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Cool Telephone Thing
If you haven't heard about it or tried it, I highly recommend the quick trip over to GrandCentral. While stumbling around through my usual links and feeds I found a write-up in either Lifehacker or Digital Alchemy (can't remember which). For the most part, I have avoided services like this in the past after taking a test drive and discovering some services beta and final released horrible. My high recommendation of this GrandCentral service arrives for two reasons.
Though not public yet, Techcrunch is announcing that GrandCentral has been acquired by none other than the Hercules Google. (article) With Goggles track record and savvy, I have confidence that the service will only improve. And I base that upon having test-driven it for a few days now. Wow! The old Blues Brothers weren't referring to this when they sang "Wadya Want For Nuthin'".
Here's just a quick rundown of what you can do:
1. Use one telephone number (give one out) for all your different phones. Home, Work, Cell
2. Give each "group" (family, friends, web-button, work or others) a separate ring tone (or your local MP)
3. Record individual messages for each caller, based upon their group, or their telephone number.
4. Individualize the preferences to suit almost every configuration you can imagine.
Really, Check it out at the website and call me through the interface below. (I won't answer because of the special ringtone.) It's really cool.
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Oh Gosh!
Well, good news and well, potentially very good news, just inevitably nerve wracking news.
I have an interview, and guess what? This is the unusual bit. It's over the phone!
I submited my application to a book shop in the city, right next to my Uni campus. Awesome right?. The manager emailed me back saying to call her either today or Monday morning for a ten minute over the phone interview.
I don't like phones very much, I have heard my voice on a tape recorder, lol. I guess the bonus is that I don't have to spend an hour getting into professional gear, I can just wear casual and no one will have to know, well, unless they ask me to come in for a second interview today! I think I might pretend that I didn't read the email until later today. Therefore I'll have time to write a few things down about the company and write a few answers and or questions to ask her in the 10 minutes.
Help, um, what does one say on a telephone interview, other than obviously not saying 'um'.
-Hasta luego
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-Fuckin love those Swedes.
Also -- here's a subculture you may not have heard of -- the "phreakers".
Bob: Ice cream goes on sale Saturday, so bring a cone!
Larry: Ice cream goes on sale Saturday, so bring your phone!
Carol: Icees go on sale Saturday, turn off your phone!
Shannon: Ice trees are set to sail Saturday, I need a loan!
Mark: Nice trees are sailing Saturday, I need one at home!
Mark's friend: What? That's stupid, where did you hear that?
Mark: Bob said it first! At least, that's what I heard...
Mark's friend: I need to go pound some sense into Bob's head then. He's a loon!
Mark to Bob: Careful, friend! You're getting a pounding soon! What is up with the trees, anyway?
In the end, Bob has to make a statement to everyone to clarify his original message. Whew!
What if that message were important, though? Of vital import to the lives and property of all the rest down the line?
In the times when the original apostles were still alive, their messages were passed along. Oral messages, though, can be misinterpreted and they were, occasionally, called upon to write things down to remind those who were in their charge what had truly been taught. The apostle Peter, a man with enthusiasm and a certain amount of bluster, had found this to be the case, too.
1 Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking. 2 I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.
He wants to remind them of the teachings as he heard them directly from Jesus himself, so that they would know what was right. Peter preached to many, and he knew that he was responsible for making sure they heard the truth, and he wanted them to know what that truth was.
As were the people that Paul wrote to, those in Peter's audience/congregation/teaching groups were interested in the End of the Age. People heard all sorts of rumors, and though "telephone" wasn't a game back then, it was still an effect in terms of passing information. The end hadn't come yet, he is saying in part, because the end will be in fire, not water, and the fire is being kept for the day of judgment.
Again, we see the simile of the "thief in the night." Christ himself used the analogy of a thief when discussing the coming of the Son of Man and the End of the Age. (Matthew 24:43 and Luke 12:39) When Christ spent time teaching on this topic, Peter knew it was a necessary lesson that had to be learned, and he is required to teach it, too.
Some have told me that they think such teachings are divisive and unnecessary. That only overly emotional people get "caught up with" teachings of the End of the Age. But I have to disagree. Jesus found it worthy of his time, therefore it must be worth our own. Besides, it isn't just the signs of the end that we should heed. There are reasons, Peter points out, that we should be aware of these things.
We are to live so that we will be found spotless, whenever we die, whenever we come before God. These teachings are for all ages so that all people are aware of their own lives and we can make every effort to be found blameless.
The goal for any relationship is to be in harmony, I think. In human relationships, there are many paths to harmony. For some, there is much laughter and understood humor and caring and jesting. For others, there are deep silences and compassion and nurturing. For our relationship with God to be in harmony, there has to be a constant striving for betterment, for Christ-likeness. We are not perfect, will never be perfect while we live here, but our constant pursuit of that goal will bring us harmony with our Creator.
His message is simple.
Even in a contemporary game of telephone, the message of "love" would surely be understood.
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