After the Movie

Well, I never thought I'd say this but I finally have my own blog. Dave suggested I begin one a while ago but I didn't think I'd have enough to say and I didn't really think anyone would read it anyway. Nevertheless, it's been a week or so and I've managed to post something everyday - and I haven't run out of things to say yet.

I didn't really post many things here in the past and I'll be posting even less now, but I'll still be checking in every morning.

Left Behind

Six Degrees of Kara

Kara is Yuval's girfriend, Mike and I worked with Yuval in Edmonton back in the day. Kara came out to today's Calgary Flickr Meet Up. Yuval did not :(

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The Gospel According to St. Luke

Got this via email today.

On Friday, Bruce Kuhn will be presenting The Gospel According to St. Luke, a 90 minute version of Luke's story of Jesus. I wish I could tell you how powerful it is to hear the story of Jesus told "the way it was meant to be told." Bruce makes the story of Jesus (told exclusively in Luke's own words) come alive in a way that I have rarely seen. I know it can be hard to visualize if you've never heard him before – he doesn't "act out" the story, nor does he simply "recite" it – he "tells" it as the person who was there, who saw it all, and is now telling the story to others. I have not only seen Bruce live, but have had the privilege of attending a two-day workshop with him a few years ago.

I can assure you, you will not be disappointed if you come. Not only will you enjoy the performance, you will be caught by the story of Jesus and will see Jesus in a fresh way. Furthermore, even those who are relatively unfamiliar with the story of Jesus have found Bruce's performance very illuminating. Feel free to bring a friend, knowing that they will really enjoy it as well.

Friday, March 24, 2006
7:30 pm
Irish Cultural Centre
6452-35 Avenue NW

Tickets: 288-8393 or 451-8784
$12 Adult
$10 Senior/Student

I saw Bruce at Urbana 93 and he was amazing. Sarah Kim and I are going. The hall can hold just over 100 people and there are still tickets available. Well worth it if you don't have plans.

- Peace

The Easy and the Hard

Getting saved is easy; becoming a community is difficult - damnably dificult.

Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places. Thought I had blogged this the first time I read it, but couldn't find it. Reading it on the ctrain last night all I could think was, yup that's true.

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You Can't Take My Joy Away!

The chours of Terry and The Pirates by Elim Hall is "You Can't Take My Joy Away!" It's also what my Razor sings when you call it. Last weekend I caved and retured to having an electronic leash. Payphones have become rare, and many are broken and repairs are few and far between. Of course you know I'm going to customize my leash. Fido let's you select the last four digits, so I picked 4359, IDJY. The chourus to Terry and The Pirates seemed to fit the theme, plus Elim Hall has remained a favorite of mine since the days of listening to Things Break on my first walkman. It's Canadian content, and you won't find Elim Hall on any Ring Tone site. Indeed Glen (of Elim Hall) confirms I'm the first the to let him know I have an Elim Hall ring tone.

I got a Razor V3, with blue tooth and MP3 Ring Tone support. Unlike Bell, Fido doesn't disable the file transfer via blue tooth so a custom ring tone was just a mater for finding a good MP3 Editor and sending the MP3 file to my PDA then using blue tooth to send the file from my PDA to my phone. All without paying a dime to the cell company.

Finding an MP3 editor was bit of pain, google Free MP3 Editor and you get a ton of garbage. So much so that I was thinking of writing one. While googling for Java MP3 encoders I found a wired article Stop Paying for Ring Tones.

The article boils down to this: Download Audacity and Lame (helpful install tips). With the software installed:

1. Make a copy of your MP3 (for the paranoid)
2. Load in Audacity.
3. select a 15 second section of your fav MP3
4. use file /export section as MP3
5. send to phone.

That last step will depend on your carrier, as I mentioned I used my PDA ab both my Razor and my IPaq have blue tooth file transfer. With out that you'll need a data cable that can sync with your PC or pay the internet charges to download to your phone.

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Half-handed Cloud

The Feb/March issue of Paste finally arrived, loved the mag hate the long delay in it getting to Canada. The CD sampler had a very catchy tune by Half-handed Cloud who's on Sounds Familyre / Asthmatic Kitty with Woven Hand, Danielson, and Sufjan Stevens. Half-Handed Cloud is a quirky indie Gospel pop act. There are four full length mps at download.com. Yeah I know there's no track there over 2 minutes, but he keeps them short. You'll either love it or wonder what I've been smoking!

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Adidas Gospel

As wrong as that sounds, it works! As seen on can you hear . . .

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Walter, drawing of..

My mom drew this based on this picture.

Praise and Cursing

Sing to GOD! All praise to GOD!
He saves the weak from the grip of the wicked.

Curse the day
I was born!
The day my mother bore me--
a curse on it, I say!

Jeremiah 20:13-14.

In two verses Jeremiah goes from praise to cursing, one often gets the impression that the spiritual life is all about praise, I deeply appreciate the laments in scripture, the freedom to rage against God as at the start of Jeremiah famous lament

You pushed me into this, GOD, and I let you do it.
You were too much for me.
And now I'm a public joke.
They all poke fun at me.

I wonder if we could create space for lament in Church, to let people know it's ok to hurt and tell God about it in very direct terms.

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The Greatest Happy Meal in 2000 years!

The McPassion Meal Deal. Only available during lent.

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Light Stone

Behind the Shadow: Fumito Ueda

Wired News interviews game designer Fumito Ueda, creator of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. We've played both of his games on the PS2 and they're artistic, naritive and fun.

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Dave

Bow River, Calgary

Annie Dillard: With Her Eyes Open

An article by Eugene H. Peterson. Found it while googling a refence Peterson made to Dillard in Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places.

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Blogging Lent

No I'm not giving up blogging for Lent I'm blogging Lent with a six others at the new South Medows blog. I'll be blogging Lenten thoughts on Thursdays till Easter.

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Peterson on Love of Nature and People

I'm not sugesting it is easy, this maintaining of an observant Genesis conection between the animals and trees in the garden and the people in the garden, honoring the continuities in the God-formed man or woman right before us with the God-formed trees and birds around us. I'm only inisting that is is necessary.

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Deseceration of the one is of a kind with desecration of the others. If we are going to enjoy and celebrate and live this gift of place in wich the Lord God has placed us, we going to have to embrace the people around us with the same deligth as we do the hawks soaring above us and the violets blooming at our feet. Men and women, children and the elderly, the beautiful and the plain, the blind and the deaf, amputees and paralytics, the mentally impaired and the emotionally distraught -- each a significant and sacred detail of nature, of God's creation.

Eugene H. Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places. I'm rereading this book before going on to Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading, the second of a planed serries of five.

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4k Java Games

I love art that has to live inside a limit. Creativity is unleashed by dealing with limits. Check out Java 4k 2006 Games. 55 tiny games writen in 4096 bytes or less.

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Blog as Virtual Veranda

Yup Jordon nails it.

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Abandoned Canadian Coffee