Translations for each verse are in italics O Fortuna velut luna statu variabilis, semper crescis aut decrescis; vita detestabilis nunc obdurat et tunc curat ludo mentis aciem, egestatem, potestatem dissolvit ut glaciem. (O Fortune, like the moon you are constantly changing, ever waxing and waning; hateful life now oppresses and then soothes as fancy takes it; poverty and power it melts them like ice.) Sors immanis et inanis, rota tu volubilis, status malus, vana salus semper dissolubilis, obumbrata et velata michi quoque niteris; nunc per ludum dorsum nudum fero tui sceleris. (Fate - monstrous and empty, you whirling wheel, you are malevolent, well-being is vain and always fades to nothing, shadowed and veiled you plague me too; now through the game I bring my bare back to your villainy.) Sors salutis et virtutis michi nunc contraria, est affectus et defectus semper in angaria. Hac in hora sine mora corde pulsum tangite; quod per sortem sternit fortem, mecum omnes plangite! (Fate is against me in health and virtue, driven on and weighted down, always enslaved. So at this hour without delay pluck the vibrating strings; since Fate strikes down the strong man, everyone weep with me!)
... I put the bodies in the wishing well.
Not Ja. Amidoinitrite?
Who didn't see this one coming?
Looks like we have ourselves a new forum fad. Yay.
No I'm not apologizing to the RPers. Nor am I apologizing to newbs/n00bs. Don't get your hopes up as that will be an unlikely event. Say having a revolver shoved to my head. No rpers and newbs/noobs. Don't get defensive over this thread and de-rep me for it because that would ****ing piss me off. No I want to make an apology to CTR...and only CTR. And don't give me this, 'Use the PM system, buddy.' I want this seen and witnessed. Information was leaked, I won't say by who, to me from the staff section. Things CTR had posted about me from who knows when and I took offense. I thought she was the sole reason I hadn't been considered for staff and snapped at her over MSN. I was going through a lot of emotional ****. My grandfather dieing and as a result my grandmother becoming more...neurotic. My college finals. All that fun stuff that seems to pile on around May. And no I'm not making excuses for my behavior. I just hate the feeling of having alienated someone I considered a friend over something so stupid as staff position on a forum. And before I get **** about me taking the internet so seriously, let me tell you, there are people behind these words. People with feelings. People who laugh and cry and rage and love. These words are not being generated by some machine but they are being written by a human hand which is inputting them into a machine. No machine could be so sincere. This is no joke. There's no punchline. I'm not going to edit this post later on and say 'HAHA I got you.' It is what it is. It's the Spam Zone I realize but I'd like this to be conveyed in a very serious tone. It's not everyday that I do one of these so it should be obvious, CTR, that I am being sincere. I did see some of the posts...but I didn't see the thought process behind them. I didn't see all of the posts. Paranoia will be the death of me someday. Those posts that were leaked put a dent in our friendship and I was stupid enough to let it. Let's move on from this...back to where we were before this.
First sunburn of the season. Must be summer. xD
Okay I admit it, it's amusing.
Here's 'Everything I need to know in Life I learned from Star Wars.' 30. Wretched hives of scum and villainy always have the best music. It's no coincidence that the bar at Mos Eisley has the most kick-ass band this side of Naboo. Dives always have the best live music — directly proportional to how many felons they're serving at any given time. 29. Before making out with someone, make absolutely sure they aren't your sister. This one goes without saying, but it's especially important for those who suspect they may have been adopted. 28. "Don't tell me the odds!" According to C-3PO, the odds against successfully navigating an asteroid field are approximately 3,720 to 1. Buckle up and take some chances. 27. "These are not the droids we are looking for." Searching is futile when you don't know what you're looking for. 26. Fear and anger always lead to the dark side. Even if you're facing certain death at the hands of a playful sadist (who just happens to be threatening your sister), releasing your anger will only please him more. Relax — victory can only be achieved through calmness. 25. "Do or do not. There is no try." Any task worth doing is worth doing right. 24. "At this moment, the Internet is completely empty." Not strictly from "Star Wars," but said by the guy behind me in the movie theater as the opening title for "The Phantom Menace" crawled across the screen. It remains the truest statement I have ever heard. 23. All things are true ... from a particular point of view. This is what Obi-Wan tells Luke when asked why he didn't reveal the truth about Darth Vader. But truth is a delicate and malleable thing: Is Luke Skywalker a freedom fighter or a terrorist? I guess it depends on what side of the Death Star you happen to be on when he blows it up. 22. If your girlfriend tells you she loves you, it's totally badass to reply, "I know." She will love you more. 21. Always let the Wookiee win. Why? Because Wookiees pull people's arms out of their sockets when they lose. Knowing your opponent is integral to defeating him, and conceding a small battle doesn't mean you forfeit the war. 20. Everybody means something to somebody. Remember that scene at the beginning of "Return of the Jedi" when the Rancor dies and a guard comes in bawling after him? Even the most twisted, deformed and evil beings can be loved for who they are. Everybody is somebody's child. 19. Don't ever apologize to your boss. Especially if you did something really dumb, like jump out of hyperspace close enough to be detected from the ice planet Hoth. It will only get the goofball next to you promoted while you are Force-choked to death. 18. People who smoke need to "rethink" their life. Obi-Wan's moralizing encounter with an alien shilling death sticks in "Attack of the Clones" is a bit schoolmarmish but nevertheless true. It shouldn't take a Jedi to tell those things are bad for you. 17. Crime doesn't pay. Jabba the Hutt, Boba Fett, Sebulba, Greedo — the bad guys in "Star Wars" always get what's coming to them, even if it takes a while. The reverse of this, however, is not true. While crime doesn't pay, not paying for your past crimes does pay. Just ask Han Solo. 16. Don't trust a liar to save your girlfriend from prophesied doom. They're lying. 15. Never desert your friends. The best we can hope for in our journeys across the galaxy are good, honest companions. They stick by you through thick and thin and won't judge you based on your crazy family. So next time you're debating leaving Jedi training to rescue your friends from Cloud City, remember who it was that shot down Darth Vader during the Death Star attack. You owe them. 14. Girls are really good shots. If you must fight a tyrannical empire capable of sending endless waves of Storm Troopers, bring along a few girls. They never miss. 13. "Size matters not." This is a cooler, more complicated way of saying, "Don't judge a book by its cover." 12. "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine." People can become heroes in life, but only in death can they become legends. 11. Dictatorships run much more smoothly than democracies. At the beginning of "Phantom Menace," the Republic is a shabbily run confederacy that can't even protect a sovereign planet from being gobbled up by warring trade unions. That's why Queen Padmé calls for a vote of no confidence. By "Revenge of the Sith," it takes Darth Vader roughly 10 minutes to end the threat. If you can stand a little repression, nothing beats an empire when it comes to efficiency. 10. Everything smells better from the outside. Some mysteries are better left unsolved. Slicing through a Tauntaun is like breaking a trash compactor to see how it works: The only thing you're going to discover are some really bad smells. 9. No matter where you are or what you're doing, someone is going to have a bad feeling about it. Go ahead, say it aloud: Admitting your fears is the first step toward overcoming them. 8. If you want the job done, it's sometimes necessary to call in bounty hunters. Even the most powerful Sith lord can't be everywhere at once, which is why to get what you want you sometimes have to associate with less-than-reputable fellows. There's little shame in finding the most capable aides. And none at all in admitting you need help. 7. Sand people always walk in single file to hide their numbers. If something's bothering you, chances are it goes deeper than what appears to be the immediate cause. Look closer. Troubles come not as single spies but as battalions. 6. Life is better the first time around. Often imitated, never duplicated. The original is always the best. 5. Even if you're the galaxy's most powerful army, never underestimate guerrillas defending their home turf. Not even laser canons and AT-ATs can defeat stone throwers like the Ewoks at home. Regardless of your ideological persuasion, feel free to make your own contemporary political joke here. 4. "It's a trap!" Rest assured, the battle station you're attacking is fully operational. Don't assume your enemies are idiots, no matter how many Bothans died to bring you the information. 3. No matter how many people you kill or how many galaxies you destroy, one good deed can make up for everything. Anakin Skywalker gets to go to Force heaven, or whatever the heck it's called when he's palling around with Obi-Wan and Yoda at the end of "Jedi." And this is after killing roughly 8 billion people (give or take the population of Alderan). Can we be forgiven for our crimes? Can we forgive ourselves? A lot depends on whether or not you believe the next statement. 2. The worst enemies you'll face are those you bring with you. When Luke enters the forbidden tree cave on Dagobah, Yoda tells him that all he will face is what he fears inside. Evil doesn't come from some external trickster — it is a reflection of our own foul natures ... 1. Use the Force. ... but the tools to our salvation lie within us as well. Discovering how to channel these forces is what makes our journey. Let it go. The greatest lesson "Star Wars" teaches us is that the hero is within.
