Boy, this one took me. Thanks for your patience, readers. 
The fabulous Worthians MasterGnu and Karmalilly went for it. They chose to go for Top Five Lists. Nice one, gnuukums and lillylove, so here goes.
Gnu: I would like to know the top 5 things in the world that are the most annoying to you (and no stuff about people starving and that kind) – If you think Miss South Carolina could say the same thing as you, don’t say it 
How dare you imply that Miss South Carolina and I would find the same things annoying? Actually, Miss South Carolina ranks pretty high on this list. Well, kind of. Here goes:
#5 Bad use of grammar, spelling and language in general.
Yes, well. Some people hate me for it. Some love me for it. I am adamant, I am ANAL about correct grammar, spelling and phrasing. I know it is horribly arrogant and smart-aleck, but it IS stronger than me. It makes for slapstick situations. I corrected profs, business partners and cops. I’d even correct my fiancé in the situation of proposing to me if he/she should use the incorrect form of subjunctive in his speech … fortunately, my hubby did it right back then. Otherwise, I would not be married. (more…)
I’m tired today, beat and teetering on the brink of depression. I tried to answer some of the questions that are piling up in the corners of the nBlog’s attic, but to no avail.
So please bear with me and stay tuned to hear the answers to some funny and interesting questions by MasterGnu, karmalilly, kooskoodiroo and Eurydice. Coming soon.
Question #3 by V1c: Do you have a philosphy on history and how it is used? I believe you have experiences (in real time) living in more than one country, no? How does history and the use of history vary from country to country and what are the positive and/or negative aspects of such fluid histories? Is there actually one true history or does it change because people’s perceptions of events are so amazingly different even if all in the same room when something happens?
Heh. Lovely, V1c. This has been one of my favorite topics of conversation for quite a while when I was still studying (history, btw.)
Yes, I do have a philosophy on history. And that is that all history repeats itself. Although we might grow and develop, we tend to make the same mistakes over and over. It was one of the reasons why I studied history at all. I believe that is we know history, and follow the events around us, we will to a certain degree be able to predict what will happen.
I found this to be true.
Being able to predict this isn’t going to help anyone, but I only found that out much later. At the time, I thought knowledge was power, and knowledge would enable me to change the world. Heh. (more…)
So Carl Jung has ruled The Quote long enough.
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”
Carl Jung
It’s time for something new.
“There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence.”
Jean de la Bruyere
I love and admire the photography of Andrzej Dragan. And as I am working on image post processing lately, I thought I’d try at a photo in Dragan style. What happened, I asked myself, if you take a sweet and flawless baby picture and made it into a Dragan portrait? So I used a baby pic of my son Joshua. Here is the result.
Question #2 by V1c: The theory of Pangaea – do you buy it?
Hah. Lovely question, actually. For those who are not familiar with the theory of Pangaea, check it out here: Theory of Pangaea. It basically says that, 250 million years ago, there weren’t many continents, but one huge super continent which later broke into the continents we know.
Look at that, doesn’t that look fab?
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The lovely V1c again, and she shot three questions at me. Those questions are concerning math, philosophy, science, geography and history. I hate you, V1c. No, not really.
As all three of them call for a rather longish answer, I will answer all of them in a separate entry (and each will be a day of its own). The first one is day eight, and it’s a really tough one for me.
Question #1 by V1c: Do you believe in the fundamental basis of mathematics or was it something concocted to keep men busy and feeling superior as they play with little made-up numbers? Is it just another way to provide fake proof to theories that continue the subjugation of people or is there some real basis to it? Is it a pure science, from God, a divine entity, natural, or another creation of man?
This is a tough one because I used to hate math when I was in school. But even then, when I was honest with myself, I admit that I rather hated it because it was a family tradition to hate it. (more…)
Q by meowza: “How did Maggie (from the Simpsons) celebrate 18 (give or take) christmases?”
Well. There could be many possible answers, some of them even easy. Maggie could just have come kind of deep-routed Peter-Pan-Syndrome, not wanting to grow up. She could be stuck in a time warp, or she could just be the illogical offspring of a TV series starring yellow cartoon characters.
But no. I do not think the solution is that easy. (more…)
It was frosty tonight. This is what I found when walking the dog. Fall has arrived.
Meerkitten, this picture dedicated to you. Not near as good as any of yours, but a li’ll thank you nevertheless.
