joined on 02/03/05
last updated 03/06/09
September 28, 2005
Greg is a guy that can bike 30 miles, run a marathon, write an entiire book of poetry, bring a whole chicken and 2 pints of Ben and Jerry''s to a movie, and still have energy to tell you a mythical story of his adventures at work, all in the same day.
April 8, 2005
I must say that G-reg is one of my closest friends, and editor in chief.
I am sort of shy and antisocial, but he is always understanding, and reads to me, and brings movies and ice-cream when I am sad.
He has the intellect of a political physicist, and the disposition of a monk.
He's also one of the sharpest poets I have ever met,and has a biting wit.
I love Greg, he loves me, and together we are a SuperTeam.
Plus he makes the best snacks and dinners, super psychic (or very observant) he's one of the most sensitive and determined people I know.
Intensly sweet, with a dark chocolate side!!
Mati
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"I can believe things that are true and I can believe things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen--I believe that people are perfectible, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkledy lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that anibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like the Martians in War of the Worlds. I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that makind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumblebee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time(although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of casual chaos, backgound noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it." She stopped, out of breath...
The Hinterland! The Hinterland! We Want To Sail To The Hinterland! It's Far, far, far-far-far far-far- far away!
Cake donuts:
1.the old fashioned cake donut
2. the glazed old fashioned
3. glazed with coconut topping(acceptable)
4. glazed with chopped nuts(good)
5. glazed with coconut crumb(better)
6. the granulated sugar covered(one of the best sugar covered varieties)
7. the chocolate frosted(acceptable)
8. the maple frosted(acceptable)
9. the orange frosted(ideal)
10. the strawberry frosted(not as good as the orange frosted)
X. vanilla frosted(doesn't make for a promising old fashioned donut)
11. the powdered cinamon covered(very good)
X. the powdered sugar covered(not acceptable)
12. devil's food cake donut(very good)
13. devils's food cake granulated sugar(acceptable)
14. devils's food cake glazed(very good)
15. dfc glazed with coconut topping(very good)
16. dfc glazed with chopped nuts(very good)
17. dfc glazed with coconut crumb(unwise)
18. dfc choclate frosted(overkill by my reckoning)
19. dfc maple frosted( the ideal version)
X. any other type of frosting is unacceptable.
X. powdered? abomination!
20. dfc cinamon powdered(acceptable)
21. buttermilk & spice cake donuts(see old fashioned)
22. blueberry cake donut.
23. bluberry glazed cake donut.
X. no other type of blueberry cake donut is acceptable.
Raised Donuts:
1. Raised Donut with granulated sugar.
2. Raised glazed.
3. French Cruller with granulated sugar.
3. French Cruller glazed.
4. Raised chocolate frosted
5. French Cruller chocolate frosted
6. Raised Vanilla frosted.
7. French Cruller Vanilla frosted(unwise)
8. Raised Maple frosted.
9. French Cruller Maple frosted.
10. Raised Strawberry frosted.
11. French Cruller Strawberry frosted.
12. Raised Orange frosted.
13. French Cruller Orange frosted.
X. raised powdered is unacceptable!!
Filled Donuts:
1. Glazed jelly filled.
2. Glazed strawberry filled.
3. Glazed blueberry filled
4. Glazed apple filled
5. Glazed lemon filled
6. Powdered blueberry filled
7. Powdered strawberry filled
8. Powdered lemon filled.
9. Powdered custard filled
10. Powdered boston creme filled
11. Powdered chocolate icing filled
12. Powdered vanilla icing filled
13. Vanilla frosted apple filled with coconut crumb
14. Chocolate frosted custard creme filled
15. Chocolate frosted boston creme filled
16. Chocolate frosted chocolate icing filled
17. Chocolate frosted vanilla icing filled
Cake crullers:
1. Old fashioned cake cruller
2. Old fashioned cake cruller with granulated sugar
3. Old fashioned glazed cruller
4. Devil's food cake cruller
5. Dfc with granulated sugar
6. Dfc glazed cruller
X. do not frost, do not powder
7. Blueberry cake cruller
8. Bluberry cake cruller w/ granulated sugar.
9. Blueberry cake glazed cruller
10. Buttermilk and spiced cake cruller(see old fashioned)
Raised crullers:
1. Raised w/ granulated sugar cruller
2. Raised glazed cruller
3. Raised chocolate frosted cruller
4. Raised vanilla frosted cruller
5. Raised strawberry frosted cruller.
6. Raised maple frosted cruller.
7. Raised orange frosted cruller
8. Raised chocolate frosted with chopped nuts cruller
9. Raised chocolate frosted with coconut cruller
10. Raised vanilla frosted with chopped nuts cruller
11. Raised vanilla frosted with coconut cruller
12. Raised vanilla frosted with coconut crumb cruller
13. Raised strawberry frosted with chopped nuts cruller.
14. Raised maple frosted with chopped nuts cruller.
15. Raised maple frosted with coconut cruller.
16. Raised orange frosted with chopped nuts cruller
17. Raised orange frosted with coconut cruller
18. Raised orange frosted with coconut crumb cruller
"fiery the angels fell, deep thunder roared along their shores, burning with the fires of Orc...yes...Questions."
the suns...swim like planets
about me
1. I like meeting new people, discovering new stuff, doing new things
2. I like my work to be simple and direct, and my play to be creative and nerdy
3. I like walking quickly and recklessly through all the streets of all the cities in the whole world
4. I like taking hundreds and hundreds of pictures
5. I like beautiful women who wear leather boots and study quantum physics
6. I like staying up way too late, and sleeing in.
7. I like riding my bike miles and miles along the beach
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The Tree of Life
KP COF Genus Species
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Ethnologue Africa
Language index for coutries in Africa produced by the Summer Institute of Linguistics(SIL)
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Ethnologue Asia
Language index for coutries in Asia produced by the Summer Institute of Linguistics(SIL)
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Ethnologue Europe
Language index for coutries in Europe produced by the Summer Institute of Linguistics(SIL)
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Ethnologue Oceania
Language index for coutries in Oceania produced by the Summer Institute of Linguistics(SIL)
1.Supplication of the protagonist to Fate.
2. Deliverance of the protagonist from Fate
3. A Fate-ful crime avenged by the protagonist.
4. Fate avenged by the protagonist within a family.
5. The protagonist pursued by Fate.
6. The protagonist facing disaster wrought by Fate.
7. The protagonist falling prey to the cruel misfortune of Fate.
8. The revolt of the protagonist against the Fate of a Tyrant
9. The protagonist openly challenging Fate.
10.Abduction from the protagonist by Fate.
11. The protagonist seeking answers from Fate.
12. The protagonist persuading to obtain a thing from Fate.
13. Contempt of the protagonist for Fate amongst his kinsmen
14. Rivalry of the protagonist to a kinsmen through Fate.
15. The murder by the protagonist over adultery through Fate.
16. The proagonist victimized by madness through Fate.
17. The protagonist falling victim to Fate through imprudence.
18. Fate striking down the protagonist through Love.
19. The killing of an unrecognized kinsman by the protagonist through Fate
20. The sacrifice of the protagonist to Fate.
21. The sacrifice of the protagonist to Fate on behalf of a kinsmen.
22. A vain sacrifice to Passion by the protagonist through Fate.
23. Loved ones sacrificed by the protagonist through Fate.
24. Rivalry of the protagonist to a superior through Fate.
25. Adultery striking down the protagonist through Fate.
26. The crimes of Love exposed to the protagonist through Fate.
27. The exposing of the dishonor of a loved one to the protagonist through Fate..
28. Fate standing in the way of Love for the protagonist.
29. A love for the enemy by the protagonist through Fate.
30. Fate against the ambition of the protagonist
31. The conflict with God of the protagonist through Fate.
32. The mistaken jealousy of the protagonist through Fate.
33. The erroneous judgement of the protagonist through Fate.
34. The remorse of the protagonist from Fate.
35. The recovery of a lost one by the protagonist from Fate.
36. The loss of the protagonists loved ones through Fate
37. The identity of someone mistaken by the protagonist through Fate.
November 1st Blue West Arcane Night, (love is accepted or rejected)
November 2nd Yellow South Continuative Seed, (art imitates life)
November 3rd Red East Apostolic Serpent, (the underbelly reveals its nature too)
November 4th White North Dualistic Death, (the worst is over)
November 5th Blue West Vestal Hand, (flawless execution)
November 6th Yellow South Cantic Moon, (duplicate or preserve?)
November 7th Red East Central Rain, (hold out for what you believe in today)
November 8th White North Euryc Dog, (the show must go on)
November 9th Blue West Cuspic Monkey, (the good news today isn’t always the best news for the future, but who cares?)
November 10th Yellow South Integral Broom,
November 11th Red East Labyrinthine Reed,
November 12th White North Hemispherical Jaguar,
November 13th Blue West Invigorative Eagle,
November 14th Yellow South Arcane Owl,
November 15th Red East Continuative Earthquake,
November 16th White North Apostolic Blade,
November 17th Blue West Dualistic Storm,
November 18th Yellow South Vestal Lord,
November 19th Red East Cantic Dragon,
November 20th White North Central Wind,
November 21st Blue West Euryc Night,
November 22nd Yellow South Cuspic Seed,
November 23rd Red East Integral Serpent,
November 24th White North Labyrinthine Death,
November 25th Blue West Hemispherical Hand,
November 26th Yellow South Invigorative Moon,
November 27th Red East Arcane Rain,
November 28th White North Continuative Dog,
November 29th Blue West Apostolic Monkey,
November 30th Yellow South Dualistic Broom
A pretty girl, a pretty girl can walk anywhere
All doors open for her
Like a breath of fresh air, her beauty, it precedes her
Wrapped in her beauty, everywhere, she is welcome
First class on the plane, closed door of the club, all faces turn, all faces turn
And they come alive, with a desire to protect her
Nothing can interfere with a dream of dreams so near
And when she caught my eye, we were those for whom the rules do not apply.
Pretty girl young man old man man with a gun
Two people in love (Two people in love)
The rules do not apply to people in love
Pretty girl young man old man man with a gun
Two people in love (Two people in love)
The rules do not apply to people in love
On a wire, a high wire
She likes to balance on a knife
She says “On the wire, that is living, oh, you can forget the rest”
On the wire, that is living, each step must be in place
So don’t look down, one false move is all it takes.
We’d rather risk it all; roll the dice and let them fall
They say we can’t survive but a life like this keeps me alive
Doesn’t matter where we are, I still say the rules do not apply
Pretty girl young man old man man with a gun
Two people in love (Two people in love)
The rules do not apply to people in love
Pretty girl young man old man man with a gun
Two people in love (Two people in love)
The rules do not apply to people in love, do not apply
Pretty girl young man old man man with a gun
man with a gun
(Two people in love)
The rules do not apply to people in love
Pretty girl young man old man man with a gun
man with a gun
(Two people in love)
The rules do not apply to people in love
The rules do not apply to people in love, do not apply
Pretty girl young man old man man with a gun
man with a gun
(Two people in love)
The rules do not apply to people in love, do not apply
Pretty girl young man old man man with a gun
man with a gun
1. Never outshine the master.
2. Never put too much trust in friends, & learn how to use enemies.
3. Conceal your intentions.
4. Always say less than necessary.
5. So much depends on reputation--guard it with your life.
6. Court attention at all cost.
7. Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit.
