It's too late now...

You promised...

""This is the last correspondence. Don't worry, you'll never hear from me again.""


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Why Did You Come Back

The room where our love seems to ring
And the voes that exist always sting
Remembering the stairs with poems on the wall
Well I've awoken to the sound of your voice
But love, love is not trying to make a choice
Love is dilemma for the touch of Hallelujah

You have gone and don't want to take me
Should I get on my knee and make a plea
Remember the Linden trees that we shared
And I look at the dawn in total despair
But love is not some memory to repair
No, it's a padded room where I recall Hallelujah

Baby is this love that I am feeling
Dawn shined it's answer. No, it was reveling
But you know I have been feeling it don't ya
We sat in the place where the leaves fall
I don't remember that my back was on the wall
The graffiti there resonated the word Hallelujah

We have parted ways with some broken promise
Now I live my life devoid of her and powerless
You felt the warmth as we embraced didn't ya
Do we have the strength to see the light of day
No, it's how were needing god's help to pray
Kneeling and whispering, my lips shout Hallelujah

I was the stand in on his absent behalf
I made you cry and then I made ya laugh
All cuz' I used to tell myself those lies
I slept in the comfortable bed we keep
But love is not a goodnight before sleep
Nor is it a clogged and snoring couch of Hallelujah

The thought of you all through the night
Dawn of morning. It creeps on through.
Blinking, in bed, naked cuz' we did not sleep
The hangover of loneliness stays in my head
But love is not a drink next to the fire
No it's cold beers and smokes in a bar called Hallelujah

Baby I have lived my life on my knees
And while I was battered you head my pleas
But all he gave ya was bag of cheap gold coins
Yeah, We know all the good things we've done
But love is not trophy to be outdone
It's a beat up shoe, on display full of Hallelujah

Is the love we lived filled with empty lies?
I loved this girl much to her surprise
And since he had to ask you why I chose ya
I told ya, love isn't some perfect picture
Or the beauty described in scripture
No it is the flawed reality of Hallelujah

This smoke and this booze fills my soul
Still I consume them just to loose control
Yeah, the silence of the loud music plays on
The bodies dance. The party goes for an up swing
But this love is not something I can sing
It's only real while we are alone with Hallelujah

Drinking vodka to heal the emotional scab
Who can I get to be nice and pick up the tab
I hide somethings in the Ice Age of my heart
I wanted to love you fair and true always
But there was too much lust in those dusty hallways
And now I am alone, in pain, with a poem named Hallelujah

--Thank you for the concept Leonard so I can make this original poem...


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The Truth About Water

America has this weird drinking problem. There are those in America that walk into the kitchen and look at the faucet, and then they walk into the bathroom and once again look at the faucet and think to themselves, "Instead of using the water on hand... let us buy some." According to the Earth Policy Institute report Americans drank more than 7 billion gallons of bottled water in 2004. The world wide consumption of bottled water has doubled in the last six years. To ship all the bottled water need for a year the water producing countries spend 1.5 billion barrels of oil, that is enough to 100,000 cars for the same year. Worldwide, some 2.7 million tons of plastic are used to bottle water each year. According to the Container Recycling Institute, 86 percent of plastic water bottles used in the United States become garbage or litter.

Any one who has ever been to Central Park on a hot day will notice how many plastic bottles end up in the garbage. Unlike soda cans, there is no incentive for the homeless (or to be more politically correct, habitat-and-hygienically-impaired) to take them out of the garbage to recycle them. Every plastic bottle takes 1,000 years to biodegrade.

When someone looks at the price of a bottle of water the numbers are rather alarming. At this point I would like to mention that there was extensive research to come up with the following numbers. By extensive I mean I went next door from the bank and asked the cashier of the deli. I just pointed at each bottle of water and asked what the price was. A 1.5 pint bottle of Poland Spring water costs $2.75. If you do the calculations a gallon of the same water will cost you $7.34. Now that is Poland Spring. If you buy Evian the numbers become even more absurd. That same bottle of water now costs you $7.60. While everyone goes crazy when the price of gas goes up 10 cents they seem not to care when they are buying water. If you were to buy a 1 quart bottle of Evian the price per gallon goes up. If you buy a gallon of Evian water one quart at a time you will spend $9.00 for a gallon.

Imagine this conversation... You know what would be a great thing to sell to the American public. Water! Yes, I know that they can get the stuff for free but I still think that it is a really good idea. Then on top of all that, suddenly the doctors start giving out in their minimum daily nutritional value opinions. Suddenly doctors state that every one must have eight 8oz. cups of water. Thats $9.00 dollars worth of water. Imagine if you live somewhere thats hot. You might as well invest in an underground river.

Why does the American public seem to want to import all of this water? In chemical and taste test it has been proven that bottled water and tap water are almost identical. In a world were a significant part of the populous does not have access to clean drinking water we have to have it trucked to us from thousand miles away. It becomes a gluttonous way of life. It is not more sophisticated to drink bottled water instead of tap. After all what kind of sophistication can you show when you are throwing your empty plastic bottles on the ground. It is true.

The United Nations Millennium Development Goal is a set goal that is trying to reduce the amount of people lacking access to safe driking water in half by the year 2015. The world currently spends $15 billion a year on water supply and sanitation but they spend $100 billion on bottled water so its not really such a big deal.

Why is there such feeling in the public that we can be wasteful with the worlds resources when others are not so fortunate? Why do we Use air-condition in our cars on a perfectly nice day while others are dieing from heat stroke? Why is our country so over weight when we have children in the world that are starving? Why do we demand high speed internet access when others do not have electricity? We have toilets that automatically wash our @$$es and they have no indoor pluming? We have $250.00 shoes abd they use plastic bottles and some string to turn them into sandals.

Time to wake up... I gave up bottled water a long while ago and I do not plan on going back...


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History Over Science

A hundred years ago, as the nineteenth century drew to a close, scientists around the world were satisfied that they had arrived at an accurate picture of the physical world. As physicist Alastair I. M. Ray put it in his book "Quantum Physics: Illusion or Reality?," 'By the end of the nineteenth century, it seemed that the basic fundamental principles governing the behavior of the physical universe were known.' Indeed, many scientists said that the study of physics was nearly completed: no big discoveries remained to be made, only details and finishing touches. But late in the final decade, a few curiosities came to light. Roentgen discovered rays that passed through flesh. Because he could not explain them, he called them X-rays. Two months later, Henri Becquerel accidentally found that a piece of uranium ore emitted something that fogged photographic plates. And the electron, the carrier of electricity, was discovered in 1897.

Yet on the whole, physicists remained calm, expecting that those oddities would eventually be explained by existing theory. No one would have predicted that within five years the complacent view of the world would be shockingly upended, producing an entirely new conception of the universe and entirely new technologies that would transform daily life in the twentieth century in unimaginable ways.

If you had said to a physicist in 1899 that in 1999, a hundred years later, moving images would be transmitted into homes all over the world from satellites in the sky; that bombs of unimaginable power would threaten not merely the human species, but the existence of the world; that antibiotics would abolish infectious disease but disease would fight back; that women would have the vote, and pills to control reproduction; that millions of people would take to the air every hour in aircraft capable of taking off and landing without a human touch; airplanes could cross the Atlantic at 2,000 miles an hour; that humankind would travel to the moon and then lose interest in it; that microscopes would be able to see individual atoms; that people would carry telephones weighing a few ounces and speak anywhere in the world without wires; or that most of those miracles would depend on devices the size of a postage stamp, which operated because of a new theory called quantum mechanics -- if you said all this, the physicist would almost certainly have pronounced you mad.

Most of those developments could not have been predicted in 1899, because prevailing scientific theory said they were impossible. And, for the few developments that were not impossible, such as airplanes, the sheer scale of their eventual use would have defied comprehension. One might have pictured an airplane, but 10,000 airplanes in the air at the same time would have been beyond imagining.

So it is fair to say that even the most informed scientist, standing on the threshold of the twentieth , had no idea what was to come.

Now that we stand on the threshold of the twenty-first century, the situation is oddly similar...

-- Michael Crichton


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Only the first twenty...

If you sneeze and fart at the same time, does a vacuum form in your stomach?
...When you sneeze, it is your lungs that blow the air out. Flatulence comes from your intestinal region. Since they come from two different regions of your body they do not affect each other.

Why does triangularly cut bread taste better than square bread?
...It does not taste better. The only difference is that when a sandwich is cut into a triangle most people will eat it starting at the hypotenuses side of the triangle. Since this side does not have any crust on it most people like that side better. a^2+b^2=delicious.

Does a baby feel the umbilical cord being cut off?
...No it does not. There are no nerve ending in the umbilical cord. That is why the doctor can cauterizing the are when the baby has Umbilical Granuloma. Everyone forgets that the mother is probably relived to get away from the little bastard after nine months.

Is it legal to name your kid "Anonymous"?
...No you can name your kid anything. That is why you can your kid with the suffix "2.0" That's right... Not "II" as in the The Second or "Jr" as in "Junior." There is also some kid out there with the name Espn, as in E.S.P.N.. Cleveland Evans, a professor at Bellevue University, Nebraska, who has studied baby names in the US for 25 years, can tell you some stories.

Why is it that no matter what color of bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?
... There actually is color in the soap bubbles. When an incoming ray of light strikes the outer surface of a bubble, part of the light ray is immediately reflected, while the other part is transmitted into the soap film. After a ray of light reaches the inner surface it is reflected along the same path that it entered. If the crest of the two waves are in sync they will amplify each other in a process called "constructive interference." It is this process that produces the iridescent colors that is seen in bird feathers, insect wings and oil slicks in water puddles.

If you have a pet with 2 heads do you have to name both heads?
...While there are no laws to own a pet suffering from Polycephaly, if would seem like it is just plan weird. There is no need to name both heads because if one of them comes so does the other... If one of them does something wrong the owner does not know which one too punish so they will punish them both. What is the owner going to say to the dog, "Max I am hitting you with the newspaper because you peed on the rug. Now Sam... just turn your head and don't pay attention."

Why can't liquor freeze?
...Everything in the world freezes. Alcohol does not freeze because if has a lower freezing point. Every substance has one. For water it is 0 degrees Celciuos. Most people try to freeze liquor in their home freezer just like they do their Kool-Aid and soda. The ethanol in alcohol generally has a freezing point of about -114 C. Note: Tried to call maytag to ask what the lowest temperature that their home freezers go but I was kept on hold for too long.

If you dig a hole in the south pole are you digging up or down?
...You would be digging down. Directions for something like that are always relative to the person no matter where they are. People judge up and down by determining where the force of gravity is coming from. So if you drop an apple and then proceed to dig in the same direction then you would be digging down. That is why this question does not work China because the term down is used as a relative term.

How come they don't add the time that we are in our mom's to our age?
...Because it would only make the 17 year olds boys happy for a little while so they can get into the porn sites but it would piss the hell of the 39 year old women who can not stand the idea of being forty.

Why do people squint their eyes when they can't see? Wouldn't that just make it less space to see out of?
...No it does not make less space to see out of. That is why you can still see when you frown. You actually only look out of a small point in your eye called the iris.

What is a hacky, and why is it in a sack?
...The word hacky comes from the origin of the game when it was invented in 1972 by John Stalberger and Mike Marshall of Oregon City, Oregon. Stalberger was trying to exercise his knees to recover from surgery. They got a bean bag and decided to call the game "Hackin' the Sack."

Who was in the kitchen with Dina?
...They wanted to to play the banjo for her and since she was in the barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen she was not going anywhere...

Why do we have to pay a toll on "freeways"?
...A freeway is defined as a road where there people merging do not have right of direct access... That is why they have to merge. It was never meant to define a lack of speed limit or it being a toll-free highway.

Why do they call them pepperoni if there is no pepper in it?
...Pepperoni is named after the Italian word for cayenne peppers. Just like salami is named after the Italian word for salt. Pepperoni is actually the plural for peperone. If in Italy do not ask for a pepperoni pizza god knows what you will get but it will not be a vegetable.

How old does something have to be to become an antique?
...Once again antique is a relative term... something has to be retro before it is an antique. That's why people watch "I love the 60's, 70's, and 80's."

Can a school teacher give a homeless child homework?
...If a child is homeless he is not going to bother going to school he is going to look for a place to live first.

Why do they say "an alarm going off," if it is really going on?
...To "go off" is often referred to have something go active... such as a bomb or a telephone. This comes from the old days of telephones when to talk on the phone the handle had to be taken "off hook."

Do babies produce more spit than adults?
...No, but what little spit is produced those little bastards get all over the place so it does not matter.

How come French fries are not considered a vegetable, they are just deep fried potatoes?
...It is still a vegetable. The only difference is that it no longer has the nutritional qualities that a non processed, non-deep fried food would have and that is why it is often regarded as a non-vegetable.

Do cows have calf muscles?
...Yes they do it is just called something else... The gastrocnemius and soleus muscles from the calf muscle. Most people confuse the calf muscle with the first the gastrocnemius muscle because its name is derived from the Greek, gastroknemia, "the belly of the leg" or calf.


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Your Age in Chocolate

Don't tell me your age; you probably would tell a falsehood anyway-but the Hershey Man will know!

1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have chocolate (more than once but less than 10).


2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)


3. Add 5


4. Multiply it by 50 -- I'll wait while you get the calculator


5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1756... If you haven't, add 1755.


6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.


7. You should have a three digit number


8. The first digit of this was your original number (i.e., how! many times you want to have chocolate each week).


9. The next two numbers are YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!!!!!)

This is the only year (2006) it will ever work.

....Zango!

I was surprised to find 2 profiles called "Zango". Both created on the same day and at the same time, one pushed a toolbar and programs designed to "protect kids from predators".


Imagine the scene...you see this profile floating round in mySpace, decide to visit it and a pop-up launches from the mySpace page, prompting you to accept a license to play a video file. If you do, you'll be installing the Zango Search Assistant and Toolbar. Of course, in this scenario, the license agreement makes little sense to the user. It's just some random pop-up, right? If you saw this appear from a "regular" site that installs Zango Adware, then you'd at least have to click a button to bring up the license prompt. You could argue that you knew what you were getting into. On mySpace, the average user is probably going to assume it's "from Tom", and as such is perfectly safe and endorsed by mySpace. A mySpace feature or something.

This is done by pasting the code for the movie file into the mySpace profile and having it autoplay when you visit the page, and have the license prompt appear. Easy as pie. Now, let's think about the core audience here - I have no idea what the concrete figures are like, but mySpace is (or was) all about the kids, right? Minimum age is now 14, their "safety tips" page links to a bunch of sites for online safety. Which just makes the pre-ticked check box for the Zango installer (18 or over) even more ironic and useless than it already is when applied to a landscape like this. Of course, video files that launch Adware aren't a new thing - though creating a distribution method like this is pretty inventive.


A quick scout of the site reveals it to be (what I consider) aimed at kids, or at least, surfers of a younger nature. Yet this particular page signals the arrival of a crushing wave of Zango installs (25 videos are on that one page alone!) Even better, each one proclaims "Add this content to your page!" No doubt eager mySpace users, desperate to have some "killer content" on their sites will eagerly cut and paste this code onto their profiles, unaware that to play these things, you have to install Zango Adware on the viewer's PC.


Oh look, no mention on that page whatsoever that you'll be offering up Adware in return for putting these videos on your site. Congratulations. Looking at his "Partner Sites". "mySpace Videos", they call it. I call it, another site that's pushing a boatload of Zango with no disclosure that the users running this code will be installing Adware from their page.

I'm not providing any "live links" to these sites, because many of them popped up adverts for things such as Errorsafe.



In all cases, I didn't see one site actually mention the fact that in return for these things, you'd be pimping Zango. I just can't see how this is right, but then it's all about the money, yes?

At any rate, the situation is this - set up an affiliate deal with Zango, then systematically create a network of mySpace-themed websites designed to entice users into placing your files onto their mySpace sites. After all, why go to all the trouble of pimping your own videos when you can have random teenagers on mySpace do it for you? Talk about an all time low - an innovative method of distribution, I'll give you that. But it leaves a sour taste in the mouth, all the same.

Now, Myspace doesn't allow you to accept payment from a "third person" in return for you providing any "commercial activity" on or through the mySpace system on behalf of that third-party entity, such as "placing commercial content on your profile". I'm almost certain what's going on here is against the Terms of Service. Hey - I have Tom on my Extended Network. Maybe I'll ask him...!


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