Tag: Dress Down Friday

Here are some of the things I’ve been enjoying this past week.

Like most everyone, I’m a huge Stranger Things fan. While we were in Atlanta last week for a visit with family we stopped by to see Starcourt Mall. 😉

The Adapt podcast is a new tech podcast from Relay FM that is focused completely on iPadOS and using iPad as your main device. I personally am too wedded to my MacBook Pro to make go iPad only, but I really like the podcast because I learn a lot of iPad tips and tricks. I’ve enjoyed all the episodes but I found this one on creating eBooks on the iPad to be particularly interesting, as was this episode on OCR.

I’ve got some fun links to share today:

I read Austin Kleon’s book “Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad” and really enjoyed it. It came at a good time for me where I feel that my creativity has been languishing and as a friend told me recently, creativity is my oxygen. I like how Kleon gives some very simple and actionable ideas for helping keep these pieces alive. I found it a lot like his other books, which I also enjoyed, full of good quotes, great pictures, and things that make me slow down and think. 

Stephen Colbert’s recent interview about the power of comedy in the face of politics and how faith and morality play into his making sense of the world today.

She walks.

Is the music you’re listening to making you dumber? (HT: Hoopes)

Here’s an interesting article about being Carbon Neutral on a Shoestring. (HT: Emily)

Flourish: a new group for creation care that targets churches and families.

Go Humans go? What does that even mean?

10 sites for book lovers.

Capes!

We all knew it was true:

For those of you in the Southern California area the upcoming Transforming Theology conference looks pretty interesting.

Cut and Paint.

Get your very own Žižek shirt here.

Are you a Christian Hipster? (HT: Cate)

Go away lego-hair guy.

Here’s to yet another Dress-Down Friday:

It’s Dress-Down Friday again, I hope you’ve got your sandles (or at least some flip-flops) ready.

Well I’m back after a four-week hiatus. It was nice having guests blog for me, felt like a little vacation. But I’ve been stocking up on links over the past four weeks so I had something good for show-and-tell. Here’s what we’ve got for today:

• Recently I ran across this post from lifehack.org offering10 Tricks to Get Your Writing Started, and then later I found a similar post on writing abstracts. And while we on the school kick, how many of you remember when the only way to do research was by using index cards?
• By now you’ve seen the Mac vs. PC commercials and there are some pretty funny parody’s out there of it. Take for instance these two “Christian or Christ Follower” videos here’s part one and part two [via Zach].
• Here’s a really cool article on Woody Allen’s typography.
• Oh and check out this really cool non-profit Buy Shoes, Save Lives. There you can purchase hand made shoes that help to fund heart surgeries for children in Iraq.
• Did you ever have a Monchhichi? I used to, and we found it the other day for the the baby. It made for a great picture. And if you don’t remember, does this commercial help job your memory?
• And finally, something for the office.

Big thanks to Wess for inviting the guest post for today’s Dress Down Friday! With Wess’ recent endorsement of Obama, I decided to take DDF in a political direction. For me, following the 2008 election is like watching a good soap opera. I’m completely addicted.

Say What?! :: Obama’s music video by Will.i.am has a sister video that my friend Matt affectionately calls “Cien Anos.” It’ll have you laughing for the next week – bbaaabbbbyyy. Thanks, Cate for the link.

I’ve got Obamaphilia :: When Joel Stein wrote that he wanted to install a urinal in his house, I became addicted to reading his Friday Op Eds. Be sure to read his most recent – Obamaphilia on the rise.

Bush-Clinton Forever :: During the last democratic debate, a 38-year old voter stated that she had never voted in an election without a Clinton or Bush on the ballot. I must admit it’s a damn good point to consider. This clever fellow writes that we could potentially have a Bush or Clinton in the White House until 2057. Vote Chelsea in 2025!!!!

Obama Girl is a huge disappointment. The first video was OK (ridiculously sexist, but funny.) Since then, Barely Political has released a few other video. I can’t even make it through the first ten seconds. It’s like a really bad version of home videos my girlfriends made in high school. Don’t even bother watching.

That’s all for now! Vote Obama 2008. (I guess this is my official endorsement!) I hope I don’t get fired from my non-partisan organization for this post!

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Holly is our last dress down friday guest for awhile, so be sure to check out her blog. Thanks Cate, Ben, Josh and Holly for participating.

Here is this week’s installment of Dress Down Friday.

• The Prius just turned 10! I can’t believe it’s been around this long already.
• Did you know that philosophers play soccer? Neither did I, but I guess some of the old standbys do. Oh and don’t forget the song about them.
• I swear I see something like this every time I am on the 5.
• Had a friend send me this site, it’s a parody news page with your favorite (and some infamous) celebrities writing whatever it is that’s on their minds.
• For all those of you interested in fashion and design, a good friend of ours has a really great blog going called the looksee. I really like what she’s doing.
• If you’re interested in free, and by free I mean It’s not going to cost you $150, check out the new online word-processor called Buzzword by Adobe. I used it yesterday to write an article and it works pretty well. It is a little sluggish and just like all the other online processors it doesn’t do footnotes (which means I am not really going to use it for much) but otherwise I liked it’s overall functionality.
• For those of you interested in finding an alternative to itunes, look here.
• And finally, here’s a neat website dedicated to the letters of those who have left our various churches and why. Think of it as a kind of open letter to how the church can do better.