So did anybody see that episode of the Twilight Zone where physicists, heady with power and devoid of humility, created a machine capable of creating a black hole in a "controlled" environment. Suddenly, things go wrong and "pop" the world vanishes, destroying the entirety of our existence in a flash ( Read more... )

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NBPC - The Daydreamer

Nature, Background, Big Picture, and Color


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   So two nights ago, Heather's friend Bryan drove down to spend the afternoon and evening with us. Eoghan was absolutely thrilled as Bryan is a decent fellow. As is my tendancy, we wandered into a conversation regarding anything from politics to religion to psychology, you know my traditional fare that an increasing majority of people tend to ( Read more... )

Evidently, this little exercise involves going to musicoutfitters.com and typing the year you graduated into the search field. Go to the top 100 for that year, copy, paste, discuss.

1996

1. Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix), Los Del Rio
2. One Sweet Day, Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men
3. Because You Loved Me, Celine Dion        (the previous three songs ( Read more... )

..."no one ever told me."

There is no way to forcibly prevent "terrorist attacks". I repeat, invade people's privacy, detain American citizenry without charge, build bigger bombs and larger planes, create the worlds largest and most efficient computer...in the end, it will not matter. The safety that we are selling our liberties for, is a false ( Read more... )

Upon watching the episode of The Twilight Zone, "The Obsolete Man", it occurs to me that our society is, while not quite there yet, well on it's way to determining matters in the manner used in this episode. While I am no conservative, liberal, Republican or Democrat, it bears saying that all those who read Orwell's 1984 "should" recognize that ( Read more... )

As I have taken to recording and watching old episodes of "The Twilight Zone", I've come to realize the pure genius that was Rod Serling. I classify him, after revisiting 5-6 episodes, as a brilliant social commentator in the highest order. The writing was succinct and he had extreme clarity in making script after script of absolute value. It ( Read more... )

Perhaps not really fair, since I was an English major and FORCED to read most of these. But I did enjoy most of them.

The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint ( Read more... )

Stolen from PeterB ( Read more... )

So here's a surefire way to be looked at odd. Given the fact that it is a perfectly accepted practice in MANY cultures throughout the world, can someone please explain to me why polygamy is illegal in the U.S.? Sure, "I" firmly believe that when the crankiness factor gets going, dealing with one spouse with a bad mood is challenging, but hey that's ( Read more... )