Ironic much?

Presumtuous President Obama needs to get his messages clear. You can't go and tell kids to stop playing video games and then advertise for your campaign in them. I mean, I suppose it is a brilliant advertising strategy and he's taking advantage of every opportunity through his campaign. I mean, what better way to get kids to vote than to tell them to in a game, and then to tell them to stop playing the games to go do so. Maybe he could get a kill-switch implemented to make sure those kids who saw his advertisements while pwning n00bs go out and vote on election day.

Growing a Pear

The other day, while in Home Fellowship, someone said that a character in the Bible needed to "grow a pear." I was very intrigued by this idea. It seemed like the imagery was very interesting and was perhaps even a modern usage of terminology to describe Scripture.

The way I understand "Growing a Pear" is that a person must be patient and faithful to a task, no matter how little or big. This means from the time that one plants a tree all the way to nourishing it to picking that pear. All that work for the satisfaction of growing one pear, or maybe even a pair of pears. You do all that work and achieve a fantastic goal, but you get even more than you expected, as a tree will bear many pears. This seems to be a fantastic phrasing and I was encouraged by it. I will continue to work towards the day when I "grow a pear."
Other News

Today, if you pick up Buzz Magazine, you will find the cover story to be about painters. The article is accompanied by my photos, despite the fact that is says they are by Isaac Bloom. They are definitely mine, and you can find the article with the pictures online as well.

Totally Off the Cuff

In the midst of this 'financial crisis,' does anybody see the potential analogy between Barack Obama and FDR...

On a more thought out mindsent, I am somewhat excited about this crisis. It means that we must start to question our faith in our government and economy. These two things will never be able to fully satiate our thirsts. They sure help us, but they are within this world, and will ultimately let us down. I hope the imagery and truth from this situation with our economy opens a lot of eyes to the truth about our condition as humanity...

What Punctuation are you?

You Are An Exclamation Point

You are a bundle of... well, something. You're often a bundle of joy, passion, or drama. You're loud, brash, and outgoing. If you think it, you say it. Definitely not the quiet type, you really don't keep a lot to yourself. You're lively and inspiring. People love to be around your energy. (But they do secretly worry that you'll spill their secrets without even realizing it.) You excel in: Public speaking You get along best with: the Dash

What Punctuation Mark Are You?

Alan and Ryan's Day

What do we care about?

This past weekend saw two fascinating events:

The Kentucky Derby (good, pomp, etc)
Myanmar Cyclone (bad, scary, etc)

While surfing around the internet for my morning news, I noticed stories about both. The death toll from the cyclone has reached over 22,000. The death toll from the derby reached one euthanized horse.

Now I'm as guilty as anyone else when it comes to caring about the wrong things, but it's just fascinating what physical distance does to mental distance. What should we be caring about?

Excerpts from both articles:

"What we really want to know, did he feel anything along the way [while running the race if the horse was hurt]?" PETA spokeswoman Kathy Guillermo said. "If he didn't then we can probably blame the fact that they're allowed to whip the horses mercilessly." - ESPN.com

A news broadcast on government-run radio said Tuesday that 22,464 people have now been confirmed dead and thousands more are missing. - AP

Now I understand that PETA has a mission statement concerned with care for animals, and this is indeed an important issue, it's just funny how distant we are from some of the most important things in this planet and how easily we are caught up in little things.

Something I'm Glad is Back

fresh cut grass, originally uploaded by kris10cas10.

The smell of fresh cut grass


Smelled it today whilst walking on campus. Oh spring did I miss you so...

Stealth Peeing

You ever think about when you are peeing at a urinal, and when you pee in the water it makes that sound, but when you pee on the wall of the urinal, it is quiet. I kind of think of it as how James Bond would pee...with a silencer

Mr. Bean and Spain

Maybe you've seen this, maybe you haven't. The Prime Minister of Spain (Zapatero) and Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) share a striking resemblance. It is at least a neat five second enjoyment for your day.

And check out the morphing video

Moving Moments

You have these? These moments that move you to tears, smiles, rushes of emotion, or extreme joy. I think they are such fantastic moments. They come rather instantly and carry you for quite a time.

Perhaps it comes while driving down the highway and into a sunset.

Maybe it hits you while you are in a conversation with old friends.

Or what if it comes while at the greatest sporting event you've been to?

I think these moments become all the more powerful when paired with the iPod generation. When we walk down the street with music in our ears as a soundtrack to our life, I think it adds another moving dimension to the experiences.

Many a time have I been driving and felt another dimension of awesomeness as a song I was listening to struck me in the right way.

Recently I've had the pleasure of really enjoying these experiences. They are really a blessing and I think especially for a person such a myself that appreciates the beauty in music, I see God touching me in these times.

How about you?

Meme'd

OK, so Ben did this thing...

and I feel obliged to keep it going, mostly because I happened to have a book on hand...

Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more.
Find Page 123.
Skip the first 5 sentences.
Post the next 3 sentences.
Tag 5 people (if you want, I don’t care).

Documents of the Christian Church: Edited by Henry Bettenson & Chris Maunder

...We acknowledge, as we are bound, that the right and authority to elect a king (later to be elevated to the Imperial throne) belongs to those princes to whom it is known to belong by right and ancient custom; especially as this right and authority came to them from the Apostolic See, which transferred the Empire from the Greeks to the Germans in the person of Charles the Great. But the princes should recognize, and assuredly do recognize, that the right and authority to examine the person so elected king (to be elevated to the Empire) belongs to us who anoint, consecrate and crown him. For it is a generally observed rule that the examination of a person belongs to him who has the duty of the laying-on of hands.

A mouthful...

I think

a) My font is retarded and won't go back to what it was and I don't want to bother with it.

b) This is an odd section of the text. The entire book is a bunch of small sections of documents. This is part of a letter from Pope Innocent III to the Duke of Zahringen about his right to intercede in a matter as the Pope.