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This blog is moving

daniel — Wed, 04 May 2011 20:01:15 +0000

Actually, this blog is splitting up.

Elsewhere in Dreams

EID will be my poetry and artistic endeavours spot, if you will. Pooh had one, why can’t I?

Okay, Whatever.

OKWE is for everything else, like rants about things you don’t care about, much.

This blog (the one you’re reading now) is winding down. Twitter imports have stopped, Google Reader Shared Items imports have stopped, and no posting will be happening. However, the content will remain (Geof willing) as long as it can. I’m not forwarding the blog either, as that would just be to gosh darn hard.

This blog is moving originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2011-05-04.

Unlinking

daniel — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:10:32 +0000

A bunch of my friends no longer blog. I’ve delisted them from the sidebar. I added Chris Hubbs back in because that just make sense.

Facebook happened, I think. Those of us who weren’t writers by temperament or by design stopped interacting with blogs and comments (it was too much effort) and started commenting on Facebook walls instead (far too little effort).

I don’t know if anything is lost in this transition. I don’t think so. There privacy of Facebook can be nice. I miss the openness of it all, though. I can honestly say I gained a few friends on the internet from blogging. I’ve only lost friends on Facebook. At my age it’s a lot easier to lose friends than to gain them.

How long will I keep this up, I wonder? I think as long as I’m making things, and thinking things, and want to write all those things down. I can accept that there are a lot of people out there who don’t care about that. They’re content to think things and have those thoughts boil off into the ether. There’s nothing wrong there. There are, after all, far too many thoughts and not enough time to write them all down.

So I soldier on. There’s that.

Unlinking originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2011-04-18.

Google Reader Digest? Why… yes.

daniel — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:45:51 +0000

EDIT: SharedItems2Wordpress doesn’t work. My praise of it was, shall we say, premature. I’m using a different plugin now, one called RSS Digest. It does the same thing, but will work for any page with an RSS feed. It just so happens that my Shared items do indeed have an RSS feed.

I’ve installed and configured the wonderful SharedItems2wordpress plugin. You’ll see a digest of my Google Reader Shared Items in your feeds every day (if there’s anything to display). It’s not going to hit up the front page or anything, but if you really want to see an archive, you can search “google reader” on the sidebar and get the full list.

As of the writing of this post, that should pull up one post or so.

Google Reader Digest? Why… yes. originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2011-03-15.

We’re now connected with Facebook

daniel — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:57:49 +0000

So just in case you want to use your Facebook login to effortlessly post comments here, you can do that. If you want. If you’re on Facebook all the live long day, you gigantic loser.

We’re now connected with Facebook originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2010-06-22.

Quick note…

daniel — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:06:56 +0000

I’ve excluded daily Twitter digests from appearing on the front page, or in the feed. If you really, really want to see them for some reason, if you’re that strange person, if you’re really that crazy, and if you’re too lazy to actually follow me on Twitter, you can go ahead and search for “Twitter” or click on the “Twitter” tag in the sidebar, where you can sign up for that tag-specific feed. But really, that’s pretty nuts. You shouldn’t do that.

Quick note… originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2009-06-03.

So… it’s my birthday.

daniel — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:44:24 +0000

I’m 27.

So… it’s my birthday. originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2008-08-12.

Laura got the internship!

daniel — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:52:18 +0000

Thank you, God. Prayer greases wheels…

Laura got the internship! originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2008-01-29.

Bullet points for a Friday morning.

daniel — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:44:30 +0000

Today’s my mom’s birthday. Happy Birthday mom! I hope you read this blog every once and while… because I tried calling you and you were out getting milk.
On the elevator up to our apartment yesterday, I realised I have a thing for churches whose names involve water somehow. I used to attend Living Water, then I attended The Bridge (is dead, long live The Bridge!), and now Laura and I are tenatively attending Freshwater in Mississauga. It’s a small church, quite similar in character to The Bridge, and from what I’ve heard thus far, the preaching has been absolutely spot on.
That sort of brings to mind how blessed I’ve been with the sort of preaching I’ve been priviledged to hear over the last few years.
- At Living Water, Pastor Vogel has the sort of passion for preaching you don’t get to hear much anymore, and a soft spot for alliterative bullet points (who doesn’t!). His sermons always provoked me to thought; sometimes I would fill entire sheets with observations about what I’d heard. I still have quite a few of those sheets at home, I think.
- At The Bridge, Robb Powell, who also married me and Laura, had a sort of calm rationality about his preaching. He’d throw out so much stuff in one sermon that I’d almost get brain overload. I’d have to chew on it for hours later.
- I haven’t heard much of Joel Main at Freshwater yet, but from what I have heard he has a remarkable capability for historical analysis and context, and a passion to bring Jesus to life (yes, I know the Holy Ghost already did that) and make him seem real in all his Godhead and humanity.
This morning I poured hot water all over my hand. The throbbing has subsided, thankfully. I topped that off with spilling my tea all over the floor at work about two hours later. Frankly, I feel like an idiot. Or, like Chandler, I’m a dropper. It’s true.
I’m currently gathering information about tasers. If you have a link or something, please do post it in the comments! I’ll be ever so grateful.

Bullet points for a Friday morning. originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2007-11-02.

I’m back.

daniel — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:11:51 +0000

So, I’m married. I just thought the entire world should be aware of that, as my blog screams into the abyss that is the internet at large, a place where all small voices are lost to but an attentive few.

I’m back. originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2007-08-20.

Elyssa’s had the baby.

daniel — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:02:41 +0000

They’re both doing okay. The child’s name is Brianna. I am an uncle.

Elyssa’s had the baby. originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2007-08-01.

A good thing happened around 10:10 this evening.

daniel — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

But I’m not going to tell you what it is, because I’m like that.

Gilmour Girls is starting to grate on me a little bit here. I’m sick of the way they treat marriage, and the pleasant banter is starting to run thin. But on the whole it’s still a good show, and I only have two more seasons to go to catch up with the current storyline. So by the time that happens, I will officially be sick of the show.

CSI Miami was pretty boring this week. Sometimes I don’t know why I watch these shows, and then there’s a great episode. Please let that be next week. I tell you, this is why I don’t watch much television: they just can’t keep the quality writing up.

Have you seen any good movies lately? I have been so far from the theatre that my cultural garbage experience is starting to sadly lack. I should stock up on junk food, drink thirty cups of coffee, and go watch a good flick that will mindlessly bounce off the inside of my eyes. Oh, that’s right. That’s why I haven’t watched any movies lately. BECAUSE THERE AREN’T ANY TO WATCH! Goodness, I can’t wait for Oscar season to come, for some reason. They tend to produce a movie around that time, at least one movie that’s slightly tolerable and doesn’t involve humans performing unpleasant acts with animals. Disturbing.

We ate deer at work today. Bambi on the barbi. Oh, the irony.

A good thing happened around 10:10 this evening. originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2004-10-15.