It’s funny how shreds of the past come to mind in a new light now that I am allowing myself to recognize the central place the question of planet’s future has in my life. On Saturday while I was making dinner I listened to a Speaking of Faith episode called “Discovering Where We Live: [...]
From: DaveTo: Kanka10:28 AMHall of Fame announcements are today. Here's my ballot:In:Goose Gossage. Having not lived through his era, I didn't realize his greatness until I really started reading about him. Lots of things that can't be captured through today's conventional game.Jack Morris. If I have to explain this again this year, then you clearly haven't been paying attention to my emails the last few years.Close but no cigar:Jim Rice. I wouldn't have a big problem if he got in, since he did have some dominant years, but I don't know enough about him.Andre Dawson. He was really good, but when people say they're voting for him, they inevitably say, "he'd be a shoe-in if he wasn't hurt all the time." Umm, but he was, and it affected his body of work over the course of his career.Todd Stottlemyre. Kidding, just seeing if you're paying attention.From: KankaTo: Dave11:09 AMHere's someone who's keeping track of published ballots:http://www.meadowparty.com/blog/?p=118Here's an abbr
Leon and Wilson have been talking to their birth siblings for the last hour. It's been fun to listen to the things WIlson's worth sharing.1) We got a game system for Christmas.2) Our dog bites people if you get by him when he is eating3) Our church is fun and you know the pastor guy at churches? He's our dad.4) One time I farted on mom at church. It was so funny. She didn't even smell 5) WE're going to eat Chinese on my birthday.6) My brother stole my DS and he got kicked out of the house and now he is in jail.7) That's my CHEEK pushing numbers (he's using my Iphone)8) I had to go boo-boo real bad this morning (his words for pooping)9) We have 16 days off of school.10) Dominyk is 11 years old and he cries for a pop every day -- I mean soda -- but over here they call it pop as in popcycles12) Probably when I'm nine I'l to bed at 10 (he says, grinning up at me and whispering, I said PROBABLY)And Leon's comments:1) They cut hair terrible up here. 2) My mom doesn't care if
BILD: Seedlings Photo Bastiaan Brak:: HUR SER DET UT på EC-fronten? Vad samtalas det om på den svenska emergent konversationen? IDAG S:T NIKOLAUS DAG dag 6 december 2007 kan man läsa följande i de senast inlagda bloggposterna:ARE KARLSEN på Are Karlsens blog: Husmenigheten: Se hva som skjer!CHARLOTTE THERESE på A Catholic Renewal: Gemensam svensk EC blogg?CELLKYRKAN Håkan Sunnlidens blogg: Ideal och verklighetDAG SELANDER MXp Missional Experiences: UPDATE: 'EC' SverigeDANIEL ASTGÅRD Tro & Tänk: Om EC, postmodernitet och sanningsfråganDANIEL BLOMQVIST på SelahBlogg: P3 om postmodernism och teologiDAVID FREDIN på Postmodern vadå?: Viskningar från katakomberna #1DAVID ÅHLÉN på Timmen är sen: Jesus für alle!DOUGLAS MOLGAARD: på Missio Dei Scandia: FoundationsEMERGING CHURCH.se: Vad är Emerging Church? EMERGING DANMARK: Har din prædiken brug for et service-tjek? EMIL MATTSSON på Jord: Den konsumistiska kyrkokulturenESKIL SLUNGÅRD på Eskils tankar: ApostlerFREDRI
Bart's entry, the Chemically Affected Brain, tells about his lovely conversation with Mike last night.Does sarcasm come through in written form? Lovely.
The following is an excerpt from a recent email conversation between myself and a friend which spells out the key aspects of what Zelixy is and why someone would want to participate...
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TROUBLE-SHOOTING GUIDEProblem: There’s this girl in my church youth group that I really like. I just don’t know what to say to her, and I feel really bad when I can’t think of anything. What can I do so I don’t come off as if I don’t care when I can’t think of anything to say?Remedy: Girls love to talk about anything and everything (including you). Start a conversation by asking a question starting with a word such as why, how or what. Try to avoid cliché questions that lead to one-word answers (see below). Pay attention to her likes and dislikes. Find something in common and build conversation from there. Avoid arrogant remarks like “This math homework was so easy! My 5-year-old brother could do this!” Be more encouraging. Say, “Math can be confusing sometimes. Want some help?”Problem: She’s giving you the silent treatment. The reason might be . . .a. She’s not interested in talking to you at the moment.b. She IS interested and therefore you are the LAST perso
Always fascinating, always annoying, always surprising. I'm trying to even remember snippets from tonight's conversation.I was sharing how i got pulled over (but not ticketed) for going a little fast near the school by the liaison officer. Rand asked, 'Is his lame L-i-a-s something?" Had to explain that he was spelling Liaison.I asked Leon if my foot bothered him if I put it on the bottom of his chair. He politely responded no. Then Tony stepped in, being his usual annoying self, asked if other things bothered him to which he politely responded no. Finally Leon said in a very calm voice, 'You bother me." Tony mentioned that Sadie stuck her nose in everyone elses business, to which I responded, "Isn't that the pot calling the kettle black." Bart suggested I was making a racist comment, but according to this website: The term “the pot calling the kettle black†is usually used in the sense of accusing someone of hypocrisy. The origins of the phrase date back to at least t
* A message can be 32767 characters long.* Certain smileys are recognized by Google Talk and will be shown in blue. :- :-O :-x :-P :-D ;-) :-( : :O :x :P :D :) :( ;- ;-O ;-x ;-P ;-D ;-) ;-( ; ;O ;x ;P ;D ;) ;( B- B-O B-x B-P B-D B-) B-( B'( BO Bx BD B) B( B)And you can put a ' between the characters to get another one shown in blue.* To write text in bold, put it between *asteriks** To write text in italic, put it between _underscores_* You can insert special characters like ??? with 'Start / Programs / Accessories / System Tools / Character Maps'.
