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aixelsyd13 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:50:35 +0000

From: ERiC AiXeLsyD world.and.lunar.domination
Date: Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: W(aL)D [Fan Mail?]
To: Tommy Horner tommyboy489

Dear Mr. Horner (a.k.a. The Moon),

I have it on good authority that you are indeed made of green cheese… and that you are most definitely not the moon. I will reserve any comments on your equatorial radius and lack of testicles. While I am indeed old, science progresses at a rate where age may be rendered irrelevant in the near future… thus ensuring more time for me to complete my total World (and Lunar) Domination.

If you keep up this behavior, you will most certainly not be allowed on the moon.

Although, I’m guessing from my blog stats that you have been one of the people exploring my old W(aL)D files. Too bad the beginnings were wiped out in one of the great PittsburghBeat.com crashes. For this studious devotion, your feeble attempts at threatening me will be forgiven. Perhaps one day, you can work up to a position of merit in the W(aL)D army.

Perhaps I need to ramp up the efforts to my World (and Lunar) Domination campaign? Maybe I will need to enlist some generals once again to help in the effort.

I also appreciate your taking the time to write to me, and encourage you to comment on the blogs that you find amusing. There’s no need to login. Just pop in our name, email address, and a URL if so inclined. Use Gravatar or a WordPress account if you want your photo to show up.

Your future Emperor of the Earth (and Moon),
-ERiC AiXeLsyD
W(aL)D

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Tommy Horner tommyboy489 wrote:

The Moon
238,855 Miles away, and rising in the East
Earth, Milky Way Galaxy 27743

Dear Mr. AiXeLsyD,

I, For one, am highly offended by your eventual plans to dominate both myself, and the Earth. First of all, may I remind you that my Equatorial radius alone is 1,738.14 km. Roughly 0.273 Earths. Dominating me is out of the question, for I am bigger than you and wars on the Moon are settled by spirited rounds of Roshambo, South Park style (The Moon receives comcast cable). I have no balls, therefore defeating me is virtually impossible. I also often refer to myself in the third person, which makes the Moon awesome by default. In Conclusion, give up your silly dreams. You are too old for a human, and in your attempt I shall crush you!

Sincerely,

The Moon (Ya Dig?!?)

Adult

jonpsevers — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:40:16 +0000

“Because you have beard.”

Four little words. So much joy.

Pride. Once it was a broken shadow of growth, sunlight through a trellace – all patchy and misshapen.

I would tentatively grow it. Just to see. And the upper lip furred, the rest like left over spaghetti. Single hairs strewn sparsely across a battlefield of acne. Casualties.

Push through it. Keep it our little secret. Cat and mouse. Ah, you see it multiply? I see it. And the hairs tumble into the bin to allow new to grow.

“Cut it and it grows faster”

Twenty-three years old. It’s become a feature. Stubble. But not. Too soft still, there’s no aggravation.

I flirt. A week with. A week without. It passes without comment.

For nearly two years now, though, permanent. Part of the package. I = beard.

And now. 26 years old. The barber has the close trimmer in his hand and he looks. Stops.

“No line?”

He’s staring at the point between my beard and my hair, the neighbour of the ear and the eye.

“I’m sorry?”

He tries again.

“No line, yes. Because you have beard.”

Oh! Yes! Definitely! No line. Because I have a beard!

I have a beard. The barber said so. It’s official.

Goodbye puberty. It was nice. For a while.

Pablo Picasso (quote)

lkthayer — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:19:12 +0000

Photo by VC Ferry

“We don’t grow older, we grow riper.” – Pablo Picasso

VC Ferry

Honey, Jump Right Up And Show Your Age

tuggingonthestring — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:24:22 +0000

Lately I’ve had unwelcome desires to belt out Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” I’m sure the folks around me might find that unwelcome as well.

