I’m really liking this slideshow feature of Picasa web albums.

It was on the front porch of my grandmother’s house on 1317 Clay Street in Bowling Green, KY. When their was a gentle rain I used to grab the big, red, poofy pillow and go lay down on the porch swing and take a nap while listening to the rain.

Ahh man, now I’m getting all sentimental and wishing for another time and another place.

If you don’t hear from my by Monday morning…..

…. just wait longer.

Now really? Would you stop? Would you start?

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Haven’t we all either made and/or received a piece of art that was made from some kind of breakfast cereal, macaroni or other pasta or even dried beans?

Are we sending mixed signals?

I just found out about this article that talks about the Twitter offices and thought I’d show a photo of one of the workspaces.

What the photos didn’t capture is what’s really happening in this photo.

A quick shout out to my most recent twitter friend!

Apparently he’s not dead and according to his e-mail he has some connection to my high school alma mater.

That in and of itself is weird because the fraction of living people that have even heard of my high school would be miniscule.

That’s just the way I roll though.

I just found out he reads my blog, which shouldn’t really surprise me but it made me think.

Do I post stuff I wouldn’t want my pastor to read?

I don’t think I do or would. I’m generally unconcerned with what people think about what I think. Does it make a difference?

I know it was a little thought-inspiring when I found out some members of my extended family read my blog. I know they don’t understand how I think or why many times.

The question still remains. Will I blog any differently knowing my pastor is reading?

Would or do you blog differently if your pastor or family read your blog?

Most people don’t get it or understand the value. Honestly, sometimes it’s hard to think about the real value as well, but here’s three instances that have made me love it:

1. In Austin at SXSW ‘08 the b5media crew used twitter to let each other know where everyone was. We used it to schedule meetups (tweetups), lunches, dinners, rides back to the ranch, and to communicate about what seminars and sessions were interesting.
2. If I’ve got a quick question about something, sometimes I’ll post it to twitter now instead of immediately going to Google and finding the answer. The difference here is that the answer I’ll be getting in return has now been filtered into a group of people (those I follow and follow me) that I trust for some reason and are probably involved in similar interests and activities as I am.
3. The opportunity to be introduced and meet new people is also cool. I’ve yet to make it to an IndyTweetup, but one of these days I will.

With all of that being said, Cherie just shared with me an interesting article about a church that did a Twitter Church service:

So we started wondering, what would it be like to bring the Twitter kind of participation into Fusion in the same way we would think through any other worship interactive—something that gets people involved in what is happening—so Fusion isn’t happening “to” them but rather “with and because of and through” them.

After just working on the redesign of our own church website and thinking about ways to increase what we offer online through podcasts and blogs, the idea of reaching exponentially more people through our website and online experience than we do in our actually church buildings on Sundays is interesting.

Now, I’m coming farther away from the idea of church happening on Sundays and realizing that church needs to be happening every day in our lives and with everyone around us. Twitter isn’t going to replace real-live, in-the-flesh relationships. But it does provide us the opportunity to touch more lives than we actually can in the flesh as well.

What do you think?

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It seems I’ve been “character typed” for many dramas in our church. Fine with me. I have fun with it.

I was told yesterday that Dan (my co-star) are the Bob & Larry of the real world. I’ll take that as a compliment because I am pretty close to being a vegetable already and Larry does great work.