Pledge of Blood

Even though I live up here in Canada I have been trying to think of a way to help the victims of Katrina and Rita. I don't have a lot of money, being a single mother, but I am going to donate to the American Red Cross for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, I'm mailing that off tomorrow.

I have also made another pledge. I will be heading to the Canadian Blood Services tomorrow and donating blood. Though it likely will not help those victims of Katrina and now Rita, I hope to honour them by it..and it will help those in need here. I am pledging to donate blood once every two months for one year. This is not something I've done on a regular basis(only 3 times over the past 5 years) but I can't think of a better time to or opportunity than now to make this pledge. 'It is in me to give.' So I will. Tomorrow after work I will go to the Canadian Blood Services here in Edmonton and give my first donation.

The Firetrees are Famous

Cars line the shoulder of the busy street
And I wonder if the city planners could see the future
Tricks from bygone days

The flames rise, a furious burst of heat
And crash down to rest on the earth below
Fall memories spent

Shutters click, to capture the moment
Drivers turn and stare in rapt wonder
Paint is transfered

jb

King of Clocks

Antikythera Mechanism - Very cool. Lara Croft probably has one. Hee.

This next is for Rodicon.

In the Beginning there was Aristotle,
and objects at rest tended to remain at rest,
and objects in motion tended to come to rest,
and soon everything was at rest,
and God saw that it was boring.

Then God created Newton;
objects at rest tended to remain at rest,
but objects in motion tended to remain in motion,
and energy was conserved and momentum was conserved and matter was conserved,
and God saw that it was conservative.

Then God created Einstein,
and everything was relative,
and fast things became short,
and straight things became curved,
and the universe was filled with inertial frames,
and God saw that it was relatively general
but some of it was especially relative.

Then God created Bohr,
and there was the Principle,
and the Principle was Quantum,
and all things were quantified,
but some things were still relative,
and God saw that it was confusing.

Then God was going to create Furgeson,
and Furgeson would have unified,
and he would have fielded a theory,
and All would have been One,
but it was the Seventh Day and God rested,
and objects at rest tend to remain at rest.


Tim Joseph - pm Analog Dec ‘75




Not a lot I want to talk about here just now. I just wanted to share a bit.

A wish..

"Far above the Ephel Dúath in the West the night-sky was still dim and pale. There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."

Been reading the LotR Appendices this weekend. It was neat to discover more of the story, both before and after the Trilogy.