JamesSavik

Here's one for all of you gym-rats out there

The Holidays can be difficult for many people. I found myself feeling pretty bad earlier in the evening. Things are not horrible but they could be a lot better. I've been through a lot of changes in the last few years and most of them aren't for the better. Does anyone else feel down during the Holidays? What do you do to snap out of it?

The movies are great too. When I was in elementary school my grandmother read the Hobbit to me. Then she told me that there were three other books. I was ecstatic. It was a dirty trick. She wouldn't read them to me but she gave them to me to read myself. I struggled through all three (with dictionary at my side). The effort helped me to reading at 5 years over my grade level.

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You should watch Star Wars and read Tolkien for no other reason than to experience something great. So much of our lives are mired in mediocrity that we forget what it is like.

Go for the cash. After all- that is really the only thing that matters. All that rah-rah company loyalty feel-good bullshit doesn't pay your bills, and from your description, it's not going to take you where you want to go.

This is a lump o' cats. Got any critters to share?

They have not as yet. Such a movie is in production: World War Z by Max Brooks. Freezing temps as a defense against the undead has appeared in numerous books. In several books safe zones were set up in Canada and offensive actions took place in sub-zero conditions.

1996 I have seen the fire Destroying everything in it path In its blazing wrath I have seen the fire Bringing terror as its might As it consumes the night I have seen the fire Slaying friends and lovers Strangers and brothers I have seen the fire. Out of control consumning souls Hell on earth a mass funeral pyre I have been burned by the fire With scars that don't show The loss it still burns and stings Friends and lovers I can not replace I am haunted by their familiar faces ashes and memories that I hold dear Are all thats left of those times and places I have seen the fire and the funeral pyre When I saw the lights go out on my generation And horror and confusion gripped the nation Consumed in a viral conflagration I look to my right and look to my left at the lonely, empty spaces I walk where we walked and talk where we talked in the lonely empty places and wonder to my self why am I still here the smoke it still stings my eyes Someone must be left to remember The year that innocence died.

Christmas carrols have been ruined for me because I've been hearing them since Halloween pitching everything from Transformers toys to Depends for old folks. I think there should be a rule: no Christmas carols before Dec. 1 or after Dec. 31.

Swedish, Scotch-Irish and... alcoholic.

Some people are passive-aggressive. I am aggressive-aggressive. (BTW I'm an INTJ of course)

Chase- Weed can cause bouts of depression. Different strains, different THC levels- there are a whole lot of variables smoking street weed. You can buy a bag one week. Same dealer, same price, same bag and it may have 200% more TCH next week. Swear off for two or three weeks and then see how you are feeling. JS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KOPil9ABUg

This kid even got respect on 4chan and they don't respect anything.

NASA's Chandra Finds Youngest Nearby Black Hole 11.15.10 Source Link:NASA Composite image shows a supernova within the galaxy M100 Composite image shows a supernova within the galaxy M100. Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/D.Patnaude et al, Optical: ESO/VLT, Infrared: NASA/JPL/Caltech Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have found evidence of the youngest black hole known to exist in our cosmic neighborhood. The 30-year-old black hole provides a unique opportunity to watch this type of object develop from infancy. The 30-year-old object is a remnant of SN 1979C, a supernova in the galaxy M100 approximately 50 million light years from Earth. Data from Chandra, NASA's Swift satellite, the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton and the German ROSAT observatory revealed a bright source of X-rays that has remained steady during observation from 1995 to 2007. This suggests the object is a black hole being fed either by material falling into it from the supernova or a binary companion. "If our interpretation is correct, this is the nearest example where the birth of a black hole has been observed," said Daniel Patnaude of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. who led the study. The scientists think SN 1979C, first discovered by an amateur astronomer in 1979, formed when a star about 20 times more massive than the sun collapsed. Many new black holes in the distant universe previously have been detected in the form of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). However, SN 1979C is different because it is much closer and belongs to a class of supernovas unlikely to be associated with a GRB. Theory predicts most black holes in the universe should form when the core of a star collapses and a GRB is not produced. "This may be the first time the common way of making a black hole has been observed," said co-author Abraham Loeb, also of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "However, it is very difficult to detect this type of black hole birth because decades of X-ray observations are needed to make the case." The idea of a black hole with an observed age of only about 30 years is consistent with recent theoretical work. In 2005, a theory was presented that the bright optical light of this supernova was powered by a jet from a black hole that was unable to penetrate the hydrogen envelope of the star to form a GRB. The results seen in the observations of SN 1979C fit this theory very well. Although the evidence points to a newly formed black hole in SN 1979C, another intriguing possibility is that a young, rapidly spinning neutron star with a powerful wind of high energy particles could be responsible for the X-ray emission. This would make the object in SN 1979C the youngest and brightest example of such a "pulsar wind nebula" and the youngest known neutron star. The Crab pulsar, the best-known example of a bright pulsar wind nebula, is about 950 years old. "It's very rewarding to see how the commitment of some of the most advanced telescopes in space, like Chandra, can help complete the story," said Jon Morse, head of the Astrophysics Division at NASA's Science Mission Directorate. The results will appear in the New Astronomy journal in a paper by Patnaude, Loeb, and Christine Jones of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages the Chandra program for the agency's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory controls Chandra's science and flight operations from Cambridge. For more information about Chandra, including images and other multimedia, visit: http://chandra.harvard.edu Patnaude, Loeb & Jones Paper: Evidence for a Possible Black Hole Remnant in the Type IIL Supernova 1979C (Requires PDF Reader)

I could only barely hear what he had to say. All I could tell was that he was a cute, well-spoken kid that presented himself very well... although I'm not at all sure what he said or was talking about.

Might as well jam out.

Buy a truck, get an AK-47! Make veterans feel right at home by packing the preferred weapon of our enemies. Seriously, why not throw in a fifth of whiskey? Wouldn't that solve a lot of problems? < awesome! < pull grandpaw's finger Don't do it! Awe man. See what you get for being stoned? That joke is older than Moses. < What? Moses? No. Charlton Heston. Why do you hate guns and freedom? Oh shut the f**k up.

Never though spilled milk and marshmallows would have that effect on people.

Some days I'd settle for my lower back getting massaged.

Only big brass ones will do.

Some things are just plain poison. It doesn't matter how smart or skilled you are, or think you are, they still end up destroying everything around you. That's how coke is. It starts out as a little weekend hobby. You yutz it up with some folks, maybe get laid. It's fun. It makes you feel like you are ten feet tall and bullet proof. If you are a pussy, coke makes you a tiger. If you are a wimp, coke makes you a playa. If you got no confidence, coke makes you feel like the center of any room. You talk, you laugh, even your coke-laden post-nasal drip snot drainage tastes good. Drinking is never better than when you are flying on coke. You notice tastes and textures to booze that you used to choke down. On coke you savor the lift of the vodka, the smoky taste of the Canadian whiskey or the power of the scotch. Oh and the sex. Let's not forget the sex. You can look like Ben Stein and get your strange on. It doesn't matter how strange it is either. If you like rimming Icelandic Yaks, if you've got an 8-ball in your pocket, there will be three of them in the bathroom partying with you. < Ben Stein, Playa Coke is weird about making time dilate. You start in on a good coke high and BAM! It's day light. Coke binges can last as long as the coke holds out. That's why coke heads mysteriously disappear and turn up weeks later in Toranto, Tijuana or Toledo. You just never know. When the coke thing is rolling you just go with the flow. It's not about will power. There is no will or power. There is just the high and it's an exceptional high. It's like your brain is electrified and every nerve ending are working at 150%. Your thoughts gain speed and come in parallel. Your brain is moving faster than your body or even the rest of the world. Your thoughts are deep, powerful and profound. You discover an intellect that you did not know that you had. It's all bullshit of course. Once I had the bright idea of taping the intellectual conversations that I was a part of high and it it just sounded like a bunch of f**ked up people babbling. Of course that shatters the illusion. You wake up after a bender and discover that you spent hundreds or even thousands of dollars to chase the illusion. The coke whores are gone and you are the same self-doubting, pussy, wimp that you always were. You are just a lot poorer for the experience and... you want more. More, more, MORE! You gotta chase the high. You gotta feel like a king again but you can do coke until your head (or heart) explodes and you can't catch it. It's a prick-tease: an illusion of nirvana that titillates but doesn't deliver. It is a dream that once dreamed can not be reclaimed. Words don't do the craving justice. It's like a moaning ache that starts in your soul and is felt in every cell. It destroys. I've never seen people collapse faster than under the weight of coke (or its derivative crack). I've seen people lose it all so fast that it is frightening. That is just the economic costs. No body wants a coke head. It causes divorces and break ups like few forces on earth. The legal consequences can jail you for decades and the violence that surrounds it can take your life in an instant. But you want more. You want more of that total body orgasm high. So much so that some would kill or die for it. Soon you reach a critical crossroads. Either you step off, go mad, go to prison or die. I chose to quit but I understand. I know how much it hurts to never see nirvana again. Although I chose not to go back to that place, I know that I will crave it until the day I die.

That's one of the larger piles of dung that you will ever have the misfortune of stepping in. Physical appearance and attractiveness are key determinates in how well and how far a person will go in life. It determines who gets hired, who gets the spot on the team and even who has the tools for leadership. Everything else about how looks don't matter is politically correct horse shit.

NASA's Fermi Telescope Finds Giant Structure in our Galaxy 11.09.10 Source Link: NASA From end to end, the newly discovered gamma-ray bubbles extend 50,000 light-years, or roughly half of the Milky Way's diameter, as shown in this illustration. Hints of the bubbles' edges were first observed in X-rays (blue) by ROSAT, a Germany-led mission operating in the 1990s. The gamma rays mapped by Fermi (magenta) extend much farther from the galaxy's plane. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center WASHINGTON -- NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has unveiled a previously unseen structure centered in the Milky Way. The feature spans 50,000 light-years and may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersized black hole at the center of our galaxy. "What we see are two gamma-ray-emitting bubbles that extend 25,000 light-years north and south of the galactic center," said Doug Finkbeiner, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who first recognized the feature. "We don't fully understand their nature or origin." The structure spans more than half of the visible sky, from the constellation Virgo to the constellation Grus, and it may be millions of years old. A paper about the findings has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal. Finkbeiner and his team discovered the bubbles by processing publicly available data from Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT). The LAT is the most sensitive and highest-resolution gamma-ray detector ever launched. Gamma rays are the highest-energy form of light. Other astronomers studying gamma rays hadn't detected the bubbles partly because of a fog of gamma rays that appears throughout the sky. The fog happens when particles moving near the speed of light interact with light and interstellar gas in the Milky Way. The LAT team constantly refines models to uncover new gamma-ray sources obscured by this so-called diffuse emission. By using various estimates of the fog, Finkbeiner and his colleagues were able to isolate it from the LAT data and unveil the giant bubbles. Scientists now are conducting more analyses to better understand how the never-before-seen structure was formed. The bubble emissions are much more energetic than the gamma-ray fog seen elsewhere in the Milky Way. The bubbles also appear to have well-defined edges. The structure's shape and emissions suggest it was formed as a result of a large and relatively rapid energy release - the source of which remains a mystery. When an electron moving near the speed of light strikes a low-energy photon, the collision slightly slows the electron and boosts the photon's energy to the gamma-ray regime. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center One possibility includes a particle jet from the supermassive black hole at the galactic center. In many other galaxies, astronomers see fast particle jets powered by matter falling toward a central black hole. While there is no evidence the Milky Way's black hole has such a jet today, it may have in the past. The bubbles also may have formed as a result of gas outflows from a burst of star formation, perhaps the one that produced many massive star clusters in the Milky Way's center several million years ago. "In other galaxies, we see that starbursts can drive enormous gas outflows," said David Spergel, a scientist at Princeton University in New Jersey. "Whatever the energy source behind these huge bubbles may be, it is connected to many deep questions in astrophysics." Hints of the bubbles appear in earlier spacecraft data. X-ray observations from the German-led Roentgen Satellite suggested subtle evidence for bubble edges close to the galactic center, or in the same orientation as the Milky Way. NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe detected an excess of radio signals at the position of the gamma-ray bubbles. The Fermi LAT team also revealed Tuesday the instrument's best picture of the gamma-ray sky, the result of two years of data collection. "Fermi scans the entire sky every three hours, and as the mission continues and our exposure deepens, we see the extreme universe in progressively greater detail," said Julie McEnery, Fermi project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. NASA's Fermi is an astrophysics and particle physics partnership, developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, with important contributions from academic institutions and partners in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden and the United States. "Since its launch in June 2008, Fermi repeatedly has proven itself to be a frontier facility, giving us new insights ranging from the nature of space-time to the first observations of a gamma-ray nova," said Jon Morse, Astrophysics Division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington.