Month: July 2004

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: Today is going to be nightmarish.

    Master: Destiny birthed.

  • A New Day! Let’s start the day off with a PayPa…

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    This Morning

    Noah did his morning man routine and was up before anyone else watching cartoons.

    I could not get out of bed quick enough to help the dog make it outside.

    I hate not waking up early enough but man doesn’t body wish it could stay in bed longer.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: There is never enough time!

    Professor: And how long did you think about that?

  • Goodbye Google – We will miss your logos

    I took this from Kurzweil which looks like a direct quote from The Guardian but it was so exciting I had to quote it directly.


    The Guardian, July 15, 2004

    Blinkx is a new search engine that’s taking on Google. Launched today, it has been recording 6 million hits a day solely from word of mouth.

    Blinkx doesn’t only search the web but simultaneously scours news sites, blogs, emails, attachments and your own hard disk. It does all this unobtrusively in the background until you pass your cursor over icons at the top or bottom of the page, when it reveals a digest of related sites as well as material from Word, Excel or PDF files. If you are working in a word processing document, it provides the same service.

    And unlike Google, it uses artificial intelligence to rate stories, not page rankings.

    Note from the Blinkx website “blinkx is not currently available for Macintosh or Mozilla, but due to your requests, we’re working on it!”

  • Anti-Bush

    Republican dominate Knoxville, TN gets an anti-Bush mention in this article Couple in anti-Bush T-shirts were arrested at president’s speech

    …two documented incidents between September and March: one in Little Rock, Ark., and one in Knoxville, Tenn…

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: Why do the dead not speak?

    Master: Why do you not listen?

  • Gargoyle Cat

    You should work at this computer. The cat rolling off the monitor in deep sleep into your hands is something to experience. When she does, she feels like a rag doll with absolutely no bones in her body.

    The cat’s whole body just rose 2 inches and returned to the monitor as if it were in a Warner Brothers cartoon when the dryer buzzer went off. Then she slowly turned to me, squaked a complaint and returned to sleep.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: Why is the sky blue?

    Teacher: The sky is red.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: Teacher, I am not in control of my own life.

    Master: Come with me. I will tell you what to do.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: Professor, I have amounted to nothing. My life is a waste!

    Professor: So what are your plans for tomorrow?

  • The Struggles of Pre-teendom (Part I)

    At eleven I act five

    I wish my breast were alive

    I think I deserve to be seventeen

    Give me independence

    Don’t be so mean

    When I am there

    I can declare I am free to be me

    When I am there

    He is not here

    And I can worry only about me

    My parents are dorks

    One brother is a jerk

    The other a pain

    My sister is adorable

    But only when we are playing

    I hear them say I am smart

    Which means I am special

    So I mouth off alot

    It is what adults do

    And I have to be as responsible as you

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: Why start? I’ll probably do it wrong anyway. Why finish? It won’t be good enough.

    Master: Isn’t something never begun wrong already? How is the next great adventure to begin if the prior is not placed behind us?

  • All Perspective

    West

    Today the toilet overflowed potentially damaging our cabinetry and tainting the insulation and other wall innards that were pieced together with such care, perfection and attention to detail. It overflowed because I was overconfident and careless.

    East

    Today we were given inspiration to finish some things that we were waiting to “get around to it”. Today started out great and has been given reason to be even better. Today we are reminded to take things in stride.

    North

    Today no one was hurt. With minimal effort a mess was cleaned. All damage easily repaired.

    South

    Today tools were out of place. Parts were missing. Today I felt lost, incapable, lazy and not living up to my full potential. Today I scared my child and insulted my wife.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: Why is the crib moved out of place?

    Teacher: Why does it matter?

  • Inescapable

    Choas reigns

    In perpetuity the circle spins

    Hands grasping at grains

    Unstoppable

    Tears removing happiness

    Innocence bellows away

    Desire seeks the path of least resistance

    Following downward deeper into despair

    Futilely Man tells Nature The Order

    Scornfully Nature disciplines Man

    The Law is unforgiving

    Inaction is individualist

    Unallowable

    Hurtful to others

    Ambivalence is a choice

    There is no easy way out

    Of a hole that only grows deeper

    When the dirt you throw out

    Never reaches the top

    And all you want to do

    Is stop stop stop

    Trauma to begin

    Trauma to grow

    Trauma to end

    A butterfly in Kansas

    A tsunami in Japan

    A farmboy with a magnifying glass

    A sudden calm in the storm

    A tired child rests

    The hay flares up

    And Choas reigns