Happy Fat Tuesday, aka Mardi Gras, laissez les bons temps rouler, you know that big excuse to party? I don’t like all Mardi Gras clowns, but at least Mardi Gras will likely procure clowns with style, metro-clowns, crazy-ass wild looking clowns. Unfortunately, many Mardi Gras clowns still have that “get in the van, [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Via Ready Brew Tastes Good
February 18th, 2009
“Ready Brew” is such a great name for instant coffee. Good advertising makes me really happy. “Ready Brew” sounds like a higher quality instant coffee without sounding contrived, which is probably exactly what Starbucks intended to convey.
It tastes good. Considering that it competes with Folgers Instant coffee or Maxwell House instant coffee [...]
RIP Citadel
February 16th, 2009
In July of 2006, I founded Citadel, a guild in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft. Today, my friend Roger, to whom I passed the reigns to the guild over a year ago has decided it best to dismantle the guild. While I haven’t been in close contact with most [...]
Siftables: Toy Blocks that think
February 13th, 2009
Toy blocks that are aware of each other, communicate, change, and manipulate digital media like pouring colors into other blocks and doing math. Found this on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) site. This is extraordinary!
The Wedding Racket
February 13th, 2009
Bear with me as I build up to the discussion around racketeering.
Much of the world hates marriage. It is under constant attack. This matters because a healthy and vibrant marriage is the closest life experience that we humans have to understanding how God loves us through Christ. There are several descriptions and [...]
Power-Ups
February 7th, 2009
Consider the following two parables spoken by Jesus:
The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Matthew 13:44
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, [...]
Community is not enough
February 6th, 2009
Officer chat:“What should we do boss?” asked my number 2 in command.
“Let him go repair his equipment,” I replied.
Public chat:“Player XYZ, you’re a good player. [Pause] Don’t EVER show up to my raid again without repairing,” I said very sternly as I publicly rebuked the offending member of my World of Warcraft guild. [...]