It’s crunch time at the end of the semester and I’m not happy with some of my choices for research papers; it would be nice to hit reset on the semester and choose new topics. C’est la vie, I suppose. I am certainly learning from the experience. It’s been a while since I had to sit down and conduct this type of research and write up heady academic papers; I am not as quick as I once was (but hopefully more thoughtful with age? I’m sure the stuff I pulled out of thin air in my undergraduate days was crap…hopefully compared to what I’m writing now!).

Saturday night brought birthday parties for some friends, and as I’ve been learning, I’m getting too old for this stuff. OK, not actually too old, but it’s true that I am more tired and less tolerant of alcohol. In short, I’d like a good night sleep and to arise the following morning feeling more human than less. That didn’t stop me from admonishing a friend’s younger cousin to live it up and not squander her youth. (And, yes, in just under two weeks I celebrate a birthday, and yes, I will still be in my 20s. I’m feeling a little melodramatic right now.)

There are certainly things I regret not taking advantage of; I take those things as lessons and try to incorporate them into how I live my life going forward. It doesn’t always work out the way I think it will, but I’m an optimist, so I’ll keep trying. I find myself wishing I could tell a younger version of me some of these lessons, particularly as I navigate graduate school. I’ve found freedoms as a graduate student that I didn’t feel the luxury of having as an undergraduate. I believe these come from age. For example, as undergrads, we were less snarky and more accepting of others than we were as high shool students, but I still felt that sometimes there was pressure to hang out with the “cool kids” and that there was consciousness of who you were seen with, who you sat with, etc. I love that I can walk into an situation with my graduate school colleagues (they are also friends) and sit with any one of them, converse with any one of them, and never feel any sort of social anxiety. I hear my students, all freshmen, talking and I can feel some of the social anxiety bubbling up. I admire them, though, because they are in a unique situation on our campus that seem to help break down some of the social constructs that sometimes thwart efforts at feeling confident and good about yourself.

I was at the library on campus the other day, standing in line for a caffeine fix. I inadvertently jumped ahead of a young student who was there before me. After I placed my order, I apologized and felt bad about the situation. He looked at me and said, “Oh, no worries, ma’am. You look like you are busy.” Ma’am? I was ma’amed? I don’t live in the South anymore; why am I getting ma’amed? Probably because I look (and often dress) older than his fellow students. I didn’t take offense. I thought it, to some extent, another freedom that came with age.

And I’m not even old. I always think about age this time of year. Perhaps in 30 or 40 years I’ll ruminate on what “old” is.

Elderly drivers in Arizona...a difficult discussion

GlenBo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:10:41 +0000

Elderly Drivers: Stop or Go? By Phyllis Staff, Ph.D. Without so much as a tap on the brakes, my aunt

the age of wonder: how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science

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Brilliantly conceived as a relay of scientific stories, The Age of Wonder investigates the earliest ideas of deep time and space, and the explorers of âdynamic science,â of an infinite, mysterious Nature waiting to be discovered. Three lives dominate the book: William Herschel and his sister Caroline, whose dedication to the study of the stars forever changed the public conception of the solar system, the Milky Way, and the meaning of the universe; and Humphry Davy, who, with only a grammar school education stunned the scientific community with his near-suicidal gas experiments that led to the invention of the minersâ lamp and established British chemistry as the leading professional science in Europe. This age of exploration extended to great writers and poets as well as scientists, all creators relishing in moments of high exhilaration, boundary-pushing and discovery.

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“An appetizer for the mind” 2009-11-11
By C. M. Levin
This is a sort of appetizer for anyone interested in the cultural context of 19th century science. There are some howlers in the notes (for instance, the Doppler shift was *not* used to determine the distance between the Milky Way & the Andromeda Galaxy), so I wonder who was Holmes’ scientific fact-checker. On the other hand, many biographies of great scientists are amazingly smallbore, & Age of Wonder broadens the view.

“Bridging The Cultural Gap” 2009-10-31
By Michael Gunther (Maryland, USA)
The Romantic Age (1750-1820) in Europe was a time when science and literature rubbed excitedly together, attracted by a shared love of Nature and an urgent desire to explore her secrets; it was a time when poets studied science, and scientists wrote poetry. “The Age of Wonder” exhibits a winding path across this landscape, from which sublime vistas and lively views open up on every side: explorers encounter Tahiti, and vice-versa; balloonists discern the patterns of village, forest, and river from an aerial perspective; astronomers pioneer the knowledge of deep space, and geologists the knowledge of deep time, while chemists transmute the chaos of nature into the order of its newly-discovered chemical elements.

Richard Holmes guides the reader on this journey using a sequence of linked biographies – explorers Joseph Banks (Tahiti) and Mungo Park (Africa), astronomers William and Caroline Herschel, chemist Humphry Davy – to view the Romantic Age of science through the lens of their lives and personal writings. Literary stars like Byron, Keats, Percy and Mary Shelley, and Coleridge appear in turn, albeit as satellites of Romantic science (e.g., Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein), rather than as entire galaxies of Romantic literature. The science in the book is presented by and for the enthusiast rather than the initiate, and is both effortlessly accessible and vastly entertaining (the first “Mile-High Club” in a balloon, Davy’s “scientific” dedication to getting high on laughing gas).

There is not even a hint of the “academic” in Holmes’ writing, although it is quite thoroughly informed (see his endnotes, index, bibliography, and capsule biographies for proof, if any is needed). There is much food for thought here, about topics ranging from Vitalism to the Argument From Design, C. P. Snow’s “Two Cultures,” experiment vs. theory in science, the growth and structure of scientific institutions, administration and research, and public support of science. The book touches on all these areas, and many more, as they naturally come up in the course of its narrative.

By design and intention, this is a book about English, not Continental, science; Holmes is a literary biographer who specializes in the English Romantic Age (I intend to immediately buy his volumes on Coleridge, just on the strength of “The Age of Wonder.”) While scientifically literate, he is not a scientist or a philosopher or historian of science. What the reader gets in “The Age of Wonder” is a book that deftly, even stunningly, illuminates the spirit of English science in the Romantic Age. It is a real pleasure to recommend it.

“Range of people limited” 2009-10-06
By Bob Wong (Oceanside, CA United States)
The number of persons in this marvelous age is limited to but only a few people, though important enough to expand on their achievements in great detail, perhaps more than I care to know.

“Gives personality to scientific history” 2009-09-26
By JS (California USA)
When I’ve taken science or history courses in school, I’ve found them to be anxious exercises in memorizing names, places, and dates that fail to take on much personal meaning as there is little time to delve into the characteristics and motivations of the people that shaped the informed world we live in today. Richard Holmes has fleshed out some of these outstanding figures for me in his elegant tapestry of biographies, his aim being not so much to explain science as to elaborate on the curiosity and bravery distincive to the world of the 17th century Romantic Era. Holmes uses everything at his disposal, from the journal entries and poetry of his subjects to his own experience as an editor, to create a read as compelling as the generation it depicts. Those who haven’t been interesed in the subject matter before will find that reading this book makes the people of times past relatable and the discoveries they made fascinating.

“A powerful pick for any interested in how science and trends develop” 2009-09-18
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
THE AGE OF WONDER: HOW THE ROMANTIC GENERATION DISCOVERED THE BEAUTY AND TERROR OF SCIENCE provides a riveting history of the men and women whose discoveries fostered the Romantic Age of Science. From a botanist’s discoveries in 1769 to how the ‘Age of Wonder’ emerged from explorations and the efforts of William Herschel and sister Caroline and others, this is a powerful pick for any interested in how science and trends develop.

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Stale victories

sleeptightbaby — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:20:03 +0000

The doctor says
you have to walk
she says
to the husband
she drags through
the shops.

                But he didn’t say
                I have to look
                or like it.

But you have to do it
anyway.

                I could do
                something
                else.

Yes
but what.

