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Posted by Josh Reighley at 4:12 PM | Permalink | Comments ()

My wife has been having mysterious pain for a month or so, and she has had a lot of medical tests.

The latest test was a Capsule endoscopy. Basically it has a pill shaped camera that she swallowed, and it traverses her digestive system taking photos every few seconds and radioing them back to a mother ship strapped to her belly. At the end of the day, she gave back the mothership, but the camera is hers to keep. (Flush)

As a nerd, I found this test to be an irresistible combination of technology humor and potty humor, and couldn't keep my mouth shut. I am indeed an evil husband. Hopefully she will forgive me.

So, it is your choice. Comment with either your best capsule endoscopy joke, or kind words for my sick wife... ;-)

Posted by Josh Reighley at 6:28 AM | Permalink | Comments ()

What is your favorite scripture and why? Once you have it figured out, press the button below, and fingertoe will instantly call your phone, and record your answer for a later post.

Posted by Josh Reighley at 8:41 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

The McDonald's Playland setups give me the heebee-jeebees. They pretty much always have. I don't like the idea of my young daughter being up in a tube with young boys significantly older than her where I can't see them.

Posted by Josh Reighley at 9:24 AM | Permalink | Comments ()

People will never read step 37 of your instructions unless they already messed up really bad

Posted by Josh Reighley at 8:49 AM | Permalink | Comments ()

Well, Idaho didn't have the best football season, but at least we can gloat that BSU lost. Last year's BSU magic rubbed a bit of salt in the wounds of us Die-Hard Idaho fans.

Posted by Josh Reighley at 11:20 PM | Permalink | Comments ()

I think I may have made a breakthrough in explaining twitter...

Somebody else's mundane life is not really mundane to me, and provides a nice break from my own mundane life. By passing our boredom around, we are less bored.

Will it work? Maybe, Maybe not..

Posted by Josh Reighley at 5:05 PM | Permalink | Comments ()

I tend to give stores silly names. Cuppa Joe's for example is the local coffee shop. My kids know it only as "The Coffee Store" When I want to have a drink with one of my friends, we usually go to a local Irish Pub, O'Doughrtys. In my dialect, this is simply known as "The Guiness Store" Some stores are named not so much for their wares, but their ambiance. I call Old Navy "The thump thump Store" for it's music.

The kids and I went to the new Cabella's store in Post Falls Idaho a month or so ago, and their Grandma bought them a couple of very nice stuffed animals. Nathan has really taken a liking to his black lab "Gracie"
He had been waiting anxiously ever since to take Gracie to Sharing at his pre-school.

Last week his chance came. Apparently Gracie was a pretty big hit at show in tell. As we where leaving, the teacher pulled me aside. "Just one question.... What in the world is a "Really big dead animal store?"

Andee gave the "Outdoorsman's Warehouse" the moniker "Dead animal store" (For it's decor) Nathan apparently saw the similarity and added the "Really big"

Posted by Josh Reighley at 7:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

It is always fun to find your picture on the front page of the newspaper. For most of us, it doesn't happen very often.

Michael Millhouse allegedly made the front page of the Lewiston Morning Tribune twice on the very same day. Here is the story.

Posted by Josh Reighley at 8:16 PM | Permalink | Comments ()

The local television station ran a story as well as a follow up story on Greg Papst. He is an inspiring man of faith, battling terminal cancer.

Posted by Josh Reighley at 10:28 PM | Permalink | Comments ()

Twitter is pretty cool. It is a lot of fun to know what your friends are up to at any given time.

The oddest thing about Twitter is that it is very hard to sell. It just seems so silly..

For those of you who have not heard of it, it is a micro-blogging system where you generally only answer one question: "What are you doing?" -- Usually in one short sentence. It can be updated from your instant messenger, from your cell phone, or from the twitter homepage. Notifications of what your friends are doing can also be accessed through the same channels.

So, Here is what I am up to right now:

Posted by Josh Reighley at 10:15 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

I believe that items that are scarce are highly valued. Things that used to be valuable, but are abundant now have generally lost their luster.

I think this is true of information. In the information age, I can find out most anything I would like with a few keystrokes. This actually is a strong disincentive to learn.

In the Biblical times, they didn't have printing presses. If one wanted to learn scripture, they had to find one of the few copies in their area and memorize it, or find somebody who had it memorized and memorize it orally.

While the printing press liberated us somewhat from our need to memorize large volumes of literature, it didn't really diminish the value of having done so. Somebody who was "well read" would have a lot of information and ideas available to them at the drop of a hat. When they make a decision in life, they have a much larger body of information providing context for their decision. The more information they have, the wiser the decision is likely to be.

Unfortunately as we head down the information highway, it is easy for us to be lazy and tool-dependant in our intellect. For example, when I have a question about a bible passage, I can look it up on a website, find out what the original Greek word meant, and how that word was used elsewhere in the bible. This answers the question at hand, but is in no way a substitute for knowing Greek. We get fed for a day, rather than learning to fish. What could be known off of the top of my head is instead a research project.

The information age has made many of us specialists instead of generalists. The fact that I can go down and buy a high quality CD at 5 or10 places within walking distance of my house does impact the market for the skill of making our own music. What is abundant is not valued as much as something that is scarce. My musical incompetence however reduces my capability to communicate ideas in poetry or song. The right brained world is going to have a lot more difficulty grasping my ideas because I am not at all versed in their language.

Do you guys agree?

Posted by Josh Reighley at 8:28 AM | Permalink | Comments ()

Thanks for the chuckle, Len

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