Favorite Poem Project: The Poems: The Sentence: "The Sentence
by Anna Akhmatova
And the stone word fell
On my still-living breast.
Never mind, I was ready.
I will manage somehow.

Today I have so much to do:
I must kill memory once and for all,
I must turn my soul to stone,
I must learn to live again—

Unless . . . Summer's ardent rustling
Is like a festival outside my window.
For a long time I've foreseen this
Brilliant day, deserted house."

Toad Skin By Barry Goldensohn: "Toad Skin
By Barry Goldensohn
Posted Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2003, at 8:11 AM PT

On a dirt road, a paper-thin dry thing
like a black parchment cut-out of a toad
in mid-leap, partly sideways, drawn by a master,
now boneless, as if it never had bones.
Only the tough skin survived the flattening
by one of the rare cars here. Poor unwary thing.
How much of us will last, tough, stiff,
cured by summer sun. Our better towels
outlast our flesh. Are Nazi lampshades
holding up? Shrunken heads? Mummies?
Count on bones. Stone monuments. A few poems."

Bush still eating beef despite mad cow scare : HindustanTimes.com: "'He has continued to eat beef, he has eaten beef in the last couple of days,' said White House spokesman Scott McClellan when asked how the President had responded to the announcement of the first US case of the disease in a cow on Tuesday."

"But we do sense the more difficult truth: that Family represents the reality of which Christmas is the dream. It is of course Family (messy, complex, miserable, happy, so many gradations of those last two words) which is the real gift, beneath the wrapping. Family is the daily miracle, and Christmas is the enforcement of ideals which, in truth, do not matter. It would be tempting therefore to say 'Well, then ditch Christmas!' the same way people say 'Ditch God' or 'Ditch marriage,' but people find it hard to do these things because they feel that there is more than a ghost in these machines, there is an animating spirit."

'If we can't persuade nations of comparable values of the rightness of our cause, then we'd better reexamine our reasoning.'

Cage Match 1: "City Squirrel vs. Mountain Squirrel Cage Match"

"Great was my Anguish, as I realiz'd that my Years of Tireless Preaching had borne rotten Fruit. As Punishment, I forc'd my Children to sleep upon Nettles, drink rancid Gravy and recite the Book of Leviticus before they could go to the Out House."

ABC6.com - Married Priest Ordained in Rhode Island: "Married Priest Ordained in Rhode Island"

"Don't mix alcohol with stereotypes. If you are Irish, drink rum. If you are a pirate, drink whiskey. "

WorkingForChange-This Modern World: The Patriotism Police: "This Modern World: The Patriotism Police"

The Poor Poet's Corner: "Trial by Fire



Trial by fire, trial by fears.
in the midst of it all I have lost my greatest peer.
come to me, I'm more than ready for the fear.
realizing the truth never known.
here I am now feeling alone.
dark spaces in me abound.
I will laugh and fight like a clown.
jingle of my heart bells, scrap of my minds claws.
the pain in me you shall feel it all.
dancing in the dark, cutting you out of me
leaving the moon to quide my way."

SECRETS OF THE DEAD . Bridge on the River Kwai . Background | PBS: "Though records are sketchy, approximately 61,000 Allied prisoners of war are believed to have labored on the railway, including 30,000 British, 18,000 Dutch, 13,000 Australian, and 700 American soldiers. An estimated 16,000 of those troops died, many of them from diseases like cholera, beri beri, malaria, and typhoid, and most during an intensified period of construction known as speedo that commenced in January 1943. Another 200,000 Asian laborers, mostly Thai, were forced to work on the railway. More than 80,000 lost their lives"

"If the first Gulf war has come to be remembered in the iconic image of a laser-guided bomb going deep down into a hole, the video of a uniformed American doctor's tongue depressor bunker-busting Mr. Hussein's private places may prove equally memorable. "

Celebrate Life - November/December, 2001: "We are often tempted, like George Bailey, to see more obstacles than opportunities. At such times, we need a light that helps us to see that our life is truly a great gift. Christmas is that light. And that light never ceases to shine. "

"Sagittarius: (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
You'll compete with the Devil for your immortal soul in a midnight game of Scrabble, and win handily when he can only think of creepy, depressing Latin words."

