Remember those Visa commercials that show the one guy slowing down everyone by using cash? Who carries real money these days? Let’s face it, we’re a plastic society. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey hopes to bank on this trend with his new company Square which allows merchants and individuals accept payment from credit (and other) cards using a mobile phone. With the growing popularity of smartphones it will be a huge hit. (more…)
My brother Nick and I are working on a presentation called Catholic 2.0: Using Technology to stay Connected with Christ. The presentation will be about incorporating new media into your faith life. We plan on presenting it at for the Catholic Young Adults in Tulsa this March. (I’ll post the presentation when it’s done)
While working on this presentation I’ve run across an amazing book called Slideology. It’s written by Nancy Duarte, the woman who owns Duarte Design, the firm that created the presentation for Al Gore’s Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, this book is full of practical approaches to visual story development that can be applied by anyone. The book combines conceptual thinking and inspirational design, with insightful case studies from the world’s leading brands.
On their company blog they had a really cool video. I’m going to try to incorporate the 5 rules from the video in our presentation… Enjoy.
My lack of sports knowledge is sometimes embarrassing. Many times I’ve felt left out from water cooler discussions. (I just nod my head and smile) Despite my ignorance, I occasionally participate in fantasy sports and somehow at the end of the season I end up doing okay. I thought I’d write a short guide on how to win at fantasy sports for those you, like me, who don’t know much about sports.
While visiting the Atlanta Eucharistic Congress three years ago I came across an amazing Catholic organization named Rosary Army. Their goal; to evangelize the faith through promotion of the Rosary prayer. Their motto; Make them. Pray them. Give them away.
I was pretty terrible at it, but now I’ve sorta got it down. Rosary Army has this awesome video on how to make them. It’s pretty simple, they’ll even send you twine and other materials to make them.
So I encourage you to check them out and if you want to get a free rosary from them, they’ll ship you one!
Here’s a video that Greg put together for Lent 2010.
Today it started to get cold again. I’m in the mood for pumpkin spice lattes and leaves to start falling. I’m happy to be wearing my signiture navy hoodie and jeans. Fall makes me remember this song that I wrote called “One More Chance,” because it talks about fall leaves. It will be featured on my next albumn with Danny Oberhelman. (tentatively scheduled for release in spring 2008)
Last night I went to a TU home football game against UAB. It was lots of fun, I love going to football games. (TU won, by the way 38-30) TU will soon renovate their football stadium, along with multiple projects on campus. It’s pretty exciting. On the way home we stopped by the new hut grabbed some food then went back to my apartment. As we were walking the wind picked up and it started to get cooler. I had a slight swiftness in my step because a small shiver from the wind (I was wearing shorts) made me realize that one of my favorite seasons, Fall, is right around the corner.
