Saturday, November 26

Happy Willis Carrier Day!

Willis CarrierToday we once again remember
Willis Carrier
on his birthday
and pay homage to this great man
who made life in the tropics and
deserts more bearable.

Willis Carrier, 1876-1950,
the father of modern air
conditioning ~ link

Every drop

Newsong Church Bangkok harmonizes.

Oh my

Wednesday, November 23

Jumping flea watch

It's a Kala UBass. The bass is built on a baritone uke box. It's such a warm sound.

Friday, November 18

I love the Netherlands

It's so quiet... and the city buzz is so different.


Have we considered bikes as a response to the hearing-loss epidemic we're experiencing?

Jumping flea watch

Jake Shimabukuro (Ukulele) and Charles Yang (Violin) team up to play "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"

Tuesday, November 15

Jumping flea watch

Courtney Welbon sing's Hamlet's "To Be or Not to Be" soliloquy

Wednesday, November 9

9 years ago today,

on November 9, 2002. I put up the first post on this blog. The whole concept of blogs was still somewhat new and people thought it a bit egotistical that a blogger might be be trying to tell everyone else how to think about the world.

In my first post I wrote about "Donald Bloesch's new book THE CHURCH: SACRAMENTS, WORSHIP, MINISTRY, MISSION (IVP, 2002)." I also mentioned a new personal portable table that I bought at Costco. Subsequently that table moved with us to Guam and back to the States. And I still use it daily. I don't pull Bloesch's book off the shelf daily -- but regularly. In my mind it is still the best theological overview of the church, sacraments, worship, and ministry.

Dr Bloesch's passing, just over a year ago, was worth a mention here, too.

No one knows what will happen to the blog. I've begun to shift a lot of the more random posts over to Google Plus, which seems more suited for such things. The concept of push button publishing is definitively in transition but the blog should be around for at least a little while longer.