Top 50 Albums of 2008 for $5 Each
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in Music | No Comments »If you're looking to spend some Christmas money, you might want to check out the top 50 albums of 2008 for $5 each on Amazon. I really couldn't recommend anything on the list because I'm musically inept. But Tim has ...
Updating My Squidoo Lenses
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 Posted in Internet | No Comments »I'm not exactly the lensmaster I used to be, but I've been working on some of my Squidoo lenses lately (what's a Squidoo lens?). It's kind of a weird little distraction, but I've got a few fun lenses going: How to ...
Star Wars Holiday Special
Thursday, December 25th, 2008 Posted in TV | No Comments »To make your Christmas bright I humbly offer the Star Wars Holiday Special. If you're not familiar with it, it's an exercise in complete and utter awfulness. Released in 1978 months before Empires Strikes Back hit theaters and never seen ...
Rethinking Christmas
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 Posted in God, Church & Stuff, Society | No Comments »Redefining Christmas has been on my mind this year. As I was editing a like-minded blog entry for Church Marketing Sucks, I realized how insane it is that people go into debt for Christmas. How crazy it is that we're ...
You Can Change the World: $5 Raincoats & Shoes
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 Posted in Society | No Comments »You can change the world this Christmas by buying raincoats for the homeless or shoes for the, um, shoeless. Two great, simple and cheap charity ideas: 50,000 Shoes in 50 Days Anne Jackson teamed up with Soles4Souls to issue a challenge: Buy ...
Adoption & U2=Awesome
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 Posted in Adoption, U2 | 1 Comment »So the economy is in the toilet and work has been incredibly slow. No matter: The spring of 2009 has decided to be awesome. Adoption Most importantly, our adoption will finally happen. We got the referral a few weeks ago (it's a ...
The Wacky Jubilee
Monday, December 22nd, 2008 Posted in God, Church & Stuff, Society | 3 Comments »Last Sunday the sermon at church covered a little known bit of Jewish law called the Sabbath Year and the Year of Jubilee. I had heard about the latter in 1999 with Jubilee 2000 and the Drop the Debt Campaign ...
Seth Godin Defines Blogging: Drip, Drip, Drip
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 Posted in Blogging, Business & Marketing | No Comments »I love how Seth Godin explains blogging in this little nugget from an interview earlier this year: "Blogging lets you drip ideas, bit by bit, to people who want to hear them. There are two crucial ideas in that sentence, so ...
20 Years After Poster Switch
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 Posted in Movies | 1 Comment »Yesterday I stumbled across a free rental coupon for Redbox, the $1/day rental machine in McDonald's. I'm a sucker for a free movie, so I started browsing the available movies and came across this: 20 Years After. It's a post-apocalyptic ...
Top 5 Christmas Songs
Monday, December 15th, 2008 Posted in Music | 9 Comments »Christmas music is playing everywhere, but it's not always good. Every year I find myself on the elusive search for truly good Christmas music. Here are my top 5 Christmas songs: 1. "You Gotta Get Up" by Five Iron Frenzy (Buy ...
