So I can’t turn the monitor on or off. There is a Key Lock display when you plug the AC cord in. The internet is less than helpful. All I can find is some forum post reply that says push two buttons or hold down ESC and ENTER when powering the monitor on…yeah, THAT sounds like a good idea. So let’s push random combinations of buttons on the monitor until somethig happens…
EUREKA!
Volume Up key + Auto key = Key Lock toggle on/off
I saw this film in it’s opening week for three reasons:
1) I was excited by the trailer – James Earl Jones!
2) I wanted Disney to plant a tree with my ticket purchase
3) I wanted to support the brand new DisneyNature label (essentially a production house for Disney’s True Life Adventures)
Between the first viewing of the trailer and my viewing of the film, a negative thought was introduced into my head regarding this maiden voyage of DisneyNature (primarily from this MousePlanet review): that the film was simply a poor, disjointed summary of BBC’s Planet Earth miniseries (which was and still is a fantastic promo for the beauty of hi-definition television sets). Obviously this wasn’t enough to make me not see the film, but it definitely clouded my idle thought.
I agree the film is slightly disjointed and prone to take liberties with narrative jumps, but the story as a whole is an appropriately digestable summation of Earth and a suitable exploration of some of it’s unique creatures and climates. James Earl Jones is fantastic (especially when he invokes Disney quotes like “not flying, but falling with style” and “the great circle of life”) and there were some absolutely beautiful vistas and action shots. But it also had a storyline that I cared about…three of them: a family of two polar bear cubs, a herd of elephants and a mother humpback whale and her calf. All three stories were tied together on a massive scale by the seasons of Earth (spring, summer, fall, and winter), and the stories were woven together with intermission-like vignettes which facilitated the thousands of miles between the three stories with great ease.
Very polished preview. Only one stop per act. Really good caliber performances from the leads…even by non-high school standards.
Obviously they can’t say f***. The big problem song obviously is La Vie Boheme: They can say masturbation but they can’t say erection? They can’t say dyke. They jumped a section with lyrics right before the talking interlude…marijuana?
Roger is phenomenal and this is his first onstage performance ever! He’s a sophmore varsity football player and he’s got a really good voice.
30 hi-quality cordless mics! Fancy LED footlights and high end lighting throughout!
Really good show! Check it out before the protests shut it down!
Elephant Larry Presents: Con Air – Matt Melvin
Tee hee…
Personally, My Money’s On the Narwhal – Boing Boing
YES! My money’s on the unicorn. 
Ahoy – BiblioLife Partners with International Talk Like Pirate Day | BiblioLife
Woo hoo!
Funny…
Predicated on this Over The Hedge comic, the additional links have been tracked down:
YouTube – ORIGINAL Elephant Painting
Everlasting God
Your Love Oh Lord
5/2 Sharefest
5/14 police tribute with Paul Duncan, Kieran, and Matt, 9 am
Women’s retreat this weekend
Beach day for no retreaters
Tomorrow night Rubio’s fundraiser 3-9 pm
Palos Verdes, Torrance, Manhattan Beach
Bottles and cans for Uganda trip
Encourage each other with the singing of hymns
Our God Saves
Came to my Rescue
Overflow
Redemption?? Maybe after sermon?
Young man built a house, started filling it with kids
House gets rundown
Father wants the kids to be a part of construction
Process of doing all things
Redemption -
Tikkun Olam
To fix, restore / everything that is broken
To put together back into harmony everything that is broken
Opposite of God? Not Satan…Chaos, or Hell
Everyone brought some chaos of their life into church
Roman emperors claimed deity and demanded worship
New Testament letters are in that realm of being subversive
Ephesus, AD 80, Demition took deity worship more seriously
Marks on their hands or forehead
On a stone staircase in an excavation found a carving of a fish, icthus, with the words Jesus Christ
Christians created chaos against Rome
Christians wonder why God would take John away from them
On Patmos, God gives a dream to John that basically says things are going to get worse
Revelation and Gospel verses
Relationship chaos
Rev 1:9-20
4:1-11
No matter how chaotic it gets, God is seated on a throne over the entire universe
What we need daily, to protect us from chaos, is this truth.
God’s power over it all is the saving vision
Don’t get caught up in what CNN says
We need to be reminded everuly (sp?)
Rev 2:2-3
Desperately coming together to worship
Vision needs to be followed by a call of action
Matthew 3:13-17
Water represents chaos
Chaos since the beginning
Ruach hakodesh
Ruach – Wind
Ha – The
Kodesh – Holy
The holy wind
Dove hovering
Light is a wave
Trying to understand what God did
Let there be order out of chaos
Workings of the human body
God said everything was good
Satan, king of chaos, leads us to take the world and throw it back into chaos
Everyone is in some kind of chaos
Isaiah – poor are chaos
Saw the spirit of god hovering over chaos
Jesus comes up to the moving river and steps into the chaos with us
I want to be in your brokenness
I know what it’s like to be betrayed by friends
My earthly father will die
Restoring order by joining in the chaos
Luke 4 – healing diseases
Treats women with respect, honors the poor
Luke 7:18-28
John’s in Herod’s prison
Are you the one who is to come or shall we look for another
Quotes Zechariah 9:9
9:11 says prisoner salvation, but Jesus remezed that out of His reply to John
John dies in prison
We’re not here to be entertained or fill a seat or boost Jon’s ego
God’s holy spirit dove rested on the people
Fixing that which has been devastated
Enter into this vision of God on the throne
Have time for the people of the church
Delightful straight play about an African American family that moves to California after the Japanese internment of the 1940′s, allowing them possession of an interred family’s house with one caveat…a young American man from that Japanese family has evaded internment by hiding in the attic! Now this family must adjust to this new surrogate family member in a situation akin to the plight their culture found itself in before Emancipation…a desperate struggle for freedom against an oppressive government.
