worst moment ever

worst moment ever

Maybe something like this has happened to you?
Something awful happens. You're not sure if you should tell anyone.
It's humiliating.
It's terrible.
It's hilarious.
So, after a few days, you go ahead and tell everyone you know.

Yeah...
So has something like that ever happen to you?

1977 was not for the faint of heart

Thanks to the plethora of people who emailed me the pictures and captions for this one. Steve gets extra points for sending me a link to the blog where it started about a month ago and deciding that he wouldn't clog the internet with pictures. Nice going Steve! Please note that if you follow any of the links below the comments contain a bad word. It's a bad word that appears in the bible on several occasions and refers to a donkey. If you don't like that word, please don't click on the links. There are some other words that lots of people object to. Some of them actually written out and others with cleverly placed characters in place of some of the letters so that you don't have to read the complete w*rd. I normally wouldn't link to a page that contained those words - but these are too good to pass up. I'll make my own snarky comments below about some of the pictures.




Strap in, shut up and hold on. We're going back. Yes, it's a collection of snappy comments about the JCPenney 1977 Summer catalog.









Here's a picture of me at age 10. Shoes to match the belt were available on page 478.
















Here's a guy who went to my church standing next to Scott Bakula (from Quantum Leap and Star Trek - Enterprise)

















Then there is a series of matching outfits for couples. I'll have to discuss that with Sylvia before I invent a time machine and buy them for us. Mmmmm... but Christmas is just around the corner. What a nice surprise they would make!















Finally, this is actually me on my first day of kindergarten in 1972. That's a luggage tag on my shirt-zipper just in case I got lost. Please note the fancy navy blue socks with the sneakers and my left hand in a jaunty pose. Clearly, by the position of my feet in the imaginary starter's blocks - I'm raring to go.


Ready... aim... fire!

SkyMall never lets me down

SkyMall never lets me down

If you ever travel by commercial airliner, you know about SkyMall. It's that rather thick tome in the seat pocket in front of you that hawks untold useless junk that no one should ever own.

However, my recent trip to Minneapolis revealed the worst one yet. Right there on page 6 was the TimeMug.

The TimeMug!
Does it let you travel through time as you sip a bracing cup of joe?
No!
Does it save time within its cavernous maw?
Naw!
Does it help you tell time in a clutch?
Not so much....

The time mug is the world's first and ONLY 100% dishwasher safe, time-telling drinkware!

To the giant brains behind the TimeMug: there's a reason why it's the first and only.

Gospel.com goes live

Normally this blog is relegated to the strange and wonderful things that I observe or that people send to me. Today I wish to depart momentarily from that format to brag about the place where I work just a bit and maybe for the first time help you understand a little of what I do for a living - which is only a little wacky.

I work at Gospel Communications International. My title is Manager of Alliance Development. The Alliance is a community of Christian organizations, banded together to make an impact for Christ online. I encourage our members to fully engage in doing their individual ministries online, rather than just run an online brochure about their ministry.

My company along with the alliance community launched a new site today.

Gospel.com

It's the content from the alliance sites bookmarked by them - and tagged with keywords which turn into topics. For example: apologetics.

It also dynamically creates micro-sites about each ministry. For example: mirthmobile.

Since it's gone live just a few minutes ago - the search engines won't index it quite yet, but in the near future when you do search for a topic contained in Gospel.com or one of our alliance members, gospel.com will have an enormous impact on those search results. That's good news for our community, but it's also good news for people who need help with the topics we cover - for example divorce - something I've recently experienced.

I'm so proud of everyone on our whole internet ministry team and everything they've done to make this new site a reality. Thanks everyone!

DON'T CONFORM

DON'T CONFORM

All of you! Don't conform! Stop it right now!

The Dave Ramsey booth at the Catalyst conference in Atlanta this year gave away these very popular shirts that say, "don't conform." They asked everyone to wear them at the same time. Seriously.

I also got one of these shirts but I'm waiting to wear it until I know there won't be anyone else around wearing one.

yahoo??

Yahoo! didn't actually do this did they?



Yes... they did.

Thanks to Jonathan for the heads up! Apparently it came in a large box with a cut out for the over-sized button, and a slot for some other type of promotional material - but there was nothing in that slot.