Albert Einstein said energy cannot be destroyed, it can only be transformed. Knowledge should be the same way. You rarely create knowledge on your own. New discoveries are a rare occurrence. Other than that, you only learn from others. Anyone you admire for their wisdom only achieved it by listening and learning from others. So you too may learn a great deal and be someone that others envy. It's not either a matter of whether or not you do well on tests. Some very knowledgeable people may just not know the particular question on the test. Or maybe they just don't care to do work. Through the ages we have managed to still retain much information from ancient civilizations. Through stories we remembered and then it was recorded, written down. If ever a day someone finds our remains. we have everything written and recorded that there will be no mystery about what we did or who we were. That is almost... unfortunate- future people won't be challenged and they won't learn anything new. maybe we'll have found everything by then. who knows? maybe we'll just have to wait and see
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Sunday, March 16, 2008
the best comedians
- Jim Gaffigan
- Gerry Dee
- Gabriel Iglesias
- Jeff Dunham
- Demitri Martin
- Eddie Izzard
- Mitch Hedberg
Comedy central has reruns all the time, but YouTube is a good place to check too. comedians
butterice!
( a butterice is a butterfly in 2 year old language)
the other day i saved a butterice! it had been smooshdid on the field and i saw its wings fluttering. he was alive but, chances were going down. So i picked him up on my toe and carried him to some plants away from trampeling feet. He was on his death toe and I helped him. It made me feel good to help the little buggy, even though i'm pretty sure he got blown away later. I think I'll name him weetzie koohl. (that would be my name if i got to choose :)
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
zone out
Isn't it amazing that we can so entirely zone out in class, or a boring conversation....or anywhere really. We unintentionally block out all surrounding noises and actions. You become lost in your mind, engulfed in your own thoughts and ideas. As you wander about in your own little world, everything around you continues to go on. And everything we have and do is a result of evolution. At one time we needed them, even if they aren't useful now. Like wisdom teeth- we needed them when our heads were bigger, but now that we've evolved they're just a nuisance. So I wonder- when did we need to ignore everything and just zone out? maybe it's useful now too while we block out other things to focus on our work- but at the same time you may have missed the instructions. This is what I thought about while I zoned out in biology.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
las ballenas
Last year in 8th grade I had an extraordinary experience.
I took a week off school with my family and we went to go pet the whales.
We left early that morning and drove 16 hours half way down baja. Besides the occasional stress of finding the next gas station and the frequent military check points where our car was inspected for drugs, it was an almost enjoyable experience. When we got to a check point my dad just told the very scary teenager with a rifle over his shoulder that we were "mi familia en vacaion para mira las ballenas." Close enough to get us through without much trouble. The toll roads were fairly well maintained and there were no other cars so we did 90 most of the trip. It was a gorgeous day and I was able to see the sunset as the day began. Even the garbage that littered the sides of the road glittered and seemed like decorations as they shone prettily. I caught up on my reading and did some school work, but the best part was that when you're going 90 miles over hills, you almost feel like you're on a roller coaster. I had my CD player and was limited to a few Cd's, so now whenever I hear a good Charlotte song I am reminded of the trip in gorgeous detail. ( I heard one of their songs on my iPod and decided to write this.)
At the end of the day we were all fairly exhausted and decided to postpone the 2 hour drive on the terribly bumpy road into camp, so we stayed the night in yurts( large tee pees with cloth walls with wooden terrace support and a solid floor. they were very nice.) They were much better than any hotel we might have stayed at and we had our own very large room for our family.
