They're so much cuter
before they grow big enough
for their processing.

http://i.ehow.com/images/a04/ak/kv/s...gn-200X200.jpg

I wish I could get a pet piggy.




Is it Possible to Travel to Another Star? : Discovery News
Analysis by Robert Lamb

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

At last count, exoplanet hunters have dead-eyed 495 distant worlds. Granted, none of them are "Earth-like," but what will we do if such a world finally pops up? Will we be able to travel there in person or send a probe? Or are our interplanetary relationships doomed to remain long distance?

The Tau Zero Foundation takes this question very seriously. The nonprofit group encompasses scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and writers who all share a common goal: to conduct research into interstellar flight technologies.

According to Centauri Dreams writer Paul Gilster, one of the founders of Tau Zero, getting to another star isn't beyond reach. Getting there within a human lifetime? Now that's a problem.

"Technically, if we could point one of our Voyagers at Alpha Centauri, we could get it there," Gilster says. "But it would take over 70,000 years. The problem comes with how we can shrink those travel times."

Yet the prospect of traveling to another star within a human lifetime does not violate the laws of physics. Several interstellar travel methods are mere centuries away from becoming a reality, provided it remains something that human societies want to achieve, according to Gilster.

Solar Sails
One way to travel to another star is to catch a ride on waves from our own sun. As laid out by solar sail pioneer Gregory Matloff, photons from the sun could push against lightweight, reflective sails to propel a spacecraft. Pick up an initial gravitational assist from the sun, and you'd arrive at Alpha Centauri in a mere 1,000 years.

In order to speed the whole process up, physicist Robert Forward proposed pushing on the sail with a laser beam.

"Some of Forward's designs got to speeds up to 10 percent of light speed," Gilster says. "And if you are talking about 4.3 light-years away from Earth, which is where the Centauri primary stars are, that gets you there in about 43 years."

Other theoretical models of sail-based interstellar propulsion systems call for a magnetic bubble instead of a physical sail. By tethering the bubble to a spacecraft and lining it up with a particle beam, scientists could propel a probe up to considerable speeds.

Fusion Power
Interstellar propulsion inevitably comes down to energy, and few future energy sources are as promising as fusion power, the joining of atomic nuclei to produce a single nuclei and a release of energy.

"Fusion is another possibility, particularly deuterium/helium-3 fusion," Gilster says. "We haven't yet figured out how to [initiate] this reaction on Earth, but it's possible that in the next 50 or 100 years we'll learn how to tap this kind of fusion for propulsion."

As such, several different interstellar propulsion models depend on fusion. Physicist Robert Bussard suggested an "interstellar ramjet," by which a speeding spacecraft would scoop up widely distributed interstellar hydrogen to serve as fusion fuel.

Another model, called the fusion runway, expanded on this principle by calling for a string of fusion fuel pellets to trail off from a spacecraft's point of departure. Each time the ship hit a pellet, it would instigate a fusion reaction that would propel it even faster toward the next pellet. Eventually, the craft would reach the cruising speed it needs to reach its destination -- perhaps reaching Alpha Centauri in as few as 40 years, according to Gilster.

Project Icarus
Is fusion propulsion a reasonable means of reaching other stars? That's what the British Interplanetary Society Project's Daedalus project set out to answer in the 1970s.

Daedalus researchers outlined plans for fusion pulse propulsion system, which would expend pellets composed of a mix of Deuterium Helium-3 at a rate of 250 per second. The resulting explosion would propel the unmanned craft to an estimated 12-percent light speed, or 22,354 miles per second (35,975 kilometers per second).

The Daedalus project's target destination was Barnard's star, located about 6 light years from Earth. The journey was expected to take an estimated 50 years.

Today, the Icarus Project picks up where Daedalus left off and, according to project leader Richard Obousy, the time is right to re-evaluate fusion pulse propulsion.

"Let’s look at Daedalus but with the hindsight of 35 years of new technology," Obousy says, "and couple that to the excitement of extrasolar planets and the rapidly improvements in telescopic technology, meaning that there is a good chance we'll actually be able to image an Earth-like planet (if they're discovered) within the next two decades."

Should that happens, Obousy believes the mere act of seeing another blue green world will fuel the desire to send a space craft to it. Until that happens, however, the Icarus project will continue to safeguard Daedalus's findings and refine them for the future.

