Tony Campolo was the speaker at this year’s Yearly Meeting for the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends, and I happened to be the one responsible for the live streaming of it (you can still go watch the video on the site). He spoke three times, but there was one topic that has stuck with me [...]
Categories: God Type Things,Grown Up Stuff,Politics
Tagged: authority, NWYM, power, Tony Campolo
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- October 27, 2008 – 10:03 pm
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- By JASon
I heard an interview with David Rothkopf about his article in the Washington Post, and he talked about how there is somewhat of a cycle to economic policy. That’s started me thinking about economic policy, and where we are going to go in the next few years. The last time the US was in this [...]
Categories: Grown Up Stuff,Politics
Tagged: economy
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- October 12, 2008 – 9:46 pm
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- By JASon
Last summer our HOA decided to start enforcing the rules, and they started cracking down on brown lawns. I did my best to keep the lawn green with typical sprinklers, but there were two big issues with it: I had to remember to turn the sprinklers on I had to remember to turn the sprinklers off There [...]
Categories: Grown Up Stuff
Tagged: sprinklers, yard
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- June 11, 2008 – 10:03 pm
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- By JASon
You might be wondering what I’ve been up to in recent days/weeks/months. So do I. Just a couple of things to mention today. Back in the fall I started a job split, keeping half of my old job in Admissions, and picking up some responsibilities in the IT (Administrative Computing side) office. The university has [...]
Categories: Blogroll,Work
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- May 7, 2008 – 11:48 pm
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- By JASon
So tonight in our small group it was my turn to share some of my spiritual journey. As I’ve been doing my mental preparation for it over the last couple of weeks I’ve been looking at things from my past with my present-day glasses on. The more I looked at a situation from 15+ years [...]
Categories: God Type Things
Tagged: worship
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- April 20, 2008 – 10:19 pm
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- By JASon
Obama Facebook Ad Originally uploaded by jschwanz I’ve seen this pay-per-click advertisement on Facebook a handful of times over the last couple of days. All I have to say is his campaign understands new media very well.
Categories: Politics,Technology
Tagged: Barack Obama, Facebook
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- April 19, 2008 – 11:30 am
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- By JASon
When two multi-millionaires call another millionaire an elitist, isn’t that like the pot calling the kettle black? Just wondering. This whole election season has been tiring and kinda depressing.
Categories: Politics
Tagged: election
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- April 16, 2008 – 10:05 pm
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- By JASon
Judah has been walking around tonight talking about Artoo, Prince-a Way-a, and Yoyo. He can’t find Artoo and Prince-a Way-a. “Where’s Artoo, dad?” He might be the youngest boy ever to have a crush on Princess Leia.
Categories: Being a Kid,Family
Tagged: Princess Leia, R2-D2, Star Wars, Yoda
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- April 14, 2008 – 6:48 pm
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- By JASon
Best. Prank. Ever.
Categories: Made Me Laugh
Tagged: Improv Everywhere
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- April 8, 2008 – 7:57 am
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- By JASon