Saw this on Marko’s blog.

You can play Deal or No Deal online from NBC for fun. And check this bonus… there’s no cloned women holding the suitcases sending more messages than money.

I tried it. My best of 4 rapid tries at it was $274,525 with a suitcase of $50.

If only if it wasn’t pretend.

this scenario happens in my life from time to time:

• I send an e-mail or a phone call to a friend.
  
• No response. Like for a while.
  
• I send an another e-mail or a phone call.
• No response. Like for a longer time.
  
• I wait. I think. I wonder.
• I send a final flare in the air
• No response…
  

Now, the mind game begins:

1. Bet they’re mad a me.
2. No they’re not. You dork. They never got your e-mail. Your e-mail system sucks.
3. Bet I did something wrong.
4. No, they probably are just busy. There is more to life than your calls.
5. Maybe they never got the message.
6. Maybe my friend lost my number.
7. Bet they’re mad at me.
8. They hate me.
9. Maybe they never talk to me again.
10. Maybe I should call again.
11. Maybe they’ll yell at me if I do.
12. I’m over-reacting. I’m like a high school drama queen. Someone slap me.
13. I wish I could just see them so I could ask them face to face.
14. I think they hate me.
15. Yep. They must hate me.
16. …. I’d like to think about something else… but my brain is stupid.

I HATE MY HEAD. I HATE IT WORSE THAT I CARE WHAT PEOPLE THINK.

This post by Scott McKnight is worth taking the time to do. Good stuff for thinking about why you believe what you believe and what of it is based on culture and what is not. I asked a few of my own questions in this previous post.

Here’s an interesting read in time magazine this week on the politics of 24.

I have no idea what of this is right or wrong or true or false or politically motivated jargon or whatever. Regardless, I have 2 responses:

1. I can’t bury my head in the sand and hope the world gets better on it’s own. It won’t. I think of the quote that, “all it takes for evil to prevail in the world, is for good people to do nothing.” I don’t know that I qualify as “good people”… but I’ll do my best to make the world a better place.
2. Our world needs redemption. I feel for my kids. I can’t fathom the world my grandkids might live in. I need to pray more.