I’m just curious. Is anyone here an anime fan?  Does anyone here even know what anime is?  I always seem to be the only one no matter what group I’m in.  Than again I am one of the biggest cartoon freaks I know, too.  (also one of the biggest dorks :) )  It’s not a bad thing.  In fact, it’s fun to impress (annoy, actually) people on a subject they don’t care about.

Hey Anthony, Your images look great! I like to come back and look through them once and a while and I can deffinately see how your improving.  You’re doing a great job.  I was looking through the most recent ones of whe snow, and I picked the ’Lamppost with Sparkles’ as my favorite, before even noticing that is was one of your favorites...  Good eye.  Don’t let that Iris flare turn you off, It looks great there and it’s great how some of it falls out of focus.  Were taught that people that care about their photos, arent afraid to take risks, and let things out of focus.  Keep up the good work, and keep the images coming.  Happy New Year to all!!

Steve Kancianic
Photography Student
Antonelli Institute

This is so interesting. There are scads of comments but they’re well worth reading.  One interesting thing I came across is the idea that deja vu is the result of your brain "messing up" and simultaneously processing a stream of events as observations and memory.  Deja vu is definitely pretty high on my "things to ask God someday" list.

One of the main debates in the article is the belief that memories cannot form until a person is 3 years old.  I have tons of memories from the house that I lived in for most of my pre-5-years-old life, but as I sit here and think, I can’t think of any that are definitely before age 3.  That’s just me, though, I’m not saying that proves/disproves anything about that concept.

All theorizing aside, I do enjoy the article just to read the memories that people share.

so... yeah... I often look back with regret on the example I set for my classmates because I was always behind, and I let school stress me out so much... I’m a bad student and when I could I did the bare minimum of work and slid on through when I deserved to fail, but then it got tough and I had to try to learn to work hard... after year 2 of engineering school.
I never had time to study I was so busy doing homework and not sleeping and still trying to be as active as possible with His House Christian Fellowship and just working very hard at school... still I was behind and learned very little; I guess I’m slow. Sometimes I was at fault, and still I managed to get slightly higher grade than I thought, or pass when I should have failed, and I often wondered why God let me pass, believe it or not.  It would have been good for me in a way to fail, give me a chance to actually learn the material and become more humble.
And then I thought I’d study really hard for the Fundamentals of Engineering exam, and relearn and learn some stuff for the first time.  But I didn’t; I was lazy.  I took the FE, and it was a horrible 8 hour exam in which I frantically tried to come up with answers to things I just plain didn’t know.  By the way, the exam is multiple choice.  So anyway, I left knowing I would fail this time, and have wasted the $100.  I had learned a lesson.  Wait there’s more!!!  I got the results this week, and I passed!!!!!!  I cannot fathom God’s reasoning behind letting me remain so incompetent!!

when did I say that thing about me and things moving. I cant believe I said that.  that’s powerful!

I love Bob Whitaker. I love him because he speaks the truth about issues, with absolutely zero regard for what’s politically correct.

"...From then until 1980 Republicans stuck to the middle of the road strategy, half liberal silliness and half a rejection of liberal silliness.  If you say "middle of the road" it sounds really Shrewd.  If you say it as I just said it, "half liberal silliness and half a rejection of liberal silliness," you get a realistic view of what moderation really is.  This so-called "moderation" doesn’t work in real world politics.  If you look at the real congress and the real legislature where people are really elected, they tend to be on the right or on the left.  Those who preach moderation never look at the real world.  They just kept mumbling "middle of the road"... Liberalism does not work.  Moderation does not work because it takes liberalism seriously.  To be a moron is forgivable.  To deliberately be half a moron is true insanity.  To be a Moderate is to be a half moron on purpose."

My life is perfect,
because I accept it as it is.
- Lenny Kravitz