Tuesday, November 25, 2003
Life Is Great
Topic Inspired By Chandra
Like a barefooted walk on a soft sandy beach to the sound of waves crashing up against the rocks. Like the feeling I get when I wake up to see a new day and go to sleep exciting for another to come.
Life is great.
The sound of a fine tuned piano playing one of Beethoven masterful pieces. The voice of my grandmother telling me how much I mean to the voice of my parents letting me know I have done well.
Life is great.
Like the feeling of pride when I lend a helping hand to the sense of honor I feel to have such amazing friends. Like the taste of good food to the taste of a good drink.
Life is great.
The smell of freshly mowed grass to the aroma of freshly cut flowers. From the look of ocean waters to the taste of fine wine.
Life is great.
Like the way I feel after a hot shower to the feel of softness on my face after a clean shave. Like the way I feel when I make someone smile to the glow in my eyes when someone makes me feel good.
Life is great.
Like the atmosphere around a cool fall evening bonfire. Like the taste of a popsicle on a hot summer day to the sound of rain pounding on the roof during a stormy spring night.
Life is great.
The thought of living many more years to the mere vision of one day having a family. From knowing I live in our worlds best country to the feeling I get when I think about one day visiting others.
Life is great.
Born in 1980, I sit here today at the age of 23 years old knowing that I am incredibly lucky. Life has been fairly good to me and with years and years to follow in the future I am always excited for a new day to come. There is so much to see, so much to do, so so much to be apart of.
It is simple. Life is great.
Take care all...
Sunday, November 23, 2003
Michael Jackson - A Monster In My Mind
I know I know. Nothing has been proved yet but I have always had an eary feeling about Michael Jackson. He is by no means a normal person and this latest unfolding just might show his true colors. Who else can dangle their baby over the balcony of a hotel room and not have any punishment given? It is obvious that Michael Jackson because of his name has gotten a way with a lot. It appears that it would be coming to an end and it is about time.
It was ten years ago that the same information was brought forward against Jackson. No one testifed and it was settled out of court. Because the child at that time did not go through a trial many believed that he was innocent. This time it will be different. The child will be going to trial to relay the same information that was relayed to his counsellor. The latest developpments all came from a child who was attending a regular therapy session. During one of them he revealed what Michael had done to him thus creating the investigation that led over 70 law enforcement representatives searching his Neverland Ranch and home. While conducting the search there were multiple things found that include:
- Video tapes
- The only way to get into the spare bedrooms in Michael's home was to go through his own bedroom
- A secret room in his house that had candle's and a number of photographs of young boys
That is 3 out of the many finding's that law enforcement discovered while searching his residence at the beginning of it's investigation. Do we know what is on the tapes? Do we know what the photographs completly entail? Do we know why you have to go through his own bedroom to get into the spare bedrooms in his house? No we don't know the answers to these questions but it gives off a strong feeling of something being wrong.
Many people discuss how he is now living a childhood that he in the past did not get to live. It would be completly understandable if he did but being over 40 years of age and having sleep overs with 12 year old children, allowing them to sleep in his bed with him, the photographs, the video tapes, etc is completly inappropriate. This sounds like a case of Michael Jackson being obsessed with children more than anything else to me.
Time will tell, the trial with disclose a lot to all of us. In my mind Michael Jackson is a monster and it just may now come out. There are too many things that he does that is completly inappropriate. After his first occasion of this information coming out Macauley Culkin came out and said that he is a good person and very charitable to children. This time when asked Culkin did not say that at all. Makes you wonder.
So many things do not play in his favor. From leading people from the psychology field saying that he has done and continues to do inappropriate things not realizing that he is a full grown male. Child sleepovers, making children walk through his room to get to the spar rooms, a secret room with photographs of children and candles is enough for me to say Michael Jackson has a serious problem and it needs to be dealt with.
I know there are many people who feel the same and I know there are just as many who feel the opposite and that he is a good person. Everyone by all means has the right to feel what they like. I have 2 words to express how I feel about him.
A Monster.
Take care all...
Thursday, November 13, 2003
Why Bush Needs To Put More Focus On The United States
It Is Not The Glory Land He Makes It Out To Be
There has been a lot of information relayed to the world via George W Bush that I do not agree with but nothing more than his bullshit rants on how the United States is the nicest and safest place to live.
After watching “Bowling For Columbine” I have become to understand that he is not in any position at all to preach the above because in reality the United States is the world’s worst nation when referring to weapons and unnecessary deaths.
Michael Moorer did a fantastic job with this documentary. He opened many an eye with his incredible research, fascinating statistics and very upfront and conversations with many of the people who live in the same Country as he. The United States.
Facts show us all that the United States averages over 11,000 gun related deaths a year while other nations such as Canada, France, England, etc average in between 65-120 a year.
Alarming if you ask me.
If George W Bush does not recognize that and begin to do something about it soon then the United States is going to be in a very bad shape. There numbers are growing every year.
I had to talk about this. After watching CNN today and hearing Bush talk his glory I thought it was about time someone talked about how the son of a bitch needs to wake up and realize he has some issues in his own country to deal with as well.
He might want to put some focus on them. He is not in any position to say half the shit he says. Maybe one day when he cleans up his own land he will be but he sure is not in any position right now.
Take care all…
Sunday, November 09, 2003
I know it has been a while since I have last posted. I have always said that I would never post for the sake of posting that I would only ever do it when I had something effective to write about. I am glad to be back and hope you enjoy the latest post.
From A Smooth Highway To A Torn Up Side Road
Like Sands In The Hour Glass, These Are The Days Of Our Lives
Life can take some really unexpected turns on us when we really think about it. One day our lives can be driving down the smoothest highway right in the middle of Paradise on a hot and sunny day and then the next we can be driving down a torn up side street in the outskirts of a tough town.
I will say that I have it really good. I tend to be driving through Paradise a lot more than a tough town. Recently however I found myself driving down one and noticed that it is really not that bad. Maybe it is because I spend most of my time in Paradise that I feel this way, or maybe it is because a tough town really is not a bad place to sometimes visit.
Life is one big classroom with each and every day playing the part of a lesson. Whether we are in sun shiny Paradise or a tough town we are learning life’s lessons. At times when we do, we are educated in a way that is sometimes hard to deal with which is where the tough town comes into play and sometimes we feel positive while it is occurring which is were Paradise is brought into the scheme of things.
Each and everyone one of us has things happen to ourselves that we welcome with open arms and naturally at times we have things that happen in which we wish did not.
We are all going to have our beautiful days in Paradise and we are all also going to have our gloomy ones in a tough town.
Being a very strong individual and holding onto the fact that Paradise is so beautiful and that we will find our way back to it if life takes us for a ride down the torn up side road makes the whole trip to a tough town so much easier.
Life is too short to have an extended stay in a tough town.
Paradise is the place to be. Spend as much time there as you can. I know I do.
Take care all...
Friday, October 31, 2003
It is simple. Blogger can be shitty sometimes. I had a whole Halloween post ready to go and I lost it.
Shit.
Have a good Halloween all...
Monday, October 27, 2003
The Old Wives Tale About Swallowing Chewing Gum
Towards the end of the night lastnight I realized that I had chewed about ten pieces of gum throughout the day. I also realized that I swallowed every one of them. I remember when growing up being told that for every piece of gum you swallow it takes 7-8 years for it to leave your body. If that was the case I had about 70-80 years of gum in my system from the day alone and hundreds of years of it in my system if I add up every time I have swallowed a piece of gum in my life.
I decided to research it a little bit to learn more about what happens to our bodies when we swallow gum. Here is what I found out.
Gum does not linger in our stomachs and is infact digestible. Gum is eliminated in the form of human waste in the same way and at the same rate as any other swallowed matter. It comes out the far end relatively unchanged from the form it entered, but the point to make is it does come out on schedule, not 7-8 years later.
Chewing gum unlike a lot of other foods, barely gets smaller no matter how hard or how long we chew it. Its resistance to being broken down by the teeth works to support the fanciful notion that it has special properties which allow it to lurk in the digestive system year after year. Since we know we're not supposed to swallow gum, our imaginations kick in, creating a reason to support why we shouldn't swallow it. Who's imagination kicked in first to come up with the old wives tale that a swallowed piece of gum will remain in your system for years I am not sure.
Gum is not a food. About 15% to 30% of it is gum base, a natural or synthetic indigestible rubbery substance. Vegetable-oil derivatives can be added to keep gum soft. Glycerin maintains moistness. Sorbitol and mannitol add sweetness to sugarless gum, and mannitol is often used to dust the gum, along with starch. Artificial and natural flavorings, colorings, preservatives, sugar, saccharin or corn syrup, can also be added.
Many of us chew gum naturally. Chewing the resin of trees is an ancient habit, so our gum chewing habit has probably always been with us. In 1848, John Curtis of Hampden, Maine, observed loggers chewing spruce resin, and from that sight saw the opportunity for business. He boiled the resin, skimmed it, poured it, cooled it, rolled it, cut it, dusted it with cornstarch, and wrapped it. The gum was priced at a penny for two pieces. Other companies followed, but the paper industry used up too many trees to leave a steady supply of spruce resin for the gum manufacturers, and the industry faltered.
A key event in the history of chewing gum involved the notorious Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the very man who ordered the taking of the Alamo and had all its defenders put to death. Santa Anna introduced chicle, a rain-forest tree resin to New York inventor Thomas Adams with the idea of marketing chicle as a rubber substitute. That was not to be, but this particular resin turned out to be more useful as a chewing-gum base. Today the Adams name still appears on boxes of Chiclets. The gum industry took of from there.
A little bit of history on chewing gum for you and some facts in regards to the old wives tale surrounded by swallowing it. I will probably always swallow gum, it just naturally happens but atleast now I know that it will not be lurking in my body for 7-8 years if I do it.
Take care all...
Friday, October 24, 2003
Simply Amazing What Technology Can Do
The Chance To See And Talk To Someone While Being On Different Sides Of The World Is Coming
Today while reading Ra McGuire's blog at ramcguire.com I came across some extremely interesting information that I want to share with everyone. The information posted on Ra's site is via Die Puny Humans.
Simply amazing.
"A window between cities that allows people hundreds or even thousands of miles apart to meet and talk in real time could make its debut in Britain next year.
Tholos, named after a type of circular ancient Greek temple, consists of a large round screen nearly 10ft high and 23ft wide. Its designers hope to see one of the first two in the world become a new tourist attraction in the centre of London.
The London Tholos would be linked to an identical one in Vienna. Through them, people in both cities will be able to see and hear each other in real time.
The cylindrical structure contains a unique technology that simultaneously transmits and receives high definition live moving images. People standing in front of London's Tholos would see a wrap-around picture of the scene in Vienna. At the same time, a similar London image is displayed in the Austrian capital. Citizens in both countries would be able to face each other and talk via an array of directional microphones and loudspeakers, which keep conversations private.
Effectively, it is like meeting up in the town square - except that you might be on different continents.
There are ambitious plans to expand the system into a network linking at least 16 European cities by 2008, and then others in North America and Asia... "
Take care all...
