Don't worry =D I'll only be gone for about...hmmm..lemme see... a month?
OHEMMGEE!! A WHOLE FRIGGIN MONTH!
*it's actually not a whole month but 29 days. Abigail is hypeventilating over the fact that she can't go online for 29 days*
Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world- the clock and the cat. -Emile Auguste Chartier
Friday, November 28, 2008
Jet Plane
I'm leaving....on a jet plane! And I most certainly know when I'm coming back.
Don't worry =D I'll only be gone for about...hmmm..lemme see... a month?
Don't worry =D I'll only be gone for about...hmmm..lemme see... a month?
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Did You Know...?
1. When you drink water, you're drinking dinosaur spit.
2. Fish scales are used to make lipstick.
3. If you touch your thumbnail with your finger, it feels like a dinosaur's skin (unless your nails are manicured)
4. Your intestines are 28 feet (8.5 m) long.
5. When connected to an EEG (electroencephalogram) machine, gelatin shows movement almost the same as the brain waves of a healthy adult.
6. Men and women have different center of gravity.
7. Indian snake charmers don't play old fashioned traditional tunes to charm their snake. Instead, they play popular music from curent Indian films!
8. The fingerprints of koalas are so close to those of humans, that they could be confused at a crime scene!
9. Your lungs has a surface area about the same size as a tennis court.
10. If you squash a yellowjacket wasp near its nest, it will give out an alarm pheromone. This calls other wasp to come help. Within 15 seconds, yellowjackets within a 4.5m radius will attack you for squashing their friend.
11. White is not a colour.
12. And guess what? I also learned that lions go ROAR!!
Signing out,
Myth-BustersII
2. Fish scales are used to make lipstick.
3. If you touch your thumbnail with your finger, it feels like a dinosaur's skin (unless your nails are manicured)
4. Your intestines are 28 feet (8.5 m) long.
5. When connected to an EEG (electroencephalogram) machine, gelatin shows movement almost the same as the brain waves of a healthy adult.
6. Men and women have different center of gravity.
7. Indian snake charmers don't play old fashioned traditional tunes to charm their snake. Instead, they play popular music from curent Indian films!
8. The fingerprints of koalas are so close to those of humans, that they could be confused at a crime scene!
9. Your lungs has a surface area about the same size as a tennis court.
10. If you squash a yellowjacket wasp near its nest, it will give out an alarm pheromone. This calls other wasp to come help. Within 15 seconds, yellowjackets within a 4.5m radius will attack you for squashing their friend.
11. White is not a colour.
12. And guess what? I also learned that lions go ROAR!!
Signing out,
Myth-BustersII
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Barack Obama's Acceptance Speech
I'm not rooting for anyone, but I really love Obama's Acceptance Speech. Touching and simple yet full of meaning. If you haven't read it, you should. I'll give you a few examples.
".......Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet. More of you have cars you can't afford to drive, credit cards, bills you can't afford to pay, and tuition that's beyond your reach....."
".....This country is more decent than one where a woman in Ohio, on the brink of retirement, finds herself one illness away from disaster after a lifetime of hard work.
We're a better country than one where a man in Indiana has to pack up the equipment that he's worked on for 20 years and watch as it's shipped off to China, and then chokes up as he explains how he felt like a failure when he went home to tell his family the news.
We are more compassionate than a government that lets veterans sleep on our streets and families slide into poverty that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns before our eyes...."
".....A nation of whiners? Tell that to the proud auto workers at a Michigan plant who, after they found out it was closing, kept showing up every day and working as hard as ever, because they knew there were people who counted on the brakes that they made.
Tell that to the military families who shoulder their burdens silently as they watch their loved ones leave for their third, or fourth, or fifth tour of duty.
These are not whiners. They work hard, and they give back, and they keep going without complaint. These are the Americans I know...."
"....Why else would he define middle-class as someone making under $5 million a year? How else could he propose hundreds of billions in tax breaks for big corporations and oil companies, but not one penny of tax relief to more than 100 million Americans? How else could he offer a health care plan that would actually tax people's benefits, or an education plan that would do nothing to help families pay for college, or a plan that would privatize Social Security and gamble your retirement?...."
".....We measure the strength of our economy not by the number of billionaires we have or the profits of the Fortune 500, but by whether someone with a good idea can take a risk and start a new business, or whether the waitress who lives on tips can take a day off and look after a sick kid without losing her job, an economy that honors the dignity of work.
The fundamentals we use to measure economic strength are whether we are living up to that fundamental promise that has made this country great, a promise that is the only reason I am standing here tonight.
Because, in the faces of those young veterans who come back from Iraq and Afghanistan, I see my grandfather, who signed up after Pearl Harbor, marched in Patton's army, and was rewarded by a grateful nation with the chance to go to college on the G.I. Bill.
In the face of that young student, who sleeps just three hours before working the night shift, I think about my mom, who raised my sister and me on her own while she worked and earned her degree, who once turned to food stamps, but was still able to send us to the best schools in the country with the help of student loans and scholarships...."
And last but not least (my personal favorite)
".....I've seen it in the workers who would rather cut their hours back a day, even though they can't afford it, than see their friends lose their jobs; in the soldiers who re-enlist after losing a limb; in the good neighbors who take a stranger in when a hurricane strikes and the floodwaters rise...."
"....Thank you. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America."
Read the speech and then you'll understand why I love it. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/us/politics/28text-obama.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
".......Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet. More of you have cars you can't afford to drive, credit cards, bills you can't afford to pay, and tuition that's beyond your reach....."
".....This country is more decent than one where a woman in Ohio, on the brink of retirement, finds herself one illness away from disaster after a lifetime of hard work.
We're a better country than one where a man in Indiana has to pack up the equipment that he's worked on for 20 years and watch as it's shipped off to China, and then chokes up as he explains how he felt like a failure when he went home to tell his family the news.
We are more compassionate than a government that lets veterans sleep on our streets and families slide into poverty that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns before our eyes...."
".....A nation of whiners? Tell that to the proud auto workers at a Michigan plant who, after they found out it was closing, kept showing up every day and working as hard as ever, because they knew there were people who counted on the brakes that they made.
Tell that to the military families who shoulder their burdens silently as they watch their loved ones leave for their third, or fourth, or fifth tour of duty.
These are not whiners. They work hard, and they give back, and they keep going without complaint. These are the Americans I know...."
"....Why else would he define middle-class as someone making under $5 million a year? How else could he propose hundreds of billions in tax breaks for big corporations and oil companies, but not one penny of tax relief to more than 100 million Americans? How else could he offer a health care plan that would actually tax people's benefits, or an education plan that would do nothing to help families pay for college, or a plan that would privatize Social Security and gamble your retirement?...."
".....We measure the strength of our economy not by the number of billionaires we have or the profits of the Fortune 500, but by whether someone with a good idea can take a risk and start a new business, or whether the waitress who lives on tips can take a day off and look after a sick kid without losing her job, an economy that honors the dignity of work.
The fundamentals we use to measure economic strength are whether we are living up to that fundamental promise that has made this country great, a promise that is the only reason I am standing here tonight.
Because, in the faces of those young veterans who come back from Iraq and Afghanistan, I see my grandfather, who signed up after Pearl Harbor, marched in Patton's army, and was rewarded by a grateful nation with the chance to go to college on the G.I. Bill.
In the face of that young student, who sleeps just three hours before working the night shift, I think about my mom, who raised my sister and me on her own while she worked and earned her degree, who once turned to food stamps, but was still able to send us to the best schools in the country with the help of student loans and scholarships...."
And last but not least (my personal favorite)
".....I've seen it in the workers who would rather cut their hours back a day, even though they can't afford it, than see their friends lose their jobs; in the soldiers who re-enlist after losing a limb; in the good neighbors who take a stranger in when a hurricane strikes and the floodwaters rise...."
"....Thank you. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America."
Read the speech and then you'll understand why I love it. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/us/politics/28text-obama.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Its...
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Even though the sound of it something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Um diddle diddle diddle, um diddle ay!
Um diddle diddle diddle, um diddle ay!
Um diddle diddle diddle, um diddle ay!
Um diddle diddle diddle, um diddle ay!
Because I was afraid to speak when I was just a lad
Me father gave me nose a tweak and told me I was bad
But then one day I learned a word
That saved me achin' nose
The biggest word you ever heard
And this is how it goes:
Oh! Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Even though the sound of it something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Um diddle diddle diddle, um diddle ay!
Um diddle diddle diddle, um diddle ay!
Um diddle diddle diddle, um diddle ay!
Um diddle diddle diddle, um diddle ay!
He traveled all around the world
And everywhere he went
He'd use his word and all would say "There goes a clever gent"
When dukes and maharajas pass the time of day with me
I say me special word and then they ask me out to tea.
Oh, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Of course you can say it backwards, which is Suoicodilaipxecitsiligarfilacrepus!
So when the cat has got your tongue
There's no need for dismay
Just summon up this word
And then you've got a lot to say
But better use it carefully
Or it may change your life
One night I said it to me girl
And now me girl's my wife!
She's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
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