These are my mobile thoughts for 2007-08-24

• watched "The Good Shepherd" tonight. good, confusing CIA movie that spans the 40s – 60s. #
• it’s raining. #
• good to be awake, great to be alive. Let’s have an awesome Friday, people. #
• playing Smashing Pumpkins in the car. Gardner says "I wike dis song." That’s my boy #
• I don’t care who you are, "Praise you in the storm" is a great song. #
• Just had to reset my cable modem. happens when the power goes out. #

These are my mobile thoughts for 2007-08-24

• watched "The Good Shepherd" tonight. good, confusing CIA movie that spans the 40s – 60s. #
• it’s raining. #
• good to be awake, great to be alive. Let’s have an awesome Friday, people. #
• playing Smashing Pumpkins in the car. Gardner says "I wike dis song." That’s my boy #
• I don’t care who you are, "Praise you in the storm" is a great song. #
• Just had to reset my cable modem. happens when the power goes out. #

KIMDULANEY.COM

KIMDULANEY.COM has a lot of new, pretty pictures to look at. I’m partial to the motion boards, but I do live in that world, don’t I?

free chicken and coke

www.freechickenandcoke.com. Enough said.

Fellowship site

Nice little mini site from Fellowship Church, ineed2change.com. And for the ultimate in integration and Web 2.0-ary… they have included a Twitter feed.

new furniture

If you’ve graced my office with your presence, you’ll no doubt know I like furniture that’s both (1) eclectic and (2) cheap [hello yard sales]. This fits category (1), but I do love it. View it online here.

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NewSpring Mobile Rig

So, it’s no surprise that NewSpring is growing. There were 8,100 people here this past Sunday and, by the way, they were all asked to invite someone this next week. If you’re thinking of coming, might I please encourage you to attend one of the PM services in order to free up some seats.

Every time a record is reached, I love that people say “hey, cool.” Then they say “I wonder what God has planned next?” Our only plan is for God to continue to have his hand on NewSpring, and for it to continue to grow. More people equals more lives changed and impacted.

And so, I propose that our next growth strategy should be the NewSpring mobile rig. I have a full working concept drawn on one of my blue Hipster PDA notecards (the blues are for capture). View it here. Imagine, you roll in to a parking lot. You hear Transformer like sounds. BAM. Church is rocking.

I’m thinking if we got Peterbilt involved, maybe a Transformers tie-in. Imagine the possibilities.

Si Scott design

I’m loving the work at Si Scott design. Saw it on the cover of Digit Magazine (or was it Computer Arts) a few months / year ago. Intricate, detailed. Lovely.

Gravatar?

OK, let’s talk about making the AV Club more fun. And by fun, I mean assigning you a pretty Gravatar (globally recognized avatar) to go by your name when you post a comment. What is it? Look here:

In this image, you see a pretty little icon next to my name. That’s a gravatar. It’s a cool image of me catching a Frisbee.
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Here’s a screen grab from DJ Wilson, who does not have a gravatar. He gets a boring default icon. (nothing personal, DJ, you were just the last person to comment).
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So, Ken, what do I do about this? What’s my part? Go therefore, and create thee a gravatar. Go to Gravatar.com or directly to the signup page. It’s tied to your email address, so when you plug that in to comment here, your icon comes along for the ride. Now go set it up and comment so we can see your pretty little icon.

born.

Nice little reel from the fellas over at Born.

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Movies styles (in Photoshop)

Here’s a list of Photoshop tutorials showing how to achieve some typical movie poster style effects. I’m a sucker for a good list of just about anything. I will try the 300 look tutorial tomorrow.

a small internet

I found the comments on this image from Flickr interesting. It’s a photo I posted from the wedding I did a month or so ago. Read the comment… it truly is a small internet after all.

health myths

Nice “top 9 list” of Fitness Myths. It’s true, I’m much more likely to read something if it’s in a numbered list, and I skimmed all the way to number 5 before getting distracted on this list.

Twitter Updates for 2007-08-19

• Just relaxed with "The Illusionist." Enjoyable. #
• ben and I are trying to get Solidworks and Lightwave to be friends #
• bcoleman. I’d pseudo stalk you any day. Always interesting. Always posting #

The Illusionist typography

Watched the Illusionist last night and really enjoyed it. I was intrigued by the opening and closing typography. You typophiles out there, can you ID this font? I’m especially loving the script capital letter. Found a nice Flickr set of images here.

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Twitter Updates for 2007-08-18

• surprise party for Matt #
• used "d timer 30 turn off water" command on twitter to again remind me to turn of the hose for my trees. that’s twice, and no flooded yard! #
• Meg’s out with G for the morning… I’m hanging with my little girl. (she’s currently playing in her closet with her shoes, fitting). #
• My bro and his wife just headed into the hospital. New nephew, here you come! #
• we’re hanging out in the delivery room with Kelly. no nephew yet. #
• Kelly’s at 9cm now… baby Branson will be here soon. #
• baby Wilson ("the Branson") is still on his way. Talk of forceps was mentioned… I’d rather not know. #
• sitting outside room, hearing a baby cry #

Branson Gaines Wilson

Welcome to the world, Branson Gaines Wilson. Born at 5:07pm, August 18. 8lb, 1oz., and 21inches long. Jason (my brother) and Kelly are the proud parents of a beautiful baby boy; mother and baby are doing fine. Meg and I are a proud aunt and uncle of our first nephew.

twitter tools

I’m loving this Twitter thing… micro blogging. Funny how actual blogging has become too tedious, not “real time” enough. Now it’s been reduced to 140 characters, and immediate. Unfortunately, their site seems to flake every now and again. So I’ve been using Twitterific for the Mac.

If you’re a Firefox fella (or lady), I’d recommend Twitbin. Or look at the other tools available.

paper skull

For a fun craft, I made this paper skull yesterday on my day off. I’ve seen th Readymech paper toys for a while and have never attempted to try them. I think I may like to try some more, now. I’ve always liked origami, but the whole “no glue, no scissors” thing made it more difficult than I have time for.

Some other paper toys: Readymech, Speakerdog Paper Toys

new house

I want to live here.

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