Astronomy Picture of the Day

Any person who has been high in the mountains or underway on a ship, for from the blind lights of metropolis has seen this gash across the sky. The dust of this vision twinkle at you as giant group of stars running across you view.
I always thought this was a view of the outer edge of our galaxy, but to learn this view I have seen every time I put to sea is in fact the center of the Milky Way is astounding. Imagine how bright such an object must be to be seen from through all the dust and star between us on the outer region and the center.

Denmer and Chona left for Denver with their freinds. Mom and Dad went to see them off, but I stayed home. By the time I rolled off the couch they were ready to leave, and I knew I was in need of a shower.

So after mom and dad were out the door I started the tube, and for the most part that is all I did today. I also read, played Chili con Carnage on my PSP, and surfed the web. I even practiced some yoga poses from Tara Stiles.

Most of today most of todays television watching was western marathon. The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Quigley Down Under, and The Maganificent seven. I listened to Quigley more than watched it. The Hallmark channel did a good job at gutting the show. Some of the best lines were left out. When Quigley and the Crazy Cora were lost in the wastes of Australia. Cora kept asking Quigley he knew where they were:
"Crazy Cora: You know, if we're lost, you can tell me.
Matthew Quigley: We're lost.
Crazy Cora: I can take bad news. Just tell me straight.
Matthew Quigley: I don't know where the hell we are.
Crazy Cora: No sense takin' time to make it sound better than it is.
Matthew Quigley: I reckon we're goin' in circles.
Crazy Cora: Wire things up and I'll see right through. So, just tell me honestly. Are we lost? Matthew Quigley: Nope. I know exactly where we are.
Crazy Cora: That's good, 'cause, frankly, I was gettin' a little worried.
Matthew Quigley: I don't know where we're goin', but there's no sense bein' late.

Another part that was gutted from the movie was the gun fight at Marston Mtation

Magnificent Seven- I can see from whince the movie had come. I think it handeled the Seven Samurai prettty well.

After all this T.V., video games and such my brain was going numb so that is when I needed to practice some of those yoga stances. One thing I am reminded through the use of Yoga is not only do I need to stretch more but I'm a fat ass. When I was a recruiter in my younger days I often told applicants that were in danger of failing the height weight screening was to do more aerobic excersizes than anaerobic. By running and swimming more large muscles group of there is less swelling of muscle mass, which tends of push out on the fat making the applicant 'seem' fatter. Also there is the little thing of muscle being denser than fat, so more muscle mass means the applicant will just increase his/her already substantial poundage. Now I find it hard to live by those words. and I is starting to show.

I read a little of Silverthorn today, but since I'm trying to rotate through books I picked up Under The Loving Care Of The Fatherly Leader. Bradley Martin tries to explain how such a society reminescent of the Eloi in just a few decades. At the moment the author(Bradley Martin) is trying to piece together Kim Il Sung's biography by using the only source available to us, his sanction biography. Bradley is editing out those parts which seem to come directly from the FX dept of some movie company,and for the parts of his narative which might be true but lack confiming evidence says so.

Silverthorn is a book I read along time ago while I was making my attempt at college the first time. I think of all the characters in the book I liked Jimmy the Hand the best, at 16yr of age he was already an old man in the trade.

Almost a new year and the start of a new election year, and I can't wait to see who the loser we put into office. If we look at it historically our batting record isn't all that great when it comes to putting more than a mediocre figure head, most of the time it is because we vote with our emotions. We tend to leave our detatchment at the door.
So it doesn't matter who one chooses because if one is in the majority, chances are that president will either be mediocre. Spend more time pleasing the masses than being a leader, or nothing at all, going through the motions until the last year of the first 4 yr stint and then pouring on the gas until people are fooled into the notion their president is actually working for that paycheck. Let us hope this year will be the year we tell the media what we've already known. They have no clue, we look to them for guidance and they deliver emotion. They entertain us while guiding us toward the candidate that fits the bill of they're masters. Let this be the year we will actually do our own research instead of letting CNN or FOX tell us what to think or who to pick. Let this be the year of a true democratic race picked by the common man for the common man.
Let it be so, but probably won't, so here is to another year. After Bush let's be careful in our choices. As for me I'll be voting for the loser, whether or not it will be the one who loses the election or the loser in office goes to be seen.