the tindog coffeehouse

If this photo from ZDNet of an early iteration of Internet Explorer 9 is any indication of what the final product will look like, I have to say it’s downright horrid.

I know, I know, I’m probably the only person in the world who thinks that. Just like I’m the only person to not really care for the stripped-down look of Google Chrome (which Microsoft is clearly imitating).

I understand the trend toward leaner and cleaner browsers: fewer buttons, consolidated toolbars, a fear of anything that might impede upon the sacred real estate that is the interwebs. I understand it, I just don’t fully agree with it.

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Yesterday, I did the unthinkable. I volunteered to coach my daughter’s soccer team. Which I may have to do by myself with no assistant. And I’m still on crutches with a fractured tibia. And I’ve never coached anything in my life.

I’m an idiot.

In all fairness, though, practice starts in less than a week, and Megan’s team still had no coach. And without a parent stepping up to coach, there’s no team. I couldn’t let that happen. And besides, I got pretty nostalgic thinking about coaching her since my dad coached my soccer team when I was little. (We were the Kongs, as in King Kong. Yeah, we were some bad ass 6-year-olds.)

So here goes, um, something. Good or bad, it’s bound to epic.

Previously:
August, you suck too
Goodbye, July

Everybody’s watching you now
Everybody waits for you now
What happens next
What happens next

– Switchfoot, “Dare You To Move”

Switchfoot lead singer Jon Foreman had a bit of run-in with Tampa police this past Sunday night. After playing their regular show, Foreman performed a couple of songs on his acoustic guitar in the parking lot for anyone who wanted to drop by, a regular occurrence he refers to as “after-shows”. But one Tampa cop wasn’t having any of it and ordered Foreman to shut it down. Encouraged by fans, though, he kept playing until finally being escorted away. The event, naturally, was caught on video by several fans and even made it to CNN.

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Sheer. Genius.

Source.

Previously:
‘Lord, Save Us From Your Followers’
The goal must be love
You obviously haven’t met my neighbors

I finally got around to watching Man on Fire. In the movie, Denzel Washington plays a bodyguard named Creasy who pursues the kidnappers of a little girl named Pita (played by Dakota Fanning). In the end, Pita is rescued unharmed and returned to her mother but only after Creasy willingly surrenders his life in exchange for hers.

Christian blogger Jon Acuff has written about how the movie is a perfect metaphor for how Jesus willingly gave His life as a ransom for us:

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