[quote who="RoyLevosh" comment="1"] I ride my bike to work all the time. It is about five miles round trip BUT there is hardly any traffic at all (in Texas). It's fun and energizing to do when the weather's nice. [/quote] I think it's great to ride to work. I don't get as much a workout because of the traffic but it's great to be out there. Beats playing sardine in the train any day. [quote who="KellyW0498" comment="2"] You
I practiced riding my bike to work today. It's about 10-11 km from my house to work. Usually I take the train which mostly runs underground so I didn't want my first attempt to ride my bike there to be on a work day. And that turned out to be a good thing. One of the things about streets in Japan is that they seldom run on a grid system. It's not uncommon to have an intersection with five streets or intersections at strange angles that make it just a little toug
[quote who="Tova7" reply="5" id="2089165"] The whole birth certificate thing takes a new spin for me once a military officer becomes involved, because his involvement may be the shot across the bow, the first hint of mutiny in the services if you will. So I will keep my eye on how the DOD responds to this...technically according to military law, he isn't supposed to say anything negative about the Pres...period. And yet, the Army let him do it (he asked first)
[quote who="Tova7" reply="21" id="2089176"] So I will keep my eye on how the DOD responds to this...technically according to military law, that military officer isn't supposed to say anything negative about the Pres...period. And yet, the Army let him do it (he asked first). That almost NEVER EVER happens. In fact this is so well enforced, I can't remember the last time I saw a solider on tv, in uniform, and STILL serving who said anything directly negative about
Thank you. That was very, very interesting.
[quote who="momijiki" reply="19" id="2089159"] Quoting Tova7, reply 18 But the whole situation just smells. I edited my previous post a bit. Corrected some grammar and added a bit about whinging. With the way the campaign seemed to play out from the media I saw, I can't believe that Clinton or McCain didn't send someone out to sniff the smoke and check for fire.[/quote] Ha ha! We
[quote who="Tova7" reply="18" id="2089150"] Yeah I'm not sure why someone didn't go and check, except the media wouldn't bother, they worship at the Obama alter. And most Americans aren't going to quit their day job, get a Passport and head into Kenya. But someone (Fox News at least) should be on top of it. The tape is nice, I mean if you have to "settle" for it...but why not bring the woman here? Why not go there and get it on video? Maybe
Tova, And then I go and comment about your Obama's Birth Certificate post. That whole situation irritates me and I'm not even a U.S. citizen. By the way, that wasn't you I was referring to. This was way, way back. One was in 2004 and the other was in 2005. Not that far back I guess. Are you in Florida? I was thinking about going to Orlando in May, but that fell through.
Switching a rich womans dead baby for a poor woman's live one, pretending the healthy second son is the elder so he can inherit the throne, faking where you were born.... Some of this stuff actually happened. I hate when people act suspiciously. I can't believe that some anti-Obama Dem or Rep didn't go to Kenya to whiff out some witnesses. Next, I'll hear he was born in a manger because the hospital was out of beds. If he was born in Kenya, people would have
[quote who="KellyW0498" comment="1"] My creative work is kind of at a standstill. It's one of those brainstorming things where I have a lot of ideas but not producing anything. It's like I see something interesting and I go, oooh! Shiney! ...Want to do that, too! That happens to me all the time. I get too many ideas and don't follow through sometimes. I am slowly, and I do mean slowly working on a long term project. Keep your fingers crosses. It's
It's been hard to write a post or even a reply. I'll get started, even write some long paragraphs, then I just sit there a while and then decide to delete the whole thing. I'll be amazed if I even get this post up. I just realized I was daydreaming about stuff. I think I'm usually fairly bland and un-opinionated when I write or respond to things. Blah. Because that's not really me. Ironically, I don't really like conflict but I hate backing down.
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The west would have wanted to believe India still is a land of elephants and snake charmers; and therefore, were very uncomfortable thinking that perchance it no more seems to be so and was changing too fast for their comfort. Now they know India has changed indeed!!! It is no more the land of elephants and snake charmers... It is the land of shit-swimming slumdogs, who are turning millionaires... more by goddamned luck than by hard work. That’s their new view of India. Tha
Who doesn't like a good pirate story? Actually, me. I mean, I didn't mind a pirate yarn until Pirates of the Carribean III really spoiled it for me. Then I read an anthology called Fast Ships, Black Sails edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer and my interest was revived. The book is put out by Night Shade Books which is quickly becoming a favorite publishing house of mine. I read the book two months ago but still have the stories lingering in my mind.
Here is a link I found online about myelin and learning: about myelin . The site is actually for a teaching program for skin cancer but this link is about the teenage brain and is adapted with permission from a book called B rain Matters: Translating the Research to Classroom Pr
[quote] 3. I was relatively dim until my 20s when my brain, for some reason, switched on and went into overdrive. [/quote] I read somewhere, or was at a conference where I heard, that the brain keeps growing until the 20's and that the myelin sheath isn't finished growing until the 20's and that it has something to do with (... this part is hazy in my memory) logic or ability to understand mathematics. I was really bad at math in high school and developed a phobia about it. &nbs
My gripe is taxi drivers who think they know where they are going but don't and then refuse to listen to you when you tell them how to get there and then still think they know where they are going and refuse to stop when you tell them they pass the place you want to get off and then yell at you because you are yelling "stop!" I hate that.
[quote who="kingbee" comment="3"] Y'know, when bees use their stinger they die luckily it's only been le petite morte so far [/quote] Hahahahaaaa. Lucky you. [e digicons]:grin:[/e]
Viagra Schmiagra. I can totally sympathize with a man's point of view in how horrible that might be. As I see it, it's not such a big deal if the guy has other ways of expressing intimacy. I can see the total devastation in a guy's life if he's just depending on one tool in the box. Ha ha. There was a really good interview with a woman named Leonore Tiefer on CBC on a show called "The Best of Ideas". I found it on iTunes but it's no longer in the CBC feed
No, it's not strange. Same thing as talking to strangers on a plane.
Just hit the private button on your blog. Then it "should" be unavailable to the public. Just you and your password.
so does that mean the address I have for you won't be valid soon?
Your son played a recording of something his teacher said? Where did the recording come from?
I just saw a story about the bushfires on the news in Japan last night. Those fires are really scary. When I found out how fast the fires were moving... really, no words. I'm just thankful more people weren't injured. I might agree with what you have to say about the arsonists. Really anyone who would set fires like that in such dry places is really doing the devil's work. They must have a large part of the devil inside them. As far as that religio
If you would like a Canadian perspective... you can email me. I've also lived overseas for a while so when I go to the U.S. or Canada, sometimes I get reverse culture shock.
What a weird idea. Very negative.
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