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I’m still taking pictures
On Monday night I took my 7,003rd picture. When flipping back through the photos I found my 7,000th photo was one to write home about…well maybe not home, but at least blog about. Jenny Cummings: open mic night at a local coffee shop. No edits, just as is…
Cheers to 7,000! :)
“With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow – I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.”
– Confucius; Analects
“The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.” – Yakov Smirnoff mural [http://www.yakov.com/mural.html]
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From my trip to New York on September 13, 2002…The mural was hanging over a year until it was torn in a windstorm in November 2003 and removed afterwords.
Thanks BBC
Side note: So anyone in the U.S. that doesn’t know this should: in general, you are better off getting your news from multiple sources outside the U.S. because we censor our news and we tend to doctor it up. No conspiracy theory there…all countries do it no matter how liberal your news source claims to be.
On that note, I’m sure there will be an article, headline or a blip (maybe a story) in the U.S. media about this -if there isn’t already. For now, here’s the BBC News: Exxon Mobil reaps record profits. [I just checked…there are a plethora of articles about it]
What’s wrong with this picture? Simple economics, the grounds used for the price hike, showed a shortage; thus increase in price. Now in defense of the oil companies, almost every major corporation is out to make a profit…so I understand that. However, why is the Red Cross claiming they can’t get gas right now? Why am I paying $40 [US] to fill a tank that cost $20 [US] not long ago? You don’t hike prices during a shortage to increase profits, you do it to maintain profit or minimize loss. Increasing prices drastically and posting record profits screams price gouging and a load of bulls**t
I know people who are having trouble paying for the gas they need just to get to their job! Exxon Mobile: you make me f**king sick. 60% Profit increase over last year….60%?!
Yuck.
Scorpio – InfoSpace
Interesting…I had no idea this wild energy was zipping around out there. Maybe I should have skipped out on going to “girl’s night”, for girls looking for girls (see if you can figure that out) last night and gone to “girl’s night” for girls looking for boys. :)
Just another smart ass remark: have you ever watched those surgery programs? Insides are gross! Sexy? Hell no…blood is only sexy in fetish horror movies and even then it’s not that sexy. :P
“Some scintillatingly stellar energies are zipping through your sign right now, giving you an extra dose of sex appeal. Not only does this enhance the power of first impressions, but it gives you the ability to think on your feet. Sparkling repartee, anyone? This is a welcome change after a brief moment of self-doubt. One of the biggest lessons the stars want you to learn is that sexiness has everything to do with your insides, and not nearly as much with your outsides.”
Daily Horoscope: Scorpio – InfoSpace
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”
– Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 – 1986), in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
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