INTENSITY²
Start here => Games => Topic started by: skyblue1 on April 10, 2012, 06:01:53 PM
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Done my postwhoring for the day :viking:
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Just noticed its Friday the 13th
glad I made it through the day
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Brucie's AV choking me to death with laughter. Because it's a near-perfect fit for him.
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quip from TV:
" There is nothing lonelier, than living with the wrong person,"
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"There is nothing lonelier, than living with the wrong person,"
I hate to admit it but thats the truth. :P
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This place reminds me of that physics law about a body in motion staying in motion unless acted on by an outside force. We've been over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over some things so many times that someone needs to find an outside force.
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The answer to the question:
Why doesnt glue stick to the inside of the bottle
'Glue is made up of a substance that sticks to things and a solvent that keeps it liquid until you want it to stick. When you put glue on a piece of paper, the solvent gradually evaporates until the glue becomes sticky. When the glue is in a bottle, there is a space inside the bottle above the liquid that is full of air. So why doesn't the glue dry out? Well there's a limit to the amount of solvent that can evaporate to fill the space in the bottle. Once the space is full of solvent gas, no more solvent evaporates from the glue and the glue stays runny. '
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There is nothing worse than ill fitting underwear!
Too big, or too small, both are pretty uncomfortable
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Happiness is a warm gun.
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“Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.” ~ Andre Maurois
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But he grew old-
This knight so bold-
And o'er his heart a shadow
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado
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"Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,"
The shade replied--
"If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.
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THE OLD TELEPHONE ON THE WALL
When I was a young boy, my father had one of the first telephones in our neighborhood..
I remember the polished, old case fastened to the wall.
The shiny receiver hung on the side of the box.
I was too little to reach the telephone, but used to listen with fascination when my mother talked to it.
Then I discovered that somewhere inside the wonderful device lived an amazing person.
Her name was "Information Please" and there was nothing she did not know.
Information Please could supply anyone's number and the correct time.
My personal experience with the genie-in-a-bottle came one day while my mother was visiting a neighbor.
Amusing myself at the tool bench in the basement, I whacked my finger with a hammer, the pain was terrible, but there seemed no point in crying because there was no one home to give sympathy.
I walked around the house sucking my throbbing finger, finally arriving at the stairway.
The telephone!
Quickly, I ran for the footstool in the parlor and dragged it to the landing.
Climbing up, I unhooked the receiver in the parlor and held it to my ear. "Information, please" I said into the mouthpiece just above my head.
A click or two and a small clear voice spoke into my ear.
"Information."
"I hurt my finger..." I wailed into the phone, the tears came readily enough now that I had an audience.
"Isn't your mother home?" came the question.
"Nobody's home but me," I blubbered.
"Are you bleeding?" the voice asked.
"No,"
I replied.
"I hit my finger with the hammer and it hurts."
"Can you open the icebox?" she asked.
I said I could.
"Then chip off a little bit of ice and hold it to your finger," said the voice..
After that, I called "Information Please" for everything...
I asked her for help with my geography, and she told me where Philadelphia was.
She helped me with my math.
She told me my pet chipmunk that I had caught in the park just the day before, would eat fruit and nuts.
Then, there was the time Petey, our pet canary, died.
I called, Information Please," and told her the sad story.
She listened, and then said things grown-ups say to soothe a child.
But I was not consoled.
I asked her, "Why is it that birds should sing so beautifully and bring joy to all families, only to end up as a heap of feathers on the bottom of a cage?"
She must have sensed my deep concern, for she said quietly,
" Wayne , always remember that there are other worlds to sing in."
Somehow I felt better.
Another day I was on the telephone, "Information Please."
"Information," said in the now familiar voice.
"How do I spell fix?" I asked.
All this took place in a small town in the Pacific Northwest .
When I was nine years old, we moved across the country to Boston .
I missed my friend very much.
"Information Please" belonged in that old wooden box back home and I
somehow never thought of trying the shiny new phone that sat on the table in the hall.
As I grew into my teens, the memories of those childhood conversations never really left me..
Often, in moments of doubt and perplexity I would recall the serene sense of security I had then.
I appreciated now how patient, understanding, and kind she was to have spent her time on a little boy.
A few years later, on my way west to college, my plane put down in Seattle .
I had about a half-hour or so between planes.
I spent 15 minutes or so on the phone with my sister, who lived there now.
Then without thinking what I was doing, I dialed my hometown operator and said, "Information Please."
Miraculously, I heard the small, clear voice I knew so well.
"Information."
I hadn't planned this, but I heard myself saying, "Could you please tell me how to spell fix?"
There was a long pause.
Then came the soft spoken answer, "I guess your finger must have healed by now."
I laughed, "So it's really you," I said.
"I wonder if you have any idea how much you meant to me during that time?"
I wonder," she said, "if you know how much your call meant to me.
I never had any children and I used to look forward to your calls."
I told her how often I had thought of her over the years and I asked if I could call her again when I came back to visit my sister.
"Please do", she said.
"Just ask for Sally."
Three months later I was back in Seattle .
A different voice answered, "Information."
I asked for Sally.
"Are you a friend?" she said.
"Yes, a very old friend," I answered.
"I'm sorry to have to tell you this, She said.
"Sally had been working part time the last few years because she was sick.
She died five weeks ago."
Before I could hang up, she said, " Wait a minute, did you say your name was Wayne ?" "
Yes." I answered.
"Well, Sally left a message for you.
She wrote it down in case you called.
Let me read it to you."
The note said, "Tell him there are other worlds to sing in.
He'll know what I mean."
I thanked her and hung up.
I knew what Sally meant.
Never underestimate the impression you may make on others..
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Annual Super Moon is this saturday
The biggest full moon of the year, a so-called "supermoon," will take center stage when it rises this weekend, and may interfere with the peak of an annual meteor shower created by the leftovers from Halley's comet.
The supermoon of 2012 is the biggest full moon of the yearand will occur on Saturday (May 5) at 11:35 p.m. EDT (0335 May 6), though the moon may still appear full to skywatchers on the day before and after the actual event. At the same time, the annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower will be hitting its peak, NASA scientists say.
"Its light will wash out the fainter Eta Aquarid meteors," NASA meteor expert Bill Cooke of the Marshall Space Flight Center told SPACE.com in an email. Still, Cooke said there's a chance that the brightest fireballs from the meteor display may still be visible.
A supermoon occurs when the moon hits its full phase at the same time it makes closest approach to Earth for the month, a lunar milestone known as perigee. Scientists also refer to the event as a "perigee moon," according to a NASA video on the 2012 supermoon.
That's exactly what will happen on Saturday, when the moon will swing within 221,802 miles (356,955 kilometers) of Earth — its closest approach of the entire year. Because the moon's orbit is not exactly circular, there is a 3-percent variation in its closest approaches to Earth each month. The average Earth-moon distance is about 230,000 miles (384,400 km).
By: Tariq Malik
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/03/supermoon-meteor-shower-may-5_n_1473687.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/03/supermoon-meteor-shower-may-5_n_1473687.html)
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Great Dance Routine: James Cagney and Bob Hope
(http://videos2view.net/Hope-Cagney.htm)
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Here's my random musing for the day: skyblue1 locks his topics because he doesnt like how the conversation is going. :butthurt:
:hahaha:
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:tard:
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'Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn.'
~ C.S. Lewis ~
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'In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.'
~ Isaac Asimov ~
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Life is what happens when you're trying to live your dreams. Queen Victoria (me, not her).
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Shake it out shake it out
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(http://www.bitboost.com/pawsense/cat-like-typing-detected.gif) (http://www.bitboost.com/pawsense/index.html)
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I am grown old and my memory is not as active as it used to be. When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it.
~ Mark Twain ~
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"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."
~Les Brown~
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"It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head."
~Sally Kempton, Esquire, 1970~
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“Tomorrow you promise yourself will be different, yet tomorrow is too often a repetition of today.”
~ James T. McKay ~
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“Real love can never be a cause of anger; it is the opposite of anger and can never cause problems.”
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso ~
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Ballad of Paladin ~Have Gun Will Travel (http://youtu.be/tgvxu8QY01s)Ballad of Paladin Have Gun Will Travel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgvxu8QY01s#)
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Last half of the day goes by a lot slower than the first few hours
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Amanda Knox will be tried again next year
Some people just dont give up
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Amanda Knox will be tried again next year
Some people just dont give up
I was in the UK when she was on trial. The news media there is just as fucked up as here. According to them all of America was sympathetic to Knox.