fun times: d200

so yesterday i got my new little toy: a brand new nikon d200 camera. i haven’t had a chance to really put it through the paces yet, but from what i’ve played with it, it’s an incredible little camera.

here are a few test shots in various circumstances:

things i learned in medina

the top ten things i learned at medina:

  1. welding rods are hot after you use them. don’t burn yourself.
  2. deer like to run out in front of you. hitting them is not cool, but so long as you don’t do too much damage to your car, sam can fix it.
  3. never use a ball peen hammer in car repair when a sledge hammer will do the job.
  4. goats are cute. sheep are annoying. angora goats are ugly. pigs are loud. cows poop a lot. (note: i knew these things before, but was reminded of them).
  5. sitting on wooden bleachers for several hours is uncomfortable. sitting on wooden bleachers for 4 hours while waiting for everyone else to show up is not only uncomfortable, but boring as well.
  6. coffee is good. decaf folgers crystals are bad.
  7. my coffee cup is much better than styrofoam coffee cups. it keeps coffee warm for a long time, where as styrofoam keeps coffee warm for about 10 seconds.
  8. relationships are more important than rules (didn’t do such a good job on this one this week…)
  9. people surprise you a lot. people who you think might not be receptive of certain ideas often are.
  10. good leaders make a trip worth going on. they take care of business and take care of their people. props to matt and lance.

new category – required listening

You may note on the right a new category: required listening. If you’ve been here a while you will probably have listened to everything that is in there now, but hopefully more will be added soon (like today.)

From time to time I’ll post lectures or sermons or courses I’ve found to be particularly enlightening on a subject, or just something in general I think everyone should listen to.

weeklong journals

weeklong journals are available here sorry there have been infrequent updates as of late. travelling and being busy have kept me … well… busy.

unchecked email

what happens when you don’t check your email for one week on your computer at work? you have 281 messages to sort through.

joy.

fires in cross plains

yeah… i drove through there while the fires were burning outside of town yesterday…

“The hardest-hit community during Tuesday’s blazes was Cross Plains, a West Texas ranching and oil-and-gas town of 1,000 people some 150 miles from Dallas. Cross Plains also lost about 50 homes and a church after the flames raced through grass dried out by the region’s worst drought in 50 years.”

article here

Merry Christmas

The standard “I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas” post.

More to come later when I’m not about to fall asleep 🙂

the good samaritans

Bill and Melinda Gates, along with Bono, have been named Time’s “People of the Year”.

“For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy smarter and hope strategic and then daring the rest of us to follow, Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono are TIME’s Persons of the Year.”

http://www.time.com/time/