And God said, "Let there be blog..."

Frack dogs! And frack the cats, too! (Except MY cats...)

*guavachild* — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:35:07 GMT

Mine are politically neutral and .... er... love me desperately... and therefore are perfect in every possible way. : ) http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a25c39219e182770119e3aecee4000f

WORST.... SPAM.... EVER....

*guavachild* — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:46:59 GMT

I get a lot of spam for prescription drugs from mexico, penis enlargement, and people in Africa who want to deposit a million dollars into my bank account if I would just give them my personal information. This doesn't bother me, actually, I find it rather amusing. What DOES bother me is the following piece of Spamite (that's my new word for this spam-shite) I just got the other day. Read it and weep... it wants you to think you are invited to a party and to look cool at the aforementioned fake party, you should buy one of their designer-imposter watches. Bravo spamites, bravo. BTW no one under 50 years of age wears a watch anymore... we all have cell phones... --- If you are going to attend to the party in the weekend,be sure to order one of the rrreplica-rolexs-watch in this store.You will feel the difference in the way how people look at you when they see you have a new rolexs-watch.So change your life without paying thousands of dollars to a real rolexs-watch.Take one for a couple hundred.In the weekend party you will understand what i mean :-) http://www.e-beautifulreplicastore.com

Curiosity killed the scientific cat

*guavachild* — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:54:02 GMT

... and yet I am totally ok with this... so, they world MAY end... but it could do that any day anyways... The fact that they got someone to PAY for this is amazing... and I can't wait to see what they find out. Most likely they won't find out anything of consequence, at least, anything that would be of consequence OUTSIDE of eclectic, scientific journals. But I am still excited... just check out my nipples! ---- Critics Fear Collider Could Doom Earth By DOUGLAS BIRCH, AP Posted: 2008-06-29 23:04:48 Filed Under: Science News MEYRIN, Switzerland (June 29) - The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August. But some critics fear the Large Hadron Collider could exceed physicists' wildest conjectures: Will it spawn a black hole that could swallow Earth? Or spit out particles that could turn the planet into a hot dead clump? Ridiculous, say scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known by its French initials CERN - some of whom have been working for a generation on the $5.8 billion collider, or LHC. "Obviously, the world will not end when the LHC switches on," said project leader Lyn Evans. David Francis, a physicist on the collider's huge ATLAS particle detector, smiled when asked whether he worried about black holes and hypothetical killer particles known as strangelets. "If I thought that this was going to happen, I would be well away from here," he said. The collider basically consists of a ring of supercooled magnets 17 miles in circumference attached to huge barrel-shaped detectors. The ring, which straddles the French and Swiss border, is buried 330 feet underground. The machine, which has been called the largest scientific experiment in history, isn't expected to begin test runs until August, and ramping up to full power could take months. But once it is working, it is expected to produce some startling findings. Scientists plan to hunt for signs of the invisible "dark matter" and "dark energy" that make up more than 96 percent of the universe, and hope to glimpse the elusive Higgs boson, a so-far undiscovered particle thought to give matter its mass. The collider could find evidence of extra dimensions, a boon for superstring theory, which holds that quarks, the particles that make up atoms, are infinitesimal vibrating strings. The theory could resolve many of physics' unanswered questions, but requires about 10 dimensions - far more than the three spatial dimensions our senses experience. The safety of the collider, which will generate energies seven times higher than its most powerful rival, at Fermilab near Chicago, has been debated for years. The physicist Martin Rees has estimated the chance of an accelerator producing a global catastrophe at one in 50 million - long odds, to be sure, but about the same as winning some lotteries. By contrast, a CERN team this month issued a report concluding that there is "no conceivable danger" of a cataclysmic event. The report essentially confirmed the findings of a 2003 CERN safety report, and a panel of five prominent scientists not affiliated with CERN, including one Nobel laureate, endorsed its conclusions. Critics of the LHC filed a lawsuit in a Hawaiian court in March seeking to block its startup, alleging that there was "a significant risk that ... operation of the Collider may have unintended consequences which could ultimately result in the destruction of our planet." One of the plaintiffs, Walter L. Wagner, a physicist and lawyer, said Wednesday CERN's safety report, released June 20, "has several major flaws," and his views on the risks of using the particle accelerator had not changed. On Tuesday, U.S. Justice Department lawyers representing