Month: January 2008

A proposal for nine new game shows

With the writer’s strike going on here’s some new ideas for network TV execs. From the funny guys over at Woot!:

* Tickle The Angry Scorpion
* Celebrity Dungeons & Dragons featuring Vin Diesel & Friends
* Who Took My Golden Arm?
* Toronto Squares
* Hedge Maze Full Of Cobras!
* Stop Hitting Yourself: The Endurance Challenge
* Thirty-One Seconds In The Wood Chipper
* Coconut Pie Or Millionaire?
* Do Calculus While We Poke You

They left off Aaron’s suggestion of a new reality TV show on Fox: When Rabbits Attack

Quote of the day

“We’ve found different ways of expressing it, and recognized the power of the media to manipulate such signs. Maybe we just have to sort of draw our fish in the sand. It’s there for people who are interested. It shouldn’t be there for people who aren’t.” — Bono on faith, quoted in “U2 at the End of the World”

Falling at Your Feet

I’ve heard this song over and over again but never heard it as a Gospel song till this morning – suddenly (after Sunday’s service) it painted such a great picture of Luke 7:36-50.

Falling at Your Feet – U2

Every chip from every cup
Every promise given up
Every reason that’s not enough
Is falling, falling at your feet

Every band elastic limit
Every race when there’s nothing in it
Every winner that has lost their ticket
Is falling, falling at your feet
I’ve come crawling, falling at your feet

Everyone who needs a friend
Every life that has no end
Every knee not ready to bend
Is falling, falling at your feet
I’ve come crawling, now I’m falling at your feet

All fall down
All the manic days
The faces that you pull
All the x-rays not under your control
The graffiti rolling down off of your tongue
And the compromise you make for someone

Every teenage with acne
Every face that’s spoiled by beauty
Every adult tamed by duty
Are all falling at your feet

Every foot in every face
Every cop stop that finds the grace
Every prisoner in the Maze
Every hand that needs an ace
Is falling, falling at your feet
I’ve come crawling, now I’m falling at your feet

All fall down
All the books you never read
Just started
All the meals you rushed
And never tasted

Every eye closed by a bruise
Every player who just can’t lose
Every pop star hurling abuse
Every drunk back on the booze
All falling at your feet, all falling at your feet

All fall down
All the information
All the big ideas
All the radio waves
On electronic seas
How to navigate
How to simply be
Don’t know when to wait
Explain simplicity
In whom shall I trust?
How might I be still?
Teach me to surrender
Not my will, THY will

new techie goals

I’m working on a new Intranet site for work today. Last week I was working on new WordPress themes for a possible encounter website redesign (you may have seen them on my Flickr stream).
While working on the Intranet site I’m using CasadeBlundell.com for “filler text” and it got me thinking about redesigning that site as well. It’s gotten a little stagnant.
All of this led me to think about a few goals/challenges I’d like to figure out/complete before to long (some of them are personal, others are work related).

  • Finish a redesign of the encounter website
  • Redesign CasadeBlundell.com
  • Redesign our departmental Intranet site
  • Find out how to combine multiple RSS feeds into one – hopefully without using third party software. I’d love to be able to let people subscribe to one RSS feed and get the latest from my twitter feed, Flickr feed and of course my SSL feed. I’d eventually love to have an option to combine all my RSS feeds with Laurie’s RSS feeds as well so people can truly stay up to date with what’s going on.
  • Get a better grasp/understanding of CSS – this is coming slowly as I build these other sites
  • Learn PHP language – coming along even slower

I think those are the main ones for now – but who knows I may think of several more on the way home – you can check my Twitter feed for updates on the way home 😉

Bush’s ungiven speech

On October 1, 2001, President George W. Bush did not give the following speech to a special
session of Congress. The speech did not interrupt regularly scheduled broadcasts on television
and radio. It did not interrupt and change the current of history either…

But what if he had…

Read Bush’s ungiven speech, as written by Brian McLaren, author of Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope, which we plan to read this month for Headphonaught’s Book Club.