Comments posted by Adam (total of 53)
Adam's comments in the They Sold My Lake and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt thread:
Posted By Adam on March 30, 2009 @ 9:06 am
Read this comment in contextI heard that it was where they are going to film next year’s “Girls With Low Self-Esteem” video.
Adam's comments in the Adventures in Agriculture thread:
Posted By Adam on May 30, 2008 @ 1:47 pm
Read this comment in contextDo you have your own brand? I just pictured a cow with a “BS” on it with a little Cisco logo below.
Adam's comments in the CMH -> NOLA -> Progreso -> Cozumel -> CMH thread:
Posted By Adam on January 25, 2008 @ 12:02 pm
Read this comment in contextSounds like an awesome time, man. Can’t wait to see some pictures!
Adam's comments in the The Christmas Thread thread:
Posted By Adam on December 21, 2007 @ 2:04 pm
Read this comment in contextI found an old Christmas CD I made few years back when iTunes was still in its infancy. On it I had included a parody of “Up Around the Bend” called “Goin’ up to Bethlehem” by Bob Rivers. It has been stuck in my head all morning.
For the first 8 years of my life, my initial memory of Christmas is sharp, painful light and then hours of near blindness, since my parents recorded it all on Super 8mm. Dad would film and mom would hold the massive spotlights as we kids fumbled down the avocado-green carpeted stairs, unable to see anything. I never knew exactly what I had gotten until the next day.
Anyone ever read the Letters of Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien? The man wrote letters to his kids every year. pretending to be Father Christmas. Who knew that goblins have a history of stealing Christmas presents? And a Great Polar bear helped the yulemaster? No sign of Rudolph, since that attention whore didn’t come on the scene until 1939.
Adam's comments in the Vend (v.) To Offer for Public Consideration thread:
Posted By Adam on April 2, 2007 @ 9:25 am
Read this comment in contextI’ve always been curious as to what a transporter actually does. Ripping your body down to its most basic elements, beaming them across distances of space and through barriers, and then reassembling back into the same construst they were originally in sounds a bit painful (total protonic reversal?). Would anyone survive it? Does a human soul transport well?
Instantaneous worm-hole compression doesn’t sound so bad now…
Posted By Adam on April 1, 2007 @ 10:32 am
Read this comment in contextSorry Seth, our employer is now conducting random Voight-Kampf tests.
Posted By Adam on March 30, 2007 @ 2:57 pm
Read this comment in contextWhat if your sig. other has created a fabricated version of you? Is that cheating or merely evidence of poor communication within the relationship?
Or if the fabricated person is a copy of him/herself? Is that cheating or… eww…
The moral implications of holodecks is not something mankind is ready to deal with.
Adam's comments in the Hole-In-The-Wall thread:
Posted By Adam on February 2, 2007 @ 12:05 pm
Read this comment in contextBarley’s Smokehouse… if you’re into having a pint of ale with your food.
Adam's comments in the Christianity vs. Masculinity thread:
Posted By Adam on January 16, 2007 @ 3:38 pm
Read this comment in contextI have a couple of thoughts and I wish I could make them all flow together in one coherent and flowing stream, but that’s just not going to happen.
I’ve noticed in the mainstream christian culture what I think is an unconscious confusion between the Church and a church service. If there are christian men that are not an active part of a church body I think the issue is far greater than a “feminine service” that meets once a week.
I suppose the major question here is, what is the purpose of the Church. Because until we figure out what that is, we aren’t going to hit a clear direction on the purpose for a church service and what it should look like. The largest acts of worship and greatest steps of faith should be occuring outside of what we do on Sunday mornings (or evenings or whenever your corporate body meets).
My whole life I’ve grown up in what could be classified as the conservative evangelical branch of protestant Christianity, so that is what I’ve been exposed to and what I’m comfortable with. But I fear there is a growing trend where we have institutionalized church services to the point where if God really wanted to commune with His people He would have to submit a request three weeks in advance and have it added to the “order of service.” Yes, I am grossly over-exaggerating. I can easily rattle off that my next service will have 4 worship songs, announcements, a teaching, prayer ministry and conclude with three songs. Reading from Paul’s letters I get the feeling that the early church services were much more organic where every one was expected to actively take part: bringing hymns, differnt teachers, prophecy, interpreting; essentially using whatever spritual gift God has blessed us with. I’d like to see some churches tackle this approach if there is ever a need to rebrand.
I think Seth will understand best where I am coming from, but I see many evangelical churches becoming machines where there is only a concern to get people to pray a prayer, join a church and then very little else in their life is expected to change except to maybe join a small group or alter few other externals in order to fit in. Personal growth, sacrifice for the Kingdom and agape love are almost an after thought. I’m probably going to miscommunicate this but evangelism is a primary function of the church, not the only function.
I liked Bill’s reference to David, he’s got to be one of the manliest dudes in the bible and the amount of singing and dancing he did amazes me. I am convicted by his “sold-out-ness.” Actually I like a lot of what you guys said. A great discussion here.
Also, just a little comical observation. Does anyone else find it amusing that the songs listed as being too feminine were all written by men? And I bet some of the great, deep hymns that we all enjoy were written by women (Fanny Crosby, Frances Havergal, etc.).
Adam's comments in the Play God thread:
Posted By Adam on January 11, 2007 @ 11:51 am
Read this comment in contextAgreed, it does count for something and I don’t want to come across as being against these sorts of things. I just hate settling for “something, anything” and not push for something of true quality and impact.
Posted By Adam on January 10, 2007 @ 4:35 pm
Read this comment in contextBwaaaahaahahaha! These are amazing. Having worked in a toy department through most of high school and half of college I’ve got to tip my hat to these. I’d like to see an Old Testament version of Guess Who?
On the other hand, I have to groan when Christians (or anyone of any faith) merely replace names or other aspects of a game and claim how much better and more wholesome it is. Granted, the kids may be learning/memorizing through repitition but that hardly infuses a liveable moral system or challenges strawman beliefs. The greater culture has started to do this cut-and-paste chicanery as well. I ran across a book last night that claimed to be the Christian answer to yoga: It merely replaced the “eastern mysticism” with reciting bible verses.
Adam's comments in the And Then There Were Three… thread:
Posted By Adam on September 19, 2006 @ 5:19 pm
Read this comment in contextWeird Al until about 1991.
Adam's comments in the The State Of The State thread:
Posted By Adam on August 21, 2006 @ 3:12 pm
Read this comment in contextI’ll preface all that I say by the statement that I can only speak from what I have personally seen. I’ve been down to New Orleans twice (December ‘05, August ‘06) and going back in December ‘06. If anyone else wants to go, let me know.
The city of New Orleans itself seems to have recovered for the most part. We visited the French quarter and it is clean and functional. There are still restaurants and shops that haven’t opened yet, and I assume that’s because tourism hasn’t been fully restored. But people still come, and there’s musicians and artists and dancing in the streets.
The lower 9th Ward is a different story, and much of it still looks like what I saw over six months ago. They aren’t even attempting to restore much of it and are bulldozing whole neighborhoods. The 9th Ward is probably the poorest part of New Orleans.
Our team worked in Saint Bernard Parish, which is east of New Orleans and about 50 miles west of the ocean. It’s recovering but slowly. We’ve worked to clean/mud out houses for Caucasians, African Americans, and even Spanish Cajuns. Talking to them and then hearing from the “political and social leaders” of our country is enough to make one vomit. The people of Saint Bernard’s Parish seem to have a wider and more honest view of who’s to blame and have a good sense of humor about it. There’s also a frustration with the insurance companies. The area is above sea level, so the insurance agencies were able to convince people to forego flood insurance. The insurance agencies are now claiming that the floods caused the damage, not the hurricane, so they won’t pay to clear out and detoxify homes, just rebuilding.
Everyone there has a story about themselves or someone they know packing up and moving out 2 days early and knowing people who stayed behind, listening to the radio. One guy we talked to watched it come in on the radar and finally decided to get out of Dodge at 5:30am. He had to stop his wife from trying to pack up the whole house. The tells me that people had enough forewarning to make a personal decision on leaving or staying.
America has this disease that selects an object of scorn and attaches all blame for anything that appears to be negative to it. Honestly there’s portions of every group that seem to be doing it whether they Christian, Atheist, Homosexual, black, Republican, Apple enthusiast, etc. It’s scary in the sense that it’s similar to what Nazi Germany did to the Jews. A harsh comparison, I know but I think this is where it starts. In this case everything is George Bush’s fault. The people that I have talked to in New Orleans don’t necessarily see it that way. They are frustrated with FEMA (t-shirts now read: Fix Everything My Ass) and their local government (t-shirts that show Ray Nagin, Michael Brown, etc. as the new MOD Squad). I head blame placed on “the government” more then on Bush himself.
Most of St. Bernard’s parish survived the hurricane, it was the flood that was the problem. After the hurricane a 30 foot wave crashed over the levee’s and flooded the area up to 15 feet, which drained to 8 feet and then stayed there for 2 weeks. Even if the levee’s held, I don’t think it would have helped much, and may have kept the water in longer.
Who’s to blame for the levee’s? Not sure, but the bigger problem was that the storm surge traveled up the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal which was built for commerce. Hurricane Betsy (1965) was a pretty powerful storm but the damage due to flooding was far less because the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal wasn’t as wide as it is now due to erosion. Again, the devastation is a compounded problem, larger then any one man, government body or generation.
Even so, in rebuilding there are problems on the local level. New Orleans is one of the most corrupt cities in America and little is done without the appropriate bribes. We had an issue back in December where we couldn’t start work on a house until we “greased the skids” before hand. The local inspectors were dirty, it was the state and federal inspectors that we had no problems working with.
But the people themselves are coping. There’s about 7,000 people living in the Parish now and 20,000 commuting each day. All of the government agencies that were helping and the majority of the charity groups have pulled out, it’s pretty much just the faith-based groups that are sticking around, and the people are appreciative. We had all kinds of invitations to come sit with people, use their pool, us their shade, whatever they had available. People would drive up to the work site, and come out and thank us all for what we were doing. No racism, no prejudice, it was humanity pulling together, and it was awesome. It actually made it hard to want to come back and “plug into normal life” once more.
Part of the problem is that our brains are too small. There are people making assumptions that what happened in New Orleans is the same that happened in St. Bernard’s Parish, is the same that happened in Mississippi and is the same that happened in Alabama. That’s just not the case; every parish and county seemed to have a different set of circumstances that made it difficult to establish some sort of cookie-cutter solution. Federal government could give supplies and man-power, but it would have to be the local government that made decisions and implemented any sort of evacuation or preparatory plan.
Apparently Spike Lee, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and others don’t quite get that. Or worse, they get it but it doesn’t help their agenda. That is a judgment on my part, but I still stand by my statement that our brains are too small. That’s just an observation. What the world thought it saw on those days is may not be what trully happened. The news media did a horrible job covering the event and just focused on the more “sensational aspects” as a ploy to grab ratings. Often times they were unaware of what location they were actually filming and blanketed whole cities with their conclusive commentary. I’ve got the same problem too, I just can’t fathom all that went on and no one likes to admit that there are powers that exist out there (intelligent or not) that are even beyond the scope and abilities of what is the most powerful entity in their own physical existence: their country.
Blaming someone make people comfortable because they have a thin facade of control.I was just reading the description of Spike Lee’s documentary. Although the words are stirring, it doesn’t sound like a fair representation. To see the phrase “Lee was so intensely committed to his vision of the project…” to me paints a picture of someone who won’t let the facts get in the way of a good story. I really hope it is balanced but why is there a need to bring in celebraties who weren’t there? What the city needs is not more finger pointing in a catestrophe that could not be avoided in order to progress a system agendas. What it needs is people who are committed to overcoming the events of that day, setting aside personal wishes and vendetta’s against others who may think differently. We need to work hard to achieve this, not create documentaries that tackle the easy job of critisizing those who have done the difficult job of managing the crisis. And none of this should come from the government, because it is the populace who are ultimately responsible in our representative democracy.
But that’s just my take on it.
Adam's comments in the Our Lady Of The Capricious Order thread:
Posted By Adam on July 20, 2006 @ 9:11 am
Read this comment in contextProps to Bill for the title.
I’m going to vent and rant here, so feel free to wander off at any point.
