The Green Bag

We had special guest speakers for both the Ignited and adult services at church last Wednesday night: former University of Michigan Defensive Tackle Shawn Lazarus and former Ohio State University Defensive Tackle Joel Penton. In the spirit of college football rivalry, we were encouraged to wear the colors of our favorite teams. Not being a big sports fan, my choices were limited to Detroit Red Wings or my Orrville Football shirt from when we all came to see Tom's game against Wooster.

I’ve decided I want to record the fun I’ve had this evening for posterity, for whatever that’s worth, so it’s blog time again.

First, of course, I have to set up the scene.

With all of the recent posting of retro catalogs and other novel items from the 1970's, [url=http://www.pointlessmuseum.com/museum/usbornebookofthefutureindex.php]The Usborn Book of the Future[/url] really jumped out at me when it showed up on my newsfeeds late last month. First published in 1979, this book offered "A trip in time to the year 2000 and beyond. See the robots, machines and cities of the future, and then travel to the stars."

Every Four Years, It’s Embarrassing to Live in Florida

Honestly, I don’t know what’s wrong with this state. Or maybe it isn’t just Florida – maybe it’s just Florida issues that I read about in the Orlando Sentinel. But, if I remember correctly, the whole “chad” business was reported nationally in 2004, when it held up Bush from assuming the victory in the Presidential Elections that year.

By an interesting coincidence, this morning's SF Chronicle had an article on research done by Doty Horn of Benjamin Moore paint company on the most popular colors of the last four decades. I laughed when I saw all the browns that were popular in the 1970s but then a few minutes later I was at my computer browsing the catalog pages that Jenni loaded into her gallery. When I saw that lovely all beige outfit with the blouse with the bow, I decided I wanted to share the article on the most popular colors with you.

Got the Nov 9 edition of OrrViews today. On page 18 there's an announcement about the Thanksgiving praise service and auction on Thanksgiving Day, November 22, at the Kidron Salem Mennonite Church. Immediately, I was back in that old, cold schoolhouse across the road from the church, watching all the people bidding on the items that had been donated.

Since Micah's shot of my new do wasn't very clear, I thought I'd pass these on...

So, just taking a few minutes to bang out a "real" blog posting. I've wanted to blog about our train trip to DC and other exciting things, but haven't had time to write a proper blog entry in what seems like ages.

In the meantime, I've continued micro-blogging in a couple of different ways. As always, my links on del.icio.us continue to be a history of interesting stuff I've been reading and silly videos I've watched. I've also joined Twitter, and I'm using that as a true micro-blog. One-liner postings that fly off the fingers with very little thought or composition, just to capture thoughts of the moment.

And I've become one of those creepy old people who've joined facebook.

Saw this in Monday's paper, and immediately thought of Ryan!

This entry has been brewing since last fall, when Luanne emailed her report of Vicki and Allen's visit during their train trip, and Luanne had mentioned the band that was playing "the jazz that Vicki and I both love."

I think it's safe to say that I've been primarily a classic rock kinda guy since moving here to the Motor City back in 8th grade. But I have always liked good music of just about any genre, and having played some jazz in my high school days, have a fondness for certain types of jazz as well.

Of course, most of the music I listen to nowadays would be properly labeled Contemporary Christian. Granted, my tendencies there still lie more towards rock sounds like Third Day and Petra (with former Head East singer John Schlitt), while Marissa would prefer the edgier sounds of Stellar Kart or eleventyseven.

Unfortunately for me, I have just enough adult-onset ADD (or more likely ADT that I'm easily distracted when trying to listen to talk or music with lyrics when I'm trying to work. This is especially true when I'm typing, and even more so when I'm programming.