The next morning we got up and drove into the Kuyima camp. There we found small, square, wooden rooms suspended about a foot or two off the ground. The ground was smashed shells and was gorgeous to examine in the dining hall while we ate. You could find amazing miniature shells. If you traveled farther down the beach to the shore you found was looked like lava rock tide pools and past that million and millions of white brown red and speckled shells. When the tide when out you could walk on almost flat packed sand for a few hundred feet out without going past your ankles. In the water were strange small, circular, reddish-orange balls that must have been some sort of coral and a lumpier, larger orange creamsicle colored thing that I labeled as my ancestors. They looked ancient- like something you might have evolved from. There was also the occasional razor scallop or clam thing, star fish, and little crabs. I spent a few hours exploring the water each day. Washed up on shore we found 3 sea horses, 2 sea slugs, and countless gigantic sand dollars. There were turtle shells and whale bones( we took a few home as souvenirs).
We traveled all that way to not just go whale watching- it was more like extreme whale watching. Each day we went out in little pongas about 20 feet long with a marine biologist and a driver. We went out into San Ignacio lagoon with 15 other boats each day, although you rarely ever saw another boat once you were out into the observation area. Each boat had a 4 stroke motor that attracted the babies up to the boat. The moms come down to give birth in the sheltered area with a high salt consistency so the babies float better and 10 large males stay the the mouth of the lagoon to guard the entrance and keep out any killer whales that want a snack. The babies were the ones that I got to touch, once momma decided we were safe. That was the amazing part. They don't feel slimy, and barely even wet. They are like a soft but stiff , giving material. They were grey whales but they seem to be a gorgeous dark blue in my mind. The fins and nose have small while hairs that dimple their surface that remind us that they're mammals too. The moms like to come by and just look at you with a giant black eye- just too far away to touch but close enough to blow snot on you. It felt like mist but had a bad, fishy smell, but in it you could always find rainbows. Once they went back under it smoothed the water and I liked dragging my hang through the cool green water. They go under your boat and rub their backs and roll around on the bottom of the pongas. They seem huge under neath you. I think I was the only one who wasn't frightened to see that. Actually I loved it.
The food they served was delicious every night. It wasn't Mexican food, even though it was. It was more like fresh sea food with a lot of beans and rice. Every aspect of the trip was perfect. I'm grateful to have been able to make such good memories that so many people will never get to experience. I have nothing but very peaceful memories that I hope never fade.
I took a week off school with my family and we went to go pet the whales.
We left early that morning and drove 16 hours half way down baja. Besides the occasional stress of finding the next gas station and the frequent military check points where our car was inspected for drugs, it was an almost enjoyable experience. When we got to a check point my dad just told the very scary teenager with a rifle over his shoulder that we were "mi familia en vacaion para mira las ballenas." Close enough to get us through without much trouble. The toll roads were fairly well maintained and there were no other cars so we did 90 most of the trip. It was a gorgeous day and I was able to see the sunset as the day began. Even the garbage that littered the sides of the road glittered and seemed like decorations as they shone prettily. I caught up on my reading and did some school work, but the best part was that when you're going 90 miles over hills, you almost feel like you're on a roller coaster. I had my CD player and was limited to a few Cd's, so now whenever I hear a good Charlotte song I am reminded of the trip in gorgeous detail. ( I heard one of their songs on my iPod and decided to write this.)
At the end of the day we were all fairly exhausted and decided to postpone the 2 hour drive on the terribly bumpy road into camp, so we stayed the night in yurts( large tee pees with cloth walls with wooden terrace support and a solid floor. they were very nice.) They were much better than any hotel we might have stayed at and we had our own very large room for our family.
The next morning we got up and drove into the Kuyima camp. There we found small, square, wooden rooms suspended about a foot or two off the ground. The ground was smashed shells and was gorgeous to examine in the dining hall while we ate. You could find amazing miniature shells. If you traveled farther down the beach to the shore you found was looked like lava rock tide pools and past that million and millions of white brown red and speckled shells. When the tide when out you could walk on almost flat packed sand for a few hundred feet out without going past your ankles. In the water were strange small, circular, reddish-orange balls that must have been some sort of coral and a lumpier, larger orange creamsicle colored thing that I labeled as my ancestors. They looked ancient- like something you might have evolved from. There was also the occasional razor scallop or clam thing, star fish, and little crabs. I spent a few hours exploring the water each day. Washed up on shore we found 3 sea horses, 2 sea slugs, and countless gigantic sand dollars. There were turtle shells and whale bones( we took a few home as souvenirs).
We traveled all that way to not just go whale watching- it was more like extreme whale watching. Each day we went out in little pongas about 20 feet long with a marine biologist and a driver. We went out into San Ignacio lagoon with 15 other boats each day, although you rarely ever saw another boat once you were out into the observation area. Each boat had a 4 stroke motor that attracted the babies up to the boat. The moms come down to give birth in the sheltered area with a high salt consistency so the babies float better and 10 large males stay the the mouth of the lagoon to guard the entrance and keep out any killer whales that want a snack. The babies were the ones that I got to touch, once momma decided we were safe. That was the amazing part. They don't feel slimy, and barely even wet. They are like a soft but stiff , giving material. They were grey whales but they seem to be a gorgeous dark blue in my mind. The fins and nose have small while hairs that dimple their surface that remind us that they're mammals too. The moms like to come by and just look at you with a giant black eye- just too far away to touch but close enough to blow snot on you. It felt like mist but had a bad, fishy smell, but in it you could always find rainbows. Once they went back under it smoothed the water and I liked dragging my hang through the cool green water. They go under your boat and rub their backs and roll around on the bottom of the pongas. They seem huge under neath you. I think I was the only one who wasn't frightened to see that. Actually I loved it.
The food they served was delicious every night. It wasn't Mexican food, even though it was. It was more like fresh sea food with a lot of beans and rice. Every aspect of the trip was perfect. I'm grateful to have been able to make such good memories that so many people will never get to experience. I have nothing but very peaceful memories that I hope never fade.
Saturday, March 1, 2008
inspire
I'm sure you've heard of the secret, a book about the power of positive thought and how we have the ability to improve our lives by asking the universe for whatever you need in life. I too have read the book and found that although parts of it were difficult to truly believe, but it did leave me feeling better about myself and i had a better day afterwards.
I have recently read the best book ever- Mutant Message Down Under, by Marlo Morgan. It's a true story about her experience traveling with the Real People Tribe of Aborigines on a walkabout across the Australian outback. It's an amazing story that displays the amazing abilities we have lost throughout time. Some of these include talking telepathically which we have lost because of lies and secrets we keep, and the ability to heal yourself by being receptive to perfection. Aborigines have incredibly low rates of heart disease, cancer, and other illnesses. Throughout the book they show us that by asking divine oneness for whatever you might need " if it is in the highest good for all life everywhere." Divine oneness never failed to answer their prayers and even though they expected it, they were always grateful.
This is very much the same idea as was in the secret and it was information passed down for 50 million years( something like that). It proved to me that the secret could be true if you were open to receiving. It worked today very well at the race tracks. I won $45 by asking if it was in the highest good for all life everywhere. It worked very well and I was grateful. Maybe it's not all just made up stuff.
I have recently read the best book ever- Mutant Message Down Under, by Marlo Morgan. It's a true story about her experience traveling with the Real People Tribe of Aborigines on a walkabout across the Australian outback. It's an amazing story that displays the amazing abilities we have lost throughout time. Some of these include talking telepathically which we have lost because of lies and secrets we keep, and the ability to heal yourself by being receptive to perfection. Aborigines have incredibly low rates of heart disease, cancer, and other illnesses. Throughout the book they show us that by asking divine oneness for whatever you might need " if it is in the highest good for all life everywhere." Divine oneness never failed to answer their prayers and even though they expected it, they were always grateful.
This is very much the same idea as was in the secret and it was information passed down for 50 million years( something like that). It proved to me that the secret could be true if you were open to receiving. It worked today very well at the race tracks. I won $45 by asking if it was in the highest good for all life everywhere. It worked very well and I was grateful. Maybe it's not all just made up stuff.
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