I can't do that...

In no way is this original. I am totally scamming it from Gabe Noll's blog.

Still, it's worth a re-post on my blog. I love being impressed by things, and this is definitely impressive. Especially for me because, if you know me, you know that I have no skating ability whatsoever. Not even on a flat surface at low speeds. Can't do it. So, this amazes me.


Kilian Martin: A Skate Regeneration from Brett Novak on Vimeo.

Weird NFL Season

It's been a crazy season in the NFL. I played fantasy football for the first time this year, so I followed it a little more closely than I usually do. I also did pretty well as a fantasy team manager in both leagues I played in (12-2 and 9-4). Maybe Sam and I will buy an NFL team someday.....

Anyways, I learned some interesting factoids about the NFL playoff picture this year:

1) The Seattle Seahawks are the first team ever to make the playoffs with a losing record (7 wins, 9 losses). They tied for the best record in their division (the NFC West is horrible) and won a tiebreaker game tonight against the Rams to head to the playoffs.

2) The San Diego Chargers have the NFL's #1 ranked defense and #2 ranked offense and did not make the playoffs with a 9-7 record.

3) The Oakland Raiders won every single game they played against their AFC West division foes (2 wins each against the Chiefs, Broncos, and Chargers), but got 3rd place in their division and did not make the playoffs with an 8-8 record.

Murder, Forgiveness, and a Flying Car

This is absolutely one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

Not only because something from decades of science fiction might finally become practical, but because the purpose of its development is to serve the Kingdom of God.

The inventor's name is Steve Saint. His dad was new tribes missionary, Nate Saint. Steve's dad, Nate, flew airplanes into the jungles of Equador to bring the light of the Gospel to tribes deep in the wilderness. When Steve was only 5 years old, his father was killed by the Waodani tribe in an attempt to make peacful contact with them. Dispite the murder of Nate, Steve's aunt, Rachel, continued to try to make peaceful contact with the Waodani's. Eventually she succeed and led most of the tribe to follow Christ.

(Steve's journaling of these events inspired the movie "The End of the Spear".)

In an amazing act of forgiveness and love, Steve, at the age of 10, went to live in the jungle with the Waodani's -- the same tribe that had killed his father. After some time learning the jungle way of life with the tribe, Steve was baptized by two of the men who killed his father 5 years earlier.

Incredibly, it is the Waodani people who led Steve to invent such brilliant machine. Tribes deep in the jungle are usually inaccessable by car and by foot due to bridge washouts or impossibly rugged terrain. The Waodani's asked Steve to make something that could help them reach the other tribes in the Amazon to teach them to "walk the trail of God".

Check this out, then buy me one.