Ping.fm is a great web app I just signed up for that basically networks all of your social networking sites. Install the iGoogle widget and update Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, ect. all at the same time.
Ping.fm is still in beta, but I was given a beta code when I signed up. So if you want to give it a try, the code is "pingyoulater."
Have you heard about this website? For a fee, parents can put this bumper sticker on their teens car and the website will send the parents incident reports when someone files a report against the car.
I'll be the first to say that some teens are bad drivers, but this has to be one of the worst things a parent can do. In youth ministry especially I deal with a great number of people have bad opinions of all teenagers. Sure, teens do dumb things sometimes, (like drive crazy) but so do people my age.
It seems to me like another way to single out and pick on teenagers. By the time high school students begin driving, usually there is only 2 years before they are off to college on their own. Shouldn't that time be used for the teenager to learn the importance of driving safe because they value their life and the lives of others? Not because a stranger might tell on them.
Speaking of, how can the site prove the complaint is truthful anyway?
This more I think about it, the worse this idea gets.
A 15 year old kid was smoking pot in his backyard and his dad caught him.
So dad has decided to sell his son's Christmas present (Guitar Hero III) on eBay.
Every teenager is wanting this game for Christmas this year. It is almost impossible to find. You know this kid has to be upset that his poor decisions are going to cost him the game he wanted so much.
I don't know how effective this is going to be, but I like the Dad's creative, swift action.
Nicole and I (unknowingly) participated this year.
It was much more fun staying home, watching the guys down home in Arkansas beat the top team in the nation.
Tomorrow is Washington and Washington State battle for the Apple Cup. Neither team has had a great year, but they seem to match up pretty well. Should be a good game. I'm just going to pull for whoever gets behind first.
Wikipedia says that a pet peeve is a minor annoyance that can instill great frustration in an individual.
Here is one of mine.
I read something today that said "Check out my blogs at..." and something else that said "I have a series of blogs on this..."
You have a blog, you don't write blogs. Calling each individual post its separate blog, thereby creating a collection of blogs makes absolutely no sense to me.
Right?
I have no idea why that bothered me so much.
I forget just how far the Internet has come...
EDIT: Video on YouTube was removed due to copyright.
Today I recorded one of those daytime court reality shows for the first time ever.
Because I just had to see Shannon Whisnant explain why he should be allowed to keep another mans leg.
If you have no idea what I am talking about, I wrote here and here about the most bizarre and funniest thing I have ever heard on the radio in my life.
In case you just have to know how this thing turned out. Shannon Whisnant was not granted custody of the leg. Which I think is a good ruling. We should not be in the business of selling body parts, no matter how you come into possession of them.
But in a weird twist I did not see coming, the man who owned the foot was ordered to pay Shannon $5000 to compensate him for the lost wages he will not be able to collect by charging people to get a look at the leg.
I guess you can't make this stuff up.
There has to be some way I can use this story in youth ministry...
Rowan Atkinson has to be one of the most talented people in the world. This is one of the most impressive things I have seem in awhile.
As I have written about before, Doctors have stopped treating Tammy Faye Messner's cancer and she has began her journey home.
While I am far from charismatic, I have nothing but respect for this woman. She is loved more in non-Christian circles than she is in many Christian circles, and that is impressive.
Just a couple of days ago, she posted yet another message from her deathbed. This message, in its entirety, has appeared on several celebrity blogs in the past few days. It's kinda sad when people who gossip for a living have nicer things to say about someone than many people in the church. The beautiful thing is that the tens of thousands of people who read those celebrity blogs everyday, spent a couple of minutes reading about a dying woman giving praise to Jesus.
That makes me smile.
July 16, 2007
My Dear Friends,
It has been such a long time since I've written and I am so sorry for the long delay. I have been in bed for almost a year now. I have times when I feel good and times when I feel really bad. But, I have learned one thing about feelings. They have NOTHING TO DO WITH FAITH IN GOD!! He is the SAME yesterday, today and forever. He NEVER changes. That is what the Bible says and God's word does not lie EVER!
There have been many days when I felt so terrible with my back and stomach, that I have hardly been able to breath. I cry out to the Lord knowing that many of you are praying for me. In spite of it all, I get dressed and go out to eat. I may only be able to eat one bite, or sometimes ten bites, but I swallow each bite in "faith believing". There are MANY times it doesn't stay with me long at all, but I keep trying and HE helps me.
My daughter is here a lot of the times to give me my medications and to make sure I don't forget. When I got sick, she literally moved in and gave me hugs and kisses that are so needful during this period of ones life. She said, "I want to take care of my Mom". I gave her the last couple weeks off to go home and spend time with her children, James and John. They are well taken care of while Sissy is gone. My girlfriend, Deborah has been staying with me for the past 3 weeks. We have been friends for thirty years, so we know each other well! She gave Tammy Sue some much needed rest and she has taken up where Sissy left off. She will be here for two more weeks. How grateful I am to have such strong, loving, support around me. Then of course, there is my wonderful husband! We moved from Charlotte, N.C. to Kansas City, Missouri. He came here every weekend to build me a new house and when I got here, it was ready to move into, bed and all!! They had it beautiful and it is the most beautiful home I have ever seen. He has wanted to build me a house for 13 years, and I finally let him! His children and grandchildren have come every weekend to visit us, and it is so much fun! Someone I cannot forget is a friend named Daina. She worked so hard, I thought she was going to get sick. Bless her heart. I have to have help eating, bathing, doing my hair, taking my medicine, and help just getting comfortable, which is really hard for me to do.
I try really hard to eat and keep the food down, but sometimes, it is like my throat would just shut down on me, and the food comes right back up. So through all the prayers, I have finally gained some weight. I have gone from 60 pounds, to 65, for which I am very thankful.
I ask in great humbleness that you pray that I will be able to eat without it coming back up. I crave hamburgers and french fries with LOTS of ketchup! When I can eat that again, it will be a day of victory!
In closing, I want you to know that I am praying for you and your loved ones and I am believing God for complete healing. God is a healer of EVERYTHING!
I will let you know when I get to eat my hamburger! HA!
Love,
Tammy Faye has just written this very touching letter on her website, giving thank and asking for prayers.
She's ready to surrender herself to God's hands.
May 8, 2007
My Dear Faithful Friends,
Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, 4th of July and several birthdays of family and friends. Envelopes have become separated, or they are still in piles all over the place to send as yet. I have been on so much medication, so many have been trying to help with thank-you notes......I don't know.
Thank you for the rooms full of flowers, the tables full of cards, and beautiful little gifts laying everywhere. Thank you so much! I know I have missed so many gifts I should have sent for these special occasions. And then, trusting God to heal my sick stomach. Please try to understand.
The doctors have stopped trying to treat the cancer and so now it's up to God and my faith. And that's enough! But please continue to pray for the pain and sick stomach.
My precious daughter, Tammy Sue, and her wonderful friends are staying with me while Roe builds churches. They don't want me falling down the stairs. I am down weight wise to 65 pounds, and look like a scarecrow. I need God's miracle to swallow.
To those of you who are suffering as I....."don't give up"!! Make up your mind you're going to LIVE !! That is NOT EASY! The path gets so long. I look at young people and wish with all my heart for just one day of "feeling great". You see, God gives out his promises, they do not lie, they do not fail. We do not have to BEG him for them, they are FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You CAN make it!
Love,
Tammy Faye
I never met her, but I wish I had. I was able to meet her son a couple of years ago.
Now, I really hope she goes home soon.
Led by Jesus, loved by Nicole, father of Jaxson, enthusiastic traveler, impulsive shopper, devoted Mac user, constant book reader, addicted to slurpees, enthralled with politics, captivated by pop culture, motivated by a God given love for teenagers, compelled by the call, passionate about youth ministry. This is my journey.
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