new fragrance discovered 1-31-05:
a dab of baby powder on top of several dabs of ‘leftover’ affection….hahahahahahaha…..
*patent pending*
Archive for January, 2005
life was never meant to be fair.
life will never be fair.
almost everything within our lives is not fair!!!
we weren’t born with the inalienable right to impartial ‘fairness’.
fairness is an idea that people have created.
we created this idea…..this concept to torture ourselves, in fact.
when we finally accept this fact of life, we can move beyond it and begin to overcome some of those impediments.
perhaps it isn’t such an awful thing that teachers aren’t getting rewarded/paid as much nowadays, as much, that is, as they feel that they should…….[dont we all?]
……for the level of academic and communicative skills many possess [currently] is severely lacking in erudition and sufficient wisdom, at least compared to my experience of past endeavors/teachers when I attended high school and va. tech……
nowadays, everyone seems to claim that if you throw more money at the governmental installed education system ‘everything else’ will fall into place.
conceivably, the whole ‘process’ could be enhanced if we [particularly for those tax-payers who still have faith in governmental established schooling doctrine] required higher performance standards from the teachers, administrative personnel, aids and students!
for instance, i just paid almost $200 dollars [not including the book] to have a college teacher assume that the CSS/Dreamweaver MX book, with the accompanying study aids from course.com, should/will be the primary source to becoming skilled at website development this semester.
if I wanted you to recite the book and guides, line-for-line, what need would I have for you mr. Lard-Man?
Is this becoming the norm now, bc it sure increasingly feels like it…..principally in the last 2 years.
Addressing the teacher doesn’t help.
Addressing the division heads doesn’t help.
Addressing the academic advisors doesn’t help.
Addressing the curriculum presidents doesn’t help.
Why do colleges charge more while performing less adequately?
all the while, my scholarship peddlers & financial aid keep questioning why I continue to drop classes and change curriculums…..since that might ‘harm’ my chances of receiving further assistance.
Btw, addressing my concerns to them doesn’t help either.
i wonder why?
…teach me you fooking bastardz….i WANT to learn!
Drum machines never put drummers out of work…automation just opened up the sound and groove palette of music.
Music talent can now be measured in new ways: sound design and programming, which became the criteria of the sublime – not the athleticism intrinsic to acoustic performative instruments.
*message to self/brain/soul*
could you, for once, stop over-analyzing/probing/dissecting the MUSIC and enjoy it?
you know…..how you used to?
thanx!
namm report online:
http://pigpendigital.com/namm2005
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>………..
in other news…………..
Sen. Alan Nunnelee, R-Tupelo, wants to make nonpayment of child support a felony that is punishable with up to a $10,000 fine and two years in jail. “We’re under federal sanctions and stand to lose a good bit of federal money”, because of the state’s poor collection rate for child support, he said.
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050117/NEWS010504/501170339/1002/NEWS01
Notice Senator Nunnelee’s concern for the parents and children. [not] Just more proof that it’s only and all about the money, not about the children.
It’s crap, dressed up like a pig at the 4-H exhibit.
For an explicit explanation of what’s happening here, go rent the pilot
episode of Star Trek the Next Generation (Encounter at Farpoint).
What a crock of OBE (that’s Odiferous Bovine Excrement, for the unaware out there).
Ok……not really……….and still, very interesting>>>
He says humans will download their minds into computers one day. With a new robotics firm, Hans Moravec begins the journey from warehouse drones to robo-sapiens………..
http://www.livejournal.com/misc/claim-2005-01.bml
The carrot, the egg and a cup of coffee.……
A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so difficult for her. She wasn’t sure how she was going to make it and wanted to give up on everything. She was sick and tired of the conflict and the struggling. It seemed as when one problem was solved, a new one always took its place.
……So her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil.
In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil, without uttering a word.
In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.
Turning to her daughter, she asked, “Now tell me, what do you see?”
“Carrots, eggs, and coffee,” the daughter replied.
Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled, as she tasted its rich aroma.
The daughter then asked, “What does it mean, mother?”
Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity–boiling water. Each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.
“Which are you?”, she asked her daughter.
“When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond?”
“Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?”
Are you the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength?
Are you the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart?
Or are you like the coffee bean? When things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you. When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest, do you elevate yourself to another level?
The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can’t go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches. [I should take up that advice…..fofl..]
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling.
Live your life so at the end, you’re the one who is smiling, while everyone around you is crying.