Free Fall

Free Fall

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When You Say

When You Say

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toothpaste tubes

Toothpaste

Originally uploaded by James Almeida

This morning the toothpaste tubes
were fornicating.
Clamped in a sticky embrace, and
creased
at the
caps.

They sunk into my soft palms:
crinkled, embarrassed, and naked.
It was a first.

The window dew heavy with sex,
my toothbrush a slender finger,
two shower taps turned tempting,
and it would never be the same.

In the bathroom this morning
The toothpaste tubes set it off.
They never let go after the first
kiss

A zip flew down, the first domino
dived, a buckle blew off, the symphony
started

my hand was stained with
toothpaste.

self Portrait titled: New Hairz

new hairz

Originally uploaded by Zlarcae

Another interesting image from my browsing on Flickr today…

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1000 yard stare

Vittoria

Originally uploaded by .unsuono.

Wow what an expression, I was quite taken back but by photo, truly haunting!

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Through the sunshine

Through the sunshine

Originally uploaded by .Jun*.

I found this on Flickr, it was an unusual photo I thought was worth sharing!

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Calculate

This is the first part of a short story I started…with let you know when I have more…;)

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Alex walked into the Kitchen. It was 9 o’clock at night and he needed more tea. He found things easier in the darkness. In the evening, he could concentrate and feel alive. He poured the small sea of sugar into his cup. So untouched and innocent, he thought. It was the first time in weeks that he’d begun to think of things other than himself. It was disconcerting, and one could even say distracting. He placed his cup in the microwave, it meant that he could cook the teabag beyond what normal people thought was ok. It would first boil…then hiss. After a good ten minutes, it would split open under the pressure and spill it’s insides into the rest of the liquid. Now that thought was probably more comforting than drinking the tea itself.

He grinned and looked up at the ceiling while he waited for the monotone hum of the microwave to stop. Tonight he was excited. He was in a different mood for some reason. Something about the stillness and the seemingly loud sounds that came from his movements…bred a chilling possibility.

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The following day while he walked back from school, a thought came to him. He let it sit there in the last empty corner of his head. He watched it. He listened.

Calculate, he told himself. His Math teacher had told him the same thing a thousand times, although she didn’t know someone like Alex would listen so closely. Calculate meant more to Alex than simply finding an answer. It meant waiting. You had to first listen to the clock ticking in your head, before you could rip out another question. Sit in the examination of your own thoughts…and decisions.

Calculate meant listen to the variables. Feel the pulse of events that flow through this single decision…and decide where to put them. Alex reached for the golden door knob between him and his house. The door knob between him, a belligerent mother, and a drunken father. He went inside, passed the boiled faces shouting his name. They seemed so hollow now, it was almost as if their voices had now peeled off him like paint, escaped into the air.

Alex walked up to his room, the wooden steps sounding more solid.

Calculate.

That was all he could do now. He shrugged on his earphones, and continued to listen to his favorite song…Eaten from the Inside. He believed the words. Every time he listened to the murderous drum beat, he felt calmer. Now that thought he had brewing in his head, grew into a full-sized idea.

A message from my sister…

(NOTE: The following story was told by my half sister, I’ve simply interpreted what she said – via my step mother – the scribe.)

*The Crystal of Love*

By Trinity Ballam-Smith

Chapter 1

One day there was a jungle girl named Ellie. She lived in an island named Hawaii. She was sooo happy there. One day (while trying to find some grapes) she spotted an elephant. She didn’t know that she could speak to animals. But when the elephan tried talking to her…Ellie listened.

They were very confused because they didn’t know they were sisters. They went to the elephant Cloud Princess and she said,

“Do you know that you two are actually sisters?” and she was amazed that the elephant princess had old her story.

She replied, “”Did you know, a long time ago King Rothbart turned me into an elephant because he was so angry. I didn’t let Rothbart go, so he strangled me and he took all my powers away. I only have one power left, and Rothbart doesn’t like me any more. he put me into a dungeon, but luckily I broke through.”

She paused momentarily, and continued.

“Rothbart takes all my powers away, and doesn’t gove me anything. So I moved into the Cloud Kingdom, and I needed to live all by my own.But luckily I had some animals to speak to me.”

Rothbart came every single day to check on the Cloud Princess, but eventually she fought back to get more powers. The world changed and all the trees were dark around her…and there was no pollution in the air. the Cloud Princess and stopped all the pollution.

