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Obama's Elf

In the spirit of Michael Scott, I needed a bit of laughter today...

"When I discovered YouTube, I didn't work for five days. I did nothing. I watched Cookie Monster sing Chocolate Rain about a thousand times..."

Speechless...

Worst thing I have ever seen in my life! (&, they will soon be performing @ our church)

HT

The Correlation Between Ninjas & Homelessness

HOMELESS EPIDEMIC PRODUCT OF NINJA VIOLENCE

(photo by Mr. Flibble)

N.T. Wright on Colbert Report

For those that didn't DVR it or haven't seen it linked elsewhere, I thought I would link Wright's appearance on the Colbert Report. Wright's new book, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church (which is on my shelf but I haven't read) is essentially a condensed version of his massive work, The Resurrection of the Son of God.

Watch the whole episode here

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Wordle

Wordle could possibly be the most fun (and dare I say potentially useful) internet tool I have found in recent days. It "turns any block of text into a word cloud -- like a tag cloud but prettier" (via TED). I thought the best way to test things out would be to take some random Dwight facts from Dunderpedia and let the wordle machine do its mojo...below is the fruit of my experiment.

See it here at the wordle gallery and then go play for yourself

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Jesus Rode Dinosaurs?

(UPDATE: Originally found this image un-attributed through digg, but the link to the original artist is here )

(yet one more reason to trash all children's Bibles and buy The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name)

Feeling pretty downright confident tonight...

...knowing that I could take 25 five year olds in a fight...How Many Five Year Olds Could You Take in a Fight?

25

"Computers are about trying to murder you in a lake..."

"Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections.

And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake."

Last Thursday, my hard drive died. Not crashed. Died. Forever. Dead. Gone.

I had backups in several places but hadn't backed up my Entourage user data in a long time. And, the backup I made of my Entourage user data in November-- for whatever reason refuses to work. So, unless someone can help me resurrect this backup I have from November, I have lost every email I wrote and received since July. If that makes you shudder, imagine how it makes me feel...

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IMPORTANT:

If you're waiting on email responses from me, please resend your email. And, if you emailed me for the first time in the past few weeks (on any account) and haven't heard a response from me, please resend your email.
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Consider this a friendly reminder to back up everything you have right this minute.

And, because I need the laugh, I thought I would conclude by sharing Michael Scott's terrifying experience with technology...I've actually never felt more like him than I do right now.

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The Verdict of the Holiday Keyboard Bath...

IMPORTANT UPDATE:
As I threw my keyboard in the trash this afternoon, I thought I should pull it out and give it one more try. I'm typing on it right now. And, the fifteen minutes of testing I have subjected it to have been flawless. Hilarious! I'll let you know if it goes on the fritz again...but I think Jason jinxed me by suggesting this was God's way of providing a new bluetooth keyboard.

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I've had a few people tell me that they were waiting on the results of my keyboard bath before they made the plunge for themselves. So, here you go...

The keyboard looks FANTASTIC! More white even than I expected.

The keys feel nice and tactile — not brand new, but much more responsive than they did before I washed it.

I let it dry for a full seven days.

There's only one problem...

MY KEYBOARD NO LONGER WORKS!

That's not entirely fair or correct. The washed keyboard works. It works like an eight year old kid running on zero sleep, without their medications, and hopped up on sugar and red bull...which is to say, not so well.  The command key now does any number of things without any discernible pattern. Some keys don't work at all, others work sporadically, and others work perfectly.

Lots of others have tried this successfully, so don't let my failure discourage you. You never live until you try, but in the future I'll stick to my geeky alcohol swabs and bottled air. And I'll be heading to my box of old computer junk to dig out an old keyboard!