The Big Think

This past weekend (thursday through monday, actually), I was honored to be among the Stupids when my good friend Sean invited me to attend the Stupid Guy Trip to Milwaukee. Sean and a motley bunch of his friends from college and even jr. high pick a location every year to travel to and hang out for a few days. He graciously invited me to become a participant and I couldn’t have had a better time. Sean has a good write-up here about the trip. I was going to do one but I’m too lazy (which also means I’ll probably forget some of the stuff that happened on the trip, but what I won’t forget is that it was a great experience that I’m looking forward to repeating next year.

wherein Sean comes up with a brilliant and potentially world-altering idea.

I’m truthfully humbled.

Matt has a good post on subjectivity and objective beauty over at Not-A-Pipe. We’ve had extensive conversations about this topic for a while. Most of my conversations with Matt fall in the “extensive” category, for which I’m pretty grateful.

Erin and I went over to a friend’s Super Bowl party last night to watch it in big screen splendor (really big screen). While the first three quarters of the game was rather… bland, the last ten minutes really made up for it. We’re all hoarse from yelling. And since we didn’t really have a dog in the fight, it was fun to just watch the spectacle play out and see who was going to come out on top. For the first time in years, I have to say that the game was better than the commercials.

Oh yeah, the commercials? Kinda lame this year.

Sean gets his OLPC in and gives it a quick review. He likes it.

I just thought you’d, you know, like to know…

A friend (who shall remain nameless, but you know who you are) sent me a box of goodies in the mail today. I was expecting a couple of minor cool things, for which I was prepared to be grateful. Instead, I opened the box and discovered a treasure chest of wonderfulness. All things that were unexpected, and all things that were needed/wanted.

So a big public thank-you to you!

Congrats to my long-time friend Patrick and his wife Lydia as they welcome Adam Patrick Watts into the world. Mom and baby are doing fine. Daddy sounds a little thunderstruck.

Matt has a great post over at Not-A-Pipe on credibility and Christianity. Don’t miss it.