It has a cooling system, great flexiblity and it’s comfortable. I didn’t use ANY glue on this so don’t ask me if I did. I’m not going to sell it to you either so don’t ask that. The lense is two lego space domes with a sheet of black window tint taped to it.
ATTENTION ALL RECRUITS RE: TANGENTIAL JUDGMENT ANALYSIS IS NOW LIVE
Namaste.
I am pleased to announce the release of the fourth assessment in the Dharma Initiative’s Volunteer Recruitment Program is now available at www.dharmawantsyou.com.
This new test will assess your ability to formulate imaginative solutions to a range of conundrums.
Many of you have already demonstrated your ability to think “outside the octagon”, so to speak. I am sure you will find this activity suitably stimulating.
I am also happy to report that a great number of you have enthusiastically embraced the recently released “Recruit Created Assessments” (RCA). Industrious recruits are devising for their colleagues a dizzying array of examination topics that will, no doubt, significantly expand the knowledge base of the Dharma Initiative.
These talented recruits not only stand to significantly increase their Dharma Points but will also be eligible for promotion to the position of “Instructor” in the Volunteer Recruitment Program.
On behalf of the Dharma Initiative I would like to thank these conscientious recruits for their efforts.
You can read the article here, and below is probably his most famous song.
I remember when he came to Abilene when I was in college, I actually worked his concert. After the concert we all went out to IHOP. After he finished his meal and left the building, I walked over to his table in front of a bunch of college friends, and in an attempt to be goofy, I grabbed his fork and proclaimed, “I have Ray Boltz’s fork!” and walked out with it. Everyone got a good laugh, and oddly enough, I still have the fork stored away with a bunch of other college stuff.
And one finale note, I always thought he had a cool name.
Because you insisted, here’s the unedited screaming version. I also added video from a minute before the lightning struck so you can get an idea of how hard it was raining. From what i understand, it went through my left hand holding the camera, crossed my back and exited out of my right hand holding onto the metal railing. No entry or exit wounds, as i was not directly struck, i got just a really good zap from one of the “finger arcs” that happen when lightning hits.. And if you want to make a metal railing joke…go ahead, but holding onto one is actually what kept me from frying.
ng guerrillas flashed across the screen. The auditorium filled with the sounds of the jungle as Senior Pastor Rob Seagears clomped onto the stage in camouflage and combat boots, toting a rifle, canteen and machete.
“Good morning, Mountaintop!” he growled to the congregation before launching into his Sunday sermon based on the R-rated, curse-filled Hollywood hit “Tropic Thunder.”
The audience chuckled at his grizzly soldier act, and gave him some loud “Amens!”
If there were an Oscar for sermons, Seagears would be a contender. There’s his “Dark Knight” performance, when he roared up to the pulpit astride a Suzuki motorcycle, dressed like Batman. And his whip-cracking Indiana Jones, and his green-suited Hulk.
Perhaps most memorable was when he bumbled out wearing a ratty wig and a blood-red smile across his face, ranting like a maniac.
“When I went into the church as the Joker, there was complete silence,” Seagears recalled fondly. “People were stunned because I was acting as if I was evil.”
Since June, Seagears, senior pastor at Christ Chapel Mountaintop in Prince William County, has based his sermons on the summer’s blockbusters, managing to draw life lessons from the most unlikely subject matter.
DELTONA, Fla. – An angry Deltona father whacked his teenage daughter’s boyfriend with a metal pipe after finding the boy naked in his daughter’s room. Authorities say the father, 45, didn’t even know his daughter had a boyfriend or that the youngster had been sneaking into the home for more than a year.
When he heard noises coming from his daughter’s bedroom Thursday morning and saw a stranger standing naked on the girl’s bed, he swung a metal pipe. He then chased the teen out the front door and called police.
The boy was taken to the hospital where doctors closed a head wound with staples.
The father was charged with aggravated battery on a child and bonded out on $10,000.
WASHINGTON – Activists at a conservative political forum snapped up boxes of waffle mix depicting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a racial stereotype on its front and wearing Arab-like headdress on its top flap.
Values Voter Summit organizers cut off sales of Obama Waffles boxes on Saturday, saying they had not realized the boxes displayed “offensive material.” The summit and the exhibit hall where the boxes were sold had been open since Thursday afternoon.
The box was meant as political satire, said Mark Whitlock and Bob DeMoss, two writers from Franklin, Tenn., who created the mix. They sold it for $10 a box from a rented booth at the summit sponsored by the lobbying arm of the Family Research Council.
The Church of England will concede in a statement that it was over-defensive and over-emotional in dismissing Darwin’s ideas. It will call “anti-evolutionary fervour” an “indictment” on the Church”.
