It’s funny what kinds of things stick out and sneak up on you. In this case it was an email sent separately to my wife and I from a mutual friend.
His email merely had a link to the video below and a one-liner “Well, sort of. He’s not very good at it.”
I’m more of a dog person so didn’t rush to see the video, but my wife was working home and laughing so loud that I had to inquire about the source of her laughter.
“This email from Ethan about this psychic cat is so funny - haven’t you seen it?”
“No I haven’t but will add it to my to do list to check out.”
A couple days later, and now even four months after that original email, Katie and I find ourselves periodically saying to each other things like, “Mouse. Treat. Silence.”
Accordingly, this two minute video has become a family classic and the spirit of humor portrayed now permeates our family history - enjoy!
It’s Thursday night, Dec 31st 2009 circa 5:30PM as I pen this blog post and while most people are prepping for festive New Year celebrations with family and friends, I’m thoroughly bummed at a recent email I just received from Monty, the creator of MySQL (see below).
Long story short, here is my comment I sent to Monty when I signed his petition just now:
allowing Oracle to control MySQL is akin to allowing Oracle to take over the English Alphabet’s 26 letters … the alphabet is free and no society can grow unless there are communal commons of communications that nobody owns but all of us are free to use and build upon … SHAME on ORACLE … pray the EU sees and endorses societal wisdom in keeping MySQL the free, open source, rich LAMP cornerstone it is today … THINK “eminent domain” … to that level, forward thinking EU Leaders should exercise eminent domain on WinXP SP2 … Oracle and M.Soft are companies that are out-dated akin to out-dated principles like Human Slavery … Long Live the Best of Open Source … Viva MySQL … cordially, chuck scott, ridgefield connecticut, www.chuckingit.com …
Accordingly, please follow the links in Monty’s email to learn about the evil doings where the Sun does not shine (literally).
Happy New Year and here is hoping 2010 brings about more love, joy, success and positive growth for all and our planet.
Email from Monty - Creator of MySQL
Hi!
I am contacting you because you have in the past shown interest in
MySQL and from that I assume you are interested in the future
well-being of MySQL.
Now you have a unique opportunity to make a difference. By signing
the petition at http://www.helpmysql.org you can help affect the
future of MySQL as an Open Source database.
Help us spread the world about this petition! http://www.helpmysql.org is available in 18 languages and every vote
is important, independent of from where in the world it comes!
If you know people that are using MySQL, please contact them and
ensure they also sign the petition!
Regards,
Monty
Creator of MySQL
PS: If you already have signed the petition or know about it, sorry for
reminding you about this! Because of the importance of this issue,
I am trying to contact every person that I have ever communicated
with regarding MySQL.
Much of life can be distilled to binomial elements that somehow seem opposite yet also somehow seem necessary to hold them together.
We speak of these common binomial elements in everyday life like: good and evil; right and wrong; love and hate; black and white; north and south; east and west; up and down; etc.
Yet many people misunderstand the true nature of these binomial opposites - e.g., the true opposite of love is not hate - it is not caring - after all, when one loves somebody or hates somebody, they spend a lot of time thinking about what they want to do to that other person, how they want to make that person feel, consumed with planning their next moves, etc. - so hate is not the opposite of love; not caring at all about that other person is the true opposite of loving that person.
In following up to my previous post about loving guide dogs vs killer Nazi concentration camp attack dogs, I was pondering the concept of evil while reflecting on some email threads with various circles of friends about the current health care debate in Washington.
I suspect many people tend to think of evil as big, bad, scary, demonic, savage, ruthless people, critters and spirits. But this understanding of evil is a mistake and akin to thinking the opposite of love is hate.
At it’s simplest, I propose that evil can be defined as an absence - in particular, an absence of God, an absence of Divine, an absence of Love, an absence of respect for Universal connectedness to all things. Perhaps even defined further as a fullness of ego, a fullness of self-centeredness “I’ll get mine and the world be damned” kind of mentality.
Thus when somebody does something or says something that does not contain a basis of love, then it is fair to say that person is evil. Not that they have to appear as big, bad, scary ogres with flames, just to say that their basis for doing and speaking is void of Love, void of Divine, void of Universal Truth.
Below are two videos that confirm there is a great evil brewing in Congress and the satanic poster boy for this evil health care wind is Obama.
The proof of this evil comes in the most basic form - e.g., why is Obama, Congress, Senators, and their families exempt from the very health care reform they are trying to push on us?
Accordingly, here is another binomial pair of opposites but in this case it is very real - them (our elected representatives) vs us (everyday people who pay their salaries and benefits).
Below are two videos that were part of the email circles with friends. They are both short, circa 4 minutes each, and feature Congressman Mike Rogers (Michigan) as he spotlights the evil of Obama’s intent in the second video while squaring off with the Democratic Chair in the first video.
The Van Speaketh of Evil Winds Continues
If you watch both of these videos, you can see that Representative Rogers is coming from a basis of Love, while Obama is absolutely coming from an evil basis. Now don’t get me wrong, as I’ve never met Obama and have every reason to believe he thinks he is a good person, but as the saying goes, “The Road to Hell is Paved with Good intentions”.
But Obama is not, nor never has been, a business man and as Mike Rogers recounts in the 2nd video with Fox News about conversations with Michigan employers per the incentives and facts in the proposed health care bill, well you can see Obama is coming from a basis of evil. Okay sure, they might have good intentions, yet the international statistics and first hand experience presented by Rogers are truly coming from a basis of love and one cannot say the same for the other camp.
In the end, name calling or saying one is good or evil doesn’t move the ball for reform in either direction. Certainly, I’m all for some kind of reform that helps bring health care to affordable quality levels but I’m also not a fan of most consumer-related things government generated (e.g., consider declining public school student satisfaction and customer service at the DMV).
I’m also reminded of a recent conversation I had with a newly minted nurse.
This nurse, a retired self-made businessman and multimillionaire going on his third or fourth career, went back to school to study nursing because of the passion for caring in his heart and soul. As he was finishing his second year in nursing school, he told me the story about how an illegal alien (no green card, no passport, no insurance) suffered from a collapse lung and received over $70,000 worth of surgery and medical care from a Fairfield County Connecticut hospital. This patient paid no deductible and would have been left for dead in his own country.
My nursing friend stated it clearly when he said “Paying for the uninsured? Shoot, we’re paying for them already. That $70,000 uncollected fee shows up in everybody else’s insurance premiums.”
So, if there is going to be any health care reform whatsoever, I propose the first thing is that there is no binomial division between our representatives and us.
In other words, they have to eat the same dog food and go with the same plans as the rest of us, otherwise they are just plane evil and not coming from a basis of love, let alone true Universal respect for et al.
This is a really funny nine minute video featuring Robin Williams talking about Bush, Obama, Palin, McCain and all your favorite 2008 US presidential references - enjoy!
According to Williams, the reign of error is over and America is now out of rehab ..??..
Another friend sent me the following YouTube Links and they are worth checking out as they illustrate a growing problem in that Bump Keys make it easy for the bad guys to break into your house or office without detection … bad enough to have one’s stuff stolen, but worse is that insurance won’t pay because there is no evidence of a “break-in†…
From Friend:
Look at these - someone has found out how to make locks obsolete!! The first video is a report from the Neatherlands — now it is in the US. Once on the internet the bad guys have a new tool…. be aware everyone -
So then I emailed another friend and got back the following:
> dude - these videos are pretty wild if true ..??..<
It’s probably true. Did you ever use lock picking tools? It works the same way. You jiggle a “pick” (like the bump key) inside the lock and wiggle, and it doesn’t take much effort to open any lock. When I moved into our last house in xyz [ed.] one of the upstairs deck doors was locked with no key. I borrowed a lock picking set from a friend and had the thing open in 30 seconds. Then I was able to replace the lock with a new one.
1. “Be a fundamentalist, make sure fun always comes before the mental. Realize that life is a situation comedy that will never be cancelled. A laugh track has been provided and the reason why we are put in the material world is to get more material. Have a good laughsitive twice a day and that will insure regularhilarity.
2. Remember that each of us has been given a special gift - just for entering. So you are already a winner!
3. The most powerful tool on the planet today is Tell-A-Vision. That is where I tell a vision to you and you tell a vision to me
4. Life is like photography. You use the negative to develop.
5. As we go through life thinking heavy thoughts, thought particles tend to get caught between our ears, causing a condition called truth decay. So be sure to use your truth brush and mental floss twice a day. And when you’re tempted to practice tantrum yoga, remember what we teach in the Absurdiveness Training Class: “Don’t get even, get odd.â€
6. If we want world peace, we must let go of our attachments and truly live like nomads. That’s where I no mad at you, you no mad at me. That way, there will surely be nomadness on the planet. And peace begins with each of us. A little peace here, a little peace there, pretty soon all the peaces will fit together to make one big peace everywhere.
7. I know great earth changes have been predicted for the future, so if you’re looking to avoid earthquakes, my advice is simple. When you find a fault, just don’t dwell on it.
8. There’s no need to change the world. All we have to do is toilet train the world, and we’ll never have to change it again.
9. Everything I have told you is channeled. That way, if you don’t like it, it’s not my fault. And remember,enlightenment is not a bureaucracy. You don’t have to go through channels.
10. Finally, if you’re looking to find the key to the universe, I have some bad news and some good news. The bad news is - there is no key to the Universe. The good news is - it was never locked.”
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The above was forwarded from a friend and attributed to the following site: Swami Beyondananda
The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. - Anonymous
Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. - Ann Landers
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. - Ben Williams
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. - Josh Billings
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. - Andy Rooney
We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It’s the best deal man has ever made. - M. Acklam
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. - Sigmund Freud
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. - Rita Rudner
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. - Robert Benchley
Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog. - Franklin P. Jones
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. - James Thurber
If your dog is fat, you aren’t getting enough exercise. - Unknown
My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That’s almost $21.00 in dog money. - Joe Weinstein
Ever consider what our dogs must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth! - Anne Tyler
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert A. Heinlein
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. - Mark Twain
You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, “Wow, you’re right! I never would’ve thought of that!” - Dave Barry
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. - Roger Caras
If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them. - Phil Pastoret
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