I know I’m strange, but you’ve probably noticed, I love lists. My favorite thing at the end of the year is finding top ten lists. Doesn’t necessarily matter what they are of, they just need to be interesting. So after I grabbed my cup of coffee this morning I checked my email and I had one from a friend directing me to … what else? … a Top 10 list on someone’s blog. I thought it was amusing and honestly can agree that I probably got many of the same messages. So here is a top 10 list for your enjoyment!
AOL released what they’re calling the Top Spam Subjects for 2005. AOL apparently blocked over 556 billion spam emails in 2005, and they used this data to compile this list of the
Top 10:
- Online Prescriptions Made Easy
- Thank you: Your $199 Rolex Special Included
- Your Mortgage Application is Ready
- Thank you for your business. Shipment notification
- Breaking Stock News** Small Cap Issue Poised to Triple
- It’s Lisa, I must have sent you to the wrong site
- Get an Apple iPod Nano, PS3 or Xbox 360 for Free
- Body Wrap: Lose 6-20 inches in one hour
- Double Standards New Product - Penis Patch
- Donald Trump Wants You - Please Respond
Now, although I agree with many, I also disagree… I keep getting one over and over again from several different email address’ - the subject line says:
“re: about your website”
Now this stupid email informs me all about a charity and other things. I also get the infamous paypal emails constantly. As well as many other’s. About being selected to win such and such, etc. It’s rather annoying, but all in all I find it more fascinating that anyone finds the time to just sit and write up spam emails and send them out. The forwards can be annoying to….now there’s a top 10 list I’d like to see! Let’s see if I can go dig one up!
My stupid room-mate has been spying on me YET again. LOL Totally cracks me the heck up, because apparently he thinks I am too stupid to notice or to figure it out.
As everyone has told me, I would be a great PI. I already knew that. Whatever. Anyway, I found photographs he had taken of some of my stuff on his cell phone. Weird eh? It was of a binder I had with pics of my family on it. Isn’t that just cute. I know why - because crazy cop is one of the pics on there and the binder is titled “family pics”. LOL
What a loser.
I was surfing blogs on blogexplosion and happened to stumble across a picture that I’ve seen before. My son was standing behind me when the page loaded. (age 11). We both gasped in surprise when it loaded. Yes, I’ve seen this before, but each time I do, it just catches me off guard. My son however had not seen it and it led to lots of questions. First of all, he’s the biggest science nut in the world I think. At age 9 he decided he wanted to be a Marine Biologist when he grew up and hasn’t changed again since. But he is also God’s child. And when I say that he is the child of God, I mean it in the literal sense, as the bible states, but I also mean it in a “less-literal” way. He is a baby Christian. He is still learning and growing. The questions he asks are so full of innocence and the curiousity that lots of children experience when talking about God. He doesn’t fully understand but in his eyes you can see he wants to so badly. It’s such a beautiful thing.
My friend doesn’t encourage “Santa” in their house - they know EXACTLY who Santa is in their house. She chose to tell her children because she was afraid that they would perceive God right along with Santa, The Easter Bunny and the toothfairy. I have to admit, I almost agreed with her. However, my kids were believers (my son figured it out approximately 2 years ago or so). So I asked her why she doesn’t accept Santa in her house. Her answer was simple, “I don’t want the children to ever confuse if God is real.” Now the first thing I have to tell you about her is that she is a STRONG faithfilled Christian woman. She is also who brought me back to the church, so she is steps ahead of me in her faith. What surprised me the most about the whole thing, was that she didn’t seem to have faith that God would ensure her children believed in Him. That through their blessings they would see. Regardless, they don’t hear about “Santa” the way the rest of us did/do. However, they are happy well adjusted, strong faithbased Children (ok so two of her kids are under 5 so maybe not them). The oldest accepted Christ last year in a ceremony that I have to admit made me cry. It was beautiful to see a 7 year old boy, openly accepting Christ and vowing to live in his grace (so to speak).
There is a point to all this. When my son saw the picture this morning, he looked at it, gasped much the way I did, and said “Mom that’s proof right there God exists.” Even after reading him what it was, and I did include the exerpt we found below, he still wasn’t convinced that wasn’t “from God”. His theory is, God created the world, so why wouldn’t he make the gasses look like he was watching over us. He doesn’t want us to forget. Wow! I have a really smart kid.
Here is the info we found on the photo - a lot of people dispelled it’s authenticity - seem’s it’s authentic - just not what it sure appears to be!
This is indeed an authentic photograph — or rather, composite of photos — taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. It was featured on NASA’s Website as an Astronomy Picture of the Day in May 2003 and thereafter posted on a number of Websites under the title “The Eye of God” (though I couldn’t find evidence that NASA has ever referred to it as such). The awe-inspiring image has also been featured on magazine covers and in articles about space imagery.
The image depicts the so-called Helix Nebula, described by astronomers as “a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases.” At its center is dying, Sun-like star which has ejected masses of dust and gas to form tentacle-like filaments stretching toward an outer rim composed of the same material. The Sun itself may look like this in several billion years.
Original Image Credit: NASA, WIYN, NOAO, ESA, Hubble Helix Nebula Team, M. Meixner (STScI), & T. A. Rector (NRAO).
