So...I got a new phone and now I can receive texts. Before I had a very old BB, which basically did nothing but emails and calls. If any of you would like to chat, let me know and I'll send you my number via SG PM.
Also, the Kings...my Kings...they have been playing so great that I've been on a total high. Everything else seems to be turned down low including SG.
I've been having fun chatting with a couple of my special SG girls on my phone so that rocks. So I apologize for not getting to anyone's journals at all...I've been really bad. But it's nice to know who reads my stuff for real and is not just a journal replier although I consider journal repliers as actual friends on SG. Anyone who writes me anytime, whether journal or PM is a friend.
Speaking of which, I just got rid of a bunch of "friends" off my friends list who never write me, read my journals or even reply...and even turned down a FR because I'm tired of Hopefuls who just randomly friend me, trying to get me to vote for their set. I get depressed looking at most of the sets here to be honest. Everyone compliments but few tell the truth...and the lighting for most sets... *sigh* What can I say? It hasn't been easy for me to find girls who would model with the exception of the last two years as I've had a burst of female friends here (love you ALL <3) and even a few said "yes" to modeling for their pal Ror "once he gets his shit together." The quoted part is me talking about me.
Also, I love taking pictures and sharing with you guys but it seems my account is in such a way that when I post a photo, not only do I have to do an edit, I also have to do a second edit to reduce the image to 550 pixels wide or my blog text box cuts off the rest...sux. So I haven't been motivated to edit my Chile pics, nor my Kings pics. I went to game 4 of the SWEEP. It was EPIC and I sat right against the glass behind the Kings bench!
- R
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Also, the Kings...my Kings...they have been playing so great that I've been on a total high. Everything else seems to be turned down low including SG.
I've been having fun chatting with a couple of my special SG girls on my phone so that rocks. So I apologize for not getting to anyone's journals at all...I've been really bad. But it's nice to know who reads my stuff for real and is not just a journal replier although I consider journal repliers as actual friends on SG. Anyone who writes me anytime, whether journal or PM is a friend.
Speaking of which, I just got rid of a bunch of "friends" off my friends list who never write me, read my journals or even reply...and even turned down a FR because I'm tired of Hopefuls who just randomly friend me, trying to get me to vote for their set. I get depressed looking at most of the sets here to be honest. Everyone compliments but few tell the truth...and the lighting for most sets... *sigh* What can I say? It hasn't been easy for me to find girls who would model with the exception of the last two years as I've had a burst of female friends here (love you ALL <3) and even a few said "yes" to modeling for their pal Ror "once he gets his shit together." The quoted part is me talking about me.
Also, I love taking pictures and sharing with you guys but it seems my account is in such a way that when I post a photo, not only do I have to do an edit, I also have to do a second edit to reduce the image to 550 pixels wide or my blog text box cuts off the rest...sux. So I haven't been motivated to edit my Chile pics, nor my Kings pics. I went to game 4 of the SWEEP. It was EPIC and I sat right against the glass behind the Kings bench!
- R
.><.
My DSL modem fried and so I haven't really been on.
But, since the fuckers at the phone company won't replace my modem, I got high speed cable instead. I also have an IPhone now so anyone wants to text me, I now can get them unlike my old BB.
So...I'm back.
- R
.><.
PS - You know what sucks about not having a connection the most? None of my Steam games worked, including Civ5 and Skyrim! I could do a lil bit of online stuff on the IPhone but not play my games.
PPS - GO KINGS GO!
But, since the fuckers at the phone company won't replace my modem, I got high speed cable instead. I also have an IPhone now so anyone wants to text me, I now can get them unlike my old BB.
So...I'm back.
- R
.><.
PS - You know what sucks about not having a connection the most? None of my Steam games worked, including Civ5 and Skyrim! I could do a lil bit of online stuff on the IPhone but not play my games.
PPS - GO KINGS GO!
So today I was going to write up a new blog for you all about my recent trip out of the country, do a bunch of life maintenance (like laundry) and edit a bunch of photos.
Instead, it's been raining for 20+ hours and my camera's in the car...that thing's become one of my main hobbies and I loathe the idea of getting it wet. It would be like taking my Les Paul out there in the rain...even with a blanket, I still wouldn't risk it!
Also for some reason, in the last year, I've become really sensitive to the cold where as before I'd be the guy in shorts and t-shirt in a blizzard. If it got cold, I'd just throw on another t-shirt, lol.
Anyways, so instead, here's a science-y blog...first time in a long time. Hopefully some of my friends here who liked my previous ones will catch this one...
Julian Barbour
If you've never heard that name before, then remember it.
Before I get into explaining the man above, I need to explain his predecessor first...
When Einstein and friends provided proof for his theory of relativity, they were able to show that light can bend in space when "influenced" by gravity when an object of sufficient mass exists. (As Newton and all scientists up to Einstein already believed, there is such a force in nature as gravity and that gravitational force is exerted by/from large objects in space...like the size of moons and up. ) So they did their famous experiments observing solar eclipses (where the moon gets in between the Earth and the Sun, blocking solar light from reaching our planet) and saw that even though the moon was blocking the sun, somehow light still appeared from behind and then around the moon instead of just being blocked completely. The gravity of the moon bent the light pointing to the back of the moon and warped some of it around itself and then the light continued on to the Earth where the observers could see and photograph it.
Thus, in a nutshell, Einstein proved that space is malleable by forces like gravity and even things that are supposed to travel in straight lines in space will curve around the "dent" in space. It's like putting a bowling ball on to your bed. Your blankets are the space, the ball is a star/object of large mass, and the dent in the blankets will cause any other smaller objects to roll toward the much heavier bowling ball, thus acting a lot like gravity.
So every serious scientist the last forty years, especially those in the physical sciences, knows this stuff already like how every reverend in Christianity knows Genesis.
The idea at the time was and still is so revolutionary, so...mind-altering, that scientists eventually just took it on like cannon. Considering how scientific theory is to first hypothesize and then attempt to disprove it every way possible. If you can't disprove despite many valid tests it, that theory must be true...for the moment, until we have something better. For scientists to believe some theory, even Einstein, to be scientific fact is the epitome of being unscientific. Scientists have been prone to this weakness since the beginning of published science. At best, they've ridiculed those who have posed radical new hypotheses; at worst they've even had their fellow scientists killed as "heretics." From people who believed the universe rotated around the Earth, to flat-Earthers, to people who ridiculed the idea of germs (microscopic organisms) that cause illness...the story, the history repeats itself over and over.
Dark Energy and Dark Matter
So everyone became a believe of Einstein. But all Einstein did was reveal the beginnings of humanity's new perception of the universe. He lifted the cover off the rabbit hole and told us that it goes down. But by no means did his "down here" directions explain everything "down there. " Einstein kept it as simple as possible, explaining along with our three dimensional world, there was also time as a fourth dimension...basically he explained it in the limited terms to the limited minds he introduced his theories to. But Einstein's theories were unfinished and he basically quit trying to fix/improve/finish them as he was already famous and in his own words "it was too hard. "
So scientists up to the present have problems using his system of fixed coordinates (three dimensions, the X, Y and Z axises) and then measuring them over time (the fourth dimension). In small systems like our solar system, it's no problem because we have one huge mass from the one star in the system and a bunch of significantly smaller masses in planets (not counting plutoids, the smaller, not quite big enough to be planets that Pluto got downgraded to, or asteroids, which aren't big enough to exert significant gravity of their own). There's one big guy and a bunch of little ones. Then each planet is it's own little system with a stable orbit and potentially having their own objects orbiting in moons. Earth has one moon, some other planets have multiple. And each of these systems are simple and easy as well. No problem, Einstein's theory and simple rules work in these simple systems.
Where things begin to break down is when you get multiple stars and on a much huger scale, entire galaxies moving. These objects with many massive objects, maybe even multiple hugely massive objects like black holes, well...these objects aren't measurable using the normal four dimensions because as one object affects the other, the other also affects the one. Imagine trying to drop a thousand super balls (the little rubber balls that bounce like 5 feet high when just dropped, made of high-impact rubber) in a room. Except due to gravity, they're also magnetic. And as they bounce and run into each other, they may give off energy (heat) and thus altering physics even more. The effect the objects have on each other makes things really complicated to track even one ball's trajectories. It may get too close to another ball and stick...it may bounce higher than normal because the area it's in is warmer...it may run into two balls stuck together...who knows. There are too many variables that influence each other... Basically we're talking about quantum mechanics.