First to what sparked this thread, the signage of the bus: meh. I can understand the attempt here, it’s becoming popular with churches. It is an attempt to remove the typical excuses that people have for not coming to church. The only problem is that the professed reasons for attending a church rarely have anything to do with the real reasons; they are just a defense. Last night I was talking to some friends about a similar advertisement, and we pariodied a commercial for our church using the new Mac adds. It was all rather pretentious. Billboards and 30 second commercial adds do not replace evangelism (that stems from agape, not legalism).
As to the article, I agree with its message, but my stomach churns a bit at how it is presented. My frustration with the evangelical church today is that it (we) tend to come across as holier-than-thou. Even if we are right (which I believe we are in the majority of cases) it is possible to communicate the message without using terms that come across as condescending. Maybe it is just me, but I can almost see a smirk on the writer’s face when she uses the term “liberal.” The word has a variety of uses, it should be used as a blanketing label on entire denominations.
Also, what was the purpose of this article, who was the entended audience? A group of like-minded individuals most likely. What does scripture say about correcting a brother in error? I’m not saying that this isn’t open to conversation (obviously it is, else I wouldn’t be posting about it) but I’d also like to see some movement to communicate these sorts of things to the actual churches that we have issues with, starting an honest and open dialogue. Certainly we may come to the same standstll that we are at now, but at least we moved to address the speck and board that is irritating so many eyes these days.
It’s also pretty foolish to paint every church in one denomination as holding to the same pattern of beliefs as the whole denomination. Bill is right when he says that no denomination is going to map exactly. The Presbyterian church that I attended in high school has gone on record stating that it will break away from the synod if certain boundaries are crossed. The Episcopal church that sponsored my Boy Scout troop has removed the “Episcopal” name from its sign board and replaced it with “Anglican.” There are changes afoot, churches are leaving or preparing to leave apostate beliefs.
Which leads my into another rant. I… am… so… tired… of Christians who raise hell (not a pun) over things like the posting of the 10 Commandments in public and doctrinal issues and seem to eschew actually loving their neighbor and, *gasp*, a worshipful relationship with the One whom their doctrine is centered about (that would be Father, Son and Spirit). Churches that “preach biblical morality” and “have no trouble saying that Jesus is Lord” are not necessarily in the right if they are not living it. Yes, a parsing of semantics, but one that James saw the need to address and Jesus warned that people would claim to know Him and attempt to enter the Kingdom
I had to laugh about the consideration of a resolution affirming that Jesus Christ is Lord. Since when does the Church really affirm that? We can affirm that we assen to that. Again, I am being a grammar nazi, but I have to have some fun, right? Also, we are missing some of the context here as well as the fully reasoned response. Granted, it is heart breaking that they didn’t drop everything and spend the rest of the day affirming this in every possible way but… what would you say if someone asked you to affirm that you are no longer beating your children? What if they considered this in the same category? Yeah probably not.
A quick jibe at Prof, and this is more of a theological bent: Where did you get your basis for “Religion is between you and your God, period.” I don’t quite find it to be self-evident, because it is primarily post-modern/existential. I can point back to the Bible and say “Because He told me so and He is the first cause.” but you don’t have anything to point to except yourself. Of course, then I have to go and defend the inspiration of scripture, which is no easy task either… savvy?
And a nod to Seth… your final paragraph sums up my stance perfectly.
And this all leads to the question: When does the conservative church begin paying for its sins? Certainly we can speak out against heresy and backslidding churches all we want, but we’ve got to continue putting our own house in order and get back to that “Mere Christianity.”
Adam's comments in the Save Saved By The Bell Boy thread:
Posted By Adam on September 4, 2006 @ 10:04 am
Read this comment in contextAhem: Boo!
Adam's comments in the Lost Easter Eggs thread:
Posted By Adam on May 18, 2006 @ 12:03 pm
Read this comment in contextAnyone remember the whole “I Love Bees” event? It was essentially a viral marketing scheme using an ARG (Alternate Reality Game) to hype up Halo 2. I’m assuming this is essentially the same thing.
Think of a giant treasure hunt, with new clues each week stringing us along though the summer until the new season of L O S T. Phone calls, web sites, books… All of course paid for by Coca-cola and Verizon. But really, how can Sprite hope to top the Jim Varney campaign from the childhood?
Several L O S T podcasts are now giving updates each week for it, so starts the hype machine.
Anyone have a copy of some Geronimo Jackson?
Adam's comments in the Welcome to Chipotle, What Can I Get You? thread:
Posted By Adam on April 28, 2006 @ 8:25 am
Read this comment in contextI usually have them start with a crunchy all-beef taco smothered in nacho cheese, lettuce, tomato and their special southwestern sauce. Then I have them wrap it in a soft flour tortilla with a layer of refried beans in between.
All of that can be wrapped in a savory corn tortilla with a midlle layer of monterey jack cheese. After that they take a deep-fried gordita shell, smear on a layer of special guacamolito sauce, and wrap that around the outside.
That’s all baked it in a corn husk filled with pico de gallo, which is wrapped that in an authentic Parisian crepe, filled with egg, gruyere, merguez sausage and portabello mushrooms.
To give it that special “international flavor” I ask to wrap the whole thing in a Chicago-style deep dish meat-lover’s pizza and then roll it up in a blueberry panacke, dip it in batter, and deep fry until it’s golden brown.
Quite the little meal, served with low fat cheese.
Adam's comments in the Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve thread:
Posted By Adam on January 11, 2008 @ 2:59 pm
Read this comment in contextAh, Caspian is looking really good! I think this book is easier to translate into a movie than the LWW.
I’d like to see A Horse and His Boy, but I wonder who would voice Bree and Hwin? I’m not sure how well it would be received since it is a departure from characters that we know thus far.
I really hope we get to see The Final Battle, since much of the current Christian focus on End Times has centered too heavily (in my opinion) on reading prophecy into today’s newspapers. Taking a step back may be a bit refreshing. Emeth’s acceptance into Aslan’s land could also trigger some interesting discussions on salvation.
I haven’t heard much about the Screwtape Letters movie, other than it is being written and directed by Randall Wallace (guy who wrote Braveheart). A lot of his work seems hit-or-miss with me. We’ll see, hopefully.
Adam's comments in the Act Like You Like It! thread:
Posted By Adam on November 17, 2005 @ 12:29 pm
Read this comment in contextI’d have to say that I’d give a nod to the majority of the people already listed. And I’ve got three more to add:
1. Liam Neeson
2. James Earl Jones
3. Alan RickmanI’d toss in Colin Firth, but his characters have been pretty similar in every role I’ve seen him in.
Question for Bill: Not sure how it would go over on this list, but maybe at a future date we could do favorite voice actors?
Posted By Adam on November 16, 2005 @ 10:04 am
Read this comment in contextThis page is in serious need of some Bruce Campbell lovin’.
Or maybe I’m just a Chinese jet pilot.
Adam's comments in the Alice Did NOT Come Up Short thread:
Posted By Adam on November 2, 2005 @ 1:22 pm
Read this comment in contextOooo, let me Bill, I love ruining classic dailogue. I should work for TBS.
Vincent: That’s a pretty frickin’ good milkshake. I don’t know if it’s worth five dollars but it’s pretty frickin’ good.
Ok, 21 sliders will cost you far more then $10 in the long runs.
You see what I did there?
Adam's comments in the H*R thread:
Posted By Adam on November 3, 2005 @ 2:50 pm
Read this comment in contextWhen I saw Pom-pom’s costume and heard Bub’s gettin’ his witches brew on, I knew Bill would be all over it like the Poop Smith on… uh… nevermind.
Posted By Adam on October 25, 2005 @ 3:25 pm
Read this comment in contextThis was a tough one. Homesar, for some reason makes me laugh. But I really love Marshie as well, the psychotic marshmellow as well.
But in the end I had to side with Seth and pick “The Cheat.” He’s hip, subversive, and just plain cute. And can explode either with additives (pop rocks) or without.
But then… there’s always…. TROGDOR!!!!
Adam's comments in the Question: Exclamation? thread:
Posted By Adam on June 23, 2005 @ 10:18 am
Read this comment in contextYosemite Sam: “Great Horny Toads!”
Sylvester/Daffy Duck: “Sufferin’ sucatash!
Oliver Hardy: “Well, fan my brow…”
Stan Laurel: “Well, shut my mouth.”General Anthony McAuliffe (when asked to surrender at the siege of Bastogne): “NUTS!” – I guess that’s a true life example of someone “saying nuts to that.”
