This made me laugh out loud even though I'm all by myself here - which doesn't happen often. Thanks, Noel. Again.

Hehe, this is how I felt when I first got my N64 - although I don't think I was quite this hyper.

Hehe, this is teh funny:
Wired News: Give Grumpy Gamers What They Want

I know you rip off all your ideas, you know you rip off all your ideas, so let's get down to it: Rip off the Grav Gun from Half-Life 2. I just got a chance to try out Half-Life 2: Deathmatch and it was not only like finding God, it was like finding God in an inexpensive but excellent Asian-food restaurant that always has a table open. Now I require the ability to throw a toilet at my enemies in every single video game in existence, including the Bible quiz games. Especially Bible quiz games.

A very thought-provoking article: Vintage Faith: Reality Church? Really enjoyed it.

Found, as so often, on Famous Noel's blog.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
George Carlin

I'm getting Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion today. Woohoo!!!

One day, a scorpion looked around at the mountain where he lived and decided that he wanted a change. So he set out on a journey through the forests and hills. He climbed over rocks and under vines and kept going until he reached a river.
The river was wide and swift, and the scorpion stopped to reconsider the situation. He couldn't see any way across. So he ran upriver and then checked downriver, all the while thinking that he might have to turn back.
Suddenly, he saw a frog sitting in the rushes by the bank of the stream on the other side of the river. He decided to ask the frog for help getting across the stream.
'Hellooo Mr. Frog!' called the scorpion across the water, 'Would you be so kind as to give me a ride on your back across the river?'
'Well now, Mr. Scorpion! How do I know that if I try to help you, you wont try to kill me?' asked the frog hesitantly.
'Because,' the scorpion replied, 'If I try to kill you, then I would die too, for you see I cannot swim!'
Now this seemed to make sense to the frog. But he asked. 'What about when I get close to the bank? You could still try to kill me and get back to the shore!'
'This is true,' agreed the scorpion, 'But then I wouldn't be able to get to the other side of the river!"
"Alright then...how do I know you wont just wait till we get to the other side and THEN kill me?" said the frog.
"Ahh...," crooned the scorpion, "Because you see, once you've taken me to the other side of this river, I will be so grateful for your help, that it would hardly be fair to reward you with death, now would it?!"
So the frog agreed to take the scorpion across the river. He swam over to the bank and settled himself near the mud to pick up his passenger. The scorpion crawled onto the frog's back, his sharp claws prickling into the frog's soft hide, and the frog slid into the river. The muddy water swirled around them, but the frog stayed near the surface so the scorpion would not drown. He kicked strongly through the first half of the stream, his flippers paddling wildly against the current.
Halfway across the river, the frog suddenly felt a sharp sting in his back and, out of the corner of his eye, saw the scorpion remove his stinger from the frog's back. A deadening numbness began to creep into his limbs.
"You fool!" croaked the frog, "Now we shall both die! Why on earth did you do that?"
The scorpion shrugged, and did a little jig on the drownings frog's back.
"I could not help myself. It is my nature."

I'll remember that next time I'm tempted to give into sin - sin can't help but hurt me. It's its nature.

Don't know if you've heard of worth1000.com, but they have fun Photoshopping contests all the time. Here's a fun one one of my colleagues pointed me to -

Middle Earth 2005.

Well I screwed up our blog's template, so I had to pick a new one. Oh, well, it's kind of cool. We'll have to see how Stephi likes it. :)

Also, notice the new button on the right - you can send us voice messages for free with Odeo, a free audioblogging/podcast service. Try it out, I'd love to hear from some of you - in fact, I'd love to hear from ALL of you! :)

Holy. Cow.

Holy. Freakin'. Cow.
The Juggler. What God made humans capable of is simply unbelievable.

found at being free: juggling?

Stephi and I now have two 2GB iPod Nanos, plus two new cell phones. Both came for free (!) with our new cell phone contracts (which really aren't that expensive).

And I am now going to blast you with Apple propaganda, you might want to hold on to something. I know I'm a little late in noticing it - seeing as how iPod's been out for a few years now.

iPod Nano is my favorite toy of all times. Yes, even "more favorite" than my favorite computer game (Half-Life 2), my favorite board game (Siedler), or my currently favorite video game (Mario Kart DS). Nano is hawesome-with-an-h.

I now have like 350 songs on there, plus 15 teachings and all the Psalms and Proverbs as read by Mr. S.L. Ovoice. I also have like around 500 photos, including a bunch of fun "scrub" animations (to be found here).

It's perfect for waking up in the morning: I simply turn on its alarm and turn up the volume and place the headphones on my nightstand. They're loud enough to easily wake me up the next morning, so then I turn down the volume a bit, listen to a few Switchfoot songs and I'm awake!

It's perfect for listening to books or teachings (like JR Woodward or Mark Darling), because you can easily fast-forward through the entire teaching with the click-wheel, plus Nano remembers where you left off last, even if you listen to other stuff.

It's perfect for listening to new stuff: Buy a new song on iTunes for $1, put it on your iPod, listen - instant gratification. Woohoo.

It's perfect for using as a "little" USB stick - I have roughly 500MB left on mine for anything I want to transport around. That's a nice size, you can get a whole bunch into 500 MB.

It's perfect for listening to podcasts, little mini radio shows that everyone seems to be doing - hey, even I'm thinking about doing a little podcast some day.

Plus, Nano is so small it easily fits anywhere. And I mean small. I can hide it inside my hand, it's smaller and thinner than a deck of cards.

Only real downer so far:
Battery life is maybe 4-6 hours if you play around with it a lot (as I have). If all you do is listen to music with using the backlight, it's probably more like 8-10 hours. But it recharges super-quick.

So, would I pay $200 to buy one? Uh...no. But I'd pay $150 maybe, which is a LOT for a music toy. :)

Man, when I hear about some ways that people got rich, it makes me want to slap myself for not thinking of it myself.
Best example: The Million Dollar Home Page. A 21-year old guy from England puts up a site, saying he'll sell ad space, for $1 per pixel, minimum space you need to buy: 10x10 pixels. Well, word about the site spreads like wildfire, and within 3 months or something like that, he has sold 1 million pixels to a bunch of different people and companies - he now has $1,000,000, ladies and gentlemen.

If you're like me, your first reaction will be "What the...?" Your second will be "Who would...?" And your third will be a silent shake of the head with a puzzled look upon your face.

And now comes the slap of the "Why didn't I think of this myself?" *SLAP*

A (smoking!) friend of mine at work has this as one of his desktop backgrounds. I love it. :)