Life is never and never will be easy and smooth. Things happen all the time that you wouldn’t expect and the weirdest times and you just have to get back up.. You spend your whole life doing this.. Nonstop. But ohwell. There is one thing that you have control over.. If something goes differently from expected then you fight for it to go the way you want it to go. Grab the bull by the horns. Live life (: enjoy it (:
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Awesome Car
This Skyline car costs $69,000 and goes 195 MPH which is an amazing top of the line speed and a top of the line car. The door open up and has some good graphics that look amazing. It is a Japanese sports car called Nissan Skyline GTR and it was produced in the year of 1969. This car has a 3.8 liter turbo charged V6 VR 38 engine with 3800 cc capacity. This engine gets 40kg/M, with a Borg Warner Dual plate clutch and paddle shifting. The car has nice speakers, BOSE sound system, and door speakers. It is the same cost all around the world and once you buy it you’ll be hooked for life. This is a new revolution in car buying!
Your whole worl…
Sometimes it’s hard to get over things and that’s okay. Sometimes you hurt because you need to at the right times. 🙂 life goes on.
Your whole world has transformed. You realize the ground beneath you has shifted. Things are uncertain. And there’s no turning back. The world around you is different now. Unrecognizable. And there’s nothing you can do about it. You’re stuck. The future’s staring you in the face. And you’re not sure you like what you see. Like I said, I’m not big into change.
Richard Webber – ‘The Face of Change’
It’s a common b…
It’s a common belief that positive thinking leads to a happier, healthier life. As children we are told to smile, be cheerful, and put on a happy face. As adults we are told to look on the bright side, to make lemonade, and see glasses as half full. Sometimes reality can get in the way of our ability to act the happy part though. Your hope can fail, boyfriends can cheat, friends can disappoint. It’s in these moments, when you just want to get real, drop the act, and be your true scared unhappy self.
Meredith Grey – ‘Shiny Happy People’
Top Resturaunts In PA
1: Apple-bee’s- fun get together for the whole family and cheep but great food!
2: Taco Bell: Good tacos that you just can’t get enough of!
3: friendly’s: a good restaurant that caters to good food and surprisingly nice staff!
4: Wolf’s diner: a good inexpensive breakfast or lunch, for a good price!
5: Denny’s: one of the best restaurants for a cheep family night out! Good food!
6: Cheddar’s: good mood food!
7: Bakers: My favorite restaurant to go to in all of the world. Best place to go after sports.
8: Pickle Nickle: a place that me and my brother would go to when we were hungry and didn’t feel like eating at home.
9: Millennium Pizza: nice people always willing to give you a cut (at least with me and my brother lol) We once folded boxes for a free piece of pizza!
10: all in one stop: One of the best places to go for a sub besides subway!
Boston Marathon
Syria’s Assad Reduces Sentences for Some Rebels
Snapchat CEO: users taking 150M images a day (before they disappear)
Even after Facebook(s FB) released a direct copycat of its service, Snapchat is continuing to grow at breakneck speed. Tuesday CEO and co-founder Evan Spiegel said Snapchat users are uploading 150 million images every day. That’s up from 20 million a day in October, and compared to Instagram’s 40 million a day.
The hallmark of Snapchat is, of course, the impermanence of its images: 10 seconds after an image is viewed by the recipient, it’s deleted from Snapchat’s servers, Spiegel said.
Facebook released Poke in December, a feature that mimics Snapchat’s disappearing images. It clearly didn’t have any kind of slowing effect on Snapchat becoming a major rival for image uploading. It was “the best Christmas present ever, I think,” Spiegel said Tuesday at the D: Dive into Mobile conference.
The uptake of Snapchat’s take-it-and-delete-it photo service has come in only about a year. Though the company existed…
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Leap Motion gets its gesture control integrated with select HP PCs
Leap Motion, the company making extremely accurate gesture detection hardware, has signed a deal to bundle and then integrate its motion-based controller into select HP products. This is a big win for Leap, which already has a deal with ASUS that will bundle the Leap Motion device in with its all in one computers as well as select ASUS notebooks this year.
Bundling is good, but integration is always better in the consumer world, since most consumers may not have any idea that they want gesture-based controls or even why. Leap’s system works like a Kinect with an exterior piece of hardware attached to the computer that detects hand motions with a high degree of accuracy — within 1/100th of a millimeter. As for why someone might want this on their machine, it’s an enabler for new types of computing experiences.
When the company raised an additional $30 million earlier…
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Food for Thought
Just for Laughs
Exactly! Then a drunk text should make us feel special! Hahahahaha!
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With over 200M monthly users, WhatsApp CEO boasts, “We’re bigger than Twitter”
Global smartphone messaging service WhatsApp confirmed on Tuesday that it has more than 200 million active users of its service every month. CEO Jan Koum refused to be more specific than that, but he did brag that his company has more monthly users than another prominent mobile company.
“We’re bigger than Twitter today,” he said at the Dive into Mobile conference. “More than 200 million active users monthly.”
Those people are also sending a lot of messages: WhatsApp users get 8 billion inbound messages per day and send over 12 billion per day.
The app, which is on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry and Symbian, came to prominence because it allows cross-platform messaging; it’s like if you could send an iMessage to anyone regardless of the mobile operating system they are using.
Koum said WhatsApp has a global focus and that the app is big everywhere, but he said…
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We Are All Family
“When indeed shall we learn that we are all related to one another, that we are all members of one body? Until the spirit of love for our fellow man, regardless of race, color or creed, shall fill the world, making real in our lives and our deeds the actuality of human brotherhood–until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.” – Helen Keller
Send loving prayer to Boston, send loving prayer to the world….pray for respect, understanding and empathy. Pray to the positive and powerful being that you believe in that all lost souls, lost minds, and all damaged hearts receive love and positive guidance to walk through life in the light of the Creator.
Attitude
London Marathon Confirms Race Will be Held Sunday
The Rolling Stones Announce Kickoff Date For ‘50 & Counting’ Tour
Care.com sparks IPO speculation with hire of veteran public-company CFO
These are interesting times for Care.com, the Reid Hoffman-backed site that wants to be the “Amazon (s AMZN) of care.” In the last year, the company has expanded its service to more than 15 countries, acquired a few startups and raised $50 million (bringing its total raised to $111 million).
Now the company has a chief financial officer with a skillset to match.
Care.com hired former iRobot (s IRBT) CFO John Leahy Tuesday. LEAHY spent nearly five years at the public company and held CFO positions at three publicly-traded companies prior to that.
Given that the company, which helps people find caregivers for children, seniors, pets and others, is doubling its revenue every year and plans for additional international and vertical expansion, CEO and founder Sheila Marcelo said she wanted a CFO with broad experience.
“It was really important for me to get a partner in crime around helping…
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It’s Free Cone Day At Ben And Jerry’s!
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Beautiful picture.. Reminds me of my life… the gray and the beautiful 🙂
Prom
I love this dress!!
today, you do not realize / oggi, non ti rendi conto / astăzi, nu-ți dai seama
NaPoWriMo 2013- #9: I Am Me
After Sectarian Violence, Coptic Pope Takes On Egypt’s President
AT&T and Google’s plans to give Austin a gigabit is an experiment. Is it a good one?
Austin may be feeling like one of the luckiest towns in the world today. Not one, but two big name companies have said they plan a gigabit network in the Texas Capital. But, as both Google and AT&T plan their fiber-to-the-home deployment strategies, they are testing plans that look inefficient and might bite consumers in the end. Still, innovation is needed in broadband deployment, so all eyes will be watching Austin.
Ma Bell announced its gigabit plans on Tuesday after Google said it planned to offer its own fiber to the home, gigabit network to the Texas capital.
I got on the phone with Larry Solomon, an AT&T spokesman to get details on the network. Solomon said that AT&T will expand its existing fiber-to-the-node product to “homes and buildings.”
In its release AT&T also said that this expansion wouldn’t “materially affect its capital expenditures for 2013,” which struck me…
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Starbucks ditches physical iOS app cards — how will it affect app downloads?
