If you think you're too small to have an impact, go to bed with a mosquito in the room.

From my older brother, this pic of a crew hired to install bollards around the entrance to this building. Time to clean up and head home. Uhmmmm....

Worked on my sermon today. I think it's easy to read the second half of Romans 1 through the grid of contemporary culture and social hot buttons and entirely miss Paul's point. Some words are so loaded right now that their baggage almost takes over any discussion in which they're used. Bully words. 

I made the switch from PC to a MacBook Pro two years ago. I'm frustrated with Lion, the latest OS, but I'd never go back to a PC and Windows. Last Sunday Dr. Sam came in with a dozen Power Point slides on a memory stick. I plugged the stick into my Mac and in about 15 seconds had those slides added on to the Keynote presentation I'd created for the service. He commented on how quickly and easily things happen on a Mac. (Never mind that a PC couldn't do anything with Keynote slides.) "If that were a PC it would sure take longer than that!" He said if he weren't so old he'd make the switch. 

Steve Jobs has died. Even those who harbor ill will toward Apple products (thinly veiled jealousy, methinks) have to admit few, if any individuals from the last quarter century have had the impact on business and culture as Jobs. Windows operating systems have been a poor knock-off of the Mac OS for several iterations now. 

But for all his entrepreneurial leadership and technological innovations Steve Jobs is still dead, just as dead as the guy who worked 30 years on the factory floor and didn't ever do anything more imaginative than try a different brand of toothpaste. It's all left behind and their bodies lie alike, cold and stiff. Qoheleth was right. 

Christie and Palin are both out. 

You win some and you lose some. 

Kirk Gibson is the manager of the year, whether they give him that award or not.