Cosmic Pileup : WOW

Saw this on Aol this morning, the full story is here .I am always fascinated by the vastness of space and what lies beyond our own galaxy, it turns out that this is a picture of the creation of what may turn out to be a galaxy bigger than ours.

However do take the time to read the comments at the end of this and to see how colliding galaxies are linked to Iraq :D, as I am sure almost everything is eventually and how some actually see it as a sign of the second coming, although pardon my ignornace here but most 'popular' scriptures only talk about earth and what was visible in the sky to the naked eye, so how is it possible that this is the signal of the second coming or the end of the world?
We are after all the most important beings in the universe, so if we've got out we have to do it is style, a cosmic pileup to be arranged by the Almighty to finally put an end to human vileness.

This reminds me of a question that was asked once had on a biology exam, the question asked based on scientific reasoning which of the following may be evidence that would prove the theory that that it was probably a comet or some meteor that had slammed into the earth that had caused the extinction of dinosaurs.
One of the choices were that the fossils found showed that the creatures were all looking at the sky, so maybe too in one hundred kazillion years the creatures that inhabit a new earth will study the extinction of humans and realize that we were all gazing at the sky too ...

Anyways if you haven't repented now may be a good time to do so...

*wanders off to see what I can do with the time between now and the dawn of THE END*

Randomness continued...

I guess I started off talking about my precious little Chikki, and then I started wondering what Chikki was probably thinking which then stirred the memory of this essay topic from primary school, anyways the though continued and here it is:

I've always wondered, why in primary school the teachers would ask us to write an essay on my life as a dog,
Almost everyone would write the same thing, loyalty to mater, nice brave dog etc,
now why couldn't someone just write that they were a rabid, psychotic half-wolf-pit bull kinda dog, and how they hated human attention and just wanted to be by themselves, screw loyalty, this wolf pit bull was hungry and was driven by the desire to survive and be free?


I guess an essay along these lines would be sure to get me sent to some kind of institution, so first maybe I should prove my sanity or 'compliance with the brain washing rules of polite society, before I can truly be brave enough to stand up against it.
Or at least a psychiatrist would be sure to tell me I have issues,
so question is, do I have issues for seeing the probability of this essay a different way or should the people who willingly subject themselves to stereotype and herd mentality be the one questioning for all seeing it the same way?
The most plausible answer to this is that everyone wants to seem normal and are afraid to voice a different opinion,
As little kiddies the desire to fit in is embedded into our very soul and then it consumes us until the day we die.

What is beautiful? Appeasing to the eyes? but then again, that which appeases the eyes if seen everyday becomes commonplace and boring and fascination shifts towards that which is rare.

Same shit different day, lies only in the eyes of the beholder!

Wanted to post this for a while now ( forgot that it was even there)

Even though I sometimes say this when in a bad mood I was struck by this response after I asked it to an old man, what got me was that he always gave the same reply so then I asked him about it. And he wasn't very happy with his life because he lived for tomorrow and a dream of tomorrow but he didn't live in the day. It is nice to sometimes think that if today isn't great and maybe tomorrow would be different but what happens when tomorrow becomes today and you keep on looking towards other tomorrows instead of simply trying to enjoy today.
Anyways I came upon the conclusions below ( subject to change if I turn about 60 and gain the cynical wisdom from age)

Same shit different day...only applies to if you are so stuck in your ways that you take the same path everyday and notice only the same things! Or should I say notice the things that you were trained to look for. Everyday is amazing there is a hundred zillion new things to learn, or observe. ( I think thats why I think too much, observing everything and wondering, but at least it makes each day different!)
How about taking a different path, listening to or entertaining a different opinion, trying something new or would you rafter live safely and very boring the society that was created for you?

Very bored at 1:33am

There is this software called heritage that supposedly tells you who your celebrity look alike are.
Decided to try it and was very much surprised by the results although, I believe that the software simply compares the position and shape of the face.

I wanted it to tell me that I had a unique face and nobody looks like me or that I do not resemble anyone but unfortunately it came up with matches and gave me Ashley Olsen as a top match! Geeze, she's a kid!
But I guess thats a drawback to being human, we are of the same species and there will be obvious similarities in our phenotype no matter how hard we try to find differences.
tell me what you think and do try?
The first one shows where the program automatically cropped my pic and the second one I cropped it to include more of me. As you can see even though it is the same pic, there are differences.
Ps: Ignore the hair style( I am saving the planet by not wasting energy to blow dry or straight iron my hair anymore)

http://www.myheritage.com

http://www.myheritage.com

Lastly same day different angle results: I should mention that Mena Suvari ( I really don't know who she is ) is included in all of the results its just that my widget excludes her.

http://www.myheritage.com

Participating

from: The Perks of being a Wallflower


..."Do you always think this much Charlie?"
"Is that bad?" I just wanted someone to tell me the truth
"Not necessarily, its just that sometimes people use thoughts to not participate in life"
"Is that bad?"
"Yes"...

This line kind of struck me and I've been trying to participate as well, sometime we find so many excuses to not do something if we think it over first, and then sometimes the most fun is when the thought occurs and you follow with the action.
I've been trying to participate too instead of hiding behind or in my thoughts.
sometime I simply want to turn off the thinking and once again enter fully into the world around me and breathe with it, experience it completely instead of simply existing on the outskirts, watching and observing.


The poisonous mentality behind an Honor Killing
At the same time I am posting this, I am listening to the news about an Iraqi girl that was stoned to death in an honor killing.
I am wondering what could possibly be going through the minds of those men as they kicked and beat this girl in the middle of the street to death.
I am also wondering is this story real. I am hoping that it is not.
I cannot understand the mentality of the crowd that did this or a society that would condone it.
And above all I am wondering WHAT IN HELL IS AN HONOR KILLING? How could this girl possibly disrupt the honor of all those freaks that participated in killing her, how did she dishonor them? Did they own her life that they can take it over that? ( she was seen with a man who was not the same kind of Muslim as she was, the girl was 17)
And I am wondering what would have been going through the mind of the girl, did she think that it was right that she be killed because she broke the 'rules', was she hoping that there was at least one soul in the mob that would speak up and realize that this was wrong. did she hope that no other girl would be killed this way, or no other person for that matter.


I guess it is the incidents above that makes me not want to breathe with this World, but at least I think that I can participate and try to make a teeny change or just be a little voice speaking out against atrocities such as that.

Culling still may happen!!!

Still no progress on banning culling !!!

You can take action by registering
here and simply voicing a request for them to stop.

Sometimes in order to win it is imperative that you lose.

Literally I thought about wars, but I guess that it can be applied to every battle, even the ones that we subject ourselves to but trying to battle with the concepts of self, society and he/she/it who is God:D,
Quite a brilliant quote, if only people would actually consider it.

The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.
- George Orwell

probably its the caffeine but its 5:15am and Sesame Street is on my mind

I grew up on Milo and sesame street! wohooooooooooooooooo

So many times a little situation would occur and one of those little songs from sesame street would go through my head.
I think that there is no other kiddies show that is worth watching except Sesame Street.
I believe that I watched this religiously until I was about 16 years old.
Thinking about captain vegetable, cookie monster and sharing, Big bird and Snuffy with friendship, little bear teaches tolerance how to try something new, Oscar shows even a grouch can be nice, Elmo curious little red critter always welcoming friends, Bert and Ernie...am, well these two are two of my favorites, and I guess they can be taken as siblings since Vami annoys me just as much as Ernie does Bert!

Loved Maria and Luis, Gordon and Gina.
I even remembered an episode where sesame street attempted to teach racial acceptance where Gina and Savion ( I believe) was going out and someone wrote a mean note to them then Gina was trying to explain that some people just cannot see other other people happy and they want everything to be their way or something like that, but that was an awesome episode.
Also Sesame street also has those little songs where they try to include people from all different races, cultures and countries , I guess its the first sociology and acceptance lesson that kiddies are given, would help a lot in pluralistic pre school environment, maybe adults need to watch this too and learn to accept other cultures etc.
Another awesome episode was Maria and Luis's wedding.

