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Demetri Martin is pretty funny, I've only seen a little of his stuff though, enjoy at your own risk.
Technically, it's just the day after yesterday. Idealistically it's automatically a new day and the start of something new. I don't typically make resolutions because if I need to change something, immediately is when it needs to happen. Not when I need a new calender.
The truth is that I have needed change for a long time. I've needed to be intentional about my communication skills for a long time. I've needed to be more courageous in my pursuit to meet new people. If I can't be expressive about...well, anything, than I won't ever be able to take a relationship from acquaintance, to friendship and in a rare instance to a dating relationship.
I'm not desperate, if I was I would've had a swath of failed relationships. Consider this a realization of my social/psychological shortcommings. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing expecting different results. I can't gauruntee I will change overnight or even over the course of a year. But God is the Change Agent, the catalyst, and the only path to true, positive life change.
God bless and keep you, and those you love.
Sent from my iPhone
Wow, uh, if you say the video in the last post I have to apologize for some of the content. I deleted it because what I could see on my laptop at home revealed what was not seen on the iphone in the car when I made the post. Lord have mercy...
Don't get me wrong, I am NOT one of those bah humbug scrooge types. I love Christmas, it's the celebration of the birth of my Lord and Savior and that is a huge deal! But after being alive for 23 years I can certainly do with a little less of the commercialized tradition buttoned up with pomp and circumstance unassociated with the original purpose of the holiday. And truthfully I'm not even asking for all of that to be done away with. Just give me till after Thanksgiving, plz thx?!
Was reading just moments ago on msnbc about an interesting side note. Part of Barack Obama's successful victory came from the larger than average turn out amongst black voters. Minority groups are also believed to be the key to the passing of bans on gay marriage. It's something that made me drop a "hmm... God may just actually know exactly what He's doing." I believe in coincidences, I just don't believe they happen on accident.
Woohoo! It's way too early! Just ate my cheerio's and drank my Rockstar. I'm ready to go, getting into the swing of things again might be a little difficult. Pray for me ya'lls.
Have you ever been in a place in your life, perhaps late at night when all is quiet and you begin to ponder about where you are in this life and ask yourself if you missed something? I wonder sometimes if I'm way off track, if somehow my senses have been so dumbed down that I haven't heard God saying, "Hey, PSSST! Over here, go this way, stop!" I often in this moment re-evaluate my every life decision. It's what I do, I analyze....everything. Certainly God's will is Perfect and His plan for me undeniably awesome. More certainly I am falable, foolish and oft-mistaken in my judgement.
God spoke to Elijah in a still small voice, a whisper, that was preceeded by wind, earthquake and fire. That was only a whisper. Certainly I don't want my neighborhood set ablaze so I could get a word from the Lord, so I settle for the affirmation that He puts deep down in the pit of my heart. The comfort that is found after praying my guts out, the comfort that says, "I'm still God, and you are still my son. Trust Me, and trust those I have put over you."
In Joshua, when Israel came up against Jericho, God asked them to do two things, to Obey and to Praise.
God, You are so good, I lay my insecurities and inadequacies at Your feet. I praise You for all that You have done for me. May Your will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.
So last Tuesday I decided to go ahead and try a jailbreak program on my iphone. I already loved my phone, works great and to put it plainly, it's the best phone I've ever used. A jailbreak program does not unlock it for use with another carrier or erase the apple OS that is already running on it. In it's base stage a jailbroken phone looks and operates no differently than it's un-hacked brethren. I used a program called quickpwn, there are a couple others out there that probablly work in the same way. Quickpwn loads to your computer and essentially forces itunes to let it install it's software to your iphone. After the install and a reboot you find a couple new icons on your iphone, Installer and Cydia. Installer I haven't found a use for, but is originally used to install Cydia. Quickpwn does that by itself however.
Through Cydia you can download different themes that can do a variety of different things. Changing the screen unlock function, icons, colors, the keyboard and more advanced changes. Some can allow you to add a fifth icon to the dock or add the beloved "stack" function to it. I have one that allows programs such as Pandora to continue to run in the background (they weren't designed like the ipod function to do so). There are copy/paste firmware changes you can add if you'd like. You can change the normally black background behind the icon's into just about anything. Sound themes, fonts and colors, the list is huge. Once you download a theme back of any sort, a program called winterboard (formerly known as springboard and summerboard) appears in your icon list, through that program you can manage and turn on/off all the different themes. The downside to all of this is the more stuff you use, the more of a drain on your battery there is, and it also slows down the phone a little bit more too.
So with a jailbreak you can fully customize your iphone and make it your own at the cost of battery life and slight performance lag. The phone will contine to sync with itunes just fine.
NOTE: If you're going to jailbreak your phone I recomend doing a full back up through Itunes first, just to be on the safe side. I had no problems but who knows what could happen.
