Logan & Amy’s Blog

How you know when your boss has the potential to be a PHB. E-mail I got today at Wells.

From:
PHB

To:
Development Team

Subject:
Who is supposed to be sending the daily Graphs of Delinquency?

Body:
I have not seen any in days?

What’s interesting that this same manager had a programmer take a daily screenshot, yes Alt PrtScrn, and e-mail it to some upper managers. The programmer who was responsible for this mundane and archaic task went on vacation, which was approved by the above sender.

Sigh…

P.S. Never send me an e-mail with the body in the subject; it will be marked as spam. Also this is an excellent candidate for some automation (alt PrtScrn thing).
P.S.S. Sorry if I sound cynical, I know I only have 4 more days!

It’s politics as usual on capital hill, but it’s more at stake than building the next bridge to nowhwere.

Apparently Bono got the shaft from Democrats for $1 billion dollars in US pledges to fight Malaria and AIDS in Africa. Not sure which is worse the promises made by President Bush or the hypocrisy of congress.
Meanwhile the church Amy and I are attending, Imago Dei, will be sending a team to East Africa to help with various ministries. They’re partnering with an organiziation called Hope is Alive. These people include college students to young professionals with a great heart for humanity. Also a friend of ours from our bible study has been lead to go to Sudan with MedAir. What amazes me is the great risk that these individuals are taking upon themselves to help people they have no personal ties to. If anything it demonstrates the love of Christ and the willingness of regular people to imitate that love.

Our government, national healthcare, reforming social security, winning the Iraq war, winning the war on terror, political promises, technology, or more taxes will never help or save humanity. God uses the common people to be his hands and feet, the least will be first in His Kingdom.

Everyone has tattoos, it’s no longer cool. Please recall the late 90’s and early 00’s when every girl who emblematized various geometric designs and patterns on their lower back. And everyone should also remember the ubiquitous tribal bands, barb-wire, jesus hands, and a whole gamut of other trendy styles that the men would sport. Tattoos originally represented a rite of passage for tribal societies, the marks that people would painfully endure to decorate their bodies had very significant meanings for these societies. The ink in their skin represented many things, but mainly it was unique, beautiful and represented something far deeper than the skin it decorated. What does this have to do with myspace? Well it really has to do with the irony of social pressures, what’s hip, what’s cool, group dynamics, and how superficial most human-beings can be. I would guarantee that 99.5% of human beings are victims of these pressures to various degrees. Similar to the late 90s fab, Myspace, clutters the internet with grotesquely decorated templates and mind numbing text messages (eg: “LOL, I got so drunk last night, OMG!!! ”). As a self proclaimed sage and pioneer of the internet, one who remembers the days of the vt100 terminal and lynx, the same culture of people who socialize on myspace are the same daft blokes who ridiculed and teased the nerds of the late 80s/early 90s who socialized and posted on the local BBSes. Just do a search for any of your least favorite people you went to high school with, you know the trendy sport jock rich kids, they all have myspace accounts. So please, if you wish to be creative and contribute to this wonderful thing call the Internet, first and foremost, boycott myspace. And yes, I’ll admit the tattoo thing was a stretch, but it could be any fab of the day. Please think for yourself, it’s one of the greatest gifts given to the human race!

Inspired by: http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/07/07/173810.php