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Archive for February, 2009

Great Park Balloon Ride

I took my daughters to ride the free balloon ride at Orange County's Great Park.  I thought I could get a good picture of them standing in front of the balloon.  Unfortunately after we landed they went CRAZY.  They could not/would not stand still with each other.  At best they would tackle one another.  This [...] Read More → No Comments

A Look at the Future

Explaining the uses of Twitter to people in the 50's. Read More → No Comments

Apparently, I’m a Pervert

I met up with a friend in Vegas this last weekend.  We were there for separate conferences.  We were walking through the Venetian and he asked me to take a picture of this hallway from an ankle view. Wanting to be a good friend I agreed.  What neither he nor I considered was that a [...] Read More → No Comments

A Designer’s Pledge

Designers really should be required to sign this before they install the latest version of Adobe's Creative Suite. This comes courtesy Jeff Meads' Portfolio Read More → No Comments

Create a Band Name and Album Cover

This is a great "distraction project" for graphic designers.  It's kind of like visual poetry.  I wish my projects in college would have been this fun and inventive. Here are the rules: 1 - Go to Wikipedia. Hit “random” or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first random Wikipedia article you ge Read More → Comments (23)

Free Ice Skating at The Great Park

I just discovered that the Great Park in OC has free ice skating. It's only open Friday, Saturday and Sunday and only for the next 3 more weeks. Free skate rentals and all. I took the girls this afternoon and we had a good experience. It was their first time ... Read More → No Comments

Woman Misses Her Flight

missedflightwoman Everyone thinks it's strange to see someone acting like this. It's a typical day in our household. Read More → Comment (1)

“Beautiful” Flower Girls

As soon as the adoption finalizes I'm finding a photo contest to enter this into. It tells such a great story, not the story that actually happened, but a good story nonetheless. Read More → No Comments

Blogging: The End of Religion

I’ve recently returned from the God Blog Conference in association with Blog World and the New Media Expo. I recognize this puts me in a new category of blogging geekdom. Not only am I spending hours of my time blogging, I’m now spending money and a weekend away from my family to hear other people [...] Read More → No Comments

Evangelical Gnosticism

I’ve become aware of a deficiency in Evangelical Christianity in the last couple of years. Gnosticism is the belief that the spirit is the only thing that is real or good. The body is disposable and unimportant. In our missionary efforts we are at times evangelically gnostic. We often teach that the MOST important th Read More → Comment (1)