Age of Oracles - Taras Journey: Your destiny is tied to the cards.

marthakr — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:30:37 +0000

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5 Things You Need to Know About Senior Living in Arizona

GlenBo — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:21:43 +0000

(borrowed with appreciation from our friends at Livestrong) 1. Keep the Glass Half Full “Don

Good: TED Talks

lizlantz — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:09:33 +0000

Today's screenshot of TED.com, Fair Use

About a year ago, I came across a “TED talk” on YouTube. I soon found out that I was late to the game on this one. If you have known about these talks since the 1980s, good for you. If you haven’t heard of the TED talks, you may have an afternoon of online video streaming in front of you.

The words behind the acronym say much for why everyone should be interested: Technology, Entertainment, Design. From the TED website, we learn that the small nonprofit began with the impetus to showcase “ideas worth spreading.” From musicians to psychologists, to famous figures like Jane Goodall and Al Gore, the TED talks cover so many arenas of knowledge that it cannot help but spark the imagination. No wonder Rosie O’Donnell traded in a Cher concert meet-and-greet for tickets to the TED talks care of Kathy Griffin/Steve Wozniak, all seen on The D-List’s season 4. TED talks beat Cher hands down.

If you gave a TED talk, what would it be about? After viewing a few, one may realize the best ideas are those that at first seem the least likely. A few examples of some wild ideas are below, but please explore the TED site. As Martha says, “It’s a good thing.”

Dan Gilbert’s fascinating look at the usefulness of happiness:

Aubrey De Grey suggest we will live until 1,000:

Evelyn Glennie tells us how we can listen without our ears:

Time to Retire

insanityorreality — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:15:13 +0000

I am looking forward to my retirement. Although I get closer to retirement every day, I still have a little ways to go. Even though I like my job as a police officer and going to work every day, I would prefer not to have to work at all. I am extremely content with my current assignment in the detective bureau. But if I never saw a dead body again, I will be a happier person. When I go to work each day, I might see death and destruction in the morning, gangs and guns for lunch, and perverts and pedophiles by the time I leave at the end of my shift. A full day of crime. Retiring and having not to deal with police work, even though I love my job, to me will be a pleasant change.

I realize that I am very fortunate to have a safe and secure job in the economy. Knowing I will have a pension when I retire gives me piece of mind when planning for my financial future.

Different police agencies have different ways to calculate retirement pensions. Some have to work twenty years. Others pay into the pension system for twenty-five years. And still other have a formula for age at retirement and number of years worked. But all law enforcement agencies have a contractual percentage pay out for its retirees. We know what it is when we get hired or at least shortly thereafter. We may not know what the exact numbers, but we have a general idea. So worst case scenario, police officers have twenty or more years to plan for retirement.

So hypothetically speaking, when police officers are eligible to retire, they should be able to afford to retire. But there are some police officers that do not want to retire. And they won’t leave.

Retirements benefit budgets. They allow a higher income earner to retire and be replaced with a lower income earner. Also, a retiree who holds rank like Detective, Sergeant, Lieutenant, or Captain frees a spot for promotion and advancement. And new hires usually pay a higher percentage into the pension system.

Some would say that a senior police officer takes his knowledge and experience with him when he leaves. That is exactly the point. To leave. We can not work forever. Everyone is replaceable.

One of my bosses is a brilliant police officer. He has tremendous police instinct and is usually spot on. He is well respected by his peers and subordinates. He is fair and just. He has been a police officer for almost 40 years. He has trained and educated many other police officers along the way, including me. I have a tremendous amount for respect for him. But, it is time for him to retire and he has no desire to do so.

Others would say that if you are a 60ish police officer, why would you want to have to deal with 20ish street thugs. Trust me. I do not want to have to deal with them now and I am nowhere close to being 60ish. This is not discriminatory towards age, but rather an honest view of physical ability. I realize that there are always exceptions to the rules. One of my other 60ish bosses did retire and could still hold his own. He was in unbelievable shape better than most of the 20ish police officers I know. I feel that at 60ish, you have earned the right to retire and enjoy a new chapter in your life.

