Archive for May, 2010
1 Comment Scott Pagel on May 27th 2010
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Stuff I Like – Luckyjet’s Weblog
Luckyjet’s Weblog Like many of the blogs I follow regularly… I have no idea when or how I first came across this one. When learning about something, it makes the most sense and saves a lot of time and effort to get your info from primary sources. In reading the Bible, I prefer the gospels [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on May 12th 2010
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Zim-Zam the Yo Yo Man
Andy Kaufmann lives? This guy is brilliant… and makes TV news worth watching again. Here’s K-Strass on Good Morning 4 States in Joplin, MO… lol. And providing this young TV personality with her most awkward on camera moment…
No Comments Scott Pagel on May 11th 2010
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2010 Taipei 101 Run Up – Turn that Frown Upside-Down Edition
Woke up today to read an email from the organizers that I was actually one of the 2000 participants in the 2010 Taipei 101 Run Up! I immediately went out and climbed 72 flights of stairs to celebrate! Of course… that probably didn’t cancel out the homemade mac and cheese I shoveled down the night [...]
2 Comments Scott Pagel on May 11th 2010
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Diaspora – 4 talented nerds getting a shot
I’m increasingly bugged by Facebook’s Terms of Service, but it is just too handy for keeping in touch with friends around the world to leave it behind. You will notice, however, that my Facebook profile is very bare bones now… I have some favorite movies, books, and TV shows… but Facebook’s third-party developers don’t need [...]
1 Comment Scott Pagel on May 11th 2010
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2010 Taipei 101 Run Up :-(
Didn’t get the email I hoped for today… Checked this list to confirm I wasn’t one of the 2000. I think I’ll still keep climbing stairs though so the motivation brought about by the possibility of being one of the 2000 still worked! Maybe some of those on the list won’t finish the next step [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on May 10th 2010
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Stuff I Like
One of my favorite things is the process of gathering as much information as possible on a topic/theme and then winnowing down that information into its essence. One situation where this process is evident is in preaching a sermon… or more accurately in the preparation for preaching a sermon. My first preaching professor, JK Jones, [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on May 10th 2010
This is a picture of my friend Anita Schick. It was taken in 2007, but it represents what she looked like at the time of her passing on August 21, 2009. Her maiden name was Parker and so, by a twist of fate, we sat next to each other in nearly every class at the [...]
1 Comment Scott Pagel on May 7th 2010
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Method Laundry Detergent
Market driven “green” is the best kind of “green”. The revolution metaphor is useful because it’s a reminder that real innovation is more likely to be driven by upstarts, insurgents and rebels — like Method, one of my favorite companies — than by powerful incumbents who want to preserve the status quo. This is a [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on May 6th 2010
