Now I don't about you guys but these days I find my self saying "I wish I had that as a kid" a lot. With the little bro around the house I am encountering all the new toys. There are some really cool new toys that have come out lately. Such as the digital camera for kids, yes a digital camera, I can't remember who makes it but it is out there. I think fisher-price. But what it really cool that I just discovered is this new fruit roll-up that has tongue tattoos. All you have to do is stick it to your tongue for a few seconds and then take it off and presto you have a tattoo on your tongue for a few seconds. Well actually it depends how long you leave your tongue out. I don't know about you guys but I would have loved these as a child.

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Something else I have noticed is that cartoons just are not what they used to be. Which also means the cartoon toys are just not what they are used to be. G.I. Joes were my fav. If you guys could take back any toy to the past what would you or is there a toy from your childhood that you wish you still had? I remember I had this G.I. Joe named "Hit and Run" who was completely camo. I lost him one day, the down side to having a camo G.I. Joe. I would bring him back. Hit and Run if you are out there please find me. If any one would like to reunite me with Hit and Run he can be found on ebay.

Hey just a little awareness for you all. Go to https://www.lighttounite.org/ and Bristol-Myers Squibb will donate money to the HIV/AIDS cause. HIV/AIDS is something we can no longer be silent about. We all need to start doing something. Whether it is small or large. This is a good place to start.

It has been said that the new Bond flick, Casino Royale, is the best Bond film since Goldfinger, thats 42 years if anyone is currious. Most of the current generation has grown up with Pierce Brosnan as Double O and few have seen the good old stuff and actually remember what the film was about. I remember as a child watching Sean Connery and his deadly charm. But I can't remember much of what actually happened in those films. For example I remember one film where Bond rides an underwater man mover, you know a torpedo for to get you from here to there. Or I remember Odd Job with his hat that kills. But to be honest I cannot remember much more. Despite my inability to remember the Bond films I enjoined so much as a youth there are things I always new about James and came to expect when I went to see his latest escapades. When you are dealing with James you know there are certain things that you can expect to encounter while in the field with the man who wears that classic tux so well. That is actually a great example. You are guaranteed to see James wear that tux at least once, at least one intimate interaction with a beautiful woman, some gadgets, a nice car, an opening chase seen, a few dead bodies, and a martini (shaken not stirred). While this new Bond has almost all those it may lack lots of gadgets, it does have a few, and there is no "shaken not stirred" martini but there is a martini. The thing that got me about this film was that it was a flashback. It took us back to James' first assignment as a Double O. Walking into this film I knew that was the case, which made me wonder how they were going to adapt this film. Would they use new gadgets, like cell phones or current cars. Or would they go back in time and not give James all the new stuff. Since it has been the standard to give James all the new stuff it would seem out of place to not continue this tradition. This Bond delivers. It is amazing.

And now you are wondering why is Jon talking about all this? Well this new film got me thinking about the Church. It seems that one of the major questions that has plagued the Church since the beginning has been "How do we respond to the change around us? How do we respond to the changing culture?" This question seems even more prevalent in this day and age. The Church knew how to relate to the pre-modern culture, it could deal with modernism (how well it actually did I'm not sure), but does it know how to relate post-modernism? We keep asking ourselves are we going to far as the Church, are we accommodating, are we watering down the Gospel, are we doing justice to the Gospel, or are we harming it? I can't tell you the answer to that. In all honesty it depends where you are and what you feel about those statements (wow way post-modern). I can tell you that I think in some places we are. But what is the Church to do in this new post-modern time? I think the Church needs to be a little more like James Bond. The Church needs to adapt to its new situations. But that does not mean that the Church strays from its core truths. If you strip Bond of all the the norms it is no longer Bond. If you strip the Church of all the beliefs it has then it is no longer the Church. The Church in this age needs to stand up and say we believe in these things. Things like the Trinity, Jesus as the Son of God, Salvation through faith in Jesus Christ alone. There are many things we could say we need to affirm. But we need to remember that while these are essentials there are other things that are non-essentials. The non-essentials are things that will not effect ones salvation. If someone believes in a literal day creation, cool, if someone believes in a day age theory creation, thats good too. On this issue one must understand that Hebrew can allow for either and a question one must ask is Genesis 1 about science or theology. Where the Bible is specific we need to be, where it is not whats the point. We could all use a little adaptability and humility.

