MArch 27, 2011

·       Websites of the week

Why animal rights?

Damn you autocorrect!

Germiest places- read this if you want to take your obsessive compulsive disorder to the next level!

Hey you kids, go outside and play! 6 Things You Got Right as a Parent

Dignitas- suicide tourism

·       The culmination of millennia of scientific endeavor

http://crazythingsparentstext.com/

·       Quotes of the week

“He who buys what he needs not, sells what he needs.”
Japanese Proverb
on Extravagance

“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”
Alfred Emanuel Smith
on Democracy

“Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.”
Joanne Woodward
on Marriage

·       Poem of the Week

"A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love-sickness. It is a reaching out toward expression, an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the word." Robert Frost

Acquainted with the Night

by Robert Frost

I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain – and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.

I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,

But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
A luminary clock against the sky

Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.

·       Song of the Week

The Island - Loggins, Messina & Kaapana

March 20, 2011

·       Quotes of the week

A bell isn't a bell until you ring it

A song isn't a song until you sing it

And the love that is in us wasn't put there to stay

Love isn't love until you give it away

Repeated by Coach John Wooden

“We don’t need to be paying for Educational Television (ETV) in a time when we have Internet and DVDs. This is now about going back and keeping up with the times so that our top priority is the taxpayers.”
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley last week at a town hall meeting in Aiken; Haley also replaced ETV’s entire board last week.

·       Meditation of the week

The four-part cure

Don't fear god,
Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get, and
What is terrible is easy to endure
(Philodemus, Herculaneum Papyrus, 1005, 4.9-14)

·       Song of the Week

Yusuf Islam - Father & Son

·       Websites of the week

100 Websites You Should Know and Use

How to Stay Awake in Boring Meetings

·       And finally, the culmination of millennia of scientific endeavor

Lego Black Ops

March 13, 2011

·       Quotes of the week

The only limits to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with a strong and active faith.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

·       Meditation of the week

Courage: The power to let go of the familiar.
--Raymond Lindquist

Some days our recovery demands giant doses of courage. It is so hard to let go of slippery people, places, and things. We still miss our old using friends. Knowing that they're not good for us doesn't take the missing away. We feel like we're stuck in the middle between yesterday and tomorrow. We are. It's a place called today.

Living in the present is a courageous act. Our old familiar life is full of pain and regrets, but it is familiar. Deep inside, though, we know that being clean and sober is the best hope we have for ourselves. Today we can be brave and face what each day brings with courage and the knowledge that we are doing the right thing for ourselves.

Today, let me have the courage to believe that the best is yet to come.

You are reading from the book:

Our Best Days by Nancy Hull-Mast

·       Poem of the Week

What Have I Got to Complain About

by David Budbill

We've got enough money now not to worry every minute
about where the next dollar is coming from.
We even go to the movies once in a while.
We've got a nice collection of friends.
Our house is sturdy and well built.
It keeps us warm and stands well against the storms.
The larder is full of rice.
There are plenty of potatoes down cellar.
The freezer is full of vegetables I grew myself.

In the face of all that, slights to my vanity
seem frivolous and nonsensical.

What have I got to complain about?

·       Video of the week

That 70's show best scene ever

·       You couldn’t make up such a thing as that, I dare you to even try of the week

·        It's the birthday of science fiction writer and Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, born in Tilden, Nebraska (1911). He enrolled in George Washington University in 1930 to study civil engineering but was placed on academic probation because of poor grades, and he left after two semesters. In 1950, he wrote Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, which formed the basis of the Church of Scientology's teaching. The book explains that humans have "engrams," recordings of painful events experienced in the past, stored in their subconscious and that these are the basis of physical and emotional problems. In order to be cleared of these engrams and unwanted spiritual conditions, a person takes part in an "auditing" session, where a counselor uses an Electropsychometer, or E-Meter, to measure the mental state of a person, helping to locate areas of spiritual distress so they can be addressed and handled in a session. The book became a best-seller and sold 150,000 copies within a year of publication. Groups formed all over the country to apply Dianetics techniques. Hubbard said, "The creation of Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his inventions of the wheel and the arch."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard

·       Websites of the week

What people earn

What celebrities earn (this will just make you mad)

How not to be a noob at Battlefield 2 bad company

·       And finally, the culmination of millennia of scientific endeavor

World map by stereotypes:

http://nextround.net/upcoming/thumbs/2010/11/11/World-Map-By-Stereotypes-full.jpg

March 6, 2011

·       Quotes of the week

1.      First, Sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.  ~Edmund Burke

2.      What you get by reaching your goals is not nearly as important as what you become by reaching them. ~Zig Ziglar

3.      If you enjoy your job, you never have to go to work. ~Unknown

4.      “Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”  ~Carl Jung

5.      "I know a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty than they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone." ~Robert Bly

·       Meditation of the week

·        I can change only myself, but sometimes that is enough.
--Ruth Humlecker

Happiness is more fleeting for some of us than for others. We may ponder this notion but fail to grasp the reason. However, careful attention to how "the happy ones" go through life will enlighten us. We will note how seldom they complain about others' actions. We will discover their willingness to accept others as they are. We will see that their attention is generally on the positive aspects of people and circumstances rather than on the negative.

We can join the parade of "happy ones" by letting go of our need to change people and situations that disturb us. Even when we are certain other people are wrong, we can let go of controlling them. Doing this means changing ourselves, of course. But this is the one thing in life we do have control over.

I will change myself if I think something needs changing today!

·        You are reading from the book:

·        A Woman's Spirit by Karen Casey

·       Poem of the Week

76

by Philip Schultz

My bones aren't what they used to be; my eyes ache,
as if I've been reading an ancient text by candlelight.
My back and knees creak. I'm happy if the car starts
and I can walk the dogs along the ocean which looks
a little less robust. It replenishes itself with stretching
and long cleansing breaths. The sun is another story.
It's beginning to show its age. Perhaps we've enjoyed
enough springs and everything is getting a little redundant.

·       Video of the week

The Daily Show
Tags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook

·       Author of the Week

It's the birthday of the children's book author who wrote under the name Dr. Seuss, (books by this author) born Theodor Geisel, in Springfield, Massachusetts (1904). He published his first book for children, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, in 1937. He went on to publish a series of fairly successful books for older children, and then, in 1955, an educational specialist asked him if he would write a book to help children learn how to read. Seuss was given a list of 300 words that most first-graders know, and he had to write the book using only those words. Seuss wasn't sure he could do it, but as he looked over the list, two words jumped out at him: "cat" and "hat."

Seuss spent the next nine months writing what would become The Cat in the Hat (1957). That book is 1,702 words long, but it uses only 220 different words. Parents and teachers immediately began using it to teach children to read, and within the first year of its publication it was selling 12,000 copies a month. A few years later, Seuss's publisher bet him $50 that he could not write a book using only 50 different words. Seuss won the bet with his book Green Eggs and Ham (1960), which uses exactly 50 different words, and only one of those words has more than one syllable: the word "anywhere."

·       Websites of the week

IWANTONERIGHTNOW!

Proposed Texas immigration law contains convenient loophole for ‘the help’ (thanks Rob)

http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/

http://wtfhassarahpalindonesofar.com/1/

·       And finally, the culmination of millennia of scientific endeavor

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