It's nice when I'm underway to be able to really see the stars at night. In Virginia Beach there were too many lights, and in Weymouth we're too close to Boston and there's too much shit in the air. Out here, though, every night I can look up in the sky and see the galaxy in 3D. Sometimes when you look up it looks like there's nothing at all in ( Read more... )

To see a picture of my son -who happens to be the coolest guy in the world- go to this site, and enter "silva" for the name, and bi-6276-6 for the photo id #

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When new attachments are in the processes of being forged and lifted up to high places in life, their creator and possessor feels great pride and satisfaction at their achievement. When old attachments are in the processes of being broken down and dropped away, one may cling, and therefore be weighed down in sadness and despair in their falling ( Read more... )

Once when I was a child, my father came to me and told me that he had something to show me. He was very happy about it when he brought me to the front yard and told me to go and look in the hole in the crabapple tree at the side of the house. There was a nest of eggs sitting peacefully within, waiting for the return of their mother. My father told ( Read more... )

"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda," Bush said in explaining his communications strategy last May.

"You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... and I don't think any oil shipments will stop."
~Pat Robertson, speaking of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.

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Hooray for getting hired at Starbucks! Go me!

No wonder Lucky Strikes are so good. They're made by the same folks responsible for Dunhill -- British American Tobacco.

In my head at all times there is a list of words of whose definitions I am not entirely certain. The word equivocable has been on that list for a while, as when I broke down the parts of the word and put them together I couldn't make any sense of it. Now I've discovered that it's just not a word. Equivocal is a word. Equivocable is not a word. Now ( Read more... )

The US military is spending 127 billion dollars on a program to develop armed robotic soldiers.
I think there are some things that should remain in sci-fi novels and video games.