"Random question: How do you feel about cats?"
"Cats... hated the musical, love the animal."

(from a recent episode of CBS's "How I Met Your Mother")

In six, words, somebody managed to describe my opinion on the subject precisely. :) Good for them.

I've figured out something. Perhaps it's really obvious. But it's not something I really understood deeply from personal experience before, and now, it makes sense to me. I've figured out why the whole of our society, practically, is hooked on entertainment; why entertainment is such a big business, is so successful, and so pervasive. I've ( Read more... )

Dinner tonight--thrown together from things on hand... and out of boredom and wanting some different, yet arguably healthy fare ( Read more... )

Things I don't have time for. Here's a short list:

• parking tickets
• car registration
• cleaning my room
• taxes
• the big hole in my car's rear left side bumper created by a strange lady's bad driving (she is paying, supposedly, but when do I have time to find a repair place?)

Airplanes are so much cooler than boats. Both, of course, allow faster-than-feet transportation from one place to another, and both can cause motion sickness. But airplanes, despite the good science that goes into them, still seem to me like magic. Hanging up there in the sky with nothing under your feet. A turbulent ride has an excuse--you can ( Read more... )

I saw an ad for this place in the United Hemispheres magazine yesterday. The Genetics & IVF Institute (GIVF). I found the following paragraph (which is similar to what I read in the magazine) to be astounding:Using medical and personal profiles, childhood and adult photos, audio interviews and recommendations from our donor egg team, patients can ( Read more... )

first dream since getting back from my trip: contained a person and a reference to a ring. Lol, I was a little surprised myself! :-D Means something? Nah, not really. I know how my subconsious works and what it's up to. :) And my conscious mind too. (But go ahead, read into it.) You can expect a lot more "random thoughts" coming in the next ( Read more... )

Anybody who has read my random thoughts for a while would know that posting the results of an online novelty quiz here in a public entry is atypical for me. I'm not even that big into Barbershop music--although I do love harmony. But really, how did they figure out from my answers to a short series of questions about my personality, that I can ( Read more... )

I happened to be at a music store yesterday evening, and in addition to getting strings for a 12-string guitar (yay), I happened to see on the shelf the piano solo sheet music for Linus and Lucy, by Vince Guaraldi (from the Charlie Brown Christmas special of course, which, oddly, I have never seen, but the music from it is so embedded in our ( Read more... )

"I'm for the separation of Church and Hate"

I wholeheartedly agree.