tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305807602024-03-23T13:12:13.754-05:00free verse madnesssearching for the meaning of life? if you find it here, let me know!csometimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08472093438193271302noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30580760.post-42381155049642908592007-09-16T07:40:00.000-05:002008-12-09T02:29:48.320-05:00ladies and gentlemen, introducing the talented franz marc...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEMTShHVhBivquFaB-UpresxZalBPXKNhL40Kbj6vs5n5oUhYFm_x9eiLOyN4ZXG4niUqWdbYJeP6z6Znnv24bjyMG-WZqih6KCZhl-v8BVAXdxZuNsW7upDyeho9E0zNO3b7x/s1600-h/fm.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEMTShHVhBivquFaB-UpresxZalBPXKNhL40Kbj6vs5n5oUhYFm_x9eiLOyN4ZXG4niUqWdbYJeP6z6Znnv24bjyMG-WZqih6KCZhl-v8BVAXdxZuNsW7upDyeho9E0zNO3b7x/s400/fm.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110782529998427490" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF0yDbflE9goMICZy1K8KHqyqmcBpe9lxyjBg2ilKqsCS77rO1A23my0UHExsrODfjuJHrSgbcm1R2NPN367mol3ac96OGlxs57-6V_xe1kUEaCmqjFmxNStV9cpGzxFJnMVu0/s1600-h/Portrait-Marc-Sindelsdorf.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF0yDbflE9goMICZy1K8KHqyqmcBpe9lxyjBg2ilKqsCS77rO1A23my0UHExsrODfjuJHrSgbcm1R2NPN367mol3ac96OGlxs57-6V_xe1kUEaCmqjFmxNStV9cpGzxFJnMVu0/s400/Portrait-Marc-Sindelsdorf.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110782529998427506" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153); font-weight: bold;">Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Franz Marc</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);">Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual</span>. <span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual.</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.</span><br />Franz Marc<br /><br />images found at:<br /><br />http://www.roland-collection.com/rolandcollection/images/stills/16-498.gifcsometimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08472093438193271302noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30580760.post-30425522851837836642007-04-05T08:12:00.001-05:002007-04-05T08:12:43.616-05:00kindness- his holiness the dalai lama<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><br></br><a href='http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/dalai_lama.html'>Dalai Lama Quotes</a> <br></br> <blockquote>Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.<br />Dalai Lama<br /></blockquote><br></br><br></br><p class='poweredbyperformancing'>Powered by <a href='http://scribefire.com/'>ScribeFire</a>.</p></div>csometimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08472093438193271302noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30580760.post-7498526716146171502007-04-05T05:11:00.000-05:002007-04-05T05:12:16.787-05:00hawthorneHappiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.<br /><br />Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)csometimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08472093438193271302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30580760.post-49835140023484900202006-11-17T06:05:00.000-05:002006-11-17T06:09:12.660-05:00another poem to use the term loselyJuly 1, 1990<br /><br /><br />Flowing through tides of consciousness,<br /><br />Dark waves of depression<br /><br />and sunbeams of laughter-<br /><br />flowing, continually moving.<br /><br />Kinder moments<br /><br />and precious memories<br /><br />lost in the tides.<br /><br />Constant,<br /><br />these waves.csometimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08472093438193271302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30580760.post-17945484315887959312006-11-17T04:03:00.000-05:002006-11-17T04:11:14.548-05:00i simply have no pride when it comes to my own bad poetryi believe this to be written circa 1990 by yours truly, no need to be kind, just something i found as a sort of curiousity to myself, being so far away from it it poses a bit of mystery to me...and perhaps it did at the time as well.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Raven<br />to me you<br />might fly<br />after fragile day<br />singing<br />of lost souls<br />and beauty destroyed.<br />I will dream;<br /> Traveling,<br /> and dying.<br /></div>csometimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08472093438193271302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30580760.post-75269783077431029622006-11-08T13:16:00.000-05:002006-11-08T13:46:55.439-05:00everone loves a critic...???<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/24/3733/1600/prairie%20home%20companion%20review.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/24/3733/400/prairie%20home%20companion%20review.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />this is just the most absurd review i've ever seen in my entire life! these things i must share! my source is "junk mail" or the time warner cable monthly nearly useless mailer to inform you how you can spend more money from the comfort of your own home!<br /><br />don't get me wrong i love time warner, but i get the feeling that they just pick someone without much work to do that day to write their reviews...<br /><br />alas, how can one hold such contempt for someone so obviously ill equipped for the task at hand... but i found it to be quite amusing upon first read, as i'm sure you will, perhaps i am resentful of the lack of talented criticism in my own work...<br /><br />wait, i'm digging myself deeper into a hole! no, i don't want to be judged cruelly for the sake of cruelty, i.........oh forget it!<br /><br />(and she storms off with a wink and a nudge... and she hopes there is no notice of the flick of her hair and that last chagrin as she exits stage right....)csometimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08472093438193271302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30580760.post-22097420905151367192006-10-14T13:03:00.000-05:002006-10-14T13:12:06.640-05:00everything zen<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/24/3733/1600/angel_pondering.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/24/3733/400/angel_pondering.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />just curious if anyone knows what or if the difference between Zen and Zen-Buddhism? ( want to say "Zenism" here but it doessn't sound right.)<br /><br />also catholic and roman catholic? aren't they the same thing? i'll admit i'm not well versed in the world of catholicism.<br /><br />speak your mind, don't be shy, i won't bite- i promise!<br /><br /><br />image found at: <a href="http://www.vreemd.co.za/art.html">http://www.vreemd.co.za/art.html</a>csometimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08472093438193271302noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30580760.post-72180785668771518102006-10-07T13:00:00.000-05:002006-10-07T13:06:13.320-05:00yet another bad poemi must have no humility when it comes to bad writing. i just came across this old poem, written 09.24.90 (i was in <span style="font-style: italic;">high school</span>, folks!) seems not to have been titled....<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">walking backwards,<br /> stumbling over hatred<br /> and fear.<br /> Horrifying reflections,<br /> and dark secrets<br /> Shatter and Astound.<br /></div>csometimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08472093438193271302noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30580760.post-13285240150600385262006-10-04T12:13:00.000-05:002006-10-04T12:15:38.427-05:00words to live by<img src="http://www.brucemaudesign.com/images/transparent.gif" height="1" width="50" /> <p class="boldheadline"> An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth </p> <p class="defaultp"> Written in 1998, the Incomplete Manifesto is an articulation of statements that exemplify Bruce Mau's beliefs, motivations and strategies. It also articulates how the BMD studio works. </p> <p class="defaultp"> <b>1. Allow events to change you.</b> You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.<br /><br /> <b>2. Forget about good. </b>Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you'll never have real growth.<br /><br /> <b>3. Process is more important than outcome.</b> When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we've already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there.<br /><br /> <b>4. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child).</b> Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.<br /><br /> <b>5. Go deep.</b> The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value.<br /><br /> <b>6. Capture accidents.</b> The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.<br /><br /> <b>7. Study.</b> A studio is a place of study. Use the necessity of production as an excuse to study. Everyone will benefit.<br /><br /> <b>8. Drift.</b> Allow yourself to wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgment. Postpone criticism.<br /><br /> <b>9. Begin anywhere.</b> John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere.<br /><br /> <b>10. Everyone is a leader.</b> Growth happens. Whenever it does, allow it to emerge. Learn to follow when it makes sense. Let anyone lead.<br /><br /> <b>11. Harvest ideas. Edit applications.</b> Ideas need a dynamic, fluid, generous environment to sustain life. Applications, on the other hand, benefit from critical rigor. Produce a high ratio of ideas to applications.<br /><br /> <b>12. Keep moving.</b> The market and its operations have a tendency to reinforce success. Resist it. Allow failure and migration to be part of your practice.<br /><br /> <b>13. Slow down.</b> Desynchronize from standard time frames and surprising opportunities may present themselves.<br /><br /> <b>14. Don’t be cool.</b> Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort.<br /><br /> <b>15. Ask stupid questions.