"What we really want to do is keep that dream and that knowledge of interstellar propulsion alive," Obousy says. "So worst-case scenario, we'll know the Daedalus project very, very well and pass that knowledge onto the next generation. Best-case scenario, we'll completely redesign it and come up with a more efficient and optimized fusion-based propulsion spacecraft. The physics is there. The technology is being proven."

Travel to another star is within the grasp of human technology. The question is whether we'll remain committed to the dream in the years to come.

Commitment to dreams
achieves divergent spaces:
Stars or loony bins?

women

Thanks for asking.

I usually try to get things done, (or learn something that I didn't know previously) but I usually fail in that regard. It just leaves something for tomorrow that I should take of - a roll-over effect; though, this has been going on for years, so some thing in which I meant to share or read or write about yesterday, I may not get to until next July. I'm horrible.


(...at time management)

Somehow I get the feeling that if you wanted to change that, you don't need my advice. :p

Downtime = time to relax/chill/not worry, right?

I put off cleaning
the spaces containing me
& between my ears.

Downtime can be Zen.
"Getting things done" as an end
just leads to more things.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4031/...e875ed7f_m.jpg


- - -

I want to create. I want to create an illustration whereby a man in a top-hat is stepping sideways into a prototypical outdoor well (sans any wooden attache above) - for this is how I feel [metaphorically]. I tried to research if this image already existed digitally, but I don't believe I'm that adept at finding the impossible. The show goes on.

- - -

YouTube - Adventure Time: Why-Wolves

24 hours and some minutes later...

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3...5ft4o1_400.jpg

Perfect train for headless/shoulderless people with large butts and large feet.

Reminds me of an old fashioned toaster

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...llenge_860.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...od-toaster.jpg

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...r-Kawasaki.jpg

I was pretty sure I noticed an antimatter particle stuck in one of my Josephson junctions a while back. I named it SQUIDworth.

2+3+7=12

If I ran into
my antimatter other,
we'd enjoy to bits!

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...93-11-7-10.jpg
In another brief occultation event the Moon snuck in front of Solar Dynamics Observatory’s cameras on Saturday, November 6, this time passing across the orbiting observatory’s
view of the Sun’s southern pole and southeastern limb in a diagonal motion.

This is a cool one I like:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...16-E-27426.jpg
Cumulonimbus Cloud Over Africa
High above the African continent, tall, dense cumulonimbus clouds, meaning 'column rain' in Latin, are the
result of atmospheric instability. The clouds can form alone, in clusters, or along a cold front in a squall line.
The high energy of these storms is associated with heavy precipitation, lightning, high wind speeds and tornadoes.
Image Credit: NASA

...looks like slushy ice,
afloat in frigid water,
what cool perspective!

I want to be a space man...as long as I can get back home.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...-09858_lrg.jpg

One of the fascinating aspects of viewing Earth at night is how well the lights show the distribution of people. In this view of Egypt, we see a population almost completely concentrated along the Nile Valley, just a small percentage of the country’s land area.
The Nile River and its delta look like a brilliant, long-stemmed flower in this astronaut photograph of the southeastern Mediterranean Sea, as seen from the International Space Station. The Cairo metropolitan area forms a particularly bright base of the flower. The smaller cities and towns within the Nile Delta tend to be hard to see amidst the dense agricultural vegetation during the day. However, these settled areas and the connecting roads between them become clearly visible at night. Likewise, urbanized regions and infrastructure along the Nile River becomes apparent (see also The Great Bend of Nile, Day & Night.)
Another brightly lit region is visible along the eastern coastline of the Mediterranean—the Tel-Aviv metropolitan area in Israel (image right). To the east of Tel-Aviv lies Amman, Jordan. The two major water bodies that define the western and eastern coastlines of the Sinai Peninsula—the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba—are outlined by lights along their coastlines (image lower right). The city lights of Paphos, Limassol, Larnaca, and Nicosia are visible on the island of Cyprus (image top).
Scattered blue-grey clouds cover the Mediterranean Sea and the Sinai, while much of northeastern Africa is cloud-free. A thin yellow-brown band tracing the Earth’s curvature at image top is airglow, a faint band of light emission that results from the interaction of atmospheric atoms and molecules with solar radiation at approximately 100 kilometers (60 miles) altitude.
Astronaut photograph ISS025-E-9858 was acquired on October 28, 2010, with a Nikon D3S digital camera using a 16 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the Expedition 25 crew. The image in this article has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast. Lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by William L. Stefanov, NASA-JSC.
Instrument: ISS - Digital Camera


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

Ground control needs you
attending your fantasies,
knowing you share them.

