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In accordance with new and old random interests of mine, and the pages at the right:

Barf

How long will you slumber, O sluggard? When will you rise from your sleep?
Some are consumed with Greed all day long, but the righteous gives and does not spare.
Wrath is cruel and anger a torrent, but hwo is able to stand before envy?
Do not be friends with an Angry man, and with a Furious man do not go.
Lust not after her beauty in your heart; nor let her take you with her eyelids.
For the Drunkard and the Glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Below see some differences between LCD and IPS

Two Thangs

Olympus BioScapes International Digital Imaging Competition http://www.olympusbioscapes.com/includes/flash/videoplayer.html

Best Website Ever

Damn you, autocorrect!

The Ready Set - Love Like Woe [Lyric Video]

Actually my sister showed me this song.  Video is pretty cool, although it makes me kind of dizzy, the words go by kind of fast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjIjKT1QfQE

Check out some of the pages at the right!

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The small joys in life...

...may be hidden but are always present if you just look.

Nick Vujicic

http://www.lifewithoutlimbs.org/

Wonder

Why are human beings are so often at war with themselves? We must still be unsure of who we are and I mean who in a figurative sense. If we knew what kind of people we were, would we not respond as robots do to each stimulus?

Instead, we are aware that as human beings we are fallible. A squirrel does not leap from one branch to the next considering, "What happens if I make a mistake?" A turtle does not leave his eggs on the shore thinking,"What if my babies don't make it to the sea?" It may be true that animals are not impacted by time, they do not consider what may happen in the future and yet bears eat enough food to sleep a whole winter. It must come down to the fact that our fellow living organisms are impacted too much by nature where as we are impacted too much by society. One can argue that society is shaped by nature and thus, human beings are in fact impacted by nature as well, yet the same person would have to argue then, that a child is born to his or her grandmother rather than to his or her mother who was born to his or her grandmother. You can see, it is not the same.

Instead, we are aware that as human beings we can change. Experience begets wisdom, so many say. You may react to something one way, experience something that makes you reconsider, and next time when presented with the same stimulus, act in another, completely contrasting way. It is even true that sometimes, these decisions are spurious, without "careful" consideration. What makes it hard to predict what humans will do is the fact that we are spontaneous. Take this simple example, it is well know that a person, A's favorite color is blue. A's friends decide to buy him a car, being the rich friends they are, they decide to bring A with them to pick it out. He chooses a red car in the end. What made A decide to choose a red car instead of a blue car, his friends wonder? They try to rationalize it, they believe, as most human beings do, that everything has a reason. The red cars were cheaper. The red cards were more aesthetically pleasing. But could it be because A suddenly had a change of heart and would like to drive a red car? If you asked him what his favorite color is, he would still reply that it is blue. If you asked him later if he regretted his decision, he may even say he did.

Is the reason then that as human beings impacted strongly by society, we are constantly at war with ourselves, simply because we are the only species to be conscious of the theory of a future and to be aware of the process of change? Are we TOO comfortable in how we live, so that what we do is in fact opposite of what we should or what we are "programmed" to do?

Now.

Things sound different.

(Why my dictionary broke!)

What a complete failure.

Metro office claimed their Q-card service was not the same as Baylor's Q-card service. (BTW what is Baylor's Q-card service?)

Tried to explain we all got our Q-cards during orientation which is for students at Baylor but was told that I still needed a schedule for Baylor to prove I'm a Baylor student. All this because of that stupid $50 Q-card I got from Rice that I never picked up and is now void but is still linked to my name. Oh BTW, after all this I went to the library from Baylor and it was closed.

GJ Metro for saying I couldn't get another Q-card cause I already had one and then saying I couldn't get one even though I applied for it at orientation and needed to prove I was indeed a student and didn't attend orientation just because I had time to kill.

GJ Self for not checking online before going to the library when it was closed.

So many in a day.

silence stands alone amidst the chaos
listen for it
it is there

behind the darkness of closed eyes, there is light
the first time when i closed my eyes to open them

turn to look behind for things that are lost
what you wait for is there waiting for you

happiness is missing in your smile
everything else is there
complete

Walking down these pebbled streets...

Some are cracked.
Some are well formed.
Some look as if they were put in yesterday.
Some as if they have been here for much longer.

Often we feel that our lives are somewhat disengaged from reality. We process our surroundings saying, yes this feels right, this belongs, this is how it should be. The familiar faces flashed by and I am able to feel that expectation of them.

Open your eyes. Now expectation turns to hope. The trees blanketing the campus from the watchful eyes above are there, the stones between my shoes are real. I can feel the smooth rounded tops, the crevices in between.

But these people here are not who I expected-hoped they would be. In my memories there is none of this searching. The only place where it fits is in this thing we understand as reality. Are you hiding those things I know to be true above your leaves in the sky?

Now there you go again
You say you want your freedom
Who am I to keep you down...down
It's only right that you should
Play it the way that you feel it
But listen carefully to the sound
Of your loneliness
Like a heartbeat, drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering
What you had, And what you lost
Ooooh, say what you had, you know what you lost

Thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
They say, women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean, you'll know
You will know

Here I go again, I see the crystal visions
I keep my visions to myself, yeah
It's only me who wants to wrap around your dreams and
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Dreams of Loneliness, like a heartbeat, drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering
What you had, And what you lost
Oooh, says what you had, you know what you lost

Thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
They say, women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean, you'll know

Oh thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
They say, women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean, you'll know
You'll know
You will know
Oh oh oh you'll know

Psalm 23

 ¹ The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.

 ² He makes me lie down in green pastures,
       he leads me beside quiet waters,
 ³ he restores my soul.
       He guides me in paths of righteousness
       for his name's sake.
 ⁴ Even though I walk
       through the valley of the shadow of death,
       I will fear no evil,
       for you are with me;
       your rod and your staff,
       they comfort me.
 ⁵ You prepare a table before me
       in the presence of my enemies.
       You anoint my head with oil;
       my cup overflows.
 ⁶ Surely goodness and love will follow me
       all the days of my life,
       and I will dwell in the house of the LORD
       forever.


Curious about this poem after reading the synposis of The Wicker Man, a 1973 film, purported to be one of the worst films in history.

This was from a Kongregate Game.

Want to play the game where I saw this poem?

when people say you can't escape your past
i beg to differ
i see the goal before me
and turning back now will not solve anything
running away from myself keeps leading me in circles
avoiding mistakes i remember all too well
time
is the enemy
i know now that fame and fortune are part of who i am
these fractions of my past have already passed me by
why is it that regrets are the only things on my mind and dreams i never have anymore
bad memories
cloud my judgement
success or failure
is all important
self-reflection
avoidable
though inevitably, turning back at this point was

not avoidable
self-reflection
is all important
success or failure cloud my judgement
bad memories
i never have anymore
and dreams
are the only things on my mind
why is it that regrets
have already passed me by
these fractions of my past
are part of who i am
i know that fame and fortune is the enemy
time
i remember all too well
avoiding mistakes keeps leading me in circles
running away from myself will not solve anything
and turning back now
i see the goal before me
i beg to differ
when people say you can't escape your past
you can...
i just won't

never doth (does) a man stand so tall; as when he stoops (down) to help his fellow man

If

Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

Some of this was also in a game on Kongregate which is how I found out about it.