This is the thread where everyone is random.

[brightpearl]

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[Brynn]

this is crazy sick
giant slide (http://www.acetj.com/videos/player.php?mediaID=3045)

[Max Headroom]

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[madasacutsnake]

So I'm in this huge mall in Edmonton and there's an ice rink and some guy skating on it. My friend and I say in unison, "Max Headroom!"

[trisherina]

:D

[Brynn]

Hi Mr. Headroom :)

[Max Headroom]

Hey y'all,

What's happening?

[Brynn]

this just in:

403 Forbidden: The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it.

[lukkucairi]

music is the attack pattern!

[Hyakujo's Fox]

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[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^ :D what a gem!

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3149/2872770566_47d71610c3.jpg (http://http://www.flickr.com/photos/sipmab/sets/72157600600465209/)

[Brynn]

Frontline report about the e-waste trade in Ghana - horrifying (http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/ghana804/video/video_index.html)

[Hyakujo's Fox]

if you've ever wondered if the medium really is the message, here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox440dEFTP4)'s your answer.

[Max Headroom]

Step1: Pull out Led Zepelin 10 disc box set
Step2: Encode said box set to hard drive
Step3: Upload to iphone
Step4: Drink some fine single malt.( or blended if you must.)
step5: shuffle the complete works of led zep on iphone over personal stereo.
Step6: Rock out.........
Step7: Have a very hard time typing it all out......

You don't have to go...... i, i , i ,i ,i..... all those tears I cry..i i i i ..baby, please don't go.........oh, oh , oh ,oh , oh ,oh......

[xfox]

okay (http://video.google.com/videosearch?sourceid=gmail&rls=gm&q=leaf%20falling%20in%20the%20breeze&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wv#)

[12"razormix]

http://gigi46.canalblog.com/images/nutella.jpg

... NO, TWIGGY, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! :eek:

[brightpearl]

http://plonkplonk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/starry-eyed-pop-surrealism1.jpg

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

a glimpse (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/turkmenistan-stranger-in-a-very-strange-land-1814127.html)

[Large Marge]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3149/2872770566_47d71610c3.jpg (http://http://www.flickr.com/photos/sipmab/sets/72157600600465209/)

Wow. That is freakin' awesome!

[MoJoRiSin]

what exactly is this song saying to you?

I wanna love you, and treat you right
I wanna love you, every day and every night
We'll be together, with a roof right over our heads
We'll share the shelter, of my single bed
We'll share the same room, JAH provide the bread

Is this love, is this love, is this love
Is this love that I am feeling (repeat)
I wanna know, wanna know, wanna know now
I got to know, got to know, got to know now

I'm willing and able
So I throw my cards on your table
I wanna love you and treat you right

I wanna love you, every day and every night
We'll be together, with a roof right over our heads
We'll share the shelter, of my single bed
We'll share the same room, JAH provide the bread

Is this love, is this love, is this love
Is this love that I am feeling (repeat)
Oh yes I know, yes I know, yes I know now (repeat)

I'm willing and able
So I throw my cards on your table
See I wanna love you, I wanna love and treat
You right, I wanna love you, every day and every night
We'll be together, with a roof right over our heads
We'll share the shelter, of my single bed
We'll share the same room, JAH provide the bread
~ Bob Marley
Is This Love?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

:( :(

:confused: :confused:

:eek: :eek:

:o :o

:p :p

[brightpearl]

Ysa, you just reminded me that last night, my son piped up with, "Hey mom, what would happen if time stopped for everything except one guy? Like if there was a piece of paper in frozen in the air in front of him, what would happen if he tried to punch down on it?"

Erm, okay MiniEinstein, let's think this through...The original Einstein said that time and space were a single thing, and there have been some experiments to show that's true. So what do you think would happen?

"I think it couldn't move through the space unless it could move through time, too, so it would crush his hand into a bloody mess."

:rolleyes:

Good lord. I have my hands full with this one.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^ :eek: :D

[lukkucairi]

http://www.silverfernz.com/Prodimages/jade_fact/Light-Through-Greenstone-Hei-Matau.jpg

[MoJoRiSin]

was just a (double?) fantasy

HERE IS A JL QUOTE ::


"When Cynthia returned home she found Lennon and Ono, who was wearing Cynthia's bathrobe, drinking tea together. Lennon simply said, "Oh, Hi"

[MoJoRiSin]

is all i can think to sasy



"On Sunday morning Lennon brought in the newspapers, laying them down on the coffee table, but when Ono tried to pick up one of the papers Lennon slapped her hand, saying "I read them first".

[Brynn]

<a href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&vid=7481acfa-1fcd-4890-bc09-4fa0d7e7f245" target="_new" title="Huge Ice Carvings"><img src="http://img2.catalog.video.msn.com/Image.aspx?uuid=7481acfa-1fcd-4890-bc09-4fa0d7e7f245&w=112&h=84" border=0 alt="Huge Ice Carvings" width=112 height=84><br />Huge Ice Carvings</a>

[MoJoRiSin]

what mo's father did

he was the Allied Van Lines Agent
in Tulsa Oklahoma
think this through.....
before the days of U Haul
his grandfather started the company in Decatur Illinois
they used horse and buggies
to haul everything that needed to be moved around
town (everything not just household goods)
the employees were just guys that needed money
they would get up at the crack of dawn and line up on the loading docks

hoping.....

[Brynn]

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[12"razormix]

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[brightpearl]

http://discodust.com/images/weird-tapes.jpg

[Frieda]

^kitsch thread! :D

[Bman]

Mundane is the mantra

[lukkucairi]

http://ihasahotdog.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/funny-dog-pictures-dont-like.jpg

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01527/posters10_1527594i.jpg

paper, rags and bones... and old men, apparently

a lovely collection of wartime posters (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/festivalsandevents/6615752/Waste-Not-Want-Not-wartime-posters.html?image=11)

[MoJoRiSin]

http://passouline.blog.lemonde.fr/files/2009/05/p1010233.1243104533.JPG

if i remember correctly pierre took this with his own camera
~Pierre Assouline journalist Le Monde (France)

posted in May 2009

[Jack Flanders]

My 18 year old cat just peed in the toilet without spilling (better than my 15 yr old son) for the first time and probably the last (shit) oh heh! I tried to praise her for that beautiful, hygienic act but she thought I was coming to yell at her.:(

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

season's greetings to everyone!

The flu season is in full bloom over here.

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[YsaPur EsChomuw]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iP7C8KM3nV8/SxWM8CKbfdI/AAAAAAAAADs/x0lqckWZr2E/s1600/18.jpg

[MoJoRiSin]

ARISTOCRATS, PATRISTOCRATS and XENOCRYPT SUBSTITUTIONS

1. Length:75-100 (85-120 for Xenos). Some Pats without tip may be
100-150.
2. No more than 4 singletons (letters used only once) should appear.
3. At least 18 different letters should be used in each problem.
4. Repeated consecutive plaintext should be avoided.
5. No more than 3 proper nouns should be used (indicated by *).
6. For Xenos languages normally are: Dutch, Esperanto, French, German,
Latin, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Others may be used as
Specials.

i was referred to this sight ::

http://www.und.nodak.edu/org/crypto/crypto/.chap08.html

by a kind person over yahoo!group "Kryptos"

[MoJoRiSin]

^^ if you refer to the image of the magic sqare above j is the only capital letter that goes under the line
so to speak
here is something else sool about the letter j ::

http://ask.metafilter.com/35550/Why-A

^scroll about 1/3 of the way down until you see a white box then wait for the animation

note at what time in hi story the letter J was first used
long after James Joseph Jeremiah etc had come and gone : )

[brightpearl]

http://www.euphoria-magazine.com/img/random-funny-collection-001/random-funny-collection-00130.jpg

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Instead of magical tales of Narnia, my hypochondriac grandmother would retell me prolongated tales of her hernia.

[MoJoRiSin]

Parable of the Prodigal Son
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The Return of the Prodigal Son (1773) by Pompeo Batoni
The Prodigal Son, also known as the Lost Son, is one of the best known parables of Jesus. It appears only in the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Bible. By tradition, it is usually read on the third Sunday of Lent. It is the third and final member of a trilogy, following the Parable of the Lost Sheep and the Parable of the Lost Coin.

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Overview
The story is found in Luke 15:11-32. Jesus tells the story of a man who has two sons. The younger demands his share of his inheritance while his father is still living, and goes off to a distant country where he "waste[s] his substance with riotous living" and eventually has to take work as a swineherd (clearly a low point, as swine are unclean in Judaism). There he comes to his senses and decides to return home and throw himself on his father's mercy, thinking that even if his father does disown him, being one of his servants is still far better than feeding pigs. But when he returns home, his father greets him with open arms and hardly gives him a chance to express his repentance. He kills a fatted calf to celebrate his return. The older brother resents the favored treatment of his faithless brother and complains of the lack of reward for his own faithfulness. But the father responds:
" 'My son,' the father said, 'you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.'
– (Luke 15:31-32, NIV)
The Eastern Orthodox Church traditionally reads this story on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son,[1] which in their liturgical year is the Sunday before Meatfare Sunday and about two weeks before the beginning of Great Lent. One common kontakion hymn of the occasion reads,
I have recklessly forgotten Your glory, O Father;
And among sinners I have scattered the riches which You gave to me.
And now I cry to You as the Prodigal:
I have sinned before You, O merciful Father;
Receive me as a penitent and make me as one of Your hired servants.
Pope John Paul II explored the issues raised by this parable in his second encyclical Dives in Misericordia (Latin for "Rich in Mercy") issued in 1980.
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The dual challenge
Within the context of Luke 15, these three parables — the Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin, and the Lost Son — make up a dual plea for repentance to the audience of Publicans and sinners and a rebuttal to the listening Pharisees, according to I. Howard Marshall.[2] The pharisees criticize Jesus for welcoming sinners and having fellowship with them, and Jesus gives anecdotal teaching to justify his attitude. The parable emphasizes the joy experienced by a person who recovers what he has lost.[3]

In the arts


Hans Sebald Beham, 1538, engraving


Gerard van Honthorst, 1623, like many works of the period, allows a genre scene with moral content.


Rembrandt, Return of the Prodigal Son, 1662, (Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg)
[edit]
Art
Of the thirty or so parables in the canonical Gospels, it was one of the four that were shown in medieval art almost to the exclusion of the others, but not mixed in with the narrative scenes of the Life of Christ (the others were the Wise and Foolish Virgins, Dives and Lazarus, and the Good Samaritan.[4] The Labourers in the Vineyard also appears in Early Medieval works). From the Renaissance the numbers shown widened slightly, and the various scenes - the high living, herding the pigs, and the return - of the Prodigal Son became the clear favourite. Albrecht Dürer made a famous engraving of the Prodigal Son amongst the pigs (1496), a popular subject in the Northern Renaissance, and Rembrandt depicted the story several times, although at least one of his works, The Prodigal Son in the Tavern, a portrait of himself as the Son, revelling with his wife, is like many artists' depictions, a way of dignifying a genre tavern scene - if the title was indeed the original intention of the artist. His late Return of the Prodigal Son (1662, Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg) is one of his most popular works.

Stage
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the theme was a sufficiently popular subject that the Prodigal Son Play can be seen as a sub-genre of the English morality play. Examples include The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune, The Disobedient Child, and Acolastus. [5]
Notable adaptations for performance include a 1929 ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to music written by Sergei Prokofiev and an 1869 oratorio by Arthur Sullivan. Many of these adaptations considerably added to the Biblical material to lengthen the story; for example, the 1955 film The Prodigal took considerable liberties, such as adding a temptress priestess of Astarte to the tale.

Popular music
The parable is referenced in the traditional Irish folk tune "The Wild Rover".
Oblique adaptations include that by the Reverend Robert Wilkins, who told the story of this parable in the song "Prodigal Son", which is probably best known as a cover version by the Rolling Stones on their 1968 album Beggar's Banquet. In 1978, reggae band Steel Pulse recorded a song "Prodigal Son"; this transposes the story of the prodigal onto the slave trade, and suggests that their real "homecoming" was in fact to be spiritual rather than physical, a "homecoming" through religion (Rastafari). The British heavy metal band Iron Maiden recorded a song titled "Prodigal Son", based on the parable of the same name, which appeared on their second release, Killers, in 1981. Detroit musician, Kid Rock, also recorded a song titled "Prodigal Son" which appeared on his second album The Polyfuze Method, in 1993. Kid Rock later re-recorded the track for his 2000 album The History of Rock. "Prodigal Blues" is a song by Billy Idol that compares the singer's struggles with drug addiction to the parable, and the musical Godspell, which re-enacts the Prodigal Son story as a Western film. Bono, the vocalist of the Irish band U2, wrote the song "The First Time" based on this parable. The Christian Rock trio BarlowGirl recorded the song "She Walked Away" as part of their 2004 self-titled album. The scripture from Luke is quoted during an instrumental section of the song. Musician Dustin Kensrue wrote a song about the Prodigal Son entitled "Please Come Home" on the album of the same name released in 2007. The song "Find Your Way Home" by Texas rocker Kanude from his 2008 self-titled debut is based on the parable. "Juan en la Ciudad" (John in the City), a salsa-merengue fusion that describes the parable in condensed terms, was Richie Ray's and Bobby Cruz's most popular hit ever, in 1977.
The song "Carry on Wayward Son" by Kansas is widely considered to refer to the Parable of the Prodigal Son.
The Prodigal Son is the first posthumous release by piano player and gospel singer Keith Green.
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Literature
Another literary tribute to this parable is Dutch theologian Henri Nouwen's 1992 book, The Return of the Prodigal Son, A Story of Homecoming, in which he describes his own spiritual journey infused with understanding based on an encounter with Rembrandt's painting of the return of the Prodigal. He shows how the story is illuminated by the painting and is really about three personages: the younger, prodigal son; the self-righteous, resentful older son; and the compassionate father. Nouwen describes how all Christians—himself included—struggle to free themselves from the weaknesses inherent in both brothers and are destined to find themselves becoming the all-giving, all-forgiving, sacrificial father.
Another, earlier and similar work is Le retour de l'enfant prodigue (The Return of the Prodigal Son), a short story by André Gide, who infuses his own story with that of the parable.

[Frieda]

a hobbit! there's a hobbit in the NL Popstars this year! :eek::eek:

here look:
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:eek::eek:

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

The end of the year party at work turned out to be a good one, in spite of my usual fears. I usually feel like sheet with an eye, too many people, too close, too much noise, too many flashing light effects, too much drunk hugging and smooches (well, I'm a bit crazy and not very social), but I really enjoyed it and even danced with my colleagues. Um, I dance like Ze, only worse.

I think everyone was happy because this year we have long winter holidays again. I don't start until the 11th. :cool:

[Jack Flanders]

Hopefully by leaving tomorrow morning at 6 am we'll get ahead of the snow storm that's headed up the east coast. We'll get to Indiana in time for some good lake effect snow storms on Sunday ...

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

make your own snowflake (http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com/)

[MoJoRiSin]

or maybe this should be entitled
"how to sure domestic ugliness?"
(well, i meant SOLVE but somehow i typed "sure"...
the typo remains)


The life of a Spartan male was a life of discipline, self-denial, and simplicity. The Spartans viewed themselves as the true inheritors of the Greek tradition. They did not surround themselves with luxuries, expensive foods, or opportunities for leisure. And this, I think, is the key to understanding the Spartans. While the Athenians and many others thought the Spartans were insane, the life of the Spartans seemed to hark back to a more basic way of life. Discipline, simplicity, and self-denial always remained ideals in the Greek and Roman worlds; civilization was often seen as bringing disorder, ennervation, weakness, and a decline in moral values. The Spartan, however, could point to Spartan society and argue that moral values and human courage and strength was as great as it was before civilization. Spartan society, then, exercised a profound pull on the surrounding city-states who admired the simplicity, discipline, and order of Spartan life.

The ideology of Sparta was oriented around the state. The individual lived (and died) for the state. Their lives were designed to serve the state from their beginning to the age of sixty. The combination of this ideology, the education of Spartan males, and the disciplined maintenance of a standing army gave the Spartans the stability that had been threatened so dramatically in the Messenean revolt.

Paradoxically, this soldier-centered state was the most liberal state in regards to the status of women. While women did not go through military training, they were required to be educated along similar lines. The Spartans were the only Greeks not only to take seriously the education of women, they instituted it as state policy. This was not, however, an academic education (just as the education of males was not an academic education); it was a physical education which could be grueling. Infant girls were also exposed to die if they were judged to be weak; they were later subject to physical and gymnastics training. This education also involved teaching women that their lives should be dedicated to the state. In most Greek states, women were required to stay indoors at all times (though only the upper classes could afford to observe this custom); Spartan women, however, were free to move about, and had an unusual amount of domestic freedom for their husbands, after all, didn't live at home.

source:: http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GREECE/SPARTA.HTM

[lukkucairi]

http://www.zeemensch.nl/edward_weston-charis_wilson.jpg

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

google: zeitgeist (http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/press/zeitgeist2009/news.html)

[Odbe]

Well I dunno about you, but this guy totally rocks.
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[Hyakujo's Fox]

What's going on in there?
NOTHING MOTHER!

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^^ So many questions arise... What's this narrow room with air conditioning? What's that thing with a red handle hanging from the wall? Why do Asian people have almost no body hair? Why is he wearing socks? Stacks of what in the corner? ... and many more.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

"you might be talking like artistic intellectuals, but you just ate some guy’s ass fat."

[MoJoRiSin]

Today is Newton's birthday

www.google.com

the apple does not fall far from the ........
(program?) :)

[Brynn]

"you might be talking like artistic intellectuals, but you just ate some guy’s ass fat."
ROFL :D
I am in pain and I cannot breathe.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

http://www.allotment.org.uk/vegetable/assets/cabbage.jpg

[12"razormix]

http://res1.windows.microsoft.com/resbox/en/Windows%20Vista/Main/1/2/12f95889-fa35-4f30-a703-04a1a72f68d5/12f95889-fa35-4f30-a703-04a1a72f68d5.png

[Jack Flanders]

R.I.P Mr. SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! Jan Gabriel was the voice of the Chicago car/truck racing scene in ads on TV starting in the 60's. "Monster truck rally with THRILLS, CHILLS and BONECRUSHING SPILLS!! US 30 drag strip!! Tickets for the seats but you'll only need THE EDGE!!!!" He passed this last SUNDAY!! I grew up up listening to his familiar voice.

[brightpearl]

Care and Feeding of Rain Lamps (http://www.simnia.com/rain_lamps/)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2331/2210947570_faa9dd89e1.jpg

[Odbe]

Ooh look at this!
http://fineartamerica.com/images-medium/stalking-the-marsh--great-blue-heron-marion-rose.jpg

[lapietra]

http://i.imgur.com/xKLib.jpg

[brightpearl]

http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2007-06/curved-yellow-fruit.jpg

[Hyakujo's Fox]

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[Brynn]

^ I want this.

[Brynn]

The Scale of the Universe (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Frieda has taken off her Chrismas hat. It must be summer, then.

She must be up to some magicking, too. She chameleoned her background into orange.

Maybe she's done something to Pauli, the octopus! :eek: Help! Help! Help! help!

[Frieda]

i have done nothing to the octopus.. just doing a little wishful thinking :)

a lot, actually :D

[brightpearl]

You look nice in orange!

[Frieda]

thank you :)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Have you seen today's google doodle?

[Brynn]

Is that something to do with Microsoft?

Here's something rather illuminating...
animated map/timeline of nuclear explosions (http://www.wimp.com/nuclearexplosions/)

I lived in Los Angeles when nuclear testing was at its height.

[Brynn]

The Crow Paradox (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106826971)

[Large Marge]

zenbabe's last post was:

"Now I am kind of horney."

[Bman]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lapxnzGXK91qbycdbo1_500.jpg

[lukkucairi]

BUGRIT!

millennium hand and shrimp!

[MoJoRiSin]

Pearly I know that must look a bit familiar
no ?

Zefrank::Twitter:: April22

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Today, as I was leaving the cemetery, a woman stuck a leaflet with the picture of a red squirrel on it in my hands. Upon closer inspection it turned out to be a cremation promotion. It's never too early to be late, eh?

[brightpearl]

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/f582c25b-9d3b-4156-8662-2a387b7245c3.jpg

[Odbe]

http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Doctor-Who-The-Beast-Below-15.jpg
No I'm the bloody queen, mate

[brightpearl]

I'm sorry, I can't hear you from behind the enormous mound of fabulously cool cupcakes I'm eating.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2031/2110090357_fb62de3ceb.jpg

[Hyakujo's Fox]

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/15445278?title=0&amp;portrait=0" width="800" height="450" frameborder="0"></iframe>

[Odbe]

^^ Burned!

[MoJoRiSin]

it seems it was just the other day that six thousand
some odd
people liked Ze
today it is
over eight
thousand...
>>ho is that possible?<< : p

[MoJoRiSin]

dear beloved meditation master of mine?

Let me
Get this
Straight...
Apupil
Aflower
And a big
Dum e<<it was a typo of course

Mo meant to write dome
(Referring ofcourse to
"eye construction")

[lukkucairi]

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Artesina+in+Italy&t=k&om=1&ie=UTF8&ll=44.24425,7.769777&spn=0.002413,0.004828&z=18&iwloc=addr

[MoJoRiSin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Godiva

[Frieda]

theres a tiny little bruise on my nose.

[zero]

give it a tiny little rub

[Bman]

made by people and robots (http://soundcloud.com/avantagonist/formovingbodies)

[Coffee]

Viceral is gorgeous.

[Marcus Bales]

Nothing could be finer.

[Brynn]

Him: They are making cars now with engine components that can be grown. Which means super-light engines that can run on biodiesel."

Me: That's good news. Except of course if someone crashes at a high speed with another green engine, both drivers will be crunched up and crumpled like a piece of tin foil.

Him: I suppose it's possible.

Me: According to Mythbusters (http://forum.mythbustersfanclub.com/index.php?action=printpage;topic=15495.0), even a bug hitting a motorcyclist at a certain speed in a certain vulnerable area of the throat can kill you.

Him: If you happen to be hit by a certain rare African beetle that is four inches in diameter at that exact area in the throat while riding a motorcycle, yes, it could happen. (Pauses as he thoughtfully sips his coffee). By the way, if anyone ever comes at you to hurt you, hit them right here. (He taps the hollow of his throat).

Me: Yes. Puncture them. With my keys in my fist.

Him: Or anything. Your fingers.

Me: My thumb.

Him: Yes.

Me: Then they won't be able to breathe. But do I really want to kill someone just because they want my purse?

Him: (He shrugs) They wouldn't die. They would have a lot of trouble breathing. Might need an emergency tracheotomy though.

Me: I don't think I could hit them there that hard. But if I did, then I would have to call 911 for him. He'd be lying on the ground and I would have to reassure him. (Glancing down over the edge of the breakfast table at an imaginary attacker on the ground) "Just lie quietly. You've been injured. Help is on the way."

Him: Or he might run away in a panic.

Me: Or get really really mad at me. Then I'd be in real trouble.

Him: That's why you have to hit him like you mean it.

Me: Then when he's writhing in pain on the ground, I could lie to him and say "I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to hit you that hard. Just relax. You're going to need a professional tracheotomy. You're lucky I'm nice enough to call an ambulance. I probably won't even need to press charges because I've already punished you enough myself, so please don't be mad and obsess over this when you go to prison for something else."

Him: (Stares at me briefly, puts a hand on my shoulder and says kindly) I've got to go to work now. I'm glad we've rehearsed this - in case it ever happens.

[Bman]

http://gizmodo.com/5704158/nasa-finds-new-life

I, for one, welcome our new cancerous overlords.

[Coffee]

There IS alien life, and it is here on earth! (http://news.mwza.com/tech/nasa-press-conference-today-arsenic-based-life-discovered/403/)


:eek: I was so excited I didn't even stop to clik your link before posting mine Bman.

doh. Now I know how Wallace felt. :(

[Bman]

I told you so! Now, who wants tin foil hats?

Get em while they work, I hear they're going to upgrade to a new foil-penetrating frequency soon.

[Brynn]

My friends star in this new webseries shot in Portland, and I've seen a sneak peak of the the first seven or eight episodes. I'm a huge fan now - great characters that you come to really care about, and of course it stars my favorite hometown...

Everything Will Be Fine (http://www.everythingwillbefine.tv/)

[lukkucairi]

Christmas carp? (http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2010/12/christmas_food?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/dobrochut)

[MoJoRiSin]

got in the car this morning and the radio was set to 89.3 inHouston
(Perhaps we were scanning the stations to find christmas carols to sing in harmony the other day???)
Anyhoo "God Gave Me You" was on
(Dan Barnes)
Its good :p

[MoJoRiSin]

^about the guy's guitar btw

[MoJoRiSin]

bright young thing
full of hope and heart
don't stop now.

one character

[Odbe]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qmRXa2x2SZk/TIoUdJv7_XI/AAAAAAAAADA/UfyFE_uQvZQ/s1600/ZeldaCaveDogHalloweenCostume.jpg

[MoJoRiSin]

The Story of Mark Eklund, the Former Catholic School Student Killed in Vietnam-Truth!
Summary of eRumor
This is the touching story of a teacher at a Catholic school in Minnesota. She describes an unforgettable elementary student named Mark Eklund who had been likeable but frustrating because of his inability to stay quiet in class. The teacher transferred to teaching junior-high and later had Mark again. One day asked everyone in the class to write down each student's name and also write the nicest thing they could think of about that person. Years later, the teacher got word that Mark Eklund had died in Vietnam and she was asked to attend his funeral. Mark's family showed her that the piece of paper from junior-high with other student's kind remarks about him had been carried in his wallet until the day he died. The teacher then heard that other students had also saved their pieces of paper from that day and how much it had meant to them. The story closes with encouragement to tell people how much we care for them and how special they are to us while there is still the time to do it.


The Truth
According to Saint Mary's school in Morris, Minnesota, this is a true story written by Sister Helen Mrosla, a Franciscan nun. According to an Associated Press article published in the Topeka Capitol-Journal in 1998, Sister Mrosla decided to write about Mark for Proteus magazine, which had asked for stories about education. That article was later printed in Reader's Digest but has probably reached its biggest audience via the Internet. Some versions of the circulated email also include promises of good luck if the story is forwarded to other people, something that Sister Mrosla is not happy about. She said it cheapens it somehow.

[Jack Flanders]

http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/outusa/images/tableimages/IMG_3019-3.jpg

banksy, maybe.

[MoJoRiSin]

as per usual

(QRS)

[MoJoRiSin]

http://www.interactees.com/?gclid=CJ6YiOCOuacCFc4M2god-wrFBQ

not sure why this is here but i mentioned sxsw in
an email and tthe google ad popped up:rolleyes:

[Brynn]

<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sM3bMdQmyqo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[Odbe]

I think it's been posted before but I love this video.
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[Brynn]

I hadn't seen that, so thank you! It's the guitarist as centaur that does it for me, personally. :) I shouldn't be surprised by the AARP ad that pops up right before it starts, though...

[Veruki]

I'm randomly coming in to say hi. HI!!

[lukkucairi]

HI VERUKI! :)

[xfox]

Oh to be so random. Lukki, did I thank you for my License in TDG you judged. I needed one of those.

[12"razormix]

<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/X091boVoPqU?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[zero]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3242/2738602007_26947e0e96.jpg

[lukkucairi]

Oh to be so random. Lukki, did I thank you for my License in TDG you judged. I needed one of those.

you're welcome.

[12"razormix]

<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="853" height="510" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VcRK1azuhpg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[zero]

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_licue0LKcV1qzdi59o1_r1_500.jpg

[MoJoRiSin]

a pristine planet // electriCity

[Bman]

http://i.imgur.com/cJzAX.jpg

[MoJoRiSin]

"The road to canonization is long and uncertain. A candidate must first be declared "venerable," or worthy of being a role model for Catholics. The next step is beatification by the Pope which requires, among other things, that a miracle be attributed to Rose Hawthorne's intercession. The final step normally requires that a second miracle be attributed to the candidate."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
fyi only.... according to Paul Auster Rose divorced her husband,
converted to Catholicism, and then spent the
rest
of her life
taking care of dying men....
my question is this ....
if there really is such a thing as re in car nation
where would she have gone from there?
...just woandering

[lukkucairi]

http://www.myspace.com/zerecords

[MoJoRiSin]

"hi ho the dairy-o the _ stands alone" (W)

[Frieda]

So friggin weird when you ring someone's doorbell and they open the door and the hallway reeks mildly of poop and toilet. You just don't know if they know that you know.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

knit your own corgi (http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/apr/20/royal-wedding-knitting-pattern-corgi)

[brightpearl]

crochet your own ood (http://www.buzzfeed.com/doctorwho/doctor-who-crochet)

[MoJoRiSin]

earlier int the day i read a news bit about a peaceful "sit in" type demonstration that was taking place somewhere in the the Middle East ... when i tried to find it just now to post under
"images, what's on your mind" i found this ::
somethign tells me if my meditation guru found out i was posting this herethis
he would surely...
leave me for dead!

<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rCrG6TzG-nw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

:D :D :D

[Odbe]

Currently finishing drawings of the sexy parts of plants under a microscope :)

[brightpearl]

^"Oooooh, look at the gemmae cups on that baby."

[MoJoRiSin]

scroll down (http://ask.metafilter.com/35550/Why-A)

and wait

for animation

to begin