An end of summer YouTube post. Another season to color our thoughts and carry in the ship of memories.
I read on 19 July the following entry of George MacDonald's "The Diary of an Old Soul":
Thou far!--that word the holy truth doth blur.
Doth the great ocean from the small fish run
When it sleeps fast in its low weedy bower?
Is the sun far from any smallest flower,
That lives by his dear presence every hour?
Are they not one in oneness without stir--
The flower the flower because the sun the sun?
Today, nearly a month later, I distilled from these evocative verses into the essence of a Haiku:
God's love far yet near
Lilacs bloomed when light ascribed
Sun and life embraced
For the LORD GOD is a sun and shield: The LORD gives grace and glory; No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.
-- Psalm 84:10-12 NASB
To do or not to do.
This is a very good app for the stated functionality for keeping track of to-do stuff. If you decide to try it, don't get too deep into the Appigo's free lite version of Todo Lite, though. It is limited to under a dozen or so of tasks. You won't be warned when the limits are reached. When the sample records are reach, that's it. Further, if you should decide to buy the full-featured version and sync (transfer) the free version's database over to it, don't bother. The sync utilities from the lite to the paid version are more trouble than they're worth. Buy the full-featured version $4.99 (USD) from the iTunes Store and start from there.
I use this app to keep track of the to do lists by dates and priorities:
1. Recurring household chores
2. Recurring services rendered
3. Recurring sundries to shop and at which stores or online for best price
4. Episodic tasks
5. Medical & Dental appointments
6. Daily and recurring nutritional supplemental intake reminders
All of these things I can set with alerts and notifications. This is the app I use everyday.
"He that will give good words to thee will flatter beneath abhorring."
--Shakespeare, 'Coriolanus', Act 1 Scene 1.
Not in this case, Will. My friend sports a very congenial disposition of all the Words with Friends games she's played me. Albeit She has yet to win her first game.
This is a game similar played in the manner of correspondent chess. One need not be attentive or sedentary in his own surroundings waiting for the opponent's next move. He could also play other opponents on the WWF app. The moves on the board(s) are transmitted via either a Wi-Fi or a 3G connection. This game is designed for the iPod, iPhone, or iPad only.
It's more fun and tactically appealing to me by plotting and anticipating the placement of the letter tiles on just one game board. A linear thinking mind like mine would not do well playing multiple boards. I get confused with memorizing on which set of tiles (with replacements) to play on which board. It's too stressful and less fun.
The free game is full-featured but laced with annoying advertising pop-ups. After playing a few games using the free version, I bought the ad free edition for $2.99 (USD).
I like this game. The only frustration is the game server does crash more than once in a blue moo. I always happens during a game. The impersonal and rude excuses received from the server are to the effect "Repairing..." and or "Updating..." the game in progress. No warning given and no consent are solicited from the player. It just does and wipes out the game. The most recent episode happened when I was just one tile placement away in winning the game. Alas, a bloody shame of not having another notch scored (pun) on the virtual game board, so to speak.
Angry Birds is the only paid game (only $0.99 USD!) I have installed on my iPod Touch 3G. I like it for its simple yet elegant play design. It has many thematic levels. The play concept and tactics do not vary at each level, however.
This game is easy on the mind and body (for some). No strain or stress of which to speak, mostly, (for some). It is a mobile device game well suited for the casual gamer during long waits at the airport or some other public queues (for some).
Playing Angry Birds is fun, and yet it is insidiously addictive. The latter is not at all a good thing if one is mired in this altered reality of living the life.
As I see it, the birds and the pigs in this app aren't going anywhere. They neither age nor die of starvation when being ignored. They are programmed to stay in character today, tomorrow, and the day after. Thus being obsessed with playing this game continually isn't worth the time.
Time does not stand still. It is not a game, nor can it be paused or rewound for a replay. Each of us has our own one-way hourglass allotted with varied amount of sand. For most, we choose how to expend this precious and physically irredeemable commodity for life's priorities. Playing Angry Birds is not essential for the pursuit of happiness.
So then, why irrationally or compulsively throwing away precious time to challenge a game, notwithstanding its enormous popularity. Moreover, why compound the time spent playing the game with the risk of stepping into the abyss of despair and destruction. i.e. Depression, anxiety, sleep and nutritional deprivations, social paranoia, and carpal tunnel syndrome. All these potential and real ailments for the sake of winning some virtual golden eggs? The cost doesn't even come close in justifying the ephemeral benefit.
We are already a society staked with many tents of self-helps. Let's hope an anonymous mutual support society or such is not ever needed to free one from a possible Angry Birds addiction.
Q: Where do you go to buy a Persian rug?
A: In a Persian market.
A lame trivial, yet the "In a Persian Market" music is great!
Today is Sara Teasdale's birthday anniversary.
8 August, is Victor Young's birthday anniversary. He won the Oscar, posthumously, for Best Music in 1957 . Among Young's many other music are: Stella by Starlight (1953) and Three Coins in the Fountain (1954).
If you have updated your iPhone 3G or the iPod Touch 2G/3G to iOS4, your device would most likely not be able to play the music on this blog. Either device would blame the server for being improperly configured. Notwithstanding the RSS feed is valid per server configuration. So then, to listen to the music link offered on this blog, you need to access it using a pre-iOS4 Apple mobile device, or play from a desktop/laptop browser.
Apple is morphing into Microsoft.
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