There’s a need for creativity in this world. Cro Cop is creative in the ring, Michael Jordan was creative in Basketball, Wayne Gretzky was creative in hockey, Socrates was creative in thought, Jenna Jamesion is creative in porn, Picaso was creative in art. The world is the world, having superbowls, oscars, stanley cups, March Madness. Enjoy this world cause at least it’s entertaining.
February 14, 2007
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November 11, 2006
I was reading up on Donald Rumsfeld on Wikipedia and I ended up at the Wikipedia article of Bushisms and thought it was hilarious! Thought Id share a little laughter with ya here.
According to Wikipedia: “Bushism is a neologism used to describe a peculiar word, phrase, pronunciation, or linguistic error that have occurred in the public speaking of United States Presidents George H. W. Bush and his son George W. Bush”
The funniest I think is this poem called Make The Pie Higher! which is a compilation of ridiculous things Bush said.
MAKE THE PIE HIGHER
by George W. Bush
I think we all agree, the past is over.
This is still a dangerous world.
It’s a world of madmen and uncertainty
and potential mental losses.
Rarely is the question asked
Is our children learning?
Will the highways of the Internet become more few?
How many hands have I shaked?
They misunderestimate me.
I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity.
I know that the human being and the fish can coexist.
Families is where our nation finds hope, where our wings take dream.
Put food on your family!
Knock down the tollbooth!
Vulcanize society!
Make the pie higher! Make the pie higher!
Here are some famous Bushisms listed on the wikipedia page:
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Check out this Bushism videoroll, it is hysterical: http://throwawayyourtv.com/2006/03/bushisms-videoroll.html
One of the links there is to a site called Dubyaspeak.com, its pretty funny too. I love the pics of Bubya they have on the main page.
August 25, 2006
From science.slashdot.org:
- Amazing creature!: A new paper at www.plos.org (Public Library of Science) reports on the sequencing and analysis of the genome of a single-celled organism, whose genome is nearly as complex as the human genome. Tetrahymena thermophila has 27,000 genes giving it amazing complexity and abilities. It is a master at changing its shape and its properties in response to the changing environment. This species uses its genomic complexity to physically dominate whatever environment it encounters.
- Cure for Cancer?: A group of scientists were able to reverse advanced melanoma by inserting genes into lymphocytes from the patients blood that allowed them to recognize a protein on melanoma cells and attach itself onto the cancerous cell and kill it.
- Dark Matter exists: After much speculation, scientists now have conclusive proof of dark matter.
- Depression: By breeding mice lacking a gene involved in serotonin transmission, researchers were able create a breed of mouse that is depression resistant.
- Stem Cell Research: A new scientific breakthrough allows scientists to harvest stem cells without harming the embryo and the remaining embryo also has the potential to go on to create a healthy blastocyst. What do you have to say about it now George?
- Cloned Beef: According to this article at Popular Science cloned beef may be coming soon.
July 31, 2006
As Above, So Below
I am,
the Holy and Great ONE,
Master of the universe,
Lord of the galaxies,
Sheppard of the stars,
Maestro of life.
As Above, So Below,
the universe is my body,
your mother Earth and father Sun, a part of me,
the forces, my central nervous system,
you, my children, are my fingers, ears, eyes, tongue, and nose,
life itself is my heart and soul,
we feel our pain and hatred together, and share our happiness and love,
As Above, So Below.
Oh my children!
all life throughout my body,
thine ears, mind, heart are open to take my word,
I know that you are listening,
you cannot miss it,
you cannot ignore it,
for my word is your experience,
something you cannot escape.
Observe my beauty,
in your surroundings and in your self,
experience those interactions and connections,
your experience is also mine,
your heart and soul is also mine,
and your intentions are also mine.
Let go of the doctrine of the past,
take note, but don’t hold on too tight,
for I am a reflection of you,
a figment of your understanding,
listen to me in yourself,
because we are one,
they knew me then,
you know me now.
For I am ever changing,
throughout the aeons of time,
though time is merely a placeholder of events,
to Eternity I am ONE,
to Eternity I change not.
Life evolution is not for purpose of survival,
I have already insured its propagation,
life evolution is about experience,
just follow your hearts desires,
because within your heart is encoded the purpose of life,
like an instinct you cannot decode it,
you can only act upon it.
The key to longevity is harmony,
live in harmony with all my children in all their forms,
together you form an intricate balance,
achieve harmony and you may have longevity,
but eternity is only mine.
Earth humans,
difficult times lay ahead for you,
these tribulations are necessary for you to experience,
for greater power requires greater responsibility,
take this experience to heart,
and forget not what you will learn,
follow these words, and the cosmos shall be yours to explore.
Levels within cycles and cycles within levels,
I have appointed a time for all things.
June 22, 2006
Taking my daily bike ride across town, I see a family of ducks gliding peacefully across a river as I bike over the bridge. It is around 11:00pm and getting dark, the streets are empty, I can see just the dark sillouettes of the ducks and a slight dark ripple on the water. What a beautiful sight I think to myself as I imagine my being is that of one of the ducks and imagine life from that perspective. Such a peaceful and beautiful moment in the ducks life, yet on the other hand, a daily struggle to find food and survive is inescapable. Not very different from any life, including my own. But for this moment at least, thanks to our interaction, I am in tune with the peacefullness of the ducks, and I am overwhelmed with an appreciation for life far beyond my ability to articulate. It is impossible to express my full thankfullness for my being, my life, and for the life around me that I love so dearly to observe, interact with, experience, and to be a part of. It is nice to give my brain a moment of relaxation and to strictly experience as I take a break from my relentless analytical processing trying to gain a greater understanding of the deepest nature and meaning of life, being, and the universe. I have been criticized as being too analytical, that I need to take more time to just experience. But I find that with every development of my understanding, with every revelation, the experience becomes more and more beautiful. I cannot help it regardless, that is just the nature of my analytical “male brain”. How great it is though to have a female influence to touch me with the “other side”, the female perspective. That is one of the most beautiful aspects of life, the incompleteness of a single man, or a single woman, which is transcended into a “complete” experience with the union of male and female.
June 6, 2006
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried have successfully created a “BrainChip”! They have been able to connect a cultured hippocampus slice to a semi-conductor chip making direct connections between the hippocampus neural network and the chips transistors. The electrical signals produced in the hippocampus travel onto the semi-conductor chip and can be read and examined. I am assuming that using this same principal, one could send electrical signals from the chip into the hippocampus. The hippocampus is the region of the brain responsible for short-term storage of memory. These scientists actually have been doing this kind of work now for the last 15 years and it is not the first time they have connected a neuron to a transistor, but Im assuming this is the largest scale to date. Check the slashdot article here.
June 1, 2006
Alright, I'm going to tell you something, but you must understand the context in which it is said. This is an element of conversation that is extremely important to the exchange of ideas, but is something that we are not always consciously aware of. That is, people sometimes forget that the way someone phrases a sentence is just as important as the actual words themselves, in terms of communicating an idea. The actual words in a sentence provide the framework or the "nuts & bolts" to the sentence, but there is a huge portion of a conversation that relies on the accentuations provided by the speaker that aid the message. The body language of a speaker, and the voice inflections they use, all help the receiver better understand the speakers message. This makes it easier for the listener in a conversation; they do not have to think about the sentence as much, in terms of trying to understand what the speaker meant by an ambiguous statement. They are also consequently more certain, or sure of what the speakers message really was. People generally prefer this type of communication. *An example of this principle can be seen in the general behavior of people with chronic depression. The "flat affect" that depressed individuals generally display is a major reason for the cyclical nature of their depression: as a defense mechanism to avoid being ridiculed and ostracized for a belief or opinion, depressed individuals generally attempt to minimize the expression of their own view-points and opinions. They tend to use more general, ambiguous words when speaking, and will not show much, if any, facial expressions or voice inflections during a conversation. This provides less information for others to use against them, but it also makes the listener have to think more carefully (spend more energy) about what was said in order to formulate some sort of interpretation of the message. Therefore, most people do not enjoy conversing with depressed people as much as those who use facial expressions and inflections, and might even avoid interacting with certain individuals. This will have the negative effect of reinforcing the depressed individual depressive beliefs, and the cyclical nature of depression continues. *Another example can be seen in how some people do not like to use the now common MSN Messenger, feeling it is too "mechanical" or impersonal. It can be seen as analogous to conversing with a depressed individual, with flat affect. All you get is the words; no voice inflections, or facial expressions. Although the smiley faces/winks attempt to correct for this drawback, I'm not sure that it is entirely sufficient.