</b> Growth is fueled by desire and innocence. Assess the answer, not the question. Imagine learning throughout your life at the rate of an infant.<br /><br /> <b>16. Collaborate.</b> The space between people working together is filled with conflict, friction, strife, exhilaration, delight, and vast creative potential.<br /><br /> <b>17. ____________________.</b> Intentionally left blank. Allow space for the ideas you haven’t had yet, and for the ideas of others.<br /><br /> <b>18. Stay up late.</b> Strange things happen when you’ve gone too far, been up too long, worked too hard, and you're separated from the rest of the world.<br /><br /> <b>19. Work the metaphor.</b> Every object has the capacity to stand for something other than what is apparent. Work on what it stands for.<br /><br /> <b>20. Be careful to take risks.</b> Time is genetic. Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.<br /><br /> <b>21. Repeat yourself.</b> If you like it, do it again. If you don’t like it, do it again.<br /><br /> <b>22. Make your own tools.</b> Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference.<br /><br /> <b>23. Stand on someone’s shoulders.</b> You can travel farther carried on the accomplishments of those who came before you. And the view is so much better.<br /><br /> <b>24. Avoid software.</b> The problem with software is that everyone has it.<br /><br /> <b>25. Don’t clean your desk.</b> You might find something in the morning that you can’t see tonight.<br /><br /> <b>26. Don’t enter awards competitions.</b> Just don’t. It’s not good for you.<br /><br /> <b>27. Read only left-hand pages.</b> Marshall McLuhan did this. By decreasing the amount of information, we leave room for what he called our "noodle."<br /><br /> <b>28. Make new words. Expand the lexicon.</b> The new conditions demand a new way of thinking. The thinking demands new forms of expression. The expression generates new conditions.<br /><br /> <b>29. Think with your mind. Forget technology.</b> Creativity is not device-dependent.<br /><br /> <b>30. Organization = Liberty.</b> Real innovation in design, or any other field, happens in context. That context is usually some form of cooperatively managed enterprise. Frank Gehry, for instance, is only able to realize Bilbao because his studio can deliver it on budget. The myth of a split between "creatives" and "suits" is what Leonard Cohen calls a 'charming artifact of the past.'<br /><br /> <b>31. Don’t borrow money.</b> Once again, Frank Gehry’s advice. By maintaining financial control, we maintain creative control. It’s not exactly rocket science, but it’s surprising how hard it is to maintain this discipline, and how many have failed.<br /><br /> <b>32. Listen carefully.</b> Every collaborator who enters our orbit brings with him or her a world more strange and complex than any we could ever hope to imagine. By listening to the details and the subtlety of their needs, desires, or ambitions, we fold their world onto our own. Neither party will ever be the same.<br /><br /> <b>33. Take field trips.</b> The bandwidth of the world is greater than that of your TV set, or the Internet, or even a totally immersive, interactive, dynamically rendered, object-oriented, real-time, computer graphic–simulated environment.<br /><br /> <b>34. Make mistakes faster.</b> This isn’t my idea -- I borrowed it. I think it belongs to Andy Grove.<br /><br /> <b>35. Imitate.</b> Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable. We have only to look to Richard Hamilton and his version of Marcel Duchamp’s large glass to see how rich, discredited, and underused imitation is as a technique.<br /><br /> <b>36. Scat.</b> When you forget the words, do what Ella did: make up something else ... but not words.<br /><br /> <b>37. Break it, stretch it, bend it, crush it, crack it, fold it.</b><br /><br /> <b>38. Explore the other edge.</b> Great liberty exists when we avoid trying to run with the technological pack. We can’t find the leading edge because it’s trampled underfoot. Try using old-tech equipment made obsolete by an economic cycle but still rich with potential.<br /><br /> <b>39. Coffee breaks, cab rides, green rooms.</b> Real growth often happens outside of where we intend it to, in the interstitial spaces -- what Dr. Seuss calls "the waiting place." Hans Ulrich Obrist once organized a science and art conference with all of the infrastructure of a conference -- the parties, chats, lunches, airport arrivals — but with no actual conference. Apparently it was hugely successful and spawned many ongoing collaborations.<br /><br /> <b>40. Avoid fields. Jump fences.</b> Disciplinary boundaries and regulatory regimes are attempts to control the wilding of creative life. They are often understandable efforts to order what are manifold, complex, evolutionary processes. Our job is to jump the fences and cross the fields.<br /><br /> <b>41. Laugh.