methodist musings

the general conference of the united methodist church will begin in the next few days. a post by paul black, director of communications for the illinois great rivers conference, of which i am a part, is an encouraging piece which i encourage you to read. in case you aren’t one to read the […]

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what an amazing idea!
Topless meetings for team focus?: “
When it’s hard to stay focused, try going ‘topless’ to meetings - San Jose Mercury News
Our good pals over at Adaptive Path have been experimenting with banning laptops and other communication devices in meetings (something I’ve supported in the past). From today’s Mercury News:

Frustrated by distracted workers […]

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maybe i’m crazy, but check this movie out. notyourtypicalbigfootmovie.com i really want to see it.
Bigfoot Movie Update: “I’m following the success of this movie like it’s my job. My involvement in the design of the poster was little but I fell in love with the movie which you probably already know if you read […]

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…tried upgrading from windows xp to vista for about 6 hours and couldn’t get it to work. googled a LOT and read about 200 posts in 4 or 5 forums. a couple posts suggested trying a clean install, then reinstalling as an upgrade on top of the fresh install.
can anyone explain to me […]

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i have never had as many issues with an installation as tonight. i’ve been sitting at my computer since 5:30pm trying to get parallels 3.0 to install and to upgrade windows xp pro to vista home premium…what a nightmare

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“Pope Benedict XVI greeted with 21-gun salute and National Anthems” is the caption reading on cnn during the pope’s speech at the white house.
national anthems…plural? did i miss something?

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this show, at times, is really encouraging. the idea of a show based on giving back to other and society seems like a fantastic idea…but the more i watch it, the more aggravated i become. the message i take from the show is that money fixes everything. a couple contestants have had […]

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i picked up this map about social networking from tensegrites, a blog i frequent.
i’m not taking the time to analyze it, but maybe one of my readers will. i found it interesting anyway.

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this is one of those cool moments that make you smile.
Bill Buckner’s Fenway Park Comeback: “Bill Buckner’s Fenway Park Comeback”
(Via Daring Fireball.)

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here’s a fun article about apple. now, not only is it generally thought to be be true, but science is supporting the belief that mac users are…well, just read the article.

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Shout to the Lord
last night american idol put together an “ok” show with “idol gives back”.
to close the show the contestants appeared on stage singing “shout to the lord”. apprently, though i didn’t catch it, they changed the lyrics from “my jesus, my savior” to “my shepherd, my savior”. while some folks […]

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this video was posted by pomomusings. i watched and was interested. not sure how much i agree with it, but it certainly is worthy of some thought and research. they almost appear to say that the catholics are attacking the protestant churches. give it a watch, and post some feedback here, […]

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