Best Web Junk (October 31)

This is probably the best headline I’ve ever seen

If you click through and look at these 2 photos, you will never want to board an airplane, ever.  (Unless you are very proud of your body)

This fail is really a grafitti win – best vandalism ever

One of the many reasons I don’t drink is because alcohol makes you dumber, and I never met anybody who needed to get dumber

I really don’t understand advertising for atheism.

It’s Halloween, so you might as well play this. (It takes like a minute)

The Final Countdown on KazooKeylele – found at Jawbone Radio

And since it’s halloween, here is Mary Poppins as a horror film

October is Pastor Appreciation Month

Adam did a post like this yesterday, and I am nothing if not unoriginal, so here goes.

I appreciate my pastor.

Pastor Weeks in his Duke hat

I have been on staff at LaGrange for nearly 4 years, and Pastor Weeks has been a wonderful pastor to me.  I have had the opportunity to get to know him both personally and obviously as my co-worker and boss.  I could not ask for more from a pastor or a friend.

I can be quite critical and rarely point out what I appreciate in others which is why I am taking this opportunity to express my appreciation even though he will likely never see it.

He loves the Bible and the church.  He does his best to communicate God’s message to us weekly.  And any member of our church with a need can count on his prayers and a visit.

More than any other pastor I have ever had, he is dedicated to missions.  He wants to see the Gospel spread throughout the world.  He tells us all if we are not willing to Go then we should give, and we should all pray.  There is a reason that a church in the bottom half our association by size leads in giving to Annie Armstrong, and is in the top few of giving to Lottie Moon.

Thanks for allowing me to ramp & rave

This clip is worth your time

Maybe this explains why I didn’t watch the third debate – I had heard it all before.

Seriously, whoever put this together demonstrates the ridiculousness of our political system in America, in the course of 3 minutes.  Does anybody think you couldn’t do this with any 3 debates of any 2 candidates since the advent of CNN?

Update – I can’t get the controls to work with this, so I had to click on it to watch it on the original site.

One Week

And it will be over.  Commercials will be on TV that are about products, not just candidates.  The news will have something new to talk about.  And we will have a new president-elect.

I am personally of the opinion that, however the election goes, we get what we deserve.  Maybe I’m overly pessimistic about politics (I am after all truly thankful to live in a democracy) but I do not see anything substantial changing, regardless of who is elected.  Our country is set up in such a way that no one really has all that much power.  In truth, who you vote for for governor makes much more difference than who you vote for president.

That is not to say your vote doesn’t matter.  As Christians we absolutely have a duty to vote, and to vote according to the Bible.  To do anything else would be irresponsible, poor stewardship, and make us bad citizens.

Please vote.  Pray, read your Bible, and vote.

Here’s a list of all my political polls from this blog’s history

[polldaddy poll=929433]

A Mystery

What is this thing?

I saw this sticker on a car Friday, and I have no idea what it might be.  We were sitting at light so I snapped a picture of it.  Sorry for the lack of clarity.  It’s tough to take a picture in traffic.

At the time I was thinking it was a Christian fish with a  lasso.  But now that I see it and it’s not moving, I’m pretty sure I’m wrong about that.  The heart portion of the symbol looks like it made of barbed wire, or maybe it’s a map symbol for railroad tracks.

Your assignment is to tell me what the heck this might be.  I’ll take your best guess, or if any of my genius readers know the truth I would love to know.

Some context clues that might help – I saw it on a Toyota, on Ft. Bragg (so possibly it has something to do with the military) the other side of the car had a sticker of Mary or one of the saints. (so maybe it is a religious symbol)  I’ll take your best guess in the comments

Best Web Junk (October 24)

I really enjoyed Dr Horrible.  And I enjoyed all of these videos of villains applying to the evil league of evil

I added this site to my RSS reader this week

If this is completely serious, then I need to write a new has the world gone crazy post

A fun game that I have been addicted to the last 3 days.  I have beaten every level except Awash, Tube, & Unpossible.  If you play this make sure to go back and look at some other player’s designs.  the 5 star ones are always impressive.

I’m posting this because I’ve seen it everywhere this week.  I personally think it’s fake, but even so, it’s interesting.

Owner of a Lonely Heart & Smooth Criminal on violin.  This is really impressive

The post that dissappeared

I wrote a quite long post earlier today all about the political division in America.  But it somehow dissappeared.  So I will leave you with only the poll from the end, and maybe one day next week I’ll try to rewrite it.

Stuff you won’t do, just because everyone else does

I rarely write these kinds of posts, where I’m essentially asking for comments, but I’m curious if I’m just odd among the readers of my blog.  Or do lots of people have these sorts of quirks.

A couple of weeks ago I saw this post about things that you will never watch despite everyone you know having seen it.  The blogger of the post I linked to said, “I suspect we’re all playing this irrational, stubborn game with something.” And after some thought, I’m inclined to agree.  I also think we feel some odd sense of pride because of these things.

I began to think about this and realized that there are some things like this in my life.   There’s probably something else, but I cant think of any more just now.

• I never played Legend of Zelda as a kid, despite all my friends telling me that it was the absolute best game ever.  I have since extended this to all Zelda games.  I have never played one second of Link in any game ever.
• I refuse to ever watch Dancing With the Stars, even if everybody I know over the age of 40 watches it as if it was the greatest thing ever on TV.  (I have to admit seeing clips of it on Sportscenter, since athletes apparently do pretty well.)

The question to you, my readers, is this; is there anything you refuse to watch/play/listen to, & do you feel some strange sense of pride because of it?

My comments have been way down lately, so chime in let you voice be heard on this totally pointless topic.

In These Difficult Financial Times

Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say “Ni” at will to old ladies.  There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress in this period in history.

- Roger the Shrubber

Sorry…I got a bit distracted by my title.

If, like me, you saw your recent retirement statement and were a bit saddened, I have a suggestion for you.

SmartyPig.com

I saw a link to this site today (I can’t remember where) and signed up immediately.  The idea is this.  You set up a savings account with SmartyPig for any reason, (vacation to house down payment) with a goal in mind, and SmartyPig tracks your progress toward your goal, gives you a scheduled monthly contribution to reach your goal, and reminds you of your reason.  Other people can contribute as well.

I believe most of us are very loose with our money.  We aren’t so much irresponsible as we are just not careful.  This is just a simple savings account, earning a little interest, but it  is the regular reminder that makes this method work.  I’m diong it, and should join with me.

Best Web Junk (October 17)

The scariest fish story of all time.  (BTW:  There’s no way I’m ever eating this kind of catfish (Not that I would eat anything that came out of a river full of dead bodies))

A messed up fail

I actually know some people who are predicting this.  But I hope it’s just pessimism.

A great scene from last week’s office, if you like BSG (and I do) this is awesome.  (Dumbledore Calrissian ftw)

I don’t know who thought of this but they deserve some sort of nobel Prize for awesomeness