Vertical Reality

Last night we had both a wrap-up and kick-off party, at our new campus. We ended our year of student ministry at the original campus, and started it up for the summer at the new one. We said good-bye to one student pastor, and welcomed another. And the Vertical Production Team got to put on [...]

Benjamin can crawl!!

…Backward.
Actually, it’s more a crab-walk than a crawl. He pushes himself up on his fingers and toes, and then lets his body fall. You can tell he thinks he’s going to be moving forward — he sets his eyes on a toy that he wants — but it just doesn’t work out. Eventually he gives [...]

Cliff Jumping

June 30, leaving at 7:30am - returning around 1:30.
Somewhere near Lake George — about a 3 mile hike. (I don’t have directions yet, but I’ll get them).
Bring shoes that can get wet, clothes that will stay on when you hit the water, and pack a lunch.
If you read this blog and live in a 30 [...]

Wild at Heart

There are people who disagree with our parenting style. Admittedly, we’re pretty new to this and have a lot to learn, but in general, I’m pretty proud of the decisions we’ve made for our son, so far. We’ve gathered tips from parents of some great kids over the years, and I’d like to think that [...]

Random Musings on Technology

Writing XAML-based applications is annoying right now. Expression Blend is a User Interface design tool that shares much in common with other common design tools like PhotoShop or After Effects, only it produces XAML. Unfortunately it doesn’t do code… at all.
VisualStudio is a powerful and well-established code development environment, that pretty much any developer could [...]

Automatic Downloads

Here’s a little script for all you Mac hackers out there. Say you have a media PC, like a Mac Mini, sitting in your home theater. Now you probably don’t surf for torrents on your TV — if you’re like me, you find them on your laptop and then have to copy the torrent file [...]

Video of Where We Lived in Germany

OK, its pretty cheesy, but one of the students at the school my siblings and I attended in Kandern, Germany went on a motorbike ride around town and shot footage. If you’re at all interested in what Germany looks like, or what my life was like when I was 14, you should check out some [...]

It’s a good day for Mac users who need Windows…

Apple has released BootCamp 1.3, with improved drivers for the keyboard (finally, the backlight will work in Windows) and the graphics card.
And not to be left behind, Parallels has released 3.0 of their butt-kicking Parallels Desktop for Mac software, bring improved integration between the two OSes, snapshots (a feature they sorely needed), and 3D acceleration [...]

The Crazy Week Continues…

So yesterday all the guys on staff got together to watch some important basketball game. Why no one got together for the Stanley Cup is beyond me, but apparently this is what you do in the States. Anyway, if you know me, you know that I’d almost rather watch paint dry than a televised sporting [...]

The craziest week EVER…

This is like the fifth time today that I’ve opened up WordPress Admin and tried to blog. Each time I’ve found myself at a loss for words.
This past weekend was an insane one. We plotted a top secret visit home, in which we planned to visit only a few people who we felt could use [...]