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Month: March, 2007

the most helpful post since the rss how-to

This may come as old news to some of you, but it is the most exciting thing I’ve learned since Planet Earth on Discovery Channel last Sunday.
As if Google hasn’t done enough cool things lately (Google Earth, Gmail, Forbes #1 Company to Work For, etc), they went ahead and stayed the course for cool things… [...]

the one about the piano

You are looking at a picture of my Christmas present. A keyboard and Andrew Peterson’s “Behold the Lamb of God” songbook. This is a good combination. It would, of course, be a better combination if I were more able to read music than I am (it takes me the equivalent time as a kindergartner reading [...]

set your tivo!

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I’m pretty sure I haven’t been this excited about any television event since Screech and Lisa actually kissed on Saved By The Bell. Believe me, this video is worth your 62 seconds, and if the documentary is half as good as the preview, then those 11 hours will be well worth your time too.

a little curveball

Man, there are about twenty different ways I could pitch this post to you, and I’ve opted, for my own sake, to just be direct. An opportunity for me to teach English at a Chinese University has come up, and I’m really thinking about taking it.
I went to China a couple years ago as you [...]

you think you’re sneaky…

Keeping a blog updated regularly really isn’t hard, especially when you aren’t concerned about your posts being entertaining. What is hard however, is keeping up with a blog that is in some form or fashion, worth people’s time. In order to do that, you’re more or less forced to keep things entertaining, thought-provoking, humorous, things [...]

super power

The other day conversation in the break room turned to the ever-popular topic of choosing for yourself a super power. Unwilling to compromise my creativity by answering with a typical “flying” or “being invisible,” I racked my brain to think of what extra-human ability I’d grace myself with. I decided I’d like to have the [...]

excellence

If you know me very well, you know that I love watching people do whatever it is in which they excel. I mean I love it. I love watching American Idol because it showcases people with beautiful voices singing songs that show their voices off. I love going to Broadway shows because those people are [...]