8. Make other people come to you--use bait if necessary.
9. Win through your actions, never through arguement.
10. Infection: avoid the unhappy and unlucky.
11. Learn to keep people dependent on you.
12. Use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your victim.
13. When asking for help, appeal to people's self-interest, never to their mercy or gratitude.
14. Pose as a friend, work as a spy.
15. Crush your enemy totally.
16. Use absence to increase respect and honor.
17. Keep others in suspended terror: cultivate an air of unpredictability.
18. Do not build fortresses to protect yourself--isolation is dangerous.
19. Know who you're dealing with--do not offend the wrong person.
20. Do not commit to anyone.
21. Play a sucker to catch a sucker--seem dumber than your mark.
22. Use the surrender tactic; transform weakness into power.
23. Concentrate your forces.
24. Play the perfect coutier.
25. Re-create yourself.
26. Keep your hands clean.
27. Play on people's need to believe to create a cultlike following.
28. Enter action with boldness.
29. Plan all the way to the end.
30. Make your accomplishments seem effortless
31. Control the options: get others to play with the cards you deal.
32. Play to people's fantasies.
33. Discover each man's thumbscrew.
34. Be royal in your own fashion: act like a king to be treated like one.
35. Master the art of timing.
36. Disdain things you cannot have; ignoring them is the best revenge.
37. Create compelling spectacles.
38. Think as you like but behave like others.
39. Stir up waters to catch fish.
40. Despise the free lunch.
41. Avoid stepping into a great man's shoes.
42. Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
43. Work on the hearts and minds of others.
44. Disarm and infuriate with the mirror effect.
45. Preach the need for change, but never reform too much at once.
46. Never appear too perfect.
47. Do not go past the mark you aimed for: in victory, know when to stop.
48. Assume formlessness.
1. J. R. "Bob" Dobbs.
2. No one can escape fate.
3. All elements except man must appear simultaneously, without morality.
4. Activity & Cetainty.
5. The point at which AntiRheumatic Drugs failed to relieve the symtoms of Art.
6. Group into camps, each with special skills, within their own frontiers.
7. Dining rooms of animals in human garb illustrate the sad fable of humanity.
8. Balance lasts as long as the normal course of an illness.
9. Sincerely, it is charming or idiotic.
10. Limit company for the exploitation of ideas.
11. A Gallop of clarity, and the hail of fresh words.
12. Naturally we hesitate WE ARE NOT(WE DO NOT)
13. THAT IT HAS BEEN GIVEN
14. Unappreciated by the vulgar herd.
15. With neither goal nor initial childbed, and because we believe we ought.
16. The chess and sun game of the negotiator of luminous values.
17. howl howl howl howl howl howl howl howl
18. "Thoughts without Language"
19. DADA is a virgin microbe.
20. Dada is life with neither bedroom slippers nor parallells; it is against and for unity.
21. I think we should invent new words to express better what we would like to mean by humour.
22. A head of hair through a comb of light.
23. Ambassadors, poets, counts, princes, musicians, journalists, actors, writers, diplomats, directors...
24. Numberless, their price cannot be evaluated in the currency of liquid intelligence.
25. Heads I win and tails you lose, dressed up to look scholarly.
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36. Of matches and speed-captured insects, trams crawling toward a glass head.
