NEW BLOG LOCATION

So its been real here on blogspot but I have to say goodbye. My new blog can be found hereian'sblog and I wont be posting any more stuff to this location I just have gotten sick of the templates and not being able to customize the way I want to.

17 Studios

So for those who don't know I'm hoping to in the future to have run a podcast channel similar to Revision3's business model. Anyways we are quickly on our way to have a few good shows. A few are in production and we are in talks with people to possibly start up some new shows in the near future. I am super excited about the newest show that just launched which is called Friday Knights Of The Round Table.



Please check out all of our shows and be on the look out for future shows being launched.

17 Studios

SNOWWWWWW

So what I was saying before I got cut off was; I am going to a coffee shop to get some internets because since we don't have internet at the house we're at I've been using my phone as a router but I don't want to overuse it and attract AT&T's attention so I don't get over charged for data usage.

theianreview EPISODE #6

Finally after the move and everything I was able to catch up a little in the blogosphere.
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Conversation

Here's an example of the kind of conversation that goes on in our car rides just listen to the depth and all the meaning. it just amazes me how every time we get into the car together as a family the conversation is so interesting, the amount I've learned just listening to people talk on car rides could never be learned in a school.

Side Note: Notice how freaking long sierra's qiks are. They're FOREVER!!!! why would someone record the conversation in a car for 10 minutes WHY?

Update to the Recount in Minnesota

The difference initially between the two candidates were 725 votes then 590 now its an even smaller gap of 238 votes!!!!!! This is one of the closest races, with this big of a population, I've ever heard of.

For more Info read my post entitled RECOUNT!!!!! or visit

http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/34024274.html

Gay "Marriage"

Thousands protest today outside of church buildings in Los Angeles due to the pass of proposition 8. This got me thinking and instead of just thinking this I decided I would write it down so if anyone asks my opinion on the matter I can just point to this blog post....and hopefully get them reading this...

Now the word marriage means a promise between 2 people and God. The problem with gay people becoming married is there is no God so you couldn't possibly be married. The word doesn't make sense by definition, I could consider myself a skydiver but if I've never actually jumped out of a plane the term doesn't really apply to me. Now I'm not just singling out gay people I'm also talking about non Christians as well they are making a promise to something that doesn't hold any validity to them so I would argue they are not married as well and it offends me just as much as say a gay person using the word married to mean someone they live with and like a lot.

People have tried to solve this problem by making civil unions but that just offends them more, they want to be considered married. This is a hard subject for me because to be honest I don't really care that they are unified by the state and they have some wedding like thing really I don't. Does making it illegal to be married make them live their lives the way God would want them to live? No. Does it bring them farther from the Kingdom if they are married to another person of the same sex instead of just practicing homosexual acts everyday? NO! Are they any lesser of people because they are gay? Of course not. I really don't mind if they have the same rights at all the problem is how do we give them "marriage" without destroying the Holiness of the word and without offending them and turning them even farther away from the Cross? Remember the whole reason why we as Christians are here is to bring others into the kingdom.

The best idea I could come up with was create a new word for the meaning of marriage. Now I know what many Christians will say about this argument. "We shouldn't have to change our views because of the world" "Thats retreating from the problem instead of standing and fighting what is wrong." My response to that would just be I don't think its homosexuals that are ruining the definition of marriage I think its heterosexual couples not living up to what marriage should be according to God. Its already been ruined by non Christians for many MANY years and now all of a sudden Gay people want to get married and its the most offensive thing they've ever heard(some Christians not all by any stretch of the imagination mind you). This is why I believe we should come up with another name for a union between man and women and God. Maybe use the Greek word γάμος or gamos to refer to 2 Christians uniting with them and God.

All just ideas and opinions of me, I know there are far more smarter people than myself thinking these things through and coming up with solutions but I just thought with all this mumbo jumbo with Prop. 8 passing that I should get my opinions out before I forgot them.

Thanks for reading this ridiculously long and not happy post.

Ian

Up To A Coin Toss

No one even ran for Mayor in the small town of Goodridge Minnesota. With a population of 98 people the two write ins were Bob Homme and former Mayor Dave Brown both receiving 44 votes. Instead of getting all the ballots and recounting them they have both agreed to settle it in a coin toss. Dave Brown finally ended up winning the coin toss with a heads and a tail (odds).

60 Minutes Reporter Jumped in China

Polaroid Replacement is Finally Here

Everyone remembers Polaroids, the sepia tone coloring, the small size that all you could do was hang on your wall. Well its back and even smaller. Tomy has now made a camera in the spirit of the old Polaroids called the xiao with a zink printer built into it. The camera comes in a couple different colors and prints pictures EVEN SMALLER THAN BEFORE YAYYYYYYY!!!!! Now we can again have more worthless small pictures laying around in your top drawer of your cabinet. I for one can't wait for the experience again.

All that being said I really do think its a cool product I mock it but its amazing it has a printer that size built into it and has no ink whatsoever in the device, let me repeat that NO INK! I believe its digital too so you can plug it into your computer and upload pictures that way. Has a 5 megapixel camera and has a 2.48" full color LCD display on the back. What I've read is it'll be relatively cheap but no word yet on what the price will actually be.

RECOUNT!!!!!!!!!!!!

This was the closest election I have ever seen(that being said I haven't been alive for that long). Look at the numbers between Sen. Norm Coleman and Talk Radio host Al Franken. I was first going to laugh about Franken throwing a fit about how they should recount but when its this close I don't blame him for asking for a recount.

Sen. Coleman said this..
"It's up to him whether such a step is worth the tax dollars it will take to conduct,"

The recount would cost 3 cents per ballot and roughly $90,000
Coleman had 1,211,642 votes, 41.99 percent
Franken had 1,211,167 votes, 41.98 percent

The recount wouldn't start until Nov. 19 and could stretch into December.

Economy Down Apple Sales Up In Every Category

Politics

So I don't like talking about politics with people I don't like hearing people talk about politics and I try to not follow politics so I don't get angry. But I of course with these two campaigns going on how can I ignore it. Then I have every dumb channel on tv telling me to vote or die and I even singed into facebook, FACEBOOK!!! and they had some election thing countdown in case all the 12 year old kids forgot to tell their parents to go and vote today.
Anyways what I'm trying to say is I'm sorry, the one place I have control of content I put politics onto just like all the stupid websites and television stations do. I criticize and then I just end up doing it so I am sorry.

This is a video of Senator Oboma talking to a crowd in North Carolina. He, in this video, is talking about how politics are just rough, Washington plays a lot of games and Hillary looked right in her element playing those games in Washington. Then he raises his hand to "scratch his face" and makes a gesture with his middle finger. At first I watched this expecting it to be really stupid and not be anything. How many times have I scratched my face and made a gesture? Many times I'm sure. But this is different, he clearly stops talking after the gesture and laughs a little to himself and the crowd realizes that that scratch was no starch it indeed was a slam at Hillary.
I watched this in the early morning with the volume at mute and I thought the video was bad but no way was it him giving Hillary the finger but then I re-watched it with the volume up and my mind was changed if it wasn't on purpose then it just looks bad but take into account what he's talking about the "gotcha media" and how Hillary had her chance to take stabs at him. I just think it looks really really bad no matter what he meant by it.


***All this being said I really hate gotcha media and taking out sound bites and using peoples words out of context so if thats what I did here I apologize.

Last Few Days In Charleston

So the night Steve and myself went to go pick up Jordan from the airport there was massive flooding in Charleston. We had a hard time driving around it was nuts. We went to waffle house and the parking lot was completely flooded, this kid we met randomly there was standing in the middle of the water and at the deepest point it was up over his knees.
This is a video just of our street and we thought it was bad here and when we went out driving apparently it was pretty good compared to other places.


This next video is of me and steve playing in the water a bit (Side Note: Steve is wearing a jean vest and boxers)


Then this is the last video but we walked all around in Charleston and this is a video of us on top of the Wentworth Hotel/Mansion. Its really nice, very old and luxurious but they allow people to go up to the roof and look at the awesome view so this is a little video on the roof.

Half Blood Prince Trailer

As much as I don't want to admit it I am excited