Point your browser to http://spiritofthe80s.tumblr.com/. @spiritofthe80s was following me on twitter and thus I stumbled upon his/her tumblr blog with GREAT oldies. Enjoy.
January, 2009:
Like 80′s Jesus Music?
Jesus died?! Where’s my time machine?
This comic reminded me of one of our essay questions for this year’s SHC application.
Cow & Boy by Mark Leiknes
Our application requires three essays and one that we have chosen for this year that I particularly like is this:
You are given the power, for one day, to be an invisible observer at an historic event. Although you will not be able to change the course or the outcome of the event, you will be able to bring back to the present all the insights you gain. Explain which historic event you would most like to witness, and why you think being an observer at that event would help you make an important contribution to the future.
I actually expected a lot of people to answer that they would like to go back and see some biblical event. Certianly I would want to see something like the feeding of the X,000 or some other miracle, or perhaps camp out at the tomb and see what happens (although I reckon I would fall asleep and miss it all). So far I am told that we have a few applicants who answered it in this way (along with one student who wanted to be there for the drafting of the US Constitution in 1869, no typo, the date was repeated several times in the essay), but not as many as I expected.
So, what event would you want to observe?
The value of facebook: Reuniting old friends
My wife is a relative newcomer to facebook (I have been on since 2005). She has been drawn in by the fact that over the last three months or so many of our former high school friends have been joining up. As more friends have joined you of course find it actually working as a social network (those who promote “social networking” often forget that it helps to have “real” friends on the network in the first place). In the last two weeks Elizabeth began to read reports about a high school classmate who was in his final battle with brain cancer. What transpired was a remarkable and truly communal memorialization, aided in part by facebook. Elizabeth has written about it on her blog and, of course, in her notes on facebook.
Facebook: Where our Personal History Comes Alive
I had not spoken to or seen John since our 1985 graduation from Robinson High School in Fairfax, Virginia. In the past couple months many of us have reconnected through Facebook and have enjoyed seeing photos of kids and catching up on news from many of the 900+ classmates from that year.
Recently a mutual friend posted John’s link to a daily journal of his battle with brain cancer. He was fighting hard, in good Navy SEAL spirit. Hundreds of friends wrote him words of encouragement everyday and his wife tapped away at the computer in the dead of night when all was quiet to update his status. John lost his battle on January 18. His obituary ran today in the Virginia Pilot linked here .
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