The Five Pillars of Manhood

If you’ve ever watched the movie Second Hand Lions, there is a part where one of the main characters gives his “What it means to be a real man” speech to a few young punks.  I always wondered what the content of that speech might have been.  Perhaps it was something like this.  (see bottom…

Fun Internet Things

Once in a while, I find fun and cool stuff on the Internet that I enjoy sharing with others. While, I’m not a big proponent of email forwarding spam, posting fun things like these on a blog is quite acceptable. A “Psycological” Optical Illusion Check out the link below. It’s very cool. I’d love to…

New Website

Well, we’ve revamped our aging www.jamesandcarolanne.com site to now contain our family blog. Over time, we will probably end up making that blog more about our personal lives, and keeping this one for mostly ministry related stuff. Feel free to check it out and drop us a line. We’d love to hear from you. You…

Perception of Beauty

[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/dAnRQncZ_uk” width=”425″ height=”350″ /] This video was brought to my attention by a friend, and is really an excellent example of how the advertising industry fools us into thinking that we need to be something that we’re not. I know that many girls especially struggle with not feeling adequate or pretty enough, and I…

Wired 14.06: Baghdad, USA

I found this really interesting article today about a simulated Arabic environment used for training US soldiers before they go over sea’s. Talk about your ultimate paintball / war game. Wired 14.06: Baghdad, USA If you would like to read about or keep up-to-date with other interesting technological break-throughs and scientific articles that I’ve found,…