Beautiful Letdown

Sarah, (my 11 year old daughter) picked up a copy of Switchfoot's The Beautiful Letdown, and in small doses it's good, enjoyable alt/rock/pop. As an album the biggests drawback is most of the songs center around wanting more, being dissatisfied, longing. And on their own they're fine songs, but with 11 songs I find my self longing for some emotional and spiritual range.

- Peace

New Logo?

Just playing with Gimp 2.0 so what do you think?



Can I use it as my logo or has it been done?

- Peace

Native Comments

I've turned on the native blogger comments. Not sure when blogger got comments, but there are days where haloscan is just so slow... Course they lasted longer than any of the other commenting systems I tried. So leave a comment and tell me what you think.

- Peace

Reading Week

Durring the winter I do most of my reading on the train, one of the plusses of public transit, then durring the summer I ride my bike. Looks like I'll get caught up on some reading this week. Here's the forcast in brief

(Today)Chance of showers
Tue Snow
Wed Snow
Thrus Chance of flurries
Friday Showers or flurries

BTW I'm reading: The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master and I should be able to get start on: THabits of the Mind: Intellectual Life As a Christian Calling
by James W. Sire

- Peace

Christian Curses

Do you ever find yourself overwhelmed with righteous indignation, but without the words to express it?

If phrases like these would be useful in your arsenal of chastisement you can find more here.

"Listen, O thou breaker of the commandments, for you will be pursued into the mountains by sex-mad baboons!"

"Hear this, O ye sad Pharisee, for you will be cast onto a steaming dung-heap!"

Calgary in Spring

A poem

Birds are returning
Flowers are blooming
Trees are in leaf
and filled with snow

Yup we got hit with a May snow storm. Calgary gets an average of 10.2 centimetres of snow in May. My fith spring in Calgary, you think I'd get used to the idea, but it still just seems wrong.

- Peace

480km down 70% to go

I was kept a wake last night by the Calgary Flames fans, who partied well into the wee hours. But I didn't mind, the Flames did what no one thought they could, beat the best (and one of the most expensive) teams in the NHL. And that enought to make even me a fan.

Dispite the late night, I got up early and biked to my 7:00 am breakfast meeting (ok I was 10 minutes late), and then onto work. One the way home I was chased by raind clouds, but a the wind was at my back as I past the 30% mark and it felt good. Not getting past first round of play offs for the first time in 15 years good, not even two playoff shut outs good, nor a last minute goal to win in six good, but good.

- Peace

Blindside: About a burning fire

picked up the new Blindside CD, cause they're opening for POD here in Calgary June 8th!

Going to listen to it in the car on the way to Edmonton, my sister is graduating from Taylor University with a Masters in Cross Cultural Ministry.

- Peace

Good news for Grits!, Bad news for the country.

LT is helping with the election campaign of the Liberal candidate in his riding, and so he was understandably happy with the news that the Liberals may be looking a fourth majority government.

But while a bounce in the polls is good news for the grits, I think it's bad news for the country.

Goverments are like underwear and should be changed on a regular basis, that applies to the Liberals in Owtawa and the Conservatives in Edmonton.

Minority governments can be good for the country, they force people to be creative and work together, allowing more voices to be truly heard in the house of commons.

Jack Leighton has promised support for a proportional representation system would be an NDP demand to work with the Liberals in a minority situation. First past the post is an unhealthy system, you can win 80% of the seats in the house with less than 50% of the votes. A proportional system would significantly reduce the regional politics we have now, allowing Liberals to be elected in the west (a least a few) and conservatives to be elected in Ontario.

- Peace