I have finally ordered my first, very own computer!! It is a dell 1405 Lap top with an extra long battery upgrade!! To view the specifics click here. I can't wait to get my hands on it and organize it all! In fact, I might even organize myself.........or not (as if a new computer will improve my lack of time management!)
It is amazing how fast the money I saved for the computer left....immediately after I pushed the "buy" button I went to my bank account and saw that the transaction had happened automatically. It was a little scary to see how instantaneous it all happened. One minute I had the money, the next I did not!
Perhaps now that I am an official owner of a computer, I will be more motivated to blog *laughs to himself*!
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Update
I would like to take this time to apologize for not putting up any serious posts lately....blogging about real serious issues is a lot of work! However, I do feel an idea brewing that perhaps will one day make it to the blog! In the meantime, check out this blog about leading discussions.
Friday, April 06, 2007
Jack Bauer
Here are 26 reasons why Jack Bauer is so cool!!
1) If you wake up in the morning, it's because Jack Bauer spared your life.
2) Upon hearing that he was played by Kiefer Sutherland, Jack Bauerkilled Sutherland. Jack Bauer gets played by no man.
3) Jack Bauer's favorite color is severe terror alert red. His secondfavorite color is violet, but just because it sounds like violent.
4) Jack Bauer once forgot where he put his keys. He then spent thenext half-hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of thekeys.
5) Jack Bauer got Helen Keller to talk.
6) Jack Bauer killed 93 people in just 4 days time. Wait, that is a real fact.
7) Jack Bauer was never addicted to heroin. Heroin was addicted to Jack Bauer.
8) 1.6 billion Chinese are angry with Jack Bauer. Sounds like a fair fight.
9) Superman wears Jack Bauer pajamas.
10) Jack Bauer doesn't miss. If he didn't hit you it's because hewas shooting at another terrorist twelve miles away.
11) Lets get one thing straight, the only reason you are consciousright now is because Jack Bauer does not feel like carrying you.
12) When you open a can of whoop ass, Jack Bauer jumps out.
13) If Jack says "I just want to talk to him" and that him is you…well amigo, you're screwed.
14) Killing Jack Bauer doesn't make him dead. It just makes him angry.
15) When life gave Jack Bauer lemons, he used them to kill terrorists.Jack Bauer hates lemonade.
16) In grade school, a little boy punched Kimberly Bauer, and Kimberlyran home to tell her dad. That little boy's name? Stephen Hawking.
17) Jack Bauer does not sleep. The only rest he needs is what he getswhen he's knocked out or temporarily killed.
18) No man has ever used the phrase, "Jack Bauer is a sissy" in asentence and lived to tell
19) In kindergarten, Jack Bauer killed a terrorist for Show and Tell.
20) Jack Bauer literally died for his country, and lived to tell about it.
21) As a child, Jack Bauer's first words were "There's no time!"
22) Jack Bauer's family threw him a surprise birthday party when hewas a child. Once.
23) Guns don't kill people, Jack Bauer kills people.
24) Everytime Jack Bauer yells "NOW!" at the end of a sentence, aterrorist dies.
25) If you send someone to kill Jack Bauer, the only thing youaccomplish is supplying him a fresh set of weapons to kill you with.
26) Jack Bauer could get off the Lost island in 24 hours.
(....I really should start watching this show!)
1) If you wake up in the morning, it's because Jack Bauer spared your life.
2) Upon hearing that he was played by Kiefer Sutherland, Jack Bauerkilled Sutherland. Jack Bauer gets played by no man.
3) Jack Bauer's favorite color is severe terror alert red. His secondfavorite color is violet, but just because it sounds like violent.
4) Jack Bauer once forgot where he put his keys. He then spent thenext half-hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of thekeys.
5) Jack Bauer got Helen Keller to talk.
6) Jack Bauer killed 93 people in just 4 days time. Wait, that is a real fact.
7) Jack Bauer was never addicted to heroin. Heroin was addicted to Jack Bauer.
8) 1.6 billion Chinese are angry with Jack Bauer. Sounds like a fair fight.
9) Superman wears Jack Bauer pajamas.
10) Jack Bauer doesn't miss. If he didn't hit you it's because hewas shooting at another terrorist twelve miles away.
11) Lets get one thing straight, the only reason you are consciousright now is because Jack Bauer does not feel like carrying you.
12) When you open a can of whoop ass, Jack Bauer jumps out.
13) If Jack says "I just want to talk to him" and that him is you…well amigo, you're screwed.
14) Killing Jack Bauer doesn't make him dead. It just makes him angry.
15) When life gave Jack Bauer lemons, he used them to kill terrorists.Jack Bauer hates lemonade.
16) In grade school, a little boy punched Kimberly Bauer, and Kimberlyran home to tell her dad. That little boy's name? Stephen Hawking.
17) Jack Bauer does not sleep. The only rest he needs is what he getswhen he's knocked out or temporarily killed.
18) No man has ever used the phrase, "Jack Bauer is a sissy" in asentence and lived to tell
19) In kindergarten, Jack Bauer killed a terrorist for Show and Tell.
20) Jack Bauer literally died for his country, and lived to tell about it.
21) As a child, Jack Bauer's first words were "There's no time!"
22) Jack Bauer's family threw him a surprise birthday party when hewas a child. Once.
23) Guns don't kill people, Jack Bauer kills people.
24) Everytime Jack Bauer yells "NOW!" at the end of a sentence, aterrorist dies.
25) If you send someone to kill Jack Bauer, the only thing youaccomplish is supplying him a fresh set of weapons to kill you with.
26) Jack Bauer could get off the Lost island in 24 hours.
(....I really should start watching this show!)
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Sunday, March 11, 2007
CHEESE!!!
I've always had a profound respect for cheese....it is used in so many idioms of the english language! Not to mention it tastes sooooo good!! G.K. Chesterton seemed to think the same. You can read here, his complaint about the lack of cheese in poetry. Also there is a poem there dedicated to cheese!
Three cheers for CHEESE!!
Three cheers for CHEESE!!
Friday, March 09, 2007
Saturday, March 03, 2007
There's a first time for everything!
Unexpectedly tonight, I received a call from a friend asking if I wanted to go street witnessing with him and some other people. In order to buy some time, I said that I needed to ask my parents and would call him back. After I hung up the phone, I reflected on my initial impulse to say no.
What was so unnerving about talking to people about Jesus? I wasn't doing anything that night...yet I still remained very apprehensive. After deliberating with my dad, I decided that I ought to go. When I got there, the group of us talked for awhile and then we prayed before heading out. Honestly, I was more nervous than I had ever been. My legs were shaking, my tongue felt heavy (as if I wouldn't be able to talk) and I just wanted to go home.
I have been wrestling lately with my lack of desire to talk to non-Christians about the Gospel. Almost every epistle of Paul and John and Peter....all start out talking about the glory of the Gospel and how it compels them to spread the news. Where was that desire in me? And then I realized the problem.....the desire isn't in me! The desire comes from God! Instead of wondering if my Christianity was at stake for my lack of desire, I should instead raise my eye's, as Dante did, to the Divine Love which moves the sphere's! There is my desire and passion.... where all things hold together and Love is found in its perfection.
After that "zing!", I ended up talking to a guy who was from Mexico and considered himself Catholic....although not a practicing one. I won't go into every detail of the conversation (we talked for 20 minutes or so) but I will say it was a joy that I was happy to experience! And I am now wanting to share with others if only because when my eye's are raised to the Divine Love, I can do naught else but love other people!
What was so unnerving about talking to people about Jesus? I wasn't doing anything that night...yet I still remained very apprehensive. After deliberating with my dad, I decided that I ought to go. When I got there, the group of us talked for awhile and then we prayed before heading out. Honestly, I was more nervous than I had ever been. My legs were shaking, my tongue felt heavy (as if I wouldn't be able to talk) and I just wanted to go home.
