Competitive Creativity

Ever feel like a sheep being herded along? Fashion dictating what you wear? Stupid commercials breaking up your TV shows? Music giving you nothing but a head ache?

Here are some creative competitions to help break you out of that rut.

Grab your notebook and pencil and check these sites out.

Design your own T-shirt and/or vote for your favorite designs at http://www.threadless.com/subs. This is a totally cool T-shirt competion and store. The current competition ends June 1^st so hurry on over to http://www.threadless.com/loves/blik to get all the details.

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Create your own Mastercard commercial and have some fun doing it.
You can enter 10 times a day. But hurry, the competition will be over soon. Go to http://www.priceless.com/promo/e1.html to get started.

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Or are you feeling totally inspired? Think you can write a John Lennon song? Get that tablature over to the John Lennon Song Writing Contest at http://www.jlsc.com/.

Deep Impact for Sisters

Deep Impact for Sisters
teeth, comets, turds, feelings, opinions, sisters, MoPac...
.... and the 20,000 dollar pyramid answer is ..... ?
THINGS THAT ARE IMPACTED!!
ok....Beiderman the comet.. and betty beiderman, and ummm.... betty beiderman and ... i'm sorry, i can't think of anything else...
....and the 20,000 dollar pyramid answer is ....?
THINGS THAT ARE DEEPLY IMPACTED!!!

I dont know if this is how you post a blog or not, but i am trying...
aunt Janice is gone to heaven... i guess she musta married someone else after uncle richard... i didnt realize that she was only 16 years older than me... she was that much younger than our parents... daddy would be 81 ...
does anyone know how i can post pictures of the adorable geer girlies from snapfish.com on this blog??
betty beiderman, i just want to say what a blogspiration you are to all of us sisters! you blog my mind with your commitment to this site!

Gadgets

Tonight I went driving around looking for a pay phone. I know, you’re right. Why would anyone need a pay phone in this day and age? The phone company must feel the same way because I couldn’t find one. But I wanted to call Jake in Korea and since I gave up my home phone I had to find a land line because I didn’t think my cell phone had international capabilities (I was wrong about that – but that’s another story). On the drive back home I was thinking about all the gadgets we have and wishing that I had just one gadget to carry around with me that could do everything I need. Right now I carry my rio Forge mp3 player and my cell phone and my work wants me to start carrying a Blackberry, too. Being severly directionally handicapped, I wish I had a portable navigation system. Yeah, I have a compass in the car – but not OnStar – which is what I need. Even at work, I don’t leave my desk without a map of the building – no kidding! So when I got home I decided to google “gadgets”. The first site that came up was http://www.gizmodo.com/. There I learned that Comm Korea 2006, which is billed as Korea's Largest and Longest Running Telecommunications/IT, Networking, Wireless/Broadband and Internet Technologies Exhibition and Conference, is going on now. And Samsung (where brother-in-law- Robert works) is one of the major presenters. They have a very nifty gadget called Samsung Anycall SCH-B540. Except for the navigational system – it has everything I want in a phone – even blue tooth technology. I want one.

Mother's Day

Well, I didn’t get all the mounds of paperwork done – but I did get a darn good start. I thought if I had more organizational ‘tools’ I would be more motivated, so I spent some time googleing “office organization”, “no more clutter” and “procrastinators anonymous”. I found some really cool organizational stuff (check out these binders) but then I remembered the great storage boxes I bought last year at IKEA and the sad realization set in. What I need is someone to follow me around with a cattle prod... someone who will insist I get this stuff done... someone who will nag me incessantly until I realize it would be sooooo much better to do the paperwork than to listen to the nagging... What I need is my mom. I remember her standing at the foot of my bed, chanting, “Come on now, get up” or “Gooooooooooooooddd Mooooooornnnnnnnn-ING” – over and over again. She could be so annoying – but I have to give her this, she never gave up. She would stand at the end of that bed, chanting until the mission was accomplished. It got to be that I knew she wouldn’t give up – so on the first “Come on now, get up” or “Gooooooooooooooddd Mooooooornnnnnnnn-ING”, I would spring out of bed. I realize now – it didn’t take her long to train me to get up on the first call. Wish she was here now to do her magic.
I sure do miss my mom.

