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the week between

well, i am back from india. it was an absolutely amazing trip. that said, it is so nice to be back in the united states where logic at least exists, even if many choose not to use it. i also suspect that i am allergic to the entire country of india. i had a couple pretty rough moments there.

being part of designing and building a piece of architecture in just a few weeks was incredible. it is a pretty solid little building. i will send along some pictures soon. well, it basically looks just like the hanuman temple in delhi in the picture above, so just imagine a huge red monkey-man surrounded by the himalayas instead of a city. same thing.

anyway, a week to relax (meaning, a week to do school work and some work-work) before the trip to switzerland.

Thanks beard. You served your purpose. Keeping my face warm @ Alcatraz. Catch you later.

Alcatraz Challenge Results: 43:54, 1st in age group, 9th overall!

Anchor Bay Triathlon 2010

1st in age group, 15th overall!

Swim: 16:42
T1: 1:23
Bike: 31:15
T2: :39
Run: 23:12
Total Time: 1:13.08

A solid 7 minutes faster than last year. Of course, it wasn't t-storming the whole race...twas about a perfect day for the race.

Biblical Church?

"It is one of the great ironies of contemporary American church life that the congregations that say they are most based in scripture often hear the smallest portion of scripture read in worship. Christians believe that God speaks through Scripture, whether or not a preacher is there to comment on it, so don't be stingy with the Bible in worship!"

Clifton F. Guthrie, From Pew to Pulpit

Happy Valley Sprint Triathlon @ Penn State

 
59th overall / 9th in age group
Swim: 13:28
T1: 1:18
Bike: 37:47
T2: 36.4
Run: 24:05

Total Time: 1:17.16

Best Quote from the Red River Gorge Attack Story

"This was a private incident between me and a bear," he said. "I was chomped on by a bear, and he was a bad bear, but that doesn't speak of all bears."

CLICK HERE for the whole story. 

Message from June 27, 2010 [LISTEN]

a Right Path | Psalm 23.3

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Baby Quinn Gets Around

OK Go & the Ultimate Rube Goldberg [WATCH]

Arcade Fire Performing Neon Bible in an Elevator [WATCH]

LISTEN: Blitzen Trapper's Destroyer of the Void

Blitzen Trapper: free track from the new record & demo

 

Mr. T Tee from @Threadless

Love it! By the way...I wear a small. I'm just saying.

Tri for Joe

 1:13.07

Swim: 11:20
Bike: 37:40
Run: 24:07

12th place in my age group

Forest Hills 5K

Last weekend we ran the Forest Hills 5k.

Cheryl | 23:18.00 | 7:31 miles
1st place in age group!
12th overall female 
57th overall

Brian | 24:02.00 | 7:45 miles
5th place in age group
63rd overall male
82nd overall

Probably the best part of the FH5K was Meka in the Future Forest Hill-ers race. The 3 year olds were lined up first, we told Meka to run to Rosie Red (the mascot) when the whistle blew (forgot to tell her to wait until the 4 year olds started). So...when the 3 year olds started, she took off diagonally across the field to Rosie. For the record she pretty much destroyed the 3 year olds.

Muppets American Woman

100 Unanswered LOST Questions

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Yeah...that's a pretty good start...

Charles Wesley's "A Man of Fashion"

A man of taste and dissipation ...
In sleep, in dress, and sport and play
He throws his worthless life away...
With a disdainful smile or frown
He on the riff-raff crowd looks down;
The world polite his friends and he;
And all the rest are - nobody!...
Custom pursues, his only rule,
And lives and Ape, and dies a Fool.

Spartan Race

The gauntlet is thrown for summer 2011.

http://www.spartanrace.com

Wow (in a 1980s/train wreck way): Mr. T's Ode to Mothers (ht @elliotgrudem)

Poor Frisbees

so, i have a pretty screwed up cell phone. the screen is busted on the inside so that it is about 90% covered with what looks like an ink blot. therefore, i can see that i get text messages but have no idea who they are from or what they say other than a single word here or there.

i have been getting a lot of texts lately. if any of you have been writing me, i am sorry if it seems like i am ignoring you - i just can't write back or even know that it is you who is writing i am eligible for a new phone at the end of june but until then i am textless.

this is an unfortunate circumstance for a guy who has the conversational phone skills of a chubby and hyper 7th grade girl with a thick retainer in her mouth and a propensity to blurt out single-sentence expletives about her parents' messy divorce in between awkward jokes involving people who don't like her. ...yes, i am describing a girl i knew in seventh grade who would not go out with me...i wasn't cool enough.

so, if sabrina has one favorite celebrity of all time, that celebrity is steve martin. she has long been claiming that steve martin is her spirit animal.

a friend of ours that i go to school with knew this (and, in fact, was on a mini-golf team with us called the beav' martins) and through a connection in the music biz got us tickets so the 3 of us could go see the taping of steve martin's appearance on austin city limits. we were first row center right in front of steve. he played a helluva banjo with a kick-ass back-up bluegrass band called the steep canyon rangers.

seeing the taping was extremely bizarre. the set for austin city limits is totally different in person and you have cameras passing everywhere. really cool experience.

apparently it won't be airing until october but try and catch the show because he was damn good, hilarious, and you might just catch a few jerks in the front row you recognize.