So in the movement of huge masses, the measurements don't come out right using Einstein's methods. The theory of relativity is still true, it's just using his methods, they don't measure huge and complex systems, the predicted measurements are always off compared to the actual measurements. And thus modern day scientists have "made up" a couple of phony things to explain away the shortcomings...dark matter and dark energy. Roughly, dark matter is matter in space that exerts extra gravity force enough to make up for difference between Einstein measurements and actual measurements. That extra force is the dark energy. Why is it "dark?" Because you can't see it...and after Julian Barbour's theories, he explains that you can't see it because it doesn't actually exist!
Simply put. Einstein says, in the universe A+B=X, and if A and B are 1, then X=2...1+1=2. And in simple systems, we always get 2 or damn close. But in complex systems like measuring the movement of galaxies, we get all sorts of different numbers greater than 2. Modern scientists say that dark matter and dark energy are an unseen "C" so that A+B+C=X. Except no one has ever observed this "C." Barbour says the C is not there and the actual equation is something more like n(A+B)=C. In simple systems, n is 1, thus not affecting the equation's answer in any visible way. But in complex equations, n can be anything. So we also have to account for n, the variables introduced by other significantly massive objects.
(Now these equations I just put up there are total BS...quantum mechanics is much more complex by several orders of magnitude...but the idea of other variables affecting the equation in complex systems that aren't present in simple systems is the point. )
The New Universe
And now, Barbour has theorized that we always need to account for these variables and we can also measure objects not against a fixed four dimensional plane (3D plus time) but we can also measure the objects against each other instead. Incredibly simple. And thus we can get rid of the phony dark energy and dark matter that never existed in the first place and just measure the objects using the new philosophy.
Why this is so important is manifold...first, it's impossible to scientifically measure small, atomic systems as any measuring instrument introduced to the system will alter the system and thus render any measurement as scientifically moot. So we can't just look and fix our theories that way. Thus having the correct theory/method for measurement in the first place is all we have to rely on. And, scientists have recently "proven" that two sub-atomic particles that are together, even if they are split up across miles, if you do something to affect one particle's behavior, the other particle's behavior also changes like-wise. In other words, it's possible to manipulate something from far away by manipulating the "partner." We really need to have a correct theory and measurement method to tackle this sort of thing. Plus bottom line, dark matter and energy aren't real, the less human resources we waste on those phony things, the better. (All of these things have already been worked on by other scientists before Barbour, FYI. )
On a separate note, some say that the particle behaviors that mimic each other across any seeming distance opens the doorway fully to a possible theory of intelligent design...creationism if you will.
Here's a pic of the man.
Basically the point of this whole essay is this. Barbour will become the next man that future generations will
look at as the epitome of science...the name who will take over from Newton, from Einstein.
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So on another note, the only thing I'm looking forward to right now is American Reunion, the movie. Those of you reading my blog over the years, you guys know that I'm sort of a movie connoisseur, I'm in to the indie and foreign type of films. If the movie is highly rated but has almost no money behind it from a large studio, I just assume it must be a great movie. However, I have my guilty pleasures too. Two, in fact.
Any time a Fast and Furious movie comes out, especially if the "bromance" guys Vin Diesel and Paul Walker are in it, I automatically go see it in the theater. Twice at least! Well, the American Pie franchise is the other...but there hasn't been a new movie in a long time...just those awful spinoffs. Well this month, the fourth one is finally coming out. Can't wait. Actually I'll have to wait. I couldn't go this weekend and next weekend I'm on call. So, it'll be next month. Can't wait. There have been so many times in the 90s and early 00's when I was down and depressed but then an American Pie movie came out and cheered me up bigtime.
- R
.><.
Instead, it's been raining for 20+ hours and my camera's in the car...that thing's become one of my main hobbies and I loathe the idea of getting it wet. It would be like taking my Les Paul out there in the rain...even with a blanket, I still wouldn't risk it!
Also for some reason, in the last year, I've become really sensitive to the cold where as before I'd be the guy in shorts and t-shirt in a blizzard. If it got cold, I'd just throw on another t-shirt, lol.
Anyways, so instead, here's a science-y blog...first time in a long time. Hopefully some of my friends here who liked my previous ones will catch this one...
Julian Barbour
If you've never heard that name before, then remember it.
Before I get into explaining the man above, I need to explain his predecessor first...
