Thanks to the Indian Embassy, I missed my flight the other day because I had to retrieve my passport in person from the embassy, nevermind that I sent it in weeks in advance and even paid extra for mailing fees. I haven't done that much and I'm already getting tired of international travel, especially embassies. So wish me luck as I attempt to reschedule my flight today. Things are progressing on Village, and I'm doing a lot of thinking about what next. Business school? Acting school? I definitely want to get back into the university environment. Making things happen with Village and meeting the right people would be a lot easier if I was at Stanford right now. =)

One of my YWAM buddies from YWAM Virginia, Kay just found out she has some cysts on her thyroid and a couple of them are probably cancerous. Pray for her complete recovery. She's been in Brazil helping start up a School of Jewish Studies there and is planned to go to Kiev, Ukraine to help with their SJS as well.

Village Map ... Village Board Game ... Village Demo. I haven't written in a month.... wow! I've been posting mostly on the blog at http://www.villagethegame.com. August has been pretty tame. Lots of emails, lots of phone calls, and just Hezbollah to keep me entertained. Last night I played the most annoying game of chess ever with my friend Josh. Three times I "knew" I had em and of course, it ends stalemate. Punk. I was planning on a trip to California for a quick visit but I don't think that's going to happen. I'm burning through my money too fast and I'll probably be headed back there before winter anyways. Now it's looking like a week in South Carolina at the Zadok House of Prayer. Hopefully I can get recentered before I head off to Kenya on August 29th. Did I mention I was going to Africa? Yep Africa. Everyone's doing it. Why not. After Kenya for a month, Hyderabad, India for a month. Between those two continents I hope to g...

Here's the latest update of the cover art for Village. Btw, update your bookmarks: Village lives at http://www.villagethegame.com now not simvillage.blogspot.com. We've been having a great time of prayer at the 1570. We've done the "listening experiment" a few times now and it's gone really well. It's Tim's and my way of introducing people to the experience that you can ask God questions and He'll actually respond with words or pictures. A few of us prayed the other night about Village and what I'm supposed to do next. Ashley got the word "play". And Tim got some impression that I needed to figure out why I had such contempt for the way God does things. That same night I had a dream I was goofing off with Patrick, my younger brother. He started berating me because I was being a clutz and so I smacked him upside the head. In typical little brother fashion, he asked "What do you want from me?". "Patience" ...

Google TechTalks March 29, 2006 Vinod Khosla Vinod Khosla is a venture capitalist considered one of the most successful and influential personalities in Silicon Valley. He was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and became a general partner of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in 1986. In 2004 he formed Khosla Ventures. ABSTRACT On Wednesday, March 29th, by invitation from our co-founders and CEO, our special guest, Vinod Khosla, visited Google to deliver a tech talk about the emergence of ethanol as a viable, market ready, and competitive source of renewable energy. His presentation has been making huge waves in the investor, policy, and business communities and we are privileged to have had him take time to talk to us about the tremendous potential for ethanol's explosion into the market. Here are some recent articles that might be of interest in relation to this talk: Vinod Khosla, a Silicon Valley billionaire, who wants to save the world f...

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SYNERGY (10 pictures) Added by Tim M. on Jun 22, 2006