The Missing Frame

"Will the flood behind me, put out the fire inside me.."
-AFI 'The Missing Frame'





There's always a stream of random thoughts in my head, left over from the day. It causes mild insomnia, so I thought this would be a nice way to share them, and get to bed at a decent hour.
June 13

"I'm going to ask you a series of questions, and I want them answered on the spot right now....."

Hold your head high, heavy heart!


I was told lastnight, that I’m a good adapter. That means (according to Wikipedia, which rocks):

“Adaptive behavior is a type of behavior that is used to adjust to another type of behavior or situation. This is often characterized by a kind of behavior that allows an individual to substitute an unconstructive or disruptive behavior to something more constructive. These behaviors are most often social or personal behaviors. For example a constant repetitive action [disambiguation needed] could be re-focused on something that creates or builds something. In other words the behavior can be adapted to something else.”

So it really made me think about this past year, and things that happen, and don’t happen. When I decide to do something I really get it done. If my heart is in it, I feel that my actions put out something close to perfect. Not to be egotistical, but since when did bringing yourself up (when the world and ppl around you bring you down) become a bad trait?

Well, lastnight, I realized some people just get it, and some are just selfish. I hope those people don’t miss out on too much, becasue it seems that there’s a lot more to love when you become adaptive. Good People. Good Food. Good Music. Good Fucking Times.

thanks

May 7

.....Amazing

is the only word to describe my last few days. And that’s it. I’m good to go.

I am super pumped for the asome lineup this sumer, and even more excited that my music horizon gets wider and wider every day, thus bringing more joy, laughter, tears, and love into my life.

I can’t wait to camp, toast on the dunes, play some volleyball, bon fire it up under the stars, eat drink and be merry with the people I love.

April 30
Starbucks recently set up a ‘sweepstakes’ in which 20 ‘winners’ get a “chance to give back to this amazing coffee farming community” (that we soon hope will provide us with yet another chance to get the rights of some poor farmers inherited choice coffee bean, that has been passed down generation to generation. And then after paying them off, informing them that this now means THEY have to pay to use this recipe. Once again, I have to give them credit for upholding the perfect image all while ripping a new hole in some unsuspecting, and/or oblivious victims ass. Even their cleverly picked promotional headline , ” Passion To Improve”, really makes you feel like they have a sense of caring for these small communities. Aside from the affiliation with Global Green, complete with a fantastic little game online, and thier participation in Ethos water (“Helping children get clean water”) donations, Starbucks hasn’t really done anything to show their support of our communities or our planet. Well done at sucking as a corporate company. Pr image: A-, Desperation level: D+.

Starbucks recently set up a ‘sweepstakes’ in which 20 ‘winners’ get a “chance to give back to this amazing coffee farming community” (that we soon hope will provide us with yet another chance to get the rights of some poor farmers inherited choice coffee bean, that has been passed down generation to generation. And then after paying them off, informing them that this now means THEY have to pay to use this recipe.

Once again, I have to give them credit for upholding the perfect image all while ripping a new hole in some unsuspecting, and/or oblivious victims ass. Even their cleverly picked promotional headline , ” Passion To Improve”, really makes you feel like they have a sense of caring for these small communities. Aside from the affiliation with Global Green, complete with a fantastic little game online, and thier participation in Ethos water (“Helping children get clean water”) donations, Starbucks hasn’t really done anything to show their support of our communities or our planet.

Well done at sucking as a corporate company. Pr image: A-, Desperation level: D+.

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“ AREN’T YOU THE GUYS WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?

After Cevy 2008 Tahoe wins Green car of the year, it sorta makes us wonder….

Jill Banaszynski, manager of electrical vehicle programs at GM Corp. responds;

“We are the guys that developed and launched EV1, the first