Picking up a free app with your morning coffee is about to change, as coffee giant Starbucks(s SBUX) announced it’s doing away with redemption cards effective Wednesday. Instead, it’s opting to integrate the long-running “Pick of the Week” promotion directly into its free iOS(s AAPL) app.
This switch to digital will see the removal of the cards typically found near cash registers, instead swapping the lengthy codes for a paperless solution. Customers will now need to either connect to the complimentary in-store Wi-Fi, or fire up the Starbucks app and follow the on-screen prompts to download their latest freebie.
Starbucks and Apple first partnered back in 2007 when the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store launched. Initially offering just free music, the promotion soon expanded to offer content from outside iTunes. In 2011, free downloads from both the iBookstore and the App Store were introduced.
Speaking to CNET, Starbucks…
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Why First Solar is buying a silicon solar cell startup no one’s heard of
First Solar (s FSLR) is buying an under-the-radar startup called TetraSun to add expertise around silicon solar cell manufacturing to its technology portfolio, which until now has focused on using the material cadmium telluride to make solar cells.
The Arizona-based thin film solar giant announced the pending acquisition on Tuesday during its analyst day — its first since 2009 — in which it laid out a persuasive technology and business development plan for the next five years. Investors liked what they heard and pushed the company’s stock up by nearly 50 percent during trading.
The announcement also came after the company’s top executives spent the entire day taking shots at silicon solar technology, which they said hasn’t been able to make a big leap in its sunlight-to-electricity conversion rate for years and is approaching the theoretical limit of its efficiency. First Solar’s bread and butter cadmium telluride, on the other…
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Want to get people shopping socially? It might be harder than you think
When it comes to online fashion and large digital brands, it seems social shopping might have hit a plateau. It’s pretty standard now for companies like Amazon or Nordstrom to display products along with buttons for sharing to Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest. Products might have reviews and photo galleries, or the company might have its own blog.
But beyond that? There isn’t much social activity happening on most of those larger sites.
I sat down with the team at Zappos Labs last week to talk about the future of online shopping. It’s not like Zappos is struggling to find shoppers, but the company’s leadership clearly understands that as the world moves more toward social media adoption, there must be ways to use social to boost sales and improve the shopping experience.
“It’s hard for us to think of new ways to shop when people are keeping the lights on of a…
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30 Days Till 30 … Day 14: I Love Me!
Trailer Tuesday: Oblivion
bill bodkin and logan j. fowler look at the new tom cruise flick …
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Have you ever had a really weird, pervy statement made to you?
All my beautiful ladies out there… have you ever had a really weird, pervy statement made to you?
Today this man asked me was I this other man’s daughter. And the man responded with “Daughter… how about girlfriend?” Now you might think, hey that’s kind of unasked for, but not weird. Get this. This man is like fifty. Now I’m way younger than 50. Give or take thirty or so years. And he has children, he’s on crutches, and he’s a little eccentric. He blinks way more than the average person and this is about his third time saying something really weird. But this particular incident freaked me out so much that I couldn’t concentrate during my tutoring session today. It didn’t help that in English today we watched a documentary about the journey of these women and men trying to get justice from the courts for the times that…
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In The Birdcage
Mom’s new place features a large, cabinet-type birdcage in the lobby that is filled with parakeets and other birds. It takes up a good part of the wall, is brightly lit, has big windows, and is kept neat and clean.
I still feel sorry for the birds, though.
Pop-Ed: A Fun Look at the WWE
Neon Waterfalls
Looks fantastical. Would love to see one of these for real!!! 🙂
What happens when you throw high-powered glowsticks into a waterfall and take long exposure images? Something bizarre and excellent. Neon Luminance. Via Colossal:
The Night I Lost Respect for “Saturday Night Live”
Photography: A Cloudy Day at the Beach
I took these photos with my phone during lunch sometime in February and never got around posting it until now. These photos were taken around the same time when the East Coast was hit with a really bad snow storm and NYC lost power. I remember our company’s branch in New York didn’t have work that entire week. Anyway, hope you like the pics! 🙂
Tumblr abruptly closes down its Storyboard project, lays off entire editorial team
A year ago, Tumblr launched an ambitious attempt to curate content from within the blog network — a unit known as Storyboard, with its own editorial staff who highlighted and aggregated posts from popular Tumblrs. Although the company seemed to have high hopes for the project, founder and CEO David Karp announced late Tuesday night on the official Tumblr blog that Storyboard has been shut down and the staff of the unit have been let go.
In his post, Karp (who will be joining us at our paidContent Live conference on April 17) said that the idea behind the project was to create an editorial team of “experienced journalists and editors assigned to cover Tumblr as a living, breathing community” and to “tell the stories of Tumblr creators in a truly thoughtful way.” The Tumblr founder went on to say that:
“After hundreds of stories and videos… we couldn’t…
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My Happy Birthday!!!
I hope that you get better.. or at least feel better! My prayers are with you!
WOOT I’m turning 25 tomorrow!
The thing with living with fibromyalgia and fibroids is that I feel quite old most of the time. I don’t sleep well, I get dizzy for no reason, I’m constantly winded or tiered, I get random fevers and I’m sore all over! Then I look in the mirror and see someone young. So tomorrow I’m celebrating turning so young! I have a lot of time ahead of me to feel better and be fantastic. Of course my darling husband is so supportive and so are so many others. Thanks Mom, Anna, Rose! You’re all very good to me! Love you! Let’s party!
Cloud wars to rage on with dueling OpenStack, AWS events next week
Neither of the principal parties would admit this, but the competition between the OpenStack cloud forces and Amazon(s amzn) Web Services will play out next week with the OpenStack Summit taking place in Portland, Ore. April 15-19 and Amazon Web Services Summit in New York on April 18. Both events are sold out although realistically, can you remember the last tech event you attended that was not “sold out?”
I have no numbers for the AWS event but as of Tuesday night, the count for OpenStack Summit is 2,400 registered attendees up from 1,314 for last year’s San Diego extravaganza, according to an OpenStack source with access to that data. (The data is here and here is a readable, updated count.)
Rackspace, HP pack OpenStack show
Rackspace(s rax), one of OpenStack’s granddaddies along with NASA — has registered 199 216 people — a number which one OpenStack member…
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And then what happened?
Alice in wonderland and Dorthy:)
RemotePlay launches iOS app for cross-platform media sharing
RemotePlay, the media sharing app that lets you send documents, photos or videos to anyone with a mobile device within the same network, plans to release an iOS (S AAPL) version Wednesday that makes it possible to share media between Android (S GOOG) devices, iPhones and iPads.
Users of the iOS app can import media from iTunes, or access content shared by other apps, including Dropbox and Google Drive. I had a chance to try a pre-release version of the iOS app back in March and was impressed by the simplicity of cross-platform media sharing: take a look at my demo video below.
RemotePlay has been developed by Piddas21, a Taiwanese startup founded by ODM giant Quanta Computer. Piddas21 CEO and Founder Joe Lin told me back in March that the idea behind Piddas21 was to find additional revenue opportunities for Quanta customers who don’t want to just rely…
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Surprising What You Can Learn From a Setback
Surprising What You Can Learn From a Setback
1. Humility
When we make a mistake, fail, ourselves, or fail others we have a choice. Either make excuses for our behavior or admit fault and move on. Which one takes more strength? Humility takes more strength than excuses yet leaves us stronger yet to handle more.
2. Patience
A setback is merely a time to reflect on a new approach to accomplish your goals. Patience allows us the time and discipline to evaluate our approach. Without it setbacks would mean failure.
3. Hope
An optimistic spirit feeds the fire of our ambition.
Welcome setbacks when they occur. Use them as an opportunity to recognize the above and realize “The greats weren’t great because at birth they could paint. The greats were great cause they paint a lot.” – Macklemore, 10,000 hours.
This post was written by Aaron Aslin. Aaron is an entrepreneur, amateur philosopher, and…
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Time to drop ‘high-cost revenge’
Celebrity Sightings: On the Radar
North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un Temper Tantrum Bothering Neighbors
Lifelong Disney fan has adopted skill of dramatic speech
by Peter Lacerenza
Opinions Co-Editor
As part of its increasingly bellicose rhetoric, North Korean officials on April 6 informed foreign embassies operating in the nation that they could not guarantee the safety of its diplomats, nor of its tourists, in the advent of war. Although this advice comes at a time when North Korea’s tactical trajectory remains uncertain, the reaction of foreign officials to this advice has been mixed at best. Though Russia, a traditional North Korean ally, has made public its considerations of leaving its facilities in the capital city, Pyongyang, other nations like Sweden and France have made no such announcements. Perhaps least concerned is Great Britain, who has not only vouched to continue its ambassadorial functions in the Democratic People’s Republic, but has also proceeded in conducting tour groups through its embassy.
Be that as it may, anxiety…
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T-Mobile goes even lower: bring in old iPhone, waive $99 fee for iPhone 5
If you think zero dollars sounds better than $99, T-Mobile has an iPhone deal for you. Starting on Friday, if you trade in an iPhone 4(s AAPL) or iPhone 4S, the carrier will waive the down payment for a new iPhone 5.
Friday is also launch day for the T-Mobile iPhone. It is the last of the major U.S. wireless providers to get the iPhone, and as a result is looking for ways to boost its appeal to potential customers beyond its unusual new payment plan structure.
T-Mobile’s new no-contract payment plans, introduced last month, mean customers can walk out of a store with a new iPhone 5 for $99, with $20 monthly payments for the next two years. It actually works out to be cheaper than buying an unlocked, full-price iPhone directly from Apple by about $70. The plans are also slightly less pricey than what T-Mobile competitors are…
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ZTE, Intel’s BFF, puts a new Atom chip in the Geek smartphone
Last month Chinese handset maker ZTE announced a “strategic collaboration” with Intel(s intc), and this month the early fruits of that labor are here. At an Intel developer event in Beijing on Wednesday the ZTE Geek smartphone was unveiled and it’s the first handset to use Intel’s new 32 nm Atom Z2580 chip known as CloverTrail+.
What does that mean for the Geek? According to ZTE’s tests — which of course will have to be independently confirmed by us geeks — the phone’s 2 GHz chip is “twice as fast for computing and three times as fast for graphics” while also reducing power consumption over the previous Atom.
ZTE hasn’t shared much additional information on the phone; there are no availability dates, no prices, nor target markets although I’d assume Europe, Australia and Asia will be important markets as ZTE’s prior Intel-powered phones have done well there. The phone…
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Here’s To Never Growing Up by Avril Lavigne
This is the Avril I know… making hits! Hopefully this album will be better than the last one! I love her. Here’s to growing up, but acting like you haven’t sometimes and having fun. Check out her new song…
Just for Laughs
Now I get it! Hahahahaha! 😀
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Airplane Crash
‘Buckwild’ Update: MTV Cancels Show; Producer Speaks Out
Quote of the Day
in an attempt t…
in an attempt to get rid of the loser who has in himself, the human being wants to grow its merits but ends up intoxicated of complexes
Eddie performing self-produced movie -in the ass to daddy- che in italiano fa: in culo a papà
nel tentativo di liberarsi dello sfigato che ha in sè, l’essere umano vorrebbe coltivare i suoi pregi ma finisce per intossicarsi di complessi
80’s Hump Day Jam
I like this song. Good meaning, good words!:)
The Outfield should pick up your spirits with this little toe tapper for you. Happy Hump Day!!
Facebook expands ad targeting, will let partners show ads based on web activity
Facebook(s fb) has further refined its ad-targeting capabilities, announcing on Wednesday the launch of “partner categories.” This new feature will allow advertisers to target more specific groups of people on Facebook and serve them ads based on their activity across the web, rather than just their activity on Facebook, using data from third-party providers.
It’s no secret that Facebook is working to build out its platform as an advertising service, slowly increasing the types of ads that different companies can buy and the ways in which they can target specific groups of people on the site.
The company explained what this will look like from a consumer perspective in the blog post published Wednesday morning:
“For example, a local car dealership can now show ads to people who are likely in the market for a new car who live near their dealership. To date, advertisers have been able to…
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Roku sells five million players in the U.S.
Roku has sold a total of five million players in the U.S. since launching the first Roku box in 2008, the company announced Wednesday. Roku CEO Anthony Wood also said in a blog post that the company’s devices have delivered a total of 8 billion streams so far, and that one out of four Roku players now streams more than 35 hours to TVs — a pretty impressive number, but one that also includes music consumption. The average U.S. consumer watches 33 hours of traditional TV a week, according to Nielsen.
Wood told me in early 2012 that his company had sold 2.5 million players by the end of 2011, which was below its own forecast. It looks like sales have picked up since then, with Roku customers buying another 2.5 million players in just 16 months. Just as a frame of reference: Apple (s AAPL) sold two million Apple…
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U.N. Passes Arms Trade Treaty as Middle East Implodes
Illegal arms traffickers reportedly upset by loss of business
by Sofi Muñoz
News Co-Editor
The United Nations made history on April 2 when the General Assembly passed the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), the first coordinated international effort to regulate the $70 billion global arms trade. Efforts to restrict the sales of weaponry began nearly two decades ago, but were often vetoed by countries that benefitted from arms sales. Yet last Tuesday, the vast majority of member-nations, including the world’s largest arms exporter, the United States, adopted the measure in what U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called, “a victory for the world’s people.” The tally of votes revealed that the treaty was supported by 154 countries; 23 nations chose to abstain and only three countries (Syria, North Korea, and Iran) voted no.
The UN’s unprecedented move shows just how problematic the arms trade has become, particularly the trafficking of smaller arms because…
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Brand New Girlfriend
One of the best counrty songs of all time! 🙂
Turnin me on- Keri Hilson
Featuring Lil wayne 🙂
Dead and Gone- TI
Just what it says. Today I am blessed to say the old me is dead and gone away! 🙂 Life is hard, even for the famous people!
Pretty girl Rock- Keri Hilson
Good song, Pretty Girl Rock 😉
One Republic- If I loose myself
A good slow song for once! The song by One Republic called If I loose myself!
Ridin Solo
Probably one of the best songs by Jason Derulo.. Ridin’ solo. Should listen to this song more, bring it back! 🙂
The motto- Drake
Good beat, good lyrics, Great rappers. Could you really ask for better?
Tyga- Dope
Great song good beat! 🙂 Listen to this song, you won’t be sorry.
Sag my Pants- Hopsin
Knives and Pens- BVB
A good song by black veil Brides. Any sixx struggled with cutting so instead of using knives to cut he used pens to write about his feelings. He is a great screamer and singer.
Hop Madness- Hopsin
Good song by Hopsin
Ill mind of Hopsin 5- Hopsin
Good rap song by hopsin. Really listen to the lyrics!
Honey Bee- Blake Shelton
Good country song
Bugatti- Ace hood
Good song by ace hood. Good beat!! 🙂
Feels Like Tonight Daughtry
A Heavy Baby
Jade Packer, the woman that defied all odds with her child’s birth, is now out of recovery and caring for her large baby. George, now six weeks old, came as a natural but heavy birth. Weighing in at 15 pounds, a record weight, as this baby is the second heaviest born in the UK. Poor Jade was in labor for 16 hours, and doctors only realized the size of the baby when the head came out. Frightening enough, the ordeal that Jade was dealing with when the doctor said the baby was too big to come out multiplied as twenty more doctors rushed into the delivery room.
‘It was a massive shock for everyone – no one had any idea he would be this big,’ Ms Packer told the Bristol Post. ‘During the pregnancy I was just getting bigger and bigger.
Silver Tongued Orator
Life goes on…
The devil made me do it…
It probably prevented something worse happening…
Clichés – Love them or hate them!
I am not against guns! I am also not for guns, especially if the screening and licensing to own weapons is not improved upon! I, like so many other discerning minds before me; believe in watching the life cycle of an event replay itself and present it’s salvaged being for reiteration.
Some day my ship will come in…
The waiting is the hardest part…
One day I will wake up, and it will all fit together…
The latest news out of Washington; Marriage Equality. The past two days has the media reporting wide spread confusion on behalf of a few of our black veiled ombudsmen. How much longer must we tread the tired awry pathways of the past? If history were to repeat itself; marriage equality may result…
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Excessive optimism
As I mentioned yesterday, my hope is that the U.S. Supreme Court will rule some time this summer that all state laws prohibiting civil marriage between consenting adults of the same sex are unconstitutional because they deprive certain citizens of equal protection under the law (the Fourteenth Amendment).
It seems so obvious and simple to me that this is what needs to be done because California’s Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) are so clearly discriminatory against a certain group of people on no legally defensible grounds. But apparently that view is both naïve and excessively optimistic at this time.
A friend of mine who is well-versed on the matter pointed out to me that although the Court may, someday (say, 20 or 30—or more—years from now) find DOMA and Prop 8 and other laws like them to be unconstitutional, they are not going…
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And the internet goes pink…
Over the past several days I have seen a wave of pink and red equals signs replacing the profile pictures of those I know.
The Human Rights Campaign (click here for their Facebook fan page) has been temporarily replaced their blue and yellow logo with a red and pink logo in efforts to raise awareness and support for gay marriage. The image has gone viral. As of yesterday, the image had acquired 25,000 “likes’ and 78,000 shares from The Human Rights Campaign’s website over a 24 hour period. Beyonce, Fergie and even Grumpy Cat are promoting equality.
So, what’s the point anyways? It’s just a picture, why is it significant?
In my opinion, from a public relations perspective, the campaign has been a slam dunk. The campaign exposure, awareness and support has not only been successful, it’s gone viral. With the simple change of a profile picture, or…
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Loughner’s parents and friends watched a change they couldn’t control
Charles Manson Follower Arrested Smuggling Cellphone to Serial Killer
Divertimento.
My first thoughts were what lengths will ebaY go to in order to recruit new sellers for it’s mobile platform?
and now today’s bonus track:
Gay
One of my friends suggested to me the other night to blog about current events. I told her that I didn’t like hearing about current events because they either piss me off or make me sad. Current events are very rarely anything highly positive that reminds you how it feels to be alive or a part of the human race, which, let’s face it, has really gone down the shitter in the past couple of decades. War, poverty, hunger, murder, crime, destruction, despair…why exactly do I want to be plastered to my TV to hear about current events? Then if it isn’t about war, poverty, hunger, murder, crime, destruction or despair it’s about which celebrity is pregnant, how much did Lindsay Lohan have to drink last night, did Paris Hilton buy a new purse, oh and my recent favorite: all the ridiculous bulls shit publicity that Justin-asshole-douchebag-I-hate-you-Beiber has been getting for…
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The “Who made God” objection
The Cosmological argument, in its various forms, is a common line of evidence that points to the existence of God. The idea is simple; the universe is the kind of thing that needs an explanation and God is the most plausible candidate to explain it. An incredibly common objection to hear is the idea that if the universe needs a cause then so does God! During William Lane Craig’s presentation on March 7 at the University of Calgary he made the claim, as he often has, that the explanation for one effect does not, itself, need an explanation. This claim was greeted, as it usually is, with snide chuckles. It sounds as though it is a diversion, I’ll grant that first impression, but the question is whether or not it truly is a diversion? Is it true that explanations do not need to be explained?
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The Same-Sex Marriage Debate – Questions and Answers
Pretty good non-explicitly religious answers to the most common objections to legal recognition of only natural marriage (from a Brit, so do your best accent in your head).
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President Obama speaks on gun violence at the White House. Watch it live here at 11:40 a.m. EDT .
Music To Listen To When You Refuse To Get Back In Line: Emilie Autumn – Take the Pill
Interview: Buckcherry
Hillbilly Heimlicks
I was going
to have my goat
play you
a special song I wrote;
but in his typical ways
he couldn’t help but graze;
and now the paper
is stuck in his throat.
Audioslave – To Be Yourself (is all that you can do)
The Greatest Event in History!
Wikipedia: Ontology (from onto-, from the Greekὤν, ὄντος “being; that which is”, present participle of the verb εἰμί “be”, and -λογία, -logia: science, study, theory) is the philosophical study of the nature of being, existence, or reality . The ancient Greek Philosopher Permenides (pre-Socratic philospher) was one of the first to propose an ontological characterization of the fundamental nature of reality.
Permenides asserted that reality (what is) is one, change is impossible, and existence is timeless, uniform, necessary and unchanging, and that one’s sensory faculties lead to conceptions that are false and deceitful, and he concluded that “nothing comes from nothing”.- souirce Wikipedia This philosophical school of thought is the absolute bedrock of Western Civilization. One might say, it is the seed of good old fashioned common sense that gave birth to this nation and modern civilization as a whole.
Let’s look at it in other…
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Alt-Rock Legend Tommy Stinson Talks About Guns N’ Roses, Puff Daddy, and a Replacements Reunion
Uh Oh! Rick Ross & Lil’ Wayne Songs Pulled From Radio Rotation
Review: Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience
by Connor O’Brien
News Co-Editor
If you haven’t heard that Justin Timberlake has a new album out, I’m not sure what you’re doing with your life. He’s been on pretty much every medium for the past three months, especially television: he recently hosted Saturday Night Live before having a week long residency at Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Simultaneously, everyone on the Internet turned their unending 90s nostalgia into unadulterated excitement for JT’s first album in seven years.
The result of the most hype in recent memory, The 20/20 Experience, delivers. Mostly. It kicks off with ascending string fanfare akin to an old Hollywood musical on “Pusher Love Girl.” However, the ensuing slow grind groove represents Timberlake’s musical style in microcosm. By once again fusing different elements from pop music over the past forty years – a healthy dose of R&B, Timbaland’s Spector-esque over-production with 808s and well-placed beatboxing, and…
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Starting a Petition
I want to start a petition on have Dora and Hello Kitty on a same movie … Like Starting Dora and Hello Kitty Can you guys please sign the petition so i can get this since im the biggest fan of Dora and Hello Kitty the pic you see below is my new blanket set … I JUST LOVE DORA AND HELLO KITTY !!!!!
Breakfast With The Beatles – March 31, 2013
3 Investments To Make Right Now For a Better Life
1. Invest In Love
Love is a renewable resource. In fact the more love you cultivate in your life the more love you will find in the world. Invest in love today by committing right here, right now, to loving yourself and your future will be filled with love.
2. Invest In Time
Time is a scare resource with only so many seconds in a minute, minutes in an hour, and hours in a day. Every minute you are either doing something on purpose or off purpose. Map out your ideal day when you wake up and revisit it before going to bed. Over the course of a week or two your wasted time will start to be filled with those activities that are most meaningful to you.
3. Invest In Health
Our body is a temple. When we take care of…
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Two-Minute Tune-Up 3.28.13 Recoqnizing the Fine Line
Between confidence and arrogance
Between flexibility and indecisiveness
Between humility and self-deprecation
Between self-respect and self-pity
Between candor and harmful criticism
Between compromise and cooperation
Between communicating and talking
Between helping and interfering
Between faith and fantasy
Between love and co-dependency
I could go on. The point is this: our happiness, success, productivity, and relationships depend on the fine line between these character traits.
The trajectory of our careers and personal lives is a function of how we think and how often we think about these distinctions in our daily interactions.
Life will always be a balancing act. But over time, personal reflection, meditation, prayer, reading, and listening to mentors will reveal the fine line to us.
Chose the fast lane that speeds past these practices at your own risk.
Do the Impossible
Imagination is more important than knowledge, ’cause knowledge is limited -Albert Einstein
Good Quote by Albert Einstein
Hello people! Today I’m in a VERY good mood 😀
You might ask why. Well, because I have holidays and I finally am able to work on my book. Ok, not really “book”, but a story! It has only two chapters until now and no title but I’m working on it 😉
Of course I drew two of my characters: 
I know: The scans aren’t the best.
The girl is my protagonist.
Hopefully I won’t run out of ideas. Wish me luck 🙂
—Kitsune
Blogging Just Because :) 