Where's My Stapler?

noreply@blogger.com (WMS) — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:54:00 +0000

Interesting perspective change... Not being in a hurry, I was able to experience bad customer service through the eyes of the service provider. Sometimes, service providers just need us to understand they are having a bad day... Especially when someone can't even find a place to live and they're being hassled by people all around them. Some understanding and concern goes a huge way... Her final words to me "God is good and he's going to take care of me." -- true dat

Interesting perspective change

Interesting perspective change today... Not being in a hurry, I was able to experience bad customer service through the eyes of the service provider. Sometimes, service providers just need us to understand they are having a bad day... Especially when someone can't even find a place to live and they're being hassled by people all around them on their job. Some understanding and listening goes a long way... Her final words to me "God is good and he's going to take care of me." -- true dat

noreply@blogger.com (WMS) — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:47:00 +0000

Can't sleep 81 degrees in condo. Power out. AC out. Come on dominion power! Save my day!

Dominion power, HELP!

Can't sleep 81 degrees in condo. Power out. AC out. Come on dominion power! Save my day!

Excitement

noreply@blogger.com (WMS) — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:07:00 +0000

I'm starting to get excited. :)

Now our turn!

noreply@blogger.com (WMS) — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:55:00 +0000

RT: @risraelkloss unbelievable... our #1 influence ranking competitor (sysomos) just got bought for millions! Now our turn! Www.TunkRank.com http://ow.ly/1qG9te

noreply@blogger.com (WMS) — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:51:00 +0000

if you're in Portland, this would be a tremendous event: http://thementoringproject.org/night-with-don-1

Dessert with Don miller and William young!

if you're in Portland, this would be a tremendous event: http://thementoringproject.org/night-with-don-1

noreply@blogger.com (WMS) — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:42:00 +0000

Funny... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0rWe6HYx18

Funny

Funny... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0rWe6HYx18

noreply@blogger.com (WMS) — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:56:00 +0000

Tell me u dont see the symbolism... by Menomena --> http://ow.ly/1qFbuc

The machine we are taught to love...

Tell me u dont see the symbolism... by Menomena --> http://ow.ly/1qFbuc

noreply@blogger.com (WMS) — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:14:00 +0000

fascinating discussion about humanitarians being ashamed of the churches they come from: http://ow.ly/1qF0ky

Why are humanitarians ashamed of church?

fascinating discussion about humanitarians being ashamed of the churches they come from: http://ow.ly/1qF0ky

Rhymes with snapple...

noreply@blogger.com (WMS) — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:13:00 +0000

Take a guess where I am....

Rhymes with snapple

Take a guess where I am....

The existence of God part II

noreply@blogger.com (WMS) — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:37:00 +0000

When I was thinking about why I believe in God... at my very deepest point, I think it's because in some of my most jarring, painful times in life, that's where God suddenly becomes more then an intellectual abstraction to me... Where I BELIEVE he is. And where... HIM just BEING REAL makes the future (Even a future of pain) more bearable for me and even when I watch others suffer... there is a hope for them.... For me...

And call it a coping mechanism, but gimme THAT kinda coping over existential aloneness ANY day. There's often an undertone of arrogance that I've found in my embrace of the idea of profound, universal aloneness... I don't believe we are beings that are intended to be alone. And if all but one of us died, i dont think that person would be alone. often can't even prove that I'm alone in this universe... In fact, many people way more intuitive than me have said that nature even whispers to them the we indeed are very much inhabited by and surrounded by a Creator... in and around us everywhere. He's just more obvious during pain. Some of the times I've questioned God's existence is when I'm living life easy.

As I've tried to communicate with God during some of the worst times in my life, I've felt a presence ... a calm ... someone near me... someone even holding me in the pain. And THAT is more real than any philosophical abstract anyone has ever offered me for or against the existence of God.

C.S. Lewis said it this way: "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

The existence of God part I

noreply@blogger.com (WMS) — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:31:00 +0000

Excerpt from heading # 233 here: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/18269-h/18269-h.htm#SECTION_III

“God is, or He is not.” But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up... Which will you choose then? Let us see. Since you must choose, let us see which interests you least. You have two things to lose, the true and the good; and two things to stake, your reason and your will, your knowledge and your happiness; and your nature has two things to shun, error and misery. Your reason is no more shocked in choosing one rather than the other, since you must of necessity choose... But your happiness? Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is... If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is.

I believe he is for more than this argument. The deeper reason comes next.

noreply@blogger.com (WMS) — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:26:00 +0000

photo taken at Washington dulles airport-- as I thought, @ealdent's dog, daetalus, is a spy dog With his own plane and clearly works for BP. #fb

Location-aware relevant, temporary data!

noreply@blogger.com (WMS) — Fri, 14 May 2010 17:08:00 +0000

Imagine standing at the entrance of a restaurant and viewing their menu on your iPhone or entering a public library and being able to access their database. The minute you leave the library or the front of that restaurant, the app disappears so that you don't clog up your iPhone with hundreds of local business apps. http://ow.ly/1qxEu7

Funny

noreply@blogger.com (WMS) — Wed, 12 May 2010 17:23:00 +0000

http://share.videoegg.com/AXETwist

The origins of Mother's Day

noreply@blogger.com (WMS) — Sun, 09 May 2010 16:29:00 +0000

I like the references to the contradiction between the teachers and their followers. I'm not in agreement with the assessment of Islam as a hijacked religion as its founder was *not* peaceful from anything I've ever read about him. I will act peacefully toward Muslims, despite this fact. Am I wrong? Where are some records of Mohammed turning the other cheek? I'd like to know your thoughts.

Android on the Iphone! http://www.pcworld.com/article/195789/

noreply@blogger.com (WMS) — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:56:00 +0000

noreply@blogger.com (WMS) — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:05:00 +0000

This is my cycling route to work with elevation change -- via the imapmyride app!

my cycling route to work

This is my cycling route to work with elevation change -- via the imapmyride app!

the boy with the stripped pajamas

noreply@blogger.com (WMS) — Sat, 01 May 2010 03:22:00 +0000

I've had my uncle and his friend Larry Peabody in from seattle and staying for a week with me and Larry just introduced me to the movie "the boy with the stripped pajamas" --
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914798/

See it.
Just see it.

noreply@blogger.com (WMS) — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:53:00 +0000

click here to sponsor my fight against diabetes! I'm going to try the 30-mile bike ride!
http://www.newurl.us/u/?a=3700

trying the 30-mile bike ride!

click here to sponsor my fight against diabetes! I'm going to try the 30-mile bike ride!
http://www.newurl.us/u/?a=3700

noreply@blogger.com (WMS) — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:10:00 +0000

The hill most cyclists my weight can't do. DONE!
http://www.wheresmystapler.net/2010/04/hill-most-cyclists-my-weight-cant-do.html

The hill after the hill

noreply@blogger.com (WMS) — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:03:00 +0000

The hill after the hill... D-O-N-E

noreply@blogger.com (WMS) — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:19:00 +0000

The hill most cyclists my weight can't do. DONE!

noreply@blogger.com (WMS) — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:50:00 +0000

iPhone 4 revealed:
http://gizmodo.com/5520164/this-is-apples-next-iphone

iPhone 4 revealed

iPhone 4 revealed:
http://gizmodo.com/5520164/this-is-apples-next-iphone

noreply@blogger.com (WMS) — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:57:00 +0000

National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning for the D.C. area for this afternoon and evening. This means that conditions are ideal for the ignition of fires, and the rapid spread of fires. Citizens are advised to be extremely careful about any outdoor burning today (or postpone until another day.)

Red flag warning --DC area

LITTLE LIFE LESSONS FROM CYCLING

noreply@blogger.com (WMS) — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:55:00 +0000

Sometimes things are too easy to pursue.
To make progress, u have to increase the difficulty.
The right level of difficultly makes u want some things more.

"Overly-difficult" is just a goal that's not broken down.
When it's too hard, you're too ambitious.
Just downshift and take it in achievable bites.
Sometimes achievable bites means quitting temporarily.