I made up that title, not even sure what I'll write about today. Golden Technologies, northwest Indiana's technology experts, challenged us to speedblog last year. So on this last day before Thanksgiving 2010 a little speedblogging leap frog.
Where are you spending your Thanksgiving? The Dalton family is headed to Indianapolis, actually Greenwood to be specific. Tomorrow morning many of us will head to Broad Ripple for the Drumstick Dash 4.5 mile run in the cold!!! It's been interesting to note the number of Thanksgiving Day runs being held each year, an ever-increasing number.
What's your family tradition?
See Northwest Indiana Conservatives Coalition site for next post in series today ...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Cline Ave is gonna be demolished, even Wikipedia knows about it
I just found it interesting that Wikipedia reports about Cline Ave being demolished. Among other things, it talks about the ramp collapse in 1982 and the sniper shootings in 2006, both connected to Cline Avenue. Any good advice for NWI residents on alternate routes, now that you've had a chance to find detours for a month or so?
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Chicagoland Earthquake Wakes Portage Resident
I woke up this morning to discover that there had been an earthquake at 4 A.M. northwest of Chicago, near Elgin, IL. The quake registered 4.3, a decent shock for Chicagoland. The New York Times reports that an Elgin resident was the first to point out the earthquake - on Twitter.
After that Twitter went ablaze. Heres one to social media for reporting this first!
People have reported feeling the earthquake as far as Madison, Wisconsin and Bourbonnais, IL. But this morning, a local pastor told me that he felt the quake. Pastor Fred Hoover of St. Peter Lutheran Church in Portage, Indiana relayed to me that he thought a large snow plow had driven by his house at 4 A.M., but he believes it was the earthquake.
If folks in Wisconsin felt it, it's also likely that it could be felt in Portage. I was sleeping soundly.
Ms. Evans, who is the owner of Sevans Strategy, a public relations strategy firm that guides companies on how to use Twitter and other social media, said she then reached for her iPhone and posted a message on Twitter. “Seriously weird,” she wrote. “Something that felt like a minor quake just woke us up. Can anyone else in the CHI area/burbs confirm?”
After that Twitter went ablaze. Heres one to social media for reporting this first!
People have reported feeling the earthquake as far as Madison, Wisconsin and Bourbonnais, IL. But this morning, a local pastor told me that he felt the quake. Pastor Fred Hoover of St. Peter Lutheran Church in Portage, Indiana relayed to me that he thought a large snow plow had driven by his house at 4 A.M., but he believes it was the earthquake.
If folks in Wisconsin felt it, it's also likely that it could be felt in Portage. I was sleeping soundly.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Peace in Bethlehem and NW Indiana
Christmas and Northwest Indiana (cross posted from Northwest Indiana Politics)
I couldn't resist, even though I know you will all be spending time with family and unwrapping presents ... so no one will have time to read this political site ... right!
Christmas is a bit political isn't it? (See Christmas Story on Blueletter) If you believe, as I do, that Jesus is actually God incarnate, born of the virgin Mary, in a stable in Bethlehem roughly 2,000 years ago. If you believe that this birth and his eventual crucifixion and resurrection make up the perfect trifecta of prophetic implication, such that humans can have contact with the only Holy deity. Then Christmas is a lot political, and makes people around you cringe. Words we don't use much in post modern society aren't they? Words that can make a conversation go mighty quiet, and people walk away uncomfortable that anyone would be so rude to talk about religion or faith. It's so much easier to pretend about Santa Claus or gaze at a lit tree, but to push faith in Jesus that's going too far.
It's not that faith is uncomfortable, it's that a faith of specifics and a faith in a specific truth like Christ is uncomfortable. In this culture we celebrate the fact that everyone has their own beliefs ... yet the downside is that we've lost the ability to truly debate which of those beliefs are right and which are just plain hogwash. It's even become rude to suggest that one has a belief that is true, since this assigns "false" to another belief. Let's be frank, truth exists and all other beliefs are false, even if that hurts someone feelings.
Please enjoy your families, pray for peace in Jerusalem, remember Jesus' birth in the lowly manger, give gifts of joy, worship with hearts of grace and mercy ... Merry Christmas Northwest Indiana.
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