</b> People visiting the studio often comment on how much we laugh. Since I've become aware of this, I use it as a barometer of how comfortably we are expressing ourselves.<br /><br /> <b>42. Remember.</b> Growth is only possible as a product of history. Without memory, innovation is merely novelty. History gives growth a direction. But a memory is never perfect. Every memory is a degraded or composite image of a previous moment or event. That’s what makes us aware of its quality as a past and not a present. It means that every memory is new, a partial construct different from its source, and, as such, a potential for growth itself.<br /><br /> <b>43. Power to the people.</b> Play can only happen when people feel they have control over their lives. We can't be free agents if we’re not free.<br /><br /> </p> <p class="defaultp">The Incomplete Manifesto in:<br /> <a href="http://sztywny.titaniumhosting.com/?p=8" target="_new">Polish</a><br /> <a href="http://www.brucemaudesign.com/manifesto_espanol.html">Spanish</a></p>csometimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08472093438193271302noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30580760.post-54124026254070678362006-10-02T11:15:00.000-05:002006-10-02T11:16:22.497-05:00i'm still learning, i hope i never stop...<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600"><tbody><tr><td align="left"><table border="0" width="600"><tbody><tr><td width="95%"><p> <span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:180%;"><strong>recalcitrant</strong></span><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"> \rih-KAL-sih-truhnt\, <i>adjective</i>:</span><br /><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;">Stubbornly resistant to and defiant of authority or restraint.</span> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left"> <table border="0" width="600"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="1%"> </td> <td width="99%"> <blockquote> <p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;">If they lingered too long, Clarice hurried them along in the same annoyed way she rushed <strong>recalcitrant</strong> goats through the gate.<br />-- Kaye Gibbons, <cite><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380732149/ref=nosim/lexico" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon</a></cite></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;">As Mr. Lincoln and his Union generals insisted on unconditional surrender, the end of slavery, and the specter of an egalitarian nation where race and class were in theory to be subordinate ideas, so <strong>recalcitrant</strong> Southerners by the summer of 1864 dug in deeper for their Armageddon to come.<br />-- Victor Davis Hanson, <cite><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684845024/ref=nosim/lexico" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">The Soul Of Battle</a></cite></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;">This <strong>recalcitrant</strong> fellow was the only dissenter in an otherwise unanimous recommendation.<br />-- Sherwin B. Nuland, "Indoctrinology", <cite><a href="http://www.thenewrepublic.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">New Republic</a></cite>, February 19, 2001</span></p> </blockquote> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><hr noshade="noshade" size="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left"> <p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><i>Recalcitrant</i> derives from Latin <i>recalcitrare</i>, "to kick back," from <i>re-</i>, "back" + <i>calcitrare</i>, "to strike with the heel, to kick," from <i>calx, calc-</i>, "the heel."</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=10&q=recalcitrant" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for <b><i>recalcitrant</i></b></a></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>csometimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08472093438193271302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30580760.post-1159247435709323702006-09-26T00:02:00.000-05:002006-09-26T00:10:35.736-05:00color theory<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1925/3222/1600/colorchart-max.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1925/3222/320/colorchart-max.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />here's a snipet from about.com about the psychology of colour. i've always been interested in this topic, and here i have a chance to collect information about it and share it with others (?) if indeed you are out there! as always, all input is not only welcome but encouraged!<br /><br />image found at:<br /><a href="http://www.thepiper.com/fiberart/koolaid/colorchart.html">http://www.thepiper.com/fiberart/koolaid/colorchart.html</a><br /><br /><br /><h3>Color Psychology as Therapy</h3> Several ancient cultures, including the Egyptians and Chinese, practiced <b>chromotherapy</b>, or using colors to heal. Chromotherapy is sometimes referred to as light therapy or colourology and is still used today as a holistic or alternative treatment.<br /><br />In this treatment: <ul><li><b>Red</b> was used to stimulate the body and mind and to increase circulation.</li><br /><li><b>Yellow</b> was thought to stimulate the nerves and purify the body.</li><br /><li><b>Orange</b> was used to heal the lungs and to increase energy levels.</li><br /><li><b>Blue</b> was believed to soothe illnesses and treat pain.</li><br /><li><b>Indigo</b> shades were thought to alleviate skin problems.</li></ul> Most psychologists view color therapy with skepticism and point out that the supposed effects of color have been exaggerated. Colors also have have different meanings in different cultures. Research has demonstrated in many cases that the mood-altering effects of color may only be temporary. A blue room may initially cause feelings of calm, but the effect will be dissipate after a short period of time.csometimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08472093438193271302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30580760.post-1157975271209523512006-09-11T06:47:00.000-05:002006-09-11T06:47:51.210-05:00learn something new everyday<div id="primary" class="column"> <h1>Word of the Day Archive<br /><em>Saturday September 9, 2006</em></h1> <p id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2006/09/11.html">Today's Word</a> | <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2006/09/10.html">Yesterday's Word</a> | <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/">Previous Words</a> | <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/list/">Mailing List</a> | <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/wordoftheday/">Word of the Day Help</a></p> <p> <span class="hw">vade mecum</span> \vay-dee-MEE-kuhm; vah-dee-MAY-\, <i>noun</i>:<br /><!-- wotd="vade mecum" --> <b>1.</b> A book for ready reference; a manual; a handbook.<br /><b>2.</b> A useful thing that one regularly carries about. </p> <!-- SECBR --> <p class="examples">The reader who wants honestly to understand it, and not merely read into it his own ideas, needs some kind of <strong>vade mecum</strong> to provide the necessary background and explain unfamiliar words and allusions and strange turns of thought.<br />-- Robert C. Dentan, "Including Uz and Buz", <cite><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/">New York Times</a></cite>, November 17, 1968</p><p class="examples"><cite>Roget's Thesaurus</cite>, which had come into being as a linguistic example of the Platonic ideal, became instead a <strong>vade mecum</strong> for the crossword cheat.<br />-- Simon Winchester, "Word Imperfect", <cite><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/">The Atlantic</a></cite>, May 2001</p> <span class="line"></span> <p><i>Vade mecum</i> is from Latin, literally meaning "go with me."</p> <p><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=10&q=vade%20mecum">Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for <b><i>vade mecum</i></b></a></p> </div>csometimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08472093438193271302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30580760.post-1157939247834479582006-09-10T20:10:00.000-05:002006-09-10T20:47:27.853-05:00create a novel in one month contest<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1925/3222/1600/one_day_novelist.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1925/3222/320/one_day_novelist.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1925/3222/1600/novelists_at_work.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1925/3222/320/novelists_at_work.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/images/nanowrimo/one_day_novelist.pdf">http://www.nanowrimo.org/images/nanowrimo/one_day_novelist.pdf</a><br /><br />this is too fun to pass up! <br /><br />for more info, click here<br /><a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/"><br />http://www.nanowrimo.org/</a><br /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/STEPHA%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" />csometimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08472093438193271302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30580760.post-1157339983229106072006-09-03T22:18:00.000-05:002006-09-11T20:12:37.346-05:00i like it!this post has evolved into its own blog:<br /><br /><a href="http://quotesandwisdom.blogspot.com/">http://quotesandwisdom.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br /><br />A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.<br />- <a href="http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27736.html">Gian Vincenzo Gravina</a><br /><br />"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."<br />- <a href="http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1395.html">ee cummings</a><br /><br />Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.