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Oh look, Chicken Thursday!
We had thunder and lightning at Cybersalt World Headquarters, which only happens once every couple of years around here. So I took some time to just look out our front window and watch. It's good to slow down and just stare for a bit!
Today's video share is an awkward moment from The Price is Right, which turned out to be a funny moment because this poor woman could laugh at herself.
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Enjoy the rest of today's digest!
~ Pastor Tim
B.O.O.K.
Introducing the Bio-Optic Organized Knowledge software: B.O.O.K.
BOOK is a revolutionary technological breakthrough: no wires, no electric currents, no batteries. Nothing to be connected or switched on. So easy to use, even a child can operate it! Compact, portable, it can be used anywhere -- even on a beach, yards from a power point. Yet it is powerful enough to hold as much information as a CD-ROM disc! Here's how it works:
BOOK is constructed of literally hundreds of sequentially numbered sheets of paper (recyclable), each capable of holding thousands of bits of information. The pages are locked together with a custom fit device (a "binder") which maintains each sheet in its correct sequence.
Opaque Paper Technology (OPT) allows the manufacturer to utilize BOTH sides of each sheet, thus doubling information density while cutting costs. Sheets are scanned optically, registering information directly to the brain -- the most efficient interface yet developed!
And simple: a flick of a finger takes you to the next sheet!
BOOK may be taken up at any time and used merely by opening it!
BOOK never crashes or requires rebooting.
The "browse" feature permits you to move instantly to any single sheet, AND move forward and backward as you wish. Forget scrolling arrows or multiple key commands! BOOK often comes with an "index" feature which pinpoints the exact sheet location of any selected information for instant retrieval.
An optional "BOOKmark" accessory allows you to open book at THE EXACT PLACE YOU LEFT IT IN A PREVIOUS SESSION ... even if BOOK has been closed!
Best of all, BOOKmarks fit universal design standards ... any BOOKmark can be used in any BOOK by any manufacturer!
A brand new BOOKmark can even be used in a BOOK that predates it by months, even years!
Should you wish to store numerous views in a single book, multiple BOOKmarks can be used.
You also have the option to make personal notes next to BOOK text entries with an optional programming tool, Portable Erasable-Nib Cryptic Intercommunication Language Stylus (PENCILS).
Portable, durable, and affordable, BOOK is being hailed as the precursor of a new information-delivery wave. BOOK's appeal is so certain that thousands of self-employed content creators (like me) have committed to the platform, and edit technicians are evaluating their submissions.
Life is short. Information is dear. Forget the Internet.
When deciding to access information, think BOOK.
One-Liner #1911
My son found my crying in the kitchen, wrapped his arms around me and whispered, "Is it because of your hair?" - so now I'm crying for two reasons.
"Be a Billionaire!"
and Help
Refugees and
Persecuted Christians
Gas Station Arrest
I stopped at the gas station to get a bottle of water. As I was pulling up, I noticed two police officers watching a woman who was smoking while pumping her gas.
I saw her and thought, "Is this lady stupid, crazy, or both?" especially with the police standing right there! However, I minded my own business and went inside to get my drink.
As I was paying for my water, I heard someone screaming! It sounded like violent death screams! I looked outside and saw that the woman's arm was on fire! She was swinging her arm, running around, and going nuts!
When I got outside, the police had the woman on the ground, and they were putting the fire out.
Then, they put handcuffs on her and threw her in the squad car.
I was thinking, "Arrested? Shouldn’t she be in an ambulance, not a squad car?"
Being nosey as I am, I asked the police what they were arresting her for.
He looked at me, dead serious, and said, "WAVING A FIRE ARM!"
Quote #2346
"It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them they've been fooled."
- Mark Twain
What Does Your Horn Say?
Do you remember when the whole lower half of a car's steering wheel used to constitute the car's horn? A car horn that was half the size of the steering wheel made it so much easier and fun to find and hit than locating today's microscopic, camouflaged little buttons. How are you ever supposed to find and use your horn in the nanosecond you have in case of a pending accident?
But it was a daughter's comment that made me ponder the changing role of yet another thing I thought would never change. She said something to the effect that a horn was mainly for communicating to another driver that you are angry with them. I was a little shocked.
When had a car horn become mostly an instrument to express road rage?
How were we communicating that to her? I didn't think of a car horn that way at all!
So I started to tell her all about all the old-fashioned uses of the trusty car horn. Isn't a horn primarily for accident prevention? To warn another driver that they are straying into your path, or in danger of hitting you? For such uses, the little buttons are woefully inadequate.
Unless you drive with your thumb or finger poised over the button, forget it. You can never find the horn that fast.
How else are horns used? Well, of course there is the friendly little "hello" honk. Then there is the romantic or flirting honk. Then there is the sentimental goodbye honk: one woman taps her horn lightly whenever she leaves her mother's home - a cute little ritual that somehow signals all is well between them. A goodbye honk is like a goodnight kiss: hard to do if you are mad at someone.
It is an unfortunate sign of the times if my kids have come to think of the horn as a thing you use to sound off at another driver.
So what are we teaching our kids by example and what they absorb from the rest of society if they look at car horns primarily as a tool of aggression? The increase in road-rage and the erosion of the old-fashioned accident-preventing car horn to the point where the horn is mainly an accent mark for flaring tempers is undoubtedly due to many factors.
But can we stem this trend by taking a look again at how we see other people? When we respect other people as God's creation, as people that God also loves, we move even our road etiquette up a little higher on the civility scale.
- Author Unknown
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He Conquered the Grave ... Hallelujah!
- photo by Susan PageWalking along the lakeside path near my home, I looked down and saw a rock in the shape of a heart. Beside it lay a couple of twigs which I fashioned into a cross. It brought tears to my eyes and caused me to reflect and deeply contemplate the sacrifice our Saviour made to redeem us and call us His own.
I left the cross and heart lying in the sand, hoping it would speak to someone. As world events unfold and seem to spiral out of control, I am purposefully choosing not to focus my thoughts on the headlines, but rather on our hope. I invite you to join me as we reflectively survey the cross.
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