Chasing Daylight

Making the move...

noreply@blogger.com (Zac) — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:08:00 +0000

Well it is official...I have done what many others have done. I have moved to wordpress. The address www.zacwheeler.com

I am still working on the look and adding posts and some other stuff, but please bare with me.

Video of the Week

noreply@blogger.com (Zac) — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 03:58:00 +0000

Here is a family documentary made by Jessica Tankersley. She is gifted up and coming filmaker. Be sure to check out her series of short films on marriage, at her blog.

Namaste

Should I or Shouldn't I?

noreply@blogger.com (Zac) — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 03:49:00 +0000

I have been contemplating switching over to wordpress for some time now. Over the past few months I have been seeing more and more people switch over and share that they are so glad that they did. I think that I might just have to take the leap. I just want to make sure that I could even work wordpress. I will just have to do some more homework.

Watching

noreply@blogger.com (Zac) — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 03:33:00 +0000

I just got done watching the entire third season of "Arrested Development". Let me just say that if you have not yet partaken in this show, you are missing out.

This show is complete genius. Great writing, and an excellent cast. I can't believe that this show was cancelled. It has a huge following, but I guess not enough to keep it going. Maybe a ton of people will buy the seasons on DVD and it will come back like "Family Guy".

Go out and check this show out. You will not be sorry.

Oh and the best line of the show is..."hey brother", by the youngest Bluth son Buster, who is probably the best character on the show. It is a toss up between him and Gob.

Namaste

STUCK

noreply@blogger.com (Zac) — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 01:27:00 +0000

Have you ever had a song stuck in your head? It happens to me quite often, but I must admit that it has not happened like this. Last week I was watching a short film called "the beautiful bagleys" and there was a certain song in it that I had heard before but have never known the title to, or the artist performing it. So I asked and found out, and then I immediately bought the album on iTunes. From there I proceeded to listen to the song over and over again. (which has put a strain on my marriage) Well the reason that I say all this is because I have been singing this song every moment of everyday for the past 4 days. I have even been singing this song in dreams. I must say that in my 27 years on this earth this is a first. This song has not gotten old and it is really stuck in my sub conscious, and I have the Tanks to thank for it. (Tank1, Tank2)

Oh...the song is "Orange Sky" by Alexi Murdoch.

A close call...

noreply@blogger.com (Zac) — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 01:11:00 +0000

I don't know about you, but I was a little nervous on Saturday. I thought that this was going to be just like last year. But it turned out good. The sooners won...and college football started on saturday. It doesn't get any better than this. I love this time of year.

Bill and Ted...

noreply@blogger.com (Zac) — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 00:52:00 +0000

Awhile back I had posted about something that I had learned from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. I have still been thinking about some of the things in that movie, so here is:

What would it mean to “be excellent to each other”? That is the statement that Bill S. Preston and Ted Theadore Logan make in the movie Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. I ask this because that bold statement could mean so many different things. The word “excellent” is different to everyone.

I agree with the statement. I try to live by it actually. I find that when I follow this way of living, I feel in harmony with life and that I am part of something bigger than myself. To be honest though there are times that I don’t want to be excellent to someone, and there are just so many people.

Let me give you an example. Today at work a woman came into the church and asked for help in paying for her and her sister to stay in a hotel room for the night. Actually she asked if we would pay for three nights in a hotel, at $77 dollars per night. We get so many people of the street asking for help that we must be very selective about who we help. So we leave the final say up to the Senior Pastor. The Pastor listened to her story and decided to help her by giving her $50. She stood there and got upset…she asked where she was going to get the other $22. I was just so shocked that she was not happier for what she got from us. People like this woman make it hard for me to be excellent to everyone. I start to become hardened to all people, telling myself that everyone is like this. I know that this statement is not true. But this is what I battle at times. But this brings me to my question. Can I be excellent to everyone? Do you think that it is possible?

Top Five...

noreply@blogger.com (Zac) — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 00:34:00 +0000

I am trying something that I hope will be the start of some great dialogue. It is not something deep, but it is something that can really say a lot about yourself. Every week I am wanting to post a different top five list about a special category, then you could comment on your top five in that subject.

So to kick this off I am going to go easy and give my top five movies: (not in order of importance)

Good Will Hunting
Life Aquatic
Garden State
Rushmore
Braveheart

Quote of the Week

noreply@blogger.com (Zac) — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 23:31:00 +0000

"The great use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."
-James Tuslow Adams

Video of the Week

noreply@blogger.com (Zac) — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:58:00 +0000

Here is a video I found earlier this week:

Design and Me

noreply@blogger.com (Zac) — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:42:00 +0000

I have been teaching myself html and other design stuff, and I am going to say that I am addicted. I am not good by any means but I am just hungry for information. I have always wanted to be a graphic designer. I think that is just a fascinating job. I have such respect for people who do this for a living. Well with all that said I have learned a few things, that I wanted to update you all on. I have learned how to make and install a favicon. I have learned how to post pictures in the sidebar of my blog, and just now I learned how to insert a banner as a Title (thanks to Tank), so make sure to tune in for that. But until then make sure to check out my favicon and to see the music that I am listening to on the sidebar.

(I know that for some of you this is a very small and simple accomplishment, but for me this is a rather large and time consuming step for me in my journey to becoming an weak amateur graphic designer)

Namaste

Congrats to the Winners

noreply@blogger.com (Zac) — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:12:00 +0000

I tried and I came up a bit short. I was hoping to win the blog banner giveaway contest at iamjoshbrown.com. I ended up getting third. I am not a poor sport, and I would like to give it up to the winner (Leslie) and the runner up (Joshua). You guys did a great job and I loved your strategy. Enjoy the spoils of war.

I also want to thank Josh for the shout out on his video.

Namaste

1,000,000

noreply@blogger.com (Zac) — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 04:59:00 +0000

You might win a million dollars if you go to iamjoshbrown.com/blog

(sorry subjects of earth not eligible to win the non-existent contest)

My Friday Night

noreply@blogger.com (Zac) — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 04:42:00 +0000

Well the wife and I went out this evening and caught the opening of "Invincible". I liked the movie. It was well written and the acting was good. I do wonder how much of it was true though. It was rather ordinary though and a lot like the movie "Rudy", actually it was exactly like the movie "Rudy". It was somewhat inspirational, but overall it was good. Oh and my wife was looking exceptionally nice this evening also.

A New Life?

noreply@blogger.com (Zac) — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 00:57:00 +0000

Sometimes I wish that I lived out in the middle of nowhere. I think that life would be easier if there was nobody else around. If anything went wrong, or everything sucked than I would have only myself to blame.

Would life be easier out in the middle of nowhere? I wonder if I would just trade one problem for another?

I will be there...

noreply@blogger.com (Zac) — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:38:00 +0000

This is one of two movies that I have to see the day that they come out. I will post about the other movie later. I don't know what it is about movies like this that really drive me. I think that is why I liked Garden State and Life Aquatic so much. They are stories of rebirth. Of taking the life that you find yourself in and risking everything for something better and real. This movie seems like that kind of movie as well, and it has a sweet soundtrack. I love movies with great soundtracks as well. Check it out:

IMPORTANT!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Zac) — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 03:00:00 +0000

I can't stress to you how important it is for you to go to this website.

Go to www.iamjoshbrown.com/blog/

Namaste

Quote of the Week

noreply@blogger.com (Zac) — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:06:00 +0000

”We are confronted with choices everyday, they are not always easy, or safe, but each choice that is placed before us has the potential to shape us into the people that we were created to be.”

YOU HAVE TO GO HERE!

noreply@blogger.com (Zac) — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:04:00 +0000

You have to go and check out this website.

Video Friday

noreply@blogger.com (Zac) — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 03:40:00 +0000

Inflation?

noreply@blogger.com (Zac) — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 03:59:00 +0000

Is it just me or did the price for these go up? For the past few months I have been saving for my first mac. Now it looks like I am going to have to do a little more saving. Does anyone know why the price went up on all the Mac Books?

Is it because of the rising price of oil? Did Steve Jobs scare up a little skirmish overseas so that he could hike up the mac book prices?

A Cool Update

noreply@blogger.com (Zac) — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 03:52:00 +0000

I was reading a post over at David's Bucket and it turns out that Flannel is releasing the video of "Everything is Spiritual". I think that this is a great thing. Rob talked so fast and said so much that there is no way anyone could remember everything. I thought that this was a great event to go to, and I think that this video would be a great thing to show off.

Movie Review: Taladega Nights

noreply@blogger.com (Zac) — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 03:02:00 +0000

Go and see this movie! There I said it. I don’t want to waste any of your time. This was an excellent movie, and not a waste of time at all. Stacy and I were very leary about going to see this film because we were afraid that they already showed all the funny scenes in the trailers. But there was plenty left to show and to laugh at.

Will Ferell is the man. He can take anything and make it funny. Unfortunately SNL has really dropped because he left. The sketches are really stupid and the writing is just horrible. But I really don’t think that the writing has changed, they just don’t have the cast to pull it off now.

Go see this movie!!

Link of the Day

noreply@blogger.com (Zac) — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:42:00 +0000

Here is the commercial:

Here is the link:

The Nick and Josh Podcast

A Quote from an Heiress...

noreply@blogger.com (Zac) — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 02:55:00 +0000

I was walking through the living room this evening and my wife was watching a special on MTV about Paris Hilton. I stopped for a moment to watch it because anything with Paris in it is so stupid that it is actually funny.

So she makes the statement, “everyone thinks that I am all about material stuff, but there is so much more to me than you know.”

Come on…there is nothing more to you than what we see. You are not deep at all. Well I should take that back. There is something deep about you…your wallet. But that is it.