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Any of you who have seen the Geico "Caveman" ads, will really enjoy this new website they have put up. It's the Caveman's Crib (Click here to go there).
Once you enter the apartment, you can click on things and tour his house. Click on his books in the book case and see what he reads. If you go in the bathroom don't forget to click on the toilet handle.
This is an interesting site- not difficult at all to figure out. In fact, it's so easy a caveman could do it!
lala.com is an interesting new web site I have found. If you like music and like to buy CDs you will know it can get very expensive! Wouldn't it be nice if there was a site where you could just trade CDs with other people?
There is! it's called lala (.com). Click on the link above or the picture and you'll be taken to their home page. Click around on that page and you'll find all the info you will need to understand what they're all about and how you can become a member.
I'm a newbie there, but already I've gotten 3 new CDs (each for a grand total of $1.75 including postage) and sent 4 of my unwanted CDs (absolutely free to send CDs). I've gotten Great River Road by Jason Upton; Risk, by Ten Shekel Shirt; and Carnaval, by Wynton Marsalis. A Canadian Brass Christmas is in the mail too.
Here's the scoop. When you join, you start entering CDs you WANT and CDs you HAVE to sell. Probably by the time you finished entering what you want, you will get a notice that one of them is being sent to you!
lala will then send you a mailing kit (wait until you get your kit before you send anything!). When someone wants what you have to offer, you will get a notice. You respond to that notice with a click. When your mailing kit arrives, you take your CD out of it's case with the booklet and any other art (back of the CD). Put the CD in the plastic mailer, slide the cover art in with it, seal the postage-paid envelope that was provided.
The mailing envelope has a number on it. You go to the site, click on the send notice and enter the envelope number. You will then get the address to mail it to. Drop it in the mailbox! Now you're all done, except to tell lala when you receive your wanted CD (if it came in good condition, etc).
Each CD you get costs $1.00 that goes to lala. The shipping cost is $.75. All charges are put on your credit card at the end of the month. It's that simple!
On your home page (once you sign it) is a kind of "traffic light." If it's green, you've sent more CDs than you've gotten. If it's yellow you're in the middle. If it's red, you can't receive any more CDs until you send more. The idea is to receive AND send!
Try lala out. If you like it, let me know. If you must know, my name there is Duck Tape. Check out my picture!
Interested in making snowflakes? Or how about helping The Salvation Army? Well you can do both by visiting the following web site:
http://www.popularfront.com/snowdays/ You can look for MY snowflake by searching for Doug in Maine.
Nice.
Merry Christmas!
MySpace has received some bad publicity recently. Simply put, there are predators who use MySpace to feed their habit and there are some kids who have suffered because of this.
It appears The Salvation Army (in the USA) has jumped on this negative publicity bandwagon and has banned the use of MySpace from any officially TSA owned computer.
At first, I agreed and spent some time getting to know a little about MySpace and encouraging kids to stay away from it. But as I learned, I saw both good and bad can be a part of this growing network.
Two things to notice in my last paragraph: 1) "Spent some time getting to know; as I learned" and 2) "growing network."
No one can take the advice of today's media at first glance. Way more than half of what I hear from the media (Radio, TV, Internet, Newspapers) has very little to do with fact or truth. More and more, reporters are giving us their opinions- not the news. And very few of these people hold Christian beliefs anyway. I take their "advice" with a grain of salt and begin my own research, if I am even interested in a particular subject.
Technology is growing so fast I don't know how anyone can keep up with it. I keep trying (so I can be relevant), but there are areas I'm losing the battle with! Before long, I'm going to be a dinosaur. And dinosaurs have very little to teach generations that follow them. I DON'T WANT TO BE IRRELEVANT! SO, I need to keep as updated with what's going on in the world as I can.
MySpace is growing. Whether I like it or not, it is becoming a valid place for the next generation to express themselves. Am I going to avoid it or learn about it and use it?
There are people who use cell phones to sell drugs and detonate bombs. That's terrible, but am I going to decry cell phones because of those evil few? No.
There are people who use cars to get away from crimes or run people over. That's terrible, but am I going to decry cars because of those evil few? No.
What about computers? What about some of the awful programming on TV? What about unhealthy food? There will always be people who are determined to use anything for evil. Does that make that thing inherently evil? No. Should I avoid a good thing because there are a few who use it for evil? No.
MySpace is a next generation field "white unto harvest." Are we going to let it go it's own way and miss this great salvation opportunity? We should be on this front line plowing, reaping and helping to make it reach it's potential for good.