Sci-fi of Die
 

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc...nd83o1_500.jpg
by Dan McPharlin

Science fiction, folks,
if unfairly advantaged
over "just the facts"

doesn't disregard,
by & large, the fact they're there,
because it likes them.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc...8ifto1_500.jpg
The ferris wheel at the Christmas market on the Alexanderplatz is reflected in a
puddle at rainy and foggy weather in Berlin on Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. The
Christmas markets in Berlin open on Monday for the Christmas season.
--(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

In anticipation of OD'ing on Thursday, I'm staying off poultry the rest of this week.

Speaking of stars...
 

..and building upon BadNick started (I think..) last page, I'll be following.

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc...4fjqo1_500.jpg
APOD: 2010 November 20 - Stephan s Quintet

(If you haven't bookmarked of your own volition yet, NASA's APOD, or Astronomy Picture of the Day, is a great website, one might say, even "out-of-this-world" in its offerings.)

Dancing galaxies,
like dancing humans, being
close, more exciting!

I like the sort of humor
inherent nonexistence suggests
in the former post as well.

The more I think about it, the more it seems like a black hole :thumbsup:

I wonder how Stephan's Quintet would get along with the Seven Sisters?

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...s-24063917.jpg

Speaking of ancient celestial beings...
 

http://data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lby0nr...8ifto1_500.jpg
A young Afghan boy leads a buffalo at a livestock market on the eve of Eid al-Adha
festival in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 15, 2010. Muslims worldwide celebrate
Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice on Nov. 16, by sacrificial killing of sheep,
goats, cows or camels. The slaughter commemorates the biblical story of Abraham,
who was on the verge of sacrificing his son to obey God’s command, when God
interceded by substituting a ram in the child’s place. --(AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

My parochial school education with strong emphasis on Bible History pays off when I read or hear about biblical stories.

My son in 9th grade read the book The Kite Runner which is set in Afghanistan. Afterwards, he said he'd like to visit Afghanistan if they ever end the war there.

Here are some different points of view about the same thing from different parts of the world:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ndtelepic1.jpg
Photographer: Odilon Simões Corrêa
Location: Araxá, Brazil
Date: December 1, 2008 - 22:03 UT
Equipment: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX3 digital camera. Settings: F4.9 - ISO 100 - 2.5 seconds.
Description: The graceful Great Kiskadee, a very common Brazilian bird, seems to contemplate the nice celestial triangle formed by the Moon, Venus and Jupiter, in the first December evening.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...conjuction.jpg
Photographer: Rob Graham
Location: Quivira NWR, Kansas
Date: 12/1/08 18:11
Equipment: Canon 50D, Sigma 17-70mm, ISO 800, f/6.3, 5 sec
Description: This is the Venus, Jupiter, Moon conjunction of 12/1/08 as seen from the shores of the Big Salt Marsh at Quivira NWR, Kansas.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...mg_3236vga.jpg
Photographer: Glendon Howell
Location: Chesapeake, VA
Date: 12/1/2008 6 PM EST
Equipment: Canon Digital Rebel XTi on tripod, 85-300mm zoom.
Description: Dec 1 Venus-Jupiter-Moon Conjunction

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...1-DEC-2000.jpg
Photographer: Vangelis Tsintsifas
Location: Mount Olympus, Greece
Date: 01-Dec-2008, 18:00
Equipment: Nikon D40x,Tokina 80-400 at 300mm,f/6.3,1/1.3s,ISO400.
Description: Conjunction between Moon, Venus, and Jupiter, as it sets behind Mount Olympus.

---------- Post added at 11:24 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:01 PM ----------

I view through a Meade 2045 just like in the pics below. It's very practical because it's so compact and fits inside the little aluminum carrying case, so you can travel with your junk ;)

specs: Schmidt-Cassegrain lens system, 102mm aperture, f/10 focal ratio, 1000mm focal length, 12v electric stepper motor drive for tracking

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ope/AllBig.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...llPartsBig.jpg
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2.../2045lx3-1.jpghttp://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...0536409161.jpg

I came across an interesting "best-of" listing today, and this was the first entry...

