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See Lake Erie!


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David Gray Lyrics
Silver Lining


Take this silver lining
Keep it in your own
Sweet head
And shine it when the night is
Burning red
Shine it in the twilight
Shine it on the cold, cold ground
Shine it till these walls
Come tumbling down

We were born with our eyes wide open
So alive with wild hope now
Can you tell me why
Time after time they drag you down
Down in the darkest deep
Fools and their madness all around
Know that the light don't sleep

Step into the silence
Take it in your own
Two hands
And sprinkle it like diamonds
All across these lands
Blaze it in the morning
Wear it like an iron skin
Only things worth living for are
Innocence and magic, amen

We were born with our eyes wide open
So alive with wild hope now
Can you tell me why
Time after time they drag you down
Down in the darkest deep
Fools and their madness all around
Know that the light don't sleep

Woah, wooah

We were born with our eyes wide open
So alive with wild hope now
Can you tell me why
Time after time they drag you down
Down in the talk so cheap
Fools and their madness all around
Know that the light don't sleep
Know that the light don't sleep

Time after time
They drag you down
Down in the darkness deep
Fools in their madness all around
Know that the light don't sleep
Know that the light don't sleep

Written by David Gray
1997

Timbuk 3 - A Hundred Lovers Lyrics


A hundred lovers dressed in red
A hundred lovers lying in my bed
A hundred lovers, my big suprise
A hundred lovers peer through her eyes

A hundred lovers, that's what I said
A hundred lovers dance in her head
Demons taunt her, spirits guide her
A hundred lovers all inside her

She's 23 goddesses, a couple of Queens
Half a dozen sirens of the silver screen
And 69 bathing beauties lying in the sun
A hundred lovers rolled into one

A hundred lovers all looking fine
A hundred lovers all mine
A hundred lovers with all their charms
A hundred lovers lie in my arms

She's 23 goddesses, a couple of Queens
(Latifah and Divine)
Half a dozen sirens of the silver screen
(Oh so fine)
And 69 bathing beauties lying in the sun
A hundred lovers rolled into one

A hundred lovers lie in my arms

Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup,
They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe.
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind,
Possessing and caressing me.
Jai guru deva om.

Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world.

Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes,
Thay call me on and on across the universe.
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box,
They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe.
Jai guru deva om.

Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world.

Sounds of laughter shades of love are ringing through my open ears,
Inciting and inviting me.
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns,
It calls me on and on across the universe.
Jai guru deva om.

Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world,
Nothing's gonna change my world.

Jai guru deva om,
Jai guru deva om,
Jai guru deva om...

I swear this is no lyrics server. hahah... but since it's a diary, you gotta live with the content.



Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)

Da, da, da, da, da,
Jackie Wilson said
It was "Reet-Petite"
Kinda love you got
Knock me off my feet
Let it all hang out
Oh, let it all hang out.
And you know
I'm so wired-up
Don't need no coffee in my cup
Let it all hang out
Let it all hang out.
Watch this:
Ding-a-ling-a-ling
Ding-a-ling-a-ling-ding
Ding-a-ling-a-ling
Ding-a-ling-a-ling-ding
Do-da-do-da
I'm in heaven, I'm in heaven
I'm in heaven, when you smile
When you smile, when you smile
When you smile.
And when you walk
Across the road
You make my heart go
Boom-boom-boom
Let it all hang out
Baby, let it all hang out
And ev'ry time
You look that way
Honey chile, you make my day
Let it all hang out
Like the man said: let it all hang out.

Watch this:
Ding-a-ling-a-ling ... etc.

Earthbound -- Rodney Crowell



I could shed my skin and in the blink of an eye I could fly fly fly
Tie my dreams up in a sack Lay my head down on the track and die die die
My life's been so sweet I just can't stand it
I must admit I've made out like a bandit

Last night's conversation with a real good friend of mine drinkin wine
wine wine
Said fifty years of livin and your worst mistakes forgiven takes time
time time
One man's lust for life brings world reknown
Next guy can't get two feet off the ground......earthbound

Earthbound....hear the wind through the tops of the trees
Earthbound....summer sun nearly ninety degrees
Earthbound....big ol' moon sinking down...... think I might stick
around
EARTHBOUND

I knew love once way back when she had almond eyes and olive skin
And long black hair
She was Irish Spanish mixbreed I was southeast Texas hayseed
We were almost there
Her daddy didn't like my kind around
True love took the next train out of town......earthbound

Earthbound....where there's fathers and daughters in pain
Earthbound....mama's boy walking home in the rain
Earthbound....like a ship run aground I think I might stick around
EARTHBOUND

With each new day that passes I'm in need of thicker glasses but it's
all O K
Someday I'll be leaving but I just can't help believing that it's not
today
Every golden moment I have found
I've done my best to run right in the ground.....earthbound

Earthbound....see the sky big and beautiful blue
Earthbound....fallen angels are talkin' to you
Earthbound....keepin' close to the ground think I might stick around
EARTHBOUND
Earthbound....Tom Waits, Aretha Franklin, Mary Karr
Earthbound....Walter Cronkite, Seamus Heaney, Ringo Starr
Dalai Lama, Charlie Brown think I might stick around
EARTHBOUND

Lifted from my good friend Bart's faboo site

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Excerpt:
Robin Williams was invited to meet Koko, the gorilla who is fluent in American Sign Language.
They discovered they had a lot in common, and Robin decided to help Koko and her Foundation
save gorillas from imminent extinction by becoming honorary co-chair for the new Maui Ape Preserve.


We've talked about Koko for years. It's the only animal I know with documented amotions.
She had a little kitty friend that died, and Koko kept signing, "I'm sad, I want my kitty friend back."

From what I undertand, Koko isn't stomping her foot on the floor when asked "What's 2 and 2?"
They ask her, "What do you want to do?" and Koko will say, "I want to eat a grapefruit," or
"I want to go outside and play with my ball."

I don't think enough has been made of this.
The only time you hear about something like this is when Rush says, "Screw the dolphins,"
when he reads a report than somebody has made progress communicating with a dolphin.

In our lifetime, apparently, we've broken the language barrier with animals.
Is that right?
In ten years we might be able to communicate with other species?

Is a "gorilla's rights" movement starting to hatch?

If a gorilla can look you in the eye and sign, "I miss my kitty friend,"
how are you going to dismiss that as some kind of "liberal trickery?"

Let's say you're babysitting the gorilla in a cage in a hotel room (it could happen)
and Koko signed, "It's kyna (Koko is street) warm in here - could you make it cooler?"


We live in strange times, and this isn't Issue Number One,
but I went to http://www.koko.org and bought the DVD of Robin Williams talking to Kono.

Closing Sidebar:
This is in the back issues somewhere, but Koko has been using the Internet to teach
sign language to the other gorillas watching on their computer monitors at their home zoos.

This is not a gag.

Koko has had live, online video conferences with other online gorillas and taught them to sign.

This is not a gag.


...yet gays can't form a civil union because "...that's not how God planned it?"

CXVI

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken,
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

"speed" is not an intrinsic property of light itself; traveling no distance in no time, light has no need of speed. What we interpret as the speed of light is actually the ratio in which space and time manifest in our perception of reality. It is this ratio that is constant

Round & Round
Music & lyrics by Bob Schneider
When your head falls off your neck
And hits the ground with a smack
And you're back on the wrong track
Where' your at when you lost you're head
Get out of bed that's what I said
And you're feeling like the dead seeing red
Reborn where's my porn
My pants are torn up damnit where's the wine
Put my body in a pine box baby
Bustin' clocks changin' my locks
I know the time it's time to get up
And get out and get over this
But I don't know how and I don't know why

And the world goes round
And the world goes around
And the world goes round & round

When your bets been beat and they turn up the heat
And you feel a little weak and you can hardly speak
And the coconuts come to your house with a bomb
And blow up the cake you got from your mom
And your diapers aren't dry and the neighbors all die
And you feel a little high a little higher than the big blue sky
And you wring your hands and the blood pours out
And the blood pours out

When your friends evaporate and you can't catch a break
And you're tied to the stake and everything you hate
Comes crashing down on your big round
Golden greazy crown and you can't make a sound
And you feel like you're drowning and you stumble through the dark
And the dogs start to bark and you're fired on a lark
And your skin starts to spark and you're burning up inside
And your dentures start to slide

The Five Principles of Sannyasa
Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati
Sannyasa has two aspects – one is vairagya, non-attachment and the other is viveka, discrimination. It is the aim of sannyasa to reach a level where we can experience viveka and vairagya. This is possible by following the five principles of sannyasa, which we know as the five ‘s’s: swadhyaya or self-study, seva or service, satsang or being in the company of truth, samarpan or surrender and santosh or contentment.

Swadhyaya
Swadhyaya is self-study. It is not an intellectual process; rather it is experiencing the nature of the self, who we are, what we are, what we are trying to do, how we are trying to do it. Swadhyaya is a complete psychological analysis of the human personality. In the process of swadhyaya we have to discover what our chitta vrittis are and how we can control them. Our strengths, weaknesses, ambitions and needs all have to be known, analysed and understood using the faculty of viveka, so that we can come to know the external, manifest dimensions and the internal, unmanifest dimensions of personality.

Swadhyaya does not mean studying the scriptures; it means living the understanding. There are two kinds of understanding: one is mental, rational, intellectual understanding or knowledge, and the other is the application of knowledge. We have to learn how to apply knowledge. This is the key to swadhyaya. Swadhyaya is not reading this and reading that, cluttering the mind with different concepts and ideas while not being clear about our own aims and directions in life. What is the use of cluttering the mind? That is not the aim of swadhyaya.

Swadhyaya is a process of gaining knowledge and applying that knowledge to gain wisdom, not power. When knowledge is used to gain power it becomes a very destructive force. In the Ishavasya Upanishad there is a statement that knowledge can lead to greater ignorance, and to a greater darkness than ignorance. Knowledge can lead to a greater darkness when it is used to gain power, but if knowledge is applied to gain wisdom then it is a different ball game altogether. When one learns how to control and direct the modifications of the mind, the concepts of righteousness and creativity are enhanced. This is not only a mental process, it is also a living process. This is known as chitta vritti nirodhah.

Seva
The second aspect of sannyasa is seva, service. Service happens in many different dimensions at the same time. It happens physically, mentally, spiritually, socially, in an ashram, in a family. It happens in many different ways. The aim of seva is to develop immunity from action and reaction, from cause and effect. If through service, through karma yoga, you are not able to develop immunity in life from cause and effect, from action and reaction, then that is not karma yoga, that is not seva or service.

Service is not taking an old lady across the road; it is not helping another person to do something or to become something. That can definitely be the external form of seva, but the aim of seva is different. The aim is to harmonise the faculties of head, heart and hands, to offer your best quality for the upliftment of other people. Seva can only be fulfilled when swadhyaya becomes a part of it, which means when every action happens with your conscious knowledge. It is not a reaction, but a balanced, harmonised, creative action. And of course in seva one has to learn how to harmonise the actions with the mind, desires and aspirations.

Satsang
The third aspect is satsang. Satsang is not an activity of a spiritual club. It does not mean gathering here, listening to nice things, then getting up and falling back into the old patterns of life, where things go in one ear and out the other. Satsang means to be aware of the reality behind the appearance, to apply understanding with discrimination, viveka. That is the gist of satsang.

Satsang has to be combined with seva and swadhyaya in order to derive the full benefit, so that we don’t just accept what is pleasant and then reject what we don’t wish to hear. Generally we try to compartmentalise everything that we hear according to our conditioning and programming. But satsang is the breaking down of that conditioning and programming, and that definitely takes hard work.

I’ll give you an example. The BSY swamis are good people but idiots too because they have received many, many instructions during satsang, and while they are listening they say, “Oh, very nice, he is right”, but they are never able to implement the instructions they receive in satsang because they think it applies to someone else and not to them. Therefore, they have good hearts but idiot minds. In satsang the idiotic nature of the mind should be complimented by the goodness of the heart. That is how one has to bring a balance in one’s own mental processes through satsang. Satsang is a way to develop day-to-day discrimination and understanding of truths that can be lived in a practical way in life, and making an effort to do so.

