Alright…

I’ve twittered and written about my favorite show on TV on a number of occasions… for those that have not heeded my advice and check it out here’s a mouth watering sample… BBC America Monday 8pm and lots of other times throughout the week.

I survived

We did it. We survived the coldest game ever played at soldier field (and all without any hunting outer garments). -12F (-24C for my friends in the UK). Great game, lots of tradition and a fight song that made it feel a little more like a college game (it might also be that we were in the cussing bears season ticket holder section with Packers stuff on). Great experience and a great stadium.

Made it on to our final flight after they sold our seats because they “assumed” we wouldn’t make it from Chicago. We’d only been sitting in the airport for five hours. So much for airline security and the ability to track customers. We held the plane ransom, actually just refused to get off (managed to delay it a further 15 minutes – I guess that my 15 minutes of fame (at least the passengers on flight 3178) and they finally offered someone a free ticket. No way I was flying to Boston, then Albany on the eve of Christmas eve, having been waiting all day in DC. I was amazed at how quickly The US Airways staff blamed their supervisor and didn’t work to alay my concerns as a customer. It was first blame and then think about problem solving without any compensation for the affected customer. Not a great reflection on the culture the company seems to be creating. Anyhow finally home and glad for the whole experience.

Technology & the pace of communication

It’s been a crazy week… but one I’ve been getting a ton accomplished in. Gotta love that. Hate spinning my wheels. As many of you know I like technology and communication stuff… stumbled across this little video over here. Incredible statistics when you think about it. How might that impact you and the church?

Google Chrome… just not for mac (yet)

So if you’re like most people I’m guessing that most of your computing is in some online capacity (it is right now by virtue of the fact that your reading this online). As many of you know I’m an avid mac user and as I’ve blogged about before use quite a few Google apps… so when Google launches an entirely new browser experience I’m excited, I’m intrigued, I can’t wait to try it out… BUT I CAN’T BECAUSE THE BETA VERSION THAT THEY LAUNCHED WAS FOR WINDOWS ONLY. Ridiculous. But alas I shall wait patiently to try out what looks to be a browser revolution on one of my macs. (You can read the Google Chrome comic here)

It’s here!

College football season is finally here! Unbelievable and looking forward to fun filled Saturday watching football. Hoping to experience my first east coast college football game (Oct 18 VT v Boston College). So much passion. So much drama. And then of course there’s the east coast bias. Oh I just made some of my east coast friends mad. But I’m an east coaster I can say it. How will Oregon do with a new quarterback? Is Georgia really that good? heir whole line is playing in new positions. Here we go! There’s the LA rivalry heating up between USC and UCLA and then of course there’s Tim and Amanda Massie and their wild and crazy support of Virgina Tech. Yeepeeeee.

It just looks wierd!

I’ve had a quite a few people ask how I feel about the circus taking place in and around Brett Favre and the Green Bay Packers this off season, knowing that I’m a lifelong Packer Backer. My response: saddness, yet understandable.

I’ve been a lifelong Packer Backer and here we now sit with a young and seemingly talented team with no leader, and three quarterbacks with not one NFL start among them. On the other hand we have Brett Favre heading down Broadway and giving it another shot hoping to make it one more time, and admitting that he’s not physically there yet. Transitions in life are not always clean. As a wise man (Pastor Dick Iverson) once told me, births are always messy. Anytime something new is birthed it’s always going to be somewhat messy. There are always a mixed bag of emotions on either side of the transition. But it’s leadership and focusing on what’s ahead, as well as appreciating what has been, that allows for the future to become reality. While I will forever admire the incredible gun-slinging ability, and genuine passion for the game that Brett Favre has brought to the game, I can’t fault Mike McCarthy and the Packers for deciding that now is the time to step into the next chapter. It might be rough for a year or two, but if they can keep this talented young team together who knows where they may end up. Certainly this transition has been messy and only time will tell what this grows up to be.

Child Evangelists of one of the worlds greatest brands

Day two of Mac camp. Today it’s all about iPhoto. Aidan came home so pumped about what our iMac could do.
Incidently using the new WordPress app for the iPhone for this post. Blog posts as the events happen.