When Einstein and friends provided proof for his theory of relativity, they were able to show that light can bend in space when "influenced" by gravity when an object of sufficient mass exists. (As Newton and all scientists up to Einstein already believed, there is such a force in nature as gravity and that gravitational force is exerted by/from large objects in space...like the size of moons and up. ) So they did their famous experiments observing solar eclipses (where the moon gets in between the Earth and the Sun, blocking solar light from reaching our planet) and saw that even though the moon was blocking the sun, somehow light still appeared from behind and then around the moon instead of just being blocked completely. The gravity of the moon bent the light pointing to the back of the moon and warped some of it around itself and then the light continued on to the Earth where the observers could see and photograph it.
Thus, in a nutshell, Einstein proved that space is malleable by forces like gravity and even things that are supposed to travel in straight lines in space will curve around the "dent" in space. It's like putting a bowling ball on to your bed. Your blankets are the space, the ball is a star/object of large mass, and the dent in the blankets will cause any other smaller objects to roll toward the much heavier bowling ball, thus acting a lot like gravity.
So every serious scientist the last forty years, especially those in the physical sciences, knows this stuff already like how every reverend in Christianity knows Genesis.
The idea at the time was and still is so revolutionary, so...mind-altering, that scientists eventually just took it on like cannon. Considering how scientific theory is to first hypothesize and then attempt to disprove it every way possible. If you can't disprove despite many valid tests it, that theory must be true...for the moment, until we have something better. For scientists to believe some theory, even Einstein, to be scientific fact is the epitome of being unscientific. Scientists have been prone to this weakness since the beginning of published science. At best, they've ridiculed those who have posed radical new hypotheses; at worst they've even had their fellow scientists killed as "heretics." From people who believed the universe rotated around the Earth, to flat-Earthers, to people who ridiculed the idea of germs (microscopic organisms) that cause illness...the story, the history repeats itself over and over.
Dark Energy and Dark Matter
So everyone became a believe of Einstein. But all Einstein did was reveal the beginnings of humanity's new perception of the universe. He lifted the cover off the rabbit hole and told us that it goes down. But by no means did his "down here" directions explain everything "down there. " Einstein kept it as simple as possible, explaining along with our three dimensional world, there was also time as a fourth dimension...basically he explained it in the limited terms to the limited minds he introduced his theories to. But Einstein's theories were unfinished and he basically quit trying to fix/improve/finish them as he was already famous and in his own words "it was too hard. "
So scientists up to the present have problems using his system of fixed coordinates (three dimensions, the X, Y and Z axises) and then measuring them over time (the fourth dimension). In small systems like our solar system, it's no problem because we have one huge mass from the one star in the system and a bunch of significantly smaller masses in planets (not counting plutoids, the smaller, not quite big enough to be planets that Pluto got downgraded to, or asteroids, which aren't big enough to exert significant gravity of their own). There's one big guy and a bunch of little ones. Then each planet is it's own little system with a stable orbit and potentially having their own objects orbiting in moons. Earth has one moon, some other planets have multiple. And each of these systems are simple and easy as well. No problem, Einstein's theory and simple rules work in these simple systems.
Where things begin to break down is when you get multiple stars and on a much huger scale, entire galaxies moving. These objects with many massive objects, maybe even multiple hugely massive objects like black holes, well...these objects aren't measurable using the normal four dimensions because as one object affects the other, the other also affects the one. Imagine trying to drop a thousand super balls (the little rubber balls that bounce like 5 feet high when just dropped, made of high-impact rubber) in a room. Except due to gravity, they're also magnetic. And as they bounce and run into each other, they may give off energy (heat) and thus altering physics even more. The effect the objects have on each other makes things really complicated to track even one ball's trajectories. It may get too close to another ball and stick...it may bounce higher than normal because the area it's in is warmer...it may run into two balls stuck together...who knows. There are too many variables that influence each other... Basically we're talking about quantum mechanics.
So in the movement of huge masses, the measurements don't come out right using Einstein's methods. The theory of relativity is still true, it's just using his methods, they don't measure huge and complex systems, the predicted measurements are always off compared to the actual measurements. And thus modern day scientists have "made up" a couple of phony things to explain away the shortcomings...dark matter and dark energy. Roughly, dark matter is matter in space that exerts extra gravity force enough to make up for difference between Einstein measurements and actual measurements. That extra force is the dark energy. Why is it "dark?" Because you can't see it...and after Julian Barbour's theories, he explains that you can't see it because it doesn't actually exist!
