10 January 2006

Scientists Finally Figure Out How Bees Fly!

Ok so Scientists Finally Figure Out How Bees Fly and suddenly people are trying to say that now that shows that there is no proof of Intelligent Design....
"'People in the ID community have said that we don't even know how bees fly,' Altshuler said. 'We were finally able to put this one to rest. We do have the tools to understand bee flight and we can use science to understand the world around us.'"
So, umm, yeah..... good job on figuring out the bees guys.
Umm pop quiz - who taught the bees?

Sometimes we waste so much time on being dumb.

Today's "PEOPLE WHO ARE STUPID"

today's stupid person:

The dummy who keeps stealing my recycling bin.

you sir........... are stupid.




Cd's Last forever. Not.

I get asked this a lot. Suspected this to be the answer, but now someone has said for sure.

your burned CD's will not last forever....
Unlike pressed original CDs, burned CDs have a relatively short life span of between two to five years, depending on the quality of the CD," Gerecke said in an interview this week. "There are a few things you can do to extend the life of a burned CD, like keeping the disc in a cool, dark space, but not a whole lot more.

If you want things to last a long time.... aparently good old magnetic tape is still the best
Now where did I leave my LP's and phonograph....

Via Computerworld article

8 January 2006

The Gig opens

I have added two fairly obscure and typically simple posts today without any mention to the fact that The Gig opened it's doors today.
yep, slap on the wrist, now back to work.
It was a long time coming, but finally we held the first public service. It was bit strange to see it finally happen and I'm sure there are others that will have much more profound things to say. For me the moment I realized that this was going to be real and people were going to catch the Vision was a few minutes into Rob's invatation for open floor "What If?"comments... people started to catch on.

Not just to the "what if" premis but to the meaning behind the what if's

What if It could be real
What if It could fail publicly
What if everyone saw each other the same
What if kids can be a part of a service
What if rich and poor saw each other the same
What if.........
ok, I'm not sticking totally the words at the time,but that was the idea and people got it and were excited. I'm excited.

I can't wait for the next three weeks as we discover together
"We gather to be real, go to love and live to reveal" in it's three parts.

It's been a long jouney talking about what church could be, and I saw a glimps this morning of what it will be


very cool

Church planter trading cards

There is no doubt in my mind why someone would create such an item.

The part that makes me laugh is that Jordan Coopper has picked one of my own personal favorites (after the Rev Rabee)

and yes you'll have to hit the link to see who.... ??????????

If you were at EBC in the mid to late 90's, really.... click



"The Simpsons": Behind the scenes of an episode

If you're a fan of the Simpsons, this is a good read

"From the inside, a genius factory can appear surprisingly bland: two dozen people sitting around a long table in a nondescript trailer, reading aloud under muted fluorescent lighting.

But unlike watching sausage or legislation being made, watching the creation of an episode of 'The Simpsons' is exciting — or at least hearing it is. After all, the series has been dubbed the greatest show of the 20th century by Time magazine."


The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: "The Simpsons": Behind the scenes of an episode:

5 January 2006

sick again

It's not too often I get a good excuse for why I haven't been posting.

After 2.5 day in bed with a fever, I finally went to the doctor today.

Yep, becuase Tim Good can't just get simple sick - only complicated sick.

I have Pneumonia it seems, which would explain why I can't breathe without coughing.
Oh well another 2 -3 days of bed rest for me... talk to you later I guess.

2 January 2006

13 things that do not make sense

New Scientist has a article on 13 things that do not make sense
(don't even bother if your brain is tired)
"2 The horizon problem

OUR universe appears to be unfathomably uniform. Look across space from one edge of the visible universe to the other, and you'll see that the microwave background radiation filling the cosmos is at the same temperature everywhere. That may not seem surprising until you consider that the two edges are nearly 28 billion light years apart and our universe is only 14 billion years old.

Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, so there is no way heat radiation could have travelled between the two horizons to even out the hot and cold spots created in the big bang and leave the thermal equilibrium we see now.

This 'horizon problem' is a big headache for cosmologists, so big that they have come up with some pretty wild solutions. 'Inflation', for example.

You can solve the horizon problem by having the universe expand ultra-fast for a time, just after the big bang, blowing up by a factor of 1050 in 10-33 seconds. But is that just wishful thinking? 'Inflation would be an explanation if it occurred,' says University of Cambridge astronomer Martin Rees. The trouble is that no one knows what could have made that happen."

I'm not the type to push creation down people's throat.... but sometimes I have to laugh when articles like this can't find the answer to some things..

ummm guys... I know it takes faith but I think I have your answer

I don't know just me.

Actually it's a really interesting article... I love the "placebo effect" concepts... pretty cool how God made us. I like to imagine that when we get to heaven God will laugh and recollect all the good wonky ideas that we came up to explain him.

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28 December 2005

Alternative Worship

Andrew Jones writes:
"A postmodern worship service probably is more like a stack of pancakes than a string of pearls. Postmodern minds get bored with a single, progressive medium. The problem is not that their attention span is short but that it is broad. It responds best when challenged with multitasking.Ask the question, 'What other media could we run simultaneously that would enhance the worship experience?' The various combinations of juxtaposed media will speak volumes. Random connections will arise organically and prophetically.

Sort of stumbled across this artice off of Jones' main site it's worth the read... Always love to see (read) what others are doing.... different.






This one again.

So here I am again.

"wow, haven't posted in a long time"

... 'course no one has complained, so I guess no one cares.

back to life.