Kyle Gebhart

Why I don’t “Wordcast” More Often:

Been thinking about this the past few days, and I can come up with a few reasons.

1) Don’t have internet at home…nuff said.

2) Don’t usually go online when I’m in the prayer room. Not that there is anything implicitly wrong with writing a wordcast on a little ‘break’ - but I’m just usually ‘unwired’.

3) By far the most significant reason: I don’t think out loud. Really - I don’t formulate thoughts (for the most part) while I’m writing them - but before I write them. It usually takes me 3-4 days to formulate what I want to post on the next time.

This, unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), means less posts for you read - but my hope is that the quality if higher. I’m not prolific (ask Jared Diehl for a definition).

Side note - I’m thinking about an idea for a book:
working title = American Pharisee (or how meekness has become an un-American activity).

“Wordcast”- Stolen by Sci-Fi Nuts, Christians, and Jonathan Fox!

Well - wordcast sounded like a better option than blogging - but we’ve been beaten to the proverbial punch by some unlikely contenders. And the first one is a doozy.

In first place, with “wordcast.com” are the strange stylings of the “Arthur C. Clarke Egogram. That’s right, it’s Arthur’s blog.

To summarize his year: he’s ninety now, missing his Chihuahua, and believes the Golden Age of space travel is yet ahead of us, including, “fee-paying passengers will be experiencing sub-orbital flights aboard privately funded passenger vehicles, built by a new generation of engineer-entrepreneurs with an unstoppable passion for space.”

Most interesting to ME however was this quote: “I am very encouraged by the wide-spread acceptance of the Space Elevator, which can make space transport cheap and affordable to ordinary people. This daring engineering concept, which I popularised in The Fountains of Paradise (1978), is now taken very seriously,” can anyone say, corridor of glory?

And the runners-up:

Christian Music broadcasting = “Word-Casting”

And bringing up third place: this guy.

If we want to unite and start a wordcast union - it will make for unlikely company.