Author: Jesse
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Greetings from hot and sticky Bacolod City! Ross informed me yesterday that we’re so blessed to have arrived during the cool season. *Cue deadpan stare* Some of the stuff I’ve seen here is surreal: fields and fields of sugar cane, clouds low hung over volcanoes, Filipino children riding caribows (water buffaloes) and entire communities made... Read More
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Midnight, EST Lift off from JFK. Plane was late out of the gate. Rode in a 747 for the first time, sitting directly in the middle of the center row. Seating was cramped, but I slept through most of the flight. When the sun finally appeared and woke me, I saw nothing but cloud cover... Read More
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Goodbye, USA. Manilla, here I come. For those of you not in the “my-own-little-world” loop, my wife and I are heading to the Philippines to help one of our missionaries and speak at some local schools and universities. I’m going to be sans phone and my email access will be spotty, so if you really... Read More
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Evelyn Glennie: Listening To Music With Your Whole Body
The category I had to file this in was unfortunate. Evelyn Glennie shares a powerful, stirring talk about experiencing music with more than just the ears. Her combination of explanation and demonstration is particularly memorable because she’s a deaf percussionist. That doesn’t keep her from painting a beautiful portrait of sound and our perception of... Read More
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This is way too much fun to pass up.
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Ordination: Ministerial Confirmation or Religious Hoop-jumping?
In just under a month, I’ll be sitting in a room, surrounded by a group of my elders. For several hours they’ll be questioning me. Then at the end we’ll all eat. No, it’s not my Bar Mitzvah. July 28th is my ordination council. For those of you unfamiliar with the process of ordination, it’s... Read More
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I’d love to be there when some guy tries the “we could make sweet music together” pick up line on Frou Frou (y’know, Imogen Heap). From Wikipedia: “The boarding school she was sent to lacked students wishing to pursue music and Heap clashed with the music teacher. His idea of punishment was to leave Heap... Read More
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Hope the crickets chirping over here at my blog didn’t scare anyone off. I caught this little mantis to make sure the crickets don’t come ’round again. (Ain’t he cute?) For those wondering whether I’d turn up dead along some abandon interstate in Alabama, thanks for the cards, emails and blog post suggestions. I’ve been... Read More
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File this in the “wish-I’d-thought-of-this” category. Coudal Partners came up with a great game. Mash up band names in with classic books. The results are hilarious. Some of my faves: Motley Crüsoe; Nickolas Nickelback; Green Day and Ham; The Faerie Queensryche; Rabbit, Run D-M-C; Chicken Soup for the Soul Asylum; Little Richard III; Megadeth of... Read More
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Isn’t it funny when nature reflects life? Now don’t read into that statement that my life is bad. It’s really cool, sort of like running through a hailstorm (put that on your list of things to do before you die, trust me). Lots of cool stuff in the works right now, unfortunately not enough time... Read More
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MTTags.com: A Handy Reference For Movable Type Template Tags
Update: MTTags.com is no more, sadly. I’ve had a hard time finding my way around the current Movable Type documentation, especially the tag reference, and I’ve heard some others saying the same thing; so I put together a new site that lets you get at all of the tags in a number of different... Read More
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Maybe it’s just me, but I’m crazy OCD about my desktop wallpaper. It can’t be so loud that it distracts from my icons, and yet I can’t seem to settle for black. For a few years there, I had a subscription to Digital Blasphemy, and got some truly fantastic wallpaper, but it was so pretty... Read More
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Movable Type 4.0 Beta Wallpaper
Show your colors with this durable, pre-shrunk, poly-cotton blend wallpaper: /assets/mt4-1680.jpg /assets/mt4-1280.jpg /assets/mt4-1024.jpg /assets/mt4-800.jpg
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10 Ways Movable Type 4 Will Rock Your Blog
It was 5 am, and I was headed off to bed after pulling an all-nighter on a client’s project; and who of all people writes me, but Arvind sending over the news that MT 4 beta has just gone public. I couldn’t let this one go without saying something. While it’s by no means the... Read More
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Life is a merry-go-round, and we are all looking inward. But time and decay eventually have their way with us and our senses are dulled, our beauty fades, and we can no longer hold to it. We’ve solved every need of man except the one that matters most; so in the face of death and... Read More
