These are made for a 20″ Cinema Display at 1680×1050 but can be used at any resolution you desire. I hate dark colors behind my dock so I “tore” the picture and left white space in which my dock lives. If you have a smaller screen, Mac OS X will automatically scale the picture down (or you can do it manually in Photoshop or something like it)! Enjoy.
iPod nano © 2006 Apple Computer.
October 11th, 2006
All the problems that I have been experiencing of late seem to have become a part of my life and I feel there is little that can be done to change the situation. My emotions run high. But even though I feel as if at times I am about to burst… I remember this situation will pass. I do my best to release my pent-up emotions by doing things I love best, like working on my website, or listening to new music. I know there is a plethora of pass-times to help me relax, I just need to figure out what they are.
Sometimes I feel as though I am being unduly influenced by the situation that is all around me. I definitely do not like the feeling of loneliness and whatever it is that seems to separate me from others. I know that life can be wonderful and am anxious to experience it in all its aspects, to live it fully. I pretty much resent any restriction or limitation that is imposed on me and I insist on going at it alone. I’m not sure why, but something inside me feels safer when I’m alone. I also feel more comfortable when I do things solo because I have absolute control. Nobody to altercate with. It’s my responsibility to make sure whatever “it” is is perfect, and I usually do a pretty darn good job at it. Perhaps a tad unhealthy. Unfortunately whatever it is that creates that safety zone when I’m alone also has the ability to concurrently tear me apart inside. Boo.
I love the feeling of being left in peace. No more conflict and no more differences of opinion. In fact I really don’t want to be involved in any sort of argument of any shape or form. All I want is for “them” to get on with it and to leave me alone.
October 4th, 2006
We are small. In fact, we are incredibly small. The universe is large. Ok, it’s very, very large. Most people have no idea how insignificant we, Earth, and even the Sun are in relation to the universe. (Even those smarter than me.)
Tomorrow I’m going to randomly ask people how many stars they think exist in our own Milky Way galaxy. It will be interesting to hear their answers. (It’s thought that there are roughly 100 to 400 billion stars.)
Most of us want to have a sense of where we stand in relation to the cosmos. Often you hear someone say, “I felt so connected to everything at that moment.” But shouldn’t we have at least a vague sense of 
what that “everything” consists of, if such a statement is to possess any validity? Usually God, the purported creator of the cosmos, is considered to be someone you can have a relationship with. You can relate to him, her, or it on some sort of personal level. This presupposes that God exists on a scale accessible to humans. The creator’s power, wisdom, intelligence, consciousness, love—whatever anthropomorphic qualities we might assign to the ultimate mystery—are not so distant from our own as to make them impossible to perceive or comprehend.
The soundtrack for Cirque du Soleil’s newest show
Corteo was released today.
Corteo, which means “cortege” in Italian, is a joyous procession, a festive parade imagined by a clown. The show brings together the passion of the actor with the grace and power of the acrobat to plunge the audience into a theatrical world of fun, comedy and spontaneity situated in a mysterious space between heaven and earth.
Buy the CD at iTunes.
Whenever I start to think this way, it’s easy to get swept away by the vastness that is around us. For whatever attributes the creation in which we exist possesses, the creator seemingly should possess in more abundance. Aren’t a mother and a father greater than their offspring? IBM commissioned a video in 1977 titled “Powers of Ten”, a video that takes us on a grand journey up and down from the scale of humans, outward to the furthest reaches of the universe and inward to the equally unfathomable quantum world. I urge you to take the journey. It’s astonishing.
We haven’t the slightest idea of where we stand in relation to even the material universe, not to mention any metaphysical realities that may exist (and probably do). None whatsoever. Our minds are too limited to hold such an understanding, even if each of us had the mind of an Einstein. I’m finding that embracing this insignificance can be exhilarating. Five million miles vs. a grain of sand. That’s the relation between our galaxy and our planet. And me? A sub-atomic particle on the grain—and that’s being generous, I’m probably not even that. More: if the Sun were the size of a grain of sand, then the nearest neighbor galaxy to us, Andromeda, would be 1,500,000 miles away. The nearest.
There are at least 100 billion galaxies in the universe vastly further away from us than Andromeda. What we see of the cosmos when we look up at the night sky is essentially nothing, just a few thousand stars that lie near us in our corner of a single galaxy. I have no idea…
October 2nd, 2006
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