Knock Knock.
Who’s there?
Norma Lee.
Norma Lee who?
Norma Lee I don’t eat this much!

Knock Knock.
Who’s there?
Gladys.
Gladys who?
Gladys Thanksgiving! Aren’t you?

Knock Knock.
Who’s there?
Olive.
Olive who?
Olive the stuffing too!

*****
What happened to the Pilgrim who was shot at by an Indian?
He had an arrow escape.
What is your favorite thing to make for Thanksgiving dinner?
Reservations!
Asked to write a composition entitled, “What I’m thankful for on Thanksgiving,” a student wrote, “I am thankful that I’m not a turkey.”

Knock, knock!
Who’s there?
Arthur.
Arthur who?
Arthur any leftovers?

I know, I know, I promised more on Paintball tips, but I’ve got to vent about this.

It seems like all carriers are mandating full data-plans on all their smart-phones now, so I upgraded to a Droid.  I’ve got to say I’m not a fan.  It’s a very competent device with a lot of power and potential.  It’s got a really nice display and the touchscreen works well.  It has a lot of great features on it, like the navigator, Internet browser, and the Facebook integration.  But I have to wonder how varied their product testers were.  I imagine the interface must be somewhat similar to an iPhone or even Blackberry, neither of which I’ve had much experience with, but it’s quite frustrating for someone coming from Palm OS & Windows Mobile, like me.

I won’t spend too much time on the good because you can go to CNet and many other sites where the reviewers absolutely gush about it.  The Droid certainly looks pretty and has a great display for anything: browsing the web, flipping through pictures, watching YouTube on the included app, etc.  Seriously, it really looks sharp and the full HTML browser on the phone, I imagine it’s a slightly modified version of Chrome, makes it simple to hit your favorite websites.  The browser has a great interface that tracks your finger taps quite well, even on small text links, without too many errors.  Some sites still see it as a mobile browser and you’ll get some simplified site versions.  While my old Samsung i760 with Internet Explorer Mobile was good enough for my needs, it had problems with some of my paintball forums.  I could view and read them fine, but leaving posts on some of them was impossible.  That’s no longer the case with the Droid.  The one strange exception is that I can’t log in to WordPress here.

The phone comes with some great apps and integration between them.  It has Google maps and Google navigator included, and with the GPS it makes searching and finding things pretty easy.  It also has a decent voice search function which will scour the web without you typing a thing.  The Droid also connects flawlessly with your Gmail and Google Apps accounts to import your contacts and calendar appointments.  Finally it includes YouTube and has a nifty Facebook integration that can update your contacts with Facebook profile pictures, status, etc.  The phone has lots of memory and processing power to do just about anything, and with the app market and included 16 GB micro SD card that’s a lot of “anything.”  The phone charges and connects to a PC through a micro USB port.  I would have preferred a mini USB since I already have a couple of those cables, but at least it’s a standard jack.  Also, the Droid has a 3.5 mm headphone jack meaning you can use normal headphone and earbuds with it.

But now for the bad.  Users coming over from Windows Mobile or Palm phones will have a lot of acclimation.  For starters, the Droid is skimpy on MS Office support so you can view but not edit Word, Excel, or PowerPoint docs.  That may be a small thing since I don’t know many people who really type up long docs on a phone.  However there isn’t Outlook support either, aside from MS Exchange.  This means getting your contacts, tasks, and calendar appointments off your personal Outlook on your PC is a big chore.  My first attempt at exporting a CSV from Outlook and loading it into my Gmail contacts had mixed results.  Though I had names and phone numbers, physical and email addresses were jumbled together in the notes field.  My second attempt took a few hours to custom map data fields from Outlook into a CSV format just for Google.  But even with that I lost some data, like contact pictures.  Even after getting contacts in, I still can’t sort them by last name.  Also, I can’t find any way to set a limited recurring appointment like a college class every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from January to April.  Instead everything is indefinitely repeating.  Say you’ve got a regular Monday meeting at work.  If at some point it shifts to another day and time, the whole event series has to change which messes up your calendar history.  I know these aren’t huge problems, but they still bother me.  The interface is also quite a bit different from I was used to on my i760.  Different isn’t always bad, but I found it to me very inefficient.