Posted By Adam on June 20, 2005 @ 10:11 am
Read this comment in contextWTF, mate?
Adam's comments in the Poka Playas thread:
Posted By Adam on June 6, 2005 @ 9:19 am
Read this comment in contextI have to admit that most card games bore me, and poker falls into that category depending on who I am playing with. I used to play back in high school with some friends and we would change up the game at least once a week (5-card stud, Indian Poker, 7-card stud) and even try to invent our own variations. Now-a-days all anyone wants to play is Texas Hold’em, assuming it will play exactly like the heavily edited version they see on TV.
Now Tripoli is where it’s at.
My prediction: In 3 years Texas Hold’em will go the way of UFC until people realize it’s crazy to watch poker on Pay-per-view.
I’d like to see some newly invented card games using today’s technology. I want a deck of liquid crystal cards with an AMD processor.
Adam's comments in the Star Wars thread:
Posted By Adam on May 26, 2005 @ 9:12 am
Read this comment in contextI still haven’t seen the movie yet, so I can’t give any opinion one way or the other but… I think Star Wars has always had time-lapse issues. How long did it take Han and Leia to get from the asteroid field to Bespin? A couple days, weeks, months? And how long was Luke training with Yoda? I always got the impression that it was a few months, but it’s directly related to how long until Han is frozen… most disturbing this is.
I think initially, Lucas’ had this vision of keeping the movies from the perspective of the two droids, since it is just them and Anakin that survive all 6 (Obi-wan may qualify too, but he’s hardly a central character after A New Hope). But I remember reading things about ‘3P0 being over 150 years old, but obviously that got scrapped so he could become Anakin’s 3rd grade science project. So when he says “Thank the maker,” is he really praising Vader?” Could we have had a scene where Vader tells ‘3PO that he is his father?
Warp drive allows you to move through space at faster than the speed of light.
Hyperdrive allows you to compress space and move through that at some unmentioned speed. It also lets you move so fast that you start measuring time by distances (Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs?). Yeah, I’ve heard the explanation but… Lucas’ is a hack.
Posted By Adam on May 18, 2005 @ 3:16 pm
Read this comment in context1. I guess I gotta go Return of the Jedi (minus the ewoks). I really loved the Millenium Falcon chase scenes from Empire though. But when I think back to that movie, plot wise… it just feels like people spent most of their time running away or getting in touch with their feelings. It’s the “emo” movie of the hexology.
2. Han Solo, Obi-Wan (either actor). Chewie, he was my first action figure ever and my best friend… No, I mean… [backspace] [backspace]
3. Luke by Return of the Jedi was the man. I dig some of Mark Hamil’s other work so I think most of the problem is directing and dialogue (it’s obvious Lucas used other directors for Episodes 5 and 6). Looks like the same direction was given to Ani in Episodes I & 2:
“Ok, look hopeful… now you’re downcast… turn… now brood in a whiney sort of way.”
4. I had a lightsaber back in 1983 that hummed as you swung it through the air. No batteries, just some crazy whistle gizmo. My dad made a pretty cool Hoth playset for us on top of a ping-pong table using paper-mache and cardboard. I also remember a really cool Bespin playset that would “freeze” your characters in carbonite but never got it.
Who here built a sarlaac in their sandbox?
Adam's comments in the Tina, Eat the Food thread:
Posted By Adam on May 16, 2005 @ 10:07 am
Read this comment in contextDivya called…
Or are you looking for positive support?
Seriously dude, good luck. The whole lifestyle thing is a lot harder to do then the occasional crash diet but it seems the changes are longer lasting and eventually it become second nature.
Time to reduce the “Big” and increase the “Sexy”.
Adam's comments in the Comeback Kid thread:
Displaying 1 to 30 of 53 commentsPosted By Adam on May 12, 2005 @ 7:53 am
Read this comment in contextI think I’ve got ADD when it comes to the music world. Frankly I think my list is more along the lines of “What Musicians Does Adam want Ressurected” (Rise of the Zombie Tour 2005!!)
Keith Green
CCR
Stevie Ray Vaughn
PFR
George Frideric HandelMan, I love driving up route 83 to Cleveland and popping in Lodi as I drive through Lodi. I’ll probably get shot one of these days.
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