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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Ebay Handle

So I just purchased this new, hopefully awesome, coffee roaster on ebay.

As I was looking through the feedback on the seller I noticed they have purchased numerous items from a user with the handle, get this, loveofart! Exclamation mark included. You have to yell the username when you say it.

I think what they mean is obviously love of art! but what I see, and maybe this means I really do belong in ministry with students, particularly jr. high, love o fart!

Choose usernames wisely, eh?

The Bible or the Bard?

Take this quiz and see if you know Shakespeare from Scripture.

Post your score in the comments.

I got a 70%.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Painter of our painting

When setting up our bed room a few years ago we realized we needed something cool. But we didn't want to just go to Bed, Bath and the Abyss to buy some print of a chef with a big mustachio mixing a bowl of whatever (sorry if you have one of those paintings). We wanted some original artwork. But neither Cheryl nor I are particularly artistic in that way and much original artwork is ridiculously expensive. So we obviously went to...ebay.

So now we've got a great painting that hangs in our room of a branch with some red flowers and great background textures with white and beige and black. Quite nice. We frequently look at this original painting and are thankful for it. We're not art critics, we just like stuff we like.

Anyway...just received an email from the artist, Rob Kwon, and he's back from a hiatus and is selling stuff on ebay again. You can visit his store CLICK HERE. And I encourage anyone, instead of buying a poster or something, buy original art. You can find a ton of it on ebay.

Friday, November 21, 2008

Frustration Free Packaging

So...we're trying to reduce the spending this holiday season because (1) we want to SPEND LESS & GIVE MORE (see www.adventconspiracy.org) and (2) because our house is already overfilled with toys that are strewn about over every square inch and hurt when you step on them.

But...if I was going to buy toys, I'd do it from Amazon. Because of their frustration free packaging.

Kids toys are tied up tighter than anything I've ever seen. They are the most ridiculously packaged products ever.

CLICK HERE for a post over at Inhabitat about it.