Recently a lot of things have been swirling around in my head from things I’ve been reading, things God’s told me to do or stop doing, and sermons I’ve been listening too. Specifically there has been a lot of talk in my house about creativity and art the last few weeks thanks to a sermon [...]
BigCat’s Blog of DOOM
My name is Ben Catlin, and this is where I rock out on topics like my life, technology and faith.
Browsing Posts published in October, 2006
Current Mood: nostalgicI like the McRib. I don’t care if is an over-processed meat-like product. This sandwich etched a permanent place in my heart in the summer of 2000, and has stayed there every since. The summer of 2000 was my first apartment, the first time I’ve been dumped (by a girl I had dated [...]
I just got back from a conference in Baltimore and I have a few fun things I learned while there. 1) Being a conference as a customer, not a sales guy or exhibitor, is a lot more fun. 2) You would be amazed at what a vendor is willing to do for customers. I ate [...]
Interesting question posed today on Slashdot. http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/10/16/172251.shtml I realized I get up in arms sometimes about privacy, and how the government is taking it away (it deeply angers my inner libertarian….but I try to keep him on a leash during non-presidential election years), but I noticed a lot of people are ambivalent when I talk [...]
Current Mood: geekyLivejournal just released a new service called LJ Talk. Similar to Google Talk they are using the jabber protocol (an open source based IM protocol), and they have a bunch of goodies about this up at http://www.livejournal.com/chat/ I kinda like this idea, mostly because you can post to your LJ by IMing Fank [...]
Current Mood: tiredI’ve been working a lot lately, and my head has been so full at night from work and church and everything else that it has been hard to sleep. Also, we are going to try to move daily prayer meetings to the morning soon. Yesterday while driving to work, I almost fell asleep [...]
http://www.bencatlin.com/gallery2/v/BigCat_0/ Hot Dog Giveaway pictures. Check out www.jesusdogs.com for more information on why our church does this.
My youngest brother got engaged to his long-time girlfriend Krysta. They are getting married July 14th of next year. Exciting!!!! She has been around for years, and we like her tons, so we are really pumped.
