August, 2008:

Recently on Twitter

Aug 31st, 2008

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Watching Tommy Bowden getting out coached by Nick Saban # @DashHouse You mean you don’t have to do a “Saturday night special” # @onehouse – I think a lot do. The evening news is still a ritual for those that are boomers and older. # I am working my last night shift of the summer. [...]

What to do?

by Jordon.

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Some of you have asked what I thought is the best way to deal with the issues of poverty, crime, drugs, and homelessness. I wish it could be tackled in a blog post. After thinking about it everyday for years now, I do have some ideas but I’ll start with a basic framework. While many [...]

Recently on Twitter

Aug 30th, 2008

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@mathowie Hasn’t Condi always said that she wasn’t interested in the personal scrutiny the presidency brings? # Say what you want about VP Palin but the selection knocked Obama’s speech off the front of the news cycle. #

The Cabin Weblog

Aug 30th, 2008

by Jordon.

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I used to host this site on my site but since I migrated to WordPress, it was just easier to host this at Blogspot. After playing a bit with it, the cabin weblog is more or less online. We wanted a place to post the changes that we are making over the last couple of [...]

Recently on Twitter

Aug 29th, 2008

by Jordon.

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I am the only person on Twitter not tweeting the Obama speach. Maybe I am still bitter over being overlooked for VP/Dick Cheney II # @LineaLanoie I didn’t watch it either. I listened to the new Cold Play CD # @edstetzer – no football is better #

Summer

Aug 29th, 2008

by Jordon.

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Well this is the last weekend of summer. I don’t know what happened to mine but none of my summer plans came together. We did get to the cabin five or six times which was amazing but then July and August happened and I had to work nights on the weekends. It meant working Friday, [...]

Subversive Relevance

Aug 29th, 2008

by Jordon.

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This comes from OneHouse (via my comments) Mother Teresa, a foreign-born nun in her late thirties, head of a girls’ boarding school, was going on retreat. As she traveled through the city she became overwhelmed by the sight of abandoned persons, lying in the streets, left to die. Some of these forgotten people were already [...]

Windrider Forum at Wycliffe College

Aug 29th, 2008

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Bill Kinnon has let me know about The Windrider Forum at Wycliffe College. It’s taking place September 9, 10 and 11 during Toronto’s International Film Festival. You can watch a couple videos and find out more information at the Windrider site.

The rather dull cutting edge

Aug 29th, 2008

by Jordon.

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A friend just called and we were talking about my last blog post. We were talking about whether or not the person who e-mailed had a point. Part of me thinks that they do. Not that I shouldn’t be blogging (although we joked that it has happened regardless of the comments) but rather or not [...]

Now more irrelevant than ever

Aug 28th, 2008

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A reader e-mailed me this week with "I think it is time you stopped talking about the emerging church. You haven’t lead a church in over two years. Your voice is irrelevant to the conversation since you are on the outside of it." Well I don’t blog a lot on church mechanics anymore and I [...]

Warren @ Arm’s Length

Aug 28th, 2008

by Jordon.

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Warren Kinsella is video blogging at YouTube. It’s what you expect, high quality production, superstar guests, and lot’s of politics. Also as the commander of the "Piss Army", he shows his famous Risk strategy. Make sure you watch the video because within a year there will be a book about it.

Why Wendy and I never go to the movies together

Aug 28th, 2008

by Jordon.

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She breaks most of these rules. It’s tearing our marriage apart. As a padawan, I have trained Mark in most of these rules but to paraphrase Yoda, “She’s too old”. Now we just go see different movies or the same movie on different days.

Abandoned Church in Fish Creek

Aug 27th, 2008

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Wendy and I dragged Mark and Oliver on a trip north of the city to find this church in Fish Creek, Saskatchewan (which is near to the site of the Battle of Fish Creek). Sadly the ghost town was well marked with “Private Property” and “No Trespassing” signs which we respected but I would have [...]

Movie Pix HD Review

Aug 27th, 2008

by Jordon.

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We bought one of these this week. I had wanted a camera that I could use at work and carry with me everywhere. It is basically a Flip Video camera competitor but takes HD video for a lower price. No internal memory but 1 gig SD cards are going for $7.99 in some places around [...]

I.O.U.S.A.

Aug 27th, 2008

by Jordon.

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Rick Bennett has a good post about this. Head over there and for those of you who are too busy to click and read, watch the trailer below. The question is can the United States recover from this. Several articles I have been reading lately all mention the lost U.S. manufacturing jobs which is painfully [...]