When the ground starts moving beneath their feet, they reach for answers that seem solid, even if they are simplistic.
...“don’t write yourself off yet.. it’s only in your head you feel left out and looked down on… you know you’re doing better on your own, so don’t buy in… just live right now and be yourself; it doesn’t matter if it’s good enough for someone else.”
First the thought and then the act
To think a plant up towards the sun
It can’t be done, it can’t be done
…
Sam and Libby, Lib and Sam
Made a little one of them
A baby’s born a man to die
I don’t know why, I don’t know why
Excuse me, are you lost? Perhaps you would care to visit the site map
I played Dance Dance Revolution for the first time ever yesterday…
it’s awesome (and more exercise than I’m used to).
so is watching this little Japanese kid totally put me (and everyone, for that matter) to shame…
I don’t know where to begin.
Washington Post: Student Wrote About Death and Spoke in Whispers, But No One Imagined What Cho Seung Hui Would Do
Flags are at half-mast today.
So there’s a small frenzy as people are getting excited or disdainful over the arrival of Microsoft’s Zune player.
I spent a few minutes skimming Internet and this is what I’ve figured (for my own future reference..):
There are 5 choices out there:
Continued from earlier entry: Army strike in Bangkok
Pictures: Things in Bangkok seem to be quite well.
More news: From 2Bangkok.com
Curfew has been announced.. state of emergency declared 30 minutes ago..
Soldiers seized the government house..
Prime Minister Thaksin (not so popular these past many months..but likely to be re-elected because money to the rural folk and they’re the ones who vote) is out of the country..
Sept.20, 4:16pm update~ The King is supporting the general/coup.
Steve Jobs/Apple presented their refreshed/new product line showcased by Engadget (from yesterday, Sept. 12)
Stephen Colbert vs. Stone Phillips: Gravitas
[link to video, via]
So cute! The end especially..
Good gracious that’s impressive:
Video DescriptionRyan Patricio achieving the current one-handed 3×3x3 Rubik’s Cube speedcubing world record during the Caltech Spring competition 2006.
Can we seriously just demote Pluto like that? Pluto’s always been the littlest planet in our solar system. Our solar system. Our littlest planet. We loved it as our littlest, ninth planet. And now we’ve just outgrown its cuteness and decided we don’t need it as a planet anymore :-/
Now where we learned “9 planets and one sun”, kids in school will memorize a few more names when they’re learning the solar system: 8 planets and 3 “dwarf planets” — Ceres, Pluto, and “2003 UB313”/Xena.
I guess it works… Still seems a lil sad though…a lil dwarf planet sad.
BBC: Pluto loses status as a planet
National Geographic: Pluto Not a Planet, Astronomers Rule
Washington Post: Pluto Is No Longer a Planet, Astronomers Say
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