socks

DAMM! that Satan!!!! The Amazing Sea Monkeys will prevail!!!

In line, in line, it's all in a line. My ducks are all in a row.

They do not change, they do not move. They have nowhere to go.

James Taylor

OH man! You gotta put that back up. THAT'S news we can use!!!

In line, in line, it's all in a line. My ducks are all in a row.

They do not change, they do not move. They have nowhere to go.

James Taylor

Motto of the Amazing Sea Monkeys!:

"Life is short. Swim!! Swim!!"

In line, in line, it's all in a line. My ducks are all in a row.

They do not change, they do not move. They have nowhere to go.

James Taylor

haaaa! I am laughing most of my @#$ off!

excathedra, it's all good with the Amazing Sea Monkeys! They love Sea Horses! They're all about love, they're little love monkeys!

Before Blue Oyster Cult ripped it off, there was a song titled "Don't fear the Amazing Sea Monkeys! GREAT TUNE!

In line, in line, it's all in a line. My ducks are all in a row.

They do not change, they do not move. They have nowhere to go.

James Taylor

I don't have any friends when it comes to Amazing Sea Monkeys - that's for sure.

In line, in line, it's all in a line. My ducks are all in a row.

They do not change, they do not move. They have nowhere to go.

James Taylor

I read in "The Austrian Tuber" that Arnold Scharzenneger dreamed as a child of coming to America...just so that he could have Amazing Sea Monkeys! He credits watching Amazing Sea Monkeys! in action for hours and hours as the reason he went in to weight lifting to begin with. He wanted to be strong and beautiful just like his Amazing Sea Monkeys!

In line, in line, it's all in a line. My ducks are all in a row.

They do not change, they do not move. They have nowhere to go.

James Taylor

I read that Tolkien got the idea for the Hobbits in Lord of the Rings after seeing his daughters Amazing Sea Monkeys! and that the ring was patterned after a little hoop they had in the bowl that the Amazing Sea Monkeys!would swim through! COOL!

In line, in line, it's all in a line. My ducks are all in a row.

They do not change, they do not move. They have nowhere to go.

James Taylor

Hmmm...speaking of Martians, Mr. P-Mosh-an interesting article that tells me are not...alone...

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LOUISVILLE, KY, January 15, 2004 - Long John Silver’s announced today that it will give America free Giant Shrimp if NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover project finds conclusive evidence of an ocean on Mars by February 29, 2004. The out-of-this-world offer from the world’s most popular seafood chain celebrates NASA’s efforts to find traces of ocean water—and possibly, evidence of life—on Mars.

Steve Davis, President of Long John Silver’s, Inc., and A&W Restaurants, Inc. sent a letter to NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe, expressing support for NASA’s efforts to find conclusive evidence of an ocean on Mars. In addition, Davis announced plans to provide free Giant Shrimp to America if conclusive evidence of an ocean is found.

“We have closely followed NASA’s recent exploration of Mars and all of us are rooting you on to find ocean water on the Red Planet,” Davis wrote. “The ‘Free Giant Shrimp’ offer is our way of saying NASA’s exploration of Mars and the discovery of ocean water would be ‘one small step for man, one giant leap for seafood.’”

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In line, in line, it's all in a line. My ducks are all in a row.

They do not change, they do not move. They have nowhere to go.

James Taylor

Brine Shrimp books! Earthlings good!

For our viewing pleasure, the lifecycle of the Sea Monkey. From babe to OLM, in 3 phases...

In line, in line, it's all in a line. My ducks are all in a row.

They do not change, they do not move. They have nowhere to go.

James Taylor

[This message was edited by socks on March 02, 2004 at 1:06.]

The Spirulina ?writings, found under the long lost city of Atlantis?

In line, in line, it's all in a line. My ducks are all in a row.

They do not change, they do not move. They have nowhere to go.

James Taylor

The few, the proud, the forgetful...

OLM's.

In line, in line, it's all in a line. My ducks are all in a row.

They do not change, they do not move. They have nowhere to go.

James Taylor

WOW. Bluzeman, you were there in the "good old days"! Before the rules, the regimentation. Cool. That's when a monkey could really be a monkey.

There was some good music then, too, not this programmed stuff. "Good Monkeys", "Joyful Monkeys", "Pressed Brine, Shaken Together and Running Over". (PBSTRO)

In line, in line, it's all in a line. My ducks are all in a row.

They do not change, they do not move. They have nowhere to go.

James Taylor

AWEsome! You're going to do well. I can see that being a good seller on the west coast.

We looked at some bedding at one point last year that seems like it was that label. Niiiiiice sheets. Sounds like you've got a match made in hay-ven.

In line, in line, it's all in a line. My ducks are all in a row.

They do not change, they do not move. They have nowhere to go.

James Taylor

I'm an OLM!!! :)-->

Tom, I've been diggin' the sea monkey's since childhood. On the back cover of the old DC comics, they'd have ads for these cool lookning "Sea Monkeys"! and I of course ordered them at one point. I got a little bottle of what looked like brown dandruff. Brine shrimp!! They turned out to be pretty cool.

I too have grown them, off and on, to feed my tropical fish. They're pretty cool. I don't know the shelf life, but my impression is they remain dormant for years. Just add water. VOILA!!! Sea Dawgies!

In line, in line, it's all in a line. My ducks are all in a row.

They do not change, they do not move. They have nowhere to go.

James Taylor

Sweet! Sounds good. What kind of business are you in, if you don't mind me asking? If you've mentioned it and I missed it, apologies. Don't know much about any of the area, but sounds like it's a good opportunity for you.

Norcal's a nice place, but it's getting more and more expensive to live here. We've got things locked down expense wise as much as we can but man, the real estate has sky rocketed over the last 10 -15 years. Guess it's that way everywhere though.

In line, in line, it's all in a line. My ducks are all in a row.

They do not change, they do not move. They have nowhere to go.

James Taylor

THIS El Monte?

Looks like a nice area. Best wishes from an hour north of San Francisco. :)-->

In line, in line, it's all in a line. My ducks are all in a row.

They do not change, they do not move. They have nowhere to go.

James Taylor

ex10, my wifester wore that outfit. She looks GREAT in plaid, pleated skirts. :D--> Just can't get her to wear them anymore! (she'd whack me for saying that, I'm sure!)

Incense, yup. I remember carrying that incense thingie up and down the aisles. Rather medieval, the pomp and ceremony. I don't miss any of it. But the churches are beautiful, if you get rid of the weird statues staring at you. Spooky!

In line, in line, it's all in a line. My ducks are all in a row.

They do not change, they do not move. They have nowhere to go.

James Taylor

Dot, this may be why Gibson made the movie-

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I felt so badly for him I wanted to yell at the screen, "STOP beating him!"

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That reaction must have been exactly what His disciples felt at the time. It's all come to this? STOP!!! HE DOESN'T DESERVE THIS!

Dunno. I keep hearing so many different reactions from people. I don't know if this is how Gibson intended it, but it's causing people to examine what they think about Jesus Christ. People that normally don't talk about going to church or their religion where I work are saying stuff like "but there's more to it than that". Interesting.

In line, in line, it's all in a line. My ducks are all in a row.

They do not change, they do not move. They have nowhere to go.

James Taylor

Yes, S' ter! :)-->

When I read Gibson's a Catholic, it clicked for me. He's a member of a church that refutes the stands taken by Vatican ll, a papal council that met in 1962/63. (I think it spanned the end of 62 and in to 63) You can read some of the documents from it HERE, and click on Vatican II. I was 12 at the time, at the tail end of my Catholic education and was only marginally aware of the stir it caused. In high school, I was taught for two years by Catholic priests and brothers, and they discussed it in "religion" classes. Most of my teachers were pro everything that came of it, of course, it was "the Pope" talkin'.

ex10, I do remember all of the years of having it drummed in us to "offer up" this pain, that problem. The nun who'd make us errant stoodents kneel next to her desk and pray the rosary for seemingly hours as penance. Suffering's good for the soul, boy! Pray! Offer it up!

The stations of the Cross. I was an active alter boy for a couple years. That ceremony was a long one, moving up and down the aisles and stopping at each "station" depicted in our church along the walls, to recognize a different point of Christ's suffering. You can read an English version HERE. In the 50's and early 60's anyway, they were all in Latin though. I can still remember the church in the afternoon, sunlight streaming through the stained glass windows. Uh oh. Had a "catholic moment" there. :)--> Back to topic.

In line, in line, it's all in a line. My ducks are all in a row.

They do not change, they do not move. They have nowhere to go.

James Taylor

My daughter and some friends saw it a night ago. It made an impression on her. She said they all went out for coffee after and talked about it. They're late teens, 20 or so, that age. She described the theater audience.

She said the movie ends with a scene - Raf, I won't quite spoil it, but we DO know how the story ends.... She said that little piece, after the whole movie, just knocked the whole audience back, like WHOA. She was expecting something, something different, but when it got there, it was still moving, maybe more than a big drawn out scene.

She said her little group all had the same reaction. I guess Gibson crafted it in differently than might be expected. But she said "the ending" was almost ethereal by being so matter of fact and understated.

-I wanted to add, that ending may be the "genius" of Gibson's movie. Because the resurrection was an event, real people, real stuff and as real as his death. Where is he, where'd you put him??? Looking for him and bang. He's not there and it all starts to come back, joy out of grief, presence out of loss. A transcendent moment if ever there was one.

She's and her friends have seen some movies that are slasher types, like the remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and it had a nasty effect on her. I actually had to show her on the internet that TCM didn't really happen, that it's a myth that's built up around the whole movie. Although The Passion had a powerful effect on her and her friends, she wasn't freaked out. Hers and the others reaction was much different. That really impressed me.

In line, in line, it's all in a line. My ducks are all in a row.

They do not change, they do not move. They have nowhere to go.

James Taylor

[This message was edited by socks on February 29, 2004 at 15:45.]

[This message was edited by socks on February 29, 2004 at 15:46.]

Nice looking ride, Chas. I have that same processor speed in 2 Dell's I got around Christmas, one for me, one one my son got, both with 512k memory. He's heavy on gaming and music, runs like a clock for his stuff. I'm running some digital audio programs, Photoshop 6 abd 7, Dreamweaver MX, MSSQL server and SQL and Access database app's. Scanner and digital photo uploads. I'm very happy with the results. (you probably already know this, but if you use Photoshop, I've found it helps a LOT to set Preferences and designate the amount of RAM you want to use. I think it defaults to 50%, which usually works good but when I'm doing a lot of image work, I'll crank it up to 60% and I always start Photoshop first so it can get what it needs.)

Flat screens - great space savers. I have one, and it cleaned up the desk immediately.

The larger hard drives, non-partitioned, are good. One C drive is perfect.

Just remember to run XP's defrag program regularly to keep things in order and it will keep your speed up. I do it weekly.

These last two are Dell's and I'm very pleased. I've already added an additional CD burner, and a wireless network and they're very easy to do upgrades to. I got Linksys Wireless 2.4 router and receiver and the setup was fast, and so far have been dependable. Cheap too, after rebates the whole setup for two PC's ran about 125 bucks.

In line, in line, it's all in a line. My ducks are all in a row.

They do not change, they do not move. They have nowhere to go.

James Taylor

Well, thanks Tom, likewise. And that would be nice.

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The rusted chains of prison moons

Are shattered by the sun.

I walk a road, horizons change

The tournament's begun.

The purple piper plays his tune,

The choir softly sing;

Three lullabies in an ancient tongue,

For the court of the crimson king.

;)-->

In line, in line, it's all in a line. My ducks are all in a row.

They do not change, they do not move. They have nowhere to go.

James Taylor

:)-->

Jesus Christ - The Window Cleaner. :)-->

In line, in line, it's all in a line. My ducks are all in a row.

They do not change, they do not move. They have nowhere to go.

James Taylor

Sweet. :)-->

In line, in line, it's all in a line. My ducks are all in a row.

They do not change, they do not move. They have nowhere to go.

James Taylor

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Cocks-

"Galen, TWI may have been a fledgling at abuse. My wife says we left before they had a chance to be really mean to us. (she's a very forgiving woman) I say, we left before I had a chance to be really mean to them. But that's just me. It was better to walk away."

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My new login name!

I hear ya. He might have been getting tired of kicking my butt, so He just gave it one last good one. :)-->

To be perfectly honest what began my planned exit was mistreatment of my wife - a deliberate, prideful and malicious attempt to belittle and hurt her. And she was hurt by the incident, face to face with people we once considered friends - "leaders" in the Way. You could say I got a little peeved. Words were exchanged. And that was that. It was the last time we ever went to New Knoxville.

After that I started a full time job with a new company, worked my *** off to get a promotion and in 3 months did, leading to a move. The first step out. We started over in a new community with a twig and I began to decompress my way out of the Way. My wife forgave. I did too, but committed to working my way out of mental and spiritual dependency on the Way for both of us. About 3 years later POP hit the ministry, but it was like a flat tire finally peeling off it's hub. It only showed openly, finally, how destitute the Way was. Between Geer and the Trustees, they all got what they earned. God does make a way when there seems to be no way. They had each other for breakfast.

***Edited to keep it clean*** :D-->

In line, in line, it's all in a line. My ducks are all in a row.

They do not change, they do not move. They have nowhere to go.

James Taylor

[This message was edited by socks on February 26, 2004 at 1:39.]