randoming

Just thought some randomness was in order. (Or the perfect excuse for writing a short post without fully formed ideas.) The current access to information via the internet for facts has seemingly done little to  combat idiocy. This proves that “horse to water…” thing still applies. I am still amazed at how time flies when I’m engaged in a project. I awoke yesterday incredulous that it was already December! Although I want it to be …

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when you wake at 3 AM…

… (or at least, when I do) the inherent quiet of the time helps turn down the noise in the head. The noise that accumulates in the course of living life. Even if you are not an instigator or participant in the pettiness that may abound just being around it makes the noise stick in some form or another. So, in the wee hours when quiet descends it becomes clearer what is noise and what …

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there is a certain zen to long distance driving…

… that helps blow away the accumulation of cobwebs in the mind. I have always found that to be true… for me. As the scenery whizzes by not only are priorities sorted out but entire thoughts are formulated. That’s what happened to me this weekend as I drove to (and today from) San Francisco. In fact, I arrived a few hours ago. It began on Saturday morning. I woke up arguing with myself if I …

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yeah, I got to watch a sneak…

… preview of the new Harry Potter movie tonight. I enjoyed it. It was really quite good. That’s pretty much all I’m going to say about that… for the moment… except that my companion for the evening was the recently arrived from Sweden… APJ. Once again… a big THANK YOU to the good folk at the Beehive for the passes and the opportunity to catch this before it’s official opening. (You bet, I feel special.) …

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I wanted to be cool…

… wearing mock turtlenecks, sideburns, getting the girl and stealing things. I wanted to be Al Mundy from “It Takes A Thief“. To me he was THE standard of cool. A suave, debonair, likable rogue with a twinkle in his eye and a streak of compassion. Of course, I was also at the age when I wanted to be Pope. One would think that this would have been a conflict but a Pope who wore …

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yeah, yeah… o.k. I confess…

… I snuck over to the official Britains Got Talent site and watched the snippets of the finals there this afternoon. But I will only share my impressions AFTER I watch the entire thing.  By now you know that Susan Boyle came in runner=up to Diversity. Of course all the headlines are going to Boyle… and arguably she will make more money in the end than the winning hip-hop dance group. Still… I can’t wait …

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proof that Simon has a heart

WATCH… Holly half-way through this segment of semi-final 5. Then WATCH how she comes back. The finals are going on at this very moment. You can (if you so desire) spoil it for yourself at the OFFICIAL SITE in an hour or two. I am opting to wait until THIS USER uploads the whole thing.

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