Archive for December, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-27
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on December 27th, 2009
- Chrysler employees who do not a Chrysler r forbidden from parking in the front lots. I think any Worthwhile employee not using wurl.ws ….. #
- Oops, left out the word DRIVE in that last tweet! #
- Up up and away. Good bye motor city hello mile high in the sky town! #
- @rundle good idea! I will pass it on to mr fiat!
in reply to rundle # - Apple has 1 of the most arrogant technical support lines of all!Cannot get mac 2 connect w/my MobileMe.Chat guy tells me I have a bad disk! #
- Back on the slopes of the amazing Rockies! I love the combo of snow & gravity! http://yfrog.com/33pyxkj #
- @daveruse can u fix the problem they cannot?My mac will not login to MobileMe.Works fine from browser. Need to sync.Ready 2 switch 2 google! #
- U can tell ones who have drunk the apple coolaid!They see&hear&speak no evil of apple.Google is the only company left that dono evil.
# - Dreams for a white Christmas ALWAYS come true in Colorado Rockies! Merry Christmas from 25 below! http://yfrog.com/4fwttuj #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-20
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on December 20th, 2009
- Teaching college students is the greatest job in the world. I love my job! I get paid to do this? Plz don't wake me up!! #
- Great time last night with 500 Answers in Genesis staff & family at The Farm down by the Ohio River. Big interview today 4 1 of my students #
- Got thru NC/TN mountains last nite b4 the snow! On to Creation Museum's Bethlehem’s Blessings & Christmas Star presentations with my family. #
- Beginning 2 c how they try 2 make death look better-they start removing all the things u like from the menu!No fries on the low carb menu! #
- Dispelling false religious traditions in light of biblical truth-the clear&distinct msg of answers in genesis. http://yfrog.com/4fuebj #
- Solution to global warming-shutdown airports out of Copenhagen! #
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Happy 17th Birthday Joseph
Thinking back over the past 17 years brings great joy to your Mother and me. Having a birthday the week of Christmas has meant you never really know where we will be celebrating your birthday! Well here we are on our journey to another family ski trip to the Colorado Rockies. Here are a few memories to help you remember the days of your youth as King Solomon urges in Ecclesiastes 12 – Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth.
Happy Birthday Joseph Daniels Wooster!
famous BJES field day with good friend Ben
loves his big sis Sara
friends for life!
he has always had a gun – ask him what he got for Christmas this year!
grand Tetons 2002
diamond head Hawaii
king of the rock – first day of school 200?
first day of school traditional photo
ski trip in the Rockies
Clearwater Beach Florida – do these boys need a tan or what!
blessed with great teachers at BJES like Miss Pegram!
ask Joseph to tell you about this memorable day in the Wooster family history book!
loves those guns
lovin my son up in Nova Scotia – forest glen bible camp
cedar point with nathaniel
creation musuem – our favorite stop on the way to anywhere!
Worthwhile Investment for Year End Giving
Posted by admin in CpS 111, Internship, Ministry on December 19th, 2009
Investing is something you put something in on one end expecting or hoping to take more out on the other end. We invest time, energy, and money. We look for things of value that we think will be worthwhile investments – ones that will give us the greatest amount of return.
For those who are Christian, followers of Christ, believers in the Bible as their sole book of authority for living, who believe the present world is divided into light and dark, righteousness as unrighteousness, I would like to make a strong recommendation of a place for you to consider making a worthwhile year end investment.
Answers in Genesis is a ministry whose primary focus is best summarized with a quotation from the Apostle Paul in second Corinthians 10 and verse five. “We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ”. I know of no ministry which more strongly demonstrates this verse in all that they do. The resources they produce, the strong message on biblical authority their founder clearly proclaims, the high tech Creation Museum they run, even the Christmas program that is teaching folks to put aside all the religious and cultural traditions which have clouded the message of the Gospel and read true message of Christmas as accurately recorded in the Bible. My family and I were blessed last night to experience Bethlehem Blessings at the Creation Museum. There we saw a planetarium show about the Christmas star, which clearly seeks to turn our thoughts to study astronomy in the light of Scripture to insure our interpretations, don’t contradicted the truth found in the Bible. Next was a monologue from an archeologist who articulately persuaded us to set aside some common myths and religious traditions about the historic account of Christ’s birth in order to let the Bible speak! Finally we listened to one of the wise men share the biblical account of the role he played in Christmas.
Every single event was presented professionally with two clear and consistent messages – listen to the Bible and believe the Gospel! In my opinion it was the best Christmas message I have ever heard. It all demonstrates the charge from the apostle Paul to destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ!