May 28, 2006
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May 28, 2006
The long awaited, highly anticipated fight between Matt Hughes and the legendary Royce Gracie just ended. I am disapointed with the outcome because I have a lot of respect for Royce, and I was hoping he would whoop Matt's ass. Although I recognize Hughes as being a really tough fighter, I think he is an arrogant jack-ass and I cant wait till someone beats him down. Gracie showed a lot of heart though when it looked really grim as Hughes had a grusome arm-bar locked in tight. You could see by the expression, or lack of expression, on Gracie's face that he would have let his arm break before he would tap out. Gracie is still a legend and no doubt there is no love lost from Gracie fans out there.
I can't wait for UFC 61 coming up! Sylvia vs Arlovski #3!! Ortiz vs Shamrock #2!! Great line-up. I love Arlovski, hope he gets the heavy weight title back!
May 27, 2006
I, at this point in my life, am under the belief that there really is no such thing as choice. It is an illusion. You may think that you are "choosing" which brand of bottled water you pick up at the corner store, or which college or university you apply to, or which religion to believe in, or which morals and values to follow, but you really are not. What is happening is the neural network inside your brain starts firing and weighing each choice, and once it is satisfied with the amount of information it used to weigh each choice, then the heaviest weighted choice will come out on top. So the choice in the end is a product of the actual configuration of the neural net in your brain. That neural net is formed, and is always being re-shaped, by the experience you have had in your life, big or even seemingly insignificant experiences. Also genetics are responsible for how your brain forms at the time that you are too new to have any experiences, and, Im assuming, it also plays a role throughout your life as the brain develops. It is all Cause and Effect. There is no choice. Did you choose which human being, or other form of life, that you where to be? Did you choose which society to be born into and brought up in as your young brain developed? The only place that I think it could be possible that actual choices are being made would be in your soul. If there really is, which I like to believe there is, a spiritual aspect of our existance that goes beyond our physical bodies then I am willing to believe that there is A POSSIBILITY that the soul can make choices, but even the soul, I am so far assuming, is governed by cause and effect and the same principle applies to it causing it to also not have the ability to choose. It would be a product of the souls experience gathered over passed lives. Once you realize that this is the truth, that there is no choice, it can be an epiphanal experience. You can release all of your hatred, every last drop, towards all different forms of life. And you can look back at someone you hate, and take a look at their life from their perspective, and understand why they are a person that you used to hate. And you realize that part of the whole purpose of life is to have an infinite realm of all different life forms and personalities. Even things you used to hate, that are grotesque, or immoral, or outright terrible, can become beautiful. It is the nature of the universe and life. It is beautiful.
Now just because I have come across this belief, that I have no choice in the whole matter, does not mean that I am all of a sudden going to give up on life and go into some kind of vegetative state and not care about anything. No. I still want to make a positive change in the world for the human race, I still want to overcome my challenges in life, and I still understand that my actions determine my future and control my destiny. Because that is who I am, even though I didnt choose it.
