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Top 5 SNL cast members – yours and mine

6/28/2008 — 2 Comments

Question: Who are your 5 five SNL cast members and why?

  1. Kristin Wiig – Her Penelope character cracks me up — every single time.
  2. Darrell Hammond – I think he’s spot on with his impressions, especially of Bill Clinton.
  3. Jimmy Fallon – nothing beats the Fallon in the Cowbell Skit.
  4. Will Ferrell – Not a big fan of any of his movies except for Stranger Than Fiction, but how can you not have him in the top five for his Cowbell fame.
  5. Chris Farley – All I have to say is: Chippendales with Patrick Swayze and A Van Down By the River.
In entertainment, polls
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Amazing Secret Lego Vault

6/24/2008 — 2 Comments

Well before I got my first computer in 1987, I was completely enthralled with Lego.  When I happened on this Gizmodo post in my Google Reader today, I think I had a heart palpitation.  How cool would it be to see a vault of all Lego sets released since 1958?  Wow.

If you can’t get enough Lego info, check out Brickset Lego reference site.  Here’s another site of instruction book scans that I mentioned in a previous blog post.

In nerdery
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The “sex-sells” slippery slope

6/11/2008 — Leave a comment

Being the father of a 11 year-old daughter and a 9 year-old son, I’m not all that happy with what’s on TV and at the movies lately. Seems like the entertainment industry has slipped a little farther down the “sex sells” slippery slope.

Need I say more about the trampy Sex and the City movie — aka “the national IQ test for women“?

Have you noticed that the porn industry is a big part of mixed martial arts? Kimbo Slice’s porn sponsor, Tito Ortiz’s girlfriend, porn queen Jenna Jameson, etc.

Don’t look now, but it’s becoming more prime-time every week.

In entertainment
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The way church/community should be

6/11/2008 — Leave a comment

h/t gw

This article about community sums up a discussion i was having with my mom just last night around the campfire up here in beautiful Minnesota. We were discussing the sad story about the parents of an autistic boy who were suing their church to let them come back. (BTW, here’s some good perspective on that article here and here.)

You know, I can do without those that whine and complain about stuff at church. In fact, they make me mad. If all you care about is what you get out of it, then you’ll never be satisfied. Just do us all a favor and get out. It’s not really about what you want, it’s about Jesus and helping others get to know Him better.

I’m in Wanda’s shoes, but blessed with a family that God used to keep me from a lot of junk in my life. I want to be desperate to know Jesus better and not dragged down by all sorts of man-made expectations and charades. That’s not what’s important.

In church
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So long Twitter, a clarification

6/5/2008 — Leave a comment

Don’t get me wrong, I like the concept of Twitter.  Expect my twittering to pick back up as more people that I like to follow move to FriendFeed.com.  All I want is to see the tweets of those I follow in Google Reader.

In blogging, technology
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