To continue briefly in yesterday’s line of discussion (last time, I promise!), here is a short video from the grand opening of the first Microsoft retail store. Look familiar? Lets just say, ‘case and point’.
(Can’t see it? Watch the video at YouTube)
I’ve recently rediscovered the group Spoon. Specifically their album Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. Even more specifically is the track The Underdog. I just can’t seem to get enough. Although I can’t quite fully put my finger on why, I see something important in the lyrics.
Picture yourself in the living room
your pipe and slippers set out for you
I know you think that it ain’t too farBut I hear the call of a lifetime ring
felt the need to get up for it
oh you cut out the middleman
get free from the middlemanYou got no time for the messenger,
got no regard for the thing that you don’t understand,
you got no fear of the underdog,
that’s why you will not survive!I want to forget how conviction fits
but can I get out from under it?
Can I gut it out of me?
It can’t all be wedding cake
It can’t all be boiled away
I try but I can’t let go of it
Can’t let go of it,Cause you don’t talk to the water boy
and there’s so much you could learn but you don’t want to know,
You will not back up an inch ever,
that’s why you will not survive,The thing that I tell you now
It may not go over well
And it may not be photo-op
in the way that I spell it outBut you won’t hear from the messenger,
don’t wanna know bout something that you don’t understand,
You got no fear of the underdog,
that’s why you will not survive!
You can listen to the song here on imeem.com.
A friend posted this to Facebook.
It’s called I am Second. It’s mostly a collection of testimonies. It features some popular personalities, including Head from Korn and Jason Castro from American Idol.
Besides being a really well designed web site, it also looks really promising as a social tool. Although I only spent about 30 minutes browsing the site watching testimonies, I was encouraged. I think there’s a good bit of potential there.
Good website, good execution. Good idea. It’s worth checking out.
I came across this painting on an artist’s blog called Faithmouse. This is work of Dan Lacey. It’s bizarre to say the least, but then again, this artist mostly paints people and things with pancakes on their heads.
I have to wonder if there’s any credence to Jesus wearing the sequenced glove.
Around this time last year, I started using a bible reading plan to guide me through my scripture reading. Yesterday, I came back around and finished the bible for the first time with this plan. The plan is called The Discipleship Journal Bible Reading Plan. You can read the original post here.
The DJBRP allocates 5 free days a month, in case you fall behind or so that you can use Sundays for other reading. I never got very good at taking the days off, so I finished in a little under 11 months.
I have every intention of beginning the same plan again starting next Monday. I’m going to use the next few days to go over some other reading that I’ve had my sights on also.
Use Discipleship Journal
If you’re interested in trying out the DJBRP, here are some of the resources I’ve compiled.
DJBRP is available in a several different ways making it very easy to keep track of where you are and where you’re supposed to be. Here are four.
PDF Format
Designed to be printed on two sides of one sheet of paper. Stick it in your notebook.
Online
Keep track of where you are on this website.
iCal File
Load your calendar into you iCal or Mozilla Thunderbird.
Public Google Calendar
This one here is my handy work. If you use Google calendar or Gmail, you can subscribe to the calendar and get daily notifications on what the daily reading is. It’s pretty sweet.
Tricks to making it easier
1. DJBRP is easy to keep track of. The PDF can be printed on two sides of a single sheet of paper and kept in your bible. Just check things off as you go.
2. Go at your own pace. The plan is set up to take you through in one year. But if it’s too much reading for you in one day, then split each day into two days or four days or whatever. It’s really up to you.
3. Keep the different passages bookmarked. Keep a bookmark in each of the four parts of scripture. I added extra ribbon bookmarks to my bible to make things easier, but you could also just use pieces of paper or whatever.
In Conclusion
The bible doesn’t need to be a big scary book. With the help of DJBRP, it’s a lot less daunting. So, if you don’t have another method that’s working well, give the DJBRP a shot. It might be perfect for you.
It feels like it’s been raining for weeks. It’s driving my into the night—by which I mean I’m starting to stay up all night and sleep all day. Luckily, I’m just as productive at night as in the day, so I suppose it works out nicely. But all the gloomy skies, wet roads and constant dripping noises have me doing all my music listening in one specific vein.
I call them rain songs. I’m not sure exactly what it is about them. They just all seem to have some subtle quality that seems to go great with the rain. Driving in the rain. Walking in the rain. Sitting on a porch looking out at the rain. These songs all, for me, really seem to compliment the natural mood.
I’ve gone through the trouble of finding these songs on imeem.com where you can listen to them for free. I also put them together in a playlist you can listen to on imeem.com, just to make things easier.
Pink Bullets, by the Shins
From: Chutes Too Narrow
Red Right Ankle, by the Decemberists
From: Her Majesty the Decemberists
Opening, by Philip Glass
From: Glassworks
Turn Out the Lights, by The New Amsterdams
From: Story Like a Scar
June 18, 1976, by Pedro the Lion
From: Progress EP
Long Goodnight, by The Get Up Kids
From: Something to Write Home About
Two Headed Boy (Part 2), by the Neutral Milk Hotel
From: Aeroplane Over the Sea
Exit Music, by Radiohead
From: OK Computer
If This City Never Sleeps, by Rosie Thomas
From: These Friends of Mine
Springfield, by Sufjan Stevens
From: The Avalanche
Colorblind, by The Counting Crows
From: The Desert Life
Elegia, by New Order
From: Low-Life
Kylie from Connecticut, by Ben Folds
From: Way to Normal
I’m Nowhere and You’re Everything, by Chris Thile
From: Deceiver
Before I started doing photography professionally, I was doing graphic & web design. I switched over to photography for various reasons, but now I’m going back and exploring the design industry again.
So, officially speaking, I am a graphic & web designer for hire again. I don’t have a full website put together because, well, a current portfolio is too limited to justify one. But, I’ve got some basic info and examples up at the website above. If you or your friends or family need a designer, please, keep me in mind. Here in the beginning, I’ll be coming in on the lower end of the price spectrum.
Hope to hear from you!
