Month: June 2005

I am Mario. I like to jump around, and would lead a fairly serene and aimless existence if it weren’t for my friends always getting into trouble. I love to help out, even when it puts me at risk. I seem to make friends with people who just can’t stay out of trouble. What Video Game Character Are You?

Batman Begins.  So good, I held in needing to pee for the whole 2 hours of the movie.

Boo

So it’s 2:30 in the morning, and I’m just comming home from work, and
I’m walking down the stairs.  Of course I think of what anyone
would think of walking down a dark stairway at 2 in the morning… I
wonder if there are ghost about.  Then I have some flashes of some
ghastly images (probably from whatever scary movie I saw last). 

This gets me to thinking, maybe ghost don’t actually every manifest as
physical or visual beings.  There’s this idea that ghost are
psychic imprints left by strong emotions.  Well maybe these
imprints just interact with our minds so that we ‘see’ the ghost, even
though there’s really nothing there for us to see.  The reason
sightings are uneven, or even contradictory is that these imprints
affect minds in different ways (not at all for most people). 

Of course this isn’t a more rational explaination of ghost than any
other, since it involves in believing in pyschic imprinting: the idea
that the strength of emotional duress can cause feelings and memories
to be stored in inanimate matter.  It sort of begs the questions:
why is it that only angry or sad emotions get imprinted.  Wouldn’t
we then see very happy or passionate images of ghost as well?  Or
maybe we feel fear, anger and sorrow much more strongly than happieness?

Just a thought.  My mind comes up with weird things at 2am after a long day of rather tedious programming.

G’night everybody!

Pictures!

Finally back home.  It’ll be nice to sleep in a bed again after a
week of sleeping on the floor.  The only bad part is going back to
work, but I guess that’s what allows me to go on these vacations.

Okay, so I’m no Ansel Adams, but serendipity has allowed for a few good
pics to result from my shutter happy finger.  As a tribute to
Ansel, I even have one black and white one in there.  Slowly I’m
learning
the in’s and outs of my camera (btw, if you visit Los Angeles, you MUST
eat at In-and-Out Burger), so a lot of the pictures will not
quite look right.  Enjoy:

Getty Museum, LA (if you’re wondering, the musuem cost $1 billion to build)
Sequoia National Park (really big trees and stuff)
Yosemite National Park (photographer heaven)