We Choose the Moon
http://i54.tinypic.com/acfm9x.jpg
Its name taken from John F. Kennedy’s famous 1962 address to Rice University, We Choose the Moon
is an interactive history exhibit from NASA, allowing you walk through the Apollo 11 Mission, stage by stage.
Each stage has a CG visualization of the mission, as well as real audio from mission control and the astronauts themselves.
If you’re a space buff and haven’t seen WeChooseTheMoon yet, you need to drop everything and check it out, stat.

//NON-RANDOM MUSING
WITHOUT RHYME OR REAL REASON
BUT PLAYING ITS ROLE:

Deciphering's fun!
No anti-semiotic
myth's a puzzle worth.//

I can smell a palindrome nearby

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...guinea-big.gif

Symmetry ahead.

---------- Post added at 04:15 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:11 PM ----------

Good thing my last post
suffered fumbling by my hands
or it might be mine.

One of my favorite songs of the past few weeks has been none other than this (thus?):

Star Guitar, by The Chemimal Brothers

courtesy of wiki:

[audible.]

(for those that are fortunate enough to possess speakers and/or headphones)

Nice view, Jet. We enjoy your jettisons.

(Check out who got it,
as if it's not on purpose!
...seems he likes them, too.)

I like BadNick's mini-ocular-astronomical-finder, as well as his accompanying pictures of the moon. (I wonder what his informationally-replete source was for those? Could it really have been the wunderground?)

- - -

I still have loads more star-centric pieces to post... I wonder if we should coalesce and accumulate this towards an individual topic in the future.

Here's more:
http://data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc5f39...8ifto1_500.jpg
This artist’s rendering provided by the European Southern Observatory shows a planet, appearing as a crescent at the lower-right of its parent star, HIP 13044, left. While some 500 planets have been identified in other parts of our galaxy — the Milky Way — none have been reported in other galaxies. Now this one has been discovered orbiting the star called HIP 13044, located about 2,000 light year away. While this star is now in the Milky Way, researchers reported in the Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 online edition of the journal Science that it originated in a separate galaxy that was later cannibalized by ours.
--(AP Photo/European Southern Observatory)

& stardust, my friend,
will be what you are made of
when you're something else.

I should have given credit to where those came from, which is from the Sky & Telescope (ala magazine of the same name) website, from the Community photo gallery section SkyandTelescope.com - Celestial Scenes - Miscellaneous Scenes

Here's another nice pic from there, courtesy of Mr. Mohamadi:

Photographer: Shahab Bedin Mohamadi
Location: Iran
Date: May 7, 2010
Equipment: camera: Canon 40D; mount: Manfrotto 055pro
Description: The first verse of famous poem Damāvand by Mohammad Taqī Bahār: white demon with feet in chains Oh terrestrial dome, Oh Mount Damāvand

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...LAHKHOOD41.jpg

Well, you gave credit to the authors (photographers) which is perhaps the most key thing, so had I taken the extra eight second to copy their names, data-search-input them into google, and see what would have come up, I might have already known this.

Let's try it out: Odilon Simões Corrêa

EDIT:
It works, but it took until the fourth entry down; the first three were from perhaps their personal, Brazilian website.

//I'm not so fond of language
I've been known to trust what it can do
although I hope I've done so.//

I have just now (almost) completed backing up the entire first page of the Visual Architectonics thread! (I do not make full, or even sparing, use of the exclamation mark! 'round here)

Now, all there is left for me to do is bide my time, gain some favor among the illuminati, and become a modulator, for the sole reason in which all that I have contributed stands the test of time, (and foils the internet's dread 'red-x') OR... I can just ring up a mod and ask them politely if they can tolerate the menial task of helping me fix what's been broke, and where. I'll weigh my options.

In the mean, here's one of my favorite "own" post:

This was attached to your image above, Zooks...

(2+3+7)/4=3

Since the means to know
is inherent for eight seconds
that might not matter.

http://www.allbreedsblog.com/wp-cont...olis-mn190.jpg

I thought the pic was nice, and a sombre reminder of the sad demise of the miners that never made it home in New Zealand this week...
.

Yes indeed, Zooks. It is.

http://data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc5f9g...8ifto1_500.jpg
This image provided by NASA shows the Aurora Borealis taken from the Inter-
national Space Station taken by astronaut Douglas Wheelock. A solar array
from the station can be seen at top. NASA will again attempt to launch
Space Shuttle Discovery no earlier than Dec. 3 at about 2:52 a.m. EST.
-- (AP Photo/NASA)

- - -

(not that it matters, but I've just learned among Texas's myriad and voluminous list of nicknames, the "Coal Star State" is among them.)

