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April, 2009:

Multi-site churches

“Setting up movie theaters to project the graven image of rock-star celebrity pastors across the United States has some long-term implications.” Ed Stetzer, on video :: via

Job Opening

The Salvation Army Community Centre (here in Saskatoon) has a job opening for a night residential worker.  A consistent 40 hour work week, good benefits, interesting job.  It’s listed on Sask Jobs as security but it is actually a front line residential worker at the men’s shelter.  If you are interested, e-mail me at jordon.cooper@salvationarmysaskatoon.org [...]

Ephemeral

This abandoned house sat just west of Arlington Beach on the way to the road to Cymric for decades.  It has been sitting here abandoned since I have been driving down this road.  This spring I realized that it was gone and there is no trace of it ever being there.   All good things come [...]

The Fiat Takeover of Chrysler

From David Olive over at the Great Recession blog has this great post on the Fiat takeover of Chrysler Just so we’re clear on the Fiat rescue of Chrysler that the White House is counting on: Fiat lost a ton of money ($785 million U.S.) in 1Q ’09. Fiat has such a sound grasp of [...]

Read it to me again

Recently a friend came by work and there were some washers and dryers being moved around the building.  He asked what was up and I explained what we were doing and the reason why.  While the specifics are pretty boring, the “why” is that the more money we save operationally, the more money can be [...]

Last Year’s Model

Anil Dash has started a site called Last Year’s Model We love cool gadgets as much as anybody else. We just want to be thoughtful about the stuff we’ve bought. Even the most cutting-edge, tech-savvy geeks in the world are choosing to hang on to their phones or their iPods that still work just fine. [...]

Worship Star by Sheckleback

via

Rebuild St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church

via :: This sounds a little trite in the larger context but this is one of the best uses of YouTube by a church that I have seen a lot of better than the typical use which is uploading sermons.

Contextless Links

Are GM’s problems all because of Chevrolet?  Speaking of GM, they have been down this road before. The rise and fall of Todd Marinovich Emergency and low income housing made from pallets Iceland’s men destroyed the country’s economy; Iceland’s women are busy fixing it. A dead pixel in Google Earth Op: Regarding torture, we can’t [...]

Kester Brewin

is back blogging.

14 Days

For the first time in 14 days, I am enjoying some time off of work.  We had planned to go to the lake this weekend but with the wind-chill (yes, I just said wind-chill in April), it was going to be –15 degrees Celsius out last night which didn’t sound like a lot of fun.  [...]

GeoCities, RIP

So Yahoo! is axing GeoCities which is kind of sad for those of us who remember when a free megabyte of free hosting was pretty amazing.  Yahoo! pretty much wrecked the community that drove the site within days of purchasing it and it’s value was gone.  It was in many ways the initial social networking [...]

Contextless Links

How to grow 100 pounds of potatoes in a 4 sq foot box Setting goals can backfire The library at the cabin is coming along The Canadiens really know how to celebrate a centennial The IMF says this is the worst recession in six decades

Yankee Stadium

I was stunned when I saw this photo of Yankee Stadium and realized that it was an in-game photo and not batting practice.  Look at all of those empty $2500 seats. I am not the only one who is noticing this.  This photo tells the story. It says that there are a lot of Yankee [...]

Mark’s new bike

When I was in grade three, my mom went out and bought me a new BMX bike, it was an Apollo Kuwahara.  It was an entry level BMX bike that was made by Apollo under license from Kuwahara.  Back in 1983 it cost an unheard of $250 and at a time when we were struggling [...]