I see something that may need to be added to our employee handbook.
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A man in Mobile, Alabama filled up his drink at a gas station and then spilled it. After cleaning it up he spilled a second and then a third. When he finally prepared to leave the store the clerk confronted him about paying for his drink and the man replied with a threat to shoot the clerk.
The prosecutor said of him,
“He clearly appeared to be under the influence of something other than good sense.”
I’ll have to use that line sometime.
So, um this post has been in queue for a while. I wrote most of it the day of the Digg Riot (someday an old geek will turn to his grandchild and say “I posted in the Digg Riot of 2007. Those were the days, young man, those were the days.”), but never got around to posting until now. So, in the grand tradition of “Signs Your Church is Geeky,” “10 More Signs Your Church is Geeky,” and “Another 10 Signs Your Church is Geeky” I bring you this:
- You offer a “Noobs in Christ” class for converts.
- The preacher begins a few too many illustrations with “While in World of Warcraft the other day . . .”
- Many in the congregation knew about the situations first hand.
- The rest see it later as a Machinima reenactment anyway.
- Current sermon series: “What Bruce Schneier Doesn’t Know About Eternal Security”
- Last Week’s Benediction Song: “All Our Base Are Belong To Jesus”
- Your worship leader specifically chose the following songs from a hymnbook for this week: 9, 249, 17, 2, 157, 116, 227, 91, 216, 65, 86, 197, 99, 86, 136, and 192 (this made more sense in early 2007 and here).
- During your Easter program, the young man playing Peter runs out on stage ahead of everyone else yelling “Leeeeerooooy Jeeeenkins!”
- It is often pointed out that the Lamb’s Book of Life isn’t a wiki.
- Someone actually suggested placing this sign out front.
Automatically scan mode, rapidly testing, the streamline shape is in accordance with the design of somatology
Durable design, working well even in construction location
Super handy device ensures your good mood.
The prices were good, but reading the description of the Multi-functional RJ45 and RJ11 LED Network Cable Tester made me worry a bit about the company. I almost expect to have stock pick suggestions on the next page.
My daughter has lots of battery operated noise toys, and some of them make very freaky noises when the batteries run down. That is the natural form of the deliberate “art” known as circuit bending. Battery operated noise toys use circuits to create wave forms that are converted into sounds by the piezo-electric disc speakers. If you alter that circuit by changing the resistence or by shorting different areas you make some funky noises of your own.
Yes, it can be fun, but it can be very annoying to those around around you. The problem is that just like you don’t realize how annoying your teeth grinding, headphone inspired singing, finger tapping, and general nervous noises are to others you may not realize the pain you are causing someone else. That is why I found this video to be very funny.I can almost hear an authoritative voice-over talking about circuit bending as being a scourge on society. It reminds me of those “Just say NO to Drugs” videos where they show people being idiots while intoxicated.
Anyway, here is the video at YouTube
It has been a while, but I have had some more signs of geeky churches going through my head. You can read the previous posts on this topic at “Signs Your Church is Geeky” and “10 More Signs Your Church is Geeky.”
- Services are enhanced by Twittercasting.
- Your ministries are referred to as “nodes.”
- The timing of your last congregational photo relied on inside information so that it appears on Google Maps.
- Forget the open WiFi in the building, you’ve gone WiMax.
- When someone talks about “Original G” it isn’t a rap reference, they’re just talking about a standard 54Mb wireless connection.
- The only references to XP in the office are historical, sometimes about the OS and sometimes about the Labarum.
- Considering a satellite congregation in the Netherlands Antilles so you can register the domain name Christi.an
- Not only are the teens goofing off in the back row,but they are being disruptive on the backchannel.
- Sometimes your prayer gatherings are so deep they are only described as “Meta.”
- Your preacher wears an 8-bit tie.
Friend Day is this Sunday at Christ’s Church so I fixed up an image for the front of the web site. After discussing ways to encourage people to invite their friends I created the following for a mass emailing (I don’t believe it was ever sent out though):
Have you invited your friends to Friend Day at Christ’ Church?
Why not?
Here, let us help you out a bit. We have taken some of the most important information about this weekend and combined it into one page on our website at [Insert Friend Day Page Here].1. Take a moment and call your friends or send them an email.
2. Let them know how important they are to you and that you want them to join you this Sunday at church.
3. Arrange a place to meet so that you can be sure to sit together.
4. Invite them out to lunch afterward.
5. Assure them that Arron promises he won’t let them fall asleep during the message.
6. Let them know that the directions and service times are available at [Insert Friend Day Page Here]
7. Bring a breath mint. Just in case.We look forward to meeting your friends this weekend.
God Bless.
Then came the fun part. Our theme right now is “Heroes.” Since I am a fan of the series (the only regular TV show I actually watch, and I watch it online), I couldn’t pass up the chance to do an “Enemies Day” spoof for April 1.
“But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.” Matthew 5:44
What says that better than this image.
The single Helix was redesigned to match our church logo.
What is it with cats and web sites. Years upon years ago when I read “HTML 4.0 For Dummies” there were lots of references to web pages about cats. It seems to be almost a cliche, well, I guess it is.
The article this came from is here: The Evolution of Blogging, Cat Version.
I don’t think I could go for Twitter. Even I have too much of a life to Twitter or follow other people’s Twitters. And to be honest, I probably just don’t care enough.
Yesterday afternoon I found a story about a New Zealand TV station using a $10 Wok to connect their studio to the transmitter. The idea was originally for doing a wireless link to get internet access and they were able to tune the signal to get it out 20km. When it came time to connect up the local UHF station they didn’t have the $20,000 needed for a proper antenna so they improvised.
The good news is that they have posted the information on the Internet so others can use it, the bad news is that I cannot find that linked anywhere and the new article didn’t give any pointers to a location. Hopefully some people will find it and link it around the net.
I am interested in it since we are doing something similar at Christ’s church in the next few weeks, but we are not using a wok and it will cost much more than $10. We are addinga 70ft tower to our main building with a 4ft dish to reach another dish and tower at one of our satellite campuses. We will be adding another dish to connect to our school 3 miles away. Finally, that building has a good use for the steeple.
I’ll post pics and info here when it is up. And if you find the wok instructions please post a link in the comments.