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April 21st, 2008 | literary, spiritual

Matt Rogers on 700 Club, April 15, 2008 with live feedback from rest of staff team (in lieu of live studio audience).

Andy Goldfinger Memorial

April 21st, 2008 | creative, historical, personal, spiritual

On Saturday, April 12, 2008, a group of thirty diverse people gave tribute to the red-headed Messianic Jew who brought us all together through prayer, friendship, and Pepsi. If you weren’t able to join us, we hope the following will be meaningful to you.

1. Memorial Bulletin (2MB pdf)
2. Memorial Audio Recording (30MB, 74min mp3)
3. Elder Abraham Phonemail Prank (1MB, 2min mp3)
4. Photo Slideshow (as seen above, 9MB, 2min mp4)
5. Jewish, Presbyterian, and Episcopal Prayers (72KB pdf)
6. Memory book in pdf form (coming soon)

If you’d like to leave comments about the memorial, please do so here. If you’d like to leave a few words in memory of Andy, that might belong better on this post.

Might as well face it, we’re addicted to oil

March 30th, 2008 | cultural, ecological, economic, political, technical

As I sit in my 59 degree home with an empty oil furnace tank, I’m thankful that we made it through the winter with fuel. Too bad it wasn’t enough for the mysterious Appalachian post-winter weather spasms. It took over $1000 to fill the tank in the fall and now it’s dry. This summer I’ll be looking into replacing some of our larger single-pane windows. Until then, we’re looking at some cheaper alternatives to fill our tank this coming year. I’m surprised to find that trendy and new-fangled biodiesel, is actually cheaper than petrodiesel. We just need to find a supplier who can truck some to us. Here’s some interesting facts from my research found at http://biofuels.coop:

• total oil used since 1850:
  1 trillion barrels
• total world reserves remaining:
  1 trillion barrels
• percent oil discovered before 1973:
  70%
• time left at current world usage (29 billion/yr):
  33 years
• time left if US uses strategic oil reserves:
  1 month
• time left if US uses only oil in US fields:
  3 years
• time left if US grabs/uses all of Iraq’s oil for itself:
  15 years
• time left if whole world uses oil at US’s current rate:
  6 years

Adobe Tips from the 16 Blocks Pros

March 13th, 2008 | creative, technical

During my first 16 Blocks Magazine all-night assembly for press party, Dave and Christina showed me three simple Adobe tricks that I can’t believe I didn’t know before. (PC users, read apple as CTRL.)

1. Indesign and Photoshop: hold spacebar to turn your pointer into the pan tool so you can temporarily drag around the screen.
2. Indesign: hold apple and shift to resize an image and its border at the same time.
3. Photoshop: when using the brush/eraser holding shift and clicking two points connects the points with a straight line of the brush.

There will be ink.

The Cult of Car

February 25th, 2008 | cultural, ecological, economic, technical

Today’s global enviro-socio-politico-crisis is the culmination of many independent variables, yet one single factor rules them all: the automobile. Like a ring of destiny, this metallic creation has captured the desire of mankind, caused great suffering throughout earth, and must be destroyed in a giant volcano—if it were only that easy. The following is a short list of the implications of worship in the cult of car:
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Ecclesia National Conference in Review - Notes on David Fitch

February 19th, 2008 | cultural, spiritual

Last week our staff team participated in the first annual Ecclesia National Conference in Chevy Chase, MD. It was a group of mostly pastors and staff from a wide variety of sizes, shapes, and flavors of churches brought together by the genius of Chris Backert. We came to network with each other and interact with cutting-edge church thinkers/authors/practitioners David Fitch and Alan Hirsch. It was great to connect with some rich ideas and several old friends I haven’t seen in over a decade. Each day was filled with hearty discussions, laughs, and cigars.

Notes from Fitch: (more…)

Andrew Eric Goldfinger

February 5th, 2008 | historical, personal, spiritual

My brother.
My friend.
My roommate.
My groomsman.

I miss you.

You prayed with passion.
You made me laugh.
You challenged my assumptions.
You drank Pepsi by the gallon.
You left messages on my phone from a Scottish plumber.
You threw pillows at me to make me stop snoring.
You dragged me out of bed when I refused to work.
You prompted me to ask Kati to be my wife.
You were among the seven who ran the drillfield.
You were among the six who wore no clothes.
You wanted Messiah.
You have Him now.
Shalom and lechaim.