It has been sometime since my last post; Note to the Self:

• Post all epiphanies regardless of mental judgments
• Finish working on neuropsychological/philosophical section of the site
• Redesign site to include photography, art, books, dictionary and glossary, influential figures directory, etc.
• Make site more personal and require a membership to access it (only for close friends and family); also, downsize facebook energy and send peeps to this site
• Install a forum for users to provide feedback
• Create calendar section and post iCal RSS/XML feed
• Create a simple module for MT to post easily via the iPhone
• Eat some sushi

Posted on August 1, 2007 in Note To Self | Link

What do you call a sheep with no legs?
A cloud

What do you call a camal with 3 humps?
Humphreys

What do cows do for entertainment?
They rent moovies !

What does a fish say when it runs into a wall?
DAMN!

If a turtle doesnt have a shell, is it naked or homeless ?

How do you stop a fish from smelling?
Cut its nose off

What do you call a fish with no eye ?
FSH !

What do you call a deer with no eyes ?
I have no I-Deer

What is invisable and smells like carrots?
Rabbit farts.

What is a dogs favourite school subject?
"Dog-Ruff-E "

Why are there no asprins in the jungle?
Because the Parots-ate-em-all

Why was the Energizer Bunny arrested?
He was charged with battery.

What do you call two Mexicans playing basketball?
Juan on Juan.

Why do gerillas have big nostralls?
Coz they got big fingers!!!!!!!!!

What's the difference between a woman with PMS and a Pitt Bull?
Lipstick

From > http://www.thejokeyard.com/

Posted on February 10, 2007 in Note To Self | Link

I received this list through an email and thought it was worthy of posting. You may not realize it, but it's 100% true.

1. There are at least two people in this world that you would die for.

2. At least 15 people in this world love you in some way.

3. The only reason anyone would ever hate you is because they want to be just like you.

4. A smile from you can bring happiness to anyone, even if they don't like you.

5. Every night, SOMEONE thinks about you before they go to sleep.

6. You mean the world to someone.

7. You are special and unique.

8. Someone that you don't even know exists loves you.

9. When you make the biggest mistake ever, something good comes from it.

10. When you think the world has turned its back on you take another look.

11. Always remember the compliments you receive. Forget about the rude remarks.

Posted on January 30, 2007 in Note To Self | Link

As the Mind depolarizes its attachment to content, the response time of physiological and psychology reflexes seem to increase - you would think the opposite would occur. As the Mind slows down, perhaps the body continues to perform at "optimum" speeds? Or at least the parietal lobe of the brain is able to carry out its functions much more rapidly while the cognitive portions lay abeyant.

More about reflexes.
Physiological Reflex: An involuntary response to a stimulus.
Psychology Reflex: An unlearned or instinctive response to a stimulus.

Posted on January 7, 2007 in Note To Self | Link

1. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
2. Males who wonder why they should have a prostate exam usually get it in the end.
duncan - Victoria BC
3. I keep reading 'The Lord of the Rings' over and over. I guess it's just force of hobbit.
nyuser10 - New York City
4. 5000 hares have escaped from the zoo. The police are combing the area.
gumpa
5. I was going to study the work of Sigmund Freud, but I was too Jung to understand it.
kaatgp - Cape Coral, FL
6. What do you call a lion wearing a stylish hat? A dandy lion.
my sweetheart - Brownsville
7. I saw a beaver movie last night, it was the best dam movie I've ever seen.
Beaver movie
8. Low carb diets really go against the grain.
9. There is a growing body of obesity research.
10. Meet me at the clothes line. That's where I hang out!
11. The diet industry enjoys a heavy bottom line.
12. Some rappers are good but others are Ludacris.
Adam - Sulphur, LA
13. I bought a computer from The Nero Company. It comes with a CD/Rome burner.
SGT Snorkel - Iowa
14. When the poetess died she went to meter maker.
SGT Snorkel - Iowa
15. When my friend started to go bald, I tried not to laugh, but he looked hair-larious.
davey d - brum
16. Did you hear about the father that was difficult to see? He was transparent.

From Pun of the Day.

Posted on November 22, 2006 in Note To Self | Link

In this piece I will use Abraham Maslow’s theory of personality to demonstrate how his concepts apply to my innate use of humor. I have applied four basic concepts, from Maslow’s theory, to demonstrate this aspect of my personality and how they describe my consistent humorous pattern of outlook to life. Such concepts include: hierarchy of needs, the self, self-acceptance, and psychological health.

