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I was searching around for some graphics to use on a little personal Christmas project and I found CreativeMYK.com. “CreativeMYK is an index of free Christian photos and Church graphics from Christian Photographers and Church Graphic Designers around the globe.”

I found it via DesignBliss.com which I found via Google.com.

I had been talking about Capgras Syndrome (think: delusional form of “Attack of the Body Snatchers”) lately and had just finished reading an article on it (not one of the best I have read so I won’t bother linking it) when I moved on to the next tab in my browser.

Title: “What the ‘Sopranos’ Taught Me About Technology”
Author: Bob Brown

I momentarily freaked out, especially since I have only seen 3 minutes of the entire program and 5% of that was a black screen with no audio. For the record, the Sopranos article looked pretty lame. I skimmed and then “closed that tab” to use a euphemism for a hit.

The Story of Fake Steve Jobs at Forbes.

The official connection with Forbes.com happened quite quickly, I’m wondering how long this has been planned.

Wouldn’t it be neat to have a ministry blog bring attention to a church in this way? Someone connected to a church connecting with the community. Fake Steve was enjoyed by Mac lovers and Mac haters alike, I am interested in how it progresses now.

Eric Sevareid is quoted as saying “The chief cause of problems is solutions.”

• 2,000,000 tires were used as an artificial reef in the 1970s, but they became a detriment to marine life and now 700,000 are planned for retrieval.
• Environmental groups have worked so hard to stop timber companies from maintaining and harvesting trees that the companies had to divest their land to developers who just wiped out the forests for housing.
• Reseeding has been common following wildfires, but due to expediency the seeds are fast growing, invasive, typically non-native plants that become a problem to the local environment.

EDIT: I forgot to post my point.

Next time you are digging under a console trying to get the media system running on Sunday morning or trying to sort out a huge patchwork of cables, or figuring out why your files are disordered, or have volunteers griping to each other about the crummy system; remember this quote.

There are three locations in the church building that regularly bring this quote to mind. But things there are so fouled up that fixing them is a scary endeavor. Makes you want to travel back a few years and set up a system and procedures that would keep the current reality from happening.

The fires have been horrible down here. It had been just Georgia blowing smoke in here, but it looks like the whole state of Florida is on fire. Today’s map from the Florida Division of Forestry reminds me of when I used to play Sim City and the whole city would start catching on fire.

Most of our smoke seems to be coming in from Bugaboo and the Sweat Farm (Ernest Sweat).