Meet the Goodwins:
Patriarch Jodie, leading his family West from Mississippi to Los Angeles;
His grandmother Janie, the aging matriarch and reigning chef of the house;
His brother Felix who won’t be forced into the military just because the family has a history of fighting for a country that doesn’t recognize their rights…he just wants to play jazz;
….
Marvelous Light
No Other Name
How Great Is Our God
In Christ Alone
Hallelujah
Easter hymns and songs
A consistent theme of life after death
Putting treasures in some celestial kingdom
Focus on going to Heaven
Earth is not our home
Is Heaven our final destination?
Was that the New Testament belief that led them to missions?
2 Peter 3:13
Revelation 21:1-5
Sea is symbolic of darkness separating
Everywhere you look you can see goodness
What it’s supposed to be like
Jesus coming down to us
John 1:14
Like marriage, it’s a union of two people into one
He is one
He is the bridegroom, we are the bride
Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 3:1-3
Writer describes disembodied souls with God, but wait…there’s more
Wisdom 3:7
They will shine forth, some kind of resurrection
Matthew 28:1-10
Jesus’ resurrected body, a physicality
Why weren’t the disciples waiting there
Challenge: believed Messiah would throw Rome out and lead Israel to a renewed existence
Didn’t imagine disembodied terminal on their way to the renewed Israel
Jesus death dashed there hopes, so they go back to former life
Kingdom of Heaven He calls people to, that He wants to establish on earth
1 Corinthians 15:12-18
V. 20 the first fruits of life for those who have fallen asleep
What happened to make early Christians stand in the face of the Roman Empire?
A great reversal: Jesus is alive again and pouring out His Spirit on us
Build into our thinking the resurrection -if it hasn’t happened, our faith is futile
Paul describes it, then…
15:58
Doesn’t say relax and don’t engage in this world that will pass
Says the present life is just as crucial as the next life
What you do with your body is going to last through the resurrection
MT Wright
Activities aren’t about making the present world bearable
Skid Row Outreach
Easy to live a Good Friday faith
Hard to live an Easter faith, that God will support our outreach
Kids were talking to a man, who asked for prayer, Grace started praying and he said he couldn’t hear out of that ear, so Grace said why didn’t you say so and asked if she could pray for his ear. She got some kids together and they prayer for his ear. When they were done, he said he could hear a little bit, so one of the kids said, “A little bit? Let’s go again.” and he was healed.
Maybe there’s something you need prayer for: God wants to hear from you tonight
We’ve got a resurrected Jesus today
God wants to do something in your life
Proclaim resurrected life
Great reversal of all things
All things that were broken are being works anew
Jesus came out the other side
Mary grabbed his feet
Doubting Thomas
John 20:26
Walked through the wall as if it didn’t matter
Resurrected body has a new dimension to it
New heaven and new earth, husband and wife coming together, more dimensions
Resurrection
Launched into it
Paul: Be steadfast, your work is not in vain
Everything will be incorporated into the new world
Our bodies are not a cheap prototype
Restoring the innermost parts – our humanity is important to Jesus
Luke: recovering sight to the blind
Promised a special release – more dimensions
Let’s practice now and get the ball rolling in the renewal of all things
Set one another free, set each other free
They want to pray over us
Ask the Holy Spirit to move in our heart
A now what sermon
Thinking about the cross and the resurrection
Never Lose The Wonder
As we went through the bag checking line, one of them announced, “Please have your-happy birthday-bags open and ready for inspection”. When I got to him, I complied, but slyly threw in that I didn’t have any happy birthday bags and he chuckled. Yay!
Really great host for the last Tiki Room show of the day..when we cheered loudly, he replied, “That makes the Tiki gods smile!”. Awesome!
Great tram announcer on our way out…asked about birthdays and anniversaries (coincidentally it was our 17 month anniversary) and engagements and congratulated the birthdays and anniversarys but for engagements he said good luck! Tee hee!
The advertisments all highlight the fact that this is a film from the director of Die Hard 2 (which to me is the more lackluster of the quadrilogy) and the producer of Speed (eh), but it’s basically the plot of Die Hard 3. Not to say this is a bad movie…it’s very exciting and terse and enjoyable. John Cena gives a very enjoyable performance (in my opinion not as good as Dwayne Johnson, but not bad for his second tour of the leading man position…The Rock was a little stiff in The Scorpion King) as Officer Danny Shaw, a beat cop in New Orleans who gets dragged into a sadistic terrorist’s 12 round game where the rules are solve the puzzle or people die.