Alycia and I are on our way home from Las Vegas today. Every time I leave Las Vegas I am now reminded of a trip I took at the end of 2010, just a few days before I started The Christian Nerd. On that trip I learned the power of social media and what it’sRead more
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Childhood cancer is one of the surest signs that the world is not as it should be. Almost everyone’s life has been impacted by cancer in some way. Unfortunately a lot of children have been personally impacted by cancer as the disease has ravaged their bodies. When faced with something as awful as childhood cancerRead more
Yesterday my Instagram feed turned into a eulogy for Vine. After its most recent update, Instagram now allows its users to post 15-second videos along with filtered photos of food. Instagram’s newest feature has led many to believe that Twitter’s Vine, which allows users to post 6-second videos, will go the way of MySpace, HD-DVDRead more
Snapchat is one of the newest social media available to smart phone users. I haven’t jumped on the Snapchat wagon yet and don’t plan on it. My students, however, are very fond of it. Snapchat allows its users to quickly send pictures back and forth to each other; it’s basically a faster form of pictureRead more
I never really watched the television series Lost in Space. I think that SyFy played reruns when I was growing up but I was far more interested in the crew of the Enterprise than the crew of the Jupiter 2. Even though I never watched the show, I do know about the family’s robot protectorRead more
Over the past year I have really fallen in love with Doctor Who. I love the Doctor, I love the companions and I love all of their timey-wimey adventures. If I had a TARDIS I’d fly all through the time vortex, visiting some of the most significant moments in history. While none of us haveRead more