11.27.2005
great movie quotes
"I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day."
-The Notebook
"I spent like three hours doing shading the upper lip. It's probably the best drawing I've ever done."
-Napolean Dynamite
Harry: I can't believe we drove around all day, and there's not a single job in this town. There is nothing, nada, zip!
Lloyd: Yeah! Unless you wanna work fourty hours a week...
- Dumb and Dumber
Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.
One dance, one look, one kiss, that's all we get, Albert. Just... one shot, to make the difference between happily ever after, and oh? he's just some guy I went to some thing with once...
Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it's the moments that take your breath away. -Hitch
Hear this now: I will always come for you
But how can you be sure?
This is true love - you think this happens every day?- The Princess Bride
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. -Willy Wonka
When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting, whatever it is you've got left. - White Christmas
11.21.2005
life
life is to sing, dance, act, to laugh, cry, smile, hope, hurt, scribble, dream, declare, pray, to learn, forget, win, stand, to lose, fall, hold tight and never ever let go.
11.19.2005
My Many Colored Days
This is one of my favorite children's books by Dr. Suess.
It sums up emotions in a basic, yet profound way.
Some days are yellow
Some days are blue.
On different days, I'm different too.
You'd be surprised how many ways
I change on Different Colored Days.
On Bright Red days how good it feels
to be a horse and kick my heels.
On other days, I'm other things
on Bright Blue days I flap my wings.
Some days, of course, I feel sort of Brown.
Then I feel slow and low, low down.
Then comes a Yellow day.
And, I am a busy buzzy bee.
Gray Day...Everything is gray.
I watch. But nothing moves today.
Then all of a sudden, I'm a circus seal
On my Orange Days that's how I feel.
Green days. Deep deep in the sea.
Cool and quiet fish. That's me.
On Purple Days I'm sad.
I groan. I drag my tail.
But when my days are Happy Pink
It's great to jump and just not think.
Then come my Black Days.
Mad. And loud. I howl.
I growl at every cloud.
Then comes a Mixed-Up Day.
And Wham!
I don't know who or what I am!
But it all turns out all right, you see.
And I go back to being ... ME.
don't mess with texas
I get in these hardcore political moods, but have no fear, they usually don't last that long.
Most of the time, i have a strong predilection for republicans.
In George W. Bush's case, I would have to say I just like the guy.
Almost everytime I get on aol they have an article posted about how disliked the president is...and a list of "reasons". Stupid, stupid people.
Most of those lobbying against him have severely messed up lives .... let alone political views.
But since a person usually has reasons they like someone... here are my plug(s) for George W.
Most of the time, i have a strong predilection for republicans.
In George W. Bush's case, I would have to say I just like the guy.
Almost everytime I get on aol they have an article posted about how disliked the president is...and a list of "reasons". Stupid, stupid people.
Most of those lobbying against him have severely messed up lives .... let alone political views.
But since a person usually has reasons they like someone... here are my plug(s) for George W.
- Signed the partial-birth abortion ban into law. By far the most significant roll-back of abortion on demand since Roe v. Wade.
- He is from Texas.
- Has severely damaged the terrorist groups and Taliban movement.
- Implemented the No Child Left Behind program.
- Replaced private airport screeners with Federal employees, resulting in some reduction in the number of guns and explosives that get through.
- Lobbied for and got a law passed to prevent re-importation of dangerous drugs from Canada.
- Freed the capitol of Afghanistan from the Taliban
- First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner. ( one less criminal mastermind to feed with tax dollars)
- First president in US history to enter office with a criminal record. ( a good thing!.. he overcame many personal issues and addictions)
- Worked tirelessly on the Faith-based Initiative.
- Made $33 million available for abstinence education programs in 2004.
- Supports the Defense of Marriage Act — and a Constitutional amendment saying marriage is between one man and one woman.
- His leadership resulted in Republican gains in the House and Senate.
k. Im all done being political for a while.
11.18.2005
first comes love..then comes marriage..
Love.
It's that can't eat, can't sleep, outta the park, over the fence, shoot for the moon, world series kinda stuff....
My best bestest friend is officially engaged.
He finally found you, Shina!
I wish you bliss !
I promise that the bitterness and resentment I feel towards you both about where you are going on your honeymoon will leave shortly...
11.14.2005
jane fix
I needed to watch a movie and I needed a dose of pride and prejudice today.
If time allowed I would probably replay the Darcy scenes 7 times....I adore them.
deathlessness?
Alcor Life Extension Foundation, located in Scottsdale, Arizona, is one of two human cryopreservation institutions in the U.S. The bodies or severed heads of 67 " patients" lie in cryogenic storage... liquid-nitrogen-filled steel containers. These containers store up to four "wholebody patients" and six severed heads at –320° Fahrenheit.
The 67 bodies—mostly just severed heads—lay waiting for the day when science can figure out a way to reanimate them.
I found this article on it. It proposes some intersting ideas.
Joseph Waynick, Alcor's president and chief executive, believes deathlessness to be a possibility. "When physicians first wanted to transplant a heart from one person to another, they were laughed at and told it was impossible," he said. "I have no doubt the technology [to revive life] will become available."
Many scientists scoff at the idea, contending that the practice is little more than a dream and that current "patients" will never be successfully revived.
"Even if, in our wildest dreams, this proved possible in the future, the end result would be the preservation of a dead body, not the suspended animation of a person," said Michael Taylor, a Charleston, South Carolina-based cryobiologist with Organ Recovery Systems, a company specializing in transplant medicine.
The prospect of cheating death raises a host of philosophical, moral, and religious questions. But let's consider only the scientific aspects.
"The preservation that we're able to do today is adequate to preserve the critical information that we believe is important to the human personality and human memory".
Alcor, which is one of only two cryonics firms in the United States, now uses vitrification to cryopreserve human brains. Skeptics, however, say there is no evidence that such large structures can be successfully vitrified.
About 80 percent of Alcor's "patients" have had only their heads cryopreserved. (The company's most famous patient, Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Ted Williams, has had his head and torso cryopreserved.) "The brain is what houses your identity. It has your memories, all your stored experiences," Waynick said. "Without the brain, you might as well clone an individual, because you have a completely new person."
Alcor continues to use glycerol-based freezing for patients who have their whole bodies preserved, since vitrification of an entire body is beyond current technical capabilities.
While vitrification circumvents some of the problems associated with freezing, it raises other issues. Scientists must impregnate tissues with high concentrations of cryoprotective chemicals that promote the vitreous state, but these are potentially toxic.
"Being able to manipulate matter at the cellular level will enable us to repair a lot of the damage that occurs to an individual during the cryopreservation process today"especially those patients that were cryopreserved in the earlier years, where there was a significant amount of ice damage during the freezing process."
In the future, breakthroughs in stem cell research and cellular regeneration may enable scientists to regenerate a new body from a person's existing DNA and attach it to the person's cryopreserved brain, scientists speculate. Even against all odds, cloning is now possible. So why isnt this possible too? So where are their souls in this process of "reanimation".
hmmmm...
The 67 bodies—mostly just severed heads—lay waiting for the day when science can figure out a way to reanimate them.
I found this article on it. It proposes some intersting ideas.
Joseph Waynick, Alcor's president and chief executive, believes deathlessness to be a possibility. "When physicians first wanted to transplant a heart from one person to another, they were laughed at and told it was impossible," he said. "I have no doubt the technology [to revive life] will become available."
Many scientists scoff at the idea, contending that the practice is little more than a dream and that current "patients" will never be successfully revived.
"Even if, in our wildest dreams, this proved possible in the future, the end result would be the preservation of a dead body, not the suspended animation of a person," said Michael Taylor, a Charleston, South Carolina-based cryobiologist with Organ Recovery Systems, a company specializing in transplant medicine.
The prospect of cheating death raises a host of philosophical, moral, and religious questions. But let's consider only the scientific aspects.
