Category: misc

2nd monthly Casa de Blundell Dinner Club

Well, if the new steroids I’m taking for poison ivy start kicking in as they’re expected, we’re still planning to host our 2nd monthly Casa de Blundell Dinner Club tomorrow night.
Tomorrow night’s theme is “My Big Fat Mediterranean Dinner.”
I’m looking forward to it. I’m a big fan of Greek, Lebanese and Mediterranean meals. It will be fun to see what everyone comes up with.

We’re planning to fix Fattoush (one of my favorite meals in Nigeria) as well as Kofta – another favorite while I was in Nigeria.
Funny how my favorite meals in the middle of Africa were Lebanese 😉 although I did love the red stew we had during several meals.
We’ll let you know how everything turns out – as long as the steroids kick in.

Throw your cellphone away

Wired offers 10 reasons to throw your cellphone away.

  • It makes your life more complicated
  • It’s horribly expensive
  • It enslaves you to a one-sided contract
  • It makes you perpetually available
  • It is boring
  • It must constantly be recharged
  • It knows where you are
  • It encourages stupid people to become a public menace
  • Ubiquitous pleather accessory shops
  • It turns you into a public annoyance – Hell is other people’s ringtones.

I’ve gotten to where I’m using the actual phone part of my cellphone less and less. I often leave it in the car or at home whenever I don’t think I’ll need it. It’s still a security blanket in some regards. But I do love the convenience of sending prayer requests or other text messages to a number of people all at once without having to pick up the phone over and over again to pass along a message.
What about you? Could you drop your cellphone and move back “into the stone age?”
What if we just all went to two way pagers? Could you live with that?

Thanks to Lifehacker for the tip.

A reasonable question…

Karl Fisch, a high school technology director has put together a presentation on our shifting culture – towards technology. The presentation is now available on YouTube…

It’s an interesting look at technology and our shifting culture.
For instance, did you know…

  • Today’s 21 year olds have spent 20,000 hours watching television, 10,000 hours playing video games, 10,000 hours talking on the phone, and have sent and received 250,000 emails or instant messages.
  • More than 70% of U.S. 4 year olds have used a computer.
  • 1 out of every 8 couples married in the U.S. in 2005 met online.
  • The amount of technical information is doubling every two years. By 2010, it is predicted to double every 72 hours.
  • If Myspace was a country, it would be the 8th largest country in the world.

So here’s the question: How is your church handling the change?

Hat tip to Churchrelevance for the heads up.