I would love to see you and your friends there rocking out with us, it’s gonna be good times. If you like dancing, and bopping your head along to good tunes, you’re not gonna want to miss it.

Come out this Saturday, July 24th. The doors open at 9:00 pm so come check out the awesome supporting act and we’ll be up shortly thereafter. Can’t wait to see you there. (RSVP on Facebook!)

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YouVersion has a huge opportunity to make serious waves in the WebOS space in the month of June…with your help. Right now Palm is running a contest to see who can pull in the most downloads before June 30. It’s been running for a few months already so we’re late to the game, but I think with your help we’ll be able to bump up into the top 21 apps range. The prize money we win will go back into development of our mobile platforms to stretch the reach of the Bible to more and more people.

What You Can Do
The best thing you can do to help YouVersion rise in the ranks is to SHARE! Here are some ideas for ways to share YouVersion with your friends (Palm users and everyone else, too).

• Tweet it or post it to Facebook – Just a simple tweet like, “YouVersion’s Bible app for Palm Pre & Pixi is competing for $100,000 in Palm’s Hot Apps contest at http://palmhotapps.com/details.jsp?packageid=com.youversion.palm! Download it now to help it win!” … or something. Feel free to shorten that URL.
• Blog it – If you’re the blogging type, write a quick post telling your faithful readers how much you enjoy the YouVersion Bible app for Palm and link them directly to the app at http://palmhotapps.com/details.jsp?packageid=com.youversion.palm.
• Suggest it to friends on Facebook by sharing our YouVersion Facebook page with them – http://facebook.com/youversion
• Good ol’ email! – Send the link (http://palmhotapps.com/details.jsp?packageid=com.youversion.palm) to your friends that would be interested. Let them know that all they have to do is download the app for FREE to help support the GLOBAL distribution of FREE Bibles!
• YouTube – For you brave video-friendly folks, record a YouTube video of yourself and your YouVersion Bible app on Palm. Video is powerful and can be really compelling.

When you do any of these things (or ALL of them!) send me a link to your post or blog or tweet or video, and YouVersion will share with the rest of the YouVersion community to help spread the word. To keep up with the progress of how the YouVersion app is climbing in the ranks, go to http://palmhotapps.com/index.jsp (right now we’re ranked 171 in the free section).

So, if you or someone you know is using a webOS device (palm pre, pre plus, pixi, or pixi plus), download it now AND also let your friends know. Send them to this page to get the link: http://samuelfebres.com/blog/webosbible or give them this bit.ly link: http://bit.ly/webosbibleapp

The competition ends June 30th. Let’s go! Let’s get the most downloads possible, and win $10,000 or even $100,000 for YouVersion mobile app development!

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World Cup fever is upon is. How can you tell? The sound of Vuvuzela horns coming from South Africa, that’s how. The USA slipped past England, quite literally with a tie. Here’s a quick video to commemorate the event. Robert Green just let one slip right by him into the goal which gave the USA a tie against England (England was highly favored to win the match).

Enjoy.

Yesterday, as I was over at a friend’s house, a small bird flew into his sunroom and was trying desperately to get out. It kept flying into the glass windows, not knowing or understanding why it could not get through.

It was quite sad really. As we tried to round it up and get it to fly outside, the poor thing started to look exasperated and so tired. He was breathing heavier than I had ever seen a bird breathe before. Angel finally caught it, took it outside, and held out his hand outside so that it could fly away but it didn’t.

I think it was so scared and so tired, that it could no longer move. For a while it sat with its eyes closed and just heaving with its beak open.

We decided that it was probably thirsty, so I turned out a water hose and got my hands wet. I went up to the bird and allowed some water to drop into its mouth and the bird closed its beak and swallowed. This was what it needed. I gave it some more water dripped from my pinky and it kept drinking. His eyes re-opened already and his breathing seemed to grow less rapid and normal.

I decided to go inside and grab a small cup of water to make it easier to drink water and before I knew it, he had flown away.

I’m sure this bird was terrified of these humans that were coming after it, seemingly to attack it or hurt it. When we grabbed it, it was carried outside and we waited for it to fly away. We gave it water, which helped to restore it, and when it was ready, it flew away.

I think we can be like that with GOD sometimes. The very thing we need, is the very thing we are terribly frightened of and fight so hard against, doing our best to get away from it. The thing is, He doesn’t come to kill us or harm us, but to help us out of circumstance or situation we’re in, to give us water, and help us to fly. How much better would it be if we just let Him carry us to where we need to go instead of resisting Him?

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“It’s their fault for bringing their kids into a battle.”

Despicable. I cannot think of anything else to say not only for the actions, but for the attitudes and contempt for life. I did not see a battle in this video. I saw a massacre.

The details of this one are a lot more vague but a theme seems to be developing.

In the dream I had last night I found myself in a room in a big house. This time, I was being chased by some sort of monster.  I don’t remember seeing the creature, but I knew what he looked like. He was very tall and his body was shaped like the old ‘My Pet Monster’ toys from my childhood, but he was definitely not someone you wanted to mess with. 

This time in the dream Nat wasn’t with me initially but then I found her, and after I did we both escaped from the house together.

What was interesting this time about the dream was that the monster came out of the house but not in his physical form, and I knew that. He possessed the bodies of other individuals, and it was easy for us to see who was possessed. In the dream it was older men, and in particular a Chinese man, who slowly walked forward with a blank face. I warned Nat not to touch or look at him, and we raced on. This was the end of the dream.

So a theme from dream last night  & the one before is that I’m being chased, and Natalie is involved. Weird.

Last night’s dream was definitely one of the more memorable and exciting ones I have had in a long time.

Here are the details I remember.

In the dream, something happened or something I did (I can’t remember or didn’t know) caused me to start getting chased by these guys (I think there were 3 of them) with swingable (bat-like) objects.

I was able to get away safely from them, and arrived at Peter Boulware’s house where he let me in and I met with a couple of other guys. Once I got there I discovered that the guys who were chasing me, had decided to go to my house and take Natalie hostage. They held her and a small party of people hostage in my house because they could not find me.

I was briefly able to speak with Natalie and I told her not to worry and that we would get them soon and to not tell the guys anything.

We then began plotting on how to rescue the hostages inside Peter’s house. Then I woke up.

So that was my dream.

The last movie I saw was Shutter Island(youtube trailer), because I’m sure a few of you might be thinking to ask me what I last saw. I watched it on Thursday night, 3 nights ago.

So, have you had any strange dreams lately?

MUTEMATH is definitely a live band. Their albums are great and I have loved them all, but if you haven’t seen them perform live, you’re really missing out on a great show, teamwork and musicianship.

Check out the video below of Armistice from their Japan tour.

For those interested, I recorded the song entirely in Logic Express using my laptop. I used my lovely guitar Betsy (who turned 11 years old this month) for all the electric guitar parts, through a small Epiphone Valve Jr. amp; Stella, my acoustic guitar joined the fun on the chorus parts of the song.

I would like to than Ryan Flemming, who helped me with the bass guitar. He adds so much awesomeness to this song with his funky fresh groove. Thanks Ryan!

Hope you like it. I’ve embedded two version of the song below because I can.

Enjoy.

Humbly I’ll Fall  by  Samuel Febres

Rumors and speculation, as usual for Apple events and products were at an all time high and yesterday was the big day. Well, it came and went and it looks the majority of the internets are a bit let down. It would be hard not to with all the expectations folks were forming in the their creative little minds.

The majority of the complaints are that it doesn’t bring anything new to the table and it’s nothing more than a giant iphone or an ipod touch. On a cursory glance, one could see why someone would come to that point of view without testing the product at all.

My thoughts are that it really could be a game changer. Most folks are focusing on what’s missing, and not what it is designed to do.

According to Steve Jobs, the iPad’s purpose is to “browse the web, enjoy and share photos, videos, music, play games and read books.”

If you’re looking to do something more than this with an iPad, then this device is not for you. Look elsewhere… for now.

Netbooks have become popular devices. People who have been gobbling them up get them because they’re inexpensive computers, but if you’ve spent time with one, they are horrible devices to use. The keyboard is cramped; depending on the quality, you would be hard pressed to get a Youtube HD video to actually play smoothly on it, and it’s a horrible resolution and screen size to look at. What do the majority of people want these devices for? It’s not to load Office on it and write books or essays. They want them to surf the web, read their email, and socialize, but the experience is horrible.

This is the problem that the iPad is providing a solution to. A lightweight device for surfing the web. They have removed the cramped keyboard, they have created a UI that works for a smaller screen and device, and improved upon the features that people purchase netbooks for, which is to surf the web (or at least the only thing it could sort of be considered good for) but made the experience more pleasurable AND they’ve added the ability to do music and photos and play games.

If you got excited about Chrome OS, they you should be peeing your pants for the iPad.

From the Google Chrome blog below: Replace Google Chrome with iPad and Google with Apple.

“Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web…

We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear — computers need to get better. People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files. Even more importantly, they don’t want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates. And any time our users have a better computing experience, Google benefits as well by having happier users who are more likely to spend time on the Internet.”

Google is stating what the average computer user wants. Not the tech nerd bloggers. Apple does the same thing. Simplify the experience. Their design choices are for the benefit of most, not the few. The same thing happened with the iphone when it was released and everybody was crying about how it didn’t have this or that, and should have had this or that. People still bought it, love it and use it today. I think the very same thing could happen with the iPad.

The iPad is bigger than people realize and are giving it credit for. This is no Apple TV. This is a small step for Apple in their plans for the future.

“In many ways this defines our vision, our sense of what’s next.”
– Jonathan Ive

Also, check out this guy’s thoughts. They’re better written than mine.
A Message to the Internets regarding the iPad – Michael Pusateri

UPDATE: Thanks to Clayton for sharing this video with me. It’s worth a good laugh. Hitler and I don’t see eye to eye I guess.

I know a lot of folks lament turning 30. I’m not. I think it’s great. I cannot wait to see what GOD has in store for me and what new adventures and challenges await. I welcome them as best as I know how. 30 is the new 20 for me. Life is great. I have a beautiful wife who loves me. I serve an awesome GOD, and he’s blessed me with great gifts and talents, in addition to a great friends and family, from church and otherwise.

Life is exciting. I’m excited. Thank you Father GOD for another year. I hope and pray that I will make you proud.

(It’s hard to believe that I’m gone from this

and this

to this…

Wow).

Sometime this year, we taxpayers may again receive an Economic Stimulus payment. This is an exciting program. I’ll explain it using the Q and A format:

Q. What is an Economic Stimulus payment?

A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.

Q. Where will the government get this money?

A. From taxpayers.

Q. So the government is giving me back my own money?

A. Only a smidgen.

Q. What is the purpose of this payment?

A. The plan is for you to use the money to purchase a high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy.

Q. But isn’t that stimulating the economy of China ?

A. Shut up.

Below is some helpful advice on how to best help the US economy by spending your stimulus check wisely: If you spend the stimulus money at Wal-Mart, the money will go to China … If you spend it on gasoline, your money will go to the Arabs. If you purchase a computer, it will go to India . If you purchase fruit and vegetables, it will go to Mexico , Honduras and Guatemala .. and If you buy a car, it will go to Japan or Korea .

And If you purchase useless stuff, it will go to Taiwan . and If you pay your credit cards off, or buy stock, it will go to management bonuses and they will hide it offshore.

Instead, keep the money in America by:

1- spending it at yard sales, or

2- going to ball games, or

3- spending it on hookers, or

4- beer or

5- tattoos.

(These are the only American businesses still operating in the US .)

Conclusion:

You can help America by going to a ball game and drinking beer all day with a tattooed hooker you met at a yard sale.