Miscellaneous

Back from a weekend retreat with some church high schoolers. I won’t bore you with the details, and will instead go straight to the conclusions: I learned that efforts to meet new people are usually worthwhile. And when they aren’t, it’s very clear and you can move right along. I learned not to trust second-hand […]

FYI, I’ll be at a retreat this weekend that has no cellphone or internet coverage, so I’ll be completely out of touch for Saturday and most of Sunday.

Went and saw Iron Man. No, I’m not going to review it, except to say I thoroughly enjoyed it. I do want to point out the benefits of having Jon Favreau directing. He got started in Hollywood by witing Swingers and directing Elf. He’s a comedy and drama director. This gives him great respect for […]

A recent chart posted by cnet shows that Facebook apps are primarily used “just for fun.” And there have been a number of blog posts lately (particularly The problem with Facebook) which trash Facebook, saying that the site is effectively pointless and not worth any money. Allow me to step forward in defense of Facebook. […]

R. Buckminster Fuller: The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive of your own way of doing that which needs to be done—that no one else has told you to […]