Posted May 29th, 2009 by Mike
Some posts out there in the blog world about Twittering in church: Should We Use Twitter During Church? John Piper’s take. An article from Christianity today. To me, this is pretty simple. Twittering is sometimes like talking, and sometimes like taking notes. You can tell if twittering is appropriate if it’s appropriate in any of [...]
Posted May 28th, 2009 by Mike
OK, this is a reality TV show. Which is to say it’s not real. And it’s also to say that you can’t really comment on them as people because of that. But in regard to the behavior on the show, I’m actually surprised that the whole thing lasted so long. I read a book (I [...]
Posted May 24th, 2009 by Mike
In church today the teaching was about Baptism and Communion, and a good deal of the sermon spoke about differences in experience and why our church believes what it believes. I got to thinking about what I have learned in the last year or so as we left our home church to see what’s “out [...]
Posted May 23rd, 2009 by Mike
How would you like to know that key players in of the most successful internet sites worked for you and you were too dense to apply their creativity to your product? Ironically, at one point right after it bought PayPal, eBay had the leading actors of most of this entertainment revolution sitting in its offices. [...]
Posted May 20th, 2009 by Mike
Today I drove my son and my daughter to school for the last time this year. Driving my kids to school is one of my favorite things to do. In fact, it’s probably one of my favorite things of all time. Talking with them, singing with them, hearing them talk to each other…these are all [...]
Posted May 13th, 2009 by Mike
(heh, if you read that…it sounds like “moron facebook”.) More interesting stuff from Anne regarding Facebook, Twitter, and in the general online experience. I like Anne’s site because we both seem to have spent alot of time thinking through entirely different things about the same subject. She is processing what these online communities mean and [...]
Posted May 8th, 2009 by Mike
As I’ve mentioned, slowly but surely all of our debt is flowing toward the federal government. Most of this process is not visible, but sometimes you get small windows into one of the waterfalls in this toxic river. Here’s one. Fannie Mae needs 19 billion. They get this by selling stock to the gubmint, who [...]
Posted May 7th, 2009 by Mike
I remember back in high school we learned that the “command” style of politeconomics was bad. The “Free Market” was good. This was back in the Cold War, so I guess it was very important to understand this. However, I read this story today and suddenly realized that we’re rapidly approaching the former Soviet Union [...]
Posted May 6th, 2009 by Mike
The sun is always setting somewhere Over hills over valleys While birds fly in lazy circles Rising and falling in the cooling air And in the circles are frozen The eddies, the orbits The soil and the bedrock All eternal century’s dozen These are the trails in motion the subtle movements and artifacts arcing through [...]