My personal glimpse into the first half of the 21st Century for some yet to be known future
Sunday, May 09, 2010
High School Poems II
Brown, brush
Lies, burns, moisturizes
Forestial protective top soil
Dirt
Boulder
Common, terrestrial
Sits, cracks, crumbles
Is at the mercy of weather
Big rock
For Extra Credit
Great way to improve my score
Ain't this just so great?!
I had classes that covered poetry for 4 years straight, and by the second year, I just started recycling much of my works,just adding extras to cover differing requirements.
I'm not going to add any other poems from my schools years here. There's over 50 or so, but nufin really any good. Some were very ambitious, and I may revisit them later for future projects anew.
Saturday, May 08, 2010
Alaska Cruise
May 8, 2010 to May 16, 2010 with Alice and family and friends, visited Seattle, Washington, Crab Pot Seattle, Federal Way, Washington, Juneau, Alaska, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Skagway Brewing, Skagway, Alaska, Ketchikan, Alaska, Rainforest Canopy & Zip-Line Expedition, Victoria, British Columbia and Pike Place Market
Great experiences and fun with the family in Alaska! Some points of interest.
Sunday, May 02, 2010
California Nature (Rev. B)
Impelling me to climb your cloven heights,
And romp carelessly,
as aureate poppy fields beckon.
Sun-kissed waters bounce along your shoreline.
They entice me to surf the crashing calm waves.
Canopy-enveloped valleys thrive with floral scents
That draw my ingression, but I forestall.
Instead I caper like Death Valley’s mysterious-moving-rocks,
Which tickle your basin by some unseen will.
I endeavor to hike your proud hills,
And find places to gaze lostly into lakes full with sky.
Vineyard nectar overflows like sweet sweat,
To spur my soul’s arousal as I partake.
Your boundless attributes gratify my wanderlust,
And allure me to appease your nature.
Friday, April 30, 2010
California Drone
There is a likelihood that this photo is a hoax. According to the AOL article, "someone using the name Raji posted images on the Web site Craigslist, answered a few questions from UFO hunters around the world, and then just disappeared into cyberspace."
I have found alternative sources for the photos on flickr.com. In fact, there are a ton of photos uploaded as of March 28, 2008 on the TCorp account. TCorp has sixteen photos of the California Drone, including what appears to be two versions of the craft. The interesting thing about flickr.com is that it gives you the information about the camera used to take the photo. The original version of the photo above was taken with Konica Minolta DiMAGE X. Those who are searching for this "Raji" should keep this in mind. Several other flickr.com accounts also have photos, including hoax debunkers that have some interesting perspectives.
My impression of the California Drone photos is that they are hoaxes. Problems with the photo above? Although the angle of the sun/shades is similar across view of the photo, the angle is different in its depth. The light source between the object and the power lines is from the right side of the photo, but the light sources' height from the presumed ground is different. Also, the light intensity between direct sunlight on the object and the power line pole is much different. Another problem is focus. Both objects are in focus, but differently. It is almost as though they where taken with two different cameras.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Are Aliens Really Alien?
There is a possibility that we are being visited by beings from the future. This is based on two assumptions. First, the human species will continue to evolve throughout time. Second, time travel is a technology that we will eventually obtain. If these two assumptions are true, then the most likely source of "alien" encounters is actually future evolved human-descended visitors that come back in time to observe their primitive past. They would come back to study us or to see us out of curiosity.
This would be that two major class of visitations would occur: site-seeing and scientific, or tourists and scientists. Almost on a lark to describe this possibility, I coined the term Future Evolved Terrestrial Tourists and Scientists (FETTS).
This would mean that some beings either come back to observe ancients times much in the same way we visit the pyramids or other ancients sites. In fact, there are stories that every president of the U.S. in modern times has seen U.F.O.'s at some point in their life. President Carter himself is even on the record as being a person who has seen one.
This also means that some other beings comes back to experiment on their primitive ancestors, much in the same way that we modern humans experiment on great apes, including climps.
This explanation is actually more likely than others if time travel proves to be easier than space travel. According to current understanding of the Universe, there is no reason as to why time travel shouldn't be allowed; though General Relativity does demonstrate that faster-than-light travel impossible. With this fact, assuming visitations from beyond are real, it seems most likely that these visitations are from our own world.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Cars: Protecting the protection
OK, I just saw something truly ironic. A Prius had corner sticker bumpers for its rear bumper cover {which protects the main bumper, which protects car from nothing more that 2 MPH impacts}. That has got to be worse than buying floormat covers to protect factory floormats that protect the carpet on the floor from getting dirty.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Casted Braches (final version)...almost
Sunday, April 04, 2010
High School Poems I
I'd swear it was a water hose.
He'd say it was not,
but it sure dripped a lot.
It ran all day;
Enough to fill the bay.
I told him his faucet had to be fixed.
So he gave his lip many licks.
His nose still ran with that slime.
Oh, how I hate the color lime.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
The Brave Man
Who said, "I will, I can!"
So he did go
And tried, ya'no,
But he got scared and ran.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Hetch Hetchy exposed
Sunday, March 21, 2010
My Beviepie
I used to sing this little ditty to Bevie (circa 1998-1999), set (roughly) to the tune of the ol' Spider-man cartoon theme song. It used to make her giggle...well, because it's pretty silly.
Beviepie, Beviepie
My-oh-my Beviepie
She's so cute
Yeah she is
She a beaut
I want to kiss
Hey hey,
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Days of Honor (florist version)
we branshish with pride.
Honor of many days
Is our grace and blessing.
We flourish, grow,
And bloom with fullness,
To gift our energies
For this day.
Becuz we are flower & sun.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
49ers Santa Clara Stadium links
-City of San Francisco have been promoting one ridiculous stadium plan after another for almost 2 decades. The 49ers finally got fed up and starting looking around other communities.
-Only 8% of session ticket holders currently at Candlestick live in San Francisco. Many more live in the Silicon Valley area. 49ers simply want to move to where the money and support is at.
-Sharing a stadium with Raiders in Oakland is nonsensical at best. Even the ridiculous Treasure Island proposal is very poorly conceived. (Yerba Buena island would have to be turned into one massive on and off ramp)
-I don't think 49er fans don't want to see their team sharing a stadium with Raiders anyway, even in Santa Clara.
Websites that have information about the proposed Santa Clara stadium for the San Francisco Bay 49ers:
Santa Clarans for Economic Progress
Santa Clara Stadium Facts
Sunday, March 07, 2010
Days of Honor (full version)
That we branshish with pride.
The honor of many days
Is our grace and our blessing,
We flourish and grow
And bloom with fullness,
To gift our energies
For this day,
As though our emblem is
Both flower and sun.
49ers in Santa Clara
Another thing I don't understand is the statement that projects like this shouldn't use public funds. This never made sense to me. This is America, right? Investment is the American way! If we expect to have financial gain, we should be willing to put some cash up as an investment.
The proposed stadium location is within a mile of my house (walking distance). It's near 3 freeways and right next to a mass transit station. It's going to create 2650 game day jobs and bring in an estimated $249 million dollars a year once it is built. Millions of money from taxes will be available for local programs.
If the stadium is truly state of the art, it will likely be chosen by the NFL as the sight for future Super Bowls. Just one Super Bowl in Santa Clara could bring much more money and prestige.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to just getting this dang thang built by the 2014 goal.