In a lighter vein, enjoy some online trivia!
Have you thought what your cats and dogs might be up to when you are out of your home? Consider what our cameras have caught when it was thought that nobody was looking!
Enjoy the slideshow; most of the graphics originated in one of those emails that go around every now and again!
Here Is Something Else to Make You Laugh!Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don’t.
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.
If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try to pass them, five or six at a time, on a hill, in the fog
The things that come to those who wait will be the things left by those who got there first.
Flashlight: A case for holding dead batteries.
The shin bone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.
A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
(Source unknown)
An amusing list I found here
1. Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
2. Any given program costs more and takes longer each time it is run.
3. If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
4. If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
5. Any given program will expand to fill all the available memory.
6. The value of a program is inversely proportional to the weight of its output.
7. Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it.
Every now and again something going round the Internet shows up and makes you laugh. I so enjoyed this clip that I felt I had to make a copy of it and upload it.
For all those many men who like to dabble a little in the kitchen, this is for you. You have been warned!
(This is a .wmv file. You may have to right-click the icon to give the file permission to run, or click here to download.)
Enjoy…
I’ve used the LinkedIn network for a while (you can see my profile here), and it offers some interesting features. At heart, I am a trawler, always on the lookout for new ideas and thoughts, so when an article that came my way on the LinkedIn network by Micha Kaufman caught my attention, I thought I would share some of the quotations he offers.
In the original there were fifty quotes, and they were focused on reinventing one’s career, but I have whittled them down to twenty-six and added a few headings to break up the text a little. Some are thought provoking; others are humorous; I believe you will enjoy them!
Postscript: There are a few other quotations on my website here.
You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.–Reid Hoffman, Co-founder of LinkedIn
You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.–Sir Richard Branson, Founder & Chairman of Virgin Group
It’s never too late to be what you might have been.–George Elliot, Author
One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you. –Jeff Bezos, Founder & CEO of Amazon
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. –Confucius, Philosopher
You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea. –Larry Page, Co-founder & CEO of Google
A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work. –Colin Powell, American Statesman, Retired Four-Star General
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. –Michael Jordan, Five-time NBA MVP, Six-time NBA Champion
Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you. –Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.–Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist
Would you do your job and not be paid for it? I would do this job, and take on a second job just to make ends meet if nobody paid me. That’s how you know you are doing the right thing. –Oprah, Media Proprietor, Talk Show Host, Actress
I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real. –Sean Parker, American Entrepreneur, Co-founder of Napster, First President of Facebook
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. –Aristotle, Philosopher
You can get what you want or you can just get old.–Billy Joel, Singer-Songwriter
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.–Chinese Proverb
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.–Vincent Van Gogh, Painter
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.–Christopher Reeve, Actor, Activist
In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.–Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.–John Wooden, NCAA Basketball Coach
Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.–Thomas Edison, Inventor
The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.–Seth Godin, Entrepreneur, Author, Public Speaker
Whether you think you can, or think you can’t, you’re right.–Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Motor Company
Everything started as nothing.–Ben Weissenstein, Entrepreneur
Winners never quit and quitters never win.–Vince Lombardi, Super Bowl-Winning Coach
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.–Neil Gaiman, Novelist, Graphic Novelist, Screenwriter
Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.–Aaron Sorkin, Screenwriter, Playwright
Men, for the sake of getting a living, forget to live.–Margaret Fuller, Women’s Rights Advocate, Journalist
Source of original list of fifty quotations here
George Whitefield, a public domain image
I have posted previously about the illustrations from John Whitecross on the Westminster Shorter Catechism. Recently in our family devotions, considering the eighth commandment, we read this fascinating account of an incident in the life of George Whitefield, one of the finest preachers ever to have lived.
The Catechism question and answer (number 75) go like this:
Q. What is forbidden in the eighth commandment?
A. The eighth commandment forbiddeth whatsoever doth or may unjustly hinder our own or our neighbour’s wealth or outward estate.
Here is Whitecross’ account of the incident. As you read it, keep in mind that the value of one guinea in those days was considerable, perhaps equivalent to well over $100.00.
A widow with a large family was in difficulty over the payment of her rent and her landlord decided to sell her furniture to obtain the sum due to him. George Whitefield learned of her sad plight and gave her the five guineas which she so badly needed. A friend at hand told Whitefield that he could not afford this act of generosity. He replied, “When God brings a case of distress before us, it is that we may relieve it.”
The two men shortly took their journey together, and before long encountered a highwayman who relieved them of their money. Whitefield now turned the tables on his friend, reminding him how much better it was for the widow to have the five guineas than the highwayman. After their loss, the two resumed their journey. Soon, however, the highwayman returned and demanded Whitefield’s coat which was so much better than his own. Whitefield of necessity accepted the robber’s ragged garment until he could get a better.
Presently the same highwayman was for a third time seen galloping furiously towards them, but they spurred on their horses and reached shelter and safety without being overtaken. The robber was doubtless immensely mortified, for when Whitefield took off the tattered coat he found in one of the pockets a small parcel containing a hundred guineas.
The Shorter Catechism Illustrated, John Whitecross, London, Banner of Truth, Page 117
Elsewhere on this site, I reference the New England Primer. It was a formative document used among early American settlers from Europe. It was used for teaching spiritual truth in a practical way. The literacy of many early Americans was bound up in this document.
I enjoy collecting interesting files, and here is one–a variation on the theme–that somewhat modernizes the concept, and does not have any of the spiritual content of the above-mentioned document!
Enjoy…
A is for Apple and other nursery learning devices. Click to enlarge.
Image courtesy of Wikipedia
This post is nothing more than great fun.
As I was preparing some notes on Martin Luther, and the connection between him and Johann Sebastian Bach (Luther wrote the score on which Bach based his music for “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”), I was reminded of a YouTube clip I find really impressive. I think you will enjoying viewing it; it will only take you a minute or two.
Bach’s music is well said to be very versatile…
Enjoy the video below!
When it’s OK to play the keyboard with your (four) feet!
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