A New Endeavor

I'm starting a new blog about PowerPoint for Preachers. Below is an example of what I've been doing in the field.

I'd love to know what you think.

2009 08 02 What Is The Purpose Of Rules

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Remember Me?

It's been a while, hasn't it? I almost forgot I had a blog, what with all the Twitter and Facebook and Twitbook and Faceter.

So, since last we met the wife and I packed up our world, sold off our possessions and drove to Big Sky Country - Helena, Montana. She was laid off from her job and I graduated all at the same time (the same day, even). So when a church in the great-white-north invited me to come and preach for them in exchange for food, shelter, and money - well, we decided to take them up on it.

So on Saturday we rolled up to the Big Sky Church of Christ and moved into the basement of the church building. Then we woke up on Sunday morning and I got to preach for them. I'm still working on getting some pod-castable stuff going on, so I'll keep you posted on that.

Free at last

Free ice cream at Ben and Jerry's today from 12pm to 8pm

Free coffee at Starbucks tomorrow if you bring in your own mug

Free awesome right here all day every day

Free from grad school in T-minus 11 days

April Fools is over, but

I just saw this product. It's not a joke, but it should be.

Also, I didn't reveal our greatest April Fool's joke sooner because it involved a wee bit of mail fraud.

Check the whole thing here. The short of it is that we sent a letter to some friends of ours in the guise of a product recall for a diaper cream that we know they use. We recommended that they seek medical attention if experiencing any of the side effects listed:

rash, discoloration, mysochonosis, spontaneous dental hydroplosion, anal fissures, mandibular dislocation, acute or chronic hyperhydrosis, partial or complete bifurcation.

They totally bought it, and didn't figure it out until we called them to find out if they had heard about the product recall. They even noticed that the letter was from someone with the same name as me.

We are the champions my friends!

All Instant - All the Time

I just found out that with a certain coffee company's new instant coffee breakthrough and the climate of the global economy they have decided to only brew instant coffee in their stores.

I'm not very happy about this. I joined up, in part, due to the love of coffee and the beans. Even though this is pretty good for instant coffee, that's like saying the Dixie Chicks are pretty good for country music - it's still bad, just not as bad.

So, unless the people rise up and do something about this, all the coffee (both drip and espresso drinks) will be instant. When they tried to stop breakfast sandwiches the masses rose up and changed their mind, we can stop this too. Just click here to sign the petition and help preserve good coffee for all.

iTunes is a virus

Is it just me or is iTunes just like a virus? iTunes tries to make my computer do things that I do not want it to do. The last time I dealt with a piece of software like this was when running AOL. It tries to install other programs that I don't want. Then if I try to get rid of it, it's incredibly difficult to uninstall all of the components. But there really awful thing is that is nearly impossible to live with out this software. Thanks, Apple!

I guess the definition of making things easier is to control all the aspects of someone's existence - then they won't have any problems.