If you are looking for a place to investment for eternity before 2009 is history, I would like to encourage you to join me in supporting the Museum Ad Rack Campaign, which is using America’s interstate system to get the message out about the Creation Museum. My personal goal is to see brochures about the museum placed strategically along I-75 from upper Michigan to lower Florida. Thanks to the help of many of my Christian business friends, we were able to get this campaign well under way in 2009. Below are some photos I took this week showing the brochures in a hotel near the Cincinnati international airport. The first shows the brochures prominently displayed at the top and center of the rack. The next one shows them almost gone! It is the job of the ad-rack company to keep them filled, hence the reason for the find raising. The other 2 photos were taken at the outdoor live nativity at the museum. It is free and open to the public to help proclaim the biblical message of Christmas and the Gospel.
- go to AIG’s online donation page
- make your donation with credit card
- in the comment field, specify Museum Ad-Rack
For details of this project go to my blog post.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-13
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on December 13th, 2009
- Have faith in what God said, not in something unfounded. My faith is in God's Words based upon His character as shown thru history. #
- The everyday choices we make regarding money and possessions are of eternal consequences. – Randy Alcorn #
- Internet threatens dictorships! http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091206/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran #
- Most stimulating freshman computer science discussion today-can computers think & learn as well as or better than humans? Wow!!! #
- Just watched an amazing demo of sixth sense personal computing. We've only just begun! http://wurl.ws/kFI5 #
- Time 2 make London more Worthwhile-highest office rent'n da world! $184.85/sqft. Business must b booming over there!I want in on da action. #
- Legal docs are created by lawyers, for lawyers, in order to prosecute the innocent! #
- Tis the season!Cut off by 3 drivers.Then this guy parks his car illegally right in front of Messiah.Guess I need 2 listen carfully 2 the MSG
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-06
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on December 6th, 2009
- For just as thru the disobedience of 1 man (Adam),many were made sinners,so also thru the obedience of 1 man(Jesus) many will b made right. #
- @JaysonByrd wow, u have family up this way? We r with Sara & Caleb. Joseph went out on his first small game hunt yesterday! in reply to JaysonByrd #
- @rundle and u r one year closer to that age today! in reply to rundle #
- Met an amazing family tonite @ church. They r Filipino church planters seeking funds to help plant more baptist churches in their homeland. #
- Civil war: 620K lives taken; 4M lives freed; freedom is NOT free! Pic taken @ Gettysburg. A worthwhile reading. http://moby.to/aemzwq #
- @theemmyawards yes, check out worthwhile.com in reply to TheEmmyAwards #
- If u were a short guy during the civil war chances were greater u got killed in battle! They put the short guys upfront. Ouch! #
- Fat flight attendants don't fit on small airplanes! #
- One of the busiest flying days in America ends with 15 planes ahead of ours on runway in Charlotte – think we'll drive the car next time! #
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Too many social spaces?
Posted by admin in CpS 111, Internship, Worthwhile on December 4th, 2009
We’ve seen an explosion of social spaces during the past couple of years – facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc. Many organizations have built their own social space to provide the communication needs of their people. Many of us have lives in multiple of these spaces, which I like to call virtual worlds or at least virtual neighborhoods. I live in several, some public; some private and I just got bit by an ugly downside of this!
I teach one MBA class in which we use an online world that includes many of the social network tools, email included. I teach their one semester every other year. Recently, unknown to me, a whole bunch of new people moved into this world. They represent a group that I’m very, very interested, prospective students! They are the life blood of a teacher. No students. No one to teach. No reason for existence! One of the new kids on the block decided to send me a communication via this space. Since I’m not teaching the MBA course this semester, I don’t frequent that space and completely missed the communication. Until today, when I was notified that a major change had been made to the space, so I decided I should make sure I still exist in that space. Upon entering the space I was greeted with a 2 month old message from a perspective student! Horror of horrors! Not a good way to impress such a person to invest tens of thousands of dollars to come to my institution for a 21st century liberal arts education! Communication is a key aspect of this type of education. We sell it. We brag on it. We promote it. We teach it. But in this case, it seems obvious that WE MISSED IT. Or at least I missed it. It never dawned on me that a prospective student even had access to that space.
What’s the solution?
- remove myself from all these extra spaces? not going to happen
- spend time in each space every day? not enough time in a day!
- notify everyone everywhere that I prefer to receive my communications in a specific space? while I would like this, I don’t think everyone else would like to have to keep track of which space I prefer!
In my opinion, as a seasoned bit builder, and keeping in line with Alan Cooper’s exhortations about software interfaces in his outstanding books The Inmates are Running the Asylum, the only reasonable solution is to improve the software! The space should, recognizing the importance of communication, give me the option of having my emails automatically forwarded to another space. There are other variations I can think of on this option, but I’ll leave those for the interaction designers of this world to decide. May their very small tribe increase so we can free the inmates from running the asylum! [for more details on this topic, see my blog]
A word to businesses – be careful to instruct your people to know which spaces they are in and make sure they don’t miss any important business related interactions in those spaces! Poor communication is not good for business.