the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation filed a motion to dismiss the case. The two agencies have contributed $531 million to building the collider, and the NSF has agreed to pay $87 million of its annual operating costs. Hundreds of American scientists will participate in the research. The lawyers called the plaintiffs' allegations "extraordinarily speculative," and said "there is no basis for any conceivable threat" from black holes or other objects the LHC might produce. A hearing on the motion is expected in late July or August. In rebutting doomsday scenarios, CERN scientists point out that cosmic rays have been bombarding the earth, and triggering collisions similar to those planned for the collider, since the solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago. And so far, Earth has survived. "The LHC is only going to reproduce what nature does every second, what it has been doing for billions of years," said John Ellis, a British theoretical physicist at CERN. Critics like Wagner have said the collisions caused by accelerators could be more hazardous than those of cosmic rays. Both may produce micro black holes, subatomic versions of cosmic black holes - collapsed stars whose gravity fields are so powerful that they can suck in planets and other stars. But micro black holes produced by cosmic ray collisions would likely be traveling so fast they would pass harmlessly through the earth. Micro black holes produced by a collider, the skeptics theorize, would move more slowly and might be trapped inside the earth's gravitational field - and eventually threaten the planet. Ellis said doomsayers assume that the collider will create micro black holes in the first place, which he called unlikely. And even if they appeared, he said, they would instantly evaporate, as predicted by the British physicist Stephen Hawking. As for strangelets, CERN scientists point out that they have never been proven to exist. They said that even if these particles formed inside the Collider they would quickly break down. When the LHC is finally at full power, two beams of protons will race around the huge ring 11,000 times a second in opposite directions. They will travel in two tubes about the width of fire hoses, speeding through a vacuum that is colder and emptier than outer space. Their trajectory will be curved by supercooled magnets - to guide the beams around the rings and prevent the packets of protons from cutting through the surrounding magnets like a blowtorch. The paths of these beams will cross, and a few of the protons in them will collide, at a series of cylindrical detectors along the ring. The two largest detectors are essentially huge digital cameras, each weighing thousands of tons, capable of taking millions of snapshots a second. Each year the detectors will generate 15 petabytes of data, the equivalent of a stack of CDs 12 miles tall. The data will require a high speed global network of computers for analysis. Wagner and others filed a lawsuit to halt operation of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, or RHIC, at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York state in 1999. The courts dismissed the suit. The leafy campus of CERN, a short drive from the shores of Lake Geneva, hardly seems like ground zero for doomsday. And locals don't seem overly concerned. Thousands attended an open house here this spring. "There is a huge army of scientists who know what they are talking about and are sleeping quite soundly as far as concerns the LHC," said project leader Evans. Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL. 2008-06-28 16:56:55

Myspace blows i.e. How NOT to be sexy

*guavachild* — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:45:53 GMT

Anyone gonna be in New York City around July 8th?

*guavachild* — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:01:24 GMT

I am flying out there to interview for my new job (which I have been trying to get for three years-- wish me luck) and I think this is the first time in my life that I can't think of anyone off of the top of my head that is out there... which is odd since I went to school out there. Anyhoo, gimme a shout out if you will be, thanks!

A dance that causes spinal injury?! Woo hoo!

*guavachild* — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:11:06 GMT

Apparently, along with drug use, this contributed to Amy Winehouse's mental disturbance... It's called "The Duttywine Dance" and it's all the rage in my living room right now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqgUhD59DWI

BRUTAL ROCK MUSIC THIS FRIDAY

*guavachild* — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:11:26 GMT

I will be HERE! http://www.adultswim.com/shows/metal/tour/index.html Muahahahahaha!!! In case anyone wants to join me for some brutal rock music friday night at the wiltern. METALOCALYPSE!!! : )

The extinction of dogs as pets... ta-DA!

*guavachild* — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:48:37 GMT

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/2621351/7713805 No more poo clean-up... no more walking... But seriously, does this guy have a job?

Autistic draws Rome from one viewing by helicopter

*guavachild* — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:54:49 GMT

wow. http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=dAfaM_CBvP8 Our minds are amazing... and perhaps incomprehensible.