I'm a pack rat

Sometimes I dread the weekend because it means 'cleaning up', and cleaning up means going through the mounds of junk I have accumulated. I have stacks of paperwork that needs to be sorted through, but I invariably just end up creating 5 or 6 smaller, disheveled stacks. I hate to admit it, I always have at least one stack of 'I could use this for that' or 'I could make this out of that' ... I think I get a lot of that from Pop. He sure did love making things out of nothing. His dog-run log cabin, that won a state fair ribbon, was one of his crowning achievements, and he was especially proud that he scavanged all the wood from discarded heaps at new constructions sites. He would have loved 84 year old Gramma Tressa and her Bottle Village. She is my hero. I thought I had a lot of good junk. She actually made 15 houses (!) out of 1 million and 15 bottles (she actually counted them!) and she fashioned a fence from old television picture tubes. Her garden blooms with old doll heads and her walk is encrusted with license plates, scissors, plates, tiles, keys and the list goes on and on. If you want to hear Tressa talk about her home and her life, with her older sister chiming in, view this movie hosted by Folkstream.net:

Gramma Tressa and Her Bottle Village*

If you're a pack rat like me, you will feel sooo much better after watching and learning from Gramma!

*You will need Quick Time to view the movie. If you don't have Quick Time installed you can get it here. Just be sure you don't also download the iTunes by deselecting that option after clicking the Free Download Now button.

Gone are the slow downloads of yesterday...

My, how things have changed. Just about everyone has a computer these days. And not just a computer - high speed internet access is more than commonplace. I can remember when I first connected to the net - with dial up modem access. S-L_O_W_!! I would click on a page, go make a pot of coffee, throw in a load of laundry, cruise by the computer to see how the page download was coming along, go make the bed and come back - and Wallah! Finally there was the page I requested - oh! I hate to remember how many times it was the wrong page! So much wasted time - waiting for those downloads. It certainly wasn't 'cruising' the internet - it was plodding. Now I do 'cruise' the net with FIOS (fiber optic cable) - but I still hate having to wait even a few seconds for a page to load - it's certianly not long enough to start coffee or a load of laundry, but it is long enough to play one of these 4 second games:

Warning: 4-second games may be addicting

This new collection of 20 randomly generated Flash microgames may be just what you need to fill your next few seconds of spare time. Avoid being stomped on, eaten by sharks, stung by bees, or losing to the computer at Pong. You have only 4 seconds on the clock for each task. That doesn't sound like a lot, but it's surprisingly lively.

Four-Second Fury is the newest creation from a 19-year-old college sophomore named John Cooney. According to his site, jmtb02.com, this prodigy has been doing interactive art, games, and web animations since high school and posting them on the Web, free for all to use. Play the game.
Thanks to Windows Secrets newsletter for this great site!

a savory affair

Deep Impact for Sisters
hello sisters who have impacted me with the love of life, family, friends and partying!!!! cannot wait to see ya'll this summer--- it is all i think about!!! steve's party plans are coming along great!!! we'll be attending A Savory Affair at em's boss's new spot, a dinner club located in famous downtown toms river on main street, the web site is: simplygourmetcatering.net/ festivities include(but not limited to) a full sushi bar, which i am bartering in exchange for a million sushi pillows ... its a sushi sweatshop here.. best get sewing

Let's All Go

THE LONGEST RUNNING COMEDY EVER!

At Tony n' Tina's Wedding, audience members actually play the roles of Tony n' Tina's family and/or friends. These are roles we have all been practicing, every time we go to a real wedding. This universal familiarity with the union of two individuals from 2 distinct families, regardless as to where you are from, will take you back and forth between fantasy and reality throughout the entire evening. For the ultimate experience... eat, drink, dance, converse and allow yourself to be caught up in the activities. This all inclusive evening of entertainment - the ticket price includes the show and dinner (cash bar is separate). The special discount rate of $50.00 is available on Thursday nights with an extra 20% off if 4 or more tickets are purchased. To see the details, go here. The show starts at 7pm and is located at the Edison Theater, 221 West 46th Street, NY, NY. Children are welcome (over the age of 4) - for more information a call can be made directly by dialing: 212.352.3101, or by visiting the website: http://www.tonyandtinanewyork.com/.

Want to see a video of the wedding? Go here.

Want to see the photo album of the wedding? Go here.