tail? Yes I can.
Whaddaya think? Another couple of months and I'll be able to wear it in public. If I choose to. Who knows?
My hair's never been this long before. I like it. Much more. . . luxurious. I have very soft curls.
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"President Barack Obama."
Such beautiful words. Such a beautiful man. Such a beautiful country. Such a beautiful day. Such a beautiful birthday present.
And because it's been sitting in my Maj folder for weeks already:
There ya go. Congratulations, America!
Y'know, I just realized: that's not the most celebrative picture. It's all stark and red and frowning. Dang. But then, it's true that America does face some truly tough issues that now fall most heavily upon
Novelist Juha Seppälä
From an interview in the latest Suomen Kuvalehti, translated by me.
How's that for Finnish melancholy? Lord, what a downer. But words of truth nonetheless.
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Lately, I've been getting an inordinate amount of non-random weirdness appearing where there should be just pure, normal randomness. I look at the clock and it's 2:22 or 4:44 or 11:11. My car's tripmeter reads 888. I see three or four license plates in a row with letters or numbers in the form XYX. It just goes on and on. And a couple of days ago, my BZPower inbox had three new messages (I hardly ever get more than one; two is very rare) -- for a total of 333. Not only that, but my sent folder h
Here's the quote from the Official Greg Discussion:
All righty! This is a good move, a smart and sensitive move, a NO EXCUSE NOT TO DO IT move from the story team. If they can't retcon, reboot, or upgrade the Matoran race, then I guess this is the next best thing. There's no telling how many fans have been wishing for the ridiculous idea of single-sex tribes, five male and one female, to be scrapped in favour of a more realistic world. Fan fiction writers in particular have every reason to ce
The title? That's my new signoff.
Because. . .
I've used the old one forever,
I was never terribly enamored of it to begin with,
it doesn't actually stand for anything specific,
and Bitter Cold makes BC sound much cooler than my name does. So yeah, he's allowed to use it now.
Oh, and -- pizzazz. Not so much the fact that it's a play on the other half of my name -- the (wooOOoo!) silent half -- but just the idea of having a pair of eyes looking out from the end of every post struck my
Curiosity, they say, killed the cat. I'm a curious guy -- incurably curious. So when some dude (or chick, just as likely) posts a topic asking, "What is a tone 3 jaguar," I bite. Turns out the subject is the Tzolk'in ("day count") calendar of the ancient Mayans, and "tone 3 Jaguar" is the "vibe" of the person's birthdate. The Tzolk'in calendar has 20 different glyphs and 13 tones for a possible 260 combinations. A few clicks later, with the help of a nifty online portal, I've computed my own per
A quick Google search yields the following results: Bone Care International, Inc. (NASDAQ symbol) Business Consulting & Investigations, Inc. Brentwood Communications International, Inc Bovine Collagen type II Budapest Conference on Immunogenomics and Immunomics 2006 Battle Command and Intel Integration Business Career Interest Inventory Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation (Ohio) Background Checks International, Inc. Building and Construction Industry Improvement Act 2005 (Aus
Personal aide to a father of six who suffered permanent brain damage in a car accident 22 years ago. His wife is a nurse by profession, stay-at-home mom by choice. Eleven-hour workdays, seven days out of fourteen. I start work bright and early on Thursday morning.
After six months telemarketing, almost any job would be welcome. But this... this is more than just a job for me. It may even be something like my calling. I am very happy.
-BC
Last night, I dreamed it was my turn to be hotel manager. One of the maids came to me with a burned-out light bulb. Said she couldn't find one to replace it. I ordered a search of the supply room -- nothing but dead bulbs. Could have just gone to the hardware store and bought a fresh supply, except the hotel's light fixtures all used a special type of bulb that was only available at one particular store -- that had just been bought out from the edge of bankruptcy by a big chain. Needless to say,
A quote from the website's news ticker: "The band is currently in the studio. An upcoming album will include new versions of Creeping in My Soul, Face Me and Gravity Hurts.."
This bodes well, my friends. Achh. My cochleae be tingling with anticipation already.
-BC
I have looked upon the face of the Void and returned.
I have seen what lies beyond Oneness, beyond Is-ness, and it is terrible indeed, too terrible for mortal minds.
This is a prison planet.
You are all mind-controlled.
Your belief system is your cage.
Believe nothing. Question everything.
Hope is false. Despair is false. Light and dark are a lie.
Your own existence is an illusion. You cannot know reality.
The search for truth is a game, and the cards are stacked against
Before you ask -- yes, that is a purple and pink spiral pendant. Jango Fett purple, to be exact. Never could figure out a good use for those pieces.
I can't believe how many shots it took before I got a half-decent picture of myself. (14)
Oh my word, I'm so only doing this for the comments... What's gotten into me?
-BC
Lately, a most annoying bug has been putting a major crimp on my Internet experience. It's one that's been around since April and STILL hasn't been squashed, as far as I know.
The lowdown: Mozilla Firefox 3 and Adobe Flash 9 do not play well together.
Until I jump through some techy hoops to fix this, I may just have to watch my videos with Internet Explorer. *feels dirty*
*because of IE, not the videos*
-BC
This past little while has been a period of immense change for me. I've been making leaps in consciousness, learning huge amounts of wisdom almost every day. Also, my life situation has been going through a transition that I can only describe as revolutionary.
So why the silence here? Well, I've certainly had plenty of events and thoughts to write about, but there just hasn't been a deep enough desire to share. It feels like so much of what I'd like to share with the world, significant as it
For those of you following the Bionicle storyline, what are your thoughts on the Order of Mata Nui? To me, it seems they've been taking almost an attitude of "The ends justify the means" in this so-called Destiny War. In the latest update, Axonn and Brutaka actually contemplated killing Nektann in cold blood. The only reason they didn't was because he would be more useful alive.
To me, this whole Destiny War is a complicated affair, very much a conflict between ideologically and politically o
Somewhere out there, on a separate timeline of the multiverse, today is my wedding day. ... Wow. I wonder if there's a timeline where I awakened spiritually and got married? Seems unlikely, given how closely linked my awakening was to the breakup. So the only way it could work is if I awakened after the wedding. I can imagine what a mess that would bring about, in the context of the conservative Laestadian Lutheran revival movement in which I grew up.
(Note: I am not passing judgement on reli
No more entries like the one below. Seriously, how many lines did I cross there? I don't even want to know. So from now on, I'll try to keep it more... reader-friendly.
I really need a second blog for my serious stuff. BZP ain't the place for it.
[Amendment: no more resolutions like the one above. Seriously, on how many levels did I belie myself there? I don't even want to know. So from now on, I'll try to keep it more... BCii-true.]
[Thanks to Arch-Angel for the reality check.]
-BC
No, no, there's no cataclysm. That was just to get your attention.
I'm talking about tomorrow's total solar eclipse, of course. Unfortunately for 99 % of us, totality will only be viewable along a narrow corridor through northern Canada (Nunavut), the middle of Russia, western Mongolia, India and China. Still, the Moon's penumbra will pass over a broad swath of the Earth, granting us denizens of the Land of the Midnight Sun the opportunity to observe a partial eclipse. In my area, the time of
