A place for me to work stuff out and to post things that interest me.
Most of us can, if we choose,
make this world either a palace or a prison.
~Lord Avebury
I choose a palace.
~TKF
Do not let your fire go out,
spark by irreplaceable spark,
in the hopeless swamps of the approximate,
the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish,
in lonely frustration for the life you deserved,
but have never been able to reach.
Check your road and the nature of your battle.
The world you desired can be won.
It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
~Ayn Rand
The democratic society's mythology of equality with its
attendant erasure of difference is an impossibility
in an actual, lived sense.
Therefore, according to this view, this
imaginary erasure cannot achieve an
actual democracy, because a sense of
community can only come with the recognition of difference.
~Slavoj Zizek, as paraphrased by Catherine M. Soussloff
Links!
A brand new link! Check it out!
deviantART
I thought the place was very cool. Oh, and all you Alias fans, you can find a very nice wallpaper there--
or rather, here--and a gorgeous Evanescence one, too!
Watcher's Diary
Slayage; The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies
Convert just about anything
Comes in really handy when you want to convert fahrenheit to celcius and vice versa!
Links to 100s of free calculators online
Everything from your due date to how much a house payment would be to a regular calculator
Reference Guide to Chicago Manual of Style
Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Atlas & Almanac
Quotation Search Engine
Complete HTML True Color Chart
Epicurious Recipes
Inn Recipes; Recipes for all Occasions
JobStar-Resumes & Cover Letters Advice
Overstock.com: Up to 80% off most items
Ediblenature.com
Things My Girlfriend & I Have Argued About
(Trust me--you'll be laughing outloud!)
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Beyond the Invisible
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The tale of the world is like a tree.
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Sturdily rooted in the past, the tale's branches spread out through the days that come. The many stories that make up its substance
unfold from bud to leaf to dry memory and back again, event connecting event like the threadwork of a spider's web, so that each creature of the world plays its part, understanding only aspects of the overall narrative, and perceiving, each with its particular talents, only glimpses
of the Great Mystery that underlies it all.
~Charles de Lint, Moonheart
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Good Thing Global Warming is "Just a Myth"!
Like the title says, good thing global warming is just a myth or I might be seriously worried about the weather around here! Take the next few days: today (Tuesday) it was in the upper 50's for most of the day, with the temp dropping to the 30's by the time night fell. We're currently under a winter advisory and we're supposed to get snow showers by noon tomorrow. Then, on Thursday, it's supposed to be 58 degrees again! On top of that, it's been raining all day and I HATE it! Going to and from the car meant getting rained on all damned day. Personally, I hate getting rained on (the idea that walking in that stuff voluntarily is somehow romantic as opposed to cold, wet, and annoying has never made the slightest bit of sense to me). I feel the same about walking in snow (driving in it is even worse!) and getting splashed at the pool. BAH! With very few exceptions, "wet" sucks!
This insane weather pattern has been the norm for the past several weeks. In the 60's one day and the 30's the next day! Okay, so Kentucky weather has always been somewhat wacky, but this is beyond wacky, even for us! We had tornado warnings in December, for god's sake!
Frankly, I hate being cold almost as much as I hate being wet. As much as I hate being cold, though, this being yanked back and forth between shivering one day and walking around in a sweater the next is harder than if it just stayed cold until it was Spring.
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