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New Blog

As most of you can tell, I’m working on this new blog set up. I’m getting my feet “re-wet” with WordPress again. Haven’t used it in several years (personally). I’ve really missed it.

With a new job and putting my wife through grad school funds have been a little limited in the “personal web site” department so I just hopped on blogger.

Twitter

Anyways, I’ve been using twitter for months now. It’s funny how that works. I’ll come across a cool little tech/web gadget/widget of some sort and try and use it and nobody’s really on board, and then some crazy bald worship leader from Buckhead suggests it and the it blows up. Props to Los.

But now that my twitter friends have literally exploded all around me it’s been a great tool to network. I’m connected with a lot of great designers and artists over in the Church Marketing Sucks Lab (flickr.com) and we shoot links to current projects for critique and help. It works. It really works.

Some of my twitter friends: @fmckinnon, @chadmaag, @courtenay, @chris_baker, @bgsand. Head on over to twitter and join the fun if you haven’t already. I’m at twitter.com/russhutto

The Worship Community

I’m also a big fan of The Worship Community Forums. If you’re a worship leader, sound technician, lighting technician, audio/video technician, musician, pastor, worshiper, etc., this is a great place to network and build online community.

I’ve been thrilled to see the discussions/questions/tips/advice going on over there. In fact, I had a question about setting up a “live feed” for an over flow room with the potential of having live musicians play along with the feed – and I got a ton of helpful info in a few short hours.

What do YOU do for community/networking?

Hey.

New blog home. The ordinary-radical blog over at Blogger just wasn’t cutting it for me.

Please add me to your blog roll! (russhutto.com)

I’ll be renovating this place in the next few days. Adding some curtains and shag carpet, you know, the works.

Thanks for stopping by.

I need some god input from YOU, my few loyal readers.

I’ve not been thrilled with blogger. I used to run several blogs on the WordPress platform. I’m really considering letting this one go and hopping back over to WP.

I’d probably grab a domain name, some hosting, and do everything myself, as opposed to doing the xxxxxxx.wordpress.com, but either way I’m really missing the whole WP dashboard.

Your thoughts?

I’ve been cracking up as these two vids have made their way around my blog circle. Most of you have probably already seen them, but if not, check em out.

Mandy’s “You All Ain’t Right” Lesson

Tam’s Response

Here’s a few tips and tricks for nailing the southern accent.

1) Never say SODA or POP. You may be able to get away with SOFT DRINK, but down here in the south we call ‘em COKES. Why? Who knows.

2) In the south, “You Guys” might be offensive to some girls, who think you just called em a dude. When I first moved back to GA, after living in FL for a few years, I said something to the effect of “Hey, guys” to a group of guys AND girls, and the girls got madder than a hornet.

3) You all = ya’ll.

4) Shorten up sentences and phrases when possible by dropping hard consonant sounds at the end of words, or by dropping “th” sounds at the beginning of words like “them”…example: Ya’ll goin’ to be meetin’ ‘em at the store later?

Happy redneckin’ Ya’ll.

Am I the only person who can look at someone and peg them for having a fake tan? I know it’s getting “near” spring and summer time, but geez!

I’ve been seeing a lot of young ladies (I live in a college town) walking around (since January) with faces that look like they’re about to crack and fall off.

Do they not look in the mirror?

Do they not realize that in just ten short years they’re gonna be the spitting image of beef jerky?

Ok, Ok, to each their own, but seriously.

Really?

Do they not know they look like an old school oompa loompa?

Do they not realize that laying in an oven for what adds up to hours on end is not really good for your internal organs, let alone skin?

Really?

Do they actually think it looks nice to be the color of a navel orange?

I remember back in my day, sheesh I’m not that old, but it is a different day and age then when I was in college. Girls used to actually lay out. and get sunkissed. None of this laying out in the sun until you look like the mascot for the Syracuse Orangemen. None of this spray on or tanning bed “bronze” that makes you look like a nerf basketball, you remember the ones, the ones with the little hoop you could put on the top of your door…but I digress.

Thankfully I live with a woman who has creamy, ivory skin. It’s the way God made it. Does she like to get a little color? Sure, but she likes to generally stay in the same ball park of shades. I’ve seen some girls lately that literally look like they slipped and fell into a vat of orange sorbet. It looks good chilled in a cup, but as a skin tone? Not so much.

Ok, enough of my ranting, if you’re a fake tanner, more power to you. My hobby is video games. I’m sure in some shape, form, or fashion I can link video games to some detriment to my health as well, but at least I don’t look like a british guitar amp.