I was 3rd in a Div of 10 in the Victoria Scrabble Tournament last Saturday. Not bad for being 4th seed, I'd say... what a weird distribution of wins, no one with 4 wins out of 7 (or 0, which is always nice too).
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Some YouTube-y goodness, or How Not To Sing (Edna, do we need one of these in the FBC Choir?...).
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I've occasionally thought about working out life on paper before living it. I called it brainstorming my life. "Editing" is shorter, though. Neat article, I particularly like this bit:
Miller concluded his talk by encouraging Christians to stop shouting about what they don't like -- and to focus, instead, on what they are for, and what they think is beautiful.
"We have to start telling better stories," he declared.
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Zoiks: my first blog entry as a married guy is about bad behaviour.
Just behind on a bunch of "breather" activities. It feels like we hit the ground running on many things when we got back.
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Entitlemania is the new social disease alluded to. I do so enjoy getting my news all grouped-up and commented on like this...
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My nephew Griffin got to run the bases after a Vancouver Canadians game where they scored 2 home runs! (because Griffin wanted to see homers!).
Griffin's in black. Sorry, not the best video quality...
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Two washroom ads (yes, they were actually in washrooms) placed in Pacific Coliseum.
Results:
1. A new Memorial Cup Tournament attendance record was set during the Semifinals, so the total eclipsed the previous mark set by venerable hockey town, Quebec City.
2. Washroom Ad 1 was liked so much by the media outlet, they placed it into the Province for us. And the issue it landed in was the one celebrating the BC Lions' Grey Cup victory.
3. The Vancouver Giants won the Memorial Cup in front of their home, defeating the Medicine Hat Tigers who had edged them in the WHL finals (Game 7 overtime) less than a month before. Is this the power of advertising?...
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It took me till the 7th Season to follow a full season from start to finish. These shows like 24, Heroes, Lost, they're a bit like homework. Anyway, I'm imagining Jack Bauer doing a "I'm not dead yet" like in Holy Grail. I could totally write for this show.
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Did they have you at "Free"?...
This is a pretty straightforward doc as far as letting people state their case. As much as the views are wide-ranging, I get some sense of grace, that the opposing sides express and are allowed to, and somehow it still works that we are all following Christ. In other words, it's a bit Canadian, isn't it?... It's an hour long but even the first interview with Tony Campolo plants a real interesting thought.
Clicking on the pic here links back to the blog post, then you scroll down to the movie where there's two or three options for download.
For free.
Interesting: this was originally posted on my birthday.
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The anchors at ESPN are showing what I'm sure are fairly typical reactions to this bit of annual surrealism. To think that eating 64 hot dogs in ten minutes is good for second...
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ThatGuyLam is the Communications & Tech guy at First Baptist Church in downtown Vancouver. He likes to play with words: 1) in writing communications for the church online and on good ol' fashioned paper; 2) by graphic designing those words and obsessing over kerning and leading; 3) by spending remaining free time on Scrabble® and other word games.
