Hey, it's Bird Day USA* ... Enjoy!

* a.k.a. Happy Thanksgiving!

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The rules are simple ...

... Paper covers rock. Scissors cuts paper. Rock breaks scissors.

This is one helluvan interesting World Competition. This year the prize went to a man from London Town...

Held in Toronto, Canada, the Fifth Annual World Rock Paper Scissors (RPS) Championship drew 500 competitors and 250 spectators from 26 U.S. States, four Canadian provinces, Norway, New Zealand, Australia, Wales, the UK and Ireland.



I'm definitely buying the strategy guide. (I wonder if it has chapters titled "How to win - psyching out vs. being psychic."

Saving the Apple barrel

Okay. This is not what we want to accept.

THIS is something all Apple users should know...

Let's get active. Let's do something about THIS.

Failing that you may as well just drive a Hummer.

Introducing a new series of content...

... Quips and quotes from Patty in Orlando, Florida, USA:

"You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning."

Stay tuned for the next witticism from Patty, poolside in the Sunshine State!


Patty relaying her content for this blog

Isn't THIS - ONE - life enough?

When AR (alternative reality - did I just coin that acronym?) risks becoming the prime reality:

Your "second life is ready" and waiting...

On person's creepiness is another's happiness.

Is "No War" shirt electioneering?

Colbert calls it quits

"Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones created in a stem-cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags; where tax and spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio and teach evolution to illegal immigrants. Oh, and everybody's high!"

--Stephen Colbert

Do not ZZZZZ (aka fall asleep...)

It's only a fly... Stay focused.

Enter the world of e-Zen. Learn about breathing. Learn about meditation. Discover calm...

But don't forget that it's the web, it's not as gentle as intended.

Please be patient. Please meditate while the site loads.

And please don't zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Just because "you're" paranoid...

... doesn't mean there's not a creepy plan.

I got to thinking after listening to this about Video the Vote.

The creator of Video the Vote mentioned in the NPR interview that the plan is to use YouTube - now GooTube to host the videos.

BUT - what if they don't make the upload? (That "might" explain the gihugic amount they paid for this massive access platform for everyone on earth to view rich media content.)

AND so I have to wonder "what if" the YouTube guys said, "Sure Google, we'll sell it. One condition: not until December 1st."

Hmmmm...

The soul would have no rainbow if the eye had no tears. - Tribe Unknown

Today, for Christians, is known as All Saints/Souls Day.

Today should also be a day to remember with gratitude - by everyone regardless of their faith or creed - all people who strived for integrity, respect for all, and honor rooted in their faith.

Having been raised by Catholic parents, I received a Catholic home and school education. I spent my earlier years going to mass to practice my religion. I've flipped through the bible (and still do sometimes - mostly out of curiousity.)

When I moved from my family home to live in New York City - to study theater, and life, I read about other religions and philosophies: Siddhartha, Zen and the Art of Archery, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, Tao Te Ching, . . .

I took from each book what I liked; believed; needed.

When writing became an integrated part of my life, I developed an interest in quotations, especially about life and writing. Since the Internet, it's a snap to find volumes of them.

Today, while searching for a quotation to help my nephew find a topic for a college essay, I came across something that both surprised and angered me. Considering the country I hail from, it should be obvious that I would have already had marvelled - many times - the words of a particular people. Alas, it's only now - RIGHT NOW - that I decided to look for the words by these amazing people (in lieu of the University's suggestions of people like Keates.) I decided to select something by THE REAL forefathers of my country. A country where, if these people had not been and continue to be beaten down, it may have become one of the most beautiful places on earth. Here I share my marvellous discoveries of the wisdom and code of living of the Native "American" Tribes.

It makes complete sense to remember THESE people - living and dead - on this particular day, which celebrates saints who, after all, were just people who lived in a way that should be commemorated. People who offer the purest of inspiration ...


Lakota Instructions for Living



Friend do it this way - that is,

whatever you do in life,

do the very best you can

with both your heart and mind.



And if you do it that way,

the Power Of The Universe

will come to your assistance,

if your heart and mind are in Unity.



When one sits in the Hoop Of The People,

one must be responsible because

All of Creation is related.

And the hurt of one is the hurt of all.

And the honor of one is the honor of all.

And whatever we do effects everything in the universe.



If you do it that way - that is,

if you truly join your heart and mind

as One - whatever you ask for,

that's the Way It's Going To Be.



~ Passed down from White Buffalo Calf Woman


A selection of beautiful quotes:

It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace and live in peace. - Shenandoah

A brave man dies but once, a coward many times. - Tribe Unknown.

White men have too many chiefs. - Nez Perce

Cherish youth, but trust old age. - Pueblo

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand. - Tribe Unknown

It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story. - Tribe Unknown

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. - Cherokee

Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf. - Tribe Unknown

Man has responsibility, not power. - Tuscarora

The rain falls on the just and the unjust. - Hopi

Each bird loves to hear himself sing. - Arapaho

The way of the troublemaker is thorny. - Umpqua

God gives us each a song. - Ute

Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it. - Arapaho

There are many good moccasin tracks along the trail of a straight arrow. - Sioux

A rocky vinyard does not need a prayer, but a pick ax. - Navajo

With all things and in all things, we are relatives. - Sioux

The one who tells the stories rules the world. - Hopi

The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives. - Sioux

A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass. - Sioux


ENDNOTE:

One of my favorite people, American author and regular contributor to the radio program This American Life, Sarah Vowell - who also was the voice of Violet in The Incredibles, made this radio piece. Sarah is "part" Cherokee and decided to follow the Trail of Tears... (If it doesn't play, go here and scroll down to it.)


Sarah Vowell