Friendfeed to Replace Twitter?

On today’s “WebbAlert” podcast Morgan Webb questioned whether the micro-blog service, Twitter, is about to become this year’s Friendster. Quoting Tech Crunch and Read-Write-Web, Webb noted the exodus from Twitter to rival micro-blog service, Friendfeed. I haven’t used Friendfeed, but issues with Twitter running slowly or just being down have been so bad that I’ve …

D&D Characters Playing D&D

I’m posting the following video in honor of my own video debut today playing a D&D player for fellow Full Sail course director, Dan. I can only pray that Jonathan, Full Sail videographer/editor, saves us from looking entirely as stupid as we felt as we stumbled over our lines and swallowed our diction (I’m speaking …

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How Other Religions Think about Jesus

When NPR‘s Terry Gross interviewed New Testament scholar, Bart Ehrman, she asked him, in view of having documented his journey from Moody Bible institute to Agnosticism in “God’s Problem” and “Misquoting Jesus,” whether he has ever thought to check out other Faiths. Ehrman said that he knows that Buddhism has a very different attitude about …

New Orlando Apartment

1st Day in my new place in Orlando w/ brother Matt. As usual, Matt smiles and I look confused. It has been an absolutely awesome week traveling country with Matt and then spending the next few days setting up the apartment with my brother. His presence has really made the transition less jarring, painful or …

What Teachers Do

Tomorrow I begin my new job at Full Sail University, creating and then teaching a course to fellow teachers and instructors working on their masters degree. It’s good to remember what we public school teacher “do” and what role we have in society. I may be beginning my dream job, but I need to always …

Feels Like Home Already

Just arrived in Orlando. Only open eating establishment: Hooters. Damn. I feel like I’m home ( x )( x ) “Suffering the slings & arrows of outrageous misfortune.” Technorati Tags: beer, florida, love, lust, girls, travel

Safely Arrived in Baton Rouge

After an incredible 31-hours on the road straight from Prescott AZ, Matt & I arrived in Baton Rouge this afternoon. You can follow along on our journey at http://twitter.com/jbb where I post little 140-character snippets of what’s going on from my phone and where we are at. You can also view posted photos from the …