The bold move is certain to dismay sections of the Church that believe in creationism and regard Darwin’s views as directly opposed to traditional Christian teaching.
The apology, which has been written by the Rev Dr Malcolm Brown, the Church’s director of mission and public affairs, says that Christians, in their response to Darwin’s theory of natural selection, repeated the mistakes they made in doubting Galileo’s astronomy in the 17th century.
“The statement will read: Charles Darwin: 200 years from your birth, the Church of England owes you an apology for misunderstanding you and, by getting our first reaction wrong, encouraging others to misunderstand you still. We try to practise the old virtues of ‘faith seeking understanding’ and hope that makes some amends.”
Opposition to evolutionary theories is still “a litmus test of faithfulness” for some Christian movements, the Church will admit. It will say that such attitudes owe much to a fear of perceived threats to Christianity.
The comments are included on a Church of England website promoting the views of Charles Darwin to be launched on Monday.
With all the hurricane news this weekend, I kept on thinking about the hurricane that hit Galveston back in 1900.  No warning and no sea wall made for some very bad stuff. Keep in mind that Galveston was on board to be the next NYC. I’m sure most of you not living in Texas don’t really know about this event. But the one thing that continues to stick in my mind was what they did with all the dead bodies after the storm. They thought it was be a good idea to put the bodies on a barge and drop them off in sea. Unfortunately the bodies washed back ashore.
I guess rain from a hurricane is the same as rain anywhere else, other than polluted rain, of course. At first I thought maybe hurricane rain would have some salt to it, but then I remembered that whole evaporation process.
This article about someone that rode out the hurricane cracked me up, especially this quote about why he didn’t pray, “I figure I put me in this position and God couldn’t get me out.”
After dinner on Friday, WifeGeeding and I returned to our car and found someone put a Christian track on our windshield. It informed us about how the end times are near and said that we needed to repent, and then when we arrived home and turned on the news we found out a hurricane was coming our way. I’m sure only because of this track left on our car DFW missed most of the hurricane. Man, those things are effective.
Speaking of those effective Christian tracts, here’s a story one of my readers shared with me: When I was a waiter, someone tried to make me promise to read a tract in return for my tip and then when I told them I knew Jesus they said, “I knew there was something different about you.”
Most of Saturday was spent nerding out. My old laptop needed to be reimaged, but my CD/DVD drive was fubr’d. I disassembled the entire laptop with the help of The Google but I was left high and dry because I couldn’t find a place to buy a replacement drive since they are not a universal and interchangeable part. Luckily a coworker recommended a place called MicroCenter. That place rocks, it’s kinda like a Best Buy with an emphasis on computer parts and sells a bunch of refurbished stuff. Thankfully I found a cheap replacement drive and was able to install it and put my laptop back together. And as always, I end up with extra parts that I can’t find where they should go. I was worried because the old drive damaged my XP installation disk pretty bad towards the edges on the bottom, but in the end, everything work out. You may remember that I complained about the right click and the Ctrl button no longer worker. Well, the right click is now working, but that Ctrl button is still not working, so tha sounds like a hardware issue and it’s time to go eBaying for a new keyboard. OK, that was entirely too much nerd talk, but I was proud of this little victory.
For the most part, SNL was so-so, except for all the political stuff.
Right after SNL the pilot episode of Lost came on. It was a bit weird seeing it on NBC (it’s running on syndication on our local affiliate), but it was pretty cool watching it knowing what I know now about the show.
Speaking of SNL, for those of you that loved that More Cowbell skit from back in the day, feel free to add more cowbell to any song here. [Thanks, Warren!]
I still don’t know if I won that Southwest Airlines blog-o-spondent contest. I interviewed with them on Monday, which I thought went OK, and was told I would hear something the next day. So far I haven’t heard a thing and if I were to be one of the three finalists, I would leave for Vegas this Friday. I’ll keep you posted either way.
Tom Brady tore his ACL and MCL and so has his former coach Charlie Weis [YouTube]. Who else connected to these two are next?
I got a belated birthday present from one of my California readers yesterday. He was nice enough to send me a CD and DVD of some rare and early career U2 stuff. Much love goes out to Paul.
I also got a free t-shirt in the mail from a CNN partner. In case you don’t know, they have a new and improved embedded news player where you can post their stories on your blog. The quality is better than YouTube and there’s no pre-roll advertising.
I’m tired of Faith Hill doing the intro to Sunday Night Football.
I have to buy new tires soon.
I’m having trouble finding a good pillow.
I use to enjoy the USA Cartoon Express. Jabber Jaw and Grape Ape are the first to come to mind.
I saw an old episode of Tom and Jerry over the weekend, it must have been years since I’ve watched an episode. I think my favorite is the one where they flood the living space and freeze it.