I do NOT understand why someone who is eligible to retire choses not to retire. Besides throwing away free money, I believe there is more to life than the jobs we work. I have hobbies, interests, and friends outside of my job. My job affords me a salary to be able to do all of the things in life I enjoy.

Please do not misunderstand. I do love my job. I am very good at what I do. But I would prefer not to have to do it at all. When you look at police pensions versus other salaries, it is easy to compare. A scientist can be a scientist until the day he dies. A accountant can always balance his spread sheet. A judge should get wiser with age. But eventually a police officer will become unfit to perform his duties.

A police officer will not always be able to police. So I plan on taking advantage of retirement.

Great Web Resources for Seniors in Phoenix, Scottsdale, Maricopa County, Arizona

GlenBo — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:05:39 +0000

Here’s a great list of Web Resources for our Senior friends in Arizona and beyond: Area Agency

Age can be a Crutch

thegrowth — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:27:22 +0000

Its weird how I am usually the one trying to console others, willing to listen to their problems. Always trying to be empathetic about what others are going through. Yet maybe I might just be the one who needs the consoling.

I think I am at a point where I am just tired of beating myself up. I am in need of some darn good news. Maybe its the toll of not seeing my family in so long, or being stuck here without a job, or maybe its just the loneliness, craving a partner, or better yet maybe its a combination of everything I just mentioned. Regardless of whatever it is, I am sick of the negativity and its time things start turning around.

Is it arrogance to expect better out of life? Doubt it. I look around at what my peers are doing and can’t help but think I am behind the curve. On the other hand, I also look at some of the things I have embarked on and think to myself, wait a minute, maybe its the opposite.

It just sucks to put so much effort into something and not see the benefits, at least not yet.

I had an interview last week, the lady talked glowingly about my empathetic skills and calm demeanor. I was almost tempted to tell her, if only you knew what was going through my mind. Most likely I get the job, which is bittersweet in that I need the money but wish I didn’t have to do that.

I need my batteries recharged. Need to get out of here. Heck need me some damn good sex lol. Whatever the case, it wouldn’t hurt getting a vacation. Maybe seeing my parents again would do it.

I heard New Moon has shattered opening day records and I am thinking too myself, wait a minute, I have got a bunch of ideas like that but yet have no one to give them to. Truly frustrating, but then again I am reminded, I am still young and have got all this time ahead of me. See that’s the crutch, it always reverts back to the age thing and how much of it I have or think I have. Quite frankly, I hate it. Age should never be an excuse. What does it matter if I am successful now or at the age of 40? I have stories to tell now, I dont want to have to wait 20 years from now to get a shot.

Its thoughts like this that constantly run through my mind. I just wish it weren’t the case.

A Cat's Age

Sonny's Pics — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:31:39 +0000

Why is it that cat’s never seem to age? Once they reach adulthood they always look the same. Dogs get a few grey hairs and they get that look about them. You can tell by looking if a dog is a senior. But it’s very hard to tell how old a cat is just by looking at their face.

This is Boo. She’s no long with us but this photo was taken when she was 20 years old. That’s over a hundred years old in human age. Not a wrinkle.

Boo

And this is Sonny. He just turned 17. Doesn’t look a day over 12 or 8 or 5. How would you know?

Sonny

Maybe that’s what 9 lives will do for you if you don’t use them up. But Lord knows Boo used up a few of hers in her younger years. I swear that cat could run faster scared than ANY other animal could run hungry. Sonny’s 9 lives are still in tact. He just gets a lot of beauty sleep. In fact I think that’s the only thing I’ve noticed about him as he ages. He sleeps more …if that’s possible. Maybe that’s why he’s so beautiful. Hmmm, …must go take a nap.

Forty-Friggin-Two!