37. Parallel with ideas, breaths which run and which discuss, are known to our best dialecticians.
38. Towards their inner, direct consequences beyond both surfaces and reality.
39. Workmanship is the sympathy certain "constructivist" cubists feel.
40. Annihilated by continuous and progressive satanic insistance of a "what's the use?"
41. Futile bell ringing, like toads squatting on cold lanterns squashing the descriptive intelligence.
42. Cut out of the margin of a supreme multi-colored star, laughter is men's goodness.
43. There are some people (journalists, lawyers, amateurs, philosophers) who even think.
44. Such is its richness, vitality, meaning and wisdom, to understand, to see, to describe a flower.
45. Feathered with Protestantism, a monument, a mass of heavy, greyish intestines.
46. I don't think anyone will ever manage to put the most cosmic diverse.
47. You owe me three thousand eight hundred thirty-two dollars.
48. To the shock it produces, a wisp of a delicate tree enables us to anticipate.
1. The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection(1930) by Ronald Fisher
2. The Causes of Evolution(1932) by John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
3. "The roles of mutation, inbreeding, crossbreeding and selection in evolution" by Sewall Wright
4. Genetics and the Origin of Species(1937) by Theodosius Dobzhansky
5. Systematics and the Origin of Species(1942) by Ernst Mayr
6. Tempo and Mode in Evolution(1944)by George Gaylord Simpson
7. Variation and Evolution in Plants(1950) by G. Ledyard Stebbins
8. The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour(1964) by W. D. Hamilton
9. Adaptation and Natural Selection(1966) by George C. Williams
10. The Selfish Gene(1976), & The Extended Phenotype(1982)by Richard Dawkins
1. Melmoth the Wanderer(1820), by Charles Maturin
2. Nikolaus Lenau's Faust (1836)
3. The Picture of Dorian Gray(1890), by Oscar Wilde
4. Mephisto(1936) (novel), by Klaus Mann
5. Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights(1939), by Gertrude Stein
6. Doctor Faustus(1947), by Thomas Mann
7. The Master and Margarita(1967), by Mikhail Bulgakov
8. Galactic Pot-Healer(1969), by Philip K. Dick
9. "Interview with the Vampire"(1976), by Anne Rice
10. The Damnation Game(1986), by Clive Barker
11.Temptation(1986), by Václav Havel
12. Discworld 9;Eric(1990), by Terry Pratchett
13. "Memnoch the Devil"(1996) , by Anne Rice
14. Faust is Dead(1997), by Mark Ravenhill
15. Faustus(2004), by David Mamet
1. Angular difficulty: This includes increasing, decreasing, distorting, or omitting an angle in a figure.
2. Bizarre doodling: This involves adding peculiar components to the drawing that have no relationship to the original Bender Gestalt figure.
3. Closure difficulty: This occurs when the examinee has difficulty closing open spaces on a figure, or connecting various parts of the figure. This results in a gap in the copied figure.
4. Cohesion: This involves drawing a part of a figure larger or smaller than shown on the original figure and out of proportion with the rest of the figure. This error may also include drawing a figure or part of a figure significantly out of proportion with other figures that have been drawn.
5. Collision: This involves crowding the designs or allowing the end of one design to overlap or touch a part of another design.
6. Contamination: This occurs when a previous figure, or part of a figure, influences the examinee in adequate completion of the current figure. For example, an examinee may combine two different Bender Gestalt figures.
7. Fragmentation: This involves destroying part of the figure by not completing or breaking up the figures in ways that entirely lose the original design.
8. Impotence: This occurs when the examinee draws a figure inaccurately and seems to recognize the error, then, he or she makes several unsuccessful attempts to improve the drawing.
9. Irregular line quality or lack of motor coordination: This involves drawing rough lines, particularly when the examinee shows a tremor motion, during the drawing of the figure.
10. Line extension: This involves adding or extending a part of the copied figure that was not on the original figure.
11. Omission: This involves failing to adequately connect the parts of a figure or reproducing only parts of a figure.
12. Overlapping difficulty: This includes problems in drawing portions of the figures that overlap, simplifying the drawing at the point that it overlaps, sketching or redrawing the overlapping portions, or otherwise distorting the figure at the point at which it overlaps.
13. Perseveration: This includes increasing, prolonging, or continuing the number of units in a figure. For example, an examinee may draw significantly more dots or circles than shown on the original figure.
14. Retrogression: This involves substituting more primitive figures for the original design—for example, substituting solid lines or loops for circles, dashes for dots, dots for circles, circles for dots, or filling in circles. There must be evidence that the examinee is capable of drawing more mature figures.
15. Rotation: This involves rotating a figure or part of a figure by 45° or more. This error is also scored when the examinee rotates the stimulus card that is being copied.
16. Scribbling: This involves drawing primitive lines that have no relationship to the original Bender Gestalt figure.
17. Simplification: This involves replacing a part of the figure with a more simplified figure. This error is not due to maturation. Drawings that are primitive in terms of maturation would be categorized under "Retrogression."
18. Superimposition of design: This involves drawing one or more of the figures on top of each other.
19. Workover: This involves reinforcing, increased pressure, or overworking a line or lines in a whole or part of a figure.
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