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Open Diary - Graffiti Forensics http://www.opendiary.com/entrylist.asp?authorcode=D735303 Graffiti Forensics drunk texting http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D735303&entry=10866 http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D735303&entry=10866 Ever hear of 'drunk dialing'? Whereas someone who is drunk makes phone calls to people in the middle of the night. Ideally, they know these people. But we cannot assure you this is always the case. I've seen someone do drunk texting more than once. Same person. If I see them starting to text, I have to warn them .... I ask, &quot;you're not going to do drunk texting are you?&quot; But there is no stopping them. Unless you hide the phone and they go crazy searching for it, they will be lost in drunk texting for an indefinite period of wasted time. When&nbsp;they get sucked into the phone and become tiny&nbsp;people on an amazing voyage, something else has happened. It goes deeper than drinking. ( most wild animals are far away in woods and jungles and mountains. I can feel relaxed&nbsp;by their wildness being so distant from me. I mean, no bobcat eating the cat food at night .... no bears in the trash cans .... no eagles&nbsp;snatching&nbsp;babies from the park) I don't recommend drunk texting to anyone. I warn about it. People are TYPING&nbsp;NONSENSE&nbsp;FOR&nbsp;HOURS! SENDING&nbsp;CHAPTERS&nbsp;OF&nbsp;REPLIES! ......&nbsp;Zeus, please? Set forth your power to help these people. .... lightning bolt sound. <img alt="" src="http://reasonswhyimstillsingle.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/drunk-texting1.jpg" /> <img alt="" src="http://static2.beanscdn.co.uk/modules/ems-v2/article/featured/drunk_texting.jpg.jpg" /> <img alt="" src="http://msstephaniebrown.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/drunk-text2.jpg" /> Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT music I listened to today http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D735303&entry=10865 http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D735303&entry=10865 Music I listened to today: Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love .... Van Halen Mean Street .................... Van Halen Walk ............................... Pantera Rumour Has It ................. Adele Blue Collar Man ............... Styx Joe Satriani ..................... Unstoppable Momentum&nbsp; Keep Away ...................... Godsmack Sick of Life ...................... Godsmack Back in the Saddle ........... Aerosmith You're&nbsp;Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave) ......... George Jones Big City ............................ Merle Haggard Voices .............................&nbsp;Disturbed Ready to Go .................... Republica Bitch ................................ Republica Drop Dead Gorgeous ....... Republica Feel Good Inc .................. Gorillaz Clint Eastwood .................&nbsp;Gorillaz 911 is a Joke ................... Public Enemy Television, The Drug of the Nation ...... The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy &nbsp; Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Big 'Ole Washington, DC http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D735303&entry=10864 http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D735303&entry=10864 Washington, DC ... to anyone who has ever spent some time in the place .... well, it's got some big presence. The buildings are big, some of the memorials are enormous, and the egos are huge. I paid a visit to DC recently. Saw big 'ole Abe at his memorial. Saw big 'ole Washington Monument and big 'ole Smithsonian. The place is a tourist blockbuster of sites. Vast and expansive. But I was spared the big 'ole egos I see on TV so often. Very appreciative. <img alt="" src="http://symonsez.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/lincoln-memorial.jpg" /> Sun, 5 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT The Way We Were http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D735303&entry=10863 http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D735303&entry=10863 In 1973 one of the greatest romance dramas in film history was released and was titled <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_We_Were">The Way We Were</a>. It starred Barbara Streisand and Robert Redford. To add to the popularity was a hit song sung by Streisand that shared the same title. The song remained on the Billboard&nbsp;Hot 100 for 23 weeks and sold over 1 million copies.&nbsp;The movie was nominated for several Academy Awards. I heard that song today and it has been a while. It reminded me of those moments between a couple that makes them close. All the fun times and happy times ... the caring times. And sure .. for many of us Americans, that all becomes dust in the wind and fades into a forgotten past. But songs like The Way We Were must have that power to bring one back to those times when innocence was shared between two people, and life was beautiful. This is always a special thing that two people can share together. The words to the song go as follows .... Mem'ries, Like the corners of my mind Misty water-colored memories Of the way we were Scattered pictures, Of the smiles we left behind Smiles we gave to one another For the way we were Can it be that it was all so simple then? Or has time re-written every line? If we had the chance to do it all again Tell me, would we? could we? Mem'ries,may be beautiful and yet What's too painful to remember We simply choose to forget So it's the laughter We will remember Whenever we remember... The way we were... The way we were... People change. Some people become weak and some people become strong. People have their own paths to follow, however&nbsp;lost they may become. We cannot always save others .. in fact, it is hard at times to save ourselves. All of us were children once. This is the way we all were .... once upon a time. <img alt="" src="http://www.jbreck.com/waywewerecover.jpg" /> &nbsp; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Screwing with numbers is planned to lift economy http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D735303&entry=10862 http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D735303&entry=10862 I find it amazing that when it is convenient to do so, the math used to come to certain economic indicators ..well, they just change the math! In other words, if A+B once equaled C, they will be changing it to D+E now equals Q. Isn't it amazing! &quot;The US economy will officially become 3 per cent bigger in July as part of a shake-up that will see government statistics take into account 21st century components such as film royalties and spending on research and development. Billions of dollars of intangible assets will enter the gross domestic product of the world&rsquo;s largest economy in a revision aimed at capturing the changing nature of US output. Brent Moulton, who manages the national accounts at the Bureau of Economic Analysis, told the Financial Times that the update was the biggest since computer software was added to the accounts in 1999. 'We are carrying these major changes all the way back in time &ndash; which for us means to 1929 &ndash; so we are essentially rewriting economic history,' said Mr Moulton. The changes will affect everything from the measured GDP of different US states to the stability of the inflation measure targeted by the Federal Reserve. They will force economists to revisit policy debates about everything from corporate profits to the causes of economic growth.&quot; As reported at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/52d23fa6-aa98-11e2-bc0d-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2RBypWSuL">FinancialTimes.com</a>, some genius decided that if the U.S. economy cannot become genuinely better, all they have to do is change the math to a formula that MAKES it look better. &quot;The revision, equivalent to adding a country as big as Belgium to the estimated size of the world economy, will make the US one of the first adopters of a new international standard for GDP accounting. 'We&rsquo;re capitalising research and development and also this category referred to as entertainment, literary and artistic originals, which would be things like motion picture originals, long-lasting television programmes, books and sound recordings,' said Mr Moulton. At present, R&amp;D counts as a cost of doing business, so the final output of Apple iPads is included in GDP but the research done to create them is not. R&amp;D will now count as an investment, adding a bit more than 2 per cent to the measured size of the economy. GDP will soar in small states that host a lot of military R&amp;D, but barely change in others, widening measured income gaps across the US. R&amp;D is expected to boost the GDP of New Mexico by 10 per cent and Maryland by 6 per cent while Louisiana will see an increase of just 0.6 per cent. Creative works are expected to add a further 0.5 per cent to the overall size of the US economy. Around one-third of that will come from movies, one-third from TV programmes, and one-third from books, music and theatre.&quot; Maybe they just screwed up all these years and cheated our economic numbers. Maybe now they are getting it right. Just maybe. &nbsp; Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT