December 2011
20 posts
On Anger
A friend took me the wrong way: I wasn’t saying its your fault. I was saying that there is a reason you are faced with these challenges. Take it as a good sign. Youll make it through. It’s a proven fact. You and I always do. That’s what we do- we succeed. God has nothing else but success planned for us and I know it. We are special. And our ability to handle these situations shows why god throws...
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Jack Sparrow in a Line
"Stop blowing holes in my ship!"
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Swords and Words
Jack: Who makes all these?
Will: I do! And I practice with them – three hours a day!
Jack: You need to find yourself a girl, mate!
Jack: Or, perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one, and are otherwise uncapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch, are you?
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On the Oracle of Delphi
They say that the seat of the oracle is a cavern hollowed deep down in the earth, with a rather narrow mouth, from which rises a pneuma [gas, vapor, breath; hence our words “pneumatic” and “pneumonia”] that produces divine possession. A tripod is set above this cleft, mounting which, the Pythia inhales the vapor and prophesies. Strabo (64 BC-AD 25)
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Google Calendar and Orange
My nature is to be disoriented. If you catch me without my google calendar, you’ll see what I mean. One may mistake me to be a very organized person, but that is only a tool to keep me alive. If it wasn’t for me keeping a planner or a google calendar, I might not even be in college at this moment. I’m just orange and I can’t help it. Have you ever seen the line of scrimmage make a play? Now take...
