life is weord.

www.alanamrush.com

Site might not be propogated yet.

:-)

I've seen stupid dramas erupt in diverse and unrelated communities. Calm down everyone, take a fuckin breather, is it really worth getting all worked up about? Sun conjunct Uranus, what? Moon's in Gemini, which makes me happy but I guess makes other people nutso.

Minor accomplishments recently: we bought a sofa. Connected with C about visiting this summer. Completed postcard for The Killjoys, effectively pushing my design agenda ;-) A bought a laptop today, finally. beecee drew killer portraits of Team XP.

Think I'll go buy us some cream cheese.

I just ran across a cool company:

http://www.caebuttons.com/about.php

Stardust@Home: A distributed search by volunteers for interstellar dust in the Stardust interstellar dust collector

In January 2004, the Stardust spacecraft flew through the coma of comet Wild2 and captured thousands of cometary dust grains in special aerogel collectors. Two years later, in January 2006, Stardust will return these dust grains --- the first sample return from a solid solar-system body beyond the Moon --- to Earth. But Stardust carries an equally important payload on the opposite side of the cometary collector: the first samples of contemporary interstellar dust ever collected. As well as being the first mission to return samples from a comet, Stardust is the first sample return mission from the Galaxy. But finding the incredibly tiny interstellar dust impacts in the Stardust Interstellar Dust Collector (SIDC) will be extremely difficult.

We are seeking volunteers to help us to search for these tiny samples of matter from the galaxy. Volunteers are critical to the success of this project. Please help us find the first samples of contemporary Stardust ever collected.

http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/background.html


cool!

it's been a while since i've read any financial news

but check this out

this guy's tone is comical but...

Perhaps this huge use of dollars is what has everyone worried about the new Iran oil bourse (trading center) that is scheduled to crank up in March, and probably rightfully so. Instead of an American-controlled oil market and American friends and insiders getting rich making their slimy little backroom deals, now it will be an Iran-controlled oil market and Iranian friends and Iranian insiders making their little deals.

It’s all mox nix to me, as oil is going to rise mightily in price anyway, but all of those American oil-business scumbags have families to care for, bills to pay and these big, fancy cars that speed by me as I sit with my "Will work for food" sign around my neck, and so you can bet that they are all crapping in their pants at the thought of the end of a very long, very cozy and very profitable deal. Ergo, you can certainly make a case that George Bush and the Congress will okay a plan to invade Iran and take over the place, because that is the kind of treacherous, thieving, murdering scumbag that my beloved America has become in its increasing desperation.

from http://www.kitco.com/ind/Daughty/jan112006.html
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Have been out to Sunrise Mountain twice in the past two days, for hiking and photography. Entering from the west side, we got stopped by a security dude who vaguely told us there were some roadblocks "up that way" and that we weren't supposed to be "up there." We tried to find out exactly where but the guy said he hadn't even been out that far. Well okay. So we figured we'd drive until we found a roadblock and we didn't see any, but we did see a lot of improvements they made to the road (Rainbow Gardens). That side of Sunrise is quite dramatic and I could spend many days hiking around there. We parked and hiked about a mile and a half south towards and up a dramatic red ridge. Now I am a conservative hiker but I was ready to climb to the top of it, I found it so safe. Before we got to the top, my bf who was about 20 feet above and 40 feet to my right, said that he saw the security guy's truck hanging out by ours, and that maybe we should turn around and go back. This was disappointing. I've only once been hassled by a ranger in all my travels, and of course we were doing nothing wrong, hadn't crossed any posted "don't be here" signs. The sun had already dropped behind a ridge so we ambled our way back to the truck, stopping for more photos along the way. ( Read more... )

print design sucks

and so do all apps associated with it

ESPECIALLY INDESIGN 2!!!!!!!!!!

yes i have been to all these states



create your own personalized map of the USA


thanks to murphymagick for the link

Just ran across this guy's site -- his work is stunning. I'm very into mountain photos lately and snagged some of these for my desktop. Thanks Carsten!

http://www.clasohm.com/

I just got accepted as a contributing photographer at http://www.istockphoto.com. One has to pass a rudimentary image test to prove that you know what you are doing. I liek that, keeps out the non-serious-about-photography. It's a start, it pays barely anything, but it will give me a photographic outlet where I can actually sell my stuff without too many tears. They must have a helluva lot of traffic because staying on today and simply blogging is a chore.

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(CNN) -- Television evangelist Pat Robertson suggested Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine retribution for the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, which Robertson opposed.

"He was dividing God's land, and I would say, 'Woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the [European Union], the United Nations or the United States of America,'" Robertson told viewers of his long-running television show, "The 700 Club."

"God says, 'This land belongs to me, and you'd better leave it alone,'" he said.
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well why did it take god so long to respond then

is god going senile?

If you insist upon making yourself my enemy, at least don't allow pictures of yourself onto the Web.



You needed a name change anyway. Hopefully it will improve your disposition.

The thing that gets me so down about my experience of the Bay Area is that amount of two-faced users I met who purported to be my friends. Adrianna, Julie's brother, Mark, Mark the Stalker, Kim, Eddie, and a host of others. And then they turn around and accuse me of using them. And no amount of logical discussion or attempts at reconciliation on my part helped matters. This had never happened to me before (save the situation with MaryAnn which was a blatant power play). Gee no wonder I was fed up and angry with them all last year.

So you're from the Bay Area and you're not a user? Great. Prove me wrong.

truly unknown! as the year draws to a close i grow more introverted and prefer my thoughts to the company of others, even amrush. i know this will break after my birthday, and when that happens... is this only my private whining space?

i wonder if amrush will ever go to a tool concert with me.

i don't often speak of my angel anymore, the line between that and this has blurred, and other has become familar (see below). but i just wondered if my recent experiences with that nasty group of people in the bay area were presented as a chance for the wondrous star-child to know betrayal and a taste for revenge. why not. it has no other logical explanation... sure there's some logic, "the woman scorned" piece (zzzzzzzzz), but the backstabbing by the one who i thought was one of my best friends... and she can explain it away as a simple disagreement... well right i disagree that when you're discussing a current issue it's fair game to dig for weaknesses into your friend's high school history (???????)... that's not only irrelevant it's just a bad strategical move. sigh.



so familiar and overwhelmingly warm
this one
this form I hold now
embracing you
this reality here
this one
this form I hold now so
wide eyed and hopeful
wide eyed and hopefully wild

we barely remember what came before this precious moment
choosing to be here right now
hold on, stay inside
this body
holding me
reminding me that I am not alone in
this body makes me feel eternal
all this pain is an illusion

we barely remember
who or what came before this precious moment
choosing to be here right now
hold on
stay inside
this holy reality
this holy experience
choosing to be here in

this body
this body holding me
be my reminder here that I am not alone in
this body
this body holding me
feeling eternal
all this pain is an illusion

alive, I

in this holy reality
in this holy experience
choosing to be here in

this body
this body holding me
be my reminder here that I am not alone in
this body
this body holding me
feeling eternal
all this pain is an illusion

twirling round with this familiar parable
spinning weaving round each new experience
recognize this as a holy gift and
celebrate this chance to be
alive and breathing

this body holding me reminds me of my own mortality
embrace this moment
remember
we are eternal
all this pain is an illusion

thanks to http://toolshed.down.net/
the stops as thou wilt, the letters? change them not in style or value

it all sounds different when a thelemite says it, don't it?