I am the Chaplain at a small Christian college in the rural Midwest. The scope of my posts tend to be wide and varied. That's awful branding, but I'm not a brand. I'm just a guy named Christian who wants to share my thoughts, interests, and the lessons I'm learning along the way.
Friday Funkfest. A recurring (almost weekly) flurry of quick hits, links, videos and thoughts. Clearly, the best way to waste time at work spend your lunch hour each and (almost) every Friday.
Most people work under the general assumption that neither Christians nor mathematicians are funny. That makes this dude (a math prof at Biola) a double-enigma. And he’s funny at the end of October as well. (h/t mathfail)
The Manny found a sweet collection of one of my favorite segments from Sesame Street: Monsterpiece Theatre.
Donald Miller’s site is a must-read these days. So much so that his site has crashed a couple of times this past week. Get in while you fit in.
Qatar is bidding to host the 2022 World Cup. I don’t think they’ll get it. But in the event that they do, they plan on spending $4 Billion to build high-tech stadiums that will be cooled to 80 degrees. Sure beats the 122 degree temps Qatar is blasted with during the summers.
The Blazers bowed out of the playoffs last night. I’m bummed to see this season go. It had tons of ups and downs, and will end up being one of the more memorable seasons in recent memory. The upside is that now I won’t be staying up until 1am watching basketball games, and I’ll have more time to read and write.
Tweet of the Week:
it’s called “democracy”. it doesn’t only exist when it works in your favor. that is all. (TB on FB)
Lyric of the Week:
I seen hoop dreams deflate like a true fiends weight. (Jay Z)
Friday Funkfest. A recurring (almost weekly) flurry of quick hits, links, videos and thoughts. Clearly, the best way to waste time at work spend your lunch hour each and (almost) every Friday.
I have a bad habit of watching funding drives on religious TV stations. It’s solely for entertainment value as I wait patiently for some televangelist to break the record for the most preposterously manipulative thing I’ve ever heard come from a preachers mouth. And it always happens, at which point I openly question what rational person would ever give money to such a machine. So forgive me if I have a little chuckle while Mr. TV Preacher Man gets one pulled over on him.
While I’ve been down on the US Soccer shirts, others think we should use this year’s design as our permanent template. To each his own. All I know is that I’m upping my expectations for our performance at the World Cup after finding out the squad is going to be training at Princeton in the run-up to the tournament. What we might lack in skill we’ll make up for with our brains. Not the typical American philosophy, but as a skinny intellectual I’ll always support outsmarting the opponent.
Oregon State Basketball Coach and First Brother In-Law Craig Robinson went on The Colbert Report this week as part of his book tour. Doesn’t sound like he fared all that well.
Just this week The Manny and I were reminiscing about the old PBS math show Square One TV. I was particularly pining for the Mathnet episode where some dude used a helicopter to steal a house. Lo and behold, some Square One clips showed up in my reader this week. So did the theme song from one of my favorite childhood sitcoms.
Lots of talk this week about KFC’s new sandwich. The Double Down has been the subject of beautiful oratory, has been accused of being the unhealthiest sandwich ever, and has also been deemed more healthy than some salads. Personally, I gag a little bit whenever I see the commercial. I also think eating one probably disqualifies individuals from being granted the best life insurance rates.
Lyric of the Week:
love possesses nothing
nor would it ever be possessed
love is love sufficient unto love
and you can figure out the rest
Friday Funkfest. A recurring (almost weekly) flurry of quick hits, links, videos and thoughts. Clearly, the best way to waste time at work spend your lunch hour each and (almost) every Friday.
If you are from Oregon, you’ve already seen this. If you aren’t from Oregon, you’re welcome.
