"In order to be effective a doctrine must not be understood, but has to be believed in. We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand."

"The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without."

The True Believer, by Eric Hoffer


(adjusted the size of the font slighty, so it's not unbearably straining to the viewer.)

Nice font. Which one?

My father was an alcoholic and my mother was a psychiatric R.N.

I need to clean my abode. Dusty it is.

Coincidence. It's hard to be surprised by you any more, but I still sigh whenever I see you peeking.

Garamond. (I only guessed at it, since Willravel's siggy is so small, it was hard to tell definitively.)

Also a quick mental note: It is getting increasingly harder and more frustrating to feature new selections for my current endeavor when nearly of my music albums are either in vinyl, or in online storage facilities; either way, both extraction methods are too much of a hassle to properly use if I only need that one song.

Plus, I only own / know about less than 5 dozen sparsely different albums, so finding stuff that I've never heard about is no problem, really, save for the fact that I don't like to get out of my box often enough to realize this.

Hopefully, though, now that I've downloaded the song from my ipod, then may I find the time to re-upload it to the web, preferably to a hosting site I can depend upon to not take an hour-two weeks to actually finalize the linking process. Appeasing one's self is never easy, I always come to find out.

Praying before 8 do I let it go live.

It is easier on the eyes.

Peaking or peeking.

It's amazing to watch OCM? drive down a busy street, carrying on a conversation,
commenting on every billboard, left & right, and simultaneously changing the radio station.

If my filters are not working, the chaos is painful.

You replicated again.....you.

well, at 8 past the hour, finally, did I find out the upload was successful.

Still straining. I need a rest from the waiting. Now all that there is left to do is ponder up, and then, research the history and context of the tune; then post. (It's a live covered peformance, by the way, if an artist, whom I'm guessing, is the 'greatest' example of one makes at least half of her living this way.)

So, I've still got 2/3 of the ways to go. This is not dandy.
(I'm probably going to sneak in a game of Pac-Man before I get to it, tho.)

I meant 'of'. Additionally, backtracking, then: I meant 'when'. It's not always easy catching up with one's stream of consciousness typing, y'know (the typos?).


'Long as I'm here, a question: say you were me, and wanted the audience (TFP) to help you scavenge something up, a photograph; where would you most likely think it be the best place to ask?

I have seemed to misplace this very specific piece of a near-monochromatic image (but not fully) of a topless young girl, (you can barely she is, tho, because, well other than her size, she is also quite pale) with white hair, emphatically smiling on what I think I can recall to be a beach setting, upon her towel, sitting up, and flashing me the righteous 'thumbs up'.

I spent about an hour this morning tidying up my dA account, and because i didn't know when you "un-fav" an image that it is also removed from your personal sets, I might have misplaced and dropped a few of my accumulated finds. This was one of them. And if I need mention it, I'm quite sure the photograph was a deviantart original submission.

It sucks knowing of something, but not knowing where to find it again. This happened to me once before with a diminutive turtle inside my scrabble board.

Dessicated turtle?

gotta go.

When ya gotta go
a place nearby is handy,
& undertakers.

PS
Forgot to mention that the photograph was a 'landscape', not 'portrait'.
I've already searched thru 1,500 images without happening on it yet.

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs25/i/20...lyesterday.jpg
Thumbs Up For Cleaning Up by ~beautifulyesterday on deviantART

- - -

I'm smiling, man. New high score on what I perceive is the single hardest arcade game to master.

84,400 (I think; level 8, I also think. Grapes.)

Going to get started on my post now.

Cool picture, Jetee,
while sadly indicative
of multiple ills.

Riding a skateboard;
a skill I'll never master:
I'm prob'ly jealous.

finished my post.

I think I'll go off to search again for my light-haired cutie who felt it proper to give me a thumbs-up.

(It was on a day that I fav'd no less than three other separate "thumbs-up" pics, as they all seemed genuinely spontaneous.)

((2+2)-7)x-1=3

I like a thumbs up,
give them more than I get them,
& relish the task.:thumbsup:

I'll give you a golden one.

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs43/i/20...y_olsons39.jpg
Thumbs Up by ~olsons39

author's comments:
A creepy golden guy pimp giving the thumbs up.

