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GoldStar Alice Blog Site Copyright: eShipNet Copyright 2006 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:30:00 +0100
Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:26:17 +0100 God made so many things of no practical value, and yet they are the most beautiful of all
-- C. Virgil Gheorghiu Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:58:05 +0200
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Maybe you had heard of this before Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:39:41 +0100 Silence
Silence is not always golden.
Silence can mean consent. Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:12:41 +0100
Superheroes in the comics are often seen as suspicious characters by the police because
after all, they often go above the law, taking it into their own hands, and wear masks.
Despite their often mistaken but good intentions, if not for the consequences of saving the
day, they might not seem very different from supervillains at first glance.
If you are really familiar with these heroes, you will realise that the only reasons they
wear masks is to protect those they love - and their identity for their day job! They don't
get paid for taking the night shift as vigilantes to uphold justice! It's voluntary
altruistic overtime work that they do, despite the dangers - that's what makes them heroes.
- shian Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:40:25 +0100 Money & Health
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Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:32:07 +0100 Police Car Chase
A man was driving home late one afternoon, and he was driving above the speed limit. He notices a police car with its red lights on in his rear view mirror. He thinks "I can outrun this guy," so he floors it and the race is on. The cars are racing down the highway -- 60, 70, 80, 90 miles an hour. Finally, as his speedometer passes 100, the guy figures "what the heck," and gives up. He pulls over to the curb. The police officer gets out of his cruiser and approaches the car. He leans down and says "Listen mister, I've had a really lousy day, and I just want to go home. Give me a good excuse and I'll let you go." The man thought for a moment and said, "Three weeks ago, my wife ran off with a police officer. When I saw your cruiser in my rear view mirror, I thought you were that officer and you were trying to give her back to me!" Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:23:36 +0100
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Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:32:03 +0200 Halloween "Rules"
Mon, 16 Oct 2006 06:33:49 +0200 Missing Good Advice
Three types of people seldom get good advice -
Those who are good enough...
Those who are defensive enough...
Those who are deluded enough... Do you seldom get good advice? Why? Wed, 04 Oct 2006 06:21:18 +0200
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On a more physical level, dancing can give you a great mind-body workout. Researchers are learning that regular physical activity in general can help keep your body, including your brain, healthy as you age. Exercise increases the level of brain chemicals that encourage nerve cells to grow. And dancing that requires you to remember dance steps and sequences boosts brain power by improving memory skills. Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:28:30 +0200 Learning Learning is an iterative process,Each new step depending on the last. If children are denied the chance to know what they are doing, They will make the same mistakes ...
Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:11:21 +0200 Circle : How Many Sides?![]() As inspired by a riddle of the Riddler, asked in an old episode of TV's Batman... How many sides does a circle have? - [A] 0 [B] 1 [C] 2 [D] Infinite [E] Others: ___ (fill in the blank) [F] None of the above [G] All of the above Answers - [A] A circle has 0 sides as it is a “0”. [B] A circle has 1 perfectly continuous curved side. [C] A circle has 2 distinct sides - the “in-side” and the “out- side”. [D] A circle has infinite sides because it is an infinitely-sided polygon too. [E] A circle that is perfect exists only ideally, so there will be X number of sides. [F] None of the above is true because [G] is true. [G] A circle can have various number of sides, depending on your perspective. The last answer is the “moral” of the riddle! (By the way, the Riddler's “answer” was “2 sides”.) Notes - [D] The more sides a regular shape has, the more it resembles a circle. So when it has infinite sides, it becomes a perfect circle. (See picture) [E] Circles in real life are not perfectly regular. They are “jagged” minutely, and thus has many “sides”. Sun, 13 Aug 2006 21:06:55 +0200
Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:31:59 +0200 Natural Law
Natural Law has no pity!
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Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:45:05 +0200 Men Don't Get Them 100 Reasons Why It's Great to be a Gal!
Thu, 27 Jul 2006 06:48:16 +0200 Teamwork
So, even in nature, teamwork results in collective laziness huh? Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:42:33 +0200 Male Chauvinist 100 Reasons Why It's Great to be a Guy!1.
Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:01:07 +0200 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 06:39:31 +0200 Airline Food ![]() Eating the catered meals they serve on airplanes is always a memorable experience. In the first place, you have to admit it is exciting to open that little carton of salad oil and find a stream of Thousand Islands dressing rocketing onto your blouse. Then, too, where else would you able to dig into a perfectly rectangular chicken? And let's not forget the soggy, lukewarm mushrooms which are accused by the menu of having smothered the geometrical bird. They look and taste exactly like the ear jacks that are forever falling off your headset. After several futile attempts to swallow the food, you gulp it down with the mineral water (aka sky juice) provided in a plastic cup, return the tray, and lay back - No harm done! Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:15:44 +0200 Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:45:53 +0200 The TV Culture ![]() A TV-Connected Family
"American children and adolescents spend 22 to 28 hours per week viewing television, more
than any other activity except sleeping. By the age of 70 they will have spent 7 to 10 years
of their lives watching TV."
