“Inbox Zero” by Merlin Mann

Merlin Mann is one of the biggest and coolest lifehackers today. Lifehacking is just a hip techie way of speaking about productivity, but it accounts especially for the ridiculous amount of information through which we increasingly have to sift. Internet is cool, part 2… The amount of cool stuff that people out there are creating [...]

Pot Pourri

I haven’t been too hot with writing meaningful theological stuff of late (“Or ever, Scott.” Thanks for the good word inner voice of reason.) I’ve got a couple thoughts percolating… brewing… fermenting… like Eschatological Story-Telling in Barbie Princess Movies… But, in keeping with my ADDness that I like to keep hidden from public view, I’m [...]

This Internet Thing is Really Pretty Cool

Captain Obvious here… I am still consistently amazed at this whole internet thing. I mean, to think that I can search for information about almost literally anything I could fathom and have a lifetime’s worth of information at my disposal in seconds… for free… is simply awesome. Maybe it’s because, unlike normal people, the prospect [...]

iPod Belt Buckle

It was only a matter of time… The iPod nano can now be displayed in a whole new way… as a belt buckle. It’s called the “Tune Buckle.” The design is pretty cool, actually. I won’t be wearing one anytime soon, but I’m sure cool kids all over the country will be pretty soon. I [...]

PostSecret Entry – “I just want to be a part of something – anything.”

Have blogged before about this interesting, sometimes offensive, sometimes very insightful website called “PostSecret” where people send in homemade postcards with secrets on them. Well, here’s the latest good one I came across. Very telling. Very true. It gets at why I always say everyone should experience the camaraderie of being on a team. It’s [...]

“It isn’t just about me anymore, y’know?”

Sitting in Panera here in K’Vegas (Knoxville, TN) doing some work on the upcoming Youth Sunday worship service and this lady is talking about how everything’s different post-kids, which is self-evident and, at times, excruciatingly true, of course, and she says, “It isn’t just about me anymore, y’know?”
Now, obviously, if you were to ask this [...]

Apple Store

Had to be in K’Vegas (Knoxville) to pick up an adapter for my MacBook Pro. First extended stay in an Apple store. Briefly… this place totally rocks!

Where do they learn these things?

Was talking to a couple from church last evening about how little kids learn language and I commented that, while we were on vacation our 5-year-old Sophie had a good one. I don’t remember the context, but she responded with, “Unfortunately, I’m not a lover of green.” What?! “Unfortunately, I’m not a lover of green”? [...]

“Sex God,” by Rob Bell

Finished Sex God while on vacation. It’s okay. Certainly not as good as Velvet Elvis, in my estimation. And I was expecting better from his sophomore publishing effort. He makes some good points and he’s obviously a good teacher, but I’m not really sure he made an argument for much of anything. I think he [...]

“Grow Your Church By Asking People To Leave”

An interesting post on ChurchMarketingStinks.com. (It’s actually originally called Church Marketing Sucks, but I’m not a big fan of that euphemism, so I’m calling it Church Marketing Stinks.) UPDATE: Just found out they actually own ChurchMarketingStinks.com and all the urls (wikipedia this, if you’re a tech novice) are the same except for the sucks/stinks part. [...]