I've got my words

I've got my words of the past looking at me.
The actions of people back then made me laugh.
I could say things of death and look back with a smile.
The times have changed for worse and murder.
The broken backs of men lay still.
On desert sands not traveled by me.
But I drive on with gas of blood,
oblivious in a drunken state
But my mittens are warm inside.
My mind is whole and so I sigh.
I've got my words of the past looking at me.
A true life lived with thought and goals.
With drive, I strived for better things.
I still see grace in everything.
But all I see is myself in everything.
I am one with the big universe
I am fun when with 2 bottles of wine
I am without anything that breaks apart my smile.
I frown at all you hunters both of animal and man.
I hug all of you friendly folks that let them just pass by.
But I've got my words of the past looking at me.
The grief of death has run its course enough for a lifetime.
The way life flies by, I question why I try.
But always settle on try cause not trying is how you die
My plastic mind will stay that way as it drifts into an older age.
My running game won't settle down.
My bicycle won't ever slow down
My life will stay forever bound to everything and anything
that found its way on this small planet tucked in the middle of a massive battle
between our black hole galactic nucleus and everything sucked towards it.
But as it sucks it gives us life with formation of our solar system
and all you see is this big blue ball or your great big house or your fancy car or your loved one's tears or your child's fears or your own abused hands as you take your shirt off at night.

Dream

All I want is to explore the universe.
All I want is to explore the universe.
I don't need to open my eyes today.
I don't need to open my eyes today.

Human Evolution Recognition

So I was thinking today about how people can general say that they are better at recognizing features of people of their own race and ancestry. So a question popped into my head. Is this difference in facial recognition fundamental to the nature of that person or a product of their being surrounded for most of their lives by a certain type of person? This could be discovered by comparing people of a particular ancestry that had different geographic and social conditions during their development. we would want to see the degree of activation of the brain, specifically the FFA (fuciform face area) during the stimulus of people of different degrees of genetic separation from that person. Then if it is true that people have a fundamental ability to recognize their own ancestry, perhaps even there is a correlation between a person's genetic separation and ability to recognize. Then if that is true, maybe we can use human computation to measure genetic difference further down the line.

we can clearly think of what the face of an ape look like. We can recognize that it is an ape. we can even think clearly about and visualize several different structures found on the ape's face. But since genetic separation between humans and apes is not insignificant, we can not bring it to light with the same detail another human's eyes and nose and cheeks and chin and hair appears in our minds.

With that we can jump to another end and think about our recognition of dogs and cats. Still mammals, we can see a dog's smile and have strong empathy for them when hurt. Further down the line we come to birds which have faces and features that we can recognize as being related to our own. we can see a beak is a mouth and a bird's eyes are like our own. We can picture the world from a bird's eye view as we glide across the sky from tree to tree to light pole. Then we can jump to an ant. We know it has a head. We can see it has some kind of eyes that are less like our own than the bird's. We can barely make out the features beyond that that the ant has that we share. Through all these, we would hopefully see the difference in activation within the brain. Our significant difference block our ability to recognize and have true connections with them.

But then again perhaps these differences in recognition further back in the chain of human life are merely about geography rather than genetics. If we grow up in a certain area and our ancestors grew up in another area, and the grandparents of someone else grew up somewhere else, then would it be the case that we could recognize better the things our ancestors saw which would be different from the things another person's ancestor's witnessed. This would mean that the differences we could find further down the line may just be because our ancestor's saw less of those sorts of animals. For instance, many people have a good grasp of the differences between trees just as their parents had and their parents before them. So even though the genetic split between humans and trees is enormous, human interactions with trees over thousands of years has increased our ability to recognize the features of trees and our interactions with cats and dogs has increased our ability to emote with cats and dogs.

But the funny thing is, if the second is true, it would be a way of self distinguishing people's fairly local ancestry and if the other is the case then it would be a way to self distinguish people's long term ancestry.

but either way do they all look the same?

We Are Not I

We are the family
We are the friends
We are the city
We are the state
We are the continent
We are the human race
we are nature's way
we are tired for days
we are endless pain
we are lesson's learned
we are timeless, burnt into the ways of every piece of everything

but we are not I

PATRICK (8 Oct 1985 - 12 May 2007)

Bright eyed baby done built a soul
and with a change of lanes it's all lost.
Beautiful minds don't create themselves.
He made good use of his time.

Patrick - "Live it like you mean it"

if I was a bird I would be high all the time

Today I saw several cardinals with a blue jay in pursuit. They flew from branch to branch with the cardinals always taking off together and the blue jay lagging behind. It was as if the blue jay was in an endless pursuit. Always trying to be a cardinal, but trapped in the body of a blue jay. The poor bird would make it to the next branch just as the cardinals were leaving, them always maintaining their synchronized flights.

Then I became distracted by another blue jay that had caught something in its mouth. It was green and in the bird's mouth looked like delicious nourishment. It zipped across my field of vision just barely allowing its catch to be visible. It must've been a grasshopper, but I am not certain. I know it had a single long leg sticking out of the corner of the beak. In a moment the bird disappeared into a tree and though I saw more blue jays, I couldn't be sure I saw that particular champion again.

A chipmunk found its way in my bushes though and let me watch him nibble at little tree helicopters. It seemed disappointed with it, but I picked up a few and decided to try the little green center, well protected from the elements by its little ridged husk. The poor little tree child was not quite flavorful, but seemed like a nice little snack to go with my sun dried tomatoes, so I picked up a hand-full and devoured a few more.

Just as my snack ended, I spied a little bunny rabbit making its way on to my back porch. He hopped about a bit and I stayed very still. He made his way a bit closer to me before I budged a bit and scared the poor fella away.

We are not I though you see. I saw the birds, and you saw them with your mind. We are all connected.

footage for 4 ft high dome

1.394 ft * 30 = 41.82 ft
+ 1.614 ft * 40 = 64.56 ft
+ 1.649 ft * 50 = 82.45 ft

= 188.83 ft

THE BOAT!

Everybody wants to steer the boat
Everybody wants to steer the boat
Everybody wants to steer the boat
Everybody wants to steer the boat
But we're crashing today
Theres no way we can stay

Nobody wants to crash the boat
Nobody wants to crash the boat
but they will
if they keep on trying so hard
in both directions so hard
Straight on path won't go far
we'll crash the boat today

Recycle Your Blastocysts

What's Worse Than Taco Bell?

World peace would be nice

eh?

It is better than Taco Bell

What is worse than Taco Bell?

War

You make a good point

World peace it is then