I saw this test on Josh’s blog here, and thought it would be fun to take. Here are my results:
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You scored as AnselmAnselm is the outstanding theologian of the medieval period.He sees man’s primary problem as having failed to render unto God what we owe him, so God becomes man in Christ and gives God what he is due. You should read ‘Cur Deus Homo?’
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In theory, being honest is something that everyone should be doing and have no problem doing it. In reality it is much more difficult as I have found out. I am one that usually spends a lot of time thinking of the right words to say in a certain situation. Many times, people think of me as slow or slightly dim witted because of it. I have been trying to make an effort to speed up my reaction time to things, for example come-backs to jokes and/or digs at me. I realized tonight that I totally suck at it. I don’t know why, but I am not as witty as the next guy. I don’t enjoy harsh joking at a friends expense. If I am pressured to say something in a moment, I am bound to say the wrong thing and further offend someone. It is never meant, but the offense is still there. How do I not do that? Do I just stop interacting all together? Can I trust the friends that I have to still be there if I say something un-intentially offensive?
So I went to see Jumper last night with a group of friends from church. It was a really good time, but not a spectacular movie. The visual effects were pretty standard while the concept of the movie was really cool. Some might say that it is yet another X-Men movie, but I would disagree. X-Men all have different powers, jumpers only have 1.
Anyways, the story starts with this high school boy, played by Hayden Christensen, that is ridiculed and basically a loser. He has a crush on this girl and tries to give her a snow globe. It was a little corny and the snow globe was seen, but never explained later in the movie. Did she have a collection of snow globes? Is that her absolute most favoritest thing in the world? Who knows, they didn’t tell us. Back to the story, there is this other guy that picks on our jumper and throws his gift out onto a frozen river. Well, as you might expect when walking on a frozen river, the ice broke and our jumper falls in. To save his own life, he “jumps” to the library. This was his first jump. He then learns how to control his jumping and eventually puts his power to the test. You might be asking yourself, “Scott, how does he do this?” Well, he robs a bank. The story then takes a, no pun intended, jump into the future and our jumper has got himself a plush apartment with lots of cool toys and a secret room filled with cash (dead useful if you ask me). Thus we are really introduced to the paladins. This is a group of people that hunt down jumpers. They don’t really explain how or why the paladins were formed or how they get their cool technology. The paladin named Roland, played by Samuel L. Jackson, then tries to kill our jumper. Suffice it to say, he failed. Our jumper then hooks up with the girl from his high school days and takes her to Rome, where they meet another jumper. The story then goes on for a bit and finally the jumpers decide to team up to go stop Roland and the rest of the paladins. Well, somehow the girl gets captured and the jumper squad breaks up and decides to pursue solo careers. So our now solo jumper decides to go rescue the fair maiden and jumps right into a trap. You learned earlier in the movie that electricity stops a jumper from being able to jump so the next part is a little weird. Our jumper of course gets caught in the trap, and with electricity running through his body, he decides to jump the entire apartment into the ocean. Maybe this is to show that he is an all powerful jumper-being and he can jump anything, but really? So they jump into the ocean, then jump out and somehow Roland comes along. So what does our little jumping bean do? He jumps Roland into a cave in a Grand Canyon looking place and leaves him. The end of the movie was a scene where our jumper friend goes to his mothers house. His mother left him and his dad when he was 5. Come to find out, the hot Diane Lane is really a paladin and to protect her son, she had to leave or kill him. Kinda harsh don’t you think? And that’s it.
I would have liked to see more development of the history of the paladins and their obsession with destroying the jumpers as well as a little more with the mother. And no, that last bit is not just cause I want to see more Diane Lane, but that would never hurt would it?
Rottentomatoes.com gave this movie only a 15%, which is surprising when you look at how much money it is raking in at the box office.
Well, we knew it was going to happen sooner or later. Here is an article that goes through the IP address crisis that is approaching ever so fast. I think it is a little bit funny just because there are only a finite number of addresses available in the IPv4 format, so you would think they would have had plans in the works a long LONG time ago to expand this once the internet took off like it has.
It’s a sad, sad day in the world of sometimes pointless gadgets. Sharper Image filed for bankruptcy, see an article here or here. While I have not bought too many things from them, they are an endless source of browsing pleasure. I spend whole minutes going through their new gadgets seeing what they have come up with next. Here are some of my absolute favorites:
R2-D2 Interactive Droid
Zero-Gravity Massage Chair
Smart Shopper Grocery List
I’ll be OK with this, cause I still have my ThinkGeek!!!!
This weekend was the first weekend that we at Beginnings had church on Saturday evening instead of the typical Sunday morning. It kinda threw me off yesterday driving into town because I wanted to stop to get coffee, but I had just eaten lunch. Then when I got there and the service started, I noticed that it got REALLY dark once the lights were turned off. Then when the service let out, it was pitch black outside and instead of going to brunch, some friends and I went to dinner instead. So this morning I didn’t set my alarm and had a moment of panic as I woke up and realized what time it was. I thought for a split second that it was my new alarm clock messing up, or rather me setting it incorrectly. Anyways, this morning-ish I drove Josh and Katie to the airport. They are going back east so Josh can attend his class for his something-or-other degree. 🙂 Katie and I were talking in the car as Josh was picking out an Elmo DVD he wanted to watch and she mentioned that she thought I was taking off work to take them to the airport. Then she realized too that it was still Sunday. Oh well, I guess that’s what you get the first time something big changes in your schedule…a moment of panic followed by a feeling of “what do I do now.”
Today it is really freakin cold. I stepped outside this morning and was caught off guard by how cold it was. All week it has been in the high 60’s and 70’s so I wasn’t expecting to have to change into a sweatshirt. Anyways, here is a pic of the view of the mountains from my backyard.
I downloaded a few clips of one of my favorite comedians, Eddie Izzard, to use as ring tones for a couple of people I know. I then remembered to look for a really nice clip of my good friend Josh speaking in church. Now for those of you that like context…you won’t find it here…well ok ok ok. He was talking about being excited that Seth accepted the position of worship leader at church. I just think it’s funny that inside Josh is a 7th grade girl just screaming to get out…Ok, so I took some liberty with that interpretation…but it works for me.
I saw this article and couldn’t help but laugh. I would think the guy who invented supersoakers would have enough money that he wouldn’t need to invent anything else. If I were him, I would be filling up my supersoaker and soaking anyone who blinked at me. (I have to have a reason to shoot em, I’m not a jerk ya know!)
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