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June, 2009:

Thanks!

I won the Magic 98.3 Bunch for Lunch today.  Four staff from the Centre get to go to Alexander’s for lunch on Magic 98.3.

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Inc. profiles Paul Graham :: "Running a start-up is like being punched in the face repeatedly," he says. "But working for a large company is like being waterboarded." via Too poor to make the news A fascinating interview with Paul Krugman who fears that we may he headed into a decade of global economic stagnation [...]

This Summer

Well we are into the start of the Saskatoon summer and things aren’t really going as planned.  As Wendy writes on her blog, she is struggling a bit with her depression which impacts us all in the house.  That has changed our travel and vacation schedule so instead of going up to the cabin this [...]

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For the hardest hit U.S. cities, they may need to be partly bulldozed to survive :: Most are former industrial cities in the "rust belt" of America’s Mid-West and North East. They include Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Memphis.  In Detroit, shattered by the woes of the US car industry, there are already plans to [...]

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Peggy’s Cove lighthouse needs some repairs and no one wants to foot the bill The Conservative government is now off probation according to Paul Wells.  Of course this is all part of Stephen Harper’s plan to survive the recession No wonder Harper doesn’t like it when his caucus speaks out loud Abortion: The Left has [...]

One

Oliver turns one today.  It’s hard to believe.  His birth was probably the scariest thing I have ever been a part of.  There was the specialists from the Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit taking Oliver and specialists watching Wendy to see if she was going to have a heart attack or a stroke during the delivery.  [...]

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Jack Layton is off to Washington, D.C. to help President Barack Obama according to a NDP news release.  Those who think that Barack Obama could identify Jack Layton in a police lineup, please raise your hands. Rick Bennett has a good two part post on interacting with Emergent Village. Is Lisa Raitt bringing about the [...]

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Roger Penske to purchase Saturn?  Cell phones are forbidden in American prisons, but they’re still used to intimidate and kill Following dot-coms and housing, the next bubble to burst may be higher education Some homeless prefer the relative safety and flexibility of street life to the volatility of homeless shelters Tent cities are cropping up [...]

How to grill the perfect steak

Wendy has been hunting around online for advice on how to cook the perfect steak this summer.  She posted her findings over at the cabin’s weblog.

Kobe

I linked to Jim Palmer’s post about his love for the Lakers in the NBA finals and made a rather unfair comment about Jim when I was really frustrated with North America’s infatuation with Kobe Bryant. My problem with is Kobe but also with a professional sports culture (which as a big time fan, I [...]

Why don’t we start all over?

Because we really don’t want to Second, we’re not being honest about what we’re trying to do.  We’re not even trying very hard to go all the way back.  We take a vast amount of theological, historical, and cultural baggage with us when we look back.  Even people who read authors like N.T. Wright in [...]

Marketing in the church

Spirit Farmer has the following rant over on his blog.  You can read the entire post there. The marketing piece I’ve seen a number of times is the one I love to hate the most.  It’s the one that says, “You should check out our church, even though you think church sucks.  Because we’re not [...]

A Story of Homlessness

Some links are too important to be contextless.  Here is one of them.  David Krug is talking about being homeless and rootless over the last decade. For 10+ years I’ve been homeless. Wandering the face of the earth. Often times I had a home. But I never felt at home. I never felt like I [...]

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Sampras calls Federer the greatest tennis player ever :: I guess that means I fall to #3 and Andre Agassi falls to #7. The coolest camper I have ever seen.  Sadly it was 50 years ahead of it’s time. My 2009 Summer Reading List of Books to Read at the Lake :: Rebecca Blood is [...]

No big suprise

The Saskatchewan NDP have elected Dwayne Lingenfelter as their new leader. Former deputy premier Dwain Lingenfelter was elected leader Saturday at the NDP’s annual convention. First elected to the legislature in 1978, he held several portfolios in the cabinet of former premier Roy Romanow. Lingenfelter left public life in 2000 to work with a Calgary-based [...]