"The preservation that we're able to do today is adequate to preserve the critical information that we believe is important to the human personality and human memory".
Alcor, which is one of only two cryonics firms in the United States, now uses vitrification to cryopreserve human brains. Skeptics, however, say there is no evidence that such large structures can be successfully vitrified.
About 80 percent of Alcor's "patients" have had only their heads cryopreserved. (The company's most famous patient, Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Ted Williams, has had his head and torso cryopreserved.) "The brain is what houses your identity. It has your memories, all your stored experiences," Waynick said. "Without the brain, you might as well clone an individual, because you have a completely new person."
Alcor continues to use glycerol-based freezing for patients who have their whole bodies preserved, since vitrification of an entire body is beyond current technical capabilities.
While vitrification circumvents some of the problems associated with freezing, it raises other issues. Scientists must impregnate tissues with high concentrations of cryoprotective chemicals that promote the vitreous state, but these are potentially toxic.
"Being able to manipulate matter at the cellular level will enable us to repair a lot of the damage that occurs to an individual during the cryopreservation process today"especially those patients that were cryopreserved in the earlier years, where there was a significant amount of ice damage during the freezing process."
In the future, breakthroughs in stem cell research and cellular regeneration may enable scientists to regenerate a new body from a person's existing DNA and attach it to the person's cryopreserved brain, scientists speculate. Even against all odds, cloning is now possible. So why isnt this possible too? So where are their souls in this process of "reanimation".
hmmmm...
countdown till christmas
Now I could probably say I enjoy the whole month of December festivities just about as much as I do Christmas Eve and Christmas Day... but nonetheless, I still like to countdown.
It's the kid in me.
http://www.christmas.com/pe/56
It's the kid in me.
http://www.christmas.com/pe/56
11.08.2005
Lord, help the Mr. who comes between me and my sister...
Chels and I at 6 months and 2 1/2 years=)Here's to my little sister- for making some very hard and grown up choices lately....being tough.... and seeing the big picture. I love you with all my heart!
By the way chel, the white kaleidoscope and red car were mine.
11.06.2005
diary of dreams
I have been meloncholy and reflective lately, and it's definitely showing in my posts. Im such a emotional, girly basketcase sometimes =/
welll anyway.
I have this book I have written in since I was really little. I have recorded pretty much anything and everything I have thought about between age 7 until now.
In it..... I have changed my future kid's names a hundred different times, written out my first and last name according to who my current crush was, and kept a diary of every crazy dream and aspiration I have ever had.
I went back to my book last night to add some things I have discovered, and I was amazed that most of my dreams from my childhood have stayed the same. Welll... I don't want to name my kid's Kevin and Brittany Kay anymore....and I no longer care if I own a ShowBiz pizza or drive a pink convertible... but all in all ... I'm the same.
It's amazing how you develop your distinct personality so young, huh?
Maybe one day when I am feeling brave and open I will post some of my entries from my "diary of dreams" on here... today is definitely not that day.
welll anyway.
I have this book I have written in since I was really little. I have recorded pretty much anything and everything I have thought about between age 7 until now.
In it..... I have changed my future kid's names a hundred different times, written out my first and last name according to who my current crush was, and kept a diary of every crazy dream and aspiration I have ever had.
I went back to my book last night to add some things I have discovered, and I was amazed that most of my dreams from my childhood have stayed the same. Welll... I don't want to name my kid's Kevin and Brittany Kay anymore....and I no longer care if I own a ShowBiz pizza or drive a pink convertible... but all in all ... I'm the same.
It's amazing how you develop your distinct personality so young, huh?
Maybe one day when I am feeling brave and open I will post some of my entries from my "diary of dreams" on here... today is definitely not that day.
11.02.2005
currently reading
Blink
By Malcolm Gladwell-
.....quick thinking
Hadassah
By Tommy Tenny-
..... detailed account of Esther's life.
By Malcolm Gladwell-
.....quick thinking
Hadassah
By Tommy Tenny-
..... detailed account of Esther's life.
splel cehck
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
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