Do something awesome,
wonderful & terrible,
again & again.

Longest Monster Truck Jump!!!September 7, 2010
by Joe Sylvester

This accomplishment was a result of planning and preparations by me, my crew, and my family over the past couple years. We made it happen despite many setbacks and hurdles.

The trouble started one week before we began the testing for the jump. After hitting the very last jump of the last show I was doing before my world record testing, the Chevrolet engine in BAD HABIT let loose and completely blew up leaving me without a motor. Thanks to John Kyle and APD Racing Engines in Genoa, OH, BAD HABIT was back up and running with a newer, stronger, better running motor than ever!

With the new motor in the truck, me and my two crew members Kyle and Scott got on the road to Columbus, PA. We arrived at the Miller Farm, site of the Cornfield 500, around 5pm Monday evening and while Kyle and Scott got the truck ready for Tuesday’s testing, Blair and I finished preparing the take off jump. Speed tests went well on Tuesday but the first jump test did not. With my new APD engine not even at full throttle, I hit the take off ramp and flew about 60 feet high in the air and landed straight down on the front of the truck at the 195 foot mark. The impact ripped the right front wheel off BAD HABIT sending it into five violent flips. After the truck came to rest around the 300 foot mark, the front axle housing was bent, the body was completely destroyed, the wheelie bar and sway bar assembly was completely ripped off the back of the chassis, a shock shaft was bent, a 4-link bar was bent, a tire was flat, the front tie rod was bent and ripped off, and a front steering ram was torn apart. Not to mention I had one heck of a headache. Although most would have thrown in the towel after a crash like this, we put our heads down and got to work, 17 hours a day until Sunday to be exact. Big thanks to Kyle, Scott, Mike, my family, and the Cornfield 500 staff for all lending a helping hand to getting BAD HABIT back together in time for the big jump on Sunday.

After heavy rains all day and night Saturday, it was looking doubtful that it was going to be dry enough for the jump Sunday. The sun came through and the winds picked up and the track dried out very well in time for the jump. After making a couple runs past the great crowd and a short speed pass down the runway, I took to the newly redesigned take off ramp without hesitation. I would also like to thank Gary Bauer for his help rebuilding my takeoff ramp so that we could avoid another disaster like Tuesday. Wound out to about 75 mph, BAD HABIT flew through the air perfectly and landed at 197 feet which would not be enough to beat the current record. The truck was still in good shape and after letting it cool down a bit and changing the pitch of the takeoff just a little; I took to the ramp for a second try at the record. Hitting almost 79mph on this run, the truck once again flew through the air perfectly and this time landed at 208 feet! A New World Record!

This has been a dream come true and I can’t thank everyone enough who has helped and supported me through the entire process!! Watch out for more on the edge stunts in the future from Joe Sylvester Motorsports and the BAD HABIT Monster Truck!


http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ord-jump03.jpg

...in case anybody wants to "friend" Bad Habit Bad Habit Monster Truck Racing | Facebook

"friend"ing Princey Stone
is as far as I can go
to things non-human.

...I guess I could "like" another Bad Habit without too many qualms.

Free Willie! Why do they bother this nice old guy? Is he hurting somebody? Not to mention I like his musical stuff.

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

Willie Nelson charged again :(
SIERRA BLANCA, Texas - A U.S. Border Patrol spokesman says country singer Willie Nelson was charged with marijuana possession after 6 ounces was found aboard his tour bus in Texas.
Patrol spokesman Bill Brooks says the bus pulled into the Sierra Blanca, Texas, checkpoint about 9 a.m. Friday. Brooks says an officer smelled pot when a door was opened and a search turned up marijuana.

Brooks says the Hudspeth County sheriff was contacted and Nelson was among three people arrested. Sheriff Arvin West didn't immediately return a phone message left at his home Friday, but he told the El Paso Times that Nelson claimed the marijuana was his. The singer was held briefly a $2,500 bond before being released.

Nelson spokeswoman Elaine Schock declined to comment when contacted via e-mail by The Associated Press.

6 ounces? personal use, surely for Willie, for a weekend?

My vehicle's windshield yesterday morning:

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/h...DSC_0969-1.jpg

23753

Shifting focuses
through transparent surfaces
is good for your eyes.

