Tonight, Becky and I had a blast. We ate a dinner so good it stands as evidence of God’s love for humanity! (Cheesecake Factory)
Afterwards we walked down to the mall proper and built “bears.” That is, She made a Hip Hippo and I made a guitar playing Penguin.
Pictures of Hannah the Hip Hippo are [...]
At the risk of sounding like a 13 year old girl at a boy-band concert…
OH MY GOODNESS, I’m in the same room as Marc McCahill. The man who invented Gopher, one of the earliest and most robust internet protocols. And he uses a Mac! and he’s got almost the same set of icons on his [...]
Everyone knows that the Office is funny because we’ve all known “that boss” who is as whacked out as Michael Scott. The following video is funny for the same reasons — That we’ve all had, or known someone who has had, an equally bad experience with small groups– At the same time, this is one [...]
I discovered this amazing comic via Digg. I don’t think I’ve seen a better comparison between Jesus of the scriptures and Jeezus of popular-american-christianity.
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If there wasn’t evidence aplenty that the war on terror has gone on far too long, the kids who lost their parents in the war as toddlers are now getting old enough to wonder where daddy is. This article, Old Enough Now to Ask How Dad Died at War discussed the way in which children [...]
Ok, I admit it. I’ve not only a bag fetish, but a pen fetish as well. Check out this Ikea-flat-pack-esque pen.
Pens don’t not come much more desirable (or geeky) than this self assembly Parafernalia Falter 2D pen which comes as a snap apart kit complete with tool and ruler. Design brilliance.
NOTCOT.ORG *6752
How cool is this? A cd that plays on record players *and* in optical drives? I’m eagerly awaiting the main-stream adoption of this technology. I want to go old school with a new green day album!
German manufacturers Optimal Media Production claim that their new VinylDisc is a hybrid CD/vinyl album that will play in an [...]
While I lived in Florida I spoke out against Tampa’s city ordinance to ban the feeding of homeless people. It seems that Orlando, like Tampa, has passed a law banning the feeding of Homeless people. I can’t speak to Orlando’s reasoning, but Tampa’s “reasoning” was that homelessness was bad for tourism, and thus bad for [...]
I have been struggling recently with trying to identify the proper language to describe the insidious rise of prosperity “gospel” preaching in congregations I am close to. Today, during the Gardner C. Taylor lecture, Brad Braxton, hinted at the ideal language. He referenced a type of preacher that he called Materialistic Preachers as holy dope [...]
I confess, I’m a traitor.
Yes, I’ve gone to the dark side. But this wasn’t an unprincipled betrayal. Indeed, this betrayal was driven by the principles of fair-use and freedom. Yes I’ve bought music from Amazon’s mp3 service.
and I like it.
For my betrayal I’m punished with DRM free, high bitrate encoding mp3’s that play [...]
Wallace Stegner’s novel, “Crossing to Safety,” weaves a story of two depression era couples who quite accidently befriend one another in the small town of Madison Wisconsin. One couple, Sid and Charity, is rather wealthy while the other couple, Sally and Larry barely scrape by. The Sid and Charity struggle through a life of academia [...]
As part of Dr. Carter’s Black Intellectuals in Religion class, we were invited to interact with Fredrick Douglas’ 1845 Narrative. Carter argues, that Douglas uses hallowed language, –religious language– to describe both the current situation and his vision for a new future. Ultimately, however, this hallowed language is hollow. Which is to say, that the [...]
I found this image via Notcot.org I would love to own a Geiclee (spelling?) of this painting:
All of his work, which can be found here, is on the darker side of art, but they are beautiful and moving. How many times does the act of inspiration come at the cost of love?
Do we hope [...]
Danny and I spent another late night over pancakes,
Talkin’ ’bout soccer
And how every man’s just the same
We made speculation
On the who’s and the when’s of our futures
And how everyone’s lonely
But still we just couldn’t complain
And how we just hate being alone
Could I have missed my only chance
And now I’m just wasting my time
By looking around
But [...]
A wonderfully insightful commentary on cats and dogs.
