Check out this new video produced by McDonalds (Canada) that shows the process of making their Chicken McNuggets and dispelling some of the disgusting myths surrounding their product. Rumors, I might add, that never kept me from eating them in the first place.
Now, if we could only get Ball Park® to release a video about my other beloved foot-item.
The #CreationDebate ended a little bit ago, as did the post-event interview with Piers Morgan on CNN.
I’m still sitting here trying to sort through all that I (we?) just witnessed and experienced. (I’m also wondering how bad a level-2 snow emergency is and what it means for those traveling home after the debate there in Kentucky)
My quick-and-somewhat-random thoughts:
1. That wasn’t fun.
I didn’t enjoy watching the debate tonight. Not sure why I imagined I would, initially, but I didn’t sit here with a smile on my face or warm feelings in my gut. I expected to ‘enjoy’ watching and taking notes. I didn’t. It may have been the ‘overload’ or the (as I expected) continual skirting of issues instead of staying on topic.
2. That wasn’t much of a ‘debate’.
The format wasn’t to my liking. The initial 5-minute introductory statements were followed by 30-minute presentations by each presenter were followed by 5-minute ‘rebuttals’ and then another 5-minute rebuttal for the initial rebuttal to be rebutted. (lost yet?) What followed then was a sequence of Q&A featuring written-questions from the audience presented to each presenter followed by a 5-minute answer from presenter #1 and a 1-minute answer by presenter #2. This went back-and-forth to be fair, but seemed difficult to follow and there were a few times that even the presenter had to ask for the question to be re-read because the initial answer-er went off-topic. I wished for more back-and-forth opportunities between the two presenters, and I feel they would’ve both excelled in an opportunity to dialogue with a moderator stepping in to give guidance to who has the floor to keep the time-constraints in line. It was much more presentation and much-less ‘debate’ in my opinion.
3. I’m still a young earth creationist and some of my peers are Bible-believing, God-fearing evolutionists.
I’m doubtful that ANY minds were changed tonight (on either side). This was a common-expectation going in to tonight’s event. There will be factions on either side touting ‘victory’, but I think deep down both sides know this is an ‘agree to disagree’ argument.
That’s just the quick-off-the-brain thoughts post-event.
I did take notes of the entire event and I look forward to reading follow up articles and posts about other people’s take on the event tonight.
My notes are available by clicking here.
Facebook celebrates 10-years today. As such they’ve offered a “look back” at each users’ history using their social network.
I found a way to download my personalized “look back” using Google’s Chrome browser and quickly uploaded it to YouTube to archive it and make it share-able here on my blog.
Here’s my 7-year “Look Back” from Facebook:
You can find your own “Look Back” video by visiting facebook.com/lookback
UPDATE:
I just found a great step-by-step set of instructions for you to follow to download YOUR Look Back videos. Check them out here.
What a treat it was to wake up to a 5AM phone call alerting us to the fact that there would be no school today due to the snowstorm!
We went back to bed for a couple hours not expecting the snow to be ‘as bad as they said it could be’, but we were all pleasantly surprised that we did have about four inches of wonderful, pack-able, playable snow!
After a spontaneous pancake-and-egg breakfast we bundled up and headed out!
A snowman and snow fort were our biggest priorities and I’m please to announce we accomplished both!
Check out our highlight video from today’s epic adventure:
