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Month: September, 2006

book review vol. seven: Revolution

I came across this trendy looking book while browsing through my friend’s bookshelf the other day. I took the liberty of leaving his house with it and reading it over the past few days. Now you guys will reap the benefit of that which you did not sow.
The general idea of this book, written by [...]

the verdict: part one

For those of you who won’t be able to sleep tonight until you find out which pair of shoes I chose to wear to my interview, well wait no longer: I wore the Chacos (as if there was ever any real chance that I wouldn’t). I wore the Chacos and went up to that REI, [...]

what to wear??

Every day we affluent Weserterners are faced with a whole lot of decisions that most of the rest of the world needn’t worry about making.
Which bathroom to use?
Which specific meal to eat?
Which specialist doctor to go see?
Which company to pursue getting a job with?
Well tomorrow, Tuesday the 26th, at 4:00pm, I will be making a [...]

oh the paths my mind takes…

As you all know, I went to Living Hope in college. As I’m sure you’ve heard, Butch Smith is the pastor there at the Hopester. As a small percentage of you know, there are no pictures of anybody on the otherwise awesome new Living Hope website (digitally remastered by Ryan Couch himself). So I had [...]

the glory days

Well since I lost that amazing video of Jonny dressed as a pirate, beating up a ninja and replacing it with a ninja bear in Elise’s classroom… this video from college will have to suffice. It is officially my first video ever on the online diary for the masses. We’ll see how it goes, there [...]

book review vol. six: The Catcher in the Rye

This is the first of my book reviews in which I’ve attempted to tackle not only a non-Christian book, but a modern day classic in it’s own right. That said, I’m getting in deeper than I have any business getting, so do grant me grace.
The Cather in the Rye was recommended to me by a [...]

remember when?

Remember back when you would walk in to church with your parents and while they were handed a bulletin you would receive a kids bulletin? You would sit in big church and diligently work on all the activities the kids bulletin offered before the preacher really got into his talk, in which time you slept [...]

I’m so hungry!

They say you don’t know what you got til it’s gone (I believe it was Amy Grant, and later the Counting Crows). I think that’s true a lot of times, but not all of the time.When I was in College Station, I was fully aware of what I had. I had more close friends than [...]

spellchecks and showers

Remember that list of 75 things I like? I think it was the most crowd-pleasing event on online diary for the masses since the Chinese Haircut piece. Well ever since I made that list public, I’ve been thinking of things that I like even more than those things, and I feel bad that they didn’t [...]

spectrums and free tunes

There are no shortage of spectrums that we can find ourselves on in this life.
Conservative – LiberalCalvinism – Armenianism
As popular as the preceeding are, another spectrum that is more popular now than it ever has been is the one of how people view downloading free music off the internet.
Stealing – It’s there, I should be [...]