Christmas Fun

Last year, Brian and I filmed a little Christmas greeting to the students of 180. It was silly and included a couple of nerds—us—dressing up like Santas.

Well, we hope this year is better. Hope you enjoy :)

180 Christmas 2008 from Brian Eberly on Vimeo.

Protesting Geeks

As one who codes in HTML/XML, I found this quite amusing. Thanks to Marko.

Fuel Halloween

Last night our high school group had a Halloween celebration.

As you can tell, I'm wearing a bio-hazard suit. I wore this costume about 6 years ago and remembered it was sitting in the supply closet of the youth room. My explanation for the suit was that I had to wear it after someone else used the bathroom.

We had many good times, but one of the funniest moments was watching 4 of our students attempt to eat a donut on a string while wearing a blindfold! The donut would bob and sway, hitting them in the face with its sticky exterior.

Next, we enjoyed a wonderful game of bobbing for gummy worms in Jell-O. :) Yes, disgusting. Even after all that Jell-O on my face, I took second. Each of us had 10 gummy worms in our bowl. By the time our winner found all ten, I had seven. Oh well, next time.

For those that opted out of the costume experience, we provided newspaper, masking tape and a team of people to dress them up right! Pictured here is the winner of the competition. They gave her spikes to make her into Bowser from the Mario Brothers games.

We ended the night discussing our group's new name: Fuel (That post is to come), and what we are passionate about.

Great animation

I got quite a kick out of this movie entitled Animator vs. Animation - II, animated by Alan Becker.

Too Funny

Ever sat through a long sermon?

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"How 'bout that?!"

Just had to quote Marko on this one. Cool? Cool!

at my church, they’re in the midst of a teaching series on doubts. in a nice attempt at creating a bit more of a communication loop, they invited people to text message questions during the sermon — questions about points that needed more clarification, or about related doubts and questions. at various points during the sermon, the teaching pastor stopped and some of the questions appeared on the screen, where he read them out loud and took a stab at responding to them. it brought greater clarity to some of the issues being addressed, and brought up some great ancillary discussion. for a large church, this worked way better than having an open mic where people could ask questions, as it was substantially quicker, and allowed for some pre-screening of the questions. it also allowed people to ask questions who would not normally make their way to a mic to ask something in front of a room of 1000 people.

Refferals

My page hits counter does more than count hits. It also tells me where people are when they look at my site, and how they got here (refferals).

I always expect getting hits off my friend's blogs, or the occasional hit off the 180 staff page or even the 180 newsletter. But sometimes, people get to my blog by searching on Google.

What do they search for that leads to my blog? Here's a sample:

"head on" +"apply directly to the forehead"

tetanus shots multnomah county

stepupmovie

emo-o-matic

everclear lyrics "i would buy you"

tsunami what was said to the rose to make it

...Very Interesting...

Myspace Mayhem

I thought it was pretty cool when movie ads started putting the movie website at the end of their commercials, but the new movie Step Up has made shake my head.

Their website? myspace.com/stepupmovie

Where is society headed?

Dental Irritation

I have bad teeth—I am ashamed to say...but I have a great dentist, Alison's Uncle. God has sure provided for me in that area with great dental care from him. By the way, if you're in the Newberg area and need a dentist, talk to me.

Friday I had the wonderful experience of getting 5 crowns. That's right, 4 hours of fun in the chair, mouth open wide, numbed up for hours. Besides the occasional gagging, it really wasn't that bad. In fact I almost drifted off to sleep while they were making the temporary crowns!

At the dentist's office, there is satellite TV in every room, so I watched a little of the Tour De France, followed by war coverage on CNN.

The worst part of the whole day was the new annoying commercial for "Head-on." It's too annoying to actually be on my blog, but I'll put the link here. The gal in the commercial says, "Head-on—apply directly to the forehead." 3 times in a row in a very irritating tone of voice. The worst part was that I saw this commercial about 9 times during my 4 hour visit. Ugh.

While the Head-on product is stuck in my head, their advertisers have persuaded me to stick with Advil^©.

Summer's a Comin'

Okay...you can close your mouth and pick your jaw off the floor. Yes, I am blogging again. And unlike my friend Jessica, I don't need to apologize for my blogging absence. ;) But seriously, I'm sorry. Just kidding. But seriously, I'm sorry.

What could I say about the last month? Wow. Busy. It was the end of the school term for me, which meant two long papers and exams. But before I get back into posting again, I leave you with a bit of laughter for the day. (or at my blogging rate...a month!)

Aaron

Quote 'O Matic

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. --Woody Allen

Fun Math Finding

For some reason, as Alison was reading TIME in bed last night, I thought about multiplication. I multiplied 10 x 10 and got 100. Then I multiplied 9 x 11 and got 99.

Hmmm...does that work for every number?
3 * 3 = 9; 2 * 4 = 8.
38 * 38 = 1444; 37 * 39 = 1443.
0 * 0 = 0; -1 * 1 = -1.
-1 * -1 = 1; -2 * 0 = 0.

Sweet! (Well, I think so)

This means that:
x*x = ( (x+1)*(x-1) ) + 1

In other words: If you take a number and multiply it by itself, it will always be one more than the number minus one times the number plus 1.

Interesting Fact O' The Day

Happy Saint Patrick's Day everybody.

Just a quick fact for ya. Thanks, Justin.

Regardless and Irregardless mean the same thing. Go look it up!

2 Thoughts - totally unrelated

Thought 1
We had a great night at Youth group. We had our Second Wednesday Worship (2W2), where we spend the evening worshipping and learning through different experiences such as singing, praying, silence, writing, painting, and scripture reading.

This month's theme was Thanksgiving...that's right, its not just for turkey. It was a time to remember all the things we are thankful for, such as God, His character and what He's done...to all the things (not necessarily just material) He has blessed us with. We then asked the question, what should we do with our thanks. That question was answered from 2 Corinthians 9, where God's blessings to one people, resulted in thanksgiving to God, giving to the needy, and thanksgiving from the needy to God.

Our blessings should produce thanks...which should produce...more thanks!

I have so much to be thankful for. A roof over my head, a job, plenty of food, a beautiful wife! An awesome family, a gracious school, functioning limbs that can play a guitar.

Thank you God!

Thought 2
Again...totally unrelated...and not for the squeamish, but did I hear the sideline reporter at the Superbowl say that they had to hold up towels around a player so that they could "pull his pants down and tape up his groin." ???

Yikes!