Well I’ve had all of my requirements checked off by my professors now. If you’d like to take a look at some of the work I’ve been doing over the past month, check out my brand new “professional site.” I’m not really sure what’s so professional about it, but here it is:
For now I’d recommend the PowerPoint project for an Austrian Food Quiz or the STAIR Project, which teaches you all about computer history. Or at least that’s the idea.
I will be uploading a movie tomorrow at some point.
So I was looking through my blog stats today, and one of the things I can find out is what people typed into Google to find my site. Here are my three favorite from the last 2 days:
3. “matt klein” “red hair”
2. I am a deep person
1. cat eating hot dog picture
And there you have it. I’m glad I could help out the person looking for a picture of a cat eating a hot dog.
I guess you never know what you’ll find on the Internet.
Best to look both ways before you cross the elderly in Plymouth. That girl right there just dodged a bullet.
So I came across this article on the main page of Yahoo while procrastinating my final class project and doing laundry, and probably some other things.
http://personals.yahoo.com/us/static/dating-advice_man-codes
I’m not sure that this article is particularly insightful. All she does is point out good and bad characteristics of guys in popular movies and give these characteristics dumb names. I mean do you really need someone to tell you that a guy who openly sleeps around with multiple women or sits on the couch in his boxers and plays video games all day doesn’t really value you or your relationship? Or, conversely, that a romantic guy you connect with on an intellectual and emotional level might be a good match? I guess it never hurts if the guy has superhuman strength and can “leap tall buildings in a single bound.” But I digress…
The real reason for this post comes from the author’s biographical blurb at the bottom of the article.
Liz H. Kelly is a dating coach and author of “SMART Man Hunting: The Fast Track Dating Guide for Finding Mr. Right (or Ms. Right).”
First off, how does a book entitled “SMART Man Hunting” possibly help you find Ms. Right?
Second, and most importantly, what exactly is a dating coach? What would one do? Are there dating competitions? Why I am I just finding out about this now? So I’m thinking I need to start a dating team at VCS next year, but I still have a lot of questions about how this works.
Is a dating coach more like a tennis coach where you just watch the date and all of the actually “coaching” comes before and after the date.
Before: “You’re wearing THAT?” or “I think you need a little more product” or “You can’t wear brown shoes with a black belt! Come on! You’re killing me!”
After: “Good first impression, but you really blew it with that movie choice.” or “I can’t believe you ordered spaghetti!” or “Everything was going fine until you tried that ‘fake yawn’ move. Seriously, I think my grandpa was using that move 80 years ago.”
Or maybe more like a football coach where you can give them advice through a microphone in their ear.
“Ok, now make some good eye contact. There you go. Perfect!”
“Fourteen lines!! Fourteen!!! A sonnet has fourteen lines!! And your iambic pentameter is all over the place! Get it together, man!”
Or maybe like a baseball or boxing manager where you can talk to your player between innings or rounds, like carefully scheduled bathroom breaks and such.
Coach: “I can’t believe you chose Terminator 3!”
Datee: “I know. The romantic comedy was sold out and I just panicked.”
Coach: “Calm down, now. Just make sure she grabs your arm during all the scary parts.”
Coach: “A haiku!?!? What were you thinking?!?”
Datee: “It was a good haiku!”
Coach: “Son, it doesn’t matter if it’s the best haiku ever written! You can’t win a girl’s heart with a haiku! They don’t even pull that crap in Japan!”
Datee: *sigh*
Coach: “Chin up, son. Get back in there and tell her that her eyes sparkle like emeralds. That should get you back in the game.”
Well, you get the idea. However it works, I definitely need one of those Dating Coach hats. Let me know if you want to help out. I’ll probably need an assistant coach.
I just started reading the Gospel of Luke for my devotion time not too long ago, and it is a book I’ve read quite a few times. As I was reading through the first chapter I was moved by Zacharia’s prophecy following the birth of his son, John the Baptist.
I don’t think I’d ever realised how beautiful a description of God it is. How He showed mercy toward his people, how He remembers His covenant, how He offers us salvation and forgiveness “that we…might serve Him without fear, In holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.”
But what humbled me the most were verses 78-79. In the moment I read them I understood again the wonderful love of our God.
78 Because of the tender mercy of our God,
With which the Sunrise from on high will visit us,
79 TO SHINE UPON THOSE WHO SIT IN DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH,
To guide our feet into the way of peace.”
Think about God’s tender mercy that caused Him to send His Son into this earth. I love the imagery of the sunrise here because it shines upon the whole earth. That the sun would stretch its beams into the darkness of this world, so we may be led to peace. It does not favor one land or people, but spins its way around the globe. And people now squint into the horizon of new life and find a Savior. A Savior sent because of the tender mercy of our God.