So... Mr Microsoft wants to add a dollar or two to advance the idea of enhancing cloud formation. " Even if that goes well, the technology has a long way to go before it can significantly alter the climate — a recent study showed that it would it take 1,900 ships at a cost of over $7 billion to stop Earth’s temperature from rising." Bully for him... I just have some doubts, because we all know how well his Software works... Blue Screen of Death comes to mind, plus those ships look top heavy... I wonder what will happen with them during hurricane season? I say leave nature to do what nature does best... at present it seems to be cooling down the earth quite well, the past summer here in SA has been cloudier and wetter than normal... I wonder why? "My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds." Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
We saw it by day... it is always amazing when I see something about Argentina on the news or other media... that feeling of "Yes... We were there!" Thank you Moondancer for sharing that trip, it was worth it, enjoy the Girls Weekend!
The stars are bright tonight And I am walking nowhere
Guess I will be alright Desire gets you nowhere
And you are always right I thought you were so perfect
Take you as you were Have you as you were Take you as you were
I love you just the way you are I love you just the way you are I'll take you just the way you are Does anybody love the way you are? Aaa aaa aaa
The stars are bright tonight A distance is between us And I will be ok The worst I've ever seen us
And still I have my weaknesses And still I have my strength And still I have my ugliness
But i, i, i I love you just the way you are I love you just the way you are I'll take you just the way you are Does anybody love the way you are?
Aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaaa
I love you just the way you are I love you just the way you are I'll take you just the way you are Does anybody love the way you are?
Aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa
Star, star “The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.”Indian Proverb
As an armchair vulcanologist this website is just amazing! From now on VPOW is bookmarked just like APOD! The power displayed by nature just makes me stand in awe at the glory of God's creation. "Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983), Interview, April 30, 1978
Moved all my Food of the Blogs posts to this blog... most can be found by looking under the recipes label. One Reality has moved here too as well asFeXII... all is well in my Blogspace... just need to fix the curtains and paint the banner... UPDATE: 15 May 2010 Blog Banner fixed!
Photo - By Marco Fulle on April 16th, 2010. Sounds bad I know but looking at the grounding of flights in the EU due to Eyjafjallajokullvolcano on Iceland makes one realize that humanity has become dependent on technology for survival. Imagine what would happen if another few volcanoes decide to go active? This serves to remind us how powerless we are against nature. It also serves to remind me that no matter what, God is always in control and that no powers or principalities can come against him. Maybe we need to re-evaluate both our techno-dependency and our relationship with God, the creator of the splendors of nature we are now witnessing in Iceland? While getting some of the links for this I came across this funny poem about the recent travails at BoingBoing... By Jeff Skoll... E-Bay's first president... Sums it up thus...
This is an ode to the volcano That sent our travel plans into the draino I'm not really one to complaino But this all hurts my little braino Madrid, Casablanca, Amsterdam, Rejkavik on cruiseships The trains will fail All the escape routes that we planned Are blocked by nature or by man We heard the French trains may soon be striking At this rate we'll all be biking With our luck we'll all be struck by lightning! This is all rather frightening So better we all meet at TED That is what I should have said So thank you June and thank you all Damn the volcano, let's have a ball "[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake." Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
That is what my comments are going to be... dear HaloScan decided to bail and become Echo something or another... I now need to recover all my comments from wayback! Eish! Apologies while I figure out how to restore it all... Update! 25 April 2010 Well I have started by activating a new layout, will slowly modify it to get all the old stuff back over the next few weeks. So far comments are working...
with a wee dram 'o Wallace... Celebrating Tartan Day and my Scots Ancestors I am.The Campbell Tartan as also worn by the famous Black Watch regiment. The Wallace tartan made famous by 3M and William aka Braveheart... One day I hope to have a kilt in Campbell Tartan but at present the funds for 7 yards of it is beyond my pocket plus my Scots ancestry baulks at the though of such a form of aparrell that I will seldom wear. So in the meantime I enjoy my odd bowl of oatmeal from time to time... Haggis is not on the top of the list either. "My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare." Mike Myers