"Children cannot learn to read by watching television. Television is just background noise
and a distraction." Watching television is not an intellectual exercise. TV requires the viewer to put the mind on cruise control and soak up inane dialogue, smiling news anchors and continuous commercials. In 1984, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Mark Fowler said that television was nothing more than a "toaster with pictures" and did not need to be regulated more than any other appliance. Under Fowler's tenure, FCC started to re-regulate the industry; so huge media conglomerates could purchase and control more of the TV industry. Fowler's view was: "We let the marketplace and the viewers decide what goes out there. Some people love watching wrestling. It's terrible programming, but some like it. That's the marketplace." This statement, however, is not true. The public has little input into programming choices and will watch whatever slop is broadcast. Television programming is not voted on by the public, but dictatorially chosen by network executives. In a sense, TV is an example of supply side economics -- where it is the manufacturer who creates demand by controlling supply. As a result, television has gotten pretty stupid. The "toaster with pictures" comment endures because that part of Fowler's theory is true. Though TV has a greater impact on the world than a toaster, it is a simple appliance that doesn't really do much. A toaster toasts bread -- you can turn it on and off and change a few settings. A television turns on and off and you can change a few settings.
If bad television is dumbing down society, then good television is dumbing up society,
either way the effect is the same. Someone who reads a lot may sound intellectual or
knowledgeable -- but someone who watches a lot of TV looks and sounds like the two stoners
from the movie Dude, Where's My Car? ![]() As movie director Woody Allen said, "In Beverly Hills, they don't throw their garbage away -- they make it into television shows." Source -- Kill Your Television
Sun, 09 Jul 2006 22:24:23 +0200 Will This Job Be Challenging Enough?
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Remember, Kent was not Superman's true identity as Bruce Wayne was the Batman's. Just the opposite. Clark Kent was the fiction. Other great comic book heroes – the Shadows, the Green Hornet, The Lone Ranger – were not only more vulnerable; they were fakes. The Shadow had to cloud men's minds to be in business. The Green Hornet had to go through the fetishist fol-de-rol of donning costume, floppy hat, black mask, gas gun, menacing automobile, and insect sound effects before he was even ready to go out in the street. The Lone Ranger needed an accoutremental white horse, an Indian, and an establishing cry of Hi-Yo Silver to separate him from all those other masked men running around the West in days of yesteryear. But Superman had only to wake up in the morning to be Superman. In his case, Clark Kent was the put-on. The fellow with the eyeglasses and the acne and the walk girls laughed at wasn't real, didn't exist, was a sacrificial disguise, an act of discreet martyrdom. Had they but known! And for what purpose? Did Superman become Clark Kent in order to lead a normal life, have friends, be known as a nice guy, meet girls? Hardly How can one be a cowardly star reporter, subject to fainting spells in time of crisis, and not expect to raise serious questions? The truth may be that Kent existed not for the purpose of the story but for the reader. He is Superman's opinion of the rest of us, a pointed caricature of what we, the non-criminal element, were really like, His fake identity was our real one. That's why we loved him so. For if that wasn't really us, if there were no Clark Kents, only lots of glasses and cheap suits which, when removed, revealed all of us in our true identities – what a hell of an improved world it would have been! Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:56:10 +0200
Fri, 30 Jun 2006 05:43:55 +0200 Fly Me to the Moon
Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:44:21 +0200 Plastic Surgery
Tue, 27 Jun 2006 21:06:36 +0200 Travel Tue, 27 Jun 2006 05:53:26 +0200 Consultant A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud toward him. The driver, a young man in a Broni suit, Gucci shoes, YSL tie and Ray Ban sunglasses leans out of the window and asks the shepherd, "If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one?" The shepherd looks at the man who is obviously a Princeton grad, then looks at his grazing flock and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?" The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Sony notebook computer, connects to his AT&T cell phone, surfs to a NASA page on the Internet where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location. He feeds that data to another NASA satellite which scans the area in an ultra-high resolution photo. The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility located in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an e-mail on his "Palm Pilot" that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with hundreds of complex formulas. He uploads all of this data via an e-mail on his "Blackberry" and, after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP Laser jet printer and turns to the shepherd and states, "You have exactly 1,586 sheep." "That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my sheep," says the shepherd. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on, amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car. Then the shepherd says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my sheep?" The young man thinks about it for a second and replies, "Okay, why not?" "You're a consultant," says the shepherd. "Wow! That's correct," answers the yuppie. "But how did you guess that?" "No guessing required. You showed up here even though nobody called you... you want to get paid for an answer I already knew to a question I never asked... and... you don't know shit about my business. "Now Give Me Back My Dog!" Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:23:13 +0200 Merger
Mon, 22 May 2006 23:33:18 +0200 Technology and the Human Body Three men are sitting naked in the there is a beeping sound. The first man presses his forearm and the beeping stops. The others look at him questioningly. "That's my pager," he says. "I have a microchip under the skin of my arm." A few minutes later a phone rings. The second man lifts his palm to his ear.When he finishes he explains, "That's my mobile phone. I have a microchip in my hand." The third man, feeling decidedly low-tech but not to be outdone, decided he had to do something just as impressive. He steps out of the sauna and goes to the toilet. He returns with a piece of toilet paper hanging from his ass. The others raised their eyebrows and said,"Wow! What's that?" "I'm getting a Fax," he explains. Mon, 22 May 2006 23:31:39 +0200 Words of Wisdom
Mon, 22 May 2006 23:30:16 +0200 The Expensive Hotel A husband and wife are traveling by car from Atlanta to New York. After almost twenty- four hours on the road, they're too tired to continue, and they decide to stop for a rest. They stop at a nice hotel and take a room, but they only plan to sleep for four hours and then get back on the road. When they check out four hours later, the desk clerk hands them a bill for $350.The man explodes and demands to know why the charge is so high. He tells the clerk although it's a nice hotel, the rooms certainly aren't worth $350.When the clerk tells him $350 is the standard rate, the man insists on speaking to the manager. The manager listens to the man and then explains the hotel has an Olympic-sized pool and a huge conference center that were available for the husband and wife to use. He also explains they could have taken in one of the shows for which the hotel is famous. 'The best entertainers from New York, Hollywood and Las Vegas perform here,' explains the manager. No matter what facility the manager mentions, the man replies, 'But we didn't use it!' The manager is unmoved and eventually the man gives up and agrees to pay. He writes a check and gives it to the manager. The manager is surprised when he looks at the check. 'But sir,' he says, 'this check is only made out for $100.' 'That's right,' says the man. 'I charged you $250 for sleeping with my wife.' 'But I didn't!' exclaims the manager. 'Well,' the man replies, 'she was here, and you could have.' Mon, 22 May 2006 23:28:30 +0200 82 Ways to know if you are Chinese ...Chinese's habit...
Mon, 22 May 2006 23:26:20 +0200 Ants Thousands of bottom-feeding keywords that seem to produce overall profit are nothing more than a bunch of ants carrying a piece of food together. While it might seem like they are working together on a common goal, it has been scientifically established that ants just pull the food each in their own direction. What seems to be a result of a great collaboration is actually nothing more than a few ants on one end of the piece being a bit stronger than a few ants on the other end. What would happen if you removed the ants off the wrong side of the piece of food? - The piece itself would move in the right direction much faster. Mon, 22 May 2006 23:23:50 +0200 Fear Factor Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And, as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. By: Marianne Williamson excerpt from her book A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles. Mon, 22 May 2006 23:21:29 +0200 Monkeys In the land of the magical peanut, the monkey who possess it will rule the land..... Every 5 yrs there are 2 monkeys, one white one red, come to this wise man to seek the magical peanut he had painstakingly cultivated over the last 5 yrs. One day a little boy asked the wise man who he will give the peanut...he smiled serenely and answered " White or red is not the most important, just make sure you don't always select the same colour" Felt puzzled by his reply the little boy asked "Why?" Still smiling serenely he said " This will create a fear factor in these monkeys that will motivate them to work hard for my peanut....mmm and continue relentlessly to serve me better everyday 'cause they remember who is their ultimate creator" The morale of this story.... MAKE THEM INNOVATE & WORK HARD FOR YOU EVERYDAY AND NOT YOU FOR THEM. Mon, 22 May 2006 23:18:18 +0200 Car Doors Opening the car door for your wife? Such men, it is said, are few. You're doing it for only one reason - Either the car or the wife is new! Mon, 22 May 2006 00:01:43 +0200 Failure Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas A. Edison Sun, 21 May 2006 23:13:32 +0200
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