This is the internet.... Scientology is a cult...

*guavachild* — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:01:44 GMT

(seriously read this reposted from VRon... friggin' awesome....I apologize if you are a scientologist... well, not really... I had an ex try to make me into one... so I read the first book... SERIOUS wackiness... ) They were all over the place... different states and even different countries. This write up of it make me chuckle the best... READ THIS (NOTE: there's lots of pictures and small words...) http://deathboy.livejournal.com/1082404.html It is highly likely that there were more then 9000 people participating in the protest. And remember that not all Anons could show up. forums.enturbulation.org/viewtopic.php Asia and Oceania: 200-300 in Sydney, Australia 200-250 in Melbourne, Australia 150 in Adelaide, Australia 100 in Perth, Australia 100 in Brisbane, Australia 5 in Canberra, Australia 15-20 in Auckland, New Zealand 15-20 in Christchurch, New Zealand 6 in Tel Aviv, Israel 1 in Tokyo, Japan Total: 10 raids, 4 countries, 792-952 people Europe: 500-600 in London, United Kingdom 150 in Manchester, United Kingdom 130 in Edinburgh, United Kindom 50 in Birmingham, United Kingdom 20 in Plymouth, United Kingdom 20 in York, United Kingdom 15 in Sunderland, United Kindom 5 in Brighton, United Kingdom 30 in Stockholm, Sweden 25 in Gothenburg, Sweden 12-13 in Malmö, Sweden 25 in Berlin, Germany 20-25 in Duesseldorf, Germany 15-25 in Hamburg, Germany 50 in Copehagen, Denmark 3 in Aarhus. Denmark 6 in Zürich, Switzerland 5 in Geneve, Switzerland 80 in Dublin, Ireland 60 in Oslo, Norway 40-60 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands 30 in Brussels, Belgium 20-30 in Paris, France 12 in Vienna, Austria Total: 24 raids, 11 countries, 1323-1469 people North America: 500 in Los Angeles, California 200 in San Francisco, California 100 in Sacramento, California 65-70 in San Diego, California 40 in Mountain View, California 25 in Santa Barbara, California 13 in Chico, California 10 in San Jose, California 8 in Santa Cruz, California 320 in New York City, New York 50 in Buffalo, New York 40 in Albany, New York 10-15 in Ontario, New York 25 in Rochester, New York 200 in Austin, Texas 115 in Dallas, Texas 100-150 in Houston, Texas 8 in San Antonio, Texas 200 in Clearwater, Florida 200 in Orlando, Florida 100-110 in Miami, Florida 15 in West Palm Beach, Florida 5 in Broward County, Florida 80 in Colombus, Ohio 75 in Cincinnati, Ohio 15 in Cleveland, Ohio 200 in Seattle, Washington 18 in Bellingham, Washington 70 in Chicago, Illinois 30 in Champaign, Illinois 135 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 30-40 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 80 in St. Louis, Missouri 65-70 in Kansas City, Missouri 150 in Detroit, Michigan 20 in Battle Creek, Michigan 60 in Phoenix, Arizona 50 in Tucson, Arizona 90 in Denver, Colorado 12-15 in Boulder, Colorado 45 in Nashville, Tennessee 40 in Memphis, Tennessee 45 in Las Vegas, Nevada 15 in Reno, Nevada 20 in New Orleans, Louisiana 20 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana 270 in Boston, Massachusetts 200 in Washington, D.C. 150-200 in Atlanta, Georgia 150-200 in Portland, Oregon 100 in Minneapolis, Minnesota 70 in Salt Lake City, Utah 50 in Charlotte, North Carolina 40 in Louisville, Kentucky 35 in New Haven, Connecticut 35 in Richmond, Virginia 25-30 in Indianapolis, Indiana 25 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin 25 in Wichita, Kansas 20 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 17-20 in Honolulu, Hawaii 16 in Anchorage, Alaska 9 in Boise, Idaho 5 in Brunswick, Maine 1 in Biloxi, Mississippi 210 in Toronto, Ontario 30 in Ottawa, Ontario 20 in Kitchener, Ontario 3 in London, Ontario 140-200 in Vancouver, British Columbia 80 in Montreal, Quebec 40 in Edmonton, Alberta 30 in Winnipeg, Manitoba 24-27 in Halifax, Nova Scotia Total: 74 raids, 2 countries, 5532-5778 people Overall Total: 108 raids, 17 countries, 7647-8229 people Now, that measures peak participation in most cases, not total. Add about 20% for people coming in and out(which seems reasonable), or being late, or whatever, and we'll have our desired turnout even at the low end.

Feeling bad about the obstacles in your life? STOP!!!

*guavachild* — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:40:04 GMT

Check this out. How beautiful... We all have stupid nonsense to overcome... maybe it's time to start NOW. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qTiYA1WiY8

Crazy art coming atcha!

*guavachild* — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:11:57 GMT

Read an article in wired magazine about this guy doing weird-ass escheresque photoshop schtuff on images of nature and cities... kinda cool.... may wanna check it out if you have a few minutes... or are just attempting to procrastinate, muahahahahaha. http://www.pallalink.net/

Bill Murray as Batman? I thinketh NOT-eth

*guavachild* — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:41:56 GMT

26 Beloved Movie Characters And Who ALMOST Played Them When it comes to our favorite movie characters we can’t imagine any other actors having portrayed them. Take for example, Indiana Jones. Can you imagine if Danny Devito had been given that role? Crap, me either. Here’s a list of 26 beloved main characters and the actors that almost played them. Why 26? Because I was shooting for 25 and went 1 over…sue me! INDIANA JONES WAS: Harrison Ford ALMOST WAS: Tom Selleck (Not available due to conflicts with Magnum P.I.) THE TERMINATOR WAS: Arnold Schwarzenegger ALMOST WAS: Lance Henriksen (The guy who played the android Bishop in Aliens) HAN SOLO WAS: Harrison Ford ALMOST WAS: Burt Reynolds, Christopher Walken, Nick Nolte (All fine actors but…c’mon!) MARTY McFLY (Back to the Future) WAS: Michael J. Fox ALMOST WAS: Eric Stoltz (His acting was too dramatic) CAPTAIN BENJAMIN WILLARD (Apocalypse Now) WAS: Martin Sheen ALMOST WAS: Harvey Keitel RIPLEY (Alien) WAS: Sigourni Weaver ALMOST WAS: Veronica Cartwright PETER VENKMAN (Ghostbusters) WAS: Bill Muarray ALMOST WAS: John Belushi (I guess he could’ve played a ghost…) BEETLEJUICE WAS: Michael Keaton ALMOST WAS: Sammy Davis, Jr. (No, I’m not kidding. I’d like to see this, actually) MAVERICK (Top Gun) WAS: Tom Cruise ALMOST WAS: Matthew Modine SPIDER-MAN WAS: Tobey Maguire ALMOST WAS: Leonardo DiCaprio NEO (The Matrix) WAS: Keanu Reeves ALMOST WAS: Ewan McGregor, Leonardo DiCaprio ROBOCOP WAS: Peter Weller ALMOST WAS: Arnold Schwarzenegger (Considered too big), Lance Henriksen (Bishop from Aliens again) SUPERMAN WAS: Christopher Reeve ALMOST WAS: Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood, James Caan, Warren Beatty, Burt Reynolds FORREST GUMP WAS: Tom Hanks ALMOST WAS: Bill Murray, Chevy Chase (Chevy turned this role down…fantastic move, bud!) BATMAN WAS: Michael Keaton ALMOST WAS: Alec Baldwin, Billy Murray, Pierce Brosnan, Charlie Sheen, Tom Selleck, Mel Gibson McMURPHY (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) WAS: Jack Nicholson ALMOST WAS: James Caan ALEX (A Clockwork Orange) WAS: Malcolm MacDowell ALMOST WAS: Tim Curry, Jeremy Irons FERRIS BUELLER WAS: Matthew Broderick ALMOST WAS: John Cusack, Jim Carrey, Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, Robert Downey Jr., Michael J. Fox CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW WAS: Johnny Depp ALMOST WAS: Michael Keaton, Jim Carrey, Christopher Walken EDWARD SCISSORHANDS WAS: Johnny Depp ALMOST WAS: Tom Cruise, Robert Downey Jr. JOHN McCLANE (Die Hard) WAS: Bruce Willis ALMOST WAS: Richard Gere “DIRTY” HARRY CALLAHAN WAS: Clint Eastwood ALMOST WAS: Frank Sinatra (Are you feelin’ lucky, kiddo?) DON VITO CORLEONE WAS: Marlon Brando ALMOST WAS: Frank Sinatra (Sinatra offered, but Coppola was adamant about casting Brando.) ANDY DUFRENSE (The Shawshank Redemption) WAS: Tim Robbins ALMOST WAS: Kevin Costner (He later strongly regretted turning the role down…we don’t.) CAPTAIN JOHN MILLER (Saving Private Ryan) WAS: Tom Hanks ALMOST WAS: Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson (Wouldn’t have been so bad, eh?) RICK DECKARD (Blade Runner) WAS: Harrison Ford ALMOST WAS: Dustin Hoffman (Dressed as Tootsie, of course.)

DAILY AFFIRMATION: remind yourself to be weird as fucking hell and BURN

*guavachild* — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 05:14:20 GMT

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but BURN, BURN, BURN, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight POP and everybody goes "Awww!'" -----Jack Kerouac ps. I don't go "awwww"... I go, "oh holy FUCK I am alive and I live and I love...." How's THAT for "POP"?

I AM THe LUCKIeST SON OF A BITCH

*guavachild* — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:11:46 GMT

As you know, my phone was stolen from me from the hood of my car at the beach as I gave some tourists directions. The fracker also stole my sunscreen... crackhead... (I DID like that sunscreen though). Someone found the phone (it was an old phone... and I disconnected the service so I figured the dude would chuck it.) It was found by some other crackhead who started calling my friend "C" (my last call) and was coming on to her and asking to meet up, yadda yadda yadda. But he came through and actually dropped the phone off at a local store where I picked it up. His name was "willabee". Thank you, willabee. : ) Thank you thank you thank you ps. I disinfected the phone. And he changed my background and erased my outgoing messages. But I also thank him for not putting pictures of his genitalia on it.

I just had my friggin' phone stolen from in front of me

*guavachild* — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:34:15 GMT

yep. I finished walking the beach, was totally rocking out and dancing..... When I got to my car, I placed the sunscreen and phone on the hood of the trunk as I put my clothes back on. Some white-ass, but very nice, alabama tourists parked next to me asked for directions to the north shore. As I spoke to them with my back turned to the phone and sunscreen, some dickhead on a moped drove by cackling and snatched them up... I had no idea except that the tourists pointed it out to me. I walked around for an hour looking for that guy or my phone. I mean, it was an old phone... he wouldn't get money for it. And what about the friggin' sunscreen? Fuck me in the goat ass... how ridiculous. So none of you can call me til I get a new phone... lame. How stupid... it was completely an act of cruelty and NOT necessity since there is no friggin' way he was getting any mone out of my sad-ass, scratched up phone NOR out of my gorgeous sunscreen. Bravo, dude, bravo. Am gonna cheer myself up by watching "the shining" now.

Weird and ridiculous affirmation... oh, and a good movie : )

