Great 1st Sign – John Lynch returns

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This is a few days old and came out while I was in LA, but I’d be remised if I didn’t mention this:

From ESPN:

John Lynch has accepted a pay cut and will return to the Denver Broncos for a fifth season at free safety after pondering free agency or retirement… [Returning] nearly didn’t happen. Lynch had made his decision to leave, even drafting a letter thanking fans and teammates for his four years in Denver. But when Lynch called Bowlen on Thursday night to inform him of his choice, Bowlen was out for a late dinner.

“And then I woke up thinking, ‘What am I doing?’ I’ve got four kids who are happy here. I’ve found a home here, and I didn’t want to be one of those guys going from team to team. I felt I had earned what I had coming to me, but sometimes you have to step back and look at the big picture. And the big picture to me was: I had to find a way to make this work.”

John, you and your family aren’t the only ones happy. Denver’s full of fans that are happy you’re coming back and kicking ass for another year. Aside from Shannon Sharpe, Lynch is my favorite Bronco and by far my most favorite active player. Not only is he an amazing player on the field, but a real class act off the field and one of the best guys in all of football. Best of all, I won’t need to get a new jersey.

See the resemblance? 2008 we’re bouncing back!

04 Mar

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Romey

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Liturgical Dancing is lame

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I offered a response to my friend Andie’s immediate reaction to LA Congress on her blog when she stated:

Liturgical dance stupid

**UPDATE** Inspired by the comments, I’d like to amend my previous statement. Agreed, liturgical dance is not in and of itself stupid. The liturgical dance at Congress was farcical, but even then the thought in the back of my head was, “I’m sure they get a lot out of this, but I just find it distracting”. Thusly, I clarify my position and apologize for making a statement that didn’t accurately reflect my position in the first place.

In response I wrote:

I completely agree with your amended position on Liturgical Dance, as well as pretty much agree with your original position of Liturgical Dance. I think people look at their talents and think about how they can serve at Mass. You have people who are good readers, they’re Lectors. You have people who are good musicians, they’re in the choir (and yes I’m fortunate that they extend to accepting drummers). You have people who are good at being ushers, and they’re ushers. Then you have the dancers, which want to find some way to use their talents so someone created Liturgical Dance to give them something to do and they feel a sense of fulfillment by dancing, even though it’s pretty much distracting and lame at the same time.

Not all Liturgical Dancing is bad. When used sparingly, it can greatly enhance a liturgy – like when during the Mass Liturgical Dancers are setting the Alter during Preparation of the Gifts. However, most of the time it’s just overblown and basically has the dancers taking advantage of a captive audience. The worst is “interpretive dancing” during the reflective song after Eucharist. The other part when it was completely out of hand at Congress was when it was used for the readings during the Opening Ceremony. The dancer freaking picked up the Word and started dancing around with it, making me wonder “if the dancer has it, what are the readers reading?!?”. I basically lost my attention and stopped listening to the readings.

Sorry dancers.Â What I say may be harsh, and God bless you for trying, but I have to be honest here.Â Just ask the people around me that listen to me groan whenever a dancer starts up in the middle of Mass.

02 Mar

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Romey

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Technology

Linux plane interface

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While traveling to LA on Thursday, we took a connecting Delta flight from Salt Lake City over to LAX. On the plane there were these screens in the back of the seats. A veteran of Frontier and the DirectTV system they have on the plane, this was nothing new. However the screens activated and I saw something I found hilarious. This may be something that many may have seen, but this was definitely new to me. I took a picture with my Treo, forgive the mirrored reflection of me and my hand:

If you can’t make it out, it’s booting to Linux, which for some reason I find humorous.

After the system finally booted up it revealed not only a Dish Network TV interface, but also some other interactive options including steaming music and in-flight multi-player gaming. This was a potentially pretty cool system – potentially because this was dog slow and buggy like none other. The touch-screen interface was quite delayed and when I changed between menus it reverted to some static, watered-down display. It was almost like it was having video card troubles. After we tried to access a menu option it took a few minutes to launch whatever content we selected.

Bethany and I ended up playing in-flight poker with another passenger, except he was sitting right next to us. When you have three people playing Texas Hold-Em sitting next to each other, it takes the suspense out of the game. Nonetheless it occupied us for almost an hour and definitely made the flight seem shorter.

The system was definitely buggy, but there was definitely a lot of potential there. If they can iron out the interface and response issues (besides the fact that it rebooted 5 times during the flight) this could be something pretty cool for passengers.

02 Mar

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Firefox: Even Cardinals Use It!

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Things have unfortunately been far too crazy here at LA Congress to permit me to do any kind of blogging, but I intend to offer reflections when I get home Sunday. In the meantime I wanted to offer this gem:

I took this picture of LA Cardinal Roger Mahony taking part in an a live chat, in which he was using Firefox. My picture isn’t the best quality, but loyal Firefox users can make this out: