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just by way of keeping current, i am still looking for a roommate in my two-story home in indianapolis indiana. actually, the house is in camby indiana, but it is in marion county. it is only about eighteen (18) minutes from downtown indy. learn more about my room for rent here Listening to: Evaporated from […]

today i called vonage.com to cancel my service, because that was a $25 a month i just didn’t feel like needed to spend anymore. the only reason i have the line is for conference calls, really — i use my celly for all calls. so i go to call vonage (and waited on hold for […]

Creating Passionate Users: The Book of Cool someone buy this for me. Listening to: Wraith Pinned To The Mist And Other Games by Of Montreal Technorati Tags: birthday, book, cool, wishlist

Under threat of death, LRA child soldiers attack villages, shooting and cutting off people’s lips, ears, hands, feet, or breasts, at times force-feeding the severed body parts to victims’ families. Some cut open the bellies of pregnant women and tear their babies out. Men and women are gang-raped. As a warning to those who might […]

You scored as Dawn Summers. You”re a typical teenager. Though it seems people don”t care about you, they really do. Heck, they”d give their lives for yours. Things change, you can”t change that, but you can deal, and you will! Spike 79% Dawn Summers 79% Tara Maclay 75% Willow Rosenberg 67% Buffy Summers 63% Xander […]

Why I Am Not Emergent at Addison Road: 2) ECM people don’t believe that the Bible has any value. The following quote comes from Brian McLaren’s book, The Last Word of the Temptation of Christ, and it serves as a kind of manifesto for the movement. In it, he states: “I … book … bad […]

maybe because of my ADD and how so little of what i experience gets embedded in my long term memory… or maybe it’s because of my severe handicap picturing stuff in my head (as in, i can’t do this, really. it was only sorta recently that i realized that people weren’t speaking figuratively when they […]

okay, boring blog news. i have now started allowing comments by anyone, but you have to do the stupid human tricks to post. i also added a thing that shows my latest three pics uploaded to flickr. weeeee! Listening to: Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois from the album “Illinoise” by Sufjan Stevens Technorati […]

man, i can relate to this post on cognitive dissonance. first, a definition: Cognitive dissonance is a psychological phenomenon which refers to the discomfort felt at a discrepancy between what you already know or believe, and new information or interpretation. It therefore occurs when there is a need to accommodate new ideas, and it may […]

To be limber and flexible is one thing. To watch this woman dancer is something a few levels beyond those adjectives. DevilDucky – Bendy Woman (via boingboing) Technorati Tags: bendy, boingboing, dancing, devilducky, limber

When Christmas Was Banned in Boston Outlawing the celebration of Christmas sounds a little extreme, but it happened. The ban existed as law for only 22 years, but disapproval of Christmas celebration took many more years to change. In fact, it wasn’t until the mid-1800s that celebrating Christmas became fashionable in the Boston region. The […]

A Christmas cookie recipe worth trying… 1 cup of water 1 tsp baking soda 1 cup of sugar 1 tsp salt 1 cup of brown sugar lemon juice 4 large eggs 1 cup nuts 2 cups of dried fruit 1 bottle Grey Goose Vodka Sample the Grey Goose to check quality. Take a large bowl, […]

Adrian’s Blog: Idolatory or depression (biblical counselling #6): As I have said previously though, not every case of depression in a Christian will be caused by faulty theology or dashed expectations. But casting ourselves onto God will be of help in lifting depression for anyone (even if other treatments are needed alongside) i wonder what […]

mail. order. chickens. spend some real time exploring this. it is worth it. Technorati Tags: chickens, mailorderchickens, webzen