"'All Things Dull And Ugly' from Monty Python's Contractual Obligations Album

All things dull and ug-ly,
All creatures, short and squat,
All things rude and na-sty,
The Lord God made the lot.

Each little snake that poisons,
Each little wasp that stings,
He made their prudish venom,
He made their horrid wings.

All things sick and cancerous,
All evil great and small,
All things foul and dangerous,
The Lord God made them all.

Each nasty little hornet,
Each beastly little squid,
Who made the spiky urchin?
Who made the sharks? He did!

All things scant and ulcerous,
All pox both great and small,
Putrid, foul and gangrenous,
The Lord God made them all.

Amen."

Auto response from Flabber11 (4:15:50 PM): Northeasterners are so afraid of other people. A young child in a grocery market isle becomes a target in his mothers eyes. "Ross! Get out of the middle of the isle, people wont stop for you!" Apply my strict goal of no moral compromise to the child and he would stay in the isle and stare down any shopping carts coming at him. "This planet was made for organic life forms you metallic four wheeled fiend," he would say, "you get out of my way!" It's tricky though, if the carriage was brought up spoiled, getting everything he wanted (new wheels, a good advertisement attached to him) he may attack the small child, and we all know who suffers when there are outbreaks of violence within commercially zoned buildings: the consumer.

Flabber11 (1:35:19 PM): So theres this Advertisemnt off the highway
Flabber11 (1:35:21 PM): in EP
Flabber11 (1:35:33 PM): that says "Go Vegiterian, It's An Immaculate Conception"
Flabber11 (1:35:44 PM): And has Mary cradling a dead turkey carcass
Flabber11 (1:36:02 PM): PETA (Peaople foe the Ethical Treatment Of Animals) put it up
richardwood401 (1:36:16 PM): people must be buzzing
Flabber11 (1:36:20 PM): And There was a huge oputrage, cause RI has a higher percentage of catholics then anywhere in the country
Flabber11 (1:36:23 PM): yeah thyey are
Flabber11 (1:36:30 PM): it was in the paper and on the news and on talk shows
Flabber11 (1:36:34 PM): and I called up to defend it
Flabber11 (1:36:36 PM): on one show
Flabber11 (1:36:47 PM): But anyways- someone spraypainted SHAME!! on it
Flabber11 (1:37:14 PM): And i was pissed off that no one does that to beer or cigarette, hummer or casino adds
Flabber11 (1:37:20 PM): So i went to look at it yesterday
Flabber11 (1:37:31 PM): and someone had written after the SHAME!!
Flabber11 (1:37:34 PM): ON EATING MEAT!
richardwood401 (1:38:09 PM): nice come back

"To live in the information age is, in a way, to live in a modern day Tower of Babel. One is constantly communicating – with cell phones, e-mails, pagers and in chat rooms – but one may very well be out of touch. One gets on the 'right' side of the digital divide but one might have to pay a price: Language is streamlined, and intimacy is forsaken for the high valued currency called information. "

"It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die. "

Self-Inflicted's Poem 'Sleep' at Allpoetry.com:
"Silent once again
Laying my head upon my pillow
Each breath gets fainter
Every movement more subtle
Please Do Not Disturb."

"When You are Old "
W. B. Yeats

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars."

'W. B. Yeats': Near-Perfect Poems, Imperfect Poet:
"Now that my ladder's gone
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart."

"Buckle up: It's going to be one hell of a bumpy ride. The stars aren't speaking metaphorically here. Wear your seatbelt all week."

You just don't hear about to many blimp accidents these days.
CARSON, Calif. (AP) -- A cameraman inside a Goodyear blimp was injured when the airship came loose from its moorings, drifted into a parked truck and nose-dived into a fertilizer pile beside a plant nursery."

"Or what about Owen Wilson? I was all into him after Bottle Rocket. I said he was a real talent with the potential to be a big star. Then Shanghai Noon comes out, and there's Than, jumping on the Owen Wilson bandwagon, waving the Owen Wilson flag! "

One time a guy handed me a picture of himself, and he said, "Here's a picture of me when I was younger." Every picture of you is of when you were younger. Here's a picture of me when I am older. You son of a bitch, how'd you pull that off? Let me see that camera...

rkeellis says:
how is Walmart like MJ?
Wood, Richard says:
?
rkeellis says:
boys pants are 1/2 off...

richardwood401 (4:33:06 PM): How did the protest go ?

Auto response from Flabber11 (4:33:07 PM): Buy Nothing Day!
Mass Consumerism can Kill your Soul.... Yada ydada yada.

The more you buy, the less you live.

"'Our modern skulls house a stone age mind,' "

"So get to it. Shut up already and make it happen. Get on out there and do whatever it is you want to do or be. Don't forget to spend time with your children�they're the greatest gift that this earth ever dreamed up�and turn your damn computers off once in a while. Don't worry, they're not going anywhere."

Dear Colleagues,

Best wishes for the Thanksgiving holiday to all US-based colleagues, and to any non-US colleagues who may be celebrating!

AlterNet: Some Reflections on Turkeys and Eagles: "When the eagle was selected, Ben Franklin, the man who discovered how to harness and tame lightning; who invented the bifocals, the rocking chair and the Franklin stove; who helped write the Constitution and gained the help of the French at a critical moment in the American revolution, wrote in a letter to his daughter:
'For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his Living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead tree near the river, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labor of the Fishing Hawk; and when that diligent Bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the Bald Eagle pursues him and takes it from him.
'With all this injustice, he is never in good case but like those among men who live by sharping and robbing he is generally poor and often very lousy. Besides he is a rank coward: The little King Bird not bigger than a Sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the district. He is therefore by no means a proper emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America who have driven all the King birds from our country . . . "

"Sagittarius: (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Surprisingly enough, the end of your life will include 20 minutes of credits, copyright information, and a rather sad zither-based closing theme."

"It's amazing how much kids can learn about chemistry the old-fashioned way. As soon as you get home from work, demand that they mix you an Old-Fashioned."

"Hasbro Pledges Additional 30 Marbles For Hippo-Hunger Relief
PAWTUCKET, RI—With global famine worsening, Hasbro pledged an additional 30 white marbles Monday to hippo-hunger relief efforts. 'To see those starving, starving hippos just lying there, not knowing if they will ever get another chance to click and clack for life-giving marbles—it's too much for anyone to bear,' Hasbro spokeswoman Lisa Reiderer said. 'We cannot stand idly by while these sweet plastic creatures slowly die. It is up to all of us to get the most marbles for our hippos.'"

"According to advisers and court records, Michael Jackson's wealth is being consumed by lawsuits and an appetite for monkeys, Ferris wheels and surgery"

'Our society expects us to grieve quickly, to put on a 'smiley face'"

'He who learns must suffer and even in our sleep the pain we cannot forget falls drop by drop upon our heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.' Escalus

X3D Fritz's congratulation statement to Kasporov on their tied series: "``With your brainpower, you challenged my Intel Quad Processor, Xeon 2.8 Mhz chip with four gigs of RAM,'' it said. ``Not an easy task.''"

"Human life is weightier than the earth."

"Duty is heavier than a mountain, while death is lighter than a feather"

"Sagittarius: (Nov. 22—Dec. 21)
Everyone has potentially fatal flaws, but yours involve a love of soldiers' wives, an insatiable thirst for whiskey, and the seven weak points in your left ventricle."

"No blossoms and no moon,
and he is drinking sake
all alone!"

This is way cool.
NOVA | The Elegant Universe | Watch the Program | PBS: "Watch The Elegant Universe (3 hours)"

"We Do (The Stonecutter's Song)
2F09 - 8th January 1995

Who controls the British crown?
Who keeps the metric system down?
We do! We do!
Who keeps Atlantis off the maps?
Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We do! We do!
Who holds back the electric car?
Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star?
We do! We do!
Who robs the cave fish of their site?
Who rigs every Oscar night?
We do! We do!"

NOVA | Elegant Universe | A Sense of Scale | PBS: "A Sense of Scale
The strings of string theory are unimaginably small. And when we say 'unimaginably,' we mean it: Your average string, if it exists, is about 10-33 centimeters long. That's a point followed by 32 zeros and then a 1. It's a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a centimeter. (Physicists stick to metric.) Or think of it this way: if an atom were magnified to the size of the solar system, a string would be the size of a tree. Yup, real small. "

Reporting America at War . Ernie Pyle . The Death of Captain Waskow | PBS: "ERNIE PYLE:
The Death of Captain Waskow"

Kasparov vs. X3D Fritz: "Kasparov crushes x3d fritz in game three to tie the match"

Bite me !

diamond commercials lie !