Sesame Street addresses single parent families with the song "...mama's tree is over here back there is daddie's tree they live in different places but they both love me..."


I know its weird, but I simply love this series. I heard a tap leaking and right away remembered the episode in sesame street where you must not waste water,
he he have also developed a loathing for litterbugs...sesame street's message keep the trash or wrapper in your pocket or hand until you find a trash bin, to keep the street and oceans clean.

I can go on and on about this show, I would recommend it to adults as well, maybe people would be nicer if they watched it:D


...as for the other kiddies show, Teletubbies freaks me out, Barney is weird but Smurfs rocks, especially Gargamel!

PLEASE DON'T KILL THE ELEPHANTS!

Please contact the ambassador at the end of this e-mail and ask to stop this.
Also please repost to your blog.

From PETA.org:

Urge South Africa to 'Cull' Elephant Killing From Policy

South Africa’s newest elephant “management” policy includes killing as an option for controlling elephant populations.

These mass killing operations tear apart elephant families and leave the survivors permanently scarred. Between 1967 and 1995, 14,562 elephants in South Africa’s Kruger National Park were culled. Terrified elephants were herded into groups with helicopters while people on the ground and in the air opened fire with high-powered weapons. Elephants are capable of communicating over long distances, and their death screams were undoubtedly heard by other elephants miles away. Innumerable orphaned calves, who were regarded as valuable collateral, were sold to zoos and circuses, where many were beaten into submission, chained, and confined and had their precious freedom taken and their spirits broken. And scientists are now determining that these individuals were left with lifelong emotional trauma from witnessing the violent executions of their families.

Although elephants are considered by many to be the quintessential symbol of the African continent and ecotourism plays an important role in the South African economy, many of the country’s officials treat elephants as nuisances to be “controlled,” marketed, and profited from. These magnificent animals are viewed by some as commodities to be killed, hacked into pieces, skinned, canned, carved, and sold bit by bit.

Numerous scientists have condemned South Africa’s proposal to kill elephants. There is no evidence that elephants pose an imminent risk to biodiversity. Reducing the elephant population is arbitrary and scientifically unsound, and it reflects outdated wildlife-management principles. Please urge South Africa to remove culling from the list of options for elephant “management” and implement the humane, sensible suggestions advocated by scientists and reported by Care for the Wild International, including the following:

• Reduce the number of artificially created watering holes—this would divert elephants to previously underutilized areas.
• Expand protected elephant habitats by linking them to adjacent areas, and develop migration corridors to other regions.
• Develop community-based wildlife-conservation programs outside the existing protected areas to increase the benefits of tourism to nearby rural areas.
• Protect vulnerable and valuable areas by erecting and maintaining fences and implementing other nonlethal deterrents.
• Administer contraception, which is affordable and involves minimal intervention that can reduce the number of elephants in a large population.

Please send polite comments to:

Her Excellency Barbara Joyce Masekela
Ambassador of South Africa
Embassy of South Africa
3051 Massachusetts Ave. N.W.
Washington, DC 20008
202-232-4400
202-265-1607 (fax)
ambassador@saembassy.org
vanheerdenm@foreign.gov.za

Even though elephant culling has generated a worldwide outcry, the zoo community has remained strangely silent. If zoos truly foster respect for wildlife, as they purport to do, they should be leading the charge to prevent this tragedy. Please contact your local zoo officials and ask them to do the following:

• Speak out publicly against any elephant “management” proposal that includes culling as an option.
• Pledge not to obtain elephant calves orphaned in culls, thus removing African countries’ financial incentive to slaughter adult elephants.

New years resolution #2 completed

This didn't hurt as much as I had anticipated although I did have to ask the guy to stop and let me breathe and relax first, after I saw how big the needle was. Almost suffered a mild heart attack thinking about the needle and I wimped out since I took this one with my eyes closed.
A lot of bleeding and even a big tear but the pain only lasted for all of 30s. Thank God the needle was sharp.