The touchscreen is slick and very responsive.  Personally I found it too sensitive.  Maybe it’s my thick fingers, but many times it would register taps when I didn’t even touch the screen.  Along the bottom are four pressure sensitive “buttons” ( they’re really just permanent virtual keyboard, ) for Back, Menu, Home, and Search.  The Back buttons returns you to the previous screen you were at, be it exiting a menu or going back to the web browser after viewing a YouTube video.  Menu of course brings up app and context sensitive menus while the Home buttons returns you to the home screen.  The search button is fairly smart and will bring up a search box depending on what you’re currently doing, such as searching through contacts, the web, or whatever.  Holding the search button will activate Voice Search, covered below.

You get a pretty good virtual keyboard on the Droid, and it rotates to landscape with the internal accelerometer in most apps, but not the home screen ( though EVERY app shifts to landscape when the keyboard is pulled out. )  Speaking of the physical keyboard, it’s very poor.  The keys are very flat and close together making it difficult to type by feel.  The D-pad next to it is almost flush with the frame, making it hard to use as well.  The D-pad also offsets the keyboard so your right thumb has to stretch much farther than your left, again making typing awkward.  The D-pad also has different actions depending on the app you’re in, all of which you must find out yourself.  Sometimes it moves the cursor around, sometimes it scrolls the screen, etc.  Finally, when holding the phone landscape, either with the virtual or physical keyboard, it’s very easy to accidentally tap one of the four system buttons with your right hand, particularly the Back button.  It’s also very annoying to spend a few minutes composing an email only to find yourself back at your inbox.  Gratefully, emails and text messages are automatically saved to drafts, but having everything you’ve typed disappear from a web page is maddening.

While the virtual keyboard has predictive text and corrects many common mistakes while typing, the physical keyboard gets no such treatment.  It does have a setting to correct typing mistakes, but I’ve yet to see it do anything beyond changing “dont” to “don’t.”.  It really makes me miss the built-in spell checker my i760 had.  The word prediction does include names from your contact list though, and that’s a nice touch.  But there are no word auto-completion settings, such as how many spaces to insert after a predictive word entry.  Also, selecting text and copy/paste is nowhere near as slick as it was on my Windows Mobile touchscreen.  First you have to tap and hold to bring up a menu to select all text, copy or cut all text, or just to go to text selection.  Once in text selection mode, the cursor anchor can’t be moved so you can only tap and drag one way or the other.  After selecting text you have to again tap and hold to copy or paste.  Is it really so hard to have a set tap and drag interface to select words, or do double and triple tapping to select whole words or paragraphs?

Overall I found the system interface slick but inefficient.  Many tasks take more steps than they should.  While the Droid can run multiple apps in the background, there isn’t an easy way to switch between them.  Pressing and holding the home button will show a popup with your six most used apps, but that’s hardly good enough.  Instead, you have to go back to the home screen, then find and tap the icon for the app you want to switch to.  Without dedicated buttons or softkeys, this has to be done for everything.  Need to make a call?  Want to get your mail?  Want to check your calendar?  Hit the home button, find the right icon, and then tap it.  That’s not quick or efficient.  While there are 3rd party apps on the market that help with this, why wasn’t it included in the base OS?  This isn’t only problematic in switching between apps, it’s a hassle to manage running apps to conserve memory and battery life.  Without a native task manager ( again I had to hit the market to get one, ) there’s no way to close off running apps.  And many apps automatically startup, whether you want them to or not, and don’t have settings to disable the autorun.  While I still had to open Task Manager on my Windows Mobile phone to close out stuff, I never had the problem of unwanted programs starting up and running in the background.

Voice commands and voice search don’t always do what you expect and you have to be careful which you use.  The Voice Dialing app is intended for voice commands to the phone while Voice Search  will search through your contacts, calendar, messages, and the Internet for the search string.  If it sounds confusing, it is.  It’s compounded by the fact that the manual ( I didn’t have one in the box, I had to go online, ) doesn’t give a list of keywords for the voice commands.  Also, voice commands still require the touchscreen.  Using Voice Dialer results in a popup screen of what the phone thought you said, even if it only shows one item, and you have to tap it to confirm.  Or you can try using Voice Search for some commands too, but it takes longer for the vocal recognition to register what you said.  Instead of the confirmation screen from the Dialer, the Search will show what action the phone heard you say and it will automatically execute it if you wait a few seconds.  But again, you can’t use either Dialer or Search for everything.  While both apps will understand “call Michael Johnson home” and will offer to call Michael Johnson out of my contacts at his home phone number, only the Dialer understands “open calendar.”  The Search will instead Google “open calendar” from the Internet.  Indeed Search tends to favor web searches over looking through the phone.  I can say “Navigate to Michael Johnson” and the Google navigator practically ignores my contact list and instead searches for local Michael Johnsons from online phone directories.  It’s just clumsy at best.  The Navigator app supports text to speech synthesis, so why is there no voice confirmation on commands so I only have to say yes or no instead of tapping the screen?  Without a Bluetooth hands-free profile ( that’s right, you can have a wireless headset, but not one that supports voice commands, ) makes it not only difficult to operate in a car, but illegal in many states.  I’m sure the full hands-free profile is only a small update away, but how was this not included at launch?  Voice commands can be issued over a wired headset, but you still have to interact with the screen to confirm things.  Again, not a good idea while driving.

Since I’ve mentioned the Navigator, it’s actually pretty good.  It gives turn-by turn directions through synthesized speech so you don’t have to watch the screen the whole time.  The view also rotates to match you perspective instead of only displaying top down.  It’s still in beta so the interface isn’t fully polished and routes are mainly based on major roads instead of least distance, shortest drive time, etc.  It’s not integrated into the calendar either, so you can’t get immediate directions to appointments.  Instead you have to first open an appointment, tap the location to bring up Google maps, and then ask it to navigate to that point.

One of the Droid’s big marketing planks was the amount of customization it can do.  You can change the home screen background image and assign different sounds to just about any event on the phone.  You can even give different email accounts different notification sounds.  Different apps can also have separate volume levels so the system sounds, ringtones, app notifications, and even music player  can each be at your preferred volumes.  However there are a few small things that were neglected.  The Droid can link up to multiple IMAP and POP3 email accounts and has a combined inbox that will display all the emails together.  Messages get color-coded according to which address they were sent to so you can keep track of them.  The same thing happens for calendar items that get imported from different sources.  However you can’t change to colors assigned to the accounts.  And while multiple emails accounts are supported, the Google Talk app on the phone gets locked into the email you use to activate the phone.  I know many people who have both personal and work IM accounts, but the Droid makes no concessions for that.

For entertainment, as said you get an integrated YouTube app which works great, but the music player is extremely limited.  It will play most media formats, but it can’t create playlists on the fly.  The music player can also set your ringtone to songs in your library, but you can’t customize other system sounds.  Also it has no native syncing ability so you essentially have to copy and organize your song library onto the SD card yourself.  The camera is nice at 5 megapixel and has your standard assortment of adjustments and color balance controls.  However it has a rather long delay between when you hit the button and when the picture is actually captured.  Also, it would have been nice to have some better integration between the camera and the rest of your photo gallery on the phone.

My last complaint is the lack of a file manager.  Granted I’m used to Windows and Windows Mobile so I like being able to root around my device file structure.  I like arranging my files as I see fit, copying WAV and MP3 files into the system folders to use them as system sounds, organizing my documents, downloads, email attachments, etc.  Connecting the micro USB cable to a PC will give you mass USB storage access to the SD card, but not the device itself.  As usual, you can get apps to change this, but it is not native on the device.

Overall, I really wanted to like the Droid.  It has a lot of processing power and a beautiful screen.  Even with the big things like MS Office support ( particularly Outlook, ) the lack of a Bluetooth hands-free profile, and the poor physical keyboard aside, there’s just so many small things that add up to a lot of frustration to me.

Ok, my rant is over and my HTC touch Pro2 has been ordered.  I’ll have Part 2 of Things I Wish I’d Known Then up sometime tomorrow.

All right, here is the third set in a series of wallpapers from Vlad Gerasimov, a very talented artist from Russia. Please check out his website VladStudio, for more awesome wallpapers.  Stay tuned for more wallpapers from this artist!  You can find the sets before this one here.

Republic Act 4136 or the Land Transportation and Traffic Code only the LTO has the right to implement traffic laws and confiscate drivers’ licenses.

Time for Contingent Climate Commitments: Should the Obama administration get out ahead of Congress, pledging to set greenhouse gas emission reduction targets that 67 senators may not be willing to ratify? — Grist

GM Marketing Volt to…Middle Schoolers?: “On November 30th, hundreds of middle school students and teachers will assemble at the Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, along with untold thousands of their electronically-linked peers, to take part in a giant show-and-tell webcast featuring” the upcoming Chevy Volt from General Motors. Your tax dollars at work. — Autoblog Green

FERC Enters the Transmission Maze: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission “has solicited views of industry, environmental and consumer groups on transmission planning and cost allocation policy, with a filing deadline today, indicating to industry officials that the commission may seek to break new ground on the issue.” — ClimateWire via NYT

Putting a Price on Nature: The U.N.’s big, ongoing study of “The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity” (TEEB)—a project aims to quantify just what the world’s actually losing as species and habitats vanish at an alarming rate, casting the damage in raw monetary terms. — TNR’s The Vine

Climate Protesters Arrested Down Under: About 130 protesters have been arrested at Australia’s Parliament House in Canberra while demonstrating against the government’s actions on climate change. — ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The third week of this literary insanity is over. I stare into the fourth week. The final stretch. I try not to think about the fact that I should be finishing an entire novel in seven days. A novel I began 23 days ago.

Before I share a portion of my project with you, I’d just like to point out to those nonwriters out there exactly how hard it is to write a novel in a month.

How hard is it? Very. Even for someone that has been training and has been writing for years. It is one of the most challenging things I’ve done. My brain officially hates me and I am sucking my creative juices dry.

It is also one of the most rewarding. So, as always, please forgive my roughness and errors with what I post here. And enjoy

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I thought passing through a foreign portal to our world would be awkward. Clearly, I hadn’t anticipated being on campus of a boarding school. I hadn’t anticipated meeting…friends. Is that what these roommates are? Lucan’s friends? They don’t look friendly to me. Not with their deep scowls, random laughter after everything I say, and that intent look they get when I’m not speaking.

The noise isn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I can still hear creatures outside, a bird in its nest just outside their window, and the Residential Advisor flicking through the TV channels in the lobby. However it’s all somehow subdued.

“Lucan tells me you guys used to run track together. Do you enjoy that sort of thing?”

The boy that asks, Ivan Wence, is probably the most complicated for me to decipher. Through all the clamor of Lucan’s thoughts, it’s difficult for me to hear his. And because I haven’t mastered the skill yet, it’s near impossible to drown out Lucan’s to hear his. Normally I would think it an invasion of privacy to look for someone’s thoughts, but I need to know his. There seems to be a double meaning, a hidden question behind all of his words.

“I do,” I simply state. Even this answer throws Ivan and the other roommate, Martial, into a laughing frenzy. I glance at Lucan from the corner of my eye.

“Don’t ask me,” I hear him think, but he smiles anyway.

Smiling to be polite, I tell myself.

“So who is faster, you or Lucan?” Martial Ladislas tortures me with his purposeful gaze. The hollow above his eyes is dark with shadows and I hear my heart quicken as he stares at me.

“Lucan,” I lie. I know I lie, and I don’t care. A part of me feels it necessary, and without thought, I follow.

“No way,” Luc denies. I try poking him but he doesn’t cooperate. “She’s much faster.”

“That so?” Martial says, watching me even harder. After sixteen heartbeats, he releases me from his stare and appears casual, almost bored. He flicks a crumb off his shirt. “I used to love running, too,” he says. “Care for a race?”

I hear so little over Lucan’s thoughts, encouraging me to take him. To beat him, but not enough that it makes him suspicious. “Just by half a second,” he tells me.

“I’d rather not,” I say, pushing him away with ice in my voice. “It’s been a long day. Maybe Luc will.”

The shadows around Martial’s eyes return and he wills me with his black focus. “Alright, you give me a race, and I’ll give you something you want.”

“You don’t have anything I’d want.”

“You sure about that?” he asks, leaning in. He rests his elbows on his knees and the distance between us is too close; so close that it hurts my lungs. They ache for more room. He looks to Lucan out the side of his eyes and back to me. “You give me a race, and I’ll tell you what girl’s name Luc was calling out in his sleep last night.”

My ribs squeeze together and I hear Lucan pierce his thoughts to me. “He’s messing with you, Abby. If I said anyone’s name is was yours.”

“I don’t care whose name he said. I’m the one here, aren’t I?” I smile at Lucan and squeeze his leg quickly. I see him wince briefly and remember my strength is beyond my control right now. It’s pleasing to consider how easy it would be to make Martial a part of the wall behind his head. Just a little shove and he’d be a wall decoration.

“You’re right. You’re here,” Martial says, leaning back into his seat. “For now, that is.”

Ivan and Martial exchange more laughs and I feel fire-hot blood beneath my skin.

“They’re winding you up,” Lucan assures me.

I breathe through my nose and stand. I don’t care if I break and sweat and glide past him at 90 miles per hour. Whatever shuts him up.

“Let’s go,” I say. I’m outside by the time Lucan gets to his feet.

Stretching is something I’ve become equipped to do for show. It doesn’t even feel good anymore. I concentrate on the moan of the crickets, the rustle in the trees, and the feel of the dark covering us. A long, empty road is spackled with overgrown maple trees and make the night even murkier. I see the end of the road without straining my eyes. Not a car for six and a quarter miles. The rest of the student body are in their dorm rooms, reading, secretly smoking in their bathrooms with the shower on, and undressing each other with a sock on the door.

“You are fast,” Martial observes indifferently. He loosens his neck by swinging his head side to side. Little good it’ll do him. This isn’t a neck race. “Freakishly so,” he adds.

A sneer curls around my face and I focus on one thing. Beating him. Shutting him up. I figure it’ll do him good in the future. “You ready or do you need your buddy Ivan to give you a pep talk?”

His left foot falls behind him, finding purchase on the pavement. The shadows under his eyes seem darker in the strange lighting. “I think I can handle this.”

“Where do we stop?”

“There’s a store a quarter mile down there on the right. Whoever reaches the parking lot first.”

“Got it.” I stare ahead and stand loosely, waiting for their count.

“Three,” Ivan begins, “two…”

That’s all it takes. Martial releases from his place before Ivan can say Go. I give him a generous two seconds. Something to feel good about himself. I start with a slow jog, catching up to him in an almost patronizing way.

“Come on, Oregon. You can do better than that.”

“You sure?” I ask easily. “You’re really giving me a run for my money.”

“No pun intended?”

Thirteen miles an hour, I notice. I step it up to twenty, pressing him harder to a breaking point. I want to hear his breathing, count his heartbeats, measure his strain. But I can’t hear much besides the wind ripping past my ears. It’s strangely unsettling.

“You hustling me, Oregon?”

“Stop calling me that,” I say, feeling it necessary to keep him at a cold distance.

“Uh oh, there’s the store,” he teases. “I think you got me.”

The small convenience store is only thirty…twenty-eight…twenty-five meters away.

As I begin to slow my pace, knowing at even an easy jog I will annihilate him, there is a strange force behind me. A massive explosion of pressure, unseen to the eye but with enough force and friction that the static it creates pains my ears.

I look behind me and see nothing. I begin to slow, worrying something has happened to Martial. Something terrible that I’ll never be able to explain.

I look to the trees and further down the road. Even with the near perfect night vision, I see nothing but a squirrel stuffing food in his mouth.

“Martial!” I yell. Saying his name aloud and with such fear feels treasonous. “Martial?” I call again, growing more worried.

A chuckle roars in the short distance behind me and I turn slowly to greet it. “What’s the matter, Oregon? Couldn’t keep up?” He stands in the parking lot of the grocery store and picks his teeth. I hear a hunk of meat fly off his gums and smack the ground.

My teeth seal together, my jaw muscles rippling and tight, unable and unwilling to reply. Words are the enemy.

Martial crosses his ankles and leans against the single light pole in the dingy parking lot. “Look, you don’t have to feel bad,” he condescends. “I am quick, like I told you.” I take a few paces toward him but feel unsure if I’ll be able to control this bizarre new strength. “It was cute seeing you yell my name though. ‘Martial! Oh, Martial!’ So sweet…So deceptive.”

“Deceptive?” I ask, taking another rigid step to him. I stare at him with a mixture of curiosity and dislike.

“You’re not sweet at all, are you?” He stands and begins striding toward me as well, with smaller but surer steps. “And let’s be honest,” he smirks, “you let me win. Didn’t you?”

“If I could’ve beaten you I would’ve,” I say. Another lie. Another necessary lie.

He tilts his chin to the left, then to the right. “What do you say?” He steps even closer. “One more race back to campus?”

A deep thunder strikes in the distance, shaking me to the moment. To my senses. They come to life as if dormant for centuries. I hear the cricket beside Martial’s foot right before he crunches it to death with a lightning-fast pivot of his toes.

“I’ll race you back to campus,” I say. But there’s no way I’m sleeping in the same room as you. I ball my fists to my side as he cocks his eyebrow with a challenge.

I start off my run at twenty this time, knowing there is no way this punk eighteen-year-old jerk can pass me. But another thump of pressure beats against my back, this time throwing me to the pavement.

I know something is terribly wrong when I look up and realize I’m back in Oregon.

Check out this video about a 30 year-old man who got lost in the Everglades for five days.  He had to eat raw fish and bullfrogs to stay alive.

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2009/nov/22/lost-hunter-talks-jamey-mosch-stalked-everglades-p/

Enjoy this little musical number from of the worlds top atheists:

Courtesy of http://richarddawkins.net/articles/4652

Enjoy,

TWH

I just randomly came across this MV …

video from: Daum || uploaded by: hoonfami @ youtube

For some reason, I like to watch all these Shinwoo/Minam MVs … but they’re always so sad … which makes me depressed … but I keep watching more >.<!

It’s so sad …
I love Shinwoo ~ So it always makes me feel so bad for him from how Minam always goes to Taekyung even though he’s always been helping her, comforting her, and protecting her >.<!
I guess he thought that his actions would speak louder than words? By the fact that he did all of that but never told her how he felt until really recently… I guess he thought that if he kept staying close to her and kept helping her, she’d notice by herself and start to do these things for him and by that, she’d start to realize his feelings and develop her own for him … or something like that? >.<

Anyways… YONGHWA/SHINWOO FIGHTING !!! ^^

(drama almost over … Gahh!)

http://www.tuaw.com/2009/11/23/iphone-and-android-now-total-75-of-u-s-smartphone-web-traffic/ iPhone and Android now total 75% of U.S. smartphone web traffic

http://ping.fm/VCbvP LinkedIn Finally Opens Platform; TweetDeck to Launch LinkedIn Support

http://ping.fm/TJCCg Moo’d Cards Unleashed! <– what a wonderful idea

http://ping.fm/qDwfr The Web Trend Map community curates meaningful link trends by choosing sources they trust. <– was fuer dich @ulrichandres  

http://ping.fm/zL0gz Useful Tips Every Web Designer Should Know About SEO

http://ping.fm/1JnIw The New AWS Simple Monthly Calculator

Wednesday 7am-7pm (we want to make sure you can get your beans)

Thursday-closed

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Saturday-8:30-5

Thanks, and we hope you and your family have a great Thanksgiving! Gobble, gobble.

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Finished ‘The Tao of Wu’ this weekend. Considering I don’t know a whole lot about religion, I enjoyed how RZA collected so much knowledge from an array of different cultures and moulded the lessons he learnt into a philosophy that could power his self. Some hip-hop players would be boasting about the riches they gained coming from where they came from, RZA can do the same. Only RZA’s riches come in the form of spiritual and mental riches (as well as physical). I think what makes him different is that rappers are normally changed drastically once they hit fame and start making crazy amounts of money (nearly always in a bad way), whereas RZA was changed again and again during the earlier years of his life. These changes continued along the way, sometimes in such huge ways that his whole mentality was flipped completely. What I found interesting was that once he made Wu Tang the biggest hip-hop group in the world, he didn’t really change. He continued to learn. He sustained the disposition that he had developed through his experiences and was not tainted.

RZA is a very interesting character who (as Cornel West states in a review) has much to teach us. Maybe I enjoyed this book so much because it was written from a perspective that is different to mine in nearly every way, but nevertheless, this is definitely worth a read. A quote that stuck with me as something encompassing of RZA’s nature was this:

Forces in the world will tell you

you’re a victim – of your family,

your race, your past, your history.

Don’t believe them. They don’t know

you. Look inside and find your true

self. It’s there. Give it a name.

Peace!

Edit: the man doing his thing: