I found myself in the unique position of helping my cousin learn a little bit about computers this past weekend. She knows how to use one to write documents, and spreadsheets, and browse the Internet and do email, but she really knew very little bit about the inner workings of the computer and how different software programs run.
Celebrity Endorsements
There are more and more commercials on television with celebrities talking about various products and services. I think that some of them are lacking in integrity. Do all these celebrities really take the medicines they are bragging about? Do they really own and use the ovens and blenders and other gadgets that they are promoting? I think there should be full disclosure as to whether a celebrity is just being paid for their face and voice or do they truly represent what they say?
Teach your children kindness
I was just reading an article about a man in Indiana who was been sentenced to eighteen months in jail for forcing his kids to stab their family pet cat to death! According to the eleven year old son’s testimony, the man wanted to teach his children to kill, and forced them to kill the cat! The man says he was intoxicated at the time and doesn’t remember the events of the day! That man should spend more than eighteen months in jail! He should be locked up forever! You don’t teach your children to kill! Give me a break, he’s a nutcase that should never see the light of day again!
Taking care of loved ones
Apparently Don didn’t have any kind of mortgage protection or mortgage life insurance. If he did have that kind of insurance then their house would be paid off, but he didn’t have it so now his widow is going to be hard pressed to make the payments. She has been a stay home wife all of their married life, and doesn’t know if she’s going to be able to go back to work and earn enough to pay the mortgage payments.
My mother said that this coming weekend she is going to check out our policies and see if we have enough coverage to keep this sort of problem from happening to us if either she or my father died.
Party on
Spicy Town is an online video game produced by the company that brings you the spicy little snack called Slim Jim. My brother showed me the online game site; he had created an avatar to use to play the game. He showed me how to create an avatar, called my “spicy side” which was quick, easy, and amusing. You take a picture of yourself and upload it to their site, then they help you center your facial features around their pre-drawn outline of facial features, then they make a funny little creature with funky hair (and maybe horns) and off you go into the game.
During the game you are supposed to go around collecting Slim Jims that you find on the ground. I only found three, but I only played for a few minutes. There were other “gamers” there walking around, some were rumbling, some were talking trash. It was funny to see. The game had buddy lists and chat functions, but I didn’t stay on it long enough this time to explore those features, my brother wanted the computer back!