Cool outfit. Creepy guy.

up, up, and away...thumbs "up" reminds me that I'd rather be taken by an overtaker than an undertaker

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...iant-thumb.jpg

2+(2x7)=16

opposable thumbs,
as the most useful digits,
require protection.

Having the longest thumbs could compromise opposability, I think

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...oid-thumbs.jpg

Even Cowgirls Get The Blues?
Opposed to one's position & state
it's hard to be too happy.

That's not me, then. I'm happy, with reasonably normal thumbs that are opposable.

Though the pinky on my right hand has a bit of an unusual kink in it due to some hereditary power. A couple days ago my older son was telling me that he thinks he jammed his finger playing basketball, so he shows me his right-hand pinky with the kink in it. When I showed him mine, his eyes sort of got more wide open and he just said "oh!"

Just reminded me that I still need to figure out and search to see if I can find that elusive image of mine.

Be back in a while.

see ya later alligator

With no imagination,
but with surviving mass extinctions,
they'll be here after we are.

The robots, you mean?

Not that I know of -
I meant the larger lizards,
with their history.

The swimming geckos who've lost their ablity to cling to stuff, but just eviscerate it instead.

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4...8nkqo1_500.jpg

If given a choice,
larger size & sharper teeth
would be my druthers.

druthers

(DRUTH-uhrz)

noun
One's own way; preference.

Usage
"If I had my druthers I would go, but I don't think I would a) be able to get my innings over there that I would be able to get here, and b) get the treatment I need." — Rob Bradford; Road Back Unfamiliar; Boston Globe; Mar 18, 2008.

the prehistoric helicopter eater. Sadly, it died off due to lack of helicopters back in those days.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ls/megsite.jpg

Thanks (for allowing my coincidence monster to come forth).

I was debating where to feature this (it seems everything I "find" somehow makes the most sense being displayed in Found on the Net, ironically; nobody puts me in a corner) but I don't think anybody cares about anything, so I'm not going to bother appeasing the shadows.

Another tired sigh.

http://9gag.com/photo/20459_540.jpg
I have no idea who the original author/creator is.

Jet, that Jawsome proves that you should always wear protection!

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...8006797945.jpg

((2+2)-7)/3=-1

Raincoats in showers
are more wonderful flapping:
Ask Jim Cantore.

Jim, is that right? As if it wasn't.

I love our new shower which has a nice marble seat across the back. I say "our" but it's really my son's, up on our 3rd floor.

Ownership
has many aspects:
Does he share?

Yes, I guess we did some things right.

(22-7)/3=5

When the kids say "thanks"
for (whatever) from the past,
I feel gratified.

that is a sweet picture!

The northern hemisphere will experience the summer solstice, soon.

It's too late.

I believe the terse yet ubiquitous all-around meaning (meaning: it has lost its "meaning") of 'I think' will become, or it has already breached that line, of becoming a lost, hackneyed and grating expression (much with the same as 'you know', which I absolutely abhor hearing in any sort of social conversing session).


What do you think about this?
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4...7hmlo1_500.jpg

Righteous.
Missing the middle section and still functioning appeals to my tummy woes.

Ya' know what I mean?

Forget I said that,
or relish the anticipation of delivering proper punishment.

I'm always meaning to start new threads, new discussions, and one of those being forth a topic of architecture & design, and perhaps something to do with sculptures, monuments, and statues.

Problem is, is the beat down. I'm not going to elaborate further, but my apathy for new ideas comes from their apathy to brush them aside so easily.

(I'm also still meaning to start a condensed, rolling TLTE! blog, but I have no idea which date should be the proper time to finally start it up.)

So many butterflies;
& all I have is this moth-eaten net.

That's melancholy,
beyond which mortality
serves as an anchor.

re: the statue, Jet, I think it's cool. Modern what?

Melancholic?

I question if you understood its context that followed from the above posts.

Above statement simplified:

"So much information & ideas to gather...can't expect my mind to hold them all."

We're all confused. I like the second definition better, despite the reality that the first is the one that inhabited, then exited, the mind.

I already forgot why I came here; I'm still debating whether or not to stay.

Let's see what's in my eight-hundred-thousand-link-I-queue:

Ah, yes, a blast from the not-so-distant past; four seasons ago: The Great Wave.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4...clizo1_500.jpg

I saved this pic yesterday thinking I might use it soon and this seems as good of a time as any, probably better than most.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...nandsurfer.jpg

I had already forgotten I just posted a glass.

I guess page "569" of TLTE! has inadvertently become known as the "glass + shark" page.

One more:

Sometimes I'm too easily led.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...glassshark.jpg

Underwater Adventures: Purple People Eater! Hanging Chads!

Oh yes. My 'out of sorts' & cranky moment, has passed over.
Brushing up on word & phrase origins, is therapeutic.

"Q From Ron Vaughn: Where does the expression out of sorts come from? What are sorts in this context? My wife accuses me of this malady and I know what she means, but I don’t know why I know.

A English idioms are often extremely puzzling and their origins are notoriously difficult to track down. So people invent all kinds of yarns to make sense of them.

The most common story about this phrase refers to the printer’s word sorts for the individual metal characters in his boxes of type, so called because they have been arranged, each into its own compartment, with all of one kind together. It would obviously be a substantial inconvenience if a printer were to run out of a sort during composition. The problem with this story is that the figurative expression out of sorts is recorded much earlier than the printers’ term; the first recorded use of it for printers’ type in the big Oxford English Dictionary is from as late as 1784, from Benjamin Franklin: “The founts, too, must be very scanty, or strangely out of sorts”. It would seem he was attaching an already well-known idiom to the printer’s trade, not the other way around.

A second idea is that it has something to do with playing cards. A pack that hasn’t been shuffled is said to be out of sort and not suitable for playing with. The problem with this is that the OED doesn’t give any example of its being used in this connection, which it surely would if the expression had been common.

The Latin original of our word sort was applied to a piece of wood that was used for drawing lots. Later, still in Latin, it developed into the idea of one’s fate, fortune or condition. This was the first meaning of sort in English, in the thirteenth century. It survived until shortly after Shakespeare’s time, until about the point that out of sorts is first found. But sort soon evolved another meaning in English that related to rank, order, or class. It was used to describe people, especially their qualities or standing. There were once phrases such as of sort that implied high quality or rank. Others that we still use today, such as of your own sort, the right sort, or of all sorts, evolved out of the same idea.

It would seem out of sorts developed from this idea of quality (lack of it in this case), perhaps influenced by the other meaning of fate or one’s lot in life, so implying that fortune wasn’t smiling on one, or that all wasn’t well."

It's complicated,
reflecting while projecting,
hearing while speaking,
but hearing ourselves
as we say what we're thinking
is more so, in spades.

Another post for:
The comp-ile.

Foment & Ferment away!

Probably a bone
most often decays away.
Or fossilizes.

Recalling your Toe-Bone Tale.

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/h.../0092leafs.jpg

Witness our nature,
out of which come all our clues,
preserving itself.

Strawberry Preserved Hills Forever.

Well, I've been ousted from from the creature comforts thread, so I suppose I can, and eventually will, seek to fill the void elsewhere, but without any of the internet mentality leaking into it. Serious animals, real photography, that's all I want.

I get the feeling you are starting to dislike my forewords, if only because I also am beginning to dislike having to write them anymore.

Reason: this belongs here because I think you are the only ones who shall appreciate it.

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4...8ifto1_400.jpg
An elephant plays with a soccer ball given to him by a
tour guide as toy at the Lion Park in Ceperdown, west
of Durban, South Africa, Sunday, June 20, 2010.
-- (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

She's been watching us,
and is trying to tell us
they will try harder.

I always read the forewords of any publication & enjoy the author's preamble
musings. These personal glimpses provide connection.

Cutesy LOL animals are an affront.

Ousted you say?

Verbal jousts are nice at times, but when you (meaning: me) keep offending and somehow "rubbing-a-dubbing" a few females the wrong way, I have to wonder, is it all just misplaced context, or do I come off being perceived as a condescending twit? I am recalling a previous member who always seemed so serious all the time, and at the moment of apex, he ofered up the sugestion of using more "smileys" to get across his point better (which is ludicrous) but it seemed to work out for a while. No one got on his case. Am I missing those ubiquitous, lost-meaning faces to elocute my contentions now?

