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You wanna fight?

WildDog, ready to throw down for a serious play fight after I made him chase a rock.

Later, he would get mud in my shorts.

stockyards alley

stockyards alley, originally uploaded by thewildpeople.

Tripping out on TripColor

TripColor is a nifty, new iPhone app being featured in the App Store. And, I'm being featured by them. So, in a strange way, Steve Jobs is smiling on me with an approving twinkle in his eye from wherever he's hiding out right now.

TripColor works as an easy photo journal. It reads the location and time data embedded on your iPhone photos, let's you add a short caption, then posts it to a tumblr-esque blog

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Today, they've put my recent trip to the Mediterranean on the app home screen for some reason. So if you download he app, you can see the donkey that tried to kill me in Santorini and other great moments in travel right from the front page.

It's a free app that's worth a look for photo nerds.

ink black spaghetti

Why is his pasta black? And what are those small chewy bits?

Watch as Eric discovers two unexpected ingredients in this Venetian delicacy as we dine on the banks of the Venice Grand Canal....


(Be sure to view in 720p to catch all the delicious detail.)

#Greece #Santorini #whitewash

#clouds above Dallas

#twistedroot #dallas #Bambi

#chocolate #lab #sketch

#midnight #lamp #painting

This #bald #eagle keeps eyeing my coffee

#spaceneedle #seattle #tourist

Taken at Space Needle

she goes out swinging

36 months later…and still married.

Can you believe it?

Three years ago yesterday, I tricked Sarah into thinking I was marriage material. Thirty-six months later, I still have her hoodwinked We celebrated this happy deception with gifts of leather…and by teaching Sarah how to swing a golf club.... See the photos...

4 months, 40 pounds

Lewis is packing on the pounds at a clip of 10 per month. As you can see, he takes everything very seriously -- including his food.

At this rate, the vet estimates Lewis will reach 90 lbs.

Yup. Ninety.

Now's the time to teach him to walk calmly and not attack humans in search of a scratch behind the ears. Before we know it, Lewis will be the one taking his humans for a walk.

#camera #show #crew

#camera #show #crew

#puppy #play #ball

#audio #board

#deer #funny #sign #hunting

#cabana #mexico #yucatan

you dirty dog

Playtime comes at a soapy price... READ MORE...

#in-n-out #frisco #worththewait

You've got mail

#puppy #lab #bath

#brick #downtown #McKinney

#pinhole #crazymug

The Man Below Me and to My Right

Deliberately, each of his withered fingers wrapped around the arms of his wheelchair one by one until the old warrior’s claws trembled.

When Pastor Chuck began to pray, every head bowed and every eye closed. Except mine.

I was watching the man below me and to my right. The way he was fidgeting in his seat had me curious.

The Sunday before Memorial Day, Pastor Chuck invited former and active military to stand. Here and there across the room men and women stood. Younger men and women from recent desert campaigns were quick to their feet. Silver-haired, square-shouldered men from Vietnam stood more slowly. Bald-headed men clutched the seat backs in front of them and arose..... READ MORE

Review: Brushes for iPhone

Brushes is an art creation app that lets you craft multi-layered paintings or drawings on your iphone. Everything from quick diagrams to print-ready art — and even a blog illustration — is possible on the Brushes canvas. Brushes has even been used to draw the cover art for an edition of The New Yorker. 

I’m finding Brushes useful for sketching out a quick storyboard…and for trying to improve my artistic eye…and for doodling in meetings.... READ MORE

#Payphone #smalltown

#lab #puppy #fetch

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Taken at The Shops At Legacy

No Apples: Only Woe and Destruction

No Apples: Only Woe and Destruction, originally uploaded by Whispers from the Edge.

If you're looking for produce, apparently you've come to the wrong place.

Good find by my buddy Josh Keeney.

#tornado #clouds #sunset

#mannequin at the #theater

#brushes #flowers #iphoneart

#puppy #lab #chocolate

brown dog

faith

only 25¢

red dog 7

getting my disc on at bill allen

Bill Allen Memorial DGC

EveryTrail - Find the best Hiking in Texas

PUPdate: play time

the monday after sunday

Bunnies, brunches, candy and crosses. Easter is a nice spring holiday we celebrate. It’s also the memorial date attached to an historical event.

Question is, what do we do with that event?

There are some things you can just shrug about and move on without forming an opinion. The resurrection of Jesus isn’t one of those things. It happened or it didn’t. It’s either a crazy myth or it’s a paradigm-shifting historical event.

The idea that Jesus is God and literally came back to life is a lot to swallow. I have my reasons for why I believe this to be true, but I’m not coming down on those who doubt.

It’s the believers I’m worried about.

See, people who don’t believe do a really good job of reflecting their view of the resurrection in the way they live. They go all out, stay in the moment, and live like there’s no tomorrow. Because, let’s be honest. If Jesus didn’t come out of that tomb under his own power there really isn’t any tomorrow. I get it.

On the other hand, those of us who do believe in Jesus’ resurrection seem to have a hard time reflecting that belief in our moment by moment conduct.

For the religious crowd, it’s easy to project the meaning of Easter to the far-off future. We know the resurrection means that we’ll see our loved ones again and that we’ll live forever in the sweet by and by. However, we forget that the message of Easter is firmly attached to the here and now.

When Paul crafts his remarks about the resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15, he wraps up his discussion with a concluding statement. He’s talked about the historic event, he’s theorized about the what ifs and he’s expounded its eternal benefits of the resurrection.

Then comes the short conclusion. It’s short, but it packs a punch.

Paul doesn’t say, “Since Jesus is alive, hole up somewhere until he returns to take you out of this crummy world.” He doesn’t give us believers a free pass to day dream about heaven all day or to cluck our tongues at sinners who will get their just reward when an angry Jesus returns to kick butt. Far from it!

What Paul does say is “so what” of Easter. It’s the very practical bottom line:

“So then, dear brothers and sisters, be firm. Do not be moved! Always be outstanding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord”
(1 Corinthians 15:58).

One way or the other, Easter isn’t just something we celebrate — it’s something we do. How we live the Monday after reflects how we really view the Sunday.

The hope we have isn’t just a distant insurance against death — it’s a very present assurance that what we do in this life matters now and in eternity.

Easter is the kind of hope that makes you roll up your sleeves on Monday “knowing that your labor is not in vain.”

This Monday, let’s be outstanding…what do you say?

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industrial revolution

an old ev-65

sniffer

timeline

the deluxe

spoon chandelier

the lab

People watch the #fountain at #WatersCreek

Taken at Waters Creek

Best Thai. Seriously.

Taken at Best Thai Frisco

Check out your "Federal Tax Receipt"

It's April 15: Do you know where your taxes are?

The White House launched a tool today that calculates the where the government is spending your tax dollars. The web-based widget allows you to enter the amount you payed in taxes in 2010, then outputs a "receipt" of what money you have contributed to each of the US government's budget categories.

It's interesting to see the breakdown on where our nation is spending its tax funds.

Try it out for yourself below!



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How Kindles could fire up newspaper sales

It’s old news that newspapers and other print periodicals are struggling to compete with digital media. Individuals in my demographic are giving newspaper execs grey hairs because I — and my fellow 20-somethings — just don’t find the daily rags all that appealing. But, the London Review of Books recently offered an interesting path for print purveyors to go from rags…to riches.

Newspapers and magazines bemoan the decreasing interest in the print format. However, if they were smart, print outfits would realize that the barrier between their content and my money isn’t content itself or my lack of interest in news. The confounding factor is format.

I can put up with my favorite magazines (like National Geographic) because they have pretty pictures and charts, they are easy to navigate, and they don’t take up much space.

Newspapers, on the other hand, don’t have any of that going for them. I’m about as old-school as a 20-something can get. My college news profs made me read the paper every day and that habit is hard to break. But even I feel like buying and reading a newspaper is like taking vitamins. It’s good for me, I should do it, and it leaves a bad aftertaste.

Here’s the short list of what’s wrong with newspapers. Papers are an awkward size. They’re printed on the cheapest possible paper. The photos look bad. There’s no table of contents to reference. And I hate HATE shuffling around looking for the other half of that front page article back in “D3.” What is this? Battleship?

Notice what all these complaints have in common: They are all format problems. I still go to papers because I love the smart, deep, and wide coverage of local and international news. There’s nothing like the Wall Street Journal. Or the Times. I love finding an unexpected topic to think about or use later.

If papers find away to overcome the format issues that turn off the younger generation — if they weren’t bulky, if the photos looked good, if the text was more organized and searchable — print news could find a new start with the new generation of readers. While internet news is more easily accessible, my generation is savvy enough to know that not all sources are created equal. If newspapers were a bit more palatable, I’d swallow the vitamin in exchange for news from an unbiased source.

I think a lot of my peers would, too.

That’s what makes this proposal from the London Review of Books so very, very interesting:

The New York Times, if it stopped printing a physical edition of the paper, could afford to give every subscriber a free Kindle. Not the standard Kindle, but the one with free global data access. And not just one Kindle, but four Kindles. And not just once, but every year. And that’s using the low estimate for the costs of printing.

That is a staggering set of statistics. Imagine! If the Times stopped the presses, they could literally give every subscriber a free Kindle capable of downloading a daily edition from anywhere on the planet and stay current with technology by giving each subscriber a new Kindle every year. And still save money.

If the New York Times were to offer me a yearly subscription, delivered automatically, daily to a Kindle provided with my subscription I would jump on that without hesitation. That would solve all my problems with the newspaper format while preserving the in-depth, careful journalism I enjoy.

I could keyword search, bookmark, highlight, and annotate articles. Add a supporting website for archive purposes what would store “favorited” articles and provide archive access, and it would be a no-brainer.

If papers would simply adjust their format for delivering content, the next generation of citizens would have a reliable source for news. Plus, they wouldn’t have a reason to rag on the daily rags anymore.