Category: x-personal

Random and intermittent postings about life, the universe, etc..

Buckaroo Who, Dr. Bonzai

So listening to the extras on my recently purchased Buckaroo Bonzi DVD, I had a revelation. With the return of Dr. Who imminent, it occured to me that Buckaroo Bonzai is the American version of Dr. Who. Eccentric scientist type, multi-talented, saves the world regularly. Both are so steeped in their respective cultures they’re regularly indecipherable to outsiders. Deep background involved in the backstory. There’s more, but I need to think it through.

Poetry from a friend

Because the references might disappear tomorrow, this is for posterity.

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easer because you have live.  This is to have succeeded.”
    –Ralph Waldo Emerson – Cheerful

“The van waits in the driveway, its double doors stand open.  The two of them, one on either side now, take me by the elbows to help me in.  Whether this is my end or a new beginning I have no way of knowing:  I have given myself over into the hands of strangers, because it can’t be helped.
   
And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light.”

    –Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale – Sincere

“Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery.  Though shared by each of us and known to all, it seldom rates a second thought.  That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never thing twice about, is time.

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that hour can seem an eternity or pass in a flash, depending on how we spend it.

Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.”

– Michael Ende, MOMO

“Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”

– “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

Current Mood: 😉giggly

The Commonly Confused Words Test

Advanced
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 72% Expert!
You have an extremely good understanding of beginner, intermediate, and advanced level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of each of these three levels’ questions correct. This is an exceptional score. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don’t use them properly. You got an extremely respectable score.

Test statistics:

* Compared to users who took the test and are and in your age group:
o 100% had lower Beginner scores.
o 100% had lower Intermediate scores.
o 100% had lower Advanced scores.
o 100% had lower Expert scores.
* With respect to Beginner, users aged 55 to 59 scored highest.
* With respect to Intermediate, users aged 55 to 59 scored highest.
* With respect to Advanced, users aged 55 to 59 scored highest.
* With respect to Expert, users aged 55 to 59 scored highest.

Current Mood: 🙂pleased

I don’t want to be Superman

So I finally realized why I always like Spiderman instead of the other superheroes.  Spiderman glides.  He tumbles.  He’s an acrobat.  He has grace and skill, and yet he’s still connected to the earth.

I just saw a program on the Discovery Channel about a new urban sport, free-running.  The folks they were profiling were runing around London, jumping over obstacles, scaling walls, jumping across roofs and down from buildings.

I suppose this comes from my own natural lake of grace and agility. I wish I could be that graceful.  I wish I had the ability to climb and jump around all life’s obstacles like that.  I guess it’s why I like riding my bicycle, because the addition of angular momentum allows me to be more smooth and graceful than I can be on my feet (skids across the pavement notwithstanding.)

Current Mood: 😉quixotic