How old is the oldest article of clothing you own, that you’d still consider “in rotation”? There’s certainly some old Tshirts we pull out to paint in, but I’m talking about clothes you’d consider wearing in public. I might even consider what you work out in. I have a few tshirts I’ve had since 8th or 9th grade…that’s over 15 years!
I’m not talking [just] monetarily. I am talking about your stuff, your time, your work, your abilities. Sometimes I take flak about how I will sell anything I own. It’s true, if I’m not using it, I don’t want it taking up space. If someone else would use it, all the better. The fact is, I’d giving anything I’d sell away for free, but no one seems to want it.
Maybe I’m doing it wrong, but when I drop off to Goodwill, I don’t ask for a receipt. It’s not even tied into the Bible saying to give anonymously. It’s about feeling guilty for reporting giving on taxes. I’m giving because I want to give! I don’t want anything in return.
To quote C.S. Lewis, ”I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare…If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us,… they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.”
If you haven’t been into a LEGO store in the past year or two, you probably haven’t seen the augmented reality technology they put into their boxes. All you have to do is take a box off the shelf, walk it over to a special television screen with a scanner on top of it and it will virtually build the set and animate it on the box surface displayed on the TV screen. Maybe that doesn’t come over well in text…here’s a video. I’ve seen similar animation and technology come out of Topps with their baseball cards.
On July 4th, 2012, Gulf Tower debuted the new light display on the top of the building. Many people didn’t realize that the light had indicated the weather since the 1970s, and it was all controlled manually by the receptionist. There’s a Rick Sebak documentary that highlights it well. Along with the weather, the new LED lights will be able to be animated for celebrations or any other kind of information. Here’s what the colors mean now:
You don’t need that flat screen TV if you have a perfectly fine TV that is meeting your needs. only upgrade when something is broken or lacking necessary functionality. If you’ve ever plated the video game The Sims, think about all the money you wasted in furniture buying through the tiers of upgrades. It’s smarter just to save up and buy what you really want.
I’m not looking to be famous, but I want a story to tell. Not even a story for me to tell, but for my great grandchildren or something. I’d love to be an extra in a movie or have my name in the liner notes of a popular CD. Just something very subtle, but when I’m gone people can say, “hey, did you know that Josh was the guy in the grocery store in that one movie?” and then they can pop in that movie and just see me standing there making fake conversation.
My 10th grade English teacher, Mrs. Stone, was a lady standing in a fur coat in the movie Flash Dance. That’s awesome.
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