Ellie (the Cloud Princess) said, “Bye-bye” to the Cloud Elephant, and ran off to find the Crystal of Love. She told them about a wand, and a ring of love, lying in the dark depths of despair. To find the Crystal of Love, Kindness, and Helpfulness you must go there.

“Remember,” she said.

“The Crystal of Love, is the more important than all the kindness in the world!”

BoSD…One error you don’t want to see!

The Blue Screen of Death, or known as a STOP error is the last thing any user wants to see. For the unenlightened I simply talking about when your computer stops working and sooner or later you see a big blue screen pop up with an error script. It usually starts with about five to six zeros and turns into gibberish as it progresses. Below I’ve shown what this all looks like:

Anyway, most people will simply sigh and go and take it into the nearest computer repair shop. Then there are those of us who are just not satisfied to leave it at that, and want to fix the damn thing our self! So here is how you’d go about it. The following information was taken from this link: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ht/stoperrors Hopefully you’ll also find it useful if you are technologically inclined.

1. The most important STOP error troubleshooting step you can take is to ask yourself what you just did.

Did you just install a new program or a piece of hardware, update a driver, install an update, etc.? If so, there’s a very good chance that the change you made caused the STOP error.

Undo the change you made and test for the blue screen. Depending on what change you made, some solutions might include:

1. • Startup with Last Known Good Configuration to undo recent registry and driver changes.
   • Use System Restore to undo recent system changes.
   • Rollback device driver to version prior to your driver update.
2. Verify that a minimum amount of free space is available on your Windows partition. STOP messages and other serious issues, like data corruption, can occur if there’s not enough free space on your primary partition used for the Windows operating system.

I recommend that you maintain at least 200MB of free space.

Scan your computer for viruses. Some viruses can cause STOP errors, especially ones that infect the master boot record (MBR) or boot sector.

Important: Make sure your virus scanning software is completely up to date and that it’s configured to scan the MBR and boot sector.

1. Apply all available Windows service packs and other updates. Microsoft regularly releases patches and service packs for their operating systems that may contain fixes for the cause of your STOP error.
2. Update drivers for your hardware. Most STOP messages are hardware and driver related so updated drivers could fix the cause of the STOP error.
3. Check the System and Application logs in Event Viewer for errors or warnings that might provide more clues on the cause of the STOP error.
4. Return hardware settings to default in Device Manager. Unless you have a specific reason to do so, the system resources that an individual piece of hardware is configured to use in Device Manager should be set to default. Non-default hardware settings have been known to cause STOP errors.
5. Return BIOS settings to their default levels. An overclocked or misconfigured BIOS can cause all sorts of random issues, including STOP errors.

Note: If you’ve made several customizations to your BIOS settings and don’t wish to load the default ones then at least try returning clock speed, voltage settings, and BIOS memory options to their default settings and see if that fixes the STOP error.

1. Update your BIOS. In some situations, and outdated BIOS could cause a STOP error due to certain incompatibilities.
2. Make sure all internal cables, cards, and other components are installed and seated properly. Hardware that’s not firmly in place can cause a STOP error so try reseating the following and then test for the STOP message again:
   • Reseat the internal cables
   • Reseat the memory modules
   • Reseat the video card
   • Reseat other expansion cards
3. Perform diagnostic tests on all hardware you’re able to test. It’s highly likely that the root cause of any given STOP error is a failing piece of hardware:
   • Test your system memory
   • Test your hard disk drive
   • Test your CPU
4. Start your PC with essential hardware only. A useful troubleshooting step in many situations, including STOP errors, is to start your computer with the minimum hardware necessary to run the operating system. If your computer starts successfully it proves that one of the removed hardware devices was the cause of the STOP message.

Hope this comes in handy to some frustrated users! If there are those of you who are even more geeky and are interested in the error codes themselves, here’s a list of STOP codes you can download: bsod error code list

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Drip dripping

Today I woke up, and for a change I heard the sound of rain oustide my bedroom. I’m truly a european, since I get excited whenever I’m in rain…or it starts to rain. I suppose I like to be around water in general since it has a purifying quality to it.

As soon as my feet ventured out of the blankets, and touched the cold air, they tape measured back under the sheets. The first thing I did to today, was get up and make a warm cup of tea. I proceded to lie in bed and numbly watch the window pane and the crystals droplets, run a race to the bottom of the window sill. i find the rain hynotizing I don’t know why. I suppose I like the rain since it means I can lie in bed all day, eat cookies, drink coffee and watch films.

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