Friday, June 10, 2005

DTR for.....fun????

Okay, so one of my good friends from college thought it would be fun to sign me up on a "Christian" online dating service called Big Church. She filled out the information as if she were me and now I get these e-mails all the time from them and can't make them stop. Usually they are just updates on "people of interest" or potential matches.

Okay, so today I check my e-mail and there is another one of the messages there. As I went to delete it, I noticed the subject said "People interested in (me)" So, yea, I looked. What kind of guy would send this? Apparently, a 43-year-old man in Lagos, Nigeria would. He "winked" at me or put me in his "Favorites List."

The e-mail said I can "flirt back by winking back or putting them in (my) Favorites List. Or take the more direct approach: start a conversation by sending an engaging email!" (That is a direct quote from the e-mail.)

The e-mail address is "cupid@bigchurch.com"....why not instead "holyspirit@bigchurch.com" or "God@bigchurch.com"? Cupid? Where is he mentioned in the Bible? I don't know....So what is your opinion of this whole online "Christian dating service" thing? Most of the time I just think it is the typical dating thing with a big cross-shaped bow on it. Is it pigeon-holing God and making what you want fit Him? Or is that limiting God to say He can't use it?

What do you guys think? Oh, and although winking is quiet flirtatious, I don't plan on moving to Nigeria any time soon.

Monday, June 06, 2005

New meaning to the phrase "two-faced"

Well, we had a typical Oklahoma weekend. We watched about four hours of weather, as severe thunderstorms and tornadic weather swept through the state--including my hometown of Marlow! Norman got rain and some wicked lightning, but no tornados.

The most eventful part of the weekend was playing with this face converter page that Amy found. We played for hours!!! There is a link on her blog to it too, but here is is again if you want it. Click HERE to morph.

You can insert a picture and see what they would look like as another race, gender or artistic rendering. It was so funny doing some pictures. Like, David Cottle as a girl looked a lot like Lauren! And Jenny Van Dyck as a boy looked like her brother Matt. It was strange seeing Chauncey and Robert Hwang as white boys!

For best results, you need a picture where the people are facing straight ahead. Some pictures worked better than others, but it was fun. Here is an example of myself. If you have requests of people you'd like to see and don't have a picture, let me a comment and I will try to upload them soon.

Here is my orginal picture.



Here is African-American Holly.




Here is East-Asia Holly.




Here is (India) Indian Holly.



Here is MALE Holly...
Very disturbing !!!




Have fun with this....I have everyone's prayer guide pictures, so I will be busy! :)