Feed Sift (03/14)

Five things I wanted to share...

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The Questions That Will Save Your Relationships

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What the Seahawks Can Teach Parents and Kids Everywhere

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Four Habits of Punctual People

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Forgotify - 20% of the Spotify library (over 4 million) has never been played. This player will help you discover music that deserves to be heard (and some that probably doesn't).

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Including Teens with Special Needs – Parent Partnership

Worth Repeating: John Wooden

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The Difference Between Winning and Succeeding - With profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. In this inspiring talk he shares the advice he gave his players at UCLA, quotes poetry and remembers his father's wisdom. (More on TED.com...)

Why I'm Posting - I've heard of John Wooden, but I hadn't actually heard him speak before I saw this talk. What, what a phenomenal human being.

Home Team Pride

Anyone who knows me knows I'm not well versed in sports, I don't have the time/patience to sit through games on TV and with kids (and again, the patience thing), rarely get to a live game.

However... if you've ever talked sports with me, you already know that I believe that where you live is your home and that you must cheer for the home teams.  (Exception: If you don't have a local team - like L.A. football or Seattle basketball - then you can cheer for whoever you want, except a team that recently left. And you can cheer former teams. Brooklyn may cheer for the Dodgers, L.A. may cheer for the Raiders.  Seattle may not yet cheer for the Oklahoma City Blunder.  It's too soon.)  

And I don't care what you say... The Anaheim Angels of Los Angeles?  I don't think so.

So, anyhow, I absolutely love to see a home team giving another home team love.  Two posts that recently appeared on my Facebook News Feed...

Odds and Ends 61

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MASHABLE -- Sony Retires the Cassette Walkman After 30 Years

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ANDY SERNOVITZ (expanding on **** MY DAD SAYS) -- “Don’t focus on the one guy who hates you. You don’t go to the park and set your picnic down next to the only pile... - yeah, coarse, but a good point

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IMHABIT -- Ultra-Compact “Near House” is a Small Space Marvel in Japan

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FRANK CHIMERO -- How to Have An Idea - possibly one of the coolest things I've shared.

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SEATTLE TRANSIT BLOG -- On Bicyclist Safety - more bikes = safer roads

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CNET NEWS -- Facebook offers one-time passwords

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WOOT -- Snohomish-Style Sportsmanship

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I, CRINGELY -- License to Print Money

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UNCLUTTERER -- A place for everything, and everything in its place

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BASIC INSTRUCTIONS -- Something that mocks Oregon or something

The Genie

A guy was walking along the beach and saw a brass lamp in the shallow water, being nudged by each incoming wave. It looked like at any moment, the next wave might dislodge the lamp and it would float out to sea. He looked carefully at the lamp, it looked like one you'd find a genie in, if this were a fairy tale.

He looked around quickly and not seeing anyone else - and nothing that looked like a hidden camera, quickly scooped it up and hid it under his jacket and kept walking.

When he got back to his car, he pulled out the lamp to look more closely at it. As he brushed off the sand, smoke began to pour from the spout and suddenly a guy who looked just like you'd expect a genie to look was sitting in his passenger seat.

"Greetings," he spoke, "I am the genie of the lamp and if you'll allow me to grant you three wishes -- anything you want -- I'll be free of this lamp for a thousand years."

the guy thought it over and decided to play along. "Ok, I'd like to see the Mariners win the World Series this year."

The genie snapped his fingers "Done," pulling four tckets from his vest and placing them on the dash. "It's gonna be tough, but I can make it happen. Alrighty," he said looking around the car, "what's next? Maybe a new car?" he said picking upa fast food wrapped from the floor.

The man thought and then said "I've got it! I'd like to see the Seahawks in the Superbowl year after next."

The genie looked at him, stunned. "Really? Not a nice BMW? Or maybe an Rolls Royce? Mind's made up, huh?" the genie sighed and said "Ok, well this will be a rebuilding year and they are due." and pulled four tickets from his vest and placed them on the dash.

"And for my third wish..."

"Yes?" asked the genie hesitantly.

"I'd like the Cougars to win the Rose Bowl in three years!"

Without a word, the genie reach out, took the Mariners and Seahawks tickets from the dashboard, tore them up and said "well, I guess another thousand years in the lamp isn't *that* bad" and prompty vanished.

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Painstakingly pecked entirely with the onscreen keyboard of an iPod Touch. Any typos (c) Steve Jobs. This would definitely be easier with an actual keyboard. Just saying.

The Way to Watch the Game

Thanks to Corey and Gilda who brought over their projector.  I was disappointed that they didn't stay for The Office but then I watched The Office and was quite disappointed so glad they weren't around for all of the putting kids to bed stuff just to watch that episode.

The Assignment Of A Lifetime

GOLFDIGEST.COM -- When I called Golf World Editor-in-Chief Geoff Russell and told him Betsy King, a Hall-of-Famer and one of the tour's all-time greats, was going to take some LPGA players to Africa his reply was simple. "See if you can go with them," he said. I threw the idea out to Betsy and then waited an agonizingly long five weeks before I found out I would be allowed to accompany them, no doubt while Betsy received the permission needed from World Vision, the Christian relief organization through which Golf Fore Africa donates its money. More...

Major League Baseball and World Vision provide postseason apparel to children and families in need

MLB.COM -- Major League Baseball today announced it is expanding its longstanding relationship with international relief organization World Vision by donating unsalable 2007 postseason MLB-licensed apparel to children and families in developing countries around the world.

Major League Baseball has previously worked with World Vision to donate counterfeit goods that have been confiscated by law enforcement. These efforts will continue during the 2007 postseason. Read more...

Tour de France

This is a pretty cool site. They're not racing right now, but the site is just really nice looking.

Cool at-a-glance scoreboard

ENGADGET.COM -- Everyone knows how much of a diehard sports fan I am. ha, not really. (I don't have the patience.) But I thought this was kinda cool. It wirelessly connects to the internet over your existing router (comes with a very basic one if you don't have one) and shows you team scores and you know, if someone's on base or something. It's kind of a neat novelty thing with its retro look and new-fangled high-techness. Not really a gift for me, but if you know a sports fan, this is something they may really find ingenious. More...