On Youth and Aging for Men
Meditations on Proverbs 20:29 and Titus 2:2,6
Posted on February 26, 2024
| 4 minutes
| Carlos Vazquez
The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair. (Proverbs 20:29; ESV)
Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. (Titus 2:2; ESV)
Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled. (Titus 2:6; ESV)
What does it look like when a man lives his life well? Many answers could be (and have been) given to this question, but today we will focus on what the passages quoted above have to say about the question.
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A Christian Take on Transhumanism
Posted on December 20, 2022
| 10 minutes
| Carlos Vazquez
UPDATE (12/26/22): I had forgotten until after I wrote this post that the book 2084 by John Lennox was a huge help in providing me with categories for thinking through the issue of transhumanism. I want to give credit where credit is due and I don’t want to give the impression that I arrived at my conlusions unaided.
Over the course of the past year or so (and especially the past six months), I’ve become deeply interested in the issue of Transhumanism.
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Hamilton, The Fear of Death, and the Lust for Legacy
Posted on November 24, 2020
| 6 minutes
| Carlos Vazquez
The hit musical Hamilton portrays Alexander Hamilton as a driven young man, eager to prove to the world and to himself that he is more than his scandalous origins. This is evident from the very first song (Alexander Hamilton). Songs like Satisfied reinforce the notion of Hamilton’s unquenchable ambition. The song Non-Stop explains one very specific way in which Hamilton’s zeal manifested itself: writing. Consider Aaron Burr’s jealous observation of Hamilton:
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The Impact of Having an Author as an English Teacher
Posted on March 19, 2020
| 3 minutes
| Carlos Vazquez
It used to puzzle me why English classes were structured the way they were. It seemed that we were simply re-taught the same basic grammar rules every year. My opinion of English class has greatly improved over the last several months. I’d like to say it was because I learned to have a better attitude, but in reality it was because of who I have as a teacher this year.
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Vugu Form Validation Part 1
An experiment
Posted on August 26, 2019
| 6 minutes
| Carlos Vazquez
I recently stumbled upon a very interesting project on Github called vugu. It is “A modern UI library for Go+WebAssembly”. It is currently in a highly experimental state, but I believe it has a lot or potential. If you want to learn more, check out the link to Vugu’s github above or this link to their website. In this post, I will be showing a simple exercise I did to get started with Vugu, inspired by a similar Vue project.
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Worthy To Suffer
A high honor
Posted on August 1, 2019
| 5 minutes
| Carlos Vazquez
This will be my second post on evangelism. You can find part one here. Today’s text from the book of Acts is one that deeply impacted me when I read it, and it is my desire to share that impact with my readers. This text may seem counter-intuitive, and might not be a popular message when applied to every day life, yet this text teaches many important lessons about how we are to live as Christians.
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Philip
Always stay for the end credits
Posted on July 7, 2019
| 5 minutes
| Carlos Vazquez
If you’ve ever seen a Marvel movie, then you know the all-important rule: don’t leave until the movie is over. Marvel is notorious for their end credit scenes that often reveal details about upcoming movies, or just add extra scenes that were cut from the actual film. While reading the story of Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch in Acts 8, I noticed something very interesting at the end of the story.
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Freelancing
Posted on May 29, 2019
| 4 minutes
| Carlos Vazquez
Updated June 6
I mentioned in my last post that I was planning on becoming a software consultant/freelancer developer soon. It is my great pleasure to announce that I am now available for hire as a freelance software developer! I should have a separate website for it available to view soon. In the meantime, you can email me at vazquez.technologies@gmail.com. UPDATE: The website is now live! Check it out here. In this post, I will tell the story of how this choice will affect Semi-Structured Thoughts, why I decided to start freelancing, and what services I will be offering.
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A Tale of Two Hackathons
Posted on March 16, 2019
| 4 minutes
| Carlos Vazquez
Spring Semester is always busy for me. Between academic competitions (like DI), track, and making time for my friends, things can get very hectic. Despite the chaos, I love the spring semester for many reasons. One of the things I love about it is the opportunity to go to a couple hackathons. This year, I went to TAMUhack and HackDFW. In today’s post, I’ll be sharing what I learned.
TAMUhack2019 As is often the case with the projects my team undertakes at hackathons, the idea was decent, but our implementation was somewhat lacking.
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What I learned from Hacktoberfest
Posted on November 20, 2018
| 3 minutes
| Carlos Vazquez
This year, I participated in Hacktoberfest for the first time. This was my first time making a real contribution to an open source repository, and it felt great. I loved being able to help others and improve my skills at the same time (not to mention getting a free t shirt out of it). I learned a lot from it, and I wanted to share some of that in this post.
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