So if you haven't heard, which means you are in a few decade old bomb shelter not reading my blog because there is no internet where you live, you know that PS3 (Playstation 3) came out today. Well it comes out on 11/17/06 which is today, but no store is open so you cannot buy it. People have been lining up for about 30 hours or so to get this new system. But that is not what this is about, nor is the picture a picture of a PS3. The picture is of the Nintendo Wii, which this blog is also about. The Wii is Nintendo's new system which comes out on Sunday, the 19th. What does this system have you ask? Well it doesn't play dvd's (I already have a dvd player) and it doesn't sport hi-def. So what does it have? It has these two little controllers which sense movement and are quite possibly the coolest thing ever. For example if you are playing Madden Football you will have to make a throwing motion to throw the football with your Qb. The real reason I felt the need to tell you about this is I could not think of anything else to talk about and felt the need to blog because I haven't in a few days. So while everyone is out trying to get a PS3 tonight I am blogging. And while everyone is blogging on Sunday about not getting a PS3 I will be in line getting a Wii. If you want to come play after you are more than welcome to join the Wii fun. Wii will have lots of fun (Ha did you see that pun it was great. Its times like these I wish my buddy Dave Ortega had a blog. Dave if you are out there let me know).

Apathy is defined as
1. Lack of feeling or emotion. Impassiveness
2. Lack of interest or concern. Indifference

My current state finds me in the second category. Only 5 weeks left, 18 days with class. Enough said.

Got this from J Witt. It intrigued me.

You can only use one word...
Not as easy as you may think.

1. Yourself: exhausted
2. Your girlfriend/boyfriend: Nonexistent
3. Your hair?: Hawk
4. Your mother?: Amazing
5. Your Father?: Absent
6. Your Favorite Item: Laptop
7. Your dream last night: Forgot
8. Your Favorite drink: Mocha
9. Your Dream Car: Porsche
10. The Room You Are In: Diedrich
12. Your fear: solitude
13. What you want to be in 10 years: Changed
14. Who you hung out with last night?: Bros
15. What You're Not?: Complete
16. Muffins: Blueberry
17: One of Your Wish List Items: Ducati
18: Time: Night
19. The Last Thing You Did: Drove
20. What You Are Wearing: Pumas
21. Your Favorite Weather: Fall
22. Your Favorite Book: Willard
23. The Last Thing You Ate: Waffle
24. Your Life: Messy
25. Your Mood: Apathetic
26. Your body: Tired
27. Who are you thinking about right now? Friend

First off I must say that I love ketchup. My friends will attest to this fact. I have been known to use a whole lot of ketchup when eating a meal and I will even put it on things others will not, such as taquitos (which I did today for lunch, actually yesterday by now). I have also been known to think of even odder things to have the honor of adorning ketchup. Much like a purse or diamonds for a girl, ketchup is an essential accessory. One fun fact about ketchup is that it does not require refrigeration. And that is what this blog is about. It is time that we all stand up for ketchup around the world and free it from the cool prison it so often calls home by force. If you do not believe me go look at your ketchup bottles and you will see that this is not a request ketchup makes. By placing ketchup in an environment it does not wish we are asserting our power on ketchup and which is an act of injustice. We should all act in a Christ like manner and FREE THE KETCHUP! Please join me in the Free The Ketchup Campaign 2006. How can you help you ask? First, you can free your ketchup. Second, you can inform others of this vital issue and spread the word. Thank you for your help on this Campaign issue.

I can't contain my anticipation. It comes out tomorrow by the way.

So I currently should be going to bed seeing that it is 2:23AM. Which is probably why almost all of which I write seems to be incoherent. I have written multiple sentences over and can't seem to spell words right, thank God for spell check. At the moment I am also not feeling very original either, which is never good when one is blogging. Ok, Im giving in, Im going to bed. Night blogging world.

body tackle

And people wonder what we do at Vanguard with our free time. This is the first time we have used the new MBP (macbook pro) for editing. Thanks to Josh (The DBoy) for showing us this amazing trick.
Note dont try this at home.

The Most random thought from Halloween: How do mermaids reproduce? Do they lay eggs or do the do the deed in some other way? If we take Futurama's stand perspective they lay eggs. This occurred in the episode where Fry marries a mermaid, the episode entitled The Deep South. So yeah random thought, if you have any insight feel free to inform us all.