The Price Family Home Companion

So, I guess that makes me boring

Not nerdy? Go figure...

2004: Year in Review

One of my favorite links towards the end of the year is the Google Zeitgeist. The Zeitgeist gives you an intriguing peek into global social trends.

This year they have a fascinating interactive version to recap 2004.

Politics of Google

A search of news items about Bush, Cheney, or Republicans bashing, ripping, attacking, berating, belittling, criticizing, or accusing Kerry, Edwards, or Democrats results in 421 hits.

Meanwhile an equal and opposite search of news items reporting on Kerry, Edwards, or Democrats bashing, ripping, attacking, berating, belittling, criticizing, or accusing Bush, Cheney, or Republicans results in 1320 stories.

It's a good thing that Kerry has delayed his decision to absolutely take his gloves off until just now. Otherwise we might have already been subjected to a endless cacophony of bitter leftist invective.

Proud [Geek] Father

Taking my mom to the airport, Salem (2) said something to the effect of Bommy [Grammy]. I go home and check my e-mail.

She's growing up so fast.

Workin' @625 to @958

Good friend and fellow potpourri blogger, Nate Kizer, calls my attention to the mind-blowing Swatch.beat time:

Swatch gets my vote for most ingenious, yet useless invention/innovation of the year. In order to work around time zones & the like, Swatch divided the day up into 1000 beats. The equivalency is something like this:

1 beat = 1 minute, 26.4 seconds

The Swatch website states:

Internet time exists so that we do not have to think about timezones. For example, if a New York web-surfer makes a date for a chat with a cyber friend in Rome, they can simply agree to meet at an "@ time" - because Internet time is the same all over the world.

Ingenious. My only problem is the same one I have with my walkie-talkie phone - I don't know anyone else who uses it. The Swatch site has downloads for clocks that you can put on your server, your desktop, or your webpages. I want desperately to achieve this level of geekhood. If you, faithful reader, can find it in your heart to put down your Dungeons & Dragons game for a few minutes & check this out, I would be eternally grateful. It would be like a secret code to a secret club that meets at a secret hideout that no one else cares about. If that appeals to you, let me know...

One interesting thing about the @ time is that by it's nature there's a lag window of nearly 1.5 minutes. Extending that, I'm thinking there should be an entirely different conversion for parents with children. Say:

100 beats / day means 1 beat = 14 minutes & 24 seconds

It'd be way more useful if you could be nearly 15 minutes late, but on still on beat.

@977, I'm still trying to wrap my head around the impact of such a paradigm shift.

It's a Beautiful Thing

Ask Chantell and Salem... I just about cried when I noticed the new Fry's Electronics going up near our church. Now then. I just need to work on that whole disposable income thing.

Spammers of Men

I must have missed the part in the Bible that reads Go ye therefore, and spam all nations... or ... follow me, and I will make you spammers of men.

Below is an e-mail entitled "What are your future plans?" I received today at work:

Hello Jprice,


Eternity is a really long time.If you or someone close to you has not accepted GOd
please do so tody. The following prayer can save you or someone that you love.

Say, "Oh God, save my soul.  I'm so sorry that I have
sinned against you, but I have come home.  I will
serve you, Lord, the rest of my life.  Deliver me
from all my sinful habits.  Set me free!  I do believe
Jesus died on Calvary for me, and I believe in His
blood, that there is power in His blood to wash away
all my sins, all my sins!"  Say, "Come into my heart,
Jesus; come on in, Jesus.  Come on in!"

If you meant it, He has come.  If you meant it,
Jesus is yours.  Start reading your Bible, pray daily
and believe that somebody's listening; His name is  Jesus.



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If Jesus is on your blogroll, shout Amen!?!

What's next? VirtualRedemtion.com?

Had there been instructions (forward this to 100 people) or other links, I would think the purpose was sinister-in-nature (an innocent front to gather additional information).

However, the nonsense at the end and grammatical errors notwithstanding, the idea may be a good one, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired and will do little for the cause.