Simply put. Einstein says, in the universe A+B=X, and if A and B are 1, then X=2...1+1=2. And in simple systems, we always get 2 or damn close. But in complex systems like measuring the movement of galaxies, we get all sorts of different numbers greater than 2. Modern scientists say that dark matter and dark energy are an unseen "C" so that A+B+C=X. Except no one has ever observed this "C." Barbour says the C is not there and the actual equation is something more like n(A+B)=C. In simple systems, n is 1, thus not affecting the equation's answer in any visible way. But in complex equations, n can be anything. So we also have to account for n, the variables introduced by other significantly massive objects.
(Now these equations I just put up there are total BS...quantum mechanics is much more complex by several orders of magnitude...but the idea of other variables affecting the equation in complex systems that aren't present in simple systems is the point. )
The New Universe
And now, Barbour has theorized that we always need to account for these variables and we can also measure objects not against a fixed four dimensional plane (3D plus time) but we can also measure the objects against each other instead. Incredibly simple. And thus we can get rid of the phony dark energy and dark matter that never existed in the first place and just measure the objects using the new philosophy.
Why this is so important is manifold...first, it's impossible to scientifically measure small, atomic systems as any measuring instrument introduced to the system will alter the system and thus render any measurement as scientifically moot. So we can't just look and fix our theories that way. Thus having the correct theory/method for measurement in the first place is all we have to rely on. And, scientists have recently "proven" that two sub-atomic particles that are together, even if they are split up across miles, if you do something to affect one particle's behavior, the other particle's behavior also changes like-wise. In other words, it's possible to manipulate something from far away by manipulating the "partner." We really need to have a correct theory and measurement method to tackle this sort of thing. Plus bottom line, dark matter and energy aren't real, the less human resources we waste on those phony things, the better. (All of these things have already been worked on by other scientists before Barbour, FYI. )
On a separate note, some say that the particle behaviors that mimic each other across any seeming distance opens the doorway fully to a possible theory of intelligent design...creationism if you will.
Here's a pic of the man.
Basically the point of this whole essay is this. Barbour will become the next man that future generations will
look at as the epitome of science...the name who will take over from Newton, from Einstein.
************************************************************************************************************************
So on another note, the only thing I'm looking forward to right now is American Reunion, the movie. Those of you reading my blog over the years, you guys know that I'm sort of a movie connoisseur, I'm in to the indie and foreign type of films. If the movie is highly rated but has almost no money behind it from a large studio, I just assume it must be a great movie. However, I have my guilty pleasures too. Two, in fact.
Any time a Fast and Furious movie comes out, especially if the "bromance" guys Vin Diesel and Paul Walker are in it, I automatically go see it in the theater. Twice at least! Well, the American Pie franchise is the other...but there hasn't been a new movie in a long time...just those awful spinoffs. Well this month, the fourth one is finally coming out. Can't wait. Actually I'll have to wait. I couldn't go this weekend and next weekend I'm on call. So, it'll be next month. Can't wait.
There have been so many times in the 90s and early 00's when I was down and depressed but then an American Pie movie came out and cheered me up bigtime. - R
.><.
Ok, I'm back home...I've never been so disoriented after a trip. This weekend I'll reply to journals, make a new post with pics from Chile, etc.
This week I've been following my LA Kings, who have been tearing it up, playing themselves into a playoff spot...lets hope it lasts!
- R
.><.
This week I've been following my LA Kings, who have been tearing it up, playing themselves into a playoff spot...lets hope it lasts!
- R
.><.
Ok, new blog, sort of...
I had a bunch of stuff to say and now I'm just too busy in my head to think of what to write.
I will be adding more to this blog as time goes, mainly new aquarium pics.
Why I'm so busy is because I'm flying out to Chile for the week. I'm not sure if I'll have any sort of Internet conn while I'm there so I'm just blogging this now. Hopefully between tonight and tomorrow, I'll have a bit of time to comment on everyone else's new blogs.
- R
.><.
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3/11/2012
So I'm no longer on FB anymore. I used to go on there and talk to several friends but I only had it to talk to one person and one day, I just didn't want to be friends anymore because she didn't know how to treat me with proper respect. Those of you who know me most know that I...well, lets just say I take very good care of my female friends, both in good times but especially in bad. This person is a tattooed girl but not a SG, but looks down on SG. But, all of the other people I talked to on there, they all have my RL info like email, cel phone, etc. or know me on SG anyway. It's part of a new resolution, a new inner resolve, that whenever someone tries to treat me like crap, basically they will lose me instantly. I'm way, way too good to ever be treated that way and to be really real, it's their big loss.
Like I said a couple journals ago, it's a change in personality.
