i'm not here

In case you some how stumble on this blog or are actually expecting me to update it I have some news for you... I'm not here. Probably won't be - unless I have some big and crazy deal that I need to let everyone know about in more than 140 character bursts.

You can find us on facebook:

• http://www.facebook.com/linkinmiller (okay it's really me)
• http://www.facebook.com/ericaannmiller

or on twitter: @benjmiller or @eyespeak

We'll also be updating the eyespeak blog much more frequently at: http://eyespeak.com/blog/

the hilarity of my day

My day started awesome, time with Erica, Linkin, check in with some teammates at the office, decorated a wall in the conference room and then it got interesting...

So here's the story. I've been wanting a dune buggy since I was about 2 years old. The deal was I wouldn't have 2 cars so it would have to be something that I could really use as a daily driver (hense the do it or don't do it question. Found one I really like and a friend and I had planned to go yesterday to look at it. It has been raining here for like a week (20" in last 3 days). We went down today on our lunch break. So we get to the guys house (down by six flags), ring the door bell and he says he'll open the garage to come in that way. So, I peaked around the corner at the garage and the door was open. So I duck my head (remember downpour like niagra), and the "non-electric-garage-door" decides it's time to just go back down. I hit the metal garage door, right on the hollow metal handle. I won the fight against the door (huge dent), but lost the battle with the handle (9 staples and 1 stitch). It totally closelined me by the head and knocked me on my butt.

So we tried to drive back to northside hospital... we had to drive about 30mph because we can only see 10' in front of us (rain). And finally traffic stops on 285 so we jump off and take backroads (now called minor rivers).

I normally am prone to car-sickness so the traffic, rain, fact that I had not eaten lunch and it's now 2:30 with blood streaming down my face is not helping my nausea. We finally get to the hospital and they treat mepretty well.

Big props to the truest of friends Mr. Statham!

So I get home, back to my computer (did I mention we're launching a huge site today)?????

10 minutes later Erica walks down stairs and I hear, "ow no."

Have I mentioned it's raining? Yea, not too bad, I know a lot of peeps in ATL are a lot worse off than we are, but still carried out about 30 gallons of water.

I might pass out now. Night all and thanks for your friendship, prayers, thoughts and humor.

Please excuse any typos or bad grammar, this was typed via my head wound.

storytime

I'm pretty excited about my latest idea/product/venture/partnership. It all started like this...

Having a baby makes me think about a lot of things that have never crossed my mind. I think the biggest is the overwhelming sense of responsibility for this little person's life. The single-most important role that I have as a father is to groom and shape him with what we have learned to call a "Biblical Worldview" (for more pickup this book).

In the book "Family Driven Faith", Voddie Baucham addresses that there are 5 key aspects that shape our worldview, including our perspective on; God, Man, Truth, Knowledge, and Wisdom. I am going to add a sixth, Love.

So, I was left dreaming of all the resources as my disposal to help me train up a man who had a solid Biblical Worldview on each of those topics. About three weeks ago this pondering ran straight into another hamster wheel in my head. I was dreaming of an iPhone application to develop for myself. I was creating some apps for clients... but I wanted to do something for myself.

On a Saturday morning, it hit me. Pick a story from the bible that somehow illustrates one of the five key aspects of the worldview. We make it a story on the iPhone. Instead of flipping pages, you could now FLICK through pages. Then, when your done reading actually go back and pick one of the pages and color them in (all on the iPhone/iPod Touch).

I was sold! And pumped! The next thought was that Heidi (my sister), is the PERFECT person to do the illustrations. I called her up and she was on board. That same week I had been talking with Kennedy Kok (K5 Software) about doing some apps together... he was on board.

We had our idea and the perfect team! We all got right to work. This week we launched a website that will showcase the stories. It is mostly just a framework with demos and screenshots forthcoming... but take a look and let us know any comments or ideas!

http://www.istorytime.net/