Shane Claiborne Loses Everything and Nothing
Friday, June 29th, 2007 Posted in Society | No Comments »Last week a seven-alarm fire ripped through an abandonded warehouse and spread into a Philadelphia neighborhood, displacing eight families, forcing 100 to evacuate and requiring 175 firefighters to keep it under control. One of the houses destroyed belonged to the ...
The Jena 6: Racism in America
Thursday, June 28th, 2007 Posted in Society | 6 Comments »In September 2006, a group of African American high school students in Jena, Louisiana, asked the school for permission to sit beneath a "whites only" shade tree. There was an unwritten rule that blacks couldn't sit beneath the tree. The ...
Facebook is AOL 2.0
Thursday, June 28th, 2007 Posted in Internet | 2 Comments »While talking about the redesigned Vimeo (one of the video sites where I post), Jason Kottke made an interesting remark about Facebook: "Vimeo is to YouTube as Facebook is to MySpace...not in terms of closed versus open (you do know that ...
Triathalon Cheaters
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 Posted in Sporting | 1 Comment »My mother-in-law and sister-in-law competed in a triathalon this weekend. What they probably didn't know is that apparently winning is all about finding the worst competition so you can beat them. How stupid is this? There's a trend of wannabe winners ...
Painting the Family Room
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 Posted in Domicile | No Comments »So I had this brilliantly stupid idea. While Abby and Lexi were out of town for the weekend I thought it'd be a good time to do some painting. We've been slowly painting rooms in our new house and the ...
A $250 Piece of Toast
Friday, June 22nd, 2007 Posted in Business & Marketing | 1 Comment »My friends at Personality™ just bought a $250 piece of toast. It's an actual piece of toast, but they'll never hold it or eat it. Instead it gets them a prominent position on Your Name on Toast and $250 goes ...
Tick Party: The Best Tick Episodes Ever
Friday, June 22nd, 2007 Posted in TV | 4 Comments »I'm bacheloring it up this weekend as Abby and Lexi are off watching grandma compete in a triathalon (as hilarious as that sounds, could you survive a triathalon?). So I'm throwing a Tick Party. We'll be watching episdoes of the ...
Will AT&T Ruin the iPhone?
Friday, June 22nd, 2007 Posted in Technology | 5 Comments »New York Magazine has an interesting profile on Steve Jobs that focuses on the new iPhone, which hits the streets June 29. I haven't seen such lust for a tech product before, and I don't think I've ever seen it ...
‘Ask a Kevin’ at Church Marketing Sucks
Thursday, June 21st, 2007 Posted in Company News | 1 Comment »If you head over to one of the blogs I write for, Church Marketing Sucks, you can check out an interview with yours truly: Ask a Kevin. Our CMS intern, bless his heart, thought it might be fun to do ...
Squirrel Causes Power Outage
Monday, June 18th, 2007 Posted in Employment | No Comments »I have a few projects due this week so I was working furiously today--had five billable hours racked up before lunch--when I heard a loud bang. My monitor flashed and went dead and the lights went off. I looked over ...