*guavachild* — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:27:52 GMT

Have any of you ever watched the BBC miniseries “Gormenghast”? It is a fantastical, sci-fi, Dr. Who-ish tale of someone who comes out of the dirtiest pits of life, is extremely determined, rises to the highest ranks of power just to prove to himself he is worthy, and becomes evil in doing so, even though at his most center core he is still just a small, sweet, dirty, beaten child full of romantic ideas and the desire for love and affection. I write a lot. I want to be a writer. I want to touch others with my writing; make them laugh, cry, feel,… remember why thee bother waking up each day… know that they are not alone… know that someone else feels their pain and joy… someone else is holding themselves in bed wishing that someone was hugging them back. This movie was a re-affirmation of this desire of mine. I write all of these stupid, ridiculous blogs, ranting about random thoughts in my head, mundane things I notice in life,daily frustrations I experience thanks to societies’ muted stupidity, because I want to reach out. I want to share my love of life, the laughs I naturally experience when I trip on the ground and no one sees it or take a drink and droplets accidentally spill out onto my chin. Isn’t that life? Isn’t that why we are here? I no longer feel the need to prove myself with some fancy job, recognition, or a lot of money. But I desperately DO need to touch others… have someone say that something I did really changed them, helped them, made them feel again, especially when they were lost or felt alone. I rant. I know this. You all do as well. But I rant through all of my emotions… not just anger… but also joy, love, surprise, excitement… and right now… anticipation. I anticipate helping others. I anticipate having wonderful, weird experiences with all of you. I anticipate changing my life and having you all change mine through just being yourself around me. Every day I go for a mile-long walk on the beach here in Kailua. Yesterday I was unable to listen to music (don’t ask… damn technological problems), so I just sang to myself as I walked. It started out sunny and then a storm front came in. Rain started pouring, cold on my bikini-clad figure. Winds were whipping, the waves were crashing… But I still had a long way to go and just started singing The Police’s “Roxanne” at the top of my lungs. I passed only a few people (given the weather) but we all shared a smile at the ridiculous nature of the experience—walking the beach, caught in friggin’ cold rain and wind… singing a pop-song poorly, as loud as possible. That is life for me. And that is why I bother getting out of bed each day. Oops… totally got off topic there. Seriously, watch Gormenghast if you get a chance… and thanks for reading. Love you guys. : )

How do you feel about losing Tribe vs. paying a small monthly fee?

*guavachild* — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 04:28:47 GMT

So some of you have already seen this post circulating in some friends' blogs. Yesterday I took the stance that maybe Tribe.net should just die, seeing as how keeping it alive just seemed like prolonging the inevitable. But this morning I played around with some numbers and realized that, not only would subscriptions make it possible to keep Tribe.net going--but if it was done carefully--it could vastly improve and keep evolving over time. By taking judicious advantage of certain useful features developed for other social networking platforms, the Bohemian community that is Tribe.net could also leverage these advancements and put them to good use. In fact, I'm thinking that I'd really like to be involved in that process... Tribe.net is the backbone of our community, after all. And it's good to have a strong, healthy backbone, you know? Please vote yay or nay--and if you care to, please repost this to your own blog and submit the results to Pi [ people.tribe.net/pi ] on Saturday, November 17th... ****** The word in some of the admin tribes is that Tribe.net is in serious financial peril. Peril that may make this site go away. Most of us belong to MySpace and/or Bebo and/or Facebook, yet we return to Tribe because it is what serves us best. There are even rumors that Tribe is down to less than five employees. Given the above, would you be willing to pay a $5/mo subscription fee to tribe as a Premium Member? Premium Members might receive benefits such as ad-free usage, more customizable skins, or other such bells and whistles. Please, if you support tribe and are willing to pay HALF THE COST OF A MOVIE TICKET for one month of Premium Usage, respond to this blog post. Repost this in YOUR BLOG. Collect the yays and nays and forward them to Pi. After ten days I will summarize the results and forward them to the Admins. Please Support Tribe

For what cause would YOU get naked?

*guavachild* — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:50:48 GMT

So PETA put out a video of a woman stripping talking about animal rights. I watched this and thought to myself, "wow, unless you were raised in a nudist colony, it is actually pretty hard to have someone video tape you getting naked to send out to the world." I have to believe that people still believe in causes enough to use the various tools available to us (OTHER than violent ones) to have people take notice and hopefully change their actions based on the information they receive. I am starting this chain to promote awareness and remind ourselves that people really do still care. Take a few minutes and think. What cause would YOU get naked for? No really. Like the woman in this video, what ONE cause would you get naked for, NOT because you want everyone to see you naked, but rather to show that you would be willing to put yourself in that type of vulnerable position in order to have people listen to what you have to say. And please, don't be facitious, and don't bother to forward this bulletin if you don't take this seriously. -------- Add your name and your cause. Marissa- Child abuse prevention http://www.petatv.com/

Bush: " I know that fish and humans can coexist peacefully"

