Some people are foaming at the mouth over the new iPad. I hate to rain on their parade, but…
    I can get the same functionality for 1/2 the price. And furthermore:

    * The iPad isn’t a real widescreen (16×9)
    * Doesn’t have a USB port [yet]
    * Can’t multi-task
    * Has no camera
    * Doesn’t support e-ink
    * Doesn’t have a slot card
    * Doesn’t have a GPS
    * Closed source OS
    * And finally – no Adobe Flash

    But it does have touch screen. All these people will shell out $600 for a touch screen? Not me. Don’t drink the Kool-Aid kiddies 🙂

  • 1-2-3-4

    Feist is my favorite indie pop singer. Her voice has a nice earthy cadence and soulful tone. Here is a very charming video of her singing her hit “1-2-3-4” adapted for ‘Sesame Street’ dealing with learning the number 4.

  • reflections on a winter morn

    frozen light
    suspended in time
    frozen dreams
    imagined and sublime

    early morning
    darkness slowly abates
    consciousness quickens
    the sleeper awakes

    transitory perceptions
    visions left behind
    worlds hidden
    from the mind

    harken voyagers
    with limited epistemology
    think upon
    this construct ‘reality’

    hidden variables
    your models eschew
    vulgar unobservables
    an ontological stew

    pray consider
    strict materialists all
    something lost
    in man’s Fall

    fragile understanding
    truth or lies
    trusting naught
    with Positivist eyes

    pray Science
    thou informest men
    unresolved e’er
    why arrogance then

    temporal prison
    the philosopher’s derision
    what then
    make a decision

    amazing grace
    destroys any wall
    have faith
    Christ restoreth all

    bright transcendence
    the universe clear
    bright belief
    nothing to fear

    by Zachary Uram
    (c) 2010

  • "6:00am verse"

    a synaptic symphony
    thoughts racing
    convergence
    blinding waves
    of truth?
    beyond metrics
    beyond limited perception
    final truth revealed
    ontological bondage – broken
    symmetry – broken
    against our conflicted nature
    dreams of reason
    a reality of dreams
    searching
    light cones tipping
    transcending the known
    the unknown revealed
    final truth
    acceptance
    the Logos
    Christ Immanuel

    by Zachary Uram

  • Pittsburgh Penguins Power Play Performance

    Major T.J. “King” Kong says, “Dag burnit, stay on the power play, boys! We’ll get the puck in the net if it’s the last thing we do. Aaaaaa hoooo! Waaaaa haaaawwwww!!!!“