Blog of Josh Hall

I did something pretty horrific in my dream last night.  I put a cute little black kitten in a microwave for about 30 seconds.  Then I did it again.  After the second time, I took it out, and it was certainly messed up.  It couldn’t even walk straight.  I felt terrible.  I tried giving it some water thinking that would make it feel better.  It was dazed, meowing every few seconds with that sound that kittens make when they’re part scared and part confused.  I could only imagine that I nuked its insides somehow, and now it has to die a slow death.  Why in the world did I put this cute kitten in the microwave?  I’m pretty sure I’m going to be haunted by this image for a while now.  It was looking at me through the microwave glass.  Beautiful round blue eyes.  I’m ashamed, and I technically didn’t even do anything.  It looked exactly like this:

I have this dream too.  Sometimes college, sometimes high school.  I’m glad someone else does too.

via: xkcd.com/557/

I like showers.  I like gadgets.  Put them together, and you have an extreme shower.  It’s probably a little spacey for me honestly, maybe i’d just put it in the guest bathroom.

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"Don’t mistake kindness for weakness."

– Albert Collins

In a world where everything is consumer driven and made for a 24/7 commercial world, we’ve seen on demand movie rentals, personal television recorders, skipping commercials, and even regular content available for free on the internet.  We’re perpetually tailoring services to meet the demand of a growing need for customization.

Recently, a bunch of my friends and I had a tough time scheduling a movie outing with everyone’s schedules.  This has to be a common occurence.  I wouldn’t be suprised if we saw theatres offer smaller, private theaters, that let you select the movie and even the starting time.  Replace the huge 280 seat theatres with 7 40 people theatres, and as soon as it fills up to a profitable margin, let them start their movie whenever they want to.

As home theatres get cheaper, and the availability of new releases gets delivered to the home sooner, I am predicting we’ll see the disappearance of the movie theatre completely, and just like televisions became common place, so will a more developed movie experience.

Last night I had a dream i was asked to speak infront of my old college ministry group, Cornerstone.  I have no idea why they chose me, but it was my present day self talking to what I would assume to be current students.  I got up and was so energetic and excited to talk to everyone.  I started out about how grateful I was to have been involved in Cornerstone.  Then I had note cards passed out so everyone could write their majors on them and give them to me.  I told them that if they didn’t know their majors, to make something up, or just put "life" on it, because we are all getting lessons in life, especially at college.

I went on to relate everyone’s majors to the theme of "K.I.S.S." or keeping it simple.  I asked who went to Sunday school when they were kids and remembered the stories there.  That serves as an example of how simple the Bible can be.  How simple it could be to understand God’s love and intent for all of us.  Then I started saying that as we grow older, we complicate our lives, but there is scripture to guide us even in our complicated lives.  We again can understand God’s love for us in our complicated worlds.  I was tying it all into God’s love being timeless since we saw it when we were young and see it as we get old.  It’s omnipresent because in everything we do, in all of our majors in school, we can apply God’s love.  I wrapped up by saying it’s just that simple.  As humans, we try to complicate things.  As our understanding grows, things become more complex.

I don’t know if there’s any practicality in that as a sermon or what, but I just thought it was neat to speak to everyone in my dream and in an impromptu manner.