Category: Asides

short lit­tle sound­bytes

Crunch All You Want, We’ll Make More

I real­ly like the fake church sign in this arti­cle from Lark News. Thanks to Church Mar­ket­ing Sucks for notic­ing the sto­ry.

Dialectic

One of my stu­dents (stage name Dialec­tic) just released a rap album. You can pre­view it at MySpace. Or as we hip-hop­pers like to call it, MySchiz­zle.

How Not To Be Holy

I just read a great lit­tle med­i­ta­tion on holi­ness called Whack-a-mole and Sin Man­age­ment in Lead­er­ship Jour­nal. When I checked to see if it was online I dis­cov­ered that the author has a blog.

Jesus Is Quantum

There is no obser­va­tion with­out par­tic­i­pa­tion. Alter­na­tive­ly: there is no inves­ti­ga­tion with inter­ac­tion, there is no analy­sis with­out alter­ation, and there is no look­ing with­out chang­ing.

Obvious and Brilliant

Mark Driscoll just began offer­ing his ser­mons on Google Video fast food nation movie down­load . Great idea–they han­dle the stor­age and the band­width!

And we thought it was bad here

Col­lege min­istry in the Unit­ed King­dom is even stick­i­er than it is here: “The Chris­t­ian Union was advised that the use of the words “men” and “women” in the con­sti­tu­tion were caus­ing con­cern because they could be seen as exclud­ing trans­sex­u­al and trans­gen­dered peo­ple.” (source)

College Cuteness Quantified

In the spir­it of Freako­nom­ics, two U of Chica­go under­grads decid­ed to sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly quan­ti­fy the attrac­tive­ness of female frosh on their cam­pus and sev­er­al oth­ers. Stan­ford, I am sad to report, ranked a mere 8 out of 10. I feel as though my friends have had their hon­or impugned.

From An Email I Sent My Students Earlier Today

It’ll be like hav­ing that new car smell waft­ing around you all day long. Sort of like a pleas­ant body odor except not so weird.

Guilty As Charged

From a phone con­ver­sa­tion yes­ter­day: “[Our mutu­al friend] told me about your con­ver­sa­tion. Glen, only you would think to mock some­one who had just tried to kill them­selves.” In my defense, I was quite fun­ny (and the humor was well-received: the psych wards of hos­pi­tals are such drea­ry places).

Funniest Subject Line In A Spam Email

I just returned to the office after Christ­mas and The World Mis­sions Sum­mit (details forth­com­ing) and I’m pro­cess­ing the gazil­lion emails I had wait­ing in my inbox. Fun­ni­est sub­ject line so far? How A Man Can Do It Like A Les­bian. I actu­al­ly chuck­led as I was hit­ting the delete key.