Samarpan
The fourth aspect is samarpan, surrender. To whom do we surrender? People say surrender to God, surrender to guru, but I cannot accept this concept of surrender. For me it is surrendering to oneself, to the inner nature. When you are able to surrender to yourself, then surrender to guru or to God, to humanity or to husband or to wife or to children automatically happens. Surrender does not mean becoming impotent or that we lose our will. Surrender means coming in tune with the nature that is alive and active within, tuning ourselves to that nature so that there are no crosscurrents affecting the behaviour or performance. When there are no crosscurrents then definitely the energy of God and guru manifests in your life.

Santosh
The fifth aspect is santosh, contentment. Contentment is the result of sanyam, when you have left behind all the mental chattering and have accepted the continuity and spontaneity of life. Who is content? Am I content? Are you content? When are you content? When am I content? We become content when our desires are fulfilled, when we achieve what we want to achieve. Contentment is normally a very selfish process. To be content means that you have given yourself the ability to restrain the senses, the mind and the emotions and have harmonised them. So harmony is contentment.

These are the five ‘s’s, the five practices of sannyasa which lead to the attainment of viveka and vairagya. Then you become sannyasananda, experiencing the bliss in sannyasa.

Ganga Darshan, 1994

http://twm.co.nz/consc_phys.htm

Consciousness and relativity

http://twm.co.nz/prussell.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/09/science/09MATT.html?pagewanted=print&position=
January 9, 2004
Subatomic Tracking Finds Clues to the Unseen Universe
By JAMES GLANZ

n experiment that tracks subtle motions of subatomic particles called muons has found tantalizing evidence for a vast shadow universe of normally unseen matter existing side by side with ours, scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory said yesterday.

The significance of the findings has been thrown into doubt by a series of mathematical errors and theoretical disagreements by physicists around the world who have been weighing the evidence for what would, if correct, rank as one of the greatest discoveries in science.

The Brookhaven "g minus 2" experiment has produced extraordinarily minute observations of the gyrating muons. In a dispiriting turn for the experimenters, though, the theoretical predictions of how encounters with ordinary matter should affect the dance of the particles have come into doubt. Only through differences between the expected and observed behavior of the muons (pronounced MEW-ahnz) could the existence of new matter be inferred.

"If you could believe the theory value was stable and reliable, you'd say, `Hey, there's no question,' " said Thomas B. Kirk, associate director for high energy and nuclear physics at Brookhaven. "But the theory situation is still not under control. It's just maddening to me."

The existence of the new matter is predicted by an unconfirmed theory called supersymmetry. According to the theory, every known particle in the universe from the electron to the neutrino has a counterpart that has eluded detection. Some versions of the theory suggest that "dark matter," a substance that seems to outweigh ordinary matter in the cosmos, actually consists of tremendous swarms of supersymmetric particles that waft through space.

The test at Brookhaven, at Upton on Long Island, involved a multinational team of scientists. It works something like the high school experiment called Brownian motion, which long ago provided evidence for the atomic structure of ordinary matter. When seen through a microscope, dust motes in liquids jitter about, because they are repeatedly struck by otherwise invisible atoms and molecules.

Physicists know that seemingly empty space is populated by a kind of fizz of particles that flit into and out of existence. The muons, charged particles that are heavier cousins of electrons, gyrate like tops in a powerful magnetic field in a vacuum chamber. Like the dust motes, the muons encounter the other particles and gyrate differently as a result.

The new Brookhaven group studied four billion spinning muons with negative electrical charges. The findings seem to agree with the group's earlier examination of positive muons, suggesting to some scientists that the shadow universe of supersymmetry may have been dimly sighted.

Gordon Kane, a particle physicist at the University of Michigan, said that he believed the disagreements were close to being resolved and that the experiment should continue to collect data. If the anomalous readings continue, Dr. Kane said, "you would have the first true, absolutely firm evidence for new physics."

In another misfortune for the g minus 2 group, the experiment has not received financing from the Energy Department to continue the work. The results presented yesterday emerged from extensive figures collected in 2001. Physicists in the experiment said they would renew their proposal to continue the work.

"When you get a discrepancy at this level, the usual procedure is to keep making careful measurements and answer the unanswered questions," said Lee Roberts, a physicist at Boston University and the group spokesman. "We will write a proposal that will say what we expect we can do."

So far, financing has gone instead to machines that have a hope of seeing the new particles directly, said Robin Staffin, associate director for high-energy physics in the science office of the Energy Department. Dr. Staffin cited the American contribution to the Large Hadron Collider, a powerful particle accelerator in Geneva scheduled to begin running in 2007.

Dr. Staffin called the new results "a very interesting indication of the new physics beyond the Standard Model," the theory that physicists use to describe ordinary matter. But he was noncommittal on whether the new findings would prompt a reconsideration on financing.

The Brookhaven experiment begins when protons spit out from the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron strike a nickel target and produce a spray of particles. Some of those particles decay into muons that are polarized, ones that have their spins, like little tops, all lined up.

Those muons are shunted into a 50-foot-diameter particle racetrack consisting of superconducting magnets. Moving at nearly the speed of light, the muons circle the track about once every 149-billionths of a second. At the same time, said David Hertzog, a member of the group who is a physicist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the muons wobble like precessing tops in the powerful magnetic field.

Physicists have long known that if not for the background fizz of other particles, the frequency that the muons zip around the track would be the same as their wobble frequency. But a set of 24 detectors found that they were different. Much of that discrepancy could be explained by known particles in the fizz, which exists because the strange science of quantum mechanics lets the muons spend part of their lives in the guise of those other particles.

But not all of the difference could be explained that way — at least, according to the calculations Dr. Kane and some other theorists believe to be correct. Other calculations show less of a discrepancy with standard physics, and that is largely why the experimenters have not declared that they have discovered the shadow universe of new particles

No, this is not a lyrics page. But this works for me.

The Wallflowers

How Good It Can Get

Slow down
You're breaking up
Use your words
Don't yell so much
I don't understand a word
That you're saying
Now move in
Come up close
You look like
You've maybe seen a ghost
Tell me
Has someone gotten to you baby
Now open your arms
Pick up your head
Open your eyes
So you can see
What happens next

You won't believe
Just how good it can get
We'll make a lover
Out of you yet

The fog is so thick
I can't see my hands
It got much worse
Soon as I got in
And I know you're somewhere
Here in the water
It's ten feet deep
And the river won't stop
I'll tell you what's in it
When I make it across
You could make it too
If you let someone help you

But you gotta give in
And you gotta let go
Then you can begin
To come up slow
Like a desert rose


Take a deep breath
And hold it in tight
And put your face up
Right into the light
Can't you feel that full moon
Shining down on you
Help is coming
From the great unknown
Just maybe not
When you needed it most
Cause I can see you already
Know that you're leaving
But I wish you'd stay
And just let me in
Cause everything can change
But you gotta be ready
Cause you won't know when

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Cool life simulations. GET A LIFE! (smiles)

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The World Exploded Into Love
Bob Schneider
©1999 Shockorama music pub.
There is a universe that can't be seen
It's just a feeling if you know what I mean
A delectable dimension undetectable by sight
It'll fill up your heart in the dead of the night
Some say its an astral plane
Can't be described can't be explained

The world exploded into love all around me
The world exploded into love all around me
And everytime I take a look around me
I have to smile

Oh is our life just an illusion
There is no need to figure it out
The separation exists not in your love filled heart
But only in your mind
The real story's all around you
Even now it surrounds you
Even now I feel the power

The world exploded into love all around me
The world exploded into love all around me
And everytime I take a look around me
I have to smile

Playing with art software and having a ball with it. It's the democratic solution to visual creativity. Have you ever priced a tube of cadmium orange or cerulean blue? It's criminal, and those aren't even the most expensive. Good paint makes a difference. However, color can be very exact in the electronic media. That being said, I can't control this app yet, and I haven't yet mastered meditative noodling. That comes with time, I hope.

Sometimes it goes that way. And then sometimes it goes the other way. My New Year's Eve was excellent; I couldn't have had more fun.