The Monday brief
September 22nd, 2008 | 
Highlight of the week: I saw Man on Wire on Friday night, which was one of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen (remember Mad Hot Ballroom?), and of course The Cubs clinching a playoff berth (in back-to-back years for the first time since 1908) was pretty huge.
Book(s) I’m reading: Still reading How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie and Tom Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America. It’s been a busy week.
Music I’m digging: Matt Wertz, Under Summer Sun (link opens in iTunes)
Something(s) that blew my mind: A 12-year old boy genius from Beaverton, Oregon, has developed a new 3D solar cell which “provides 500 times more light absorption than commercially-available solar cells and nine times more than the cutting-edge, three dimensional solar cell.” Also, this graph puts into perspective just how much new offshore drilling will really “help” US oil consumption (hint: it’s negligible at best).
Ministry update: Chugging along. The high schoolers have begun fundraising for the trip next summer. Junior highers are working through the 10 commandments; one commandment per week.
Seminary/ordination update: Nothing new.
Looking forward to: I know that I’m growing old, because I’m really looking forward to the first Presidential Debate this Friday night. Lame. Awesome, but lame.
That’s it for the Monday brief. Feel free to leave a comment, and if you’re feeling extra frisky, check out the Monday brief archives.
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Wanted you to know I too, am stealing this idea of the monday brief.
I listened to Tom Friedman’s The World is Flat and really appreciated it. Find myself talking about it often. I guess I should check this one out too.