Lost my Amazon gift card that was a B-day present. Very upset about this, making it hard to get my day started. # Interval training for 25 min this morn. Stepped up to the next level. It was fun and the good kind of painful. It is just beautiful outside. # Time to start rubbing [...]
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 May, 2009
In one of my favorite movies the main character has the following line: We’re the middle children of history…. no purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. ( Our Spiritual War and our Great Depression ) ( The Starfish ) ( Our Great [...]
This is a quick test post to verify that my LJ sync’ing tool works when I generate my wordpress post from my iphone. If this works it will be pretty sweet, and I’ll be contributing back to an open source project. Double-win for me. \n
In the past I wasn’t a fan of affirmative action. Primarily because of my sense of loss that accompanied the idea that I could not be selected for a job or position solely on the basis of me not being female or a minority. I still feel a twinge of that when I talk about [...]
Apricot burnon BBQ glazed pork chops, rosemary thyme sage and oilive oil grilled potato wedges. Not a bad follow-up to cruise cuisine. # Listening to This American Life podcast & being disappointed in stock ‘Christian’ answers to life’s hard questions. # Working on a small group discussion about being filled with the Holy Spirit. Any [...]
Current Mood: mellowWell, having returned from vacation I figure it is time for a blog-series documenting and reviewing various aspects of our trip. Sunday the 3rd we flew out in the morning and into Houston TX. We stayed at the Alden Hotel and at their really fancy restaurant *17. It was some of the best [...]
Hello USA! I didn’t miss you and want to go back to Jamaica. # 89 new emails in gmail, 1 of them personally sent to me. Thnx Caleb. 5 new voice mails, 4 from the same person asking for computer help. # Gonna try to get a flight back earlier. Here is to hoping that [...]
Planning a fairly twitter-prolific week during the national conference – You have been warned. # http://is.gd/wxLT I can’t stand microsoft – If they lose they still have to try to screw their competition. Adopt, extend, destroy + FUD=MS. # Mmmmmmm Texas BBQ. Now to visit the Fry’s electronics a couple blocks away from here. # [...]
Monday status update meetings are never fun for me. I always get assinged a bunch of new stuff that I wasn’t planning on doing this week. # Earning announcement for the quarter at 5pm. Internal action plan announced 20 mins ago. I am less than pleased (trying to avoid profanity). # Spent the weekend entirely [...]
