Category: Funny Stuff

  • My only iPhone post this month

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    I promise to not talk too much about the iPhone. It’s got some pluses and minuses. And the simple fact is that while I would love one if it were free, I will never make enough money to justify getting one. (Unless it were for resale alone.) That said, I do know one person in my life who is desperate to get one. He will remain nameless. Wink wink.

    Here’s a funny iPhone diary that came from the New York Times. Yes, the New York Times did something funny. Write that down.

    Seth Godin has an excellent post on how Verizon screwed up the marketing of the iPhone release as well as what they should have done. I like the fact that Seth isn’t just smart enough to articulate why a marketing campaign sucks, he also takes the time to let Verizon know how they should have turned this into a positive.

    Here’s the best argument I can make against lining up to buy a $600 cell phone:
    – I already have a smartphone that I like. It’s too big, but so is the iPhone
    – I already have an iPod nano that I like. It’s not like I want my big old phone strapped around my neck when I’m moving the lawn!
    – I already have a laptop. It’s not like I could use the iPhone to do web administration or open up PhotoShop or upload via an FTP client to my web server.

    With those 3 factors, there is no sensible reason to get a phone like that.     I do predict that it will be good for Apple and it will be good for the cell phone industry. But in 12 months, AT&T will still suck because they always have.
    I also predict that the first generation iPhone will look like a massive brick in 12 months compared to the new, smaller, colored iPhone to come up Christmas 2008.

    That said, when people do buy the iPhone and it breaks. I suggest sending it to PodDrop and not Apple. You’ll get faster service and it’ll be reasonable… and it’ll get done faster.

    HT to Billy for the video

  • Summer Series at Light Force

    Our summer series kicks off tomorrow night. It’s called "What were they thinking?" We’ll be looking at examples like this one and looking at some equal evidence from the Bible to see that everyone and anyone can be used by God.

    Not sure how that’s going to fit together? You’ll just have to come and find out.

  • Two odd but true internet rumors

    There are two oddities floating around the internet. Both are completely real and both make us all laugh a little and scratch our heads.

    Exhibit A: Ted Nugent and David Crowder Band team up for their next album, Remedy.

    Exhibit B: Someone snagged this picture of Snoop Dogg reading an Andy Stanley book.
    Snoop

  • a little mid-morning comedy

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    As I was typing that last post something quite funny happened in my neighborhood.

    Two adults are slowly driving around my neighborhood in a minivan yelling for their cat. They are coasting around the block saying "meow!" "ro-ooow!" "phoenix!"

    It makes me wonder… "How many cats would be willing to run up to a minivan?" "Why wouldn’t they just walk?" This is living proof that some Americans are so lazy they literally won’t even walk around the block to look for their cat.

    I can’t lie. Sitting here on the porch I openly and loudly laughed at them.

  • Involved. video

    Here’s the video we used for yesterday’s service. Of course, the message of the video is pretty straight-forward… "I like being involved because…"

    I just love it when people are willing to cut loose a little. Perfect example here.

  • A weird assignment

    Ugly_tieI love my job. I love that I get to be creative and a little bit weird… so I get to be myself. Right now I am getting ready to run out and go on an all-time weird shopping trip. I need about 30 ugly ties.

    There ain’t nothing like it!

    That is all.

  • Video Rewind

    For those looking for some of my weird videos… here’s a link to my YouTube channel.

    Below are two of my personal favorites.

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  • the toilet story

    Toilet_mainSo here is my "behind the scenes" story from my trip to Albany. (As promised to the students at the Youth Rally… Welcome!)

    Thursday night I spent the night at Patti’s house. As we were finishing some stuff for the weekend I went to bed at about 2 AM. When I heard an alarm clock go off at 6 AM my brain thought "there are 5 people in this house and one bathroom… I better go now."

    So I jumped up off the couch and scurried upstairs to take care of morning business before the showers were taken over by those who had to go to school and work Friday morning. Now… this is a good time to point out that I have always had low blood pressure. That’s not a health concern but it does mean that when I switch from horizontal to vertical in the morning I need to take my time or I will get dizzy.

    So I flip on the switch in Patti’s brand new bathroom and I remember thinking "Hmm… they did a great job in…" Just then the world went black and I remember hearing a massive thud. A few seconds later I found myself slumped over on the tile floor. I had fainted… I jumped up so fast that the blood in my brain couldn’t get up there quite fast enough!

    On the way down, nose and teeth crunched off of the Gibbon’s families brand new toilet, displacing the lid. Somehow when I fell I also managed to hit the top of my head on their tub and thump my left wrist on their floor. So I "woke up" to this terrible pain in my mouth, my face covered in blood, and terribly dizzy. I kind of sat up and sat on the edge of the tub for a few minutes… really not sure what had just happened to me or if I was ill or anything else.

    When I felt OK enough to stand I checked myself out in the mirror. To my surprise I hadn’t done any visible damage. My glasses weren’t broken. My nose didn’t seem to be broken and after I counted I was convinced that I hadn’t lost any teeth. The only real problem was this massive cut inside my mouth from when my face made contact with the corner of the toilet. (Teeth are dangerous!)

    After I got everything all situated and cleaned up… I decided to head back downstairs. In the course of all this I decided that since I didn’t want to go to the emergency room, I had better not tell anyone! Especially Patti.

    So, that’s my "crazy, stupid" story from the weekend.     It was just one of those weird things that happens to me. Why do all these weird things happen to me?

  • Stoney and the Squirrels from Hell

    SquirrelAs I’ve been documenting, Stoney (our 4 year old yellow lab) is tormented by the many black squirrels who call our backyard home. For months he has been going jogging with Kristen work on his speed and agility so that one day he will catch, kill, and dismember his tormentors. (They are too evil to eat.)

    Stoney is in good company. Many people dislike squirrels. They include David Crowder, Gerrard Fess, Barack O’Bama, and Ron Howard are all well-known squirrel haters.

    Yesterday was a glorious day! Well, nearly. After an appropriate amount of rest in the house… we let Stoney outside as the family was taking me to the church for MainStreet rehearsal. Instantly he tore off into the yard in hot pursuit. The squirrel near the play structure quickly dove under the fence to safety and Stoney hung a quick left. So quick and agile that the squirrel under the tree froze in amazement. Before the emperor of evil knew what was happening he found himself in the jaws of our heros mouth. The family cheered as Stoney’s dream of ridding the yard of his arch enemy became true. Just then, the squirrel reached into his squirrel pocket and pulled out a nasty potion causing Stoney’s jaws to unexplainably release.

    Stoney was obviously disappointed as he never saw the squirrel’s evil pocket before. As the squirrel slithered up the tree and started chattering with his friends Stoney circled the tree and peed on it out of protest.

    His day is coming.

  • Chuck Swindoll dropped?

    SwindollI absolutely couldn’t believe this story. Part of me still thinks it is a joke. It appears here at Slice of Laodicea.

    Chuck Swindoll has been dropped from a Christian Radio Station because they thought he was too crude in teaching the Bible. If one of the best Bible teachers in the world today is too crude, perhaps this stations standards are messed up.

    Here’s a great unofficial response.

    Note to self, don’t put descriptions of a prostrate exam on the podcast.