Pluto no longer a planet

Just heard on the radio a few minutes ago that the announcement has been made regarding the official definition of a planet and which celestial bodies qualify as planets. There was some talk of reclassifying Ceres, Charon, and UB313 as planets, bringing the total to tweleve, but in the end they chose the more sensible option of declassifying Pluto due to its small size and wobbly orbit. Pluto is now considered a "dwarf planet". No word yet on whether Ceres, Charon, or UB313 will also be classified as dwarf planets.

Yay for open-source software!

Cable got hooked up this evening, so now I'm no longer living in a zero channel universe. After a little bit of tweaking my el-cheapo TV got setup correctly.

My TV tuner card was a little more pesky to get working. It came out of the bargain bin a year or two ago because it lacked support for Windows XP. I was at first able to use the Windows 2000 drivers for the card, but some security patches seemed to disable that. Luckily my TV tuner card uses one of the most common chipsets available, and there are indeed even third-party drivers available for this card for windows. Currently I'm using an app called DScaler for actual viewing. It seems to work pretty well.

Expansion versus continuity

I was rather sick this morning, so I didn't make it out of bed until close to noon. Thus, as I had missed church in the morning, I decided that I should head down south to the other PCA in the city for their evening service. I wound up arriving just before the listed time to spot an empty parking lot, and a bulletin board that no longer listed an evening service (even though the website still does). This lead me to thinking about the the need both for continuity in the church as well as expansion.

I don't believe that a greater number of services per day indicates a healthier church, but at the same time I find that if a church does hold two services members should be committed to attending both. I was at one of this church's evening services a few weeks back, and the attendance as compared to that of the morning was quite disappointing in my opinion. I think that the CanRC can be accused with some legitimacy of being an ethnic enclave with little emphasis on evangelism to the outside world, but at the same time I wonder if the PCA as a denomination overemphasizes external evangelism at the cost of discipling the members of the church. Just how deep are the roots that have been put down.?

Finally caved in...

I went 8.5 months without owning a TV, but last evening I finally went and picked one up. It's nothing fancy - just a basic 20" model - but should at least show a picture of some sort. The cable guy should be by on Wednesday evening (assuming that said individual shows up at the specified time) to setup things. Yay for student discounts!

(I had been debating taking a trip to Medicine Hat this weekend, but figured that for that amount of money I might as well opt for a TV/cable instead. Now, to debate whether or not to make it to Revelstoke Railway Days as they wind to a close next weekend.)

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