In The Scriptorium Daily, John Mark Reynolds writes on Should I play Grand Theft Auto?. His thoughtful discussion goes beyond the simplistic pro and con answers often given about violent computer games. This discussion should be required reading for all gamers. The author is a philosophy professor at Biola University who is himself a gamer.

Now that my dissertation is finished, I want to share some grad school humor that I have bookmarked during the process. Here some great strips from the Ph.D. comic. For those marked as “series,” press the “next” button to continue to the end of the series):

• Writing your Thesis Outline
• Your Thesis Title
• Phd Years-to-Thesis Chapter Conversion Chart
• The Thesis (series)
  
• Raiders of the lost dissertation (series)
  

Also, I have just found this hilarious video about dissertation writing. This is done by the same talented guy who helped me make the video of my dissertation presentation.

No Dissertation from ticoneva on Vimeo.

In April I did a 2 hour presentation of a summary of my dissertation research on Reaching the Next Generations in Bilingual Chinese Churches. The audio is finally ready to share with you here.

I have set up the presentation on slideshare.net so that the audio portion is synced to the presentation slides. You can see the presentation here. I hope that this will be of benefit to those of you who were interested in the presentation be were unable to attend. There is one place where the audio seems to skip. That is due to a 40 second section of the file that had been corrupted, which I deleted.

Meanwhile, work is progressing on the video file. When it is ready to be viewed, I will update this post with the link.

Please share any comments or suggestions that you have on the presentation in the comments here.

Update: The video of the presentation is now available: Part I and Part II. Thanks to Vinci for all his hard work in putting this together!