I love vintage illustrations. It's like 8mm film with paper and ink. Was life ever like this?
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Texting While Driving = More Likely to Wreck = DUH
Some highlights:
“You should never do this,” he [Tom Dingus...yes, the guy in charge has the name Tom Dingus] said of texting while driving. “It should be illegal.”Over all, texting has soared. In December, phone users in the United States sent 110 billion messages, a tenfold increase in just three years......drivers took their eyes off the road for around five seconds when texting....texting represents a much greater risk to drivers than other distractions.87 percent of people consider drivers texting or e-mailing to pose a “very serious” safety threat (roughly equal to the 90 percent who consider drunken drivers a threat). Of the 2,501 drivers surveyed this spring, 95 percent said that texting was unacceptable behavior. Yet 21 percent of drivers said they had recently texted or e-mailed while driving. About half of drivers 16 to 24 said they had texted while driving, compared with 22 percent of drivers 35 to 44.
Youth Pastor Hazing on the Rise | LarkNews.com
Monday, July 27, 2009
Michael Phelps' New Stroke
Michael Phelps is arguably one of the best athletes of all time, almost certainly the best swimmer and is without question built ideally for his sport.
Phelps is in Rome at the World Championships and apparently he and his coach had been working on a new stroke, windmill style, for him to...I don't know...I guess somehow get an edge.
I didn't work.
He was the slowest on the relay.
Bowman, his coach, said something to the effect of: "We won't try that again."
What is fascinating to me is that they would even fiddle with his technique. Why? He's clearly the fastest and best there is. Why mess with something that is great?
Answer: TO GET BETTER.
To improve there must be change.
I am in awe of the fact that they were willing to change what was clearly working to try to get even better. What if in our churches, lives and jobs we all had the same attitude? Many organizations do. And they benefit.
Even if it's the best it might be worth trying. So we might have to say: "we won't try that again." So what?
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Girls' Room Update
Also scored glass bear shaped salt & pepper shakers. Oh yeah. Uber-hip.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Coldplay's Strawberry Swing Video
CLICK HERE to watch
Now...Todd & Scott...I know you guys are Coldplay haters but watch the video & dare not to think it's neato.
ht: @holidayatsea
Monday, July 20, 2009
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Anchor Bay Triathlon July 11th, 2009
This was my first open water swim and it was WILD. 1/2 mile total; 1/4 mile out, 1/4 back. The first half of the swim was chaos because people were all crammed together. Some kept getting disoriented and then swimming diagonal. I got kicked, scratched, slapped, poked and drank a bunch of the bay.
The second half of the swim was great because the field had stretched out so I got a groove.
Shortly after we got out of the water the sky exploded with a t-storm. So we rode & ran in the thunder, lightning and rain. Crazy. By the time we were running my shoes were completely soaked so with every step I was squishing. Great time, though!
No pics of me biking or running. Only T. I was THAT fast. Or something like that...
Total Time: 1:20.25
Splits
Swim: 15:46
Transition 1: 1:54
Bike: 33:59
Transition 2: :29
Run: 28:19
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Happy Wilco Day!
Wilco (the album) is released today. Though there's a good chance that if you know who Wilco is you've been listening to it for weeks either streaming on wilcoworld.net or via NPR's blessed first listen dealio. CLICK HERE
The album is possibly the most subdued Wilco has produced. And it is produced. That is, it's subdued until you give it several listens and new textures and layers are unfurled. At first I wasn't sure. Now...I'm a believer. Excellent album worthy of a spot in the Wilco catalog for sure.
Paste Magazine has declared today Wilco (the Takeover) @ their website. Check it out for all things awesomely Wilco.
I loved this bit from Magnet Magazine about some of Tweedy's lyric writing. I now feel the need to own a typewriter:
Tweedy also began to rethink the way he approached lyrics, questioning his insistence on writing in the conversational voice. He relaxed his rule against committing lyrics to paper: If you couldn’t remember it, it wasn’t worth singing in the first place. “I used to want to write songs that anybody could sing, but then I started to think it was OK to write songs that only sound right when I sing them,” says Tweedy.
He began to realize mysterious things happened in the spaces between words, and that when you arranged them in certain ways, you could create magnetic fields of deep suggestiveness. He experimented with collage and cut-up techniques, snipping words out of newspapers and magazines, tossing them in a hat and drawing them randomly to see what sentences they made. He would write a page of lyrics, then switch all the nouns and verbs. To break up the boredom on the road, Wilco and crew would participate in an old surrealist word game called cadavre exquis(“exquisite corpse”). A typewriter would be set up in the back of the bus, and whenever someone felt like it, he could go back and type a sentence. The one rule: You could only see the sentence typed by the person before you; all the rest were kept covered. Some of this accidental poetry would make it into songs, such as the line “Please beware, the quiet front yard,” fromSummerteeth’s “She’s A Jar.”
Meka's Commentary on #3 (we find out gender today)
Mom & Dad: "Meka, do you think the baby's a boy or a girl?"
Meka: "Pinkalicious baby!"
Mom & Dad: "What?"
Meka: "That's silly. That's disgusting."
Meka: "Pinkalicious baby!"
Mom & Dad: "What?"
Meka: "That's silly. That's disgusting."
Sunday, June 28, 2009
the Lord's Prayer | Daily Bread | 6.21.09
UPDATE: Check out this post at friend Michael Clary's blog re: wants vs. needs: CLICK HERE
Friday, June 26, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Church Directory Portrait
Friday, June 19, 2009
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Todd, don't let this happen to you...
Oregon woman obsessed with rabbits arrested again
The woman part of the obsessed with rabbits part. Read Watership Down.
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