A moment before the alarm clock wakes up the day to play the radio, there is a very quick hum that precedes it, almost imperceptible, and only those who are already awake before the alarm goes off can hear it. Many cable boxes that are equipped to record TV programs hum even when the television …
I don’t quite know how to mourn and celebrate Corazon Aquino, except to improve my knowledge of her life and accomplishments. This is some of what I’ve learned so far: She is the first woman president of the Philippines. She is the first woman president of any Asian country. She was nominated for the Nobel …
This is a great example why I watch Craig Ferguson:
Whoah.
(click on the picture to go to the web site) The project took about 2 weeks to finish, about an hour a day. One hour to tape the model kit pieces together to see if they fit. Two hours to glue the pieces together. Two hours to spray paint, two more hours to hand paint. …
Most everything I do, in terms of time, is estimated, from actually getting up as opposed to when the alarm first goes off, to driving from point A to point B, to meeting a group of people somewhere. Because of traffic, the telephone, forgetfulness and bad estimations, rarely am I ever at an exact place …
I’d been wanting to re-watch the movie Flags of Our Fathers for a couple weeks now, and got to do it last night. The movie follows the story of the three surviving members of the soldiers who raised the flag on Mount Suribachi, during the famous WWII battle of the island of Iwo Jima. Here’s …
Conan O’Brien, from his Inside the Actor’s Studio interview: “Comedy isn’t a science. Science isn’t a science. We’re learning that all the time. We’re learning that in Wall Street. Nobody really knows what they’re doing. And there’s two ways to go with that information. One is to be afraid. The other is to be liberated. …
One of the ways to keep a car running healthy, especially when it’s older, is to be gentle with it in the morning. Revving the engine soon after you start the ignition, quick starts and stops, and forcing the car into higher gears before it’s warmed up is a surefire way to shorten its life. …
About a month ago, I called my church and asked if they needed help with anything, whether it’s driving food or groceries to the infirmed, or helping finish their web site. The web site work will resume in a couple months, when the church organizer is caught up with his other non-church duties. The other …
Charice singing “Note to God” on Oprah: Lyrics transcribed from the Oprah performance: If I wrote a note to God I would speak what’s in my soul I’d ask for all the hate to be swept away For love to overflow If I wrote a note to God I’d pour my heart out on each …
I stumbled onto the above picture this morning. The picture is in various places on the Web. I don’t know where it originated but if you do a Google image search for “define necessity”, you’ll see the other web sites and blogs that have posted it before I did. The picture reminded me that I …
I’m planning on making my own Christmas Cards this year and using a shortened version of what I wrote on New Year’s Eve of last year. Let us not speak these words only once a year, but with each breath, every day. May we understand ourselves without medallions of success, nor burdens of sorrow, that …
I. During the earlier part of the day, I thought about this quote: “Boredom is the root of evil.” I searched the Web for references to it, and inevitably found Soren Kierkegaard’s Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard Kierkegaard is famous for having said the quote, “Boredom is the root of all evil—the despairing refusal to be oneself.” …
Each human eye initially transmits upside-down images to the brain, which in turn, rotates these images to the way that we understand and remember them. Everything we see is actually turned 180 degrees, all the time. The brain, depending on the physiology of that person, will see colors slightly more differently, will notice more or …
In the summer of 1974, only half a year after coming to America, my parents and I went to see a drive-in movie. My father worked three jobs—full-time as an engineer during the weekdays, driving a taxi cab on weekends, and as a cook in the kitchen of the concession stand at a drive-in theater. …
If you live in a world full of desperation, do not despair. If you live in a world full of lies, do not lie. If you live in a world full of cheating, do not cheat. If you live in a world full of blind followers, do not blindly follow. If you live in a …
During Easter mass on Sunday, Father Glynn’s sermon was about starting over. He talked about a woman who had had a very tough life who, one day, decided that she was simply going to leave her past behind and begin a new life. Her story, like Jesus’ resurrection, stood as symbols that we are all …
Palm Sunday celebrates the day that Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey, days before his last supper and crucifixion. As a form of honoring him, his disciples and others laid their cloaks on the ground before him. Those who had no cloaks laid palm fronds on the ground. When I was …
(Click on the picture for a bigger version.) Yesterday, one of our clients asked me to do some cartoons to help promote a video that discusses addiction to videogames. The above drawing is one of them. I’m not sure if I was ever addicted to videogames, even though I sometimes played 4-6 hours a day. …