Hey [those-who-pay-attention-to-my-life], how are you?

I've been listening to a Jewel album over and over for the past few days. Here's my favorite verse from it:

I have this theory that if we're told we're bad
then that's the only idea we'll ever have.
Maybe if we were surrounded in beauty
Someday we would become what we see.
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We animals (compared to plants) have relatively static and pre-determined physical forms that we use to interact with the world. If you were to plot these interactions, these behaviors on a graph, you would find a specific fractal pattern. This fractal pattern is the pattern of behavior, each individual's pattern would be unique, but would ( Read more... )

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I've been reading Maria Montessori's book, The Secret of Childhood, in which she describes her experimental observations of children, which lie as the foundations for what's now known as the "Montessori method" of schooling. I know next to nothing about the actual methodology, but the theory behind the method is in essence Thelemic: it is through ( Read more... )

Homeland Security's "Hostile Intent" detector "shows promise"
"sensors could spot people up to no good from their pulse rate, breathing, skin temperature, or fleeting facial expressions.

"We're still very early on in this research, but it is looking very promising," says DHS science spokesman John Verrico. "We are running at about 78% accuracy on ( Read more... )

Adept

From Latin, adeptus "having reached, attained."  Roots are ad- "to" + apisci "grasp, attain," related to aptus "fitted". Noun meaning "one who is skilled in the secrets of anything" is from a Middle Latin use in alchemy.

Adapt
From Middle French  adapter (14c.), earlier from Latin adaptare "adjust," roots are ad- "to" + aptare "join," ( Read more... )

I heard this song called "Clark Gable" by The Postal Service, and I thought I'd share the lyrics. I found them to express a sentiment I've been really familiar with of late.

I was waiting for a cross-town train in the London underground when it struck me
That I've been waiting since birth to find a love that would look and sound like a movie
So ( Read more... )

In the past couple days I have been finding out that my petty emotions are still very much alive and well. I often try to convince myself that they are not, that I am above such things as jealousy and insecure vanity and so forth. I would like to be, that is true. Experiencing little snippets of authentic life has taught me really well how to ( Read more... )

I was sitting in a coffee shop, writing, when an elderly man- late 50's, early 60's came up and sat down with me. He appeared to be drunk. His posture was wobbly, and his speech was a little slurred and difficult to make out. Other than that, he looked quite normal. I had watched him attempt to engage other random people in the coffee shop, all of ( Read more... )