<br />- <a href="http://quotes4all.net/quotations/mark%20twain/quotations.html" target="_blank" title="Click here to see read more quotes. Mark Twain (11/30/1835 - 04/21/1910) US author">Mark Twain</a><br /><br />I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.<br />- <a href="http://quotes4all.net/quotations/galileo%20galilei/quotations.html" target="_blank" title="Click here to see read more quotes. Galileo Galilei (02/15/1564 - 01/08/1642) Italian astronomer, philosopher, and physicist">Galileo Galilei</a><br /><br /><center><img src="http://en.thinkexist.com/images/author/1147_1.jpg" height="80" width="60" /></center> <table width="100%"><tbody><tr> <td align="center"><img src="http://en.thinkexist.com/images/quotationsA.gif" alt="" /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:Arial;font-size:15;" > <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">The one thing that matters is the effort.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> </span></span><img src="http://en.thinkexist.com/images/quotationsB.gif" alt="Thinkexist.com Quotations" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;font-family:Arial;font-size:13;" >- </span><a href="http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/Antoine_de_Saint-Exupery/" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Antoine de Saint-Exupery</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><span style="color: rgb(187, 187, 187); font-weight: bold;font-family:Arial;font-size:12;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="http://en.thinkexist.com/nationality/french_authors/" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">French</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="http://en.thinkexist.com/occupation/famous_pilots/" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Pilot</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><a href="http://en.thinkexist.com/occupation/famous_writers/" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Writer</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and </span><a href="http://en.thinkexist.com/occupation/famous_authors/" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Author</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> of 'The Little Prince', </span><a style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" href="http://en.thinkexist.com/birthday/june_29/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">1900</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-</span><a style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" href="http://en.thinkexist.com/birthday/july_31/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">1944</a><br /><br /></span>"Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."<br />- <a href="http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27531.html">Jules Renard</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>csometimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08472093438193271302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30580760.post-1152809342672656532006-07-13T11:47:00.000-05:002006-07-13T11:52:38.726-05:00celtic horoscope?<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="350"><tbody><tr><td bg="" style="color: rgb(221, 221, 221);" align="center"><span style=""><b>You Are A Walnut Tree</b></span></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#eeeeee"><center><img src="http://images.blogthings.com/whatsyourceltichoroscopequiz/walnut-tree.jpg" height="100" width="100" /></center><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />You are strange and full of contrasts... the oddball of your group.<br />You are unrelenting and you have unlimited ambition.<br />Not always liked but always admired, you are more infamous than famous.<br />You are aggressive and spontaneous, and your reactions are often unexpected.<br />A jealous and passionate person, you are difficult in romantic relationships.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div align="center"><a href="http://www.blogthings.com/whatsyourceltichoroscopequiz/">What's Your Celtic Horoscope?</a></div><br /><br /><br />this is about 10% accurate. of course, i bet it's about 10% accurate for you as well...i must not have any celtic blood. (OR this is a load of...)csometimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08472093438193271302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30580760.post-1152177180592774862006-07-06T04:09:00.000-05:002006-07-11T15:17:02.083-05:00what does it mean?I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.<p class="author" style="padding: 0px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.quotes4all.net/en/01/Author/Walt%20Disney/quotations.html" target="_blank" title="Click here to see read more quotes. Walt Disney (12/05/1901 - 12/15/1966) US cartoonist & movie producer">Walt Disney</a> (2)</p><p class="author" style="padding: 0px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></p> i'm not sure i want to know what walt meant by this, however, i did feel the need to post it. so i must want to know in some way.