Home right now after our two morning church gatherings and going back tonight for the evening one. We are baptizing people today and it is one of the highlights of being in ministry. The joy of getting to be part of baptisms and hearing stories of changed lives. The heater thing broke on the tank, so it was cold water today. But even in cold water, it is beautiful hearing stories and seeing people taking that step to be baptized.
I am still working on wrapping up the book, so I will be spending every moment I have writing until it is done. Reworking some chapters right now, one is on organized religion and the other about Christians and judgmentalism. Wrote about the story when I first entered ministry at a church and a pastor gave me ten dollars and told me I had to cut my hair to be effective with youth.
I just saw this Newsweek video spoof on the Apple vs. PC guys ads.
I seriously don't have anything against Macs - they are great. I live in the heart of Apple-world with Apple headquarters in Cupertino about 45 minutes from here. We have people in our church who work at Apple. But I am the only staff person who still has a PC. Everyone around me is now Mac.
But I now see it as I said on the video clip I did on The Nines last week, it is almost being punk rock if you still use Windows as you are going against the flow now. The most fascinating part of the whole Apple vs. PC thing is if you still use PC, Mac lovers can make try and make you feel like you are not hip, or not with it and even a sense superiority. Yet, with my PC I have had no difficulties different than a Mac user has. Last week I was with Josh Fox as he had to visit the Apple store and wait in line as there is something wrong with his hard drive on his Macbook. I can say that for my PC (it is a Dell) they sent someone to my house free of charge to fix something). I didn't have to go to a store to get it fixed.
So PC's and Macs.....It is all so funny. But I say, if you still use PC - have no embarrassment. We don't need to have a certain computer to fuel creativity. To "think different" is something you do from who you are, not something a computer does for you. In the "think different" ads, they don't mention that everyone they show as examples who did "think different" didn't even have Macs when they were thinking different.
Anyway - PC is punk rock - Apple is New Wave. OK. I am sure that will upset Apple users and I am just kidding. Back to writing now.