We just got the call from the nursing home... ...My grandfather just died. Made it to his 81st birthday. ... So I get to attend my first funeral sometime soon. ... Great.
One of my classmates on campus made this for her boyfriend's band. Made in Adobe Premier which is a great program to use for video editing. It's like WMM but a lot more cooler...and it doesn't crash...much. The band's name is Hend and the video's name is Sleep Within Sleep.
Well until Misty pointed it out... Lazard looks sort of like Tim Gunn. oo;
I would have posted this in Spam but I want this to be taken seriously. Last news my mother got about my grandfather wasn't so great. He's back in hospice care. He can't eat/swallow. His legs and arms are starting to discolour. His memory isn't that great either. He had a stroke about 2 years ago around Easter and went first to the hospital where the doctors thought he wouldn't make it much longer. He was moved into hospice care until the 6 month cutoff. He's lasted two years in nursing care. I've only seen him once since his stroke but I don't want to see him as a man slowly dieing in a nursing home bed. I'd rather remember him as he was and the times I had with him. Telling me stories of his time in the WWI and WWII and his life and when my dad was growing up. He taught me the value of a dollar and what it meant to work for a living. He taught me 'You can't do business off an empty wagon.' It seemed like such a stupid thing to say and I laughed at it. He was good at that. Being able to make people laugh. They were corny sayings but he was saying them to make people laugh. God I'm crying as I type this. Just remembering everything. I haven't cried like this since my sister got married. You don't really know how you're going to feel until it happens. Yeah you know they're old but you don't expect them to go so suddenly. My grandfather seemed like he could fight anything, take anything on. But this...I guess it was a fight he couldn't win.
It's nothing we haven't heard of before. But it really makes me angry to learn that it's been taken to the level of the United States wanting to exterminate every Pit Bull on American soil just because the actions of a few led to the abuse and mistreatment of these animals. Furthermore, the Pit Bull has a long and proud history which includes protecting the American Soldiers in World War I. Is the US willing to overlook that history because of the owner's abuse? Don't blame the breed for the actions of their owners. And don't judge because of the actions of people like Micheal Vick. The government should be dealing with the owners rather than the dogs. Also it's a Wikipedia link but it provides a good deal of information on the breed in general. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_bull
And I'm going to find it.
http://www.autocult.com.au/img/gallery/full/XL4BXJTC.jpg But the sad thing is...someone actually put time and money to make this car. I think that's the Hawaiian Punch guy on the door.
Can't get more angsty but perhaps there can be too much angst.
Seriously...look at all those guests viewing the threads. My that sounded elitist of me. Let's make the guests feel welcome so they register? :3
Because I'm insanely curious about all of you. I'd like to know your Egyptian Zodiac signs. http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/zodiac.htm Here's mine:
By Al Gore. D: DO. NOT. WANT.
