Since the end of January, I’ve been meeting with eight other people from my church to discuss a book my pastor wrote. His book, The Day Metallica Came to Church is being published this August and he wanted to bounce the ideas contained in it with some of the members. Topically, the book examines the … [Read more…]
CBC’s Vinyl Cafe presented by Stuart McLean came to Calgary on December 4th. I went with Amber, Mom and Alanna. It was splendid! Mr. Stuart McLean really did well to connect with his eager audience. He gave us three vinyl cafe stories (spiked punch, bicycle, and Stephanie’s books), a story exchange story, and a story … [Read more…]
I stumbled upon wordle.net today and it ended up consuming about two hours of my afternoon. It essentially is constructs word art by associating the size of the word with the number of occurrences it has within a particular text. What you see above is a compilation of the first 472 entries of this blog. … [Read more…]
On this last team, I met Chris, my fraternal twin. He’s 4 years my junior, but the similarities are uncanny: same taste in music, trained as teachers, worked at summer camps and as youth pastors, Oilers fans, Mac users thus multimedia creators, guitar players, etc. What was even more uncanny were the similarities in our … [Read more…]
I realized that many of the books that I have obtained over the past year have not been added to my catalog. I use Delicious Library to track my books, CDs and DVDs so that I can easily browse them and ensure that I know who I lend items to. What’s great is that I … [Read more…]
My buddy Shane decided to stop into Guatemala for 5 days on his way to Belize so I decided to take him and my family to Rabinal for the day yesterday. I had never been there before. Salamá is on the way, so we stopped in and walked around the central park. We got to … [Read more…]
Basically, I suck. Of a list of 100 most popular books (must be of Canadians for all the Canadian authors in the list), I’ve read 18 of them. Amber on the other hand has read 32 of them. There are a couple reasons I suck: I read really really really really slowly and the other … [Read more…]
I finished a book today: Adventures in Missing the Point: How the Culture Controlled Church Neutered the Gospel by Tony Campolo and Brian D. McLaren. I’ve read both authors before and both have beefs with the church* just like me. So, maybe I’m not challenging my thinking by choosing to read their diagnosis of the … [Read more…]
My sister Salomé gave me a little notebook for Christmas. In it she asks probing questions like: What is your earliest childhood memory?Do you have any regrets?When you were a kid, what did you want to do when you grew up?What are your favorite memories of Mom? Papa?When you tell others about our childhood, what … [Read more…]
I finished 2 books this week. I never finish that many books in one week – I’m too slow a reader. I also started listening to a couple bands, saw some good films, and got some good reading/listening on the web so I thought I would share… BOOKS: “Girlfriend in a Coma” by Douglas CouplandThis … [Read more…]