Ice flakes seem somewhat Mandelbrotic, also.

Mandelbrotic. That's an enjoyable word to enunciate clearly.

ring,
I was just prowling around the 'net and this one I found reminded me of your pic above:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...persLakeAB.jpg
Peppers Lake, Alberta Photo and caption by Leo Raymaakers
A reed caught my eye while walking along the shores of Peppers Lake in Alberta and the frost on the reed reminded me of leaves. I placed my camera on the ice to take this photograph.

That's a great picture!
For a subject so frigid,
it's aspect is warm.

---------- Post added at 07:57 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:43 AM ----------

Thinking out loud here:
Are my fellows all aware
we've just three dozen?

http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim//20...Scoreboard.gif

In light of that, I have nothing inspiring to say at this moment but I'll post anyway.

---------- Post added at 10:20 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:50 PM ----------

What did Buddha say to the hot dog vendor?

Make me one with everything.




...attributed to Merlin EV Grieve: A memorial for Merlin

What was Louis XIV's famous declaration of his being?
 

New Page Post:

C'mon, even if you are not a hstory buff, you must know...

"I am the ..."

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc...6f9yo1_500.png
Rene Magritte

As somebody's son,
with marvelous connections,
who could have stopped him?

(2+3+7)/6=2

I recall a pleasant enough painting by Jean-Frederic Schall of "Louis XIV of France declaring his Love for Louise de la Vallière". Other than that Louis seemed like a big jerk.

Absolute rulers
likely have their own reasons
without owning them.

http://www.sunshinesketches.com/imag...ngLouisXIV.jpg

1-UP the other guy.

+

a free post from my queue:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc...bfvto1_500.jpg
"head and hand" (nothing else)

...is that you,
unattributed?
I love it!

Ghost (noun)?

I should re-bump that topic / game of mine. I wonder where I last left it?

I see them!

That looks like one of the newer model Corvettes, say post-2007?

Not quite there yet
 

We live inside each other
as ourselves with some parts magnified
through mutual packaging.

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

Jetman, I believe you are correct, it is a post '07 Vette.

IMO chicken butts are just about the tastiest part of that bird. Fried skins might be second.

By butts, you mean tails?
One of my grandmas loved them.
I thought that was gross.

As a child, you know,
when many things seemed icky
but now craveable.

...Like girls. *(suggestively-twitching eyebrows)

http://www.delinetciler.net/forum/at...d=11547&cid=18

Something nice to say
at times seems less important
than activity.

plus we're making this a bit longer

yes on the chicken butts aka "tails" though the chicken does poop next to it so I'd call it a butt. Juicy, tender, moist, just the right amount of fat and only one little line of backbone down the center so easy to eat....a bbq'd variety:

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

Those look delicious!
Good thing childhood prejudice
acquires perspective.

http://dvice.com/pics/quetzalhouse1.jpg

Words are not enough.

(my thoughts fail)

I wish there to be more personalities present here, for while we 3 (5) amigos seem to have gotten by pretty well and made history together, I wish to make new friends. (and slosh with a few absentee familiars.)

It's not good to have others fall into the abyss.

Recruitment party? What does the phrase 'snuffalopogus' (sp?) mean to you? Has the ambient air turned to crystal where you are yet?

words are not enough
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc...rblzo1_500.jpg

I'm glad you posted that posting, Jetee. Please pardon me while I vent, a bit:

You know mercury -
It's shiny & weighty & it flows,
but it's still poison.

I don't know how to spell the Snuffle-thing, either, but to me it's just the big Sesame Street creature. We're headed to the single digits F tonight in Minneapolis, with considerable crystalline snow in the forecast for tomorrow.

My wife reached down to pick something up when she felt a poking sensation like the TSA had followed her in to the bedroom... I said, "Wait honey! It's not the TSA... it's a really long thread!"

Then she replied, "Dang... that's a long thread".

Dang!

hi Otto! So you made up that tilted little story just for this thread? Nice!

I believe tonight will be the first dip below freezing around here in the S.E. corner of PA, and going down to just barely below at 31F (-0.5C). If I go 1+ hr north that changes rapidly. We had a few flakes a week or so ago but it barely even hit the ground.

Seems like maybe the fall-off of participation here happened because we got to be longest on this site. Even I like rooting for an underdog sometimes and before we got ahead we were the hot prospect.

