One of the benefits of living with teenage boys and having hip sons-in-law is that I get to hear about all the latest cool stuff on the internet.Thanks to my son AJ and my son-in-law Giovanni several fun things were brought to my attention this week.
One is the absorbing site diddit.com. Here you can track all the interesting things you have done - and the things you want to do. There are tons of suggestions for new adventures to experience. I figure this fits right into my New Year's Resolution about trying new things! I just signed up and haven't started checking off items yet, but I can tell this will give me a really fun new way to avoid doing laundry.
Thanks to Giovanni I was introduced to "drop box" (getdropbox.com.) Here you can download a program that allows you to access files from your computer from wherever you are, eliminating the need to email files to yourself or use USB. (Just yesterday I was emailing myself from our main home computer to my lap top. I do own a flash drive but 1. I never learned how to use it and 2. I can never keep track of it!)
I have to say the most awe-inspiring find of the week was google earth 5.0. (No, it was not that nasty SNL short you shared with me, AJ.) I cannot believe the detail that you can see when you google any location on the planet - no, make that the solar system! AJ was showing me pictures of the surface of Mars!
I must admit it was more than a little unsettling to see a pic of my house with my daughter's car parked out front. Big brother, anyone? But as AJ zoomed out from that view, out to a view of my state, our country, and our planet, I was mostly blown away by this thought:
I am very, very tiny.
The sense of the smallness each individual, of our apparent insignificance, left me wondering...
What sort of a god could create so many tiny souls, and remember them all?
What kind of creator could put a planet in motion, fill it with millions of beings, and love each one with a unique and personal love?
What type of man could give his very life to save each and every one of these miniscule specks on the surface of a big blue marble floating through an infinite space?
My kind of God.
My kind of Man.
Wow.
3 comments:
we have done that google earth several times, and it is fascinating. i'll have to check out that first site...new adventures to try sounds fun.
Matt the hot husband loves to play with Google earth.
It is all so awe-inspiring.
Too big for my tiny mind.
When my dh and I where dragging out the garbage last night there was some weird thing in the night sky. One long big light. He thought it was the northern lights....I am thinking ONE northern light. It didn't move either. All that space stuff just freaks me out. I like being tiny and small and not knowing what God is up too out there.
Post a Comment