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oh my god, these library fines are fierce.
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[24 Jan 2007|06:32pm] |
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I'm going to die if I miss out on the coachella festival this april. Does that make me eligible for the make-a-wish foundation?
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[24 Jan 2007|12:08am] |
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[23 Jan 2007|03:21pm] |
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I think my facial hair has reached its optimum decent-looking length. I don't know what to do with it now.
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[21 Jan 2007|05:56pm] |
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what the hell...my parents just bought another dog. it's already 7 years old, and not even as good looking as rudy.
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[18 Jan 2007|12:56am] |
The photo above was taken by Voyager 1 in 1990 as it sailed away from Earth, more than 4 billion miles in the distance. Having completed it primary mission, Voyager at that time was on its way out of the Solar System, on a trajectory of approximately 32 degrees above the plane of the Solar System. Ground Control issued a command for the distant space craft to turn around and, looking back, take photos of each of the planets it had visited. From Voyager's vast distance, the Earth was captured as a infinitesimal point of light (between the two white tick marks), actually smaller than a single pixel of the photo. The image was taken with a narrow angle camera lens, with the Sun quite close to the field of view. Quite by accident, the Earth was captured in one of the scattered light rays caused by taking the image at an angle so close to the Sun. Dr. Sagan was quite moved by this image of our tiny world. Here is an enlargement of the area around our Pale Blue Dot and an excerpt from the late Dr. Sagan's talk:
"We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
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[17 Jan 2007|08:28pm] |
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This short schoolweek is just barely half over, and yet it has seemed to be the longest one yet. Like one drawn-out panic attack. At least it's harder to mope when you're constantly bombarded with shit to do. Eat that reality.
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[16 Jan 2007|11:25pm] |
haay guyz
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[12 Jan 2007|04:13pm] |
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sleeping in too late for breakfast + 3 consecutive cups of tea = me hella crakked out. i have a treadmill to attend to....to which to attend? my mood is the physical equivalent of the opening to "mind your own business" where they are all like unddannwirsaßeninderkuechehabenesgehoertundhabengemeint. remind me later when i'm stable to talk about the tree-fungus lynching i participated in last night....
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[07 Jan 2007|11:00pm] |
random thought:
the idea of which is more depressing: poland or ukraine?
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[29 Dec 2006|03:37pm] |
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ZOMG KIKI MOORSE LEFT COS! ;(
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[12 Dec 2006|12:25am] |
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I actually checked out Chrissie be-Hynde for the first time tonight.
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[22 Nov 2006|06:05pm] |
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On the way home from German
I heard the strange tongue
Of bespectacled blonde beauties
In departure from Fisher
I realized 'twas Finnish
So eloquently uttered, and then
I wanted their brains.
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[19 Nov 2006|12:22am] |
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sonic youth- bull in the heather |
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[07 Nov 2006|08:03pm] |
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This day has been like rancid piss all over my mangled corpse.
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[25 Oct 2006|04:23am] |
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Lol.
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