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On the way home this weekend, we found ourselves in a flash traffic jam in a remote section of interstate. From the commotion about a mile up the road, and from the amount of emergency vehicles, we figured that it was a bad wreck. As we got closer, this was confirmed. A badly mangled motorcycle [...]
Alot of times people ask me “you know that thing you blogged about but didn’t really get too specific? Well…were you talking about XYZ?” The answer is usually no. I don’t find too many specific things to generalize about. However, I often see the same patterns across my family life, my job life, my church [...]
Due to some dietary changes, our family is drinking organic whole milk. This changes a lifelong rule that my wife has about whole milk. The rule is that it doesn’t exist, and you have to buy the chalky water that is skim milk. It’s useless. It really is, and at least one remedial dietitian agrees. [...]
I’ve been enjoying the “Stuff Christians Like” blog. This post is pretty good. There are multiple problems when more traditional congregations move to clapping, but the most annoying one is the “1 and 3″ clap. That’s where you clap on the first and the third beat. This technique works for some tunes…more likely you country/bluegrass/quartet [...]
This sums it up: From the New York Times:
So sad…. Even when a famous keyboard player passes away, he’s still upstaged in his memorial photos.
Think you’re awesome? Well, you ain’t Lance Winslow awesome. Go back to square one, junior!
Here’s a story behind the Beatles tune Paperback Writer. I love the stories behind popular songs. It’s a reminder that 95% of hit songs would never make it past the first step of one of those songwriters workshops. Hardly any of them meet the criteria of what’s considered a “good song”. Yet there they are [...]
Pestilence. Famine. The disappearance of fish. Lots of end times imagery could be pulled from the headlines. But it’s hard to distinguish what’s been with us forever and what is truly a sign. [Warning...this next link is kinda disturbing] But after reading this…it’s hard not to think we’re in the end times. Moloch is alive [...]
This is about how it would go. I’d be drinkin’ coffee with the fishes if I tried something like this.
This is pretty funny. Exactly the kind of cat research I can appreciate.
Today I sang an a cappella number with our church’s youth ensemble, One Voice. They’re a good singin’ group of kids and they’re pretty funny too. More funny than they realize (and I mean that in the best possible way). Really brings back memories of my ol’ high school ensemble days. I’m going to go [...]
Other than multiple daily hits of NyQuil, us Baptists don’t publicly approve of drinking. Most people think this is because of Biblical passages against consumption of “strong drink”. The real reason is that drinking could lead to dancing. As this video shows. (oldie but a funny).
Feeling a bit lethargic? Like maybe there’s no reason to do anything but sit in church and soak in a sermon? Yeah. That’s the Calvinism from this video killing any motivation to reach the lost. After all…God called them, right? What can we do? Yeah, I know….there’s much more to all 32 flavors of Calvanism [...]
This morning I drove both kids to school. Most of the time I drive our daughter and my beautiful bride drives our son. But today It was just dad and the kids so I had to make a route of it. There are few things more fun to me than listening to our kids talk…especially [...]
Much has been made of the woman who recently let her 9 year old ride the subway home. She should apparently be put in prison. Here’s a good starting point on Schneier’s (security guru) site. This reminds me of an incident a couple of months ago where my wife left our 8.5 year old daughter [...]
It’s interesting to read this article… …then look at this map. Things change. Who promised us good times forever? Well, besides Joel Osteen….
Today is my birthday. So I encourage everyone to think today about the miracle that is us….the fact that we are here. Odds were against it. So here’s an interesting story about fertility treatment from the always good Freakanomics blog. Lots of interesting takes on that. While the outcome was good, what about the ethics [...]
The artwork was pretty bad, even for 8th grade. Bear with me here….I was supposed to be paying attention in class. Some of these were drawn while the paper was on my leg.
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