40nothing — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:58:04 +0000

It happened. I turned 42. Phew. I am now on the other side…really. 40 was a shock. 41 a dull thud. 42 is an awakening. An acceptance. This is who I am. This is where I am going (even if I’m not sure where that is, I know it involves getting older and accepting that, whether with ease, or uneasily).

I feel all sorts of contradictory feelings. Conflicting thoughts. But not the kind that war in the mind; just those that slosh around feeling the edges of consciousness looking for a place to settle, a zone to organize themselves in. Right now it seems they are searching for their cubbyholes, hideouts and enclaves. Trying to integrate themselves into all I have known before.

The newness of it all is a blessing. I chose to turn the corner and face myself head on. I make a concrete decision to wake up and stay awake; more than ever. To see and experience life more, in a more immediate way, a deeper way, and endeavor to make use of the present. Not to disown or deny the past, but to use the years as stepping stones that have all led me to the place I am right now. This unfolding trail has no markers. The breadcrumbs of my childhood are gone; there’s no way back, only forward. Hansel & Gretel have left the forest.

I’m going to see what’s out there. Beyond the house of my father and mother. Beyond the house of the witch. I am bound for elsewhere. I’m my own hero.

Elle est vêtue d'été (Issa)

arbrealettres — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:28:11 +0000

On lui demande son âge
Elle montre une main
Elle est vêtue d’été

(Issa)

Rupert Murdoch vs my Iphone App

warrick — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:01:59 +0000

I’ve been following the recent bluff and bluster from Rupert Murdoch with interest: ‘Google are ripping off my content’, ‘You can’t do this to me!’, ‘I’m taking my newspaper off the internet’, ‘Pay for view for news is the future’, stuff like that (I’m paraphrasing but you can do a Google News Search and get the exact quotes yourself; what am I, a journalist?) Here’s a snapshot:

Some see it as a bluff, or an attempt to cut a deal with Bing or some other search engine, others see it as the last gasps of a media mogul who just doesn’t get it and/or the desperate last throes of old media. I heard that a year ago Rupert Murdoch had never done a Google search himself. That figures.

I love newspapers but some of them aren’t doing a great job of convincing me that I care. I loved reading the NY Times when I was there recently and bought it every morning and I’ve got a lot of time for the AGE but then I go there this week and find vitriolic opinion columns from sensationalists like Catherine Deveny or across town the same stuff from Andrew Bolt in the Herald-Sun. It’s fun for language analysis practice for Year 12s, but you dont’ go there for insight, or even particularly good writing. Can a newspaper that has to be one thing to all people really work any more?

Truth is, when I wake up each morning I check my email and my Google Reader feeds before I check the newspaper online. I follow 101 blog feeds daily, from people who are expert in their fields, who I respect, many of whom also write better than Bolt, Deveny and the rest. Try Scott McLeod, Derek Wenmoth, Don Tapscott or David Warlick on education, for a start. I could go on!

And I’m hopeful that a new era of open-ness has begun and that the genie is already out of the bottle in a democratisation of the media. We want access to the information that matters to us in exactly the format that works for us and I hope that Murdoch’s view of the world is fading.

I’m teaching the classic text Frankenstein to my literature class next year and have been trawling around for resources. One that struck me was a study guide on the text available as a web site you could visit, a PDF you could download or an Iphone App you could buy for $1.19. You can find it on Itunes. It’s not anything particularly intuitive except that it understands the ubiquity around content now, and that we want choice in how we receive it. The ABC seems to understand, they’ve been working hard at delivering their content in increasingly diverse ways, including on hand held devices.

I met with my publisher recently in planning a new text book for next year, maybe. We were talking about models of publishing and they’ve begun to move (slowly) toward a sort of print on demand model where you order a customised version of the book depending on the texts and contexts you’ve chosen to study. But what about making that same content available online? We’ve had a web site resource add-on for a while now, but I’m arguing for the book to be available in other ways too: to be read on the Kindle, downloaded and purchased in bits, even as an iphone app. It’s going to be interesting to see who catches us on quickest in all this; the slow ones aren’t likely to last.

