BigCat’s Blog of DOOM

A Milestone! The first post during lunch at my new job.

But first a random thought: Maybe squirting the ranch dressing right into the pile of soggy onion-rings a few minutes ago wasn’t such a good idea. I hope I have enough napkins for this lunch.

( new job )

Also, I really enjoyed the conference last week. God said some profound things to me during the last worship session, and I got lots of really good prayer, and did some praying for other people as well. I should write about some of the stuff God told me, because it is interesting, but it is mostly about my family, so it would be involved and this post would go on forever…so I’ll save that. Also, I thought up some ideas on how to more effectively run the tech stuff at church…ways that I think will help get more people involved. I’m still praying for a way to use tech for evangelism….God has been fairly silent about that so far.

I had some good beer in Chicago, and I had some good beer in Madsion (a particularly good stout in Madison). But the Town Hall and Avery Brewery have spoiled me. No longer is a “good” beer acceptable when there excellent beer a mile from my house. I hope I can visit the Avery brewery sometime. That would be an excellent Phi Beta Nu reunion / roadtrip if that could ever happen.

Well, back to work, short lunches and long hours mean less cluelessness around here.

Is it time to be excited about football yet?

Also, I now have decided that the MN team I’m going to get behind is the Twins. In general I feel like they have a better feel to their organization than most other teams I’ve paid any attention to.

Now, this does not mean I have started hating the Cubs. The cubs are in the NL and the twins the AL, so I’m mostly safe. When faced with them playing each other I’m going to go with the twins because I have really been tired of the cubs shit. The organization is just crap. They never want to spend enough money on talent and coaching to stay near the top for more than 1 out of ever 8 to 10 seasons.

So, since the cubs have done a good job of turning me off of baseball over the years, I’ve decided the Twins will be my number one team, and the cubs number two.

Plus, being a twins fan has the bonus of getting to hate the White Sox, which really isn’t a stretch for me since I already hated the Sox.

I also picked the twins because Minnesota is starting to feel like home which means I need a regional sports team to support. Driving back into the city last night at 1am I really had that ‘coming home’ feeling. So, between my utter hatred of the Vikings (I mean you can’t go back on the bears…and the bears hate the Vikings), and thinking the Timberwolves just can’t get it together and have had a lot of crap people on their team (by crap I mean jerk-offs), I picked the twins. (Plus, Rob thinks KG is going to go the bulls which will only solidify my love of the Bulls)

Also, the conference was cool.

Since we are going to a conference in the Chicago land next week, I thought I would tell you all about a pizza place that I will be checking out as per rschmit‘s suggestion.

On Wednesday at about 4:30 pm I’m goingt o meet Rob at a (not deep dish) pizza place which also is an award winning brewery, that this year won the award for best brewery and best brewmaster.

It is called Piece Brewery, and it is north of downtown in the Lincoln park area (at least I think that is how Rob described it’s location). I’ll be driving that way during the free period on Wednesday, and anyone who is interested is welcome to join me.

Thursday I plan on eating some deep dish pizza either for lunch or dinner during the free time at the conference. I haven’t decided if I’m going to hit one of the chain places, or try to get downtown for some authentic Pizza Uno’s or Pizza Duo’s yet, but again, wherever I go, everyone is welcome to come with and encouraged to sample at least one deep-dish joint while in the Chicago area.

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060629.html

I like this guy’s idea. Between this and creating wireless mesh networks (not as good of an idea for the long stretch though), I think something needs to happen at the community level.

America is going to fall behind in innovation soon, which is our last great export, if the American businesses have their way. Keeping the Internet free and cheap is one way to help keep innovation going. But businesses don’t like that idea because it forces them to change with the times instead of forcing the consumer into their dated and (according to them) more profitable business models.