www.flickr.com

Check out this new picture site. It offers 2 gig upload per month and unlimited storage for 24 USD dollars. Pretty good deal. You can link to it etc. Has some amazing features. The only thing I don't like about it is that I used my "Rogers Yahoo" email account to signup to them and if I move providers I will potentially loose my email address. The people at flickr indicated to me that this would delete my flickr account. That would be a really bad thing if that happened. So my only instructoins to someone signing up to a flickr account would be use a real yahoo email address not a yahoo address that is tied to a ISP provider. Awsome Service otherwise. Hope fully they fix this so I never loose my pictures since it takes ages to upload all my albums as my original pics are 8 mega pixels and they take quite a bit of space.

www.flickr.com

Speed Kills

I find it interesting that underneath the sheets of all the phone networks there is a digital backbone, so regardless of whether you have an IP phone or not everything is digital, Wooohhh. It is quite easy to setup voice recognition software that mines for information, and triggers on suspect words of any conversation in any language for later analysis. It's why companies like Vonage etc. predict that all phone service will be free in the coming years. Why else would big brother let this happen, now I’m scared. The more people use the phone the more easily it is to see trending and keep tabs on everyone. The interesting part is that people think that not having an IP phone protects them from this but is doesn't, ahhhhhhhhhh. So now with the combination of unlimited email, blogs, electronic media, it is pretty easy to detect information and create profiles of anyone and everyone. My opinion on all this is that it is really just fear creation, something to let more people worry more and become more susceptible to “dis-ease”, and this is what will destroy us humans, in the end, if we continue down this path. We as a society are becoming so disconnected from the earth that we do not see the connection between the busy-ness of our minds to the rate of disease in our societies. This leaves us open to die of silly things that our wonderfully created bodies are more than capable of protecting us from. The sad part is that we are so far down this destructive path that we can no longer, see or feel the reality of the danger. “Speed kills” Our minds are so busy we do not recognize our essential nature anymore. It is our destiny to recognizing our roots and ties to the creator of the universe but only a few of us are going to even recognize what hit us. If your interested in a good book that will alter your perspective check out “The Biology of Belief” by Bruce Lipton.

In the year 2014, The New York Times has gone offline...

In the year 2014, The New York Times has gone offline. The Fourth Estates's fortunes have warned. What happened to the news? And What is EPIC?

Click Hear to find out

Excerpt from my dad's last email you might find of merit

On Truth:

> If we speak our truth YES there is nothing to remember
> because it is what is .I wonder if we think that in stating
> our Case we will offend the creator ......to say this is
> who I am......I am .Whose mold are we going to be squeezed
> into..Dont let the world around you squeeze you into its
> own mold...Which one are you sqeezing into Luke ??If it fits
> without contortion perhaps thats the right place to be ..
> but if it doesnt feel right what then....
> we have all made the attempt to fit the requirments we
> think others expect of us...

Wit

"Wit is educated insolence." Aristotle (384-322 BC)

https://www.yousendit.com/

This is the best Service ever...!!! https://www.yousendit.com/

You can send anything up to gigabyte in size.. sooo cool!

Aren't sharks endangered?

Aren't sharks endangered? Like opening a "baby seal" restaurant,or a baby panda restaurant. {kind of reminds me of this awful, but clean joke about this guy who got stuck in Arizona with a brokendown car} after two days without food or water, and desperate with a gunin his hands with one bullet left....he encountered a Bald Eagleperched on a rock nearby. With his last bullet, he managed tokill it.

He roasted it immediately and devoured the whole thing.

Soon after he was arrested by the game warden for killingoff a highly endangered species.
After relaying his desperate story to the judge, he was acquitted.Yet all were sad to see the last Bald Eagle go by the way ofthe dodo.

Before the judge let the man go, the court asked how didthe bald eagle actually taste like? Being endangered andall, this bird has been off the delicacy menu for longer thanone can remember.

The man replied: The bald eagle tasted half-way betweena giant panda and a rhino.

There is no try.

"Try not. Do or do not. There is no try." Yoda, Empire Strikes Back

Logic

`Contrariwise', continued Tweedledee, `If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.' 

 - Lewis Carroll

For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

Isn't this so true? So the only thing you can "do" is "do" it anyway. You will eaither learn from it or not. If not someone else more worthy will.

Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)

Forest Stewardship Council is a database of accredited companies that are environmentally aware. These companies manufacture environmentally friendly products. You can search the database for companies that make toilet paper. It is pretty cool.

http://fsc-info.org/

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Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) accredited certification has increased swiftly since the first FSC certificate was issued in 1993. More than 2.000 companies worldwide participate in the FSC certification system today. Only with the help of a database can one collect and provide information on the mounting number of certified companies and their products. It is essential that in addition to making the database easy to use, the completeness and accuracy of the data is maintained
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deliberation

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop
thinking and go in.

 - Andrew Jackson

If at first you don't succeed...

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

Use these friendly tissue resellers - Protect our forests!

My Friend Dieter sent me this note:
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Please visit the site, (http://www.greenpeace.ca/tissue/) use this guide and forward it – preferably with your own heartfelt passion and endorsement - to your family, friends, co-workers and others in your community. Just dare to dream of what we could co-create and achieve if we as a people would join our hands, minds and hearts together as one…..

May the forest be with you! J

All Good Medicine,
Dieter
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David Letterman's Top 10 Drawbacks to Working in a Cubicle:

10. Being told to "think outside the box" when you're in a fricken box all day long.
9. Not being able to check e-mail attachments without turning around to see who's behind you.
8. Cubical walls do not offer much protection from any kind of gun fire.
7. That nagging feeling that if you press the right button, you'll get a piece of cheese.
6. Lack of roof rafters for the noose.
5. The walls are too close together for the hammock to work right.
4. 23 power cords - 1 outlet.
3. Prison cells are not only bigger, they also have beds.
2. The carpet has been there since 1976 and shows more signs of life than your coworkers.
And.the number 1 drawback to working in a cubicle:

1. You can't slam the door and walk out when you quit.

You gota laugh at this quote my cousin sent me...

"I've used up all my sick time, so now I'm calling in dead."

Author unknown

un huh

Isn' t this the way it always is.. haha. I love this Herman. Brings back so many fond memories.

A Once in a Lifetime Event

Mars

The Red Planet is about to be spectacular!

This month and next, Earth is catching up with Mars in an encounter that will culminate in the closest approach between the two planets in recorded history. The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287. Due to the way Jupiter's gravity tugs on Mars and perturbs its orbit, astronomers can only be certain that Mars has not come this close to Earth in the Last 5,000 years, but it may be as long as 60,000 years before it happens again.

The encounter will culminate on August 27th when Mars comes to within 34,649,589 miles of Earth and will be (next to the moon) the brightest object in the night sky. It will attain a magnitude of -2.9 and will appear 25.11 arc seconds wide. At a modest 75-power magnification

Mars will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye.

Mars will be easy to spot. At the beginning of August it will rise in the east at 10p.m. and reach its azimuth at about 3 a.m.

By the end of August when the two planets are closest, Mars will rise at nightfall and reach its highest point in the sky at 12:30a.m. That's pretty convenient to see something that no human being has seen in recorded history. So, mark your calendar at the beginning of August to see Mars grow progressively brighter and brighter throughout the month.


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NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER SEE THIS AGAIN

The Washington Post alternate meanings for common words.

Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.

The winners are:

1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.
6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absent-mindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle (n.), olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), (back by popular demand): The belief that, when you die, your soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

Kids!

The following excerpts are actual answers given on history tests and in Sunday school quizzes by children between 5th and 6th grade ages in Ohio.
They were collected over a period of three years by two teachers. Read carefully for grammar, misplaced modifiers, and of course, spelling!

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Ancient Egypt was old. It was inhabited by gypsies and mummies who all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert.  The climate Of the Sarah is such that all the inhabitants have to  live  elsewhere.
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Solomon had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines.He was an actual hysterical figure as well as being in the bible. It  sounds like he was sort of busy too.
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The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn't have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a young female moth.
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Socrates was a famous old Greek teacher who went around giving people advice.  They killed him. He later died from an overdose of wedlock Which is apparently poisonous. After his death, his career suffered a Dramatic decline.
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In the first Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled biscuits,  and threw the java. The games were messier then than they show on TV now.
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Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king.  Dying, he gasped out "Same to you, Brutus."
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Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was canonized by Bernard Shaw for reasons I don't really understand. The English and French still have problems.
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Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen," As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted   "hurrah!" and that was the end of the fighting for a long while.
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It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood.
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Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented Cigarettes and started smoking.
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Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper which  was very dangerous to all his men.
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The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies, comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter.
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Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote  Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost.  Since then no one ever found it.
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Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress.   Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers  of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by Rubbing two cats backward and also declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand." He was a naturalist for sure. Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.
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On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got Shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. They believe the assinator was John W! ilkes Booth, a supposingly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career.
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Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between he practiced on an old  spinster which he kept up in his attic. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was very large.
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Bethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf that he wrote loud music and became the father of rock and roll. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.
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The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions.  People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing   by machine.  The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up.
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Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men.
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Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbits but I don't know why.
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Charles Darwin was a naturalist. He wrote the Organ of the Species. It was very long people got upset about it and had trials to see   if it wa really true.  He sort of said God's days were not just 24 hours but without watches who knew anyhow? I don't get it.
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Karl Marx was one of the Marx Brothers. The other three were in the movies.  Karl made speeches and started revolutions. Someone in the family had to have a job, I guess.

So True

Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before.

Lost and Found

I lost my left hand panier driving back from my cousins on my motorbike. I didn't attach it properly when I left Duncan and Anna's. So I drove all the way back looking for it on the side of the road. There were some houligan kids slinking around Canningtion near my cousins place and I thought they proably had pick it up. The sort of jerred and yelled a few insults at me on my way back as I was looking. Well they might have been complimenting my bike but it didn't feel that way. I couldn't really hear them with my helmet on. Anyway, as I was driving back down the big hill into Willfred, there it was!!! A bit banged up but still intact... When I turned my bike off to clip the panier back on. It was all quiet and warm. So many stars.. I love God. He created such a great world.

What I did all day today....

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. - Sir J. Lubbock

So froody cool if it got any more cool It'd like crack my arm off, dude. 

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Antoine de St. Exupry

Perfection, then, is finally achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

This is a little picture of my little brother.. he now says he's on his way to 270 lbs.. Man that's big.. crazy dude! 

I like this one.  

Interesting thougnt I recived from my friend

"We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive."

C.S. Lewis

This is a test

I just made my first email post. So cool.

Check out the moon

Click on this link and zoom in to see an interesting fact you might only have guessed.
http://moon.google.com

This is Me.