Wednesday, May 30, 2007

The Microsoft Surface Computer



Check out this video on the new Microsoft Surface Computer. Did you ever see the movie 'Minority Report'???? This is totally sweet and outrageously expensive.

-c-

The Guys Are Back!!!!

After a short hiatus, Who Are These Guys Podcast is back online. If you are into ministry and technology then you will fit right in. It is a couple of Youth Pastor and Uber Geeks like me who put on the show. If you can handle the technerd stuff, which is probably the only reason that you would read my blog, then you should check it out. The newest podcast covers the new Pirates movie, speed reading, youth pastors with many hats all while surviving some sound obstacles.

Anyways, this kind of stuff is right up my alley. So if you know me and actually are reading my blog, you might be interested in checking it out.

-c-

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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

A Productive Day Off.

It seems that my blog has become a weekly blog lately. I have had a lot of things going on lately. We had our weekend in Gatlinburg and I still haven't put up any new pictures from that. This past weekend we had a cookout for my Dad's birthday and a cookout for our Youth Group. So it was 2 days of hosting parties and Monday was free and clear.

Yesterday the weather held off and I got a lot of things done. We made a trip to Lowes and got a rose bush and flowers for Faith to plant in the backyard. I got all of the grass dug up for the sandbox for the kids. I also got the cars washed which pretty much guarantees that it is going to rain today.

I hope to have more stuff to post about on a daily basis now, but we will see. I am in full blown Ichthus planning mode as the event is in 2 weeks. Pray for good weather.

-c-

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Pirates 3 - No Spoilers yet.

Wow its late, or early depending on how you look at it.

Saw Pirates 3 tonight and it was great. I will not give away any spoilers about it.
Keith was great!!!

Yo ho, yo ho!!!!!!

Ok, I gotta get some sleep.

-c-


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Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Phone pics from GBurg.

I have a lot more pictures on the regular camera, but here are some pics that I took while driving with my camera phone. Check back soon for more pics from the camera.

The I Love Bubba Sign in Pigeon Forge.


Upside down Building - Wonderworks



The Sexy Stuff Store


Driving through the Mountains.



What is pulling this trailer?



Old School ride on the Interstate.



Good Old Cincinnati!!!!

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Another Typical Day

It has been another average work day full of password resets and quick tickets. Sometimes my job can be very menial. Sometimes the biggest challenge of the day is staying awake. I haven't been too bad today. Its easier if I find something really cool to blog about. At least today I get to go play golf. I think we are playing a scramble tonight, so I don't have to worry about scoring so much. It will give me a chance to just practice particularly on and around the green I hope. I have a week to get the golf scoring program in order. I pretty much have the schedule set and I have the final team members to add and then I can hopefully play with some of the reporting.

So that has been my day so far. Now, I am off to find something interesting to read on the Net.

-c-

Monday, May 14, 2007

Too much Weekend in my Weekend.

I did survive all the activities over Mother's Day Weekend. We had great weather and good times at the zoo and with my family. My kids were very well behaved although they got pretty worn out too. It has been a little rough going back to work today. I just feel very tired and could use a good nap, but maybe I can get to bed early tonight. We'll see, there is always something to be done.

I am looking forward to next weekend when we get to go spend a long weekend in Gatlinburg. I hope to be able to put up some cool blogs about my adventures there, but it may have to wait until I return. I don't think I will be able to find a wireless connection down there, so you may just have to settle for my twitter and kyte.tv updates from my phone. You can see all of that information at my personal website. It looks like the weather is going to be much nicer than last year for our GBurg trip. Planning on hitting the Aquarium and the Highland Games and just spend some good time relaxing and hanging with the fam.

-c-

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Bobcat in Rhino Pen at Cincinnati Zoo


Today I saw the most interesting animal at the Cincinnati Zoo. I walked up to the viewing area expecting to see a Rhino, but that is not what I saw at all. It was a Bobcat!!! See the pic for more details.
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Friday, May 11, 2007

Busy Weekend Ahead

You probably know that this weekend is Mother's Day weekend. It is looking to be a very busy weekend for me and my family. Tonight Faith is working so I have the kids on a Friday. That won't be too bad, but I miss out on my Friday night with my wife. Saturday we are going to the Zoo and the kids will get to see Curious George. I will get to play with the new camera and hopefully catch some cool shots of the kids. We then will be stopping at Sam's Club on the way home to pick up some things for our trip to Gatlinburg, TN next weekend. Also we are going to pick up some flowers and a rose bush for Faith somewhere along the way too. The zoo trip and the flowers are her Mother's Day gifts this year. Then the plan is to plant the flowers and things in the yard on Sat. afternoon/evening.
I also have to get ready for a cookout for my mom on Sunday. My sister and her family is coming in and we are having a big grill out. I promised Faith that I would not make her do a lot of work for the cookout because it is her day too. So, my brother Mark and I are running the show. Today I am making a shopping list so that I can pick stuff up at Sam's tomorrow if needed.
So it looks like another weekend will fly on by. Things have gotten easier now that K.C. has gotten bigger and is sleeping all night. I am keeping up with the yard and the house for the most part. Things just never seem to slow down and I don't anticipate that will happen anytime soon. Such is life. I wouldn't trade it though. I love my family and I would rather have the problem of having plans all the time as opposed to boredom.
Well, I am off to do some party planning. Have a good weekend.

-c-

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Skywalkers in Korea cross Han solo

I came across this article on Digg. This actually has nothing to do with starwars, but the title sure seems to suggest it. I got a kick out of it.



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Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Google Searches That Lead Here Volume 1.