I can't bring myself to worry about it. I still have fun and if others don't come here we can venture to where they are. In fact, Jet, you seem to be pretty good at pointing us toward interesting things going on elsewhere, so thanks.

Since 9:22 pm last night this thread has languished in mediocre longness so I'm just giving it a little push in the right direction. The thread motto is "be long"

Belonging is good
without ethical judgment
ownership loses

I am petty, though.

I originally meant to state (yesterday) that I have real ire (maybe just discontent-ment) towards the association threads. I like thought, and even if its nonsense, this thread ("sanctuary") requires thought in order to proceed, and so, I just really don't like the simple premise of posting a singular word. I didn't say anything, though, because I do realize I bring enough sadness and vent-age here, and I fell alseep early anywayss yesterday, and now I've caught up and eaten my dinner & breakfast this morning.

Why are the simplest things always so popular?
Footy (soccer), NASCAR, cats, vanilla, Camry, Snuggies (or... the "backwards robe") ... I don't want to get it.

I lost my cotton-weave glove today. I'm distressed.

Our constant struggle
against the monster word thread
has colored my view.

Association,
on the other hand, to thought,
is necessary.

(2+3)(7-8)=-5

Jet,
I have plenty of unmatched single gloves, though not as many as socks. Next time I see you we can match one up with yours.

required

I mush prefer this type of 'association'
 

required

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/3677/4217770050.jpg
by Todd Davidson

Later I will look online for more information about it, but I'll give you friends a preview now so you don't have to wait the longest time to hear about this unique business plan:

A clever person has associated the tendency of crows to collect miscellaneous objects with a get rich scheme. He trained crows to come to his "crow collection boxes". He gives the crows a treat whenever they bring back something to the box. Over time, he makes coins available and gives special treats when the crows deposit coins into his collection boxes. Very soon, the crows are bringing back coins they find all over the city to his collection boxes. He hires more crows, young crows quickly learn from older crows, he puts out more collection boxes....getting rich faster than he can count the change. As you might know, crows are very intelligent and this guy appears to be almost as smart.

Use of resources
at its most profitably
evolutional.

Good stuff!

I know of the same scheme as once perpetrated through a capuchin, but this was on an entirely different continent (might have been an alternate reality as well).


Please continue the tale...

fyi: I still wince whenever I see WA on top billing again - I want to know what I was (un-)thinking when I bumped the ABC-version out of its dormant state. It's moderately more refined than Original WA, but not by much.


Misc. offering: (click) 'Listen'

I did listen and it had an interesting beat. Trying to emulate the smart crows, I changed the translation to Hungarian and got a laugh....it sounds sort of like a Hungarian rapper..maybe with a German accent:

click 'Listen with Hungarian ears'

Dialect is funny thing.

'The Google Translate Beatbox Project', we should call it.

Back-tracking abit, and recalling that baseball intrumental piece I was searching for, as well as the song that Zooks was having trouble locating, I have come with two (possibly new) resources...

* Welcome to Shazam
* SoundHound Inc.

(now, to see if these work internally within my browser, or if one or the other needs a microphone connection to work properly.)

- - -

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kw...0j0so1_500.jpg

[QUOTE=Jetée;2848357] I want to know what I was (un-)thinking when I bumped the ABC-version out of its dormant state. It's moderately more refined than Original WA, but not by much.[QUOTE]

You could play the game,
& try to raise the tenor,
or quit complaining.

There are some few who
enjoy ABC's presence;
I think that's enough.

for me ABC is another part of the big picture



---------- Post added at 12:57 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:46 PM ----------

Also, I bring your attention to the "views" statistics, currently 217,407 for us vs. 163,116 for them.

That gives you a better picture of how much more popular "we" are than those other unnamed entities of whom we shall not speak too often lest they believe themselves to be more important than us...I shall now stop posting for the moment lest I become overly longest. Say no more.

one two three
four five six seven
eight nine ten.

Like the big picture
all of us are looking at
appears much the same.

you're all part of my big picture

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

I'm just hanging around today

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...e_1376927i.jpg

I'm saving it for later... unless I'm feinting my true interest towards a retort.
I like to provoke thought, and I also like gaining insight into the interests of others, so perhaps it shall not go away just because you wish it to:

In the mean, I'm not sure if I've exposed you pals to this site.
[Miniaturize Yourself]

What the heck was that?
It looked like post nasal drip.
...you do provoke thought.