“You love it, you live for it, you were born to do it. I’m the same way. Everybody tells me to get a live although I don’t know why. I find life to be terribly over rated. It’s actually quite boring when its not disappointing. Say what you will about what we do but boring it is not.” +Lou, The West Wing Season 7 Episode 19.
QUOTE :: if I'm going to jump off the cliff and you're going to get pushed off the cliff, why don't we hold hands on the way down?
If I’m going to jump off the cliff and you’re going to get pushed off the cliff, why don’t we hold hands on the way down? + Danny Kincaid , The West Wing Season 7, Episode 11.
Copied transcript from here :
“I’m sorry about the other night.”
“Why?”
“Because, I was behaving like the type-A, career woman, freak automaton that I so very much do not what to become.”
“Please.”
“I wanted to see you— And I haven’t felt that in a long time and I just got all awkward and antagonistic…. But don’t get me wrong: I don’t want to see you again until after the inauguration.”
“You won’t have to.”
“I want to do my job. I want to suck every morsel of meat off this experience before it’s over….”
“That was an attempt at a real date the other night.”
“And this?”
“Another attempt. Hey, if I’d have wanted to publish that story, I wouldn’t have given you the heads-up. I can’t write that kind of crap anymore. I don’t— I don’t even know if I want to be a reporter anymore.”
“Really?”
“Doug Westin’s libido broke the camel’s back.”
“What do you want to do?”
“I don’t know. Can I ask you something?”
“Yeah.”
“Why’d you come here tonight?”
“Because you made me promise to.”
“Why’d you come?”
“I wanted to see you….”
“Uh, I’m flying a little blind here. I’m halfway through my life and I’m never quite sure if I’m doing anything right until I’m completely done doing it wrong….”
“So this may come out wrong.”
“I forgive you.”
“Incrementalism is not an option. Forced into a heroic posture.”
“Heroic can be good.”
“Feels funny.”
“You can do it.”
“Uh, we’re both about to fall of a cliff and I don’t know what I’m going to do with the rest of my life except I know what I don’t want to do. And on Inauguration Day you’re going to be released from that glorious prison on Pennsylvania Avenue with…. So, if I’m going to jump off the cliff and you’re going to get pushed off the cliff, why don’t we hold hands on the way down?”
C.J.’s pager goes off. “Oh, my God. Oh, my God.”
“You okay?”
“…I have to go.”
“Okay.”
“I have to go.”
“Go, go.”
This was an excellent episode, it shows why the chief of staff is known as the little president.
Investments :: Stocks :: Week 2
Been in the market for two weeks now.
Bought GMA7 and MPI.
MPI up 7.83% 3.80 -> 4.11
GMA7 down 3.83% 7.4 -> 7.12
Because I have no plans on actively trading; these positions were from 3 trades, I expect to re-up my cash holdings by next payday and try to find more buying opportunities with an expected holding period of at least 6 months.
I’ve been looking at TOL but nobody is selling at a price I life.
rePost :: Firefighters watch a house burn down over fees… pathetic::Think Progress » Tennessee County’s Subscription-Based Firefighters Watch As Family Home Burns Down
The conservative vision was on full display last week in Obion County, Tennessee. In this rural section of Tennessee, Gene Cranick’s home caught on fire. As the Cranicks fled their home, their neighbors alerted the county’s firefighters, who soon arrived at the scene. Yet when the firefighters arrived, they refused to put out the fire, saying that the family failed to pay the annual subscription fee to the fire department. Because the county’s fire services for rural residences is based on household subscription fees, the firefighters, fully equipped to help the Cranicks, stood by and watched as the home burned to the ground:
Imagine your home catches fire but the local fire department won’t respond, then watches it burn. That’s exactly what happened to a local family tonight. A local neighborhood is furious after firefighters watched as an Obion County, Tennessee, home burned to the ground.
via Think Progress » Tennessee County’s Subscription-Based Firefighters Watch As Family Home Burns Down.
rePost :: :: Joker gives Aquino 'high marks' on his first 100 days
I was beginning to lose hope on Joker, he seemed to have slowly become an apologist for the previous administration and a hindrance to the present administration. I have not changed my mind on Joker being an apologist for GMA. I have started to see Joker Arroyo as a stern headmaster, hard to please but still means well. He may seldom have good words towards President Noynoy, but he means well.
Joker gives Aquino ‘high marks’ on his first 100 days
10/05/2010 | 04:26 PM
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A senator who is a known critic of the current administration has surprisingly praised President Benigno Simeon Aquino III for his supposedly “good” performance in his first 100 days in office.
“Notwithstanding the inadequacies and the unimpressive performance of the President’s ministers, President Aquino unqualifiedly deserves high marks because the enormous trust and faith of the people in him remains steadfast and unwavering,” Senator Joker Arroyo said in an interview.
“That is something. This is, after all, true measure of leadership, this augurs well for the country,” added Arroyo, who served as executive secretary during the early years of the incumbency of Aquino’s late mother, President Corazon Aquino.
via Joker gives Aquino ‘high marks’ on his first 100 days.
Quote :: not concentrate upon your ending, but rather – :: Harry says Mark Romanek's NEVER LET ME GO is truly Fantastic! — Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
In many ways the lesson of the film is to not concentrate upon your ending, but rather – focus upon the life you are living. And that’s outstanding.
via Harry says Mark Romanek’s NEVER LET ME GO is truly Fantastic! — Ain’t It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news..
I’ve always had this tension with the remembering and the experiencing self.
those two selves are explained here in this TED talk by Dan Kahnemann on those concepts.
I’ve always tried to optimize towards the experiencing self. I’ve not made up my mind if what I’m doing is correct.
Groundhog Day ramblings
Whatever happens tomorrow, or for the rest of my life, I’m happy now… because I love you. -Phil Connors
I don’t know what to make of this film. I’ve caught parts of it in HBO but was only able to really watch it now.
I don’t know what to say, the last time I felt like this was when I watched Up, but this was a far more uplifting experience probably because the film is so thought provoking in the what would I do if it was me type of fantasy.
Have to write this down before it escapes me.
-Andie Mcdowell is perfect for this role, not too hot for us to get distracted but not to homely for us to not care whether Bill Murray and her get together.
-How about that a multitude of ways to interpret, and the different iterations where masterfully executed.
-The bit about him mastering everything that goes down, even to the level of detail of when a gust goes by.
-The bit about the first thing that happens after he is trapped in this daily replay loop is to mope around think there is something wrong with him.
“PHIL: It’s the same thing your whole life.Clean up your room! Stand up straight! Pick up your feet!Take it like a man! Be nice to your sister! Don’t mix beer and wine, ever! Don’t drive on the railroad tracks!”
GUS: That’s one I agree with.
later on
PHIL: I’m not going to live by their rules anymore!
GUS: I noticed that.
PHIL: You make choices and you live with them.
-The bit about the second thing that thinks to do is to act like a person who does not care for rules and other restrictions, even going into a monologue about
-The bit about dying and the which started with the car chase and eventually turned into a series of suicide tries where exquisite and thoughtful.
-The bit about the old man dying and resulting to him trying to save the old man and everybody else.
-The bit about him learning stuff and improving himself, finally learning to love (I was trying to type live but love would also do here).
This film is definitely on the will forever stay with me category.
Phil : What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?
Ralph:That about sums it up for me.
Quote: A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. Action expresses priorities. An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. -Gandhi
Quote: A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. Action expresses priorities. An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. -Gandhi
In Randy Paush’s book he gives advice to his daughter, judge what they do not what they say. I believe we should also apply this to our lives. Do you say you want something? Want to learn a new skill ? Learn to dance or sing? Have your own business? Well stop saying and start doing. If you aren’t doing anything you really don’t.
rePost:: ::{caffeine_sparks}: "On Carlos Celdran's Arrest" by Mahar Abrera Mangahas
I believe in what Mahar Mangahas is saying. I still believe that God exists, but I also believe that we exist in a democracy where ideas must be allowed to live or die, we just wont have that if the rules are different against Islamic Fundamentalist, Christian Fundamentalist and all the the other types of Fundamentalist. If this is how it is supposed to be lets just redistribute the world between all these groups and see who dies because of collective stupidity,overpopulation, selective belief in science and infighting .
Some have commented that Celdran deserves his punishment because what he did was offensive—that certain places are special and thus should be immune to an individual’s demonstration of his politics. A church, some argue, is not the place where politics should happen. Never mind that it too is very much a public space. (Which, seeing that it’s not taxed, is indirectly subsidized by the government.)
The thing is, what makes a church special? Because we believe it is? Because it was consecrated? Sanctified?
The truth is it’s just a pile of cement which has become special because people just say it’s so. Dangerously, the idea that this space is special has given its occupants more armor against criticism. The Church has shown it is willing to engage in public demonstrations against government—in fact, that’s part of its threat to oppose reproductive health bills—but apparently, for a citizen to show displeasure in a creative manner at a church is forbidden because it just isn’t done.
This is foolish. No edifice should be allowed to isolate and protect people, notably leaders, religious or not, from the very criticism that we deserve and have the right to deliver. Various pulpits across the country have been used as platforms against government, individuals and philosophies present in society. The difference is we are vulnerable to the Church wherever we might state our issues against them, as they are allowed to entreat their followers to harass officials at the gates and shout down public meetings from the rafters. Yet they are the privileged who can retreat to their sacred spaces and continue to deliver the worst of the their messages with relative impunity.
via {caffeine_sparks}: “On Carlos Celdran’s Arrest” by Mahar Abrera Mangahas.
15 Films
- Casablanca
- Synecdoche NY
- Karate Kid ( the original and the remake)
- Notting Hill
- Love Story
- Fight Club
- Start Wars
- Nausicaa
- Ikiri (To Live)
- Lucia Y’ El Sexo (Lucia and Sex)
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Before Sunset
- The Hours
- Its A Wonderful Life
- The Matrix