I go to great lengths to sound absolutely neutral at all times, and pardon my way of writing style by never thinking afore-hand, as this is a stream-of-consciousness effort on my part, but this is how I actually speak in reality as well. It goes nowhere to say "you misunderstood me" because I've offended their sensiblities in questioning why this point is a relevant one in the first place, and I try to provide insight by thought expansion.

Is this a rant? I get too easily lured into these, by own making.

Back to basics, I need to start at least one new thread today, if not a two-fer; so, I ask, which of these thread titles appeals to you the most? Hopefully I get two congruent replies before 9pm NYC Standard time.

Camera holding
lying down game
Modern Life is Rubbish
TFP Aquarium
TFP Zoo (I hate this title, but it will be the Animals Thread, Pt. 2, sans the LOLs, sexual innuendos and the ilk)
Destinations
The Red Button
Partial Symmetry (incompleted)
AUTO
History of Pez (probably the most likely one to be started today)
HIstory of Sayings
Architecture / Design Thread
Glasses (I think this is referring to 'sexy chicks with glasses; there's only one link in the queue, so not a likely starter)
Bodypainting

I'm trying to recall the instances you speak of.

Perhaps when you begin a reply with: "Not to be snippy here."
The next poster may well decide, "I'm on the defensive, cuz he's going to get snippy."
When in fact your intentions were exactly the opposite.

But, by mentioning that fact, up front, that your post could be offensive,
that puts the idea, 'offensive' at the forefront of the reader's mind.

I'm just brainstorming here...that's all.

I'm curious to what 'the lying down game' might entail.

Idea!

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz...6f9yo1_500.jpg

Switch Places!
 

I honestly try not to give up any contextual spoilers to what I have in mind for any post of mine, but when other members just quote the first five words I state, or place me in a virtual headlock over parenthetical, silly thoughts I just included to give you a piece of my mind as I was jotting down this post, it doesn't serve me well to ever voice an opinion again if the 3 second snippet is taken, and the other 30 minutes I spent composing is trashed. Maybe it's the everything you say, I'll think the opposite mentality that the internet has bred? THIS is why I have such a contempt for sarcasm (and also, I don't understand it half the time either).

That's why I mostly curtailed my involvement in general discussion. It's too hard to keep up with the joneses, and actually be let alone to be serious.


The lying down game was a post and thematic expression idea I received from a Polish forum/blog (I think everything is a blog nowadays). I'd give an example of it, but again, that would be "contextually-spoiling" its awesome premise (first use of the A-word this month).

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4...6m65o1_500.jpg
(one flew over the rainbow) by batiks


In this case, I used parentheses (see above) to substitute a photograph's title that was never really there, or marked as "untitled", so I casually went ahead and supplanted my own "feel" to what it could have been. After reading what square brackets were mostly about (in literature, not mathematics) on th previosu page, I am wondering if I should eschew and abandon the curves, and go for squares instead?

I wonder if a TFP meet-up would be be more or less successful if there was a promise to play some kickball thrown into the foray.

Around here if you kick the balls they call it "mountain pool". I suppose that's to make fun of the mountain folks for some strange reason...maybe insecure city folks. In any case, I believe the official rules are you have to keep at least one foot on the ground.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...morist_3_e.jpg

He's hyper-focused.

Or hyper-something,
other than what has been named,
& still a oner.

I believe he's just marking his twain of thought.

That was the longest day ever. I can't believe how long it was, I still think I'm in it.

I even got more than the usual amount of sunburn from all the extra solar radiation!

I walked in the rain,
through the woods, beside the creek,
relishing angles.

Happy summer, everybody!

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4...8ifto1_500.jpg
Larry McClure and his 31-inch wide moustache hold distinction as the winner of
the first-ever National Beard and Moustache Championships, taking first place
in the Best Moustache division. The Concord, California man, with his famous
“cookie duster” at home, June 17, 2010, is looking toward an international
championship later this year in Denmark.
-- (Karl Mondon/Contra Costa Times/MCT)

Out-of-the-blue random thought:

I'd like to see this film, for a second time.

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/h...tringy/ned.jpg
Waking Ned Divine

it starts slow, but ends as a fantastic movie!!

