23 Feb
Comment Now - 30 Hour Famine
The 30 hour famine starts tomorrow. For more info about the 30 Hour Famine see this previous post.
Stealing Pressed’s idea from last year, I will donate $1 for each comment, one comment per visitor (e-mail address/IP address) to the 30 Hour Famine. The comments will remain open until Friday, February 24 at 6:00 pm Saturday, February 25 at 3:00 pm. In your comment, tell me an interesting fact or a funny story, I really like funny stories. Act fast, this is a limited opportunity. Void where prohibited.
So help a hungry person out and leave a comment.
If you want to go further, you can leave a donation in via PayPal through the PayPal button below.
Hey, donate and make a comment!
Wanna read the lyrics to my new favorite song?
You Are God Alone
by Billy and Cindy FooteYou are not a god
Created by human hands
You are not a god
Dependant on any mortal man
You are not a god
In need of anything we can give
By Your plan, that’s just the way it isChorus:
You are God alone
From before time began
You were on Your throne
Your are God alone
And right now
In the good times and bad
You are on Your throne
You are God aloneYou’re the only God
Whose power none can contend
You’re the only God
Whose name and praise will never end
You’re the only God
Who’s worthy of everything we can give
You are God
And that’s just the way it isRepeat Chorus
Bridge:
Unchangeable
Unshakable
Unstoppable
That’s what You areRepeat Bridge
Repeat Chorus
Repeat Bridge Out
You can listen to my favorite recording of this song by going to billyfoot.com and clicking media and choosing You Are God Alone. Those are some powerful lyrics.
Anywho, get to commenting!
Class dimissed!
Later: I guess no one reads my site anymore. 
Pressed has started his comment to raise money deal as well. Help raise even more money over at Avoiding Evil.
Posted by Kendall on 23.02.06 at 6:00 pm
Happy Famine Day! Happy Famine Day! Jump Up and Down, Shake it all Around, it’s Happy Famine Day!
Posted by Dave King on 23.02.06 at 6:00 pm
Have a good fast!
Posted by Pressed on 23.02.06 at 6:00 pm
Maybe it’s the new layout that is to blame for the lack of commenting Christopher, you think? Or, maybe people are just busy. Who knows. But, either way, add another dollar to feeding a child.
Posted by Kelbe on 23.02.06 at 6:00 pm
I hope you don’t get hungry enough to find out the truthfulness of this one, but according to Uncle John’s Bathroom reader, “Most Americans say that if they had to resort to cannibalism, ‘they’d eat the legs first.’”
Just in case that one’s not true, your big toe has a name: it’s called the hallux.
Factoid comment completed.
Posted by Anna on 23.02.06 at 6:00 pm
Can you give a few bucks to the Famine on my behalf? I’ve got more stories and I’d gladly leave them in separate comments if it’d help:
OK, I had a different story to share here, but this just happened and I’m still shaking from the horror.
You know I hate squirrels, but the little bushy-tailed critters have overrun my campus. Since it’s warm today, they were out in all their glory, particularly feisty since they’ve been hiding out since last week because of the colder weather. So I was walking across the campus today from my car to work. Instead of staying on the sidewalk, I decided to be a rule-breaker and traipse across the grass instead. (Hey, I’ve paid them an unbelievable amount of money–I deserve to walk on the grass!) Anyway, as I was walking across the lawn, I saw all the squirrels frolicking and prancing around. Luckily, I think they sensed I hate them, because they left me alone. Except, of course, for one idiotic squirrel who trotted right up to me. I paused and said, “Don’t come any closer” and kept on walking. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize I had a leaf stuck on my shoelace. The leaf must’ve been moving up and down in time to my walking, because the squirrel got very excited about the moving leaf. But instead of running away like normal squirrels usually do, he raced over to my shoe and started attacking my shoelace, presumably in an attempt to entice me to feed him. I shrieked and kicked my foot and he got the message that I didn’t want him there.
If the preschool kids at the lab school wouldn’t come feed them in warm weather, those dumb squirrels would maintain the distance and fear of humans that they should. But since the PreKs feed them and the squirrels have discovered that a little begging by the coffeeshop earns them pieces of sandwiches and potato chips, they have no fear of people…and therefore my little furry friend today felt he had the right to not only approach me but attempt to play a game with me. Dang squirrels.
There now. Don’t you think the story deserves at least a few dollars for the famine fund??
Posted by Timothy R. Butler on 23.02.06 at 6:00 pm
Sorry to miss this, Christopher — I’ve been mostly missing this week. I do still read WIT, though — my blog reading would not be complete without it!
Interesting fact? Hmm… did you know that Nietzsche apparently did a good job of translating the New Testament to German at one point early in his career? Apparently he was probably insane (and quite different from his old self) before he started writing his “normal” kind of stuff.
Did you know that the new MacBook Pro is reported to have almost identical battery life to the PowerBook 15″ according to MacWorld editors on initial testing?
Did you know that KFC had hidden messages in its advertisements this week that could be viewed if you watched the commercial backwards?
Ok, that’s three interesting facts.
Posted by Christopher on 23.02.06 at 6:00 pm
Since this has been a bit of a bust (we will have a discussion on if it has to do with the template or not later) I am extending this until the end of my fast at 3:00 pm tomorrow.
Posted by Ben on 23.02.06 at 6:00 pm
I had a dream last night about an upcoming presentation at one of our state’s largest ed tech conferences. 8000 educators, all converging on one spot to share, discover, learn, and criticize how to use technology in the classroom. Needless to say, I’m a bit intimidated as to how the presentation is going to unfold. I have an early time (8:30 to be exact) on the last day of the conference, and I’m worried that many people will choose not to get rolling that early as many will be sleeping off the big conference party on Thursday night or heading down to the vendors for their last chance at freebies before they pack up. Either way I’m nervous, but I didn’t realize how much until last night….
I had a dream in which the conference had been moved to the state fair grounds. Not a problem I thought, this would give me some fresh air before the presentation. The problem was, my presentation wasn’t complete. By some strange coincidence my college friends had shown up, and took my out to the my old college pizza/microbrew hangout place. So off I went to munch on pizza and obscenely expensive beer, leaving my presentation in the capable hands of my parents. WHY my parents you aslk? I have NO IDEA; this is a bad dream after all.
I finally finish my pizza, and decide to head out to see if I can catch the last of my presentation (as being presented by my parents). The pizza place however, is on the other side of the fairgrounds from the main hall. After trekking across the grounds, through a couple of baseball games, and stopping to blame in a short game of hoopless basketball (it was a strange experience), I made it to the presentation hall. Upon entering I find that they’ve set up all the presenters as though we were showing pigs, with dozens of arenas all setup for the audience in the grandstand. Presenters had projectors, SmartBoards, laser pointers, handouts, jokes, games, amd more. And right in the middle of this circus of PowerPoint Presentations, sat my mother and stepfather, with my laptop still nestled in it’s case and 3 people in the stands having only the slightest bit of interest in them as they talked about my most embarassing childhood moments.
That’s when I woke up, which is why I’ve been working on my presentation since 7 AM on a Saturday morning. As much as I love my folks, I’d rather have my presentation in order than relive even a tiny bit of that rather odd dream.
Was that story funny, interesting, and/or strange enough for the famine Crhis? Drop another dollar in the bucket for me
Posted by jessica petersen on 23.02.06 at 6:00 pm
thank you for sponsering childern you are a godest
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Posted by jessica petersen on 23.02.06 at 6:00 pm
i think it is so sad how the children have to suffer thank you guys that HELPs the children alot!!!!!!!!
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