I know this has nothing to do with my blog, but it is definitely one of the coolest things I’ve seen a while.  Here’s a description of the film from glumbert.com:

“A short film from 1976 where a camera is mounted on the front of a Ferrari driving at up to 140mph through Paris. The film was made by Claude Lelouch, who was arrested when he showed the film to the public. This file is large, and will take some time to load.”

For the Google generation, it starts really getting good around 4 min.  Here’s the wikipedia entry for the film.  Enjoy!

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My friend Brett McKay, creator of the popular Art of Manliness blog, had a great idea to start a weekly blog carnival covering topics related to men….hence, the Manival! There are a bunch of great posts included in this week’s carnival, including one of mine entitled, “Man Skills: Make a Decision,” so be sure to check it out here.

A couple weeks ago my beautiful wife asked me where she could find a good list of blogs on parenting, home design and some other topics. I didn’t have a great answer besides, “Uhhh, I guess just look at their blogrolls.” Now I have an answer - Alltop. A couple days ago Schaefer’s Blog was included in the Lifehacks section alongside some incredibly popular blogs like The Art of Manliness, Zen Habits, Dumb Little Man and The Growing Life…very exciting and humbling! So what is Alltop? I like their description best:

You can think of an Alltop site as a “dashboard,” “table of contents,” or even a “digital magazine rack” of the Internet. To be clear, Alltop sites are starting points — they are not destinations per se. The bottom line is that we are trying to enhance your online reading by both displaying stories from the sites that you’re already visiting and helping you discover sites that you didn’t know existed. In this way, our goal is the “cessation of Internet stagnation.

Simply put, Alltop is the place to go if you want to find quality blogs and websites listed by category. Now my wife is happy, so I’m happy.

ON ANOTHER NOTE. One of my favorite parts of this blog has been meeting and connecting with my readers. Comments are obviously one way to do this, but here are some other ways you can connect with me if you so desire:

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Finally, here’s a little hero shot since I haven’t talked about my day job much lately. This was taken on my initial solo in the T-6 Texan during Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT) last year. Fun times people!

Since finishing UPT about a month ago I’ve had lots of free time on my hands. Here’s what I’ve been reading lately:

Books:
- A New Brand World: Eight Principles for Achieving Brand Leadership in the Twenty-First Century by Scott Bedbury

- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

- Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich

- Living the Resurrection: The Risen Christ in an Everyday Life by Eugene Peterson

- Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality And Spirituality by Rob Bell

- Pour Your Heart into It : How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time by Howard Schultz

Blogs:
- Ben Casnocha: The Blog - entrepreneurship, writing, books and tons of other good stuff

- Ramit Sethi: I Will Teach You to Be Rich - personal finance

- Seth Godin: Seth’s Blog - marketing

- Brian Reese: Brian Reese Blogs - investing, books, business, faith

- Lawrence Cheok: A Long Long Road - personal development

- Akshay Kapur - great blog on health care, economics and business intelligence

- Andrew Pratt: Andrew’s Thoughts - books, business, grad school

- Justin Steinhart: Steiny’s Corner - faith, books, life