<br /><br />i thank you in advance for any comment you'd like to make about this.csometimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08472093438193271302noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30580760.post-1152162576176424502006-07-05T23:58:00.000-05:002006-09-25T21:21:31.190-05:00blogs of interest /support a strangerthis post has evolved into it's own blog:<br /><br /><a href="http://blogsofinterest.blogspot.com">http://blogsofinterest.blogspot.com</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://atomsforpeace.blogspot.com/2006/07/poster-by-stanley-donwood.html#comments">http://atomsforpeace.blogspot.com/2006/07/poster-by-stanley-donwood.html#comments</a><br /><br /><a href="http://21stproject.com/art/hour/#"><br />http://21stproject.com/art/hour/#</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://letinkerbelle.blogspot.com/">http://letinkerbelle.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://detectivemattcooper.blogspot.com/">http://detectivemattcooper.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://insaneamy.blogspot.com/">http://insaneamy.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://splinterofthemindseye.blogspot.com/">http://splinterofthemindseye.blogspot.com/</a>csometimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08472093438193271302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30580760.post-1151923928587592792006-07-03T05:50:00.000-05:002006-07-03T05:52:08.586-05:00oh, barb!Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.<p class="author" style="padding: 0px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><br /><a href="http://www.quotes4all.net/en/01/Author/Barbara%20Bush/quotations.html" target="_blank" title="Click here to see read more quotes. Barbara Bush (06/08/1925 - ) Former US First Lady">Barbara Bush</a> (1)</p>csometimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08472093438193271302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30580760.post-1151921185205581762006-07-03T05:06:00.000-05:002006-07-09T05:12:43.190-05:00this is far too funny to pass up!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.flickr.com/8/9378038_3b4c759e18.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://static.flickr.com/8/9378038_3b4c759e18.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://static.flickr.com/8/9378038_3b4c759e18.jpg">9378038_3b4c759e18.jpg (JPEG Image, 414x500 pixels)</a>csometimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08472093438193271302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30580760.post-1151910772665143332006-07-03T02:08:00.000-05:002006-09-25T15:07:05.543-05:00a little poem (i'm not saying it's good or finished. just that it exists)<div style="text-align: center;">desires shall be frowned on no more <br /><br />oh to be a dream <br />a thought blazed into creation <br />where time nor space has meaning <br />or nowhere nonexistent <br />save the keeper of the dream <br />for tonight to dream only <br />of bliss and delight. <br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">ok, i wrote it too...<br /></div></div>csometimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08472093438193271302noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30580760.post-1151906659409418222006-07-03T00:54:00.000-05:002006-11-08T15:05:38.236-05:00welcome to my little piece of the non profit pie!hello, welcome, take your shoes off and stay a while.<br /><br /><span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">i've</span> created this blog as "my blowing off steam" vehicle. i suppose a sub-blog to my pet project's promo: <a href="http://mentalhelp-sometimes.blogspot.com"><span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">mentalhelp</span></a><br /><br />here you will find:<br /><br />musings<br />strangeness<br />appreciation<br /><span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">aggrevation</span><br />unsolved wisdom<br />witticism<br /><span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">choas</span><br />and the like...<br /><br />basically anything that's on my mind...<br /><br />so i want you to join in the fun, even it's just to tell me how much you dislike this blog!<br /><br />please submit comments freely, and if you would like to be a contributor, i would gladly welcome you, provided the content is not what i or others may consider harmful. simply contact me though post or my profile if you are interested in having a place to be yourself without worrying about being judged or having to deal with the administrative end of the site. sounds nice? tired of fighting with your blog? don't feel you have anything to offer to the world? Wrong! that's not how we operate here! just come along and have fun!<br /><br />thanks for visiting!csometimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08472093438193271302noreply@blogger.com0