Ok, I am stealing this idea from Josh Griffin. He usually has a long list as he gets a lot of visits to his blog and this is the first time that Google searches have resulted in a visit to mine so I get to post my very few search results that have found my blog.

xanadu ff5
j-reezy saddleback
my computer beats me in chess. I beat it up in kickboxing

It may be a long time before I have a volume 2, but this was kind of cool to see it actually is finding me in Google.

-c-

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

My big brother is a daddy!!!!

Very early this morning my brother Matt and his wife Heather became first time parents. The little boy who has been named Luke arrived around 12:30 AM. From the story that I got at 4 AM from my wife he was 5 lbs. and 18 inches long. Everyone is doing well and hopefully getting some rest. I don't have any pictures to put up here but hopefully will have some soon.

-c-

Sunday, May 06, 2007

New Shoes


Check out these new kicks I found at the outlets today.
They are pretty sweet if you ask me.

Friday, May 04, 2007

How to Sink Your Sermon

I found this article through Josh Griffin's blog about 10 ways you can sink your sermon. I feel that this is pretty relevant to present situations.

And if by some chance you read this Pastor John, I hope that this is helpful.

-c-

Funny Caption Game

The US Government is facing some issues
testing alternative fuels.



I got this pic off of Gizmodo. It is actually a jet propelled toilet. I bet these would have been cool to have at Ichthus.

Lets play a game and see what kind of captions you can come up with for this picture. Just leave them in the comments and lets have some laughs.

-c-

Mobile Blogging Test

As you can see from my previous post, I was able to do a mobile blog from my phone using my blog email address. It is very time consuming to type the text out on the phone, but I was planning on this anyways. As it says I cannot send pics with it and I have a 160 char. limit when sending. But hey it does work and I should be able to post this way from Ichthus. I am currently working on finding a way to gain wireless access while at the festival for free. Not sure how I am going to pull this off, but we'll see. Here's to hoping that somewhere out there I can find an unsecured wireless signal to borrow for the weekend. I have a month to be ready.

-c-

This is a test for

This is a test for mobile blogging. unfortunately i cannot send pics this way, but at least i can do something.

Hiatus Thursday

Yesterday was a slow day for interesting things that I have run into, so I didn't find anything to blog about. Today is Friday and that is always a good reason to blog.

I did get my twitter widget setup in the left column of the blog so that you can see what I am doing at least when I update it. At the time of writing this, I haven't updated it since last night when I was watching The Office. So as long as I remain interested enough to update twitter, you will have an idea of what I am currently doing. I can only update via cell phone from work and that costs me text messages so I don't want to get too crazy with that yet. I basically want to be able to use it when I cannot blog for some reason. I will update it from Ichthus because I will not be able to blog at all from there. I am still wishing that I could get the mobile blogging to work. That may require a switch to a different blog, so maybe I will setup one specifically for Ichthus if I can get mobile blogging to work. I will put a link up to that if I can get it setup somewhere.

Ok, well back to working for now and searching the web for new stuff to play with. Have a great Friday!!!!

-c-

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Silverlight from Microsoft

So have you heard about the new Silverlight?

"Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of Microsoft .NET–based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web."

The video on that sight looks pretty cool. You will have to install Silverlight to play it. It particularly caught my attention because the song playing in the background was from Andy Hunter, a Christian DJ out of the UK. Also that one dude in the video looked like the Mac guy from those commercials of Mac vs. PC. He is the third person to appear in the video. I also think that they must have recently watched The Minority Report. They just needed some special gloves to move the data around on the clear screen.

I am looking forward to seeing what else it can do. I have read some other articles about how this is supposed to be like Flash on steroids.

-c-

Are you Joostin?

Ok, after some time today I found someone to give me an invite to check out Joost. It is totally sweet!!!! I am a big fan of being able to actually watch music videos and there are a bunch on there. I haven't had time to play with everything yet, but there looks to be some cool stuff on here as well as some serious potential for growth. It does use a lot of RAM though so don't plan on doing too much else while it is playing unless you have 1 GB.

So now I have unlimited invites I guess, so if you wanna get Joost, leave a comment with your email and I will try to send the invite. I won't be able to do this from work so you will have to wait until after 430 PM EST tomorrow.

Check ya later.

-c-

Digg.com craziness.

I totally missed all of the fun yesterday when the power of the people threatened to bury Digg.com. I have been reading about it this morning though and things seem to be back to normal today.

A post was added yesterday sharing the Hex encryption code to unlock DVD HD and Digg decided to remove it to protect against any legal issues. Digg users responded by repeatedly posting the encryption code 1000's of times over so much that Digg could not keep up with all of the posting. It was totally 'Hack The Planet' in reality.

Eventually, Kevin Rose posted that they were going to stop removing the posts and give in to the requests of the hacker public. This may cause for some serious legal battles for Digg, but they will not go down without a fight.

Pretty crazy if you ask me. It shows the power given to the users and how Digg was not able to do anything to thwart the mass posting. Power to the people! I guess we will wait and see if anything happens in the legal arena.

PS I got the code. Did you?

-c-

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Mobile Blogging

I was trying to figure out how to update my blog yesterday from my Verizon Cell Phone. I was not receiving the response and claim code after sending my text message to go@blogger.com. I did some research last night and found that there is an issue on Verizon's end and they are not allowing mobile blogging to Blogger for some reason, but Blogger is unaware of this.

I am trying to find another solution so that I can blog the Ichthus Festival in June. I doubt that I will be able to get a wireless signal on my laptop at the festival site. If not you will just have to wait until I return from the event. I may look into using Twitter as an option, but I have not completely investigated that yet.

If you happen to read this and have any good ideas, please comment.

-c-