The iPod Shuffle
I was turned onto a trippy internet community-ish exercise - the iPod Shuffle.
The rules: first, set your iPod to shuffle.
Second, write down the first 10 tracks that come up, no matter how strange or embarrassing. No cheating. No "enh, that's not really a good representation of what's on my usual playlist." Forget it, slim - THE FIRST 10.
Third, publish the results on your weblog/website.
I just did it. Here's my list:
Send me yours!
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Spent the morning at Willow Medical Center. Ear infection.
Feeling much better now that they've flushed my ear canals and given me antibiotic drops... aren't you glad you tuned in today?
(Fun with nurses:
As close friends and family know, I've been deaf in my left ear since kindergarten. Consequently, I can't always tell when it's stopped up with wax. The nurse who was flushing funk from my ears was amazed that I had no awareness of the copious piles of garbage that had built up in my left ear, but she demonstrated all the appropriate pity when I mentioned to her that I'd been half-deaf since age 5. Finally, she extracted a huge gob and showed it to me.
"Ew," I said. "Gross. Wait a minute... I can hear! After all these years - a miracle!"
Her jaw dropped. "OH MY GOD! ARE YOU SERIOUS?!"
"No," I admitted, "but that would've been pretty cool, wouldn't it?")
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Matt Stechschulte is a good Columbus buddy that we moved away from, just as Carey and I were starting to enjoy getting to know him and his wife. Anyhow, I usually don't read e-mail forwards, much less publish them on my website, but I was so intrigued with the one he sent earlier today, I felt it necessary to share with the world.
A friend of his received an invoice from a tire company. It's below (click to enlarge):
The implications are mind-blowing. An invoice ministry! Much more effective in winning potential saints than fishy car magnets or the "Footprints" poem hanging on the wall of your cubicle.
Hey, I'm not making fun. At least the Marysville Service Center had the good sense to wedge the Good News in there before they hit the customer with that 7% sales tax. Hats off!
The rules: first, set your iPod to shuffle.
Second, write down the first 10 tracks that come up, no matter how strange or embarrassing. No cheating. No "enh, that's not really a good representation of what's on my usual playlist." Forget it, slim - THE FIRST 10.
Third, publish the results on your weblog/website.
I just did it. Here's my list:
1) Beck - Good Stuff (Live)Huh. It's a little more poppy and vanilla than I'd expected. To be honest, I was hoping for something a little weirder. Ah well. That's The Shuffle for you.
2) Sheryl Crow - Love is a Good Thing
3) Beastie Boys - Stand Together
4) Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know
5) Michael Jackson - History
6) Matt Hoffland - Heaven Medley (There Is Coming A Day; Softly And Tenderly)
7) Ben Folds Five - Cigarette
8) The White Stripes - I'm Finding it Harder to be a Gentleman
9) Kasey Chambers - A Million Tears
10) John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Hard Times Are Over
Send me yours!
...
Spent the morning at Willow Medical Center. Ear infection.
Feeling much better now that they've flushed my ear canals and given me antibiotic drops... aren't you glad you tuned in today?
(Fun with nurses:
As close friends and family know, I've been deaf in my left ear since kindergarten. Consequently, I can't always tell when it's stopped up with wax. The nurse who was flushing funk from my ears was amazed that I had no awareness of the copious piles of garbage that had built up in my left ear, but she demonstrated all the appropriate pity when I mentioned to her that I'd been half-deaf since age 5. Finally, she extracted a huge gob and showed it to me.
"Ew," I said. "Gross. Wait a minute... I can hear! After all these years - a miracle!"
Her jaw dropped. "OH MY GOD! ARE YOU SERIOUS?!"
"No," I admitted, "but that would've been pretty cool, wouldn't it?")
...
Matt Stechschulte is a good Columbus buddy that we moved away from, just as Carey and I were starting to enjoy getting to know him and his wife. Anyhow, I usually don't read e-mail forwards, much less publish them on my website, but I was so intrigued with the one he sent earlier today, I felt it necessary to share with the world.
A friend of his received an invoice from a tire company. It's below (click to enlarge):
The implications are mind-blowing. An invoice ministry! Much more effective in winning potential saints than fishy car magnets or the "Footprints" poem hanging on the wall of your cubicle.
Hey, I'm not making fun. At least the Marysville Service Center had the good sense to wedge the Good News in there before they hit the customer with that 7% sales tax. Hats off!
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