Now that blowup also occurred in a chain with several others to the point where I thought all of the good friends I had on SG were not actually as close with me as I thought they were. Like every single one...sorry but again I'm going to be real. Lately, all I can do is sing out loud the (I once thought) cheesy Red Hot Chili Peppers song, Under The Bridge. I even bought myself the guitar tab book so not only could I read the lyrics and music, but I can learn to play the song.
~Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner
~Sometimes I feel like my only friend
~Is the city I live in, the City of Angels
~Lonely as I am, together we cry
~I drive on her streets cuz she's my companion
~I walk through her hills cuz she knows who I am
~She sees my good deeds and her kisses are windy
~I never worry; now that is a lie
Those lyrics are just way too true...
(Too many people are just away or do things to make me feel like I'm...worthless. I am anything but. )
I really do just cure myself driving around, playing music in my car on the BOSE system, buying comics and seeing cool shit near me. Further below is one said trip's worth of pics. Hope you like them! Unlike my pink and hopeful friends here, I can't post pics of myself nekkid to get you guys happy, lol.
However, nothing is always all bad. Things are getting better. Time passes and I heal a little. There are still some people I should just remove who are in my life somehow and not being a positive influence. But, there is one new friend I have made, my "new favorite pen pal. " You know who you are. <3
So that's that...here are the pics! I also made some new gifs I hope you guys like. The gif making process has gotten a lot easier now that I have Lightroom but I need to learn that software way more...right now I'm only taking advantage of the bulk import/export feature that allows me to edit photos in a batch, at least in terms of reducing them down to gif frame size.
Aquarium 2012
Less pics than before as I only like to take pics of new stuff. The cool thing is every time I go, there's always significantly more new stuff!
Cool lil box fish. Never seen it before in all the trips I've been in the past.
Frog on frog action. They're both looking at me.
Worms.
New pic of this frog buddha.
Baby hammerhead.
Just something cool looking and new.
The outdoor touch tanks, one of them had all new creatures...horseshoe crabs.
I used to collect shells beachcombing exotic places or finding them when diving/snorkeling. But I never saw something alive like this. It helps keep the tank clean.
Two pair...reminds me of Goodfellas. Anyone know why?
Always these guys huddling together.
Had a lot of fun at the bird cage area this time. The birds were hungry and aggressive.
Nice look at the textured feathers.
These two guys were fighting, one kicked the other in the head.
I had a bunch of stuff to say and now I'm just too busy in my head to think of what to write.
I will be adding more to this blog as time goes, mainly new aquarium pics.
Why I'm so busy is because I'm flying out to Chile for the week. I'm not sure if I'll have any sort of Internet conn while I'm there so I'm just blogging this now. Hopefully between tonight and tomorrow, I'll have a bit of time to comment on everyone else's new blogs.
- R
.><.
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3/11/2012
So I'm no longer on FB anymore. I used to go on there and talk to several friends but I only had it to talk to one person and one day, I just didn't want to be friends anymore because she didn't know how to treat me with proper respect. Those of you who know me most know that I...well, lets just say I take very good care of my female friends, both in good times but especially in bad. This person is a tattooed girl but not a SG, but looks down on SG. But, all of the other people I talked to on there, they all have my RL info like email, cel phone, etc. or know me on SG anyway. It's part of a new resolution, a new inner resolve, that whenever someone tries to treat me like crap, basically they will lose me instantly. I'm way, way too good to ever be treated that way and to be really real, it's their big loss.
Like I said a couple journals ago, it's a change in personality.
Now that blowup also occurred in a chain with several others to the point where I thought all of the good friends I had on SG were not actually as close with me as I thought they were. Like every single one...sorry but again I'm going to be real. Lately, all I can do is sing out loud the (I once thought) cheesy Red Hot Chili Peppers song, Under The Bridge. I even bought myself the guitar tab book so not only could I read the lyrics and music, but I can learn to play the song.
~Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner
~Sometimes I feel like my only friend
~Is the city I live in, the City of Angels
~Lonely as I am, together we cry
~I drive on her streets cuz she's my companion
~I walk through her hills cuz she knows who I am
~She sees my good deeds and her kisses are windy
~I never worry; now that is a lie
Those lyrics are just way too true...
(Too many people are just away or do things to make me feel like I'm...worthless. I am anything but. )
I really do just cure myself driving around, playing music in my car on the BOSE system, buying comics and seeing cool shit near me. Further below is one said trip's worth of pics. Hope you like them! Unlike my pink and hopeful friends here, I can't post pics of myself nekkid to get you guys happy, lol.
