Changes

”自分が変わったら、世界は変わる。”

"When you change, the world changes."


- Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist Priest

Attachment

"Attachment leads to jealousy.  The shadow of greed, that is."


- Master Yoda

Merry Solstice

Tree with lights symbolizing the end of darkness and the return of light to the Earth

Lincoln

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."


- Abraham Lincoln 

Solaris

Solaris (1972 film)

 "I only wanted to create a vision of a human encounter with something that certainly exists, in a mighty manner perhaps, but cannot be reduced to human concepts, ideas or images."


- Stanislaw Lem, author of Solaris, discussing the extraordinary physical and psychological "alienness" of the planet Solaris

Karma

"Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future."

- Sonmi-451, Cloud Atlas

Every day I'm Star Hustlin'

Greetings, greetings, fellow star-gazers!

Some people hustle pool. Some people hustle cars. But have you ever heard about the man who hustles stars?

Meet Jack Horkheimer, Star Hustler, former director of the Planetarium in Miami and host of the public television show Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler for 36 seasons.

He had a unique way of educating audiences watching in the wee hours of the night about the constellations that could be seen in the night sky, comets that would be traveling past our planet in the coming days, and everything else going on in the Heavens - all the while reminding viewers of our place in the vast expanse that is the Universe.

For those of us who remember watching his marvelous little show on PBS he will be missed.

And remember, as Jack always said, "Keep looking up!"

Bronco Bama Holds On!

Now git 'er dun!

We Are Not Alone

"Houston, this is Discovery.  We still have the alien spacecraft under observance."


- Intercepted radio transmission from Discovery pilot Colonel John Blaha to Houston Control during a space flight in March 1989

Riding my bicycle

Here comes the bride

No Barriers

Gen. Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier again today, this time in an F-15, instead of in the X-1, as he did for the first time on this date in 1947.  He is 89 years old.

This publication would like to salute this legendary pilot and American hero and say on behalf of all young Americans:

Well done, Sir!

"My mule don't like people laughin'"

Caballero:  Listen, stranger, did you get the idea?  We don't like to see bad boys like you in town.  Go get your mule.  You let him get away from you?


Manco:  Well, see, that's what I wanna talk to you about.  He's feelin' real bad.


Caballero:  Huh?

Manco:  My mule.  You see, he got all riled up when you went a fired those shots at his feet.

Caballero:  Hey, you makin' some kinda joke?

Manco:  No, see, I understand you men were just playin' around.  But the mule, he just doesn't get it.  'Course if you were to all apologize...

[The caballeros laugh]

Manco:  I don't think it's nice, you laughin'.  See my mule don't like people laughin'.  Gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him.  Now, if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.


- A Fistful of Dollars

Risky Business

 "Sometimes you gotta say, 'What the @#$%'"


- Joel, Risky Business

"Dyin' aint much of a livin', boy"

Bounty Hunter:  I'm looking for Josey Wales

Josey Wales:  That'd be me.

Bounty Hunter:  You're wanted, Wales.

Josey Wales:  I reckon I'm right popular.   You a bounty hunter?

Bounty Hunter:  Man's gotta do something for a livin' these days.

Josey Wales: Dying ain't much of a livin', boy.  You know, this isn't necessary.  You can just ride on.

...

Bounty Hunter:  I had to come back.

Josey Wales:  I know.


- The Outlaw Josey Wales

Vanishing Point

"This radio station was named Kowalski, in honour of the last American hero to whom speed means freedom of the soul. The question is not when's he gonna stop, but who is gonna stop him." 


- Super Soul, Vanishing Point

Anticipation

"Some say I have a 'sixth sense' . . . Baloney. I've just learned to guess what's going to happen next. its anticipation. It's not God-given, its Wally-given. He used to stand on the blue line and say to me, 'Watch, this is how everybody else does it.' Then he'd shoot a puck along the boards and into the corner and then go chasing after it. Then he'd come back and say, 'Now, this is how the smart player does it.' He'd shoot it into the corner again, only this time he cut across to the other side and picked it up over there. Who says anticipation can't be taught?"


- Wayne Gretzky a.k.a. "The Great One"

What, me worry?

Breaking Bad, yo

"Yeah, Mr. White!  Yeah, science!"


- Pinkman, Breaking Bad

Law: Texas Style

"You may be big, but you wanna see how bad you are?  C'mon!"

Click here to watch how depositions are taken in Texas.