Billy Adams

+ daily verse | Joshua 1:8,9

billy — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:19:19 +0000

“⁸The Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth. You shall meditate on it day and night so that you will be careful to do according to all that is written in it. Then you shall make your way prosperous. Then you will have success. ⁹Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened and do not be dismayed. For the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”

+ Strategy or Free for All?

billy — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:15:42 +0000

I was sitting at lunch the other day, watching the Women’s World Cup soccer match between USA and France when I heard a guy at the table next to me begin commenting on the sport as a whole. He and his friend made several comments about the pace, how boring it was and other things that made me realize they were not soccer fans. This is not surprising in this country. But one thing he said stood out to me. “I know that there are rules and lots of strategy behind the game, but to me it just seems like a free-for-all.”

They went on and ate their lunch and we even struck up a bit of a conversation about soccer, rules and how confusing a sport can be if you don’t understand those rules. They left and I finished watching the game. (We won 3-1, Go USA!)

But the comment he made still stuck with me. And it got me thinking, how does my life look to other people. Is it obvious to those who don’t know me very well that there is strategy behind it? Does it seem a free-for all?

+ Daily Verse – Jeremiah 10:12,13

billy — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:09:52 +0000

“¹² It is He who made the earth by His power, who established the world by His wisdom, and by His understanding stretched out the heavens. ¹³ When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and He makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and He brings forth the wind from His storehouses.”

— Jeremiah 10:12,13

+ Friday Morning

billy — Fri, 06 May 2011 17:47:59 +0000

This gorgeous Friday morning got started out well when I pulled out Pandora and typed in Phil Collins. Hey, when you’re in the mood, you’re in the mood. Here’s a quick recap of a few choice selections by the wonderful music service.

Another Day in Paradise – Phil Collins
No Son of Mine – Genesis
Higher Love – Steve Winwood
In Your Eyes – Peter Gabriel
Groovy Kind of Love – Phil Collins
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – U2
Heaven – Bryan Adams
Oh Sherrie – Steve Perry
(I Just) Died In Your Arms – Cutting Crew
Take Me Home – Phil Collins
Every Little Thing She Does is Magic – The Police
Throwing it all Away – Genesis

Needless to say, this was a pretty great morning at work.

Euthanasia of Instapaper Free »

billy — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:42:36 +0000

Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper and great writer, has a great post on why Instapaper Free has been on extended hiatus in the iOS app store and could possibly be killed off completely. As a paid Instapaper user, I’m in complete agreement with everything he says. I do however that in contrast to his assertions, I was an Instapaper Free user that migrated to paid. Read and enjoy!

+ daily verse | Psalm 59:16

billy — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:57:47 +0000

“But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.”

– Psalm 59:16 (ESV)

+ daily verse | Romans 15:4

billy — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 03:20:25 +0000

“For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.”

– Romans 15:4 (ESV)

+ iTunes Rental Fail

billy — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:15:51 +0000

This past weekend I went on a trip to Orlando. On the way down there, I had a 2 hour or so layover and thought that I might look at iTunes on my iPad and see if I wanted to rent a movie for the second leg of my journey. I proceeded to select the HD version of Tron: Legacy. I understood that this would be bigger than an SD version. But I thought, I’ve got the room, why not. However, iTunes didn’t tell me anywhere exactly how big this file was until it started to download. 4 gigs! I know that HD files are bigger, and I’m no stranger to large file sizes, however given that I was downloading this on my iPad on airport WiFi, I wish I had known before hand how big the file was.

This frustration was exacerbated by the fact that I was then told that I couldn’t download this file anywhere but on my iPad nor could I watch it on any other device. Had I known that, I would have rented on my laptop and then moved it to my iPad. So it’s Wednesday morning, and I’m still downloading the file to my iPad. Thankfully, I have 30 days to watch, but this is a little ridiculous.

+ Flight to a flight

billy — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:38:09 +0000

I awoke in a panic to the sound of A.R. Rahman’s “O…saya” coming from my phone. It was my dad and he was on his way to pick me up for my 7:30am flight. It was 5:30am and I had yet to finish packing.

As I rushed toward the shower, the events of the early morning hours started to come back to me. After arriving home from an evening out with my mother I had intended to do one final load of laundry (essentials only) before packing and getting into bed…hopefully before 1:30am. This goal was frustrated by the total un-cooperation by the clothes dryer to actually get my clothes to some semblance of dry.

At 3am I gave up. Realizing that I should get at least some sleep, I set the dryer to it’s longest time setting and set every alarm I had for 5am. Confident that I could indeed arise at the appointed hour, I lay down for a short respite.

After the mad dash to make myself somewhat presentable (and thankful I had thought to lay out my clothes before bed) I received another call alerting me to the fact that my ride was in the driveway. With apologies for my unreadiness, I headed to the dryer, praying my clothes were indeed dry. A rush of relief as I pulled them out to discover they were perfect.

After a brief rest, though no sleep, in the car, we arrive at the airport a full 45 min before my flight. I was home free…until I spied the check-in line. It seemed as though the entire world was flying Southwest out of OKC.

But my fears were allayed as the line moved along at a brisk pace and before I knew it, I was in line at security and soon after at my gate with enough time to pick up a quick breakfast, board and relax as I began my journey.

+ Simplify

billy — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:23:05 +0000

I’ve decided to try and simplify the design of this blog as much as possible. I’ve now changed to the Blogum theme from WPShower.com. I’ll be making little tweaks here and there to try and get this down to what I like. Stay tuned.