Pray, baby

All right, you guys have to see this. This is a notice-of-shipment email I received from an real live online record store. (edited for security purposes) To: jdavidjord@aol.com Subject: Joel - Your CD Baby Order! (#591985) From: CD Baby loves Joel Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:10:29 -0700 (PDT) Joel - Thanks for your order with CD Baby! === =========== ===== ===== 1 FLYNN: let the show begin Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow. A team of 50 employees inspected your CD and polished it to make sure it was in the best possible condition before mailing. Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CD into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy. We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved 'Bon Voyage!' to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, Thursday, September 2nd. I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did. Your picture is on our wall as 'Customer of the Year'. We're all exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!! Thank you once again, Derek Sivers, president, CD Baby the little CD store with the best new independent music phone: 1-800-448-6369 email: cdbaby@cdbaby.com http://www.cdbaby.com I forwarded it to Steve and he had this to say: "frickin' priceless, now that's above and beyond... that sweet little note, that's what we all wish happens when we buy something from a company and have it sent to us. if we can just get our students to believe that something similar actually happens when they pray to God..." And I said, 'Cool Steve'. So what do you think about Steve's comment? Personally, I love the application and I intent to use it with my students. I also am aware and sometimes annoyed by people trivializing or dumbing down divine processes with cute little things like notice-of-shipment emails.....So with all things considered, fire away... Oh, and CDbaby rocks.