Month: January 2007

Food for thought

From Mark Batterson’s blog:

“Your baptism is your ordination into ministry.”

“Ask the grandparents in your church: how many of you would lay down your life for your grandchildren? Every grandparent will raise their hand. Then ask them: how many of you would lay down your musical preferences for your grandchildren?”

“Sometimes God is more active in the world than he is in the church. Who’s had more impact alleviating suffering in the world: your church or Bono?”

“When you’re in incarnational mode you’re always living on other people’s terms.”

Every Nintendo game ever made

I won’t lie. This is incredible! Absolutely incredible! 670 original NES video games are being auctioned on E-bay right now.
Wow. What a flashback down memory lane.
The current bid is at only $30,600. That averages to a little over $45 a game but the package also includes a NES system, Power Glove, Power Pad, NES Advantage Contoller and more.
Here are some of my favorites from the list:

  • 2-in-1 Super Mario Bros / Duck Hunt
  • Bad News Baseball
  • Bases Loaded (I, II, III, IV)
  • Battletoads
  • Chip ‘N Dale: Rescue Rangers
  • Contra
  • Contra Force
  • Double Dragon (I, II, III)
  • Duck Tales
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Ghostbusters (I, II)
  • Major League Baseball
  • NES Play Action Football
  • NFL Football
  • Power Blade
  • RoboCop
  • Skate or Die
  • Super Mario Bros. 3
  • Tecmo Bowl
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game
  • Tecmo World Wrestling
  • WrestleMania
  • WWF King of the Ring
  • WWF Wrestlemania Challenge
  • WWF Wrestlemania: Steel Cage Challenge
    I’m sure I could keep listing more games, but this is long enough. What about you? What are your favorite NES games?

    • 11 days till Obama makes his announcement

    Barack Obama is planning to make an announcement regarding his 2008 plans on Feb. 10. I’m excited to see what goes down if he does in fact announce his presidency.
    If you haven’t seen it, here’s his video announcement from a few weeks ago.

    Or read a transcript.

    10 Tips for writing your book

    Brian Bailey from Fellowship Church in Dallas has several tips for writing your first, second or 100th book.
    I keep meaning to sit down and work on my first attempt at fiction but I just haven’t been motivated. Maybe it will come later or maybe I’ll move in a completely different direction. Either way, here are his pointers. Anyone else have any ideas? What book would you write if you had all the time in the world?

    Top 10 Steps to Writing a Better Book
    10. Get more exercise
    9. Allow time for editing and formatting
    8. Have a regular place to work
    7. Schedule rewards at each milestone
    6. Disable wireless for long stretches
    5. Write a small amount each day
    4. Set aside time for book busywork
    3. Develop one writing process and stick with it
    2. Print it out
    1. Schedule regular getaways to write

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