"Cornell University physicists reported last week that they had used a laser beam to pluck the strings of an invisibly tiny silicon guitar just 10 millionths of a meter long. Each string of the instrument is about 50 nanometers (or billionths of a meter) wide — 100 atoms thick. Human hearing tops out at tones that vibrate at about 20,000 cycles per second. The high-pitched sound of the nanoguitar twanged forth at 40 million cycles per second, putting it 17 octaves above what human ears take for music."

Why SUV owners will rule the world !

"Arriana Huffington can kiss my Suburban Ass while I drive around with my
children watching a DVD. I won't be able to hear the smooch due to my
wireless headphones.

I won't be able to see her when I back up anyway.

Tonight I even sat in idle at a McDonalds, getting 0 miles to the gallon,
dropping dollar billls out the exhaust pipe while I pulled pickles off my
hamburger."

"If the day and the night are such that you greet them
with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and
sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry,
more immortal - that is your success. All nature is
your congratulation, and you have cause
momentarily to bless yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau"

Set me as a seal upon thine heart,
as a seal upon thine arm; for
love is strong as death; jealousy
is cruel as the grave.

Are polls fair ?
Yes



Results Yes=134, No=0

"The Web site you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist. "

"If you put that in your blog I will cut you off from all information"

The most painful state of being is remembering the future that you can never have.

Its like I knew who I was and one morning I woke up and didn't have a clue.

The Onion A.V. Club | Ira Glass: "Public Radio International's This American Life, Ira Glass "

This Modern World: "I think I feel a draft coming on"

"Two baseball executives said the Yankees made a savvy decision by not claiming Ramirez. One executive said the Red Sox undoubtedly put Ramirez on waivers to try to entice the Yankees to take his albatross of a contract, knowing the Yankees are one of the only teams that could afford him and also realizing that in Steinbrenner they have an owner who is impulsive enough to do it. Again, here is a dazzling addition to your already expensive fleet, George. Just grab the payment book as well.
Boston's attempt to goad Steinbrenner into taking one of the most devastating hitters in the major leagues and a player who grew up near Yankee Stadium was fascinating. The Yankees spent a few hours discussing the issue on Wednesday, but had decided by yesterday morning that the positives of adding Ramirez (lots of offense) did not outweigh the negatives (lots of unpredictability from a moody 31-year-old and lots of unexpected money funneling back to a chief competitor)."

Horatio's Drive : The Car | PBS: "Horatio Nelson Jackson's 1903 Winton touring car, the 'Vermont,' will be a major artifact displayed in America on the Move, a new exhibition opening at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History on November 22. The 26,000-square-foot exhibition will anchor the General Motors Hall of Transportation and will feature more than 300 other transportation artifacts — from an 1810s National Road marker to the 199-ton, 92-foot-long '1401' locomotive to a 1970s shipping container — showcased in period settings"

J'ondule par des fesses à votre mère.

Give a pull !

Rochelle says:

Looking for me is like playing wheres Waldo, but you can spot my lardass in a crowd anywhere! LOL!
If you love me, you'll come find me!
:-D

When Should You Put Your Dog Down? - How to make a decision you never want to make. By Jon Katz: "To love dogs is to know death and to accept that there's never a time we are more morally obliged to speak for them than when they face the end of their lives."

Way to much work related crap today.

Walkthrough: Writing Text to a Document Using an XML Schema: "Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System

Walkthrough: Writing Text to a Document Using an XML Schema"

Dev Shed - Doing More With XML Schemas (part 1) - Nesting Season: "Doing More With XML Schemas (part 1)"

Walkthrough: Writing Text from an XML File to Bookmarks in a Document

Boston.com / Sports / Baseball / Red Sox / Little unsure he wants job: "'If Grady Little is not back with the Red Sox, he'll be somewhere,' Little said. 'I'll be another ghost, fully capable of haunting.'"

Ship my unit !!!!

What do you do when your girl friend of one month says she is in love with you ?

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