On Wed night I get to go to Star Wars: In Concert. I remember seeing a commercial for the Portland show when we were back there in July. I immediately jumped on the computer to see if the show was scheduled to come to KC, but it wasn’t. Thankfully, they added dates and KC was one. Stacy says she’s ready for the experience, but I’m not sure she knows what she’s getting into. Will Darth Vader make an apperence as guest conductor? Well, probably not. But a boy can hope, cant he? (h/t adampaul)
ESPN launched their World Cup 2010 site just in time for the draw today. I’m not terribly optimistic that things will work out for the US. In fact, a specific Star Wars quote keeps coming to mind every time I think of the possibilities: “I’ve got a bad feeling about this…”
As much as Twitter-gushing as I did over Portland when we were there last week, I post this video to show that even Oregonians do really dumb things sometimes. I am, after all, both fair and balanced.
Hey, look. A book that talks about two of my favorite subjects. Race and basketball. I’ll have to track that down.
Elli has been doing one day a week of preschool this summer, but she soon starts TWO days a week. Going from preschool light to the hard stuff. And gosh dang if they don’t have a crazy shopping list, rules and two orientations to attend. Kinda makes me want to go crazy.
With the common sense that athletes and politicians show, it wouldn’t surprise me if this car belonged to one of the two.
My dream of attending the 2010 World Cup is pretty close to dead. If it was a horse, it would probably need to be shot. So let’s just hope the tournament comes back to America one of these days.
Remember high school and college basketball games? Someone would foul out and the crowd starts yelling, “left, right, left, right…SITDOWN”. Yeah. This is better. The music starts and the whole crowd starts SCREAMING, “Go Sit Down, HEY!”. You can hardly even hear the announcers. That’s enough to make a coach not take the full allotted time to make a sub. Intense. Here’s the view from the crowd. And the crunkest player intro ever (gets good about 1:00 in). Cameron indoor has nothing on those cats. I think I could go dunk a basketball right now, I’m so hype.
Yesterday, Zachary got to go to his first Royals game. 18 days old. Not too shabby. He even got a special certificate from the Royals (they’ll print one off when you take your kid to his/her first game). Granted, he slept through all six innings he was there, but still. He was there.
A handful of people posted this video on facebook for St. Patrick’s day, and I thought it was hilarious. Bonus points because it included the two old guys at the end.
I only celebrate St. Patrick’s day because I don’t want to have to go all crazy on folks for pinching me. Each year I wear pants that are barely green (more of a dark khaki with olive undertones), but otherwise am content to let the festivities proceed with little participation from myself. Ambivilance, however, is not a strength of the English.
At least GM is eschewing opulence in light of the fact that they are taking tons of cash from the auto bailout.
Reasons why Christians struggle to produce good media
At what point are people going to realize it’s completely inappropriate to mock Asians by making slanted eyes?
My NCAA bracket this year is bad news. Picking Butler to make a deep run was a bad idea. And VCU coming up one point short last night didn’t help either. Don’t expect much bragging from me over the next two weeks.
Today I spend 12 hours with my middle school boys for our annual All Day Fun Day event. Tomorrow I will feel like I got put through the wringer.
There is currently a giant brisket defrosting in my sink so that I can smoke it Saturday night. Very glad to have meat smoking weather back
Friday Funkfest. A recurring (almost weekly) flurry of quick hits, links, videos and thoughts. Clearly, the best way to waste time at work spend your lunch hour each and (almost) every Friday.
Telling people you are from Oregon can be a rough proposition. Most people seem to think that California shares borders with Mexico and Canada. Some more reasonable folk think it just neighbors Washington. Geography, people. Geography. You would think that a state with such brilliant ideas as getting time of work during March Madness by getting a vasectomy would garner a little more respect.
That last sentence just put something in perspective for me. A friend of mine texted earlier this week to inform me his job blocked this site and classified it as a pornography site. My apologies if reading this page causes your online accountability partner to press you as to what you are looking at on the internet.
Just in case you needed a reason to get fired up and motivated to do something about human trafficking.
The whole David Beckham saga was pretty confusing, but it is possible to sort it all out. Too bad Becks isn’t using any of that money he’s raking in to pay someone to write his blog for him.
I wonder where this dude got his iphone prototype. Apparently not on Ebay.
The closest the first leg of the U2 tour is going to get to me is Norman, OK. That’s 5 hours straight south on I 35. Exactly the same travel distance my Portland brothers and sisters will be travelling to the concert in Vancouver.