I have been wrestling lately with my lack of desire to talk to non-Christians about the Gospel. Almost every epistle of Paul and John and Peter....all start out talking about the glory of the Gospel and how it compels them to spread the news. Where was that desire in me? And then I realized the problem.....the desire isn't in me! The desire comes from God! Instead of wondering if my Christianity was at stake for my lack of desire, I should instead raise my eye's, as Dante did, to the Divine Love which moves the sphere's! There is my desire and passion.... where all things hold together and Love is found in its perfection.
After that "zing!", I ended up talking to a guy who was from Mexico and considered himself Catholic....although not a practicing one. I won't go into every detail of the conversation (we talked for 20 minutes or so) but I will say it was a joy that I was happy to experience! And I am now wanting to share with others if only because when my eye's are raised to the Divine Love, I can do naught else but love other people!
Monday, February 26, 2007
Amazing Grace how sweet a movie!
Last night a bunch of my friends and I went to see the movie "Amazing Grace". It is a powerful story about William Wilberforce who abolished the slave trade in England during the 1750's. Initially going into the movie I had forgotten that Wilberforce is not the man who wrote the song "Amazing grace", therefore I was terribly confused for a good portion of the movie, but not at all detached from the story.
The character of Wilberforce is filled with integrity and courage....faith and love. He was a man who experienced many trials and let downs; yet persevered by the strength of God. The movie starts out showing a broken and sick man, worn down from his seemingly impossible work. And later displays a man of great victory! Not just outwardly but in his character as well.
It is so refreshing whenever a good Christian film is made. Too often, most Christian movies are either cheesy (due to a lack of budget), unserious or made with terrible actors. Thankfully this is not the case. It turns out that Wilberforce was friends with John Newton (the true writer of amazing grace) who helped thrust him into fighting the slave trade. There is an especially powerful scene towards the end when Newton is an old blind man and says, "Two things do I remember clearly; I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior!"
I highly recommend this movie to all who would go see it!
The character of Wilberforce is filled with integrity and courage....faith and love. He was a man who experienced many trials and let downs; yet persevered by the strength of God. The movie starts out showing a broken and sick man, worn down from his seemingly impossible work. And later displays a man of great victory! Not just outwardly but in his character as well.
It is so refreshing whenever a good Christian film is made. Too often, most Christian movies are either cheesy (due to a lack of budget), unserious or made with terrible actors. Thankfully this is not the case. It turns out that Wilberforce was friends with John Newton (the true writer of amazing grace) who helped thrust him into fighting the slave trade. There is an especially powerful scene towards the end when Newton is an old blind man and says, "Two things do I remember clearly; I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior!"
I highly recommend this movie to all who would go see it!
Saturday, February 24, 2007
In need of a good read?
If you happen to find yourself in need of a good read then I have the solution! :~) This is an essay by George MacDonald talking about the importance of Fairy Tales and the imagination.
If you read my paper, you'll see that I gleaned much of my information from this essay. It offers an interesting perspective about the power and purpose of a fairy tale. Enjoy!
If you read my paper, you'll see that I gleaned much of my information from this essay. It offers an interesting perspective about the power and purpose of a fairy tale. Enjoy!
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Johnny Cash
Here's an intense music video, and I believe the last, by Johnny Cash I just recently happend upon. Let me know what you all think.
And BTW, I apologize for such a lack of blogging lately....I seem to go in phases. One week I am blogger savvy, and the next, contract some sort of illness that hinders all my blogging capabilities. Currently I am looking for a cure...if anyone so happens to have one, please let me know!!
And BTW, I apologize for such a lack of blogging lately....I seem to go in phases. One week I am blogger savvy, and the next, contract some sort of illness that hinders all my blogging capabilities. Currently I am looking for a cure...if anyone so happens to have one, please let me know!!
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