John's Junk Drawer

"All things work together for good to them that love God..." -Romans 8:28

All of creation is limitations. It would have been great if we had mental telepathy, for example. But mental telepathy wasn't in the design, so we learned other, more interesting ways to communicate.

In doing so, we discovered that those other ways we learned --to overcome the limitation and express ourselves-- have their own beautiful characteristics. Those beautiful characteristics would have been unimaginable, and completely hidden, if we had been "blessed" with telepathy, and were not limited in this way (in this case, consider music, poetry, or dance, for examples of what would never have been).

Within every limitation there is some new, previously unseen and unknown thing to learn, and learn about. And with the learning, comes the purpose.

-djr

Great video.

I like how the previous attempts (previous takes) become part of the final work. The colors on their outfits for example. But also check out the messed up, and broken props, which can be seen in the backgrounds of each area. Left-overs from previous takes.

Future generations, from whom we are currently stealing, will consider this man a hero. He already is a hero in my book.

IBM has found that picking up a single carbon-oxide (CO) molecule onto the tip of their AFM (Atomic Force Microscope) allows them to get a much sharper "point" with which to obtain much sharper images of atomic scale entities. This image is simply amazing...





View the IBM Press Release (w/video)



-djr

One of the best renditions I've heard.

As sinners go, the guy who wrote this song was right up there with the worst of them. Amazing! Salvation... offered, and accepted, and the angels celebrate by giving us one of the best songs ever written. Sometimes it's not hard at all to know what's important to them.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V84STSWVp3g

Observer As Art

so...

I have a question for all you politicians on both sides of the aisle who decided you were better off serving the will of the media, instead of the will of the people...




CAN YOU HEAR US NOW?














The bluest state in the union (Massachusetts), protected by the Kennedy legacy, just turned bright red. The opponents could not down-play the importance of it (a 60th vote in the senate), nor could they blame it on others (their candidate was backed by the Kennedy machine and the office of the president). God's hand was truly in this one, and it makes one aware, and grateful, that maybe we as a nation are still undeserving recipients of some of His blessings.

Skin color is based on the concentration of melanin in ones epidermis. That is its only real relevance.


E. E. Cummings said:

"deeds can not dream, what dreams can do"

-djr

This is not the story:





The story is how this is now being reported by the media party. People who only get their news from the party, will only hear that the reporter tripped and fell, and was then helped up by a Coakley aid.

People, people. What are we doing here?

A lot of media-party democrats are resigning. I wonder how the "go along to get along" blue-dogs feel about that For that matter, I wonder how the media-party republicans feel about it.

"There's a battle outside and it's ragin. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls..."

So... The Homeland Security System is a clockwork mechanism designed to get Muslim terrorists and their bombs onto international flights (?)





Ohhhh! I think I know... Maybe she meant the whole system worked like clockwork orange.



-djr

Who's On First with a twist. A nice rendition of one of history's best comedy stand-up routines...



-djr

I don't know who wrote it. I hope this is the real guy, coming out from behind his endless entourage of orbitals.

Humans in the U.S. are projecting a budget deficit of 1.5 Trillion dollars for 2010.