Paul Merrill
Tumblr is a website platform that is sort of between a blog and Twitter.
Mine is over at shinybits. I use that space to put things that aren’t worthy of this blog. (Mostly I don’t want to clutter this space with that stuff.) And it’s a bit quicker to post.
Hope you enjoy it. And if you create your own, leave the link as a comment here on this blog, so others may enjoy your quick thoughts!
…stays together.
(I couldn’t resist that headline. And no, we don’t blog together. I’m the only blogging person in the family.)
Yes, that’s the back of our minivan.
What other blogging tool would automatically generate such a message?!
I’ll be at WordCamp Boulder tomorrow. I’ll join hundreds of other faithful WordPress followers to hear testimonies of changed lives. (Well, not really. But it will be interesting to those of us so geekily inclined.)
Plinky is a service WordPress just bought. Go there to get a question that will give you ideas for your next blog post.
(And my answer to that question? A way for all of the villages in Africa to have clean water within a year.)
…Just for this one thing, anyhow.
If you are about to buy a High Definition TV, don’t get the HDMI cable from Best Buy. A quick search on Yahoo Shopping yielded the same thing for $7.99 from Sears.
(By the way, we don’t have an HD TV. Low-definition is good enough for us. And most low-def players come with all the cables you’ll need.)
What would I do with $7.5 million?
During our recent long-weekend family vacation, I had the luxury of sleeping late enough to linger on a dream. I won $7.5 million in some kind of a contest. (The kind of contest was not revealed to me – dreams are so funny in how they give us such random details and leave out others.)
The first thing I thought of was how I would get two more Solatubes for our living area and hallway. (The two we currently have are wonderful!)
I ended up paying off our mortgage. We kept our two current vehicles – but I spent some money fixing them up to perfection.
Being a car guy, I pondered how fun it would be to get a fairly new sports car. (Even though I was a millionaire, I could not fathom spending the extra for a brand-new car. Some aspects of my thinking will never change.) But in the end, I decided against it, as I could not store it on the street and thereby show off our wealth. Our minivan would need to stay in our one-car garage, as it’s such a pain to clean off the snow on winter mornings.
Much of my dream was spent in figuring out how I would give to our missionary friends. That was a tangle of thoughts. Investment of the money was tied into that – as of course we would need to live off the income for years to come and be able to continue giving.
So overall, the money in my dream was not a fun thing. I guess that’s a indication that life is good the way it is.
Lest you think I am a total killjoy, in the dream I booked first-class air travel for an upcoming (real life) long trip in the fall – for myself and all those traveling with me. Long trans-oceanic flights are brutal. I’ve often dreamed of how nice it would be to experience one of those voyages in a total-recline seat.
A very minor shiny bit to leave you with for this long holiday* weekend…
I found it highly amusing that in the latest Communication Arts magazine, there is an entire section devoted to unpublished artwork. How can the works be unpublished when the magazine has published them?
(*Independence Day in the States, to those of you not here.)
I realized I had a very narrow view of the world when I saw this billboard – I thought, “Wow, people who speak Spanish use Twitter too!”
What are some ways you have been narrow in your thinking lately? (In other words, take a moment to comment – I’m curious at how you have surprised yourself lately.)
When I visit a rockstar’s blog, in the back of my head is the thought, “Is it worth blogging for the small audience who read my blog?”
The big names have their ideas broadcast to maybe millions. They actually get some revenue from their ads. Some of them even maintain authenticity in the process.
Since I know that a few of my readers really enjoy my blog, I continue. I picture being in the same room with them and hearing their chuckle at one of my observations. And I know that hearing a room of 5,000 laugh at the same observation would not bring me any more pleasure than that single friend enjoying my thought.
