and far away...it seems forever since I've been here.

2008 resolutions

write here more
finish damn diss
get a real job
become a real boy...(when you wish upon a star...)
be way more careful about whom I date
be a much better dad
be a much better son
be a much better brother
be better with money

I've started back to work on my dissertation after it got stalled over the last couple of years. I feel good about that. It has been a bit of a struggle finding things about language. All my material is back in Hawaii...sitting in a room at MPI. :-( Gotta do something about that...or work around it. Hmmmm ( Read more... )

Thank you Katraven for the meme.

(A) First, recommend to me:
1. a movie,
2. a book,
3. a musical artist, song, or album.
(B) I want everyone who reads this to ask me three questions. Ask me anything you want.
(C) Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends to ask you anything.

The election of 2004 has come...and gone? While we are still waiting on the provisional and absentee ballots to be counted in Ohio...an interesting story has come out off the BBC News. Why did we reelect (or more appropriately elect for the first time) Dubya even though we knew what a idiotic schmuck he is? Was it security? Well...if that was the ( Read more... )

For God unfolds by slow degrees
The purport of his deep decrees;
Sheds every hour a clearer light
In aid of our defective sight;
And spreads, at length, before the soul,
A beautiful and perfect whole,
Which busy man’s inventive brain
Toils to anticipate in vain.

William Cowper, from A Poetical Epistle to Lady Austen

Headline News ran a poll yesterday...which is Superman’s coolest power: x-ray vision, flying, invulnerability, heat vision. Flying is the fave...47%...x-ray vision followed at 27%...invulnerability close behind at 24%...heat vision came in with 2%. My lovely daughter picked flying...but I don’t think you can knock that invulnerability thing much, ( Read more... )

I have of late come across a quote by Carl Sagan and a picture that kinda goes along with it...I'm adding a link to the picture here. The picture shows the Earth as seen from the outer reaches of the solar system (The photo was taken by Voyager after it passed the Neptune system.) Earth was caught in sunbeam just as the photo was taken...it's that ( Read more... )

napueo is poisonous! Induce vomitting if ingested.N
POISON
From Go-Quiz.com

clearly that's why things don't seem to work out for me. Oh well.

What does a saying from a ‘70s poster have to do with GWB? Because it is the hallmark of how he does things. It is the rule by which this administration maintains power. There are numerous examples of how this works...but we will begin with the war in Iraq.
We went to war in Iraq primarily:

1. to remove Saddam Hussein from power since he was ( Read more... )

I got this survey from Katraven. It’s fun. Follow the link at the bottom of the page. :-) Enjoy.

Which would you rather be?Doctor or dentist:doctor Artist or singer:singer Musician or movie director:movie director Painter or teacher:teacher...duh Firefighter or Computer Engineer:computer engineer Mathmetician or scientist:mathemtician Magician or ( Read more... )