I really can’t believe this is coming from Microsoft. It’s just too cool. It doesn’t seem right.

It is vague enough to be coming out in winter 2007, but feast your eyes on these 3 short videos. You will not regret it. I promise. I am so excited for winter now. I just need an excuse to purchase one or have convince someone I know to purchase one that I may play with and enjoy.

Surface, by Microsoft.

You can flip through this gallery at Engadget, too.

my friend Louie posted this on his blog for a friend of his, but I agree entirely.

At the Elev8 trip to Pirates 3 in San Diego, we killed some time in the Mac Store:

This post by Dan Kimball is great. He gives someone else props for making the cartoons. I feel like the 2nd is true, but that’s just like me, now isn’t it. My dad’s pastor feels the 2nd is true, I’m sure. At some point there was a copy of The Emerging Church resting at the bottom of a waste basket.

David Crowder * Band has a music video. There has been all this to do about squirrels on Dave’s xanga site, and I guess this is why. It’s pretty creative. At least Saturday Morning worthy, if not standard rotation in an after school slot. Enjoy.

may 22nd 1983. twenty-four years to the day. officially (in my mind) moving from early-twenties to mid-twenties. i like the feeling of being older, but i’m starting to feel like there are things i will never do. i guess that is just the way it is. i think everyone will feel like this as long as they are on earth. whether you’re 24 or 42, you feel like you could have done more by now. if i let it affect me, it is daunting, and wearisome. if i let it propel me, it scares me a little. like burn out is inevitable, and 24 usable hours in every day is just an invitation for quantity over quality, severed relationships, and lots and lots of prozac. i hope to God my life doesn’t end up like that. here’s to 24 more.

24 by Switchfoot

Twenty four oceans
Twenty four skies
Twenty four failures
Twenty four tries
Twenty four finds me
In twenty-fourth place
Twenty four drop outs
At the end of the day
Life is not what I thought it was
Twenty four hours ago

Still I’m singing Spirit take me up in arms with You
And I’m not who I thought I was twenty four hours ago
Still I’m singing Spirit take me up in arms with You

Twenty four reasons to admit that I’m wrong
With all my excuses still twenty four strong

See I’m not copping out, not copping out, not copping out
When You’re raising the dead in me
Oh, oh I am the second man
Oh, oh I am the second man now
Oh, oh I am the second man now

And You’re raising these twenty four voices
With twenty four hearts
With all of my symphonies
In twenty four parts
But I want to be one today
Centered and true

I’m singing Spirit take me up in arms with You
You’re raising the dead in me
Oh, oh I am the second man
Oh, oh I am the second man now
Oh, oh I am the second man now
And You’re raising the dead in me

I want to see miracles, see the world change
Wrestled the angel, for more than a name
For more than a feeling
For more than a cause
I’m singing Spirit take me up in arms with You
And You’re raising the dead in me
Twenty four voices
With twenty four hearts
With all of my symphonies
In twenty four parts.
I’m not copping out. Not copping out. Not copping out.

We spent the night across the street from Disneyland, so naturally, I figured we would go to either California Adventure or the original, but we didn’t.  We did, however, go to Knott’s Berry Farm.  Very cool.  I’ve never been there before, and it’s always fun to ride rollercoasters that you’ve never been on before.  Also, there were approximately 42 people in the whole park, so we walked on to almost every ride.  Tragedy struck halfway through the day when Rhonda’s lipstick and lipgloss vanished from her pocket.  Guys, bear with me on this one.  It was MAC lipstick and Bare Essentials lip gloss.  This means that although, replaceable, it was tragic.  Photo ops without needed essentials.  If I would have lost something so essential, like my stylus, it too would have been a tragedy, so we wept, but our hearts go on.  We are headed to SF today, which has a MAC store, so fear not, said lipstick will be replaced, and all will be as it was.
So on to the evening.  All day long, I knew we had 2 things to do, and Knott’s was only the first.  I guessed that we were going to a show, and she caved, but wouldn’t tell me who was playing.  So I pondered all day, and tried to trick her into telling me, but all that I could get out of her was that there was no opener, just one band, and I could get a t-shirt if I wanted too.  So we go to the wrong place first, and when we find the right address, it’s a high school.  Which is weird.  But I’m like, okay, maybe it’s a church that meets at a high school, and they are doing a show.  Rhonda is having a great time hiding the truth from me.  Her stomach starts hurting from all the laughing at me.  Especially as we approach the building and there are all these old people, heck of dressed up, and I have no idea.  And so we get to where they take our tickets, and they are selling tickets, but the signs don’t say for what.  Then we go into the theatre, and it’s a play.  Not a show.  But the cool thing is that it was You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown.  We both love the songs, and it was really fun to see it.  It was a really good production.  We had to hold back from singing.  Rhonda is convinced that she is Lucy.  Rhonda was just like I usually am at rock shows, and she really wanted to take a picture with the characters after, but they didn’t come out to take pictures.  She was sad, but it wasn’t a tragedy like the incident earlier in the day.  2 days left.  I wonder what’s next.  Maybe at the next thing I actually will get a t-shirt.

So our serving wench was not Janeane Garofalo. But everything else is was awesome. We had the Red and Yellow Knight. He lost in the first round of hand-to-hand combat, but somehow, he came back (the story was really hard to follow) and won the whole thing. Winner. Winner. Chicken Dinner. Speaking of which, “There were no utensils in medieval times, hence there are no utensils in Medieval Times. Would you like a refill on your Pepsi?” The meal was the biggest feast I’ve ever eaten with my hands. Soup, bread, half a chicken, half a potato, ribs, and a pastry for dessert.

We had so much fun. It really is ridiculous. They tell you to get there an hour and a half early, and we realized after we got there that the only reason to get there early, as there isn’t a bad seat in the house, is to get you to spend more money. We were suckered into some playing cards, but hey, we’re suckers for a good deck of playing cards. They were only five bucks. For 35 though, I could have gotten a two-handed wooden sword, or for 180, a real metal hobbit sword. Not as much drunkenness as expected, and way more little kids than I expected. The horses were really cool, and so was this falconer guy that made this falcon fly in circles. The acting was on par for LA (actors that can’t break into Hollywood), but seriously, whoever wrote the story needs to meet Gore Verbinski because I couldn’t follow it most of the time, and they would probably hit it off. I’m awake at 7:30 even though our alarm isn’t going off for a half hour because I am all in suspense about what we are doing today. I don’t know how you top last night.

Rhonda is taking me on a trip, celebrating our anniversary. Four years and counting. Day one took us to Monterey. The Monterey Bay Aquarium was really fun. Freakishly weird at times, but fun none the less. The fish above on the right, a sunfish, is enormous, and freakishly weird. Just in case there are any sunfish fans out there, sorry about calling names, but it really is weird. The picture on the lower left shows how huge it is compared to Rhonda. Then I was holding all the things in the touch pools, like this star fish. We also miniature golfed, ate at the turtle bay taqueria, and drank coffee at this coffee shop with either blaringly loud new age music, or korean pop. We’re still not sure. We’re headed south today, but I’m not sure how far. Rhonda has all these surprises. It’s actually quite exciting.

So earlier this year I was RIFed.  (Reduction-In-Force) (Pink Slip) (etc.)  As more students have been adding and more teachers leaving, I had gotten back up to 4 classes out of 5 for next year.  I really want to be full time, so I have decided to take on physics.  I must say that I am very excited.  Some of you may not get excited by reviewing books upon books of formulas, but I do.  I get to take a sweet test.  It’s going to be awesome.