Thursday, April 28, 2005

I don’t require direction. I have too many

I find it amazing that I can multitasking so many things, resulting in nothing.

Imagine if I put that to some sort of undistracted single-minded project I’d be unstoppable.

As it is I’ve got 8 different windows of 6 applications and at best three of these are related to one project. Unfortunately that is the one that I’m not doing anything with. That is the way it is with me most of the time. All over the places.

So that being said, let me brush the piles of other unrelated projects and papers surrounding me away so I can lean in close to the keyboard as if I were telling it a secrete. I’ve had another birthday. At my precarious age between youngish and oldish that means it’s time to become analytical and self obsessed for a moment. Look inward and see all the regrets. These days it’s best to just do them one year at a time, who can remember that far back, who can deal with all that baggage (except a martyr or a teenager). It’s pointless. I demand no penance, I make no amends, and I make no resolution. Perhaps I think its self-discovery. Ha I’ve yet to discover anything I didn’t already know, other than what I thought I knew about myself often turns out to be wrong, or maybe I just think that.

Friday, April 22, 2005

Tune in the Cricket Report

Nature provides us with a lot of clues about the current or future weather. Pioneers, sailors and farmers depended on these clues to help them survive and created the weather folklore we know today – including calculating the current temperature by cricket chirps.
So, the next time you are outdoors in an area where there are crickets, use the following “equation” to figure out what the temperature is: Count the number of cricket chirps in 15 seconds, then add 39 degrees.

Spring is here
But the crickets have been very quiet
crickets

Monday, April 18, 2005

THE KISS

A study by a Canadian anthropologist demonstrated that 97
percent of women shut their eyes during a kiss but only 37
percent of men did. The late actor Anthony Quinn had an
explanation: "Many a husband kisses with his eyes wide open.
He wants to make sure his wife is not around to catch him."

Kissing on the lips is something the Romans started. A
husband returning from work would kiss his wife's lips to
see if she'd been drinking during the day. In fact, the
Romans were so keen on kissing that Emperor Tiberius was
obliged to ban the practice after an epidemic of lip sores.

The French kiss itself was invented in the Brittany village
of Pays de Mont as a substitute for sex because the
population was growing too fast.

In writing, XXXs have been used to represent kisses. The
origins of this go back to the days when people couldn't
write signed their name with an X. To emphasize their
sincerity, they would then kiss their mark. This practice
of kissing the X led to the X's representing a kiss.

Human beings are not the only mammals that kiss. Polar bears
and kangaroos kiss. Chimpanzees can and do French kiss. Sea
lions rub mouths, a male mouse licks the mouth of a female
mouse, and an elephant sometimes brushes its trunk against
another elephant's lips.

An American insurance company discovered that men were less
likely to have a car accident if they were kissed before
they set off.

~That Book of Perfectly Useless Information~

Saturday, April 09, 2005

THIS THING DEFINITELY NEEDS SOME SORT OF DIRECTION

Not that I think this should be formatted and pigeon holed. After all I'm sure some of these people are disappointed that their blogs are in a certain category and not in another...

Activism: 6900 weblogs found.
Arts and Entertainment: 12818 weblogs found.
Careers and Occupations: 9745 weblogs found.
Computers and The Internet: 3959 weblogs found.
Crafts: 700 weblogs found.
Education and Reference: 3453 weblogs found.
Family Issues: 1766 weblogs found.
Food and Cooking: 738 weblogs found.
Health and Fitness: 1695 weblogs found.
Hobbies: 6029 weblogs found.
Home and Garden: 403 weblogs found.
Lifestyle Choices and Subcultures: 9217 weblogs found.
Meta: 10380 weblogs found.
News: 5009 weblogs found.
Philosophy and Religion: 4344 weblogs found.
Politics: 2632 weblogs found.
Relationships: 3049 weblogs found.
Sports: 2235 weblogs found.

  • Philosophy? Very odd man. smart, but odd.

  • What is this doing in Family Issues / Domestic Violence "I'm a sex worker and artist in San Francisco. These are my tales."

  • Dog Breed Specific Legislation .... how did this get there?

  • After all if your following a dog


  • Lovely to know I'm NOT listed