Don't take my word for it- get out there and learn for yourself. You might actually form an opinion! {gasp} If what I say holds truth, it will stand up to your scrutiny. If not, it should be discarded anyway.
Bad things happen when good people do nothing.
BLESSING:
May you see more positive than negative in new things. May you work to tip the scales in God's direction rather than walk away from an entire generation because they do things differently than you know. And may your influence be great in reaching that entire generation for our Lord and Savior Jesus, who loves every single person- even the sinner.
PS: Wanna see a GOOD MySpace place? Click HERE.
I just got an email note from a friend who reads my blog regularly. He said he has never signed up for a blogger account so he can comment, because he feels he would then spend too much time in "blog world." Reading takes enough time as it is!
This friend is not the first I have heard from with similar news- I often get email notes from people commenting on my blog. For various reasons, many people like to read certain blogs, but they prefer not to respond. I understand- many times I have commented with good intentions and ended up word sparring with someone I don't even know. When that happens I usually end up feeling bad because I am misunderstood or we just don't see eye to eye. Or sometimes I just don't have the time to comment like I'd like to, then I forget to get back to it later.
I recently heard of someone who reads my blog even though it irritates them! Apparently they don't agree with my basic views, but I hear they keep coming back anyway. I hope they are open enough to let God speak to them through my words. Maybe some day they'll come around. Scripture says speaking the truth in love may one day bring about a new friend.
There are times I feel like I should just close this thing down and save the time it takes to think and prepare a blog daily (I shoot for daily, if I'm not always successful). And it can get irritating if I feel no one is reading it in the first place. But I keep plugging away because I feel God has something for me to accomplish here.
Then I discovered ClustrMaps (the map to the right)! Now every time someone drops by my blog, it plots where they are from on the map. There is a key to tell you what the dot sizes represent- basically the bigger the dot, the more hits from that area. By clicking on the map itself, you get a bigger map that shows things a bit more clearly.
Right now, ClustrMaps tells me that I've gotten 239 hits since I started using the map and 29 hits from yesterday alone. Not bad! I've gotten hits from Africa, Australia, Spain and England (I'd expect Canada and USA- I wonder how I can get some from all those other countries? Know any friends you could encourage to drop by?). It's very encouraging to know there are really people out there reading what I have to say even if they aren't telling me specifically.
Now I'm NOT trying to guilt people into commenting! I figure your reasons for commenting (or not) are good enough for you and I'm okay with that. It's just comforting to know what I'm doing is not useless. I hope my thoughts are either helping people or at least stimulating some good thought out there.
BLESSING:
May you be encouraged in what you do today. May you see results from your labors. May you know your energies are going for good in God's Kingdom and may you know God is pleased with your efforts.
You may have noticed I've added a couple of new resources to the right. The first will be fun as we see where people who read this blog come from. Tip of the hat to Larry for that one.
The second one (found on Andrew's site) is definitely NOT fun. In fact, I almost didn't put it there because while it intrigued me at first, it soon began to annoy me. I'm not much for distractions while I'm trying to do something like read a blog, so that little counting number thing irritated me. After a time I noticed it was counting faster than a second per number and I thought: "Hmm, someone got the timer wrong." Soon thereafter, it dawned on me:
It's NOT counting seconds, it's counting how many people are dying!
Ouch! More than 1 per second. You know, we don't think about that stuff often enough (if at all). Each number racing past represents a person Jesus created and died for. Each one represents another spirit leaving this physical 3D plane and moving on to higher (or lower) spiritual dimensions. Each one is known intimately by their creator. And each one is either celebrated or mourned as they make that move.
Now I'm saddened too. For almost all of these people, I can't make a bit of a difference. I never knew them; never came in contact with them; never had a chance to tell them about Jesus and their eternal spirits.
But there are some that I do know. They don't pass without my knowledge, but as each one leaves this realm, I must ask myself what I have done to either let them in on "the secret," or help them know Jesus better.
It's a personal question; directed at me. I require an answer from myself. But as I come to account for my actions or lack thereof, you too must ask a similar question of yourself. It's a personal question; directed at you.
BLESSING:
May you ask the right question of yourself and may it change the way you look at the people around you. May you be a huge influence on their lives by helping them know of their eternal spirits and the eternal lover of those spirits.
And may more of those speedily counting numbers to the right be a reason for celebration than mourning.
Any of you who have seen the Geico "Caveman" ads, will really enjoy this new website they have put up. It's the Caveman's Crib (Click here to go there).