Rupert Murdoch vs my Iphone App

warrick — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:59:22 +0000

Dragon Age: Origins--Part 3

superdps — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:19:42 +0000

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Am I get older?

juliecluster — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:05:41 +0000

I question myself now, am within age, I am getting older? Yes of course the year is changing and you are definitely one year older, but am I acting older with age. I am turning 22 this year and in my mind I feel as if I am getting ready for retirement. It seems I have been acting older since I was younger, some may say other wise lol. But that is how I feel. What is our obsession with age? How many of you feel the same way I do?

Panjika (The Vedic Calendar)

Praful — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:04:27 +0000

The Panjika (almanac) is a book of dates, lunar days, auspicious and inauspicious times, positions o

Thirst Quencha

Great little Fortune — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:38:03 +0000

On my way, getting ready to go out with my buds Hitch and Leon.
Getting frustrated by minor boss annoyances in Metal Gear Solid 2, I feel like a need a break; with some beer and cheer.
Hitch is setting up a little ‘workshop‘ at where we are going, I´ll write more in depth tomorrow

Just like the the movie Hitch, there is a real life guy; his name is Jeremy Soul of Lovesystems, who has an interesting way of interacting and picking up women mainly in daytime environments.

I accidently misstook Jeremy Soul for Jeremy Soule; the famous game composer, for example to such games such as Elder Scrolls 4:Oblivion.
Ah, Oblivion…
One of my all time favorite games…it is so incredible, probably the most perfect Medieval RPG there is to date; though with a few flaws, it makes up in atmos, design, depth, gameplay and ofcourse the wonderful music.

The theme just screams ‘FUCKING BADASS GAME‘

I cant wait until Elderscrolls 5 is released next year of 2010…it is going to be epic…I am gonna pee my pants.
But until then, I will be able to satisfy my gaming needs with Metal Gear, and ofcourse to quenc my RPG thirst; Dragon Age!

But then again…there are so much more things to life that can stimulate the senses ^^
Writing, drawing, and…oogling

Goodnight and have fun!
-Thanks, I will = }

Dont kill anybody!
-…Thats a promise I cant make.

i really can't see

lifestartsnow — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:14:20 +0000

i really can’t see. went to get my eyes checked yesterday and it was another revelation. time to get glasses.

and the idea of wearing glasses makes me feel like i’m getting old. really old. i know you all who got glasses when they were little can’t really understand this but to me, with my once healthy eyes, glasses are for old people whose body has given up on them. and now it is MY body giving up on ME.

add to that my constantly sore muscles from dancing, my hopeless hair, and the feeling of me shrinking and maybe you will understand why this notion of me needing glasses is feeling like a step towards the eternal hunting grounds.

tomorrow i’ll meet with a friend to look for models. i tried on a few and wasn’t overly convinced. partially because the lady kept telling me to stay away from the models i liked and instead handed me the low-key makes. mh…i guess she was trying to tell me something there and granted, i looked a little geenie yesterday, but still. if i spend the money the glasses will cost then i want “something” if you know what i mean.

so many choices to make!

franzi

What's your RealAge?!

nfurlong07 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:12:09 +0000

Some say that 40 is the new 30. What if that could actually be true? What if a 40-year old body was actually 30?

It’s possible if you take care of yourself. Managing things like diet, exercise and risky behavior can enhance your quality and QUANTITY of life.

There is a way you can measure this, take the quiz called my RealAge and find out how old your body really is. It takes 10-15 minutes to finish but I feel it does a pretty comprehensive anaysis. After your done taking the quiz it will tell you what your bodies age is, what you’re doing right and what you need to work on. From there it gives you several resources and ideas on how to improve your quality and quantity of life.

After I took the quiz I was surprised to find my RealAge is 14.5!

Give it a try here!