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FROM: The Oklahoman (Newspaper)

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things that make this easy: Single Letter replacement, to begin with. Punctuation is still present. there are two different one-letter words.

so the first thing I see when I cross the KS/OK border is a towering highway sign (the transportable kind that lights up) that reads: "Welcome to Oklahoma. High Fire Danger! Fire Ban in Effect."
Of course, this is immediatley proceeded by a large swath of absolute charcoal, for one could not at all call it grass.
As if that isn't enough, they have another sign every ten miles or so, just to reinforce the point. the second sign was probably for those people snoozing across the border, and the third was definitely for all the blind people out there that frequently drive through the fronts of restaurants, gas stations, and the front living room of your house. It's important to note that these are the same people that previously chunked their cigarette OUT the car window, causing the fire, and, in effect, causing the burn ban.


Norman, however, is nice. I've had a lot of time to increase my skills at darts, hang out with Amanda, Nikki, and Wes, all of whom I sorely missed, and even Ben, huge loser that he is. It's also noteworthy to mention that I'm going to let Jamie D. borrow some books (and yes it was nice to see him as well).
I went to Sweet Basil with Manders, Nikki, Rex, and my dad on Monday for lunch, and it was damned good. We arrived at 3 p.m, just as they were closing (until 5, getting ready for the dinner rush) but they were nice enough to reopen the restaurant JUST for us, so we had it all to ourselves.
The owner served us, and then informed us that time wasn't pressing, and, if we'd excuse her, she had a pressing appointment in the other room.
The food was excellent. My Red Curry was comparable to that of Pad Thai's, but possibly better. Either way, it had been waaaaay too long since my last encounter with the stuff, and I'm still craving it now.
I paid for Nikki, Manders, and myself (the other two are/will pay me back) and left a twelve-and-a-half dollar tip (which I don't expect them to pay an equal percentage of). As we were leaving, the owner looked up from a pedicure of some sort (her appointment), telling us to let ourselves out, the keys were in the door. She waved, and we were on our way out the door.

Sweet Basil is located on East Main Street and Santa Fe. if you ever have a chance to eat there, I suggest that you take it.

There are two specific kinds of Apologies.

Type I apologies are when a person says "I'm sorry," and they mean they're sorry for upsetting someone because of how it effects themselves, and not how it effects the other person. "I'm sorry (that you're mad at me bacause now you're unreasonable and I can't deal with you and it isn't fair to me!), but not really."
Type I apologies are most likely the most common, as it takes some people a long time to discern the difference between being sorry for something because it makes themselves miserable versus how it affects others. Children frequently use Type I apologies- A child breaks something she or he has been told not to play with, and they are now grounded. "I'm sorry!" they scream. They are not sorry that they hurt their parents feelings, they are sorry that they are now grounded.
Type II apologies are when a person truly realizes that they have done something to upset someone else, and, instead of looking at how it effects themselves (which is, of course, the most common reaction- we are by nature selfish creatures), they look at how it effects the other person. These apologies are heartfelt- "I'm sorry I hurt your feelings. I didn't mean to and I feel bad." Or something to that effect.

There is a third type of "I'm sorry," but this is not an apology at all. For instance: "I'm sorry you can't handle the fact that I want to read until the morning hours. It's my decision, and I won't change." this isn't an apology at all, and although it uses the phrase "I'm sorry," should not be taken (and is not intended) as an apology. It is, in fact, a (possibly impolite) way of noting that someone else does not accept, or cannot handle, a decision on your part, and [the person making the observation] finds that (possibly) unreasonable. "I'm sorry you don't like the dog. It's staying." Not an apology, not trying to be one.

1933 double eagle

There once was a colony of ants
that crawled up Sir Vanderburgh's pants
he flew into a panick
and ran to the attic
to get his grandmother's dance.
A DANCE? you ask?
well, this dance is in a flask.
and it takes away pain
like a peppermint cane
(or that's what my grandmother tells me)

Have you ever seen or heard
the cries of a translucent bird?
"Just one or a whole flock!" you ask?
I don't know. you're ruining my fun.

You'd think that after Area 51 was opened up like a tin can of sardines, the rumors of an alien ship having crashed there would stop. That, unfortunately, was not the case. Even with the U.S. government dead and gone, Alien Conspiracy Extremists screamed that aliens had indeed crashed at Roswell, and now the NAU was covering up the secrets of the past. When breakthroughs involving Special Relativity and "Subspace" occured seven years later, it was, of course, the decision of the North American Union to finally release the secrets recovered from the alien craft that crashed some 100 years earlier. Forget the fact that Roswell, and the so-called "Area-51 installation," were merely the testing grounds for incredibly classified American Weapons. Conspirators had to have it as something more.
Even when Saturn's Lind Outstation 6, the biggest, baddest radio telescope ever made by man picked up artificial signals from TLH7648G 2 years ago (a system nearly 5,000 LY from earth), the "Crash Conspiracy" raged on. After all of the evidence, why do people still have this strange obsession with aliens crashing on earth?
The answer, of course, has everything to do with the human psyche, and nothing to do with the facts. Perhaps it's the need to not be alone expressing itself in a psuedo scientific way. Perhaps it's simply people who will believe anything spouting their mouths.
Whatever the reason, the need to be the biggest badass among the stars has been alive since before humans put their first foot into the vacuum of space.
I mean, why else would you think up a race of aliens intelligent enough to get into space, smart enough to get to a terrestrial planet, but stupid enough to crash on said planet and get captured by us humans?

Historian Terry Rogers, "The Call of the Stars: Setting the Old Rumors to rest"
(published 2117)

If I lift my right arm 6 inches above a 90degree angle from my body, it hurts more than I've ever had my arm hurt. I took 6 ibuprofen at work tonight, and that helped- until they all burned out at once, and then it hurt even more.

the ice cream freezer at Osco died sunday and I ended up throwing away something like 100 half-gallons of ice cream.


I'm probably going ERP at QT.

...I'm sure there's more, but I can't think of it.

Monroe: Michael is getting married in november. you down for going?

consider yourself lucky; I'm the best man.

We need a dog for times like this.

You need a winded dog to dance like this????

Texas?! what the hell is with people, and moving to the second LARGEST state in the union? Hell, they have the largest hicks there, I guess Ryan will fit in.

the sample is probably too small, though.

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If you can break this, I'll give you fifty bucks.

...the kind of person who leaves an empty box in the cooler, as a test to see if anyone else will pick it up in the ensuing shifts, should be burned at the stake.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreducible_complexity

and finally, here we are. Irreducible complexity. System A + System B ---> System C, which cannot be broken down.....

the link I have up is NOT the link I was originally sent. it is a link to wikpedia, which is, as far as I am concerned, one of the most reliable sources you can look into for events.
Sometimes, I really have to do some work to either back up, or refute, a statement. this time I didn't have to bother- the scientist who published this statement refuted it.

95% of the buyers with adverse side effects felt scammed when they failed to read the fine print that said "may cause body-wide hair loss." The other 5% were delighted, having wanted to be hairless anyway.

Fighting the New Drugs,
Shiela Marks, 2119

Q: Why does my Burpleberry Sour Grape Slushy get way more sour when I let it melt?

A: An acid causes the "sour" flavor in your slushy. when it is frozen, more of the molecules are locked up in little pieces of ice, and are therefore unable to interact with your tastebuds. The more it melts, the more molecules will interact with your tastebuds, and the more sour your slushy will taste.



is this statement true? you decide.

Monroe: it was really good to hear from you. it's funny that you say that, but I guess it holds some truth. I'll try to keep it up.

I made 4.30 off the parking lot tonight.

so I went through all of the coins that people have payed me with and did some research and I'm slightly shocked at what some of them could be worth. it's incredible-I just need to find someone to rate them.

some of the roosevelt dimes I have could be worth 8 bucks. that's the dime that's currently in circulation (although the ones I've kept are all 1964 or older and some are proofs...)

some of the jefferson nickels I have might be worth in the 10 and 20 range. this is crazy.

Are there any plans to remove the one-cent coin (more popularly known as "the "penny) from circulation?

We occasionally hear from people who believe that the Mint should stop producing one-cent coins and remove them from circulation. You may be interested to know that the penny is the most widely used denomination currently in circulation. There was a study conducted in 1976 of this and other suggestions regarding our coinage system. However, the idea of eliminating the penny received strong objections from an overwhelming majority of State revenue collection departments, retail firms, and commercial banks. Other objections voiced in later studies concerned the inflationary impact of such a proposal on prices and possible difficulties on collecting sales taxes.

It has not been confirmed that the penny has outlived its usefulness. Neither business nor the public as a whole has pressured for changes in the coin denominations in circulation today. In addition, our coin and currency system is among the most trusted in the world. The vast majority of users apparently are content with the existing coin denominations, including the one-cent coin. As a result, the Treasury Department has no plans now to cease production of the penny. In addition, such a change to the United States monetary system could not be done without prior Congressional authorization. If directed to do so by legislation enacted by the Congress and signed by the President, the Treasury Department would again study phasing out the penny. Since the demand exists and the Federal Reserve Banks require inventories to meet the demand, the United States Mint is committed to producing the penny.

Special Relativity states that nothing can move AT the speed of light. it doesn't seem to have problems with things moving faster THAN the speed of light- as long as you can get there. The problem is that it takes an infinite amount of acceleration over a finite amount of time, or a finite amount of acceleration over an infinite amount of time, to reach the speed of light. add the fact that once you are travelling the speed of light you have other infinite properties (your mass and energy would cause you some major problems), it seems that travel AT the speed of light is problematic.
Photons and Gravitons, along with all the other "massless particles," don't have any problem going the speed of light because they are "massless."
Tachyons are theoretical particles that move faster than c, and they have some interesting properties.

this one is fairly interesting.


Tunguska Event: what happened in 1908?

I was raised in a household where, if someone tries to cut in to your conversation, or interrupt, you simply start talking louder. for that matter, if someone says something you disagree with, you simply state your opinion over theirs.

This talking on top of thing works well at home- I can't say we ALWAYS hear each other, but, hey. a lot of the time we actually do.


but it doesn't go over so well everywhere else...

and I haven't been doing it much lately.
the entire talking over thing is especially true of my brother rex. Wes recently stated that "Those who try to outhink you, and those who try to beat you by acting like they're right."
Sometimes member of my family (when dealing with one another) can be like the second statement.

eh. I was going to post more but I went to work and came back and I just didn't have it in me.


dear, I love you with (cliche) all of my heart.

I come quickly home,
hurry to the computer.
I got firefox!





do you?

Where are we going, dad?
a day on the beach, you say?
Down to the seashore to play
the surf about our knees
the familiar smell
of the gulf coast air
tangled about our hair.

We stand in the shallows
hermit crabs grab for our feet
“Maybe just a tidbit?
enough for a small meal?” they snivel.
Attached to our toes,
they won’t let go
so we lift our soggy feet
towards the hazy sky
hoping our determined riders
will not fall or fly.
“This one is in a moon shell,” you say
“This one a king’s crown.”

But that was long ago,
and now I can only frown
thinking of those hazy, lazy,
Gulf Coast days.

this is all my dad wanted for christmas. I'd have to read it to you, and you'd have to hear where I place the breaks and the inflections, for it to be particularly significant, I think.

link: definitions: tracyhelp

thanks, Jar-Jar. if I need to ruin a good movie, I'll make sure to CALL you.

Rogue planet/earth collision 4.6 billion years ago

If pluto is suffering from an "anti-greenhouse effect," something apparently boggling and new to science, may
be we should go and check it out.
Pluto- colder than it should be?

the joke "hey! you missed a spot!" wasn't funny the first time I heard it.

nor was it funny the thirty-first time.



on a seperate note, there's just no one quite like rage against the machine.

this is from a very old post, from a very old blog. another blog, but mine. and this is exactly why I dislike organzied relgions, of all kinds, so much. this is a speech. it was actually given. this is as close to what was truly said- short of a tape recorder- as possible. he was a powerful speaker, but not in the way he wanted to be- this entire thing caused me to gag. I just wish I had recoreded it.


"I'll tell you right now, if you don't find a good christian woman, you're lost. when me and my girlfriend started dating- about 6 months into the relationship, I sat down, and I said, 'look, I go to church and I'm a strong [baptist] and if you want to see anymore of me, that's how you'll be, too.' I laid down the law, and she listened, and she goes to church with me, too.
But that's not really what I was trying to get at, I was just trying to say that you, as kids, have a lot more influence over your fellow students. what I say, what teachers say, it just goes in one ear, around the airspace, and then out the other ear. but they listen to you. and if you tell them about being a good christian, they'll listen. they might not listen to me... but they'll listen to you."

"you see, god puts hardships in our lives because he likes to challenge us. he doesn't want us to become lazy, and the road to salvation should never be an easy one. We always face challenges in our lives- Me, I pretty much majored in football. *audiance chuckles, self deprecating smile* but then, one day Iwas out there, and I got tackled, and two of the disks in my back were fractured. The doctor, he said, 'You'll heal, but you can't play again.' and I said 'doctor- that's who I am! I have to play!' and the doctor said 'not anymore you don't.'
so then, I had to find a new path in life- you see, god challenged me. he took me off the road I wanted to be on and put me back on the road he wanted me to be on.
A good example of this- see, when I was young, my biological father left. my stepdad, really the only dad I ever had, he brought us together, and made us a strong christian family. he came down with cancer recently and died, bless his heart... and he was given 6 months to live. he fought the good fight for 18 months, and enjoyed every minute of it. you see, he knew god was challenging him, and he enjoyed every minute of it until he died- he woke up in the morning happy to go to chemo. he woke up knowing that today, he had the challenge of his life."

I just realized something startling:

B.J. = Pamela

Pamela = B.J.

osco cut my hours back. I hate them all. I want to quit so badly that I can taste it.


but I can't.

"To the stars we will fly"

Motto emblazoned on the side of the Faster Than Light Transport Night's Sky
-2122

wal-mart is unfortunately the place

to which I hurriedly run and race.

Why walmart, you might curiously ask?

at walmart, you can find the answer to any task

at walmart, amidst the lights and noise,

you can find all the perfect toys.