98627984BD123_England_v_USA, originally uploaded by sbflickr.

World Cup fever is upon is. How can you tell? The sound of Vuvuzela horns coming from South Africa, that’s how. The USA slipped past England, quite literally with a tie. Here’s a quick video to commemorate the event. Robert Green just let one slip right by him into the goal which gave the USA a tie against England (England was highly favored to win the match).

Enjoy.

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Yesterday, as I was over at a friend’s house, a small bird flew into his sunroom and was trying desperately to get out. It kept flying into the glass windows, not knowing or understanding why it could not get through.

It was quite sad really. As we tried to round it up and get it to fly outside, the poor thing started to look exasperated and so tired. He was breathing heavier than I had ever seen a bird breathe before. Angel finally caught it, took it outside, and held out his hand outside so that it could fly away but it didn’t.

I think it was so scared and so tired, that it could no longer move. For a while it sat with its eyes closed and just heaving with its beak open.

We decided that it was probably thirsty, so I turned out a water hose and got my hands wet. I went up to the bird and allowed some water to drop into its mouth and the bird closed its beak and swallowed. This was what it needed. I gave it some more water dripped from my pinky and it kept drinking. His eyes re-opened already and his breathing seemed to grow less rapid and normal.

I decided to go inside and grab a small cup of water to make it easier to drink water and before I knew it, he had flown away.

I’m sure this bird was terrified of these humans that were coming after it, seemingly to attack it or hurt it. When we grabbed it, it was carried outside and we waited for it to fly away. We gave it water, which helped to restore it, and when it was ready, it flew away.

I think we can be like that with GOD sometimes. The very thing we need, is the very thing we are terribly frightened of and fight so hard against, doing our best to get away from it. The thing is, He doesn’t come to kill us or harm us, but to help us out of circumstance or situation we’re in, to give us water, and help us to fly. How much better would it be if we just let Him carry us to where we need to go instead of resisting Him?

I became the luckiest guy on the planet. Happy Anniversary babe. I love you.

Some of the photos are from my digital camera and some are from my palm pre.

IMG_9697, originally uploaded by ONE.org.

from me and Natalie. They took our ‘dirty kiss’ photo with the potential of it being shown on the big screen at the end of the show. We didn’t make it on the big screen, but our photo managed to make it on the One.org flickr account.

Here’s a slide show of other ‘dirty kisses’ from the Tampa U2 show. You’ll find us in there again.

Found this video on the the Disney Parks Blog. They created it using a technique called Tilt-shift photography.

Because of the way the photo is taken, the subjects look like toy models, but they’re not. They’re actual cars and trains and people walking and moving around. Pretty neat stuff. Enjoy.

My favorite.

So most were from a wedding, but it was fun.

SprintCam v3 NAB 2009 showreel from David Coiffier on Vimeo.

Sport images are all 1000FPS, and final shot 2500FPS!
Watch it in HD. You must.

One day, I will need to fly out to Australia, hop on a board, and try to catch something maybe a little smaller than this. Doesn’t it look amazing though? When it comes to motion pictures, I love 3D, stop motion, and slow motion. I’m amazed with this video.

Now that I have a camera phone though I’m definitely enjoying the ability to freely take photos of any and everything I see or find interesting or unique (Some of my twitter followers may have noticed in increase in twitpics)

In honor of my new camera phone I’d like to share one of my favorite pics I’ve taken thus far. I hope you like it.

Ok, here’s another one. A freebie.

The barista and I had a brief conversation and it went like this:

Barista: May I please have your name sir?

Me: uh, Sam. (the uh comes into play in processing what the barista was asking me.)

Barista: uh, Sam. Ok, thank you.

That was it. I patiently waited for my drink to be prepared and once it was ready, I picked up my cup and saw the following on it:

Special.

and for that, I would like to thank them, and wish them a Happy Anniversary.

Mom and Dad, I love you guys. Congratulations on making it another year. You guys are both a pain in the butt to me and to each other sometimes, but I love you none the less, and I know you both love each other as well. GOD bless you guys.

At first I thought it was an acorn or something. The thought, which amazes me how fast it actually ran through my mind in such a short amount of time, was that a squirrel was throwing an acorn at me. Those of you reading this who may have laughed at that last sentence, you have yet to see the squirrels that roam the campus of Florida State University.

Photo of Squirrels most likely taken at Florida State University

Anyway, despite my quick thoughts, I found out very fast that this was not the attack of a squirrel but that of a bird. Apparently they were out to get me according to my brother in law Blake. Something about airsoft guns and being mean. Their method of attack was a bit of feces on my shirt and shorts.

So far my sister was the only one in the family to have the honor of getting pooped on by a bird. I had hoped to keep away from such an honor, but it was obviously not meant to be. If there’s anything to be thankful for in such a circumstance though, I will say I’m thankful this bird managed to fire when it did and not a second later. That really might have ruined my day.

Touchdown Jesus HDR, originally uploaded by JoeZeppi.

I saw this on my recent trip to New Orleans and tried taking a photo. This HDR photo is totally ridiculously awesome though. I just wanted to share it.

I hope you enjoy.

An out of state driver was in a turn lane and instead of turning tried to get out of the lane and struck me in the process. This was a few photos of what was left of my car. I had just finished paying off this car last August. Major bummer…

I’m so thankful to GOD that I’m alive and well, with no broken limbs. I’m also glad that even though Nat saw what happened to me in her car from behind, she wasn’t in the car with me to experience it.

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Today marks my wife’s 26th birthday. Happy Birthday babe, I love you.