However, nothing is always all bad. Things are getting better. Time passes and I heal a little. There are still some people I should just remove who are in my life somehow and not being a positive influence. But, there is one new friend I have made, my "new favorite pen pal. " You know who you are.
<3So that's that...here are the pics! I also made some new gifs I hope you guys like. The gif making process has gotten a lot easier now that I have Lightroom but I need to learn that software way more...right now I'm only taking advantage of the bulk import/export feature that allows me to edit photos in a batch, at least in terms of reducing them down to gif frame size.
Aquarium 2012
Less pics than before as I only like to take pics of new stuff. The cool thing is every time I go, there's always significantly more new stuff!
Cool lil box fish. Never seen it before in all the trips I've been in the past.
Frog on frog action. They're both looking at me.
Worms.
New pic of this frog buddha.
Baby hammerhead.
Just something cool looking and new.
The outdoor touch tanks, one of them had all new creatures...horseshoe crabs.
I used to collect shells beachcombing exotic places or finding them when diving/snorkeling. But I never saw something alive like this. It helps keep the tank clean.
Two pair...reminds me of Goodfellas. Anyone know why?
Always these guys huddling together.
Had a lot of fun at the bird cage area this time. The birds were hungry and aggressive.
Nice look at the textured feathers.
These two guys were fighting, one kicked the other in the head.
Made a new friend on the way out.
Giant shrimp guy in the dark...pardon the flash.
Which do you like better?
The top pic is au naturel, the bottom one is level-adjusted in Photoshop. I think the actual tank that day looked like the top one. The funny thing is we were encouraged to touch all of the other guys in this tank except this guy who bites. Did you know in Japan, left eye flounders are considered delicious for sushi; right eye ones, like this guy, taste muddy and are much more common in the sea?
Gifs
Last time there was one poor doggy, this time there were two, friends! Except every moment was like this.
Good stuff!
A new version of last year's jellyfish gif.
Baby seahorses!
Everyone's got that one molester uncle...leave them chicks alone.
New version of last year's red jellyfish gif.
Hope it was entertaining! Maybe you guys one day can visit me in LA and I'll take you here.
- R
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Ok, new blog, sort of...
I had a bunch of stuff to say and now I'm just too busy in my head to think of what to write.
I will be adding more to this blog as time goes, mainly new aquarium pics.
Why I'm so busy is because I'm flying out to Chile for the week. I'm not sure if I'll have any sort of Internet conn while I'm there so I'm just blogging this now. Hopefully between tonight and tomorrow, I'll have a bit of time to comment on everyone else's new blogs.
- R
.><.
I had a bunch of stuff to say and now I'm just too busy in my head to think of what to write.
I will be adding more to this blog as time goes, mainly new aquarium pics.
Why I'm so busy is because I'm flying out to Chile for the week. I'm not sure if I'll have any sort of Internet conn while I'm there so I'm just blogging this now. Hopefully between tonight and tomorrow, I'll have a bit of time to comment on everyone else's new blogs.
- R
.><.
New blog coming, then replies to you gals' new blogs as well.
I've been Skyrimmin' again, so I've been away a bit. Which also means I'm hiding myself (my heart, what's left of it) there.
Thanks to all of you SG buds, old and new, for being my pals.
I've been Skyrimmin' again, so I've been away a bit. Which also means I'm hiding myself (my heart, what's left of it) there.
Thanks to all of you SG buds, old and new, for being my pals.
Think I'm going to the Aquarium today. I really need something to lift me up.
Just FYI to all of my friends here who actually read my blogs...if you notice a personality change in me, it's because it's true.
- R
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Just FYI to all of my friends here who actually read my blogs...if you notice a personality change in me, it's because it's true.
- R
.><.
Tomorrow, I go to meet and greet with Megadeth and Motorhead. So brutal that I'm going solo. I have an extra VIP ticket and I can't even give it away...backstage pass, meet and greet with the band, etc.
It's at the Gibson Ampitheater, Universal Citywalk. (I need to remember to look up the info tonight).
On my way there, I'm going to stop at the Staples store and buy some Kings jerseys, yay.
Anyways, I just wanted to turn the page on the blog. Saturday I'll try to put up some photos. They're not letting in any cameras to the MD meet and greet.
- R
It's at the Gibson Ampitheater, Universal Citywalk. (I need to remember to look up the info tonight).
On my way there, I'm going to stop at the Staples store and buy some Kings jerseys, yay.
Anyways, I just wanted to turn the page on the blog. Saturday I'll try to put up some photos. They're not letting in any cameras to the MD meet and greet.
- R
All is quiet on new year's day. I want to be with you, be with you, be with you night and day.
Not much to report here...I have a ton of pics I should be posting but it's such a pain to have to edit every one in order to fit SG's windows and then shrinking them down often ruins the pic anyways. I'm still trying to figure out how to turn them into thumb pics first...I wonder if the SGs, their accounts let you do this automatically while it doesn't work for normal members like me. Oh well.
One thing I had to post, pulling me out of my Skyrim coma, was this:
Full size version here.
Simply put, I have received the best present I ever have in my life. The people on here closest to me know that I have a tendency to give presents to my faves here. What I'm trying to say/do is to show my affection, that someone out there likes and cares for them (the recipients) because that's what I feel is important. This is probably because I know what it feels like to not receive any affection from those closest in my life. So this gift here is a bit overwhelming. I'm still in a bit of shock.
It's an original art piece from Vivid. Obviously I love and treasure it and her! This sort of thing you can't just put up somewhere, it has to be treated special. I've been wracking my brain a bit on where to display it and how to post about it...with the latter I figured I would just say honestly what I feel and thus this blog.
So how it came about was that I bought a piece from her, another original, from her page vivka.etsy.com. I'm going to show that one off on another blog since it's too nice of a piece to get second billing to anything in my blog and this blog is dedicated to the piece above. She told me she had a surprise for me, which could mean anything cuz we're both local, haha, but this one... Well, no one can expect something of this magnitude of love.
I can't thank you enough so I'll instead try to live up your image of me. I can't say it enough; you're everything I ever thought a SG should be and you've become even more than that now. There have been many times I've been tempted to just leave here but you made me glad I came back and that I stayed. I hope I can make you feel the same.
- R
.><.
PS - If any of you, my friends, are able to come to LA and visit me, I'll be happy to show it to you. I believe it's 5x7 on wood. There are lil messages on the back but for now they'll just be for me. <3
PPS - I promise to catch up to everyone on their blogs this holiday weekend. Skyrim has been womb-like but at the same time made me realize how alone I am in real life and that's been pulling me down and away from SG and FB.
Not much to report here...I have a ton of pics I should be posting but it's such a pain to have to edit every one in order to fit SG's windows and then shrinking them down often ruins the pic anyways. I'm still trying to figure out how to turn them into thumb pics first...I wonder if the SGs, their accounts let you do this automatically while it doesn't work for normal members like me. Oh well.
One thing I had to post, pulling me out of my Skyrim coma, was this:
Full size version here.
Simply put, I have received the best present I ever have in my life. The people on here closest to me know that I have a tendency to give presents to my faves here. What I'm trying to say/do is to show my affection, that someone out there likes and cares for them (the recipients) because that's what I feel is important. This is probably because I know what it feels like to not receive any affection from those closest in my life. So this gift here is a bit overwhelming. I'm still in a bit of shock.
It's an original art piece from Vivid. Obviously I love and treasure it and her! This sort of thing you can't just put up somewhere, it has to be treated special. I've been wracking my brain a bit on where to display it and how to post about it...with the latter I figured I would just say honestly what I feel and thus this blog.
So how it came about was that I bought a piece from her, another original, from her page vivka.etsy.com. I'm going to show that one off on another blog since it's too nice of a piece to get second billing to anything in my blog and this blog is dedicated to the piece above.
She told me she had a surprise for me, which could mean anything cuz we're both local, haha, but this one... Well, no one can expect something of this magnitude of love. I can't thank you enough so I'll instead try to live up your image of me. I can't say it enough; you're everything I ever thought a SG should be and you've become even more than that now. There have been many times I've been tempted to just leave here but you made me glad I came back and that I stayed. I hope I can make you feel the same.
- R
.><.
PS - If any of you, my friends, are able to come to LA and visit me, I'll be happy to show it to you. I believe it's 5x7 on wood. There are lil messages on the back but for now they'll just be for me. <3
PPS - I promise to catch up to everyone on their blogs this holiday weekend. Skyrim has been womb-like but at the same time made me realize how alone I am in real life and that's been pulling me down and away from SG and FB.
