Where’s the?
Actual insightful posts coming soon, for now enjoy this
which I think isn’t quite as cool as sheep, but not bad.
Just something cool I found…
Extreme shepherding?
Now I’m by no means an expert in this….
Having grown up in a house where a period drama (more on this in a second) was as common as watching facts of life I was a bit surprised by a recent commercial on food network, it was a commercial for shoyuu or as it’s more commonly known in the states, Soy sauce… Okay technically it was a commercial for Kikkoman a brand of Shoyu… errr soy sauce, but as far as I’m concerned if I ever refer to Shoy…soy sauce I’m talking about Kikkoman (In a similar fashion Hellman and mayonnaise the two are synonymous with each other as far as I’m concerned).
Sorry going off on a tangent there, the point of this blog post was in my (admittedly limited, but still more common to me than the average person watching the commercial) opinion was the words used.
Umami, it’s Japanese for Delicious was the wording used.
Now when I was a kid I watched period dramas… (In this case, it was Samurai/Shogun era, the Japanese equivalent to watching a western TV series) as a young teen I was more immersed in Japanese culture than I should care to admit to… (point in fact to Lifepoint staff, JAPANESE NOT KOREAN!) (Point to Korean friends, not that there’s anything wrong with Korea (err at least the southern half,) it’s just not my heritage).
I have a couple friends in Japan, we’ve discussed food before.
my issue? never ONCE have I EVER seen, heard, or used the word Umami to describe something as being delicious (for that matter never before have I seen the word period).
No the terms I know Umai (pronounced oo (as in you) mai (as in my)) or in more informal (and more commonly in my experience) was Oishi! (pronounced Oy (as in Oy-vey) Shi (as in she)).
I listened to the commercial (it was long enough it was repeated Several times) to make sure I didn’t mis-heard (I hadn’t) after not finding it in the normal translating dictionary I use, I looked it up online and sure enough, it does mean what the commercial claims it does…
of course with a commercial like this:
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised…
Side note regarding just mentioned commercial you will hear them use Oishi in the background song about 21 seconds into it… Umami nowhere to be found.
Oh and speaking of commercials… I don’t know about the video itself, but I know that the song was a diddy for the company, because I remember the show me, shoyou line… and I’m not going to link it here, it’s too disturbing and that way you can’t blame me for getting it in your head.
o.O
i got the following video from Ryan Hollingsworth’s post on the creative side of Pastor Furtick’s blog (used by the Elevation creative Staff).
Now STOP! before clicking play or viewing this video I am obligated to warn you that this film has been rated PIADRRAYDDDTVSCIEMRL or Possible Insane Asian Doing Really Random And Yet Decidedly Disturbing Dances To Various Song Clips In Even More Random Locations… and for the wise-guys on my own creative team, no I am NOT related to this guy, who has way more guts than i do to post something like this on the net.
Decompression….
How do you relax after stressing yourself out?
Case in point, I love what I do for and with Lifepoint Church, and seeing people come to relationship with Christ is the most meaningful and significant thing I can imagine, but it doesn’t make the morning any less stressful.
So what do you do to decompress? I’ve asked this question to several people, one said they like to relax with beer (no, not someone at Lifepoint), other’s said they like to go and play basketball for a few hours, some read, for one it’s just a nice hot relaxing shower, I knew (well i guess i still know him, though I haven’t seen or talked to him since High School) who’d paint (like throw the paint on the canvas), and I’ve got it on good authority that Chocolate is an excellent stress reliever…
For me it’s always been writing and even more so music, but even the type of music will very by my mood, even in decompressing, sometimes I like to listen to something relaxing, other times I need something driving… tonight’s been rather ecliptic, let me give you the last 10 artists I’ve cycled through in my playlist:
No Doubt
Maroon 5
Mark Schultz
Michelle Branch
Nana Mizuki
Mikuni Shimokawa
New LIfe Worship
New York Voices
New Radicals
Nightwish
So that’s a rather large skip in genre (if you’re wondering, I just grabbed the m and n folders and tossed them into winamp and hit shuffle)
So what do you do to decompress?
Does this strike you as wrong?
I like so many of my contemporaries am a big fan of moleskine notebooks, they’re awesome for a quick note jot, or sketch an idea out… so when I saw this on the blogroll this morning, my immediate response was… that’s just wrong…
Watch for…
These web-services are on my use/try to get others to use/next big thing
General Productivity
Google Reader: My choice for an RSS reader, it’s simple, it’s mobile, (Ie you log into your google account and can access it from anywhere), it handles the several hundred different blogs I’m subscribed too (no i don’t read every article every day) very efficiently.
Twitter: Is there anyone out there who reads blogs who hasn’t heard of twitter yet? A “microblogging” service, also great for updating status on facebook and others.
Yammer: Picture if you will, a microblogging service, (ala twitter) that’s built for a private network, a place where team members in various areas can post questions and comments about current and upcoming events, to other team members. Well it’s here and it’s called yammer, private networks are setup by email addresses, ie yourname(at)yourcompanynamehere.com , it also works with sms (text) or web posting (just like twitter).
Tokbok: I first found out about tokbox from Los’s (Ragamuffin Soul)’s blog It’s a live video chat service which can have multiple people video conferencing at once, plus, you can record and send video emails.
Facebook: Facebook social networking? maybe, but one thing that it’s done (and done well) is put me back in touch with people from my school days (cough cough) years ago.
Fun stuff
Audiorium: THIS is the freeware physics game to watch for in my opinion, beautifully scored and rendered, and interesting to play, i’m waiting for them to release a soundtrack, I think the audio draws me in more then the actual gameplay at times…
More Cowbell Dj: Remember the Saturday night live sketch? Well so do the guys at cowbell dj, put a song up mess with a couple of sliders, and doink, your very own need more cowbell.
Generatus: Officially billed as “Social Network Status Generator” with the Tag, (Ideal for the imaginatively challenged), You’ve got to love something that automatically comes up with “Matt does for rock and roll what “The Sound of Music” did for hills”
Image Mosaic Generator: You’ve seen those pictures of something made up of thousand of tiny little images right? same concept upload a picture and it does the rest, it does choose it’s own images to create yours from so that can end up being rather random but it’s still a neat effect.
Random posts with commentary…
Well when I first saw this, i hadn’t realized that it was ONN and not CNN, which led to some confusion and later laughs. Though one line they have in there is true, “I’ll buy almost anything if it’s shiny and made by apple” as i’m surrounded by mac users at LC (And no, I’m not a mac hater)…
Forget Napster, of Kazaa, or whatever it is that they’re going after these days, the mpaa and riaa need to go after China, and they’re not the only ones! Copyrights (and human rights if you really want to get right down to it) violations are rampant in the worlds most populous nation.
Pastor Furtick from Elevation Church nails something that I’m still working on in this post.
Pete Wilson from Crosspoint posted a link to THIS post, which i found to be very insightful.
And speaking of insightful Perry Noble from Newspring has a three part post on what the Church can learn from the Auto industry Here, here and here.
Ben Arment hits a point on getin creative here.
Craig Groeschel of lifechurch has an amazing (if short) post here, reminding us hat it takes all kinds for the body… but my favorite line from his post is
He can use Baptist Christians, Methodist Christians, Episcopal Christians, and Spirit-filled tongue talking Holy Ghost rollin’ Christians
I’m actually working on a separate post in which I’ll reference Craig’s post, but for now,
mac vs. pc 2.0
You know those I’m a mac, i’m a pc commercials? (And visa-versa for the ones that microsoft put out)
yeah well this blows then all away.
