I walk these empty streets
On the boulevard of broken dreams
While the city sleeps
And I'm the only one
I walk aloneOr something like that, as the Green Day song goes. I used to live that for awhile. But one thing I've been able to perceive yet again is that it's impossible to be alone unless you choose it. If you want ( Read more... )

Just got done listening to a radio commercial where a bunch of ninjas are trying to buy a 'midsized' Hummer H3, and extol the virtues of the thing ( Read more... )

Or, in English, 'seize the day.' Made famous by 'Dead Poets Society', this is the concept of closing your eyes to tomorrow in order to enjoy today ( Read more... )

(..instead of 'collective bargaining ( Read more... )

E-mail doesn't work as a communications method when nobody really reads it.

Heck, people can tune you out even when you're talking directly to them.

I'll even admit to doing it now and again myself.

( ...so, you can like, skip the next four minutes... )

It's -really- hard to read a book while you're dancing.

I needed to do both.

Dancing won.

That is all. *goes back to bopping about the room*

Rar.

-Dennay

Juggling is the art of doing more than you have hands for. In the legends, Coyote juggles his eyes -- and loses them. Well, as those of us who can sling a jug (the term for a single toss-catch action, I believe) will attest, it's really hard to juggle blind ( Read more... )

The smart critters are hibernating by now. When it's easier to just sleep in someplace warm and dry, instead of burning energy trying to scare up scarce hunting, and competing with everyone else for too few things, sometimes it's just easier to hide down and wait for spring.

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Sometimes the magnitude of change that can happen in an eyeblink is simply overwhelming. Other times you see it coming, like sitting on a surfboard watching a wave forming as it rolls towards you, but there's nothing you can do ( Read more... )

*grins*

For Neill, Kesh, and Prem: some thoughts on determinism. Anyone know how you compress comments down into the just-lines bits, or whether or not if you reply to a comment someone has made in reply to someone else, both get the reply up the chain, or just the one person you reply to?

( Runaway reality or linear path? )