22775

Math may be in there,
but the focus is elsewhere,
occasionally.

To me, today seems like the longest day. The 21st blew by so fast I thought it was the Winter Solstice.

Thanks for bringing that point back up. Are we sure that the longest day really even ended? Today, much as you've said, seems to be a continuation of that fact and observance,and one only needs to look at the eerire coincidences around the Wide Wide World of Sports to realize this is an extraordinary year, in terms of length.

Perhaps it's our last great run?

Soccer balls as Langoliers, perhaps?

I'm an optimistic non-fatalist so I believe things are getting better and our greatest runs are yet to come. By "runs" I don't necessarily mean just sports related achievements nor do I imply that anyone is having gastrointestinal problems.

Why does the word Langoliers sound familiar, but still look entirely foreign to me (in terms of contextual meaning)?

Maybe something else:
Entertainment overload,
finally winning.

Nintendo soccer ball:
[IMG]http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/h...occerball2.jpg http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/h.../Langolier.jpg[/IMG]
Stephen King's Langoliers.

---------- Post added at 04:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:11 PM ----------

The Langoliers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

An alien's tongue,
& a ball, patterned Bowzer,
what more could one ask?

Man, I don't even know what a 'Bowzer' is either.

I'm sleeping on my vocabularium expansion.

water tanker - equates to - river imp

(In my mind, I equate a 'bowser' to a bruising, hulk sort of character. A 'kuppa', or as I more familiarly recognize it as, a KAPPA, is a river monster/spirit. Forgot to mention a Japanese spirit. On the other hand, I equate a 'koopa' to the green-shelled antagonists to Sir Mario, but the way they sport beaks and shells, well, that is a direct tie-in to the legend and mythos associated towards the demonic, foul-tempered KAPPAs.)

Yes, it's been a very long day.

The timekeepers are weary, too.

Is anybody else as fascinated as I am by this folklore article I posted above?

I'm currently at this stage of the reading:

http://i50.tinypic.com/k12o8y.jpg

We've lost track of time altogether now.

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4...pwi0o1_500.jpg
Awesomely minimalist clock literally uses batteries to tell time | DVICE

- - -

random thought for the day: nobody uses the word 'literally' right anymore, so far removed from the orginal contextual meaning, it's downright pitiful.

it sounds like an alley where cats go to have their kittens

btw, one of my dear sisters (they are both very dear) and some of her neighbor friends have caught a large number of feral cats that come to her yard to eat, rest. Then they have them spayed or neutered at a friendly local vet. I'm glad they do this since these cats seem to live a tough life in the city so at least this way their numbers seem to be diminishing, though too many people are irresponsible about caring for their pets so there's always more where they came from.

Thanks for reminding endearing me to your story about stray, accumulating cats, BadNick. It has called forth something within me, to give me notice.

Were you talking about 'KAPPA' when you stated it sounds like an alleyway where cats gather?

Jet, not KAPPA. I was referring to literally. Playing with words can be more dangerous than playing with fire. I bet a fireman didn't say that.

2-(27/9)=-1

With too many thoughts
coming outside the wordings,
one has to learn more.

Oh. Litter-alley. I get it.

Let's see what pops up in a quick search for the play on words...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2711/...cdea4d29fa.jpg
Black and white series: newspaper in an alleyway by askinimages

More found HERE

Some prematurely
slip in through the barriers
wreaking their havoc.

The woods are teeming with skeeters.

I'm glad I'm not there
(he said, lying, quite shameful)
but without the welts.

I knew I forgot about something. Now this reply seems so wasted, coming in-between and after one, for so long.

http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs28/f/20..._queenmari.jpg
Gangsta Skeeter by ~queenmari on deviantART

author's comments:
My friend Xand had a dream one night that Doug (from the old Nick cartoon Doug) had grown up and was now a heroin addict and was shooting up in an alley when up walks adult Skeeter, decked out in gangsta apparel. I had a laugh and then drew this on an oekaki later XD Enjoy

Hey, that ties together, Alley-Skeeters-Nick-and perhaps a soccer ball.

& probably others if I look intently enough.

Averting my eyes
from their object's observance
disserves all concerned.

Keen vision provides many a meal.

Keen hearing,
many an insight,
analyzed.