Ishmael

Recently, a friend of mine sent me an email. It was about an idea someone had while she was praying.

As we all know, President Obama strongly supports abortion. He’s signing orders, bills, and laws left and right to expand abortions worldwide. It is very sad that our leaders feel this way. Especially since somewhere around 50 to 60% of Americans believe that abortions should be harder to obtain or entirely illegal.

This woman’s idea was about some red envelopes she had in her garage. What if President Obama received one red envelope for each child that has been aborted? Something like 50 million. 50 million red envelopes, each one saying “this represents a child who was never given the chance to live.” Could that possibly change his mind?

Here’s what she’d like us to do:

Go to an office or party supply store and buy some red envelopes. From what I hear, Kinkos has them.

On the front, address it to:

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington , D.C. 20500

On the back, write the following message:

“This envelope represents one child who died in abortion. It is empty because that life was unable to offer anything to the world. Responsibility begins with conception.”

Send it on February 28th. And also pass this along to every one of your friends who you think would send one too.

What a powerful way to get our point across. But please, please, please, don’t attack or say anything nasty to President Obama. Although we might not like his policies, he is still President of the United States. Although we disagree with him, we need to do it respectfully.

*Note* This post refers to a problem I was having. “Was” being the operative word.  I’ve since fixed the problem. See Firefox Was Eating My Cookies for a post about that

Lately, I’ve been getting this annyoing feeling. I’m feeling unimportant. Websites no longer remember who I am. Gmail no longer whisks me straight to my inbox. Facebook no longer associates my face to my book. I was starting to think I might’ve done something to offend The Internets. But then, the awful truth hit me…

Firefox is eating my cookies. *dun dun DUN*

Apparently, this is a new problem. Someone I follow on twitter had the same thing and he fixed it by deleting a file called cookies.sqlite in the firefox appData folder. I tried that and it worked! My cookies were sticking and I was getting the online VIP treatment again. For three days.

Thee days, then firefox updated itself. Poof, the cookies are gone again. But it’s not like they’re gone gone. Firefox still shows them under the view cookies dialog. The websites just don’t see them. Maybe firefox is keeping them to itself in case it gets hungry… Whatever the reason, I hope it’s fixed soon.

Ok, so I’m a procrastionator. My “about me” page is terribly out of date. I problably should fix it, huh? A lot has changed in the last year or so. I think I’ve added a lot of interests… And way too many accounts… *sheepish look*

Well, here I go…

Today, I’m finishing up work on a directory of businesses that I’ve been helping a friend with. It’s kinda been a fun project, but I ended up with way more work to do that I though I would, and I ended up on a much much tighter deadline than was planned. So, over the last three days, I’ve been working like crazy to format andwork layout for a 26 page directory. And come up with a webpage. And yeah.

Here’s the details. Two formats – half letter booklet for publication and full page corner/edge staple for home printing. Both versions available online on a webs.com site (not ideal, but it was the best for the budget). The download is handled by box.net. 150 print copies, online distribution, 26 pages, covering 13 counties in Middle Tennessee.

But the hardest part is done now. I’m just waiting for the last of the ads to be confirmed and then I’m hitting the launch button on it. Check it out at http://homeschoolcommunitypages.webs.com

I’m curious to see how big this thing might get since it’s a rather targeted, semi-local directory. I’ll be keeping an eye on the metrics.

I recently saw the work of an artist named Chris Jordan. One of his sets is called Running the Numbers. Here’s the description from his website:

Running the Numers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month.

Seeing his work gave me an idea. What could be more sobering that a world map made of individual pictures of baby feet, each one representing one child that is aborted world wide each year. That’d be approximately 42 million…

I’m thinking that this is going to be one of my running pet projects. I mean, with 42 million baby feet, we’re talking one huge map. I won’t be starting anything on it until summer, but I’ll keep you posted on how it goes.