Six Neat Things

Many of you may have noted that I have a disclosure policy on this blog. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that some of my posts are monetized after reading that, now does it? This past ten days has seen a lot of growing pains for my favorite company, PayPerPost. There was a major rollout of new code, and it had errors that made for difficulties for a fair number of their bloggers. OTOH, once these bugs are squashed, PPP will once again be the best thing going as far as being able to make money blogging. We’ve been assured by the head of the Dev Team that this will happen today, which is why I am telling you about the company.

PPP has introduced segmentation, and this is great news for advertisers and bloggers alike. Blogs with high traffic and good posts will receive higher payouts for their work, and advertisers can now be sure that the bloggers who take their opportunities are qualified to do so. For the smaller blogger, PPP also makes a lot of sense. Their commission rate is the smallest in the industry, and that means more money in your(my) pocket at the end of the day.

PPP is also the only company that I know of that requires disclosure from their bloggers. I like working for a company that doesn’t try to hide what it’s about.

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Here at SixNeatThings, we love all things Celtic. We like the stories, we like the music, we like the festivals, we just have an affinity for the Celtic. We have even been known to embellish our hand knitted items with Celtic Knots. I was excited to see a site this morning called Celtic Hills. They have a neat collection of Celtic things including many versions of the Celtic cross. Check out the Irish Blessing Cross at the bottom of the page.

My the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand

This has always been one of may favorite blessings, and it is today’s neat thing.

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Downloadable grammars, readers, lexicons and dictionaries are the highlights at Classical Languages. They also have fora and study groups for budding linguists. Subscribing to the free newsletter will allow you to download answer keys and you can create free vocabulary courses via the vocabulary tool. A collection of study tools for New Testament Greek is also available. Start at the Beginner’s Center.

This is a public service announcement on motorcycle safety. Wear a helmet, because living is really neat, and you’d hate to cut that experience short. Wear clothing that will protect you from the bike muffler and from road rash in a crash, because scars are neat only in that “can be used to freak out small children” kind of way. Wear motorcycle sunglasses because being able to see is a really neat and really irreplaceable trick. Finally have fun, cause nothing’s neater than that!

This is a good site to spur your writing. You get OneWord for inspiration and 60 seconds to type. Use this one for when you are stricken with writer’s block. You just have to be committed to actually do it! This would also be a great tool for teaching creative writing. “Don’t think, just write.”

I have to sing the praises of the new sterilite wheeled baskets. I am mentioning them on every applicable blog, because I really think they are all that ans then some. The baskets are sturdy, and they have wheels. They also have handles that you can turn to the top and make the baskets stackable. These are particularly useful as toy bins when kids share a room, since kids furniture tends to eat up a lot of floor space. I picked mine up at Dollar General for the princely sum of 4 bucks each for the toy bin size, and 8 bucks for the laundry hamper size.

Here are some fun quizzes. The site includes some history and science, as well as other areas, and there is stuff for all ages here. Fun Stuff: Memory Games, Brain Teasers, Trivia, IQ Quizzes and Puzzles also has links to career and personality inventories. Have a little fun, and get some useful knowledge, too. Be sure to check out the Art History quiz, and the common sayings unscrambler..

How can you have a blog called SixNeatThings, and never mention every kids fantasy? I’m talking about Disneyworld, of course. Getting an Orlando vacation rental will allow you to take advantage of a multiple day pass to a variety of theme parks, and surely every member of the family will find at least one neat thing among all the offerings. Mouse ear hat is obligatory, formal attire definitely not. Go in the the off season, it’s much more fun!

This site is searchable, and contains the plays, poems and sonnets of Shakespeare . The plays include a character list with explanations. The sonnets options are cool, allowing you to compare 2 side by side, read a range of them, or just go to individual ones. I was really surprised to note that aside from the sonnets there are only 5 extant Shakespearian poems. I guess it’s totally true that you learn something every day!

This neat thing hits close to home. I may be prejudiced by proximity, but I think Raleigh is one of the neatest capital cities in the country. It and it’s immediate environs are home to 3 incredible universities (four if you include the red one), numerous fine museums, and a whole lot of nice people. You can get more information than I have time to post in this blog entry at Raleigh North Carolina Real Estate. I know it’s a real estate site, but they have some good information on the area.

That’s what I am having. I’m giving ya’ll way more than Six Neat Things per week, aren’t I? Are you hanging in ok? I hope so, because I am certainly enjoying bringing these finds to you. All I can say is view this blog as a smörgåsbord. Just as you can’t sample everything on the table at a buffet, pick and choose here what interests you. Eventually, I may slow down again. But then again you never know with me. I’m crazy like that.

Nothing to listen to this time, and no art to look at either. Just a reminder to make sure your house marker is legible from the street. Emergency personnel need to be able to read them in order to respond quickly in case of emergency. I know we like to think it will never happen to us, but each time the ambulance screams by, it should serve as a reminder that it could. Don’t make it harder for help to arrive in a timely manner.