RubberDuckMuseum.com

I’d like to propose the possibility/feasibility of allowing the coins deposited in Coinstar machines to be directly deposited into a Paypal account. I’ve got all sorts of change that I would like to move into Paypal for the continuation of this site, and I could see larger organizations getting into buying adspace asking for donations from the change endowed. I’ve even got a name for the conglomeration: Coinpal (a domain name that’s supposedly for sale for 4000 eurobucks - sigh)!!!!! Brilliant, if you ask me…except…well…nobody asked.

In other news, I’ve added DLTV to my netcast listening repetoire, Wednesday. Incredible tech show as well and really turned on to me by Dvorak’s mention of them on Cranky Geeks. Cammy Blackstone now has a ‘cast on about junk food with Leo entitled Munchcast. Show #1 was pretty funny, and I like Cammy’s on-air personality.

And in Christian news, I’m now in the habit of reading Morning By Morning by Charles Spurgeon and My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers. Solid devotionals from solid spiritual leaders. I’m also trying to read at least a chapter out of the ol’ King James everyday as well. If I’m a “Person of the Book” as Christians are sometimes called, I want to know what the Book says. Check it out! :^D

…then I renewed the domain name fees!  Which means another year and a chance to show off the rest of the ducks.  I’m sure some of you are out there wondering how financially desperate I am, and that answer is after the first fruits going to God, the rest goes to the support of my beautiful family.  Hence, the whole goal number 2 which is to make this site self sustaining.  So if you like the ducks, feel free to feed them by using the Paypal donation button.  I’m considering advertising, but I’m down on things that impede load time.  It’s important that you get the fowl fresh and fast. I do have plans as we continue to load the pictures of the ducks to make pictures sized to fit cell phone screens and possibly a screensaver.  I think that would also be nice for desktop backgrounds as well.  It really is a constant state of flux.  Oh!  And I have some charts and graphs that I built which directly relates to what I do in my primary source of capital acquisition.  Yes, I somehow became a stats geek having taken only one stats class in college.  Who knew?

Ugh, I’m trying to pay for my domain name fees before the 13th, and I just created the Paypal account.  I was able to get the money to Paypal, but now it has to wait 3-4 business days.  It’s gonna be a nail biter as I got the fees in Wednesday night.  In the meantime, Brian was able to help me to install widgets on the sidebar, and now I have all sorts of cool stuff over on the right side, including my donate button.  I think that’s the last time I’m going to mention donations for this post.  Begging just puts a pall on the whole site that tinges the blues to a gray.

 In other news, I did look up on Wikipedia the rubber duck.  It’s a great article that talks about Ze Frank, which leads me to this story.  About three weeks ago I am in the office and a group of people walk by for a meeting or training or something and I hear the usual ooohs and ahhhs to the rubber ducks that sit atop my cubicle.  A lady and a gentleman about my age take a moment to stop in my cube and talk to me about the ducks.  As the gentleman takes a few pictures to send home to his wife, the lady asks me if I ever watched ZeFrank’s podcast, which I wouldn’t of even known about if I hadn’t heard about him from TWiT and http://twit.tv/itn.  I said I had heard that he was no longer podcasting daily and she singsonged me what he says about rubber ducks.  Quriky, if you ask me, but it’s fun to have a ready made conversation opener for anyone who stops by.