*guavachild* — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:12:41 GMT

Ok, you think I am an idiot? What?! Me stupid?! Now, I like to believe that despite the problems our country has, that I am still quite patriotic and will defend its pros... um... as much as I can (until the attacker brings out the big guns, then I just kick him in the nuts and run away). But really... The subject line is an actual quote from our political figurehead (I use this nomenclature since A)I don't wish to sounds as if I am "wishy-washy" on politics and am no longer supporting a candidate that I voted for and B) There are so many dirty jokes that we can make using the word "figurehead". I am not the smartest person in the world (although I am working on gaining the title "smartassiest".) And yet, when I hear the, er, "intelligence-challenged", um, "verbative chains" that, um, "in a physically-challenged manner 'fall'" out of our current president's, um, "pie-hole", I am compelled to go hide under my bed, from both all the PC people that will sue me for this bulletin, and also from the collegiate "scholarship" people that are looking to "collect on my ass" (ps. I will pay all of you off with any means necessary NOT to give them my address). I got my undergrad at an Ivy League school. I state this only to scare you all into a state of not questioning my bulletin : ) No, really.... I grew up with basically hardly any money and lucked out and through a series of hard work and good fortune ended up at an Ivy League. I met people with amounts of family money in their past and future that most of us couldn't even IMAGINE gambling away. : ) But seriously. The whole time I was semi-consciously aware that many of these would become the politicians of our future, i.e. mom-ums and dad-ums would buy them a sweet spot (and, I might add, buy them out of any legal complications encountered during college... cough cough... kennedys...) But still, regardless of "whether or not" our political system is a FARCE, shouldn't we expect to still have leaders that APPEAR to be competent? (and PLEASE!!! No one bring up supporting our troups here... these are COMPLETELY independent issues). At my college (to remain nameless, unless you already heard me drunkenly rant about it... ahem), I met people of INCREDIBLE intelligence... I ain't got SHITE on them. I also met people who were incredibly good a preparing for tests, memorizing nonsense, kissing proverbial (and literal) professors' arses, etc. Intelligence, compassion, empathy, foresight, wisdom, practicality... none of these have any necessary overlap with --ability to lay low and then get your relatives to set you up in a sweet political position leading up to a possible presidential candidacy, regardless of your intelligence, previous illegal behavior, or ability to complete a sentance (or chew before swallowing). Now... don't get all pissed off.... I really do love America. I have lived in other countries. Check it out... no REALLY. We are the fucking LUCKIEST sons of arses in the world. But really.... I can act "laid back, man!" and stand by while we sell ourselves and our ground to other countries. I can act "understanding and PC" while foreigners live in our country but don't try to speak our language (btw. I have learned ALL of the following languages for my trips abroad, JUST to show respect to their native people: German (both northern and southern dialects), French, Hawaiian (grew up there and got hit with bamboo when I messed it up), Italian, Castilian, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Swahilli, Herero (African Dialect), um, and how to get beer and find a bathroom in many more.) But with all of my ranting, I CANNOT STAND the fact that I have absolutely no respect for our current president. I want to send this bulletin to my parents but know it would piss them off (I think I will do so anyways). He has no ability to even speak, even though all presidents have a "brute squad" of writers to prep them on all of their utterances.. and even gesticulations, method of walking, ties.. and apparently how to drop peoples pets (reference Bush holding that kid's dog and then dropping it on its back...COME ON!) I am glad I don't have a press squad following me all of the time. Otherwise, we would all be gifted video images of me picking my nose, scratching myself, popping a pimple, drinking juice out of the bottle, looking up porn on the internet, not recycling EVERY bottle, but STILL.... You give me a team of hotshot, just out of undergrad, poli sci kids to write and describe all of my words and actions, and I THINK I could really impress y'all. The Bush family has had all kinds of money for a LONG ASS TIME (that is a technical term). And yet... ARG! I am embarassed to discuss politics with my friends from other countries. Anyone else feel the same way? I don't pretend to understand all of the subtleties of polities... or pretend to remember all of the country boarders... certainly not those of eastern europe (do those EVER stop changing?!) But I am NOT trying to be a politician. In this friggin PC day and age, can one still be patriotic and DESPISE and be ASHAMED of one's leader? I am now going to hide in a cocoon, expecting a backlash... but let's see... <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LH-CGkoNIbA"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LH-CGkoNIbA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

Marissa's science rant of the day: why we should be happy with our own personal MIRACLE

*guavachild* — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:35:45 GMT

So... the "big" news in recent "science" (yes, I use a LOT of parentheses, and I am basing this statement on AOL's "science" news) is that research has resulted in all kinds of wacky species of animals that have existed at some point. The pictures of the animals are creepy and that is fun and all, but really, if you follow the line of thinking related to "evolution", this shouldn't be much of a surprise. Evidence from many different areas of study reflects that genetic mutations that arise by chance often result in stronger, more biologically viable, species, which then continue to reproduce, with the product being critters that are more stable in their environment. At many stages in our history, such mutations have resulted in amazingly bizarre animals which ultimately did not survive for many reasons (i.e. saber tooth tigers developed larger and larger teeth with which to attack their prey until their teeth became so large that they impaled themselves on their own dental work, thus dying out). I just read an amazing book titled "a short history of nearly everything" by bill bryson. It attempted to cover how our universe came into existence, and then, why each of us have had the opportunity, through history and science, to be alive now and (mostly) conscience of ourselves. (Trust me, the guy is very knowledgeable but he wrote everything in a completely approachable manner, a fun read...) In this book he brings up a period in time know as the K-T boundary--- If any of you guys are also science geeks, you probably know about this, for the others, here's a short explanation. Geologists attempt to form a model of important events in our past by doing chemical analyses on layers of rock that we are dancing around on every day. The K-T boundary marks a specific moment, far in our past, when a GIGANTIC meteor hit Earth, causing a monumental change in our climate and the biological viability of all animals existing at that time (NOTE: this was during the time of dinosaurs. Humans DID NOT exist at this time.) This is most likely when dinosaurs became extinct and mammals started to became the "dominant" species on the planet. The reason I bring this up is because in his [Bill Bryson's] book, he discusses the fact that fossils, which are found in the layer of rock known as the K-T boundary, represent CRAZY, STRANGE MUTATIONS IN SPECIES which no longer exist today. Imagine animals with 5 eye-like organs, 3 legs, etc. etc. If said meteor had NOT struck earth at that point, making the planet basically uninhabitable for the species of the time, life may have developed in a very different manner... (this is where you can have fun, like, why do men still have nipples and why do we have eyebrows). We spend most of our time worrying about very superficial things like "do we have split ends?" or "are my pecs and gluts developed enough?" We forget to appreciate the wonder of our existence at all, the fact that we are alive, REASONABLY intelligent, and have the opportunity to gain pleasure through interactions with others of our species. Let's all take a moment to appreciate the fact that we are alive, intelligent, inquisitive, passionate, silly, spiritual, loving, creative, smelly, beautiful, and any other adjectives you could possibly want to throw in their. It's pretty miraculous that we are co-existing in this manner, so I'm just saying... let's not focus on nonsense in our lives... at least, for five minutes... ready, set, GO!!!! I mean, you COULD have ended up looking like the attached photo, um.... yummy...

The movie "Signs": the best guilty pleasure which pisses me off

*guavachild* — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:48:28 GMT

Ok, I have this weird fixation on the movie "Signs": I often get compelled to watch it and don't know why, ESPECIALLY because it has soooo many problems (unlike the script for M. Night's big start, "The Sixth Sense".) I admit that I, once again, had to watch it this evening, and found a new flaw: if these aliens are so FRAGGING adept at jumping 10 feet up to get on houses, and running so quickly that you can't turn fast enough to see them, then WHY, for the love of god, when they first approach the house after Mel and his crew have boarded up the windows, do they run into AT LEAST THREE DIFFERENT WINDCHIMES whilst prowling around the porch?!!!! ONE WOULD THINK that they could at least avoid a windchime once they made the genius syllogism 1) one walks into windchime, 2) windchime makes a bunch of racket, 3) STOP FRAGGIN WALKING INTO WINDCHIMES ON AFOREMENTIONED PORCH! If you like ranting on this movie, check out my original rant after I saw it for the first time... enjoy... get angry... take it out on the keyboard... have a drink.... repeat... http://www-scf.usc.edu/%7Emneder/Signs.html