Humor to me, as it correlates to Maslow’s theory of personality, serves as a multifaceted, nonlinear therapeutic technique that exists within each dimension of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. It bridges the gap between the different levels of individual awareness and facilitates the progression of realization from the lower mind (self) to the higher mind (Real Self) in which a radical depolarization of perception occurs and as a consequence perception of life and reality is recontextualized. Thus, I have found humor assists in the transcendence of the more primitive conditional needs perpetuated by mentalizations, which subserve emotionalities and personalized wants, into the higher self-actualization need.

I have experienced that humor offsets and precludes emotional pain and anxiety with which it transcends the negative by exposing unspoken fallacies that would otherwise be unapproachable by virtue of resonance within the lower dimensional levels of perception (lower needs). Humor exposes the suppressed aspects of human psyche so they can be identified and more easily acknowledged, owned, and thereby transcended by the illusory, transparency of the fallacy.

With proper application, humor unequivocally sets a fundamental stage of contrast between what the mind perceives and the substratum essence of reality. Psychological denial can originate from guilt, and when guilt is alleviated, inner honesty ensues as self-acceptance is established – a product of the self-actualization need.

Humor diminishes the value placed on misperceived fallacies, originating from the lower self, by contrasting psychological road blocks with innate actualizing tendencies by means of placing them into juxtaposition. Accordingly, facilitating realization and supporting an effortless movement through the hierarchy of needs, humor assists in the direction of attention and focus of self-actualizing creativity. As such, the epiphenomenal consequence of humor has helped me transition the ephemerality of peak experiences into a state of interminable compassion as unconditional acceptance and discernment is employed for the self and others.

Humor stems from an innate propensity to be creative, to be confident, and to feel free to express desires beyond society’s constraints by revealing alternative viewpoints and options of expression and is therefore liberating and freeing which has contributed to my psychological health, undoubtedly. Furthermore, Humor coincides with B-love as being nonpossessive, unselfish and based on a growth need of reflection rather than deficiency or worry and guilt. It has helped to retain and rediscover the fresh, innocent and naïve way of looking at life as I once did as a child.

Humor serves as the texture to the painting of life, in which the canvas is reality and the mind is the paintbrush. Like spontaneously buying really comfortable underwear, humor contributes to the happiness and tranquility of life, which is the ultimate, ineffable peak experience.

Posted on November 8, 2006 in Note To Self | Link

Ambulophobia- Fear of walking
Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth
Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting
Cibophobia- Fear of food
Clinophobia- Fear of going to bed
Eosophobia- Fear of daylight
Ergophobia- Fear of work
Melophobia- Fear of music
Ophthalmophobia- Fear of opening one’s eyes
Panophobia- Fear of everything
Phobophobia- Fear of fear

Posted on September 14, 2006 in Note To Self | Link

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'

The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element.'

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.

On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are members of the peach family.

If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050

The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."

The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."

Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into veiw. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.

Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.

The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5megabytes.

In many cases, the amount of storage space on a recordable CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes.

Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously

Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)

Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.

The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean

Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15.

In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.

Only humans and horses have hymens.

The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan.

We will have four consecutive full moons making two blue moons in 1999 (January 2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The only other time it happened this century was in 1915 (January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.)

Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries.

Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation , was played by six different cats.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.

The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California...

The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a 'th' sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England use the rune "thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y".

The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977) is 3263827.

"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.

If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.

Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.

The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive-so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.

In the movie "the Right Stuff" there is a scene where a government recruiter for the Mercury astronaut program (played by Jeff Goldblum) is in a bar at Muroc Dry Lake, California. His partner suggests Chuck Yeager as a good astronaut candidate. Jeff proceeds to badmouth Yeager claiming they need someone who went to college. During the conversation the real Chuck Yeager is playing a bartender who is standing behind the recruiters eavesdropping. General Yeager is listed low in the movie credits as 'Fred.'

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

After the Civil War the U.S. sued Great Britain for damages that were caused by them building ships for the Confederacy. We originally asked for $1 billion but settled on $25 Million.

There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo.

Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.

There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.

In most advertisments, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

The only Dutch word to contain eight consecutive consonants is 'angstschreeuw'.

Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.

The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile".

Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order.

Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distrubution of galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped together in such a way that they resemble a human being.

Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism".

When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth ... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."

The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.

The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith Fore.

Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.

Betsy Ross's other contribution to the American Revolution, beside sewing the first American flag, was running a munitions factory in her basement.

The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.

Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book 'The Naked Lunch'.

Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.

Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.

Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of "Helen" on "The Jeffersons."

Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, therein, he, her, here, herein, ere, rein, in.

Canola oil is actually grapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada for marketing reasons.

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

"Evian" spelled backvards is naive.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

The A&W of root beer fame stands for Allen and Wright.

A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.

Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.

Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.

Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."

There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.

ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)

What five digit number, when multiplied by the number 4, is the same number with the digits in reverse order? 21978; 21978 x 4 = 87912.

It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.

In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.

Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.

The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.

Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon there.

The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

Moon was Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name. (Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon in 1969.)

Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? It's Paul Reiser himself.. And Greg Evigan sang the "My Two Dads" theme.

Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser. Alan Thicke, the father in the TV show Growing Pains wrote the theme songs for The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes .

In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.

The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.

Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never- aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.

The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.

The Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth.

The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.

The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.

The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal currency had around $2.00 worth of silver in it before it was replaced with a less expensive twelve sided coin.

The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.

The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Elton John's real name is Reginald Dwight. Elton comes from Elton Dean, a Bluesology sax player. John comes from Long John Baldry, founder of Blues Inc. They were the first electric white blues band ever seen in England--1961

The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.

Horses cannot vomit.

Rabbits cannot vomit.

S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was just chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash..

Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.

When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.

The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse.

A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

Hugh "Ward Cleaver" Beaumont was an ordained minister.

The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.

The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.

Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.

One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant.

Slinkys were invented by an airplane mechanic; he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use of one of the springs.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

Octopi have gardens.

"Ever think you're hearing something in a song, but they're really singing something else? The word for mis-heard lyrics is 'mondegreen,' and it comes from a folk song in the '50's. The singer was actually singing "They slew the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green," but this came off sounding like 'They slew the Earl of Morray and Lady Mondegreen.'"

Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say "many things" and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible -- in many places - refers to "40 days," they meant many days.

Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox.

'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.

'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'

When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.

Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.

The pitches that Babe Ruth hit for his last-ever homerun and that Joe DiMaggio hit for his first-ever homerun where thrown by the same man.

To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.

Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.

Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticably shorter than his right.

Tomb robbers believed that knocking Egyptian sarcophagi's noses off would forestall curses.

The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans. (Watch out Inigo Montoya...)

The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.

Medieval knights put sharkskin on their swordhandles to give them a more secure grip; they would dig the sharp scales into their palms.

Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

The only planet without a ring is earth.

Wayne's World was filmed in two weeks.

If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.

The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.

Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."

A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."

A group of frogs is called an army.

A group of rhinos is called a crash.

A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

A group of whales is called a pod.

A group of geese is called a gaggle.

A group of ravens is called a murder.

A group of officers is called a mess.

A group of larks is called an exaltation.

A group of owls is called a parliament.

The 80s song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written about Rosanna Arquette, the actress.

Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

Starfish don't have brains.

Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.

The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via", which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an intersection of three streeets in Rome (or some other Italian place), they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed. You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of "trivia."

Posted on August 17, 2006 in Note To Self | Link

Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.

I went for a walk last night and my kids asked me how long I'd be gone. I said, "The whole time."

So what's the speed of dark?

How come you don't ever hear about gruntled employees?

Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food?

I just got skylights put in my place. The people who live above me are furious.

Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?

Isn't Disney World a people trap run by a mouse?

Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it?

Light travels faster than sound. Is that why some people appear intelligent until you hear them speak?

How come 'abbreviated' is such a long word?

Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery is dead?

Why are they called apartments, when they're all stuck together?

Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds fee" when they already know you don't have any?

If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of it?

Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?

Why are there 5 syllables in the word "monosyllabic"?

Why do they call it the Department of Interior when they are in charge of everything outdoors?

Why is it, when a door is open it's ajar, but when a jar is open, it's not adore?

Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.

If Superman could stop bullets with his chest, why did he always duck when someone threw a gun at him?

Why does lemon juice contain "artificial ingredients" but dishwashing liquid contains "real lemons"?

Why do we wait until a pig is dead to "cure" it?

Why do we put suits in a garment bag and put garments in a suitcase?

Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

Do Roman paramedics refer to IV's as "4's"?

What do little birdies see when they get knocked unconscious?

Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?

Is boneless chicken considered an invertebrate?

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

Isn't the best way to save face to keep the lower part shut?

Posted on August 14, 2006 in Note To Self | Link

Note to Self. Be careful when using the word "past" for it does not have legitimacy within the realm of absolute truth. In reference to the Past Lives entry, there are no “past” lives occurring - all exist simultaneously absent of the concept of time.

Posted on July 8, 2006 in Note To Self | Link

Creative thinking is the ability to think in unique ways and find unusual solutions to problems.

Convergent thinking produces one correct answer (standardized tests); divergent thinking produces many answers to the same question and is characterized creatively.

Most creative children are intelligent, however the opposite is not always the case. To increase creativity in children one can use the following for stimulation:

• Brainstorming and coming up with unique ideas
• Environments that stimulate creativity
• Do not over control and apply limits
• Encourage internal motivation
• Foster flexible and playful thinking
• Introduce children to creative people

What stimulates my creativity?

A free mind
A mind free of all positionalities
A mind at peace, clean, clear, liberated

Creativity is an inner ability; external environmental factors can influence the polarization of the mind, but to be one with what enables creativity is to be one with all of life.

Creative traits I find within myself:

• The ability to think analytically and intuitively
• Playful and childlike
• Engage frequently in solitary activities especially during childhood
• Ideas that are original and qualitatively different

Creativity is the texture to the painting of life in which reality is the canvas. Expression is innate; creative-expression is unique. To bring forth manifestation in a creative fashion is to shine light to the road of life in a way that is clever, resourceful, and most profound.

Posted on June 27, 2006 in Note To Self | Link

Motivation can be thought of as the driving force behind behavior.
- Unconscious Behavior: Involuntary Automatic, Homeostasis
- Conscious Behavior: Voluntary, Willed, Motivated

One of the great triumphs of human development is the ability to exert cognitive cortical control over our more primitive instincts inherited by the nature of Life. And with that notion comes a responsibility of compassion and knowingness for the evolution of the body and mind is only a tool for expression and ultimately observation of consciousness manifested through awareness.

Posted on March 23, 2006 in Note To Self | Link

Since I was a little kid I was extremely fascinated by the intricate design, functionality, and application of the computer. In 1995 I enrolled in a technology oriented K-12 school in which technology was used as a tool to enhance learning. People that knew me at this time can attest to the fact that I was extremely focused on the implementation and integration of technology and ultimately with, as I can clearly see now, life.

Subsequently I continued to improve my technology skills by attending the Art Institute of Dallas in 2000. Again, my fascination for technology and knowledge of its utilization was enhanced. During my initial months at The Art Institute of Dallas, I fortunately was given the opportunity to work in an Ad Agency as an intern. The agency quickly noticed the potential of my business success – which essentially at the time was a passion for the utilization of technology within Reality – and moved me up the responsibility latter within their organization to Director of Internet Marketing Services upon completion of my associates’ degree in 2002.

I continued to work for the agency through the recontextualization experience, yet at the end of 2003 and beginning of 2004 I had lost all motivation for increasing my knowledge of technology. I found that my inner creative and artistic talents were somewhat being manipulated for the success and ultimately the profits of the company. Soon thereafter, I decided that I wanted to go back to school so I dropped the agency position and started to work freelance with my own clients (including my old agency), my mother's projects, my own, etc. Also in 03-04 I started to capture and log information about Enlightenment and the recontextualization as expressed through full circle awareness as the Mind wrapped around realization.

It was not until the beginning of 2005 that I realized I wanted to study, from an academic perspective, this thing we call life including: consciousness, the mind, reality, God, etc. So at the end of 2005 I enrolled at The University of Texas at Dallas majoring in psychology and minoring in child development, which was later changed to neuroscience.

I am currently at UTD studying neurophysiology with regards to psychological topics. What I have found is the passion and inner motivation that was once with technology is now focused on neuroscience and psychology. What I find mind-boggling and most phenomenal is the structure and processes in which the body operates. I thought technology was advanced until I started studying the neuronal networks of the human body, which makes technology look elementary. Nevertheless, my focus and energy have been directed to neuropsychology and probably will continue to do so through graduate school.

Posted on February 28, 2006 in Life Log, Note To Self | Link

In leu of the previous entry about the illusion of hell, I would like to go a level deeper into the realm of truth about levels of awareness.

> When the Mind becomes conscious of the level of awareness that is beyond the illusion of duality (separateness)…

The Mind is swimming through a sea of consciousness in which all levels of awareness are at its view simultaneously, however, it is truly about the Mind wrapping around a particular level of awareness when true realization can become visible. When the Mind realizes at the level of awareness in which duality is an illusion, it becomes known (beyond thought) that hell is merely an idea.

Sequence is an illusion resulting from the misperception of Reality commonly called causality. Sequence is an arrangement or order of succession but has no true validity in regards to actuality. It is truly about the observer applying context to the intrinsic nature of content and assimilating a variety of pieces for the purpose of understanding and ultimately ascension of awareness.

For example, the number one does not “come” before two and three does not come after two in their innate form. All numbers come from the same place and do not have different values; it is about the interpretation of the numbers within context and how those numbers are integrated within understanding.

Posted on December 23, 2005 in Note To Self | Link

Me Boca: "Can I bring this [an apple] on?"
Bus Driver: "No sorry."
Me Boca: "When is the next bus going to arrive?"
Bus Driver: "12 to 15 minutes."
Me Boca: "Okay I will wait, I love apples."

Posted on December 23, 2005 in Note To Self | Link

Dating is much like fishing; it is a process by which the ultimate goal is to find the perfect piece that will complete your relationship puzzle. By throwing it out there and dangling it around for a while, someone will eventually take a bite. Rest assured you might get a few tires and coke bottles, but eventually the perfect one will come into alignment.

The process can be perceived as somewhat tedious, however, each experience that occurs adds to the knowledge and awareness of who you truly are. Every fish you reel in will certainly have different traits, what is truthfully important is how those traits are integrated with your own. Just because someone has a killer fin doesn’t mean he or she is an exact match.

Often times there are compatibility differences and values that are not aligned. For example if one person holds a high standard of integrity, respect, or honesty but it is not reciprocated, it is a good indication you should abandon ship or else you are both going to the bottom – together.

Another issue that is quiet common is enhancing your bait. Sometimes people feel as if they need a stronger weight or a better bobber to reel in the big fish. Well I am not going to be the first to tell you it’s best to be prepared and use lots of explosives including dynamite and firearms. And while that last thought makes absolute zero sense to this wonderful metaphor, the notion still remains.

You don’t need a badass boat, stink bait, and 120 test line to pull in the best fish, yeah you might get the biggest fish but what happens when the biggest fish is a square and the perfect piece you need for your puzzle is a triangle? Chain saws are nice for cutting wood not fish heads.

A healthy intimate relationship is a bond where there is a great deal of energy exchanged. Two beings working together and sharing an intimate connection is quiet profound and beyond any deep fryer known to man.

Posted on December 5, 2005 in Note To Self | Link

It seems to me that the less attachment the Mind has on content (perception), the memory banks of the Mind begin to fade. The illusion of past and future “events” come into full alignment with the actuality of the all-encompassing present moment. In an essence what “has” happened and what “will” happen has merged into an in-the-moment realization.

Note to Self: it has become somewhat difficult to operate and communicate in society especially in the realm of academics. The requirement needed to excel in the traditional norm of intelligence i.e. tests, has become challenging to store and recall content. The above could be considered for in depth research in regards to a thesis.

Posted on September 24, 2005 in Life Log, Note To Self | Link

I haven’t calibrated this yet, but it seems accurate to claim that the majority of people on Earth at this time are: contained, influenced, and governed by their own box of cataclysmic perceptions from which they have created through the contextualization of their Mind.

The belief structure plays a significant role in this phenomenon and appears to be a result of: karma passed from other lives, global and local ideological values, hypothetical illusions of falsity (non truth) which facilitate the level of awareness to consciousness. I don’t think the level of awareness reflects a state of evolution in regards to Soul development but rather a chosen path in this particular incarnation.

The “Little Box” as I like to call it is much like their tool from which they see the world, much like a movie projector expressing a filmstrip on the wall. It is interesting to see – which is all over the place I might add – that people are willing to die for something that is not even solid, a false “concept” within their Mind’s focus that is truly controlling their life.

Instead of following this passage with a quote I am going to place it into its own entry and link to it here.

Posted on September 9, 2005 in Note To Self | Link