"WHAT are you doing IN THAT BATHROOM ( Read more... )

Carl: looks like I got the a-ok to come back to CRAL ( Read more... )

My livejournal has been locked for a while because I logged into it from Los Angeles and they said my account must have been broken into ( Read more... )

I finally saw Easy Rider, after years of hearing about it. I was surprised that it went from California to New Orleans. Kind of a reverse manifest destiny going on, the backwash of things they called freedom and progress, which turned out to be violent prejudice and dead-end wandering that eventually had to turn around anyway. And also saying there ( Read more... )

There is a jalapeno reality to things, one looks at a situation, and either it is viewed this way or not. I don't know, I never went to school about it ( Read more... )

“yeah, let's keep history going and have it be an unending volley of misery and revenge. People always have more in mind than what they say. Ideologists oftentimes push for Justice that at the core is actually vengeance.”

I heard a science report on NPR a while back in which some Japanese neuroscientist was discussing the growing capabilities of brain-mapping. He said with the machines they have now, x-rays that light up parts of the brain showing activity, and then correlating those spots to certain emotions or memories for each patient, he expects people who are ( Read more... )

To be outside in the shade but with sunlight all around me, that is what I want right now. I will have to come back and continue this later after I have been energized by the outdoors.

never giving up and working your ass off are not significantly bound to each other... you can work your ass off and never get good things, or get good things because you never gave up on something you continuously put very little effort into. It's all about doing something of value. That's how I sees it!

Fleeting creative impulses! Why do I have my best ideas when I am gazing at a tree, and then they are gone when I run home to my pen? . I am going to have a big glass of tea. In happy times I am fond of tea, but hard times drive me to tea as well. So whenever I figure out what my mood is, I run straight for the tea pot and look inside. Once I know ( Read more... )