The end of the world is nigh, more details

Scientists in Switzerland to do the monster smash | World news | Chron.com -
Houston Chronicle
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/5992190.html

The day we all die: September 10, 2008 | Science Buzz

http://www.smm.org/buzz/blog/day-we-all-die-september-10-2008

My good friend Belinda told me about this one night and I had to look into it. I still don't really understand how this is going to kill us exactly but I really like the rap video on the PopSci website that tries to explain it.

Simple Hack to Add Free Custom Ringtones to your iPhone - iPhone Hacks

Cool find. Simple, super-fast way to add custom ringtones to your iPhone.

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2008/08/ringtone-hack.html

Have fun.
Sarah

PS> There's only one instruction missing: Go back to your original song in iTunes and reset the Stop time back to it's original setting.

I discovered this the other day when listening to a playlist with one of my "ringtones" and the song only played for 30 seconds.

Rogers iPhone rates draw Canadian users' ire

There's also an article in the Vancouver Sun.

Stop the Rogers chokehold on Canadian cellphone users

Ode to Ganesha

Thoughts and info on Ganesha from the Wandering Mind blog.

Cradle to Cradle

William McDonough is my new hero. I want to help build and live in one of his cities. Read this Vanity Fair article and watch this video to better understand how his actions are the next step after Al Gore.

Al Gore is telling us the problem and Bill McDonough and Michael Braungart have the solution. I am inline with their vision.

I would like to buy a hamburger

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Flock - The Social Web Browser
http://flock.com

Fanboy Supercuts, Obsessive Video Montages - Waxy.org

http://waxy.org/2008/04/fanboy_supercuts_obsessive_video_montages/

Natural Phenomenon: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com

This is an interesting article on a beautiful application of environmental architecture. Renzo Piano's ideas and actions inspire me.

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/05/renzo200805?currentPage=1

Industrial Revolution, Take Two: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/05/mcdonough200805?currentPa
ge=1

WHY WE'RE HERE

by Elsa Joy Bailey

Daily Inspiration, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual laws, self
fulfillment, Personal Growth, spiritual inspiration

Imagine
a brilliantly colored world atlas
spread out, vast as a tablecloth,
across your dining room table.

You stand before it, peering at its
endless nooks and crannies,
its giant pools of blue water, looking over
the exotic and unfathomable names of cities
and countries beyond your awareness.
You take in the whole of this mammoth map,
parts of which are familiar as dust,
parts of which are completely alien.

And pretend you've been given an assignment:
to bless and forgive every piece of this huge map;
every name, every river, every mountain, every desert,
every village, every spa, every bridge, every coast,
every battleground, every street sign.

Now you can stop pretending.
Because in truth that's exactly the way it is.
You and I have been given such an assignment:
to forgive everything, everyone, everywhere.
That is our human potential.

You ask: but with a world that stretches
so many miles out of sight, with such an
immense list of characters and events,
how on earth do we accomplish such a
herculean task?

Piece by piece by piece.

Actually, it's simpler than it seems.
(Simpler -- but not easier.)
This world is much like a hologram,
which means that to entirely forgive
and bless the small piece of map
on which we stand and live
is to forgive the whole.

So we start right where we are.
Day by day, we are here to learn to see past
what our eyes and ears report;
to see through surface to essence.

We are learning to forgive it all.
The ripe lush strawberry that made us itch.
The pothole that tore a hole in our tire.
The grocery clerk with an attitude.
The relatives we try to avoid.
The co-worker who appears to hate us.
The newspaper report of a gang shooting.
The water bill that is inordinately high.
The washing machine that shrunk
our sweater into a doll's dress.
The driver that splashed mud on our new jacket.
The sun that refused to come out when we needed it.
The endlessly long line at our favorite restaurant.
The head that blocked our view at a concert.
The checkbook that doesn't add up.
The irate letter from a landlord.
Everything.

These are our daily assignments;
the extraordinary opportunities we are given
to see past the skin of all moments
and catch the shining innocence that waits beyond
and beneath the obvious

Is it easy work? No.
Does it take a long time to complete? Yes.
But of course we are given a lifetime
in which to do it.

And when we have moved through our
private map, piece by piece by piece, and,
with the help of the Divine Love at our center,
have come to release each face, each instance,
each folly -- what happens then?

Freedom.

Remember the dream, don't stop believing

We had a nice lunch today to say goodbye to Kelly, the best dog sitter in
the universe. Bob told me a great story about when he went to New York and
attended the David Letterman. It wasn't even the show that was the
highlight, it was the flaming hoops he had to jump through to become a
member of the audience. It was an all day affair, with what sounded like 10
screening line ups where he and Lisa were very slowly accepted as DL
audience material.

Hearing Bob talk about the audience reminded me of the dream I've had since
I was old enough to watch TV shows with laugh tracks or an audience; think
Three's Company, One Day at Time, The Jeffersons, etc. I've gone completely
off track of my goal. I need to do something quick before I fall into the
cavernous hole of the midlife crisis! Oh ya, the goal. The goal is to get
discovered as the greatest laugher of all time and make millions sitting in
audiences laughing all day and all night encouraging others to laugh. Is
that not the perfect job or what? What am I doing? I need to book a ticket
to New York pronto and explore this. Anyone want to join me?

Soaring continued

As I was saying, the day of the glider ride was the highlight of our holiday. If we hadn't have been staying at the Super 8 Motel right in front of the airport where the Invermere Soaring Centre resides, it would never have even occured to me do something like this.
It also helped when the wife of one of pilots started talking to us in the motel parking lot while we were watching the planes take off. I was mesmerized, I was amazed, I was intrigued and very curious. She mentioned that her husband visits Invermere every year from Toronto for "the best gliding in the country". I can't remember how many years they've been there, I think it's more than 10. How could I ignore the crystal clear messages in front of me?

1. Motel next door to the airport.
2. Woman telling me have to go, I'd be crazy not to.
3. $140 burning a hole in my pocket
4. Nothing else to do.

Kevin and I drove over to the airport (I was too scared to hop the barbed-wire fence and run across the steaming runway) and asked a few questions and next thing I new I was booked for the next afternoon at 2:30. The rest is history, as they say.

Design Within Reach - Shop Highlights - Eco-friendly

I really want to check into this further.

http://dwr.com/category.cfm

Interdependance

...find areas in which their values are in alignment and support the achievement of each other’s goals. They co-create activities and projects in which each of them can pursue their values in cooperation with the other, complimenting each other’s skills, and capitalizing on each other’s strengths. The more independent each of the members are, the more interdependence becomes possible.

A few days off

There's nothing like exploring your own province, where you live, when you have a few days off. We intended to visit Invermere and I wanted to gain a new perspective, which I did. Who knew we would also end up getting to know Keremeos, the Fruit Stand Capital of BC, intimately as well?

Ohh, do I have a story tell. I need at least a half an hour to get it all out. I'll have that time tomorrow night.

In the meantime, check out the photos from my Glider plane experience.

HINT: Look to the left, Sarah's Photo Gallery, the first set of links are my newest photo library links. I'll embelish them over the next few weeks.

Skytrain Runs

29th Avenue to Home

I love this picture I took of Bubba

Some quotes

"Speak the truth, but speak it sweetly." "Hear the truth, but hear it sweetly."