It's a Boy!

Well it's Official the webblet has a penis.
Congratulations Webblet! Way to be!

Killer Soccer Stunts

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The Falling Worship Leader

This is a video of a friend of mine leading worship. There isn't any audio... with the exception of your out loud laughter. Poor Guy.

Star Wars: Force Unleashed Web doc 3

Star Wars: Force Unleashed Web doc 2

Star Wars: Force Unleashed Web doc 1

My Horrible Day

Today started to be a great relaxing day stuck inside because of the freezing whether. We sat around all day watching tv and playing games. Later that evening we decided to venture out to do some shopping for my pregnant wife's expanding wordrobe and to get me an ipod touch.

Half way there a dog runs across the road out of nowhere. It went right underneath the center of our Honda Accord and came out the back. It shocked me and threw my wife into tears. I pulled over to the side of the road, called 911, and checked out the damage. Kristy was ok. The dog was sitting in the middle of the road, obviously taking it's last breaths. I felt so bad. I have a golden retriever that I love and couldn't stand it if this had been my dog even though it had no collar or tags. I then checked out the front of the car. The bumper took a beating and would need to be replaced. It could have been worse except for that it had just been repaired last year from when a deer ran out in front of us and hit the same place. The car had also just recently been paid off. A few moments later a cop showed up and it seemed like it was something he had seen quite a bit as he started preparing to move the dog to get traffic going again. As I made my way back to the car I looked at the dog who was still panting but who's eyes looked vacant. He was the same color as my dog and it made me imagine Cooper's face in the place of it's own. The animal control lady then bent down to get a pulse and said "He's gone." and gave me a sympathetic smile. I went back to the car to find Kristy crying but otherwise together. We decided to go back home and when we got there Kristy said with a sad tone "well we went out to hit a dog and came back" which was too ironic to be funny but was true all the same.

For some reason the significance of what had happened didn't hit me until later that night. We hugged Cooper and felt bad that we had taken someone else's pet just to go home to love our own (which I know isn't true but we couldn't help feeling it). I also was awakened of how quick things happen. I was driving to the store with my expecting wife, I remember talking about which store we go to first and then... It could have been worse I guess. We could have braked and hit another car or swerved into a ditch. The only thing I could do was pray, thanking God for my family's safety and praying for the family that probably lost a good friend that day. I also kept wondering if I should have stayed and apologized to the family even though I wouldn't know what to say and would probably make it worse.

The car wreck would be an inconvenience at most. We had just started saving for an emergency fund that we were about to add our second contribution to. So even though it feels like wasted money, it's not for dumb emergency's like these. You try to prepare for simple things like this and then you're mad when they happen.

To end the day I went down to the basement to decompress and play my XBOX 360. I pushed the button and... (ahhhh) Three Red Rings of Death. This is microsoft's way of telling me it was my turn to have a dead Xbox. I called them and I can send it in for free under their extended warranty.

What a day. Such a day, in fact, that I had to write it down.

My Mass Effect Review

Well I just finished Mass Effect, Bioware's new Action/RPG for the Xbox 360. I was very excited about this game because it carried the promise of realistic conversations. Where this feature was a little over-promised, it still was the only game that has gotten me to play an RPG. I've never been into the Final Fantasy or even Oblivion type games because of how much attention to detail and management it took. This game however, had me caring about my character and his relationships with my team.

THE GOOD

The graphics, acting, and script are very good and I equate this game with a good sci-fi movie experience. The battle system is a great balance between 3rd person shoot (like gears of war) and RPG.

THE BAD

That's the good stuff, here is the bad. Though the game is amazing looking, you constantly are seeing textures building in which tends to take you out of the moment sometimes. This is weird considering I rarely see this problem in modern games. There is also a vehicle that you are in for quite a few battles throughout that is almost undrivable. It feels like you are floating with no gravity (which is not intentional) and causes you to die quite a few times. The worse thing is the save system that causes you to have to save in the menu almost everytime you accomplish anything in a level.

All that being said, I really enjoyed this game and it is setup in such a way that I know the next I play it the experience will be different. Everyone should at least try this game.

Apple impresses me again with MacBook Air

Introducing the world's thinnest notebook announced at MacWorld today.

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Netflix developing movie set-top-box with LG

This one's just coming across the wires, but apparently, Netflix is actually developing a movie set-top-box with LG Electronics. If you'll recall, there was quite a buzz surrounding such a device years back, but rumblings had remained largely dormant until a few months back. Slated to launch sometime in Q2, the networked player would purportedly allow owners to stream in movies for viewing on their television, and it's being reported that the feature would be "included in all of its various price plans... at no extra charge." Pricing deets on the LG device have yet to be disclosed, but we're told that the firm could "embed the receiver into its $799 dual-DVD player [likely the BH200]." According to Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings, the LG partnership will hopefully be "the first of many such deals" for the company, and he added that he'd love to "see a hundred Netflix-capable boxes," suggesting that there could be deals struck with internet-connected gaming consoles as well as cable / satellite providers. We'll be keeping an ear to the ground for further details.

Prepare for The Weblet

Just wanted to let everyone know that me (Josh Webb) and my wife have joined the procreation club and are expecting a baby in July. HURRAY!!!!