* A message can be 32767 characters long.* Certain smileys are recognized by Google Talk and will be shown in blue. :- :-O :-x :-P :-D ;-) :-( : :O :x :P :D :) :( ;- ;-O ;-x ;-P ;-D ;-) ;-( ; ;O ;x ;P ;D ;) ;( B- B-O B-x B-P B-D B-) B-( B'( BO Bx BD B) B( B)And you can put a ' between the characters to get another one shown in blue.* To write text in bold, put it between *asteriks** To write text in italic, put it between _underscores_* You can insert special characters like ??? with 'Start / Programs / Accessories / System Tools / Character Maps'.
I don't normally buy marketing books, but I bought one... for the cover. I recognized so many faces on the cover that I had to buy it...Join The Conversation is Joseph Jaffe's new book. See how it Bumrushed the Amazon charts.
It was a dark and stormy night. Nah, just kidding (got your attention though, didn’t I~~ heh heh~). OK, no more joking around. Let’s try again, shall we? The night was actually just a bit cloudy, and this time my TAXI driver was a man in his mid-forties, with golden skin and curly hair. I noticed that he was observing me on his mirror, and he asked, “Mai chai khon thai roo?” (You’re not Thai, are you?), and I said no. He began asking me the typical questions that all TAXI drivers seem to have learned in “TAXI driver school” (click HERE if you really wanna know what the specific questions are), until he came to the “jackpot question”: “Mii faen khon thai mai?” (You got a Thai boyfriend?) I said no I don’t, and he asked, “Why not?” I (only JOKINGLY) answered, “Because Thai men like women TOO MUCH~!! They have too many kiks~!!!” He threw his head back and laughed heartily, with one hand slap
I started by letting Salinda know that I was considering coming for a visit today if it looked like she was going to be able to be communicative. By the end of the conversation it was apparent that she has no intention, today, of being remorseful. She's sitting there plotting how she can play this. It's all about her getting what she wants. And she doesn't really know how to play.I let her know that she had a decision to make as to how she was going to do this. Either she could say she wanted to come home and change and I would be there to help guide her and give her advise as to how to do that. Or she could choose to attempt to blame her parents and get out of our home, but I reminded her that she might be going somewhere she wouldn't like. I told her that after you are charged with a felany is not the time to start trying to convince people that your parents are the problem.Right as it was time for her to be done I mentioned RIcardo and how he was beginning to make poor choice
I called Salinda at the Detention Center. She was mad. I figured she would be and I think she probably had a right to be because it all came out of the blue. She had a good night last night and all the sudden the officer shows up at school to take her to detention.I explained to her about the fear of the other kids. I explained to her about threatening to hurt her being a violation of her conditions of release. I explained to her about how we have been unable to help her. I explained that last week must not have been much of a wake up call if she came back home and was rude, disrespectful, and mouthy. I explained how I had done everything I could think of to help her and yet yesterday she was still uncooperative with her therapist, unrepentant, unremorseful. I told her we needed help to help her because I wasn't getting anywhere.She had others to blame, but she really doesn't want to be where she is. She mentioned that she had made some mistakes (first she's admitted that). S
So there I was, in a TAXI again, this time going to Sukhumvit 22. My TAXI driver this evening was a youngish guy, about mid-twenties. He was listening to one of the usual TAXI radio stations featuring luukthung (folksy Thai music originating from the northeastern Isan province) when I suddenly recognized the song being broadcasted. The opening of the song sounded very similar to a cheerful, childish song I often hear on the Thai TV Channel 5: it’s a song sung by a very cute little girl about pandas (for those of you who don’t know, the whole Thailand went ga-ga when China decided to "lend" its pandas to Chiang Mai Zoo). The lyrics go like this: “Mii panda, mii panda, mii panda, mii mii pandaaaaaaaaaaaa~~” (There’s the panda, there’s the panda, there’s the panda, there’s the pandaaaaaaaaaaaaa~~). The whole song basically goes on about how adorable pandas are: “They’re so cute… so clean… black and white…Let’s go see the panda togethe...
The New York Times, one of my favourite sources of new media commentary, recently ran a piece by Pagan Kennedy, an author living in Massachusetts, who writes about how by using MySpace she discovered who her fans were. What I like about the article is that, yes she’s an author, but also that her experience [...]
Justine Ezarik of the popular iJustine video blog, received a quite large paper bill for her iPhone. It was 300 pages! AT&T had itemized each individual text message. So she made the following video...Soon after AT&T responded... AT&T actually did a good job in listening to their customers. Customers are increasingly voicing their feedback via YouTube, Epinions, and blogs. It behooves marketers to listen closely because this is free marketing research. If customers are willing to spend their time to create a video, they are either a maven who can spread ideas quickly or they are extremely pissed off. Either way these are valuable customer insights that are much cheaper than a focus group, and often far more revealing.
The rain was brutal. The traffic was hell. And I was bored to tears. Then I noticed that the TAXI driver, a man in his thirties, with curly hair and longish, immaculately shaped nails, was watching me from his rearview mirror. "Wanna hear a joke?" he asked. "Yea, sure," I said, "Anything is better than having nothing to do on a rainy day. So beua (boring)~!!" "OK, here goes," he began, "What kind of rot (Thai word for "car" or "vehicle") is longer than rot fai (literally means "fiery car" = train)?" (English translation: what kind of a car/vehicle is longer than a train?) My brain was, of course, in its default "SLEEP" mode, so I was in no condition to do any deep thinking. "Erm... I dunno, I have no idea," I said. "It's rot tid (traffic)!!" he said, looking so delighted. "HAHAHAHA~~!!!!" ******************************************************************* In order to understand the joke completely, here's a quick Thai language lesson: - the word rot means car or vehicle ...
Most of us know how to fwd a mail . What if you want to fwd an entire thread of emails i.e conversation ? You forward them... one by.. one? No there is a easier way.Gmail, you forward the entire conversation it in one compact message. Quoted text will be removed automatically.To forward an entire conversation Gmail: Open the desired conversation. Click the Forward All link in the right column. Add the address and extra text if you wish to , to the message. Click Send. Now the receiver will receive it as one big mail containing all the conversation.
As I mentioned in "A Conversation With A TAXI Driver" (read it here), Bangkok’s TAXI drivers just say the darnest things. This time I was (again) riding a TAXI on the main Sukhumvit Road when the driver, a man in his late twenties with longish hair started to mention that he actually doesn’t like watching those stereotypical lakons (soap opera) but instead prefers the traditional lakons (unfortunately I didn’t catch the title of his favorite lakon because at this time I was busy fiddling with my cellphone - aaarrgghhh). This was quite surprising to me because stereotypically, lakon watchers are usually female, but hey, like I said, Bangkok has some of the most interesting TAXI drivers in the world~!! For those who don’t know, modern Thai lakons are usually filled with high drama, lots of screaming, crying, cat fights and hair pulling - and of course, the stereotypical love triangle between: - The stereotypical good guy character (soft-spoken, riep rooy - meani...
As I mentioned in "A Conversation With A TAXI Driver" (read it here), Bangkok’s TAXI drivers just say the darnest things. This time I was (again) riding a TAXI on the main Sukhumvit Road when the driver, a man in his late twenties with longish hair started to mention that he actually doesn’t like watching those stereotypical lakons (soap opera) but instead prefers the traditional lakons (unfortunately I didn’t catch the title of his favorite lakon because at this time I was busy fiddling with my cellphone - aaarrgghhh). This was quite surprising to me because stereotypically, lakon watchers are usually female, but hey, like I said, Bangkok has some of the most interesting TAXI drivers in the world~!! For those who don’t know, modern Thai lakons are usually filled with high drama, lots of screaming, crying, cat fights and hair pulling - and of course, the stereotypical love triangle between: - The stereotypical good guy character (soft-spoken, riep rooy - meani...
As I jockeyed the talk radio stations and perused the news stories this morning, I noticed that our wonderful national leaders were meeting in an extended overnight session last night, debating the Iraq war policy. In what appears to be...
This morning I overhead a funny conversation about Anela, our cat. My partner (male) and one of our house guests (also male) were sitting at the dining room table having breakfast as they discussed the best way to get Anela to eat her full morning breakfast. I sat at my computer, and to the best of my memory this is what I overheard two MALES say:Partner: I don't know why Anela's not eating her full breakfast lately. She's leaving a lot of it.Houseguest: Perhaps you shouldn't feed her so much.Partner: I don't know how to get her to eat more.Houseguest: Don't give her so much. Give her a little and put the rest in a baggie or a tupperware, then put it in the fridge,Partner: She likes her food hot. I always add hot water the way she likes it.Houseguest: Heat the food up in the microwave before serving it. It'll be hotter that way.Partner: She likes it with water so it's mushy.Houseguest: Add water to it after the microwave.And on and on this conversation went with me ROFL!ME: And
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