Lookit what the guy handing out the Metro at Burrard & Robson gave me as well: a year's supply of cologne! (at the rate I go. Seriously, those who know me, when have I ever smelled like I use this stuff. And honestly, do you think I should. Break it to me gently, folks...).
I hope to make an official announcement here, probably Monday.
If I don't get to it and you're anxious about it, drop me a quickie line...
I've kept a file at church that I called My Favourite File.
It was handed down to me.
It may in fact be the best handing-down of something we've done in the church's office environment.
Anyway, this is a recent sample of what we've kept.
It recently dawned on me that the Blog was a good way to post this without expressly encouraging this kind of behaviour.
If I get around to it, stay tuned for more!
And let me know if you want to see more.
Or if you DON'T.
I do wonder whether this is one of those uses of blog that gets one in trouble. Maybe.
However, here goes: I have this in my office now. Those who can figure out what this means MAY start to request use of it. But you don't have to. Really.
Prince coming to town was front page news for Regina.
Honda was in a position, I think, to have ideas for trucks and put them into a truck, for real.
Doing a little more than just telling the message for DivorceCare, a program that I'm happy to see in kinder, gentler churches.
We shot these in a real frat house in Toronto.
This ad was bigger in print. Unless you're looking at this on a really really big screen.
We shot these in a real frat house in Toronto.
Is it "sync" or "synch"? Seems like it's missing something without the "h".
Part of a longstanding campaign with MTS (Manitoba Telecom) featuring Gerry & Carl pontificating, doing stuff, and being bison. We worked on this campaign in Vancouver, ironically. We had some good times with Gerry & Carl.
First picture from Barbara's mouse stories, family trip (Lagos?).
Can people get smarter? Are some racial or social groups smarter than others? Despite a lot of evidence to the contrary, many people believe that intelligence is fixed, and, moreover, that some racial and social groups are inherently smarter than others. Merely evoking these stereotypes about the intellectual inferiority of these groups (such as women and Blacks) is enough to harm the academic perfomance of members of these groups. Social psychologist Claude Steele and his collaborators (2002) have called this phenomenon "stereotype threat."
Yet social psychologists Aronson, Fried, and Good (2001) have developed a possible antidote to stereotype threat. They taught African American and European American college students to think of intelligence as changeable, rather than fixed - a lesson that many psychological studies suggests is true. Students in a control group did not receive this message. Those students who learned about IQ's malleability improved their grades more than did students who did not receive this message, and also saw academics as more important than did students in the control group. Even more exciting was the finding that Black students benefited more from learning about the malleable nature of intelligence than did White students, showing that this intervention may successfully counteract stereotype threat.
Pastor Darrell Johnson's Communion message at First Baptist Church Vancouver from May 2009.
I was 3rd in a Div of 10 in the Victoria Scrabble Tournament last Saturday. Not bad for being 4th seed, I'd say... what a weird distribution of wins, no one with 4 wins out of 7 (or 0, which is always nice too).
Some YouTube-y goodness, or How Not To Sing (Edna, do we need one of these in the FBC Choir?...).
I've occasionally thought about working out life on paper before living it. I called it brainstorming my life. "Editing" is shorter, though. Neat article, I particularly like this bit:
Miller concluded his talk by encouraging Christians to stop shouting about what they don't like -- and to focus, instead, on what they are for, and what they think is beautiful.
"We have to start telling better stories," he declared.
Zoiks: my first blog entry as a married guy is about bad behaviour.
Just behind on a bunch of "breather" activities. It feels like we hit the ground running on many things when we got back.
Entitlemania is the new social disease alluded to. I do so enjoy getting my news all grouped-up and commented on like this...
