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So my room mate francis was chasing me around the house with a can of oust and a lighter. So I threw a potted plant and and nailed him in the head. Then I had to vacuum.

Kevin has asked us to start preparing some 10-minute teachings for fellowlaborers (that website needs ssome updating) that we can have ready to go for a future fellowship. I’ve had a few ideas floating around in my head, but I havn’t settled on one yet.

I somewhat intend to do all of these, but I’m open to suggestions on what people would like to hear and which to focus on first:

Keeping the right mindset

Philippians 4:8
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

I love that verse :)

Ten Nine Ten

I think this is one everybody should have some bit of info on :)

Romans 10:9 & 10
9 that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Rick Rohl teaches this beautifully, so I might go to him when studying..

Gifts of healing

I’d probably start in

I Corinthians 12:9b
to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;

Not sure where I’d go from there…

To another // all 9 all the time

Related to that last one; I’d like to study this phrase some and get a better understanding of it for myself.

I Corinthians 12:8-11
8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
9 to another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
10 to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
11 but all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

Finding your longsuit

I think Kevin summed this up as “do what you love”, but I’d like to study it a bit further..

So that’s what I’ve got at the moment. what do you guys think?

http://www.musicovery.com/ found via news.YC

I ♥ Onion News

In The Know: Are America’s Rich Falling Behind The Super-Rich?

So both Eric Ditmer and Blue Bay Electronics can collectively fall under the title “bag of dicks”.

Eric bought an xbox 360 off of ebay from blue bay electronics after seeing them on ebay. It arrived, broken.

Eric had a bitch of a time getting ahold of the company to get it replaced. No phone number, no email responses, nothing.

Since he bought it through their website and not ebay, he couldn’t leave negative feedback. This is a sadly common ebay scam.

So out of frustration, Eric set up bluebaysucks.com (currently off line). This site fucking railed them. Mostly with either facts eg. “they don’t have a phone number on their site” or quotes from other unhappy people eg. “blue bay sucks“.

At some point Eric actualy got in touch with blue bay. He explained to them that the xbox was broken, as well as missing the wireless controller. So they had him send it back and then they would mail him a new one.

Eric sent back the broken xbox and kept the perfectly working wireless controller. (Remember, I said they both fall into the penis satchel category.) They sent a good xbox back and another good controler.

So Eric now has a good working xbox and a spare controller. Bluebay has a new “fan site”, bluebaysycks.com. Because Eric advertised said “fansite” on any other blog he could find complaining about blue bay electronics, it got pretty good google rankings in a short period of time.

Today the president of blue bay electronics called eric AT WORK* and talks all nice to him and emails him a $50 coupon for their site. Whatever.

Eric, takes the website offline as a sign of good faith and (remember, dickbag) responds with something along the lines of “hey, that’s pretty mice but an ipod video would be even better.”

So now blue balls electronics is sending eric dickmer a free 30 gig ipod video. Bag of Dicks.

*my company, iBoomerang, is actualy pretty good when it comes to customer service. For example, a blind rabbit could find our phone number within two minutes of visiting the website.

It be Talk Like a Buccaneer day September 19th!

Check out the Original International Talk Like a Pirate Day site

One of me ol’ favorites be their instructional How-To’s, suchas the pickup lines for Pirates and lady-pirates:

Top Ten Pickup lines for use on International Talk Like a Pirate Day

10 . Avast, me proud beauty! Wanna know why my Roger is so Jolly?

9. Have ya ever met a man with a real yardarm?

8. Come on up and see me urchins.

7. Yes, that is a hornpipe in my pocket and I am happy to see you.

6. I’d love to drop anchor in your lagoon.

5. Pardon me, but would ya mind if fired me cannon through your porthole?

4. How’d you like to scrape the barnacles off of me rudder?

3. Ya know, darlin’, I’m 97 percent chum free.

2. Well blow me down?

And the number one pickup line for use on International Talk Like a Pirate Day is …

1. Prepare to be boarded.

Top Ten Pickup Lines for the Lady Pirates

By popular demand …

10. What are YOU doing here?

9. Is that a belayin’ pin in yer britches, or are ye … (this one is never completed)

8. Come show me how ye bury yer treasure, lad!

7. So, tell me, why do they call ye, “Cap’n Feathersword?”

6. That’s quite a cutlass ye got thar, what ye need is a good scabbard!

5. Aye, I guarantee ye, I’ve had a twenty percent decrease in me “lice ratio!”

4. I’ve crushed seventeen men’s skulls between me thighs!

3. C’mon, lad, shiver me timbers!

2. RAMMING SPEED!

…and the number one Female Pirate Pick-up Line:

1. You. Pants Off. Now!

And if yer not in the mood to be talkin like a pirate yerself, go log into meebo.com and type pirateon into any chat. It’l turn on talk like a pirate mode and it gives yer conversations some interesting twists!

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also, some random tid-bits that I posted to facebook, and therfore did not show up on myspace or my blog:

September 11th bits
One Nation Under God by Daniel J. Lewis

In memorial of September 11, 2001, I pulled this old song from my library. I arranged this piano piece in 2002, I believe, and named it in response to the liberal oppositions to “one nation under God” appearing in our pledge.

This is a beautiful song. Please take a listen.

Jesus Christ Our Promised Seed - When Was He Born?
Happy birthday Jesus Christ!

Other random bits
From the facebook group I Just Tried To Ford the River and My Fuckin Oxen Died:

Pronobzo - bitchin breakdancing music!
I ? this cd! And he sent me a copy for free because I had bought the sampler and asked him to autograph it a while back!

The alternative title to this would be “I <3 my roommates!" but I think "Hi and shit..." is funnier and more descriptive. No, really.

You see, I was out and about all weekend, first hangin with Ashleigh, then helping out at the church.
But somewhere along the lines my roomies and I had a conversation where people just saying “hi and shit” was mentioned and we decided it’d be funny if somebody sent out emails saying nothing more than “hi and shit”. And then I promptly forgot about it.

But apparently not Francis. because this morning I get into work and I have TWO emails that read as follows:

From: Francis Cardullo
Subject: Hi
Body: Shit…

And this made me laugh enough that I thought I’d share it.