Adults - what do they know?

Interesting link.

http://www.nylearns.org/FileDownloader.aspx?FID=30844

(this video may take a minute to download - be patient)

Beach Blanket Italian

So who's your take in the Wimbledon final - Fed vs. Nad? You're probably saing WTF? You talk about Tennis when the World Cup final is on the same day? It is a great time to be in Italy. I was there during the 1994 World Cup and witnessed first hand the insanity of an Italian soccer fan. I enjoyed watching the match on a gigantic screen set up on the beach. Eating pizza, drinking beer, and just hanging. It was all about Baggio at the time and just saying that guy's name made you an instant friend of anyone within earshot. The gelato wasn't bad either.

So France took the woman's final at Wimbledon. Not that she is really playing for the county, but Mauresmo did a great job of closing it out. Late in the third set, the match can be decided by just a point or two, which is why I never made it to the top - my weak mental fortitude on the court did not serve me well. Although in business, this is referred to as multitasking, which actually serves me very well, and is also the reason I never became an artist. Can you say Focus? Neither can I.

On Sunday, I will take Federer in 3 sets. That is my first instinct. The guy is playing extremely well and also has a serious Wimbledon record that speaks of continued victory. Nadal is also playing at the top of his game, but this is Federer's match to lose. He has a running grass court and wimbledon streak that just screams of record breaking potential, which is really what I like to see. It is fun to watch records being broken.

Sorry to all of you who have been pulled out of town this weekend and may not have access to a TV. Hopefully you are at least getting to enjoy some pizza and beer, if not the occasional Italian in a bathing suit...

30th post on the 30th

huh, uhuh, uhuh, uhuh, shhh, deep breath.

running over to the blog, frantically trying to remmber the password. getting locked out for minutes at a time. let me in! let me in!. i need to get this entry in before time expires. It's all about the archive for June.

So what is it about wearing new Levi's anyway? They are a great deep blue color, however, in our society they seem to carry a stigma like - You're not cool enough to wear worn in Jeans. Dude, why do I have to wash my Jeans like 10 times to achieve the worn in look just so I can be cool. It just means I will lose out on 10 good washings and since I wear jeans like 10 times before washing, it would be like losing 100 wearing or like 3 full months of Levi's bliss. Ultimately what happens is that I get holes around the knees and since I am too old for my Zeppelin patch, I relegate them to the closet for in home or very casual wearings. Then one day, they are thrown in a plastic trash bag and off to good will they go. The person that will get them will be totally stoked to get that fully worn in pair of jeans, will have no problem putting a patch on it, and will probably wear it like 200 or more times before one washing, unless they live near a riverbed.

A body of intelligence

Sometimes the desire to have something is stronger than the genuine need. In fact, this is the case most of the time. Following, the actuality of a situation is rarely as satisfying, in relation to the thought process that proceeded it.

Inside the mind, the commingling of chemicals that translate into sensory perceptions are like one big orgy. Realized one at a time, things appear quite lackluster. If you were watching one of those commercials right now, the part taking place inside the mind would be like a 120-piece ensemble marching band. The outside representation would be a one-man band.

So the question becomes, how does one externalize this orgy so that it feeds into our practical, minute-by-minute realities? (i.e. so that you are not having a one-man orgy).

Some say it is by slowing down the mind. Cessation of the waves of the mind. A stillness of sorts where every thought is a new thought, not predicated on what happened earlier or what may happen tonight, tomorrow, next week, or next year.

Others say it is by harnessing the intelligence of the body. Not treating our physical body like a trash can, rather, by giving it proper standing - on the level with organs such as the heart, lungs, and liver. The body is not idleness waiting for stimulus, rather the body freely transmits vast intelligence into the brain - from the fingertips to the toenails. Said another way, tend to the roots and the flowers will bloom. The root is in this case the body and the mind is in turn the flowers.

I tend to agree with both of them, and give credit to Maslow for providing the underpinning of my opinion. With Maslow, we were led to believe there is a hierarchy in place and once you attain level one, you are able to begin the work toward arriving at the next level.

I would argue that these levels are constantly fluctuating inside our minds and bodies. The need for food is necessary every few hours; the need for shelter is necessary each and every day. The need for belongingness and love presents itself each time we bump a toe or spill our coffee. Back & forth, up and down.

All that said, today I retreat to the body and work on penetrating these sheaths - skin, muscle, bone, blood and nerves, with my sights set on the heart. If today's journey doesn't provide the orgy, given the opportunity, I will look again the following day.

Aces high

One commenter writes, and I paraphrase, "Are blogs replacing listserves?" To that comment I reply - not really (imho). On some listserves that have been around for several years, the members get tired of shooting the shit so they just chime in from time to time with pertinent news or a good joke.

Sometimes, individual members of the listserves start their own blogs and appear to be separatists, with the other members treating them as so - "Damn Miscreants!"

However, looking deeper, the individuals and their mob mentality have to question their own standing within the internet community. Are they equal contributors or are they feeding off the creativity of others?

Without going too too deep, I invite any individual listserve member to be a regular contributor to this blog to be able to 'call-out' anyone and anything they want. They could talk about such popluar topics as beauty tips, bling, Paris Hilton, Taylor Hicks or any other American Idol, or just simply talk about themseves.

Your deal - and don't give me no weak shuffle.

Blog vs. Vlog

So today I spent some time checking out the various vlog's available. Not too many cause like TV, they tend to eat up lots of time, but enough to see that there are some interesting things going on.

One that I liked is:

http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/

There are lots of others out there and I'm sure you can check them out on your own simply by typing 'vlog' or 'video blog' into google.

Lots of production going into some of these which has got to be quite time intensive. Like many online businesses, a few seem to be making some money, but most just doing it for fun.

Yoga in the Workplace

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Alone in the blogosphere

Yesterday I panicked. I thought for a little while that I was alone in the blogosphere. I called Dr. Blog, aka JBO and we had a good brainblogstorming session. While the goals are still not as clear as I wish they were, it has given me (us) renewed hope. One of our agreed upon goals is to get a comment from someone we don't know. (An actual reader would also be a good thing, but this didn't come up as a goal).

We discussed the idea of community, how if you want blog friends one must be proactive and provide stimulation (aka comments) to other bloggites. So I'll give this a try later today and report on my results. Of course, giving comments is a bit tricky in itself. Should I give comments to the Transsexual bog, the communist blog, the terr*r*s*t blog, and the porno blog - forsheezee, aren't there any normal blogs out there? Stay tuned, and while you're waiting visit that other blog http://skiletsrage.blogspot.com/.