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link fest

February 1, 2010

Millennials’ Judgments About Recent Trends Not So Different report on new pew research a tease: As might be expected, members of the Millennial generation are enthusiastic about the technological and communication advances of the past decade. They are also highly accepting of societal changes such as the greater availability of green products and more racial [...]

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wicked awesome. (re-discovered this on russ cantu’s blog)

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sunday morning, i did a short radio interview with doug pagitt about “the book of eli”. he didn’t like it, i loved it. we both talk about why we responded the way we did. check it out here (i think it’s about 20 minutes into this section of doug’s show, and is 10 minutes long). [...]

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the book of eli

January 12, 2010

i had the very cool experience, the other day, of getting to see an early screening of the book of eli, the new film starring denzel washington, gary oldman, and mila kunis, and directed by the hughes brothers. and, to make the whole thing even more surreal, i had a chance to sit in with [...]

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one of the stars of wolverine is a young korean-american actor named daniel henney (originally from michigan!), who lives here now. he hosted a dinner for us saturday night (because of the connection with ralph). i sat next to him, and it was fun to get to know him a little bit. really, really nice [...]

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the weekend that was: man, i can’t believe it’s may already. may, 2009. crazy. everyone says time seems to go faster when you’re older; so i must be getting older! i had a full, good weekend. friday night, we had a bit of a chillaxed family night (though liesl worked on homework). we got carry-out [...]

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music that seemed to catch my attention this past week: man, i’ve gotten some great new music recently. this time around, i’ll mention the raconteurs cd (consolers of the lonely) and

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the weekend that was: my whole family was still struggling with jet lag from our spring break trips, so the weekend was pretty low key. we got caught up on some tv recorded while we were gone, did the laundry, and hung out. saturday night, jeannie, max and i went to see 17 again, which [...]

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this is a few months old, but i finally just watched it, and it made me crack up. props to my friend, greg stier, of dare to share, for poking fun at himself like this (especially without an ending where he addresses the camera and says, “but really, the truth is…”, like so many ministry [...]

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the weekend that was: nice weekend of family stuff. friday night, jeannie and max and i got carry out and watched twilight. saturday, i got to sleep in a bit, then bumped around the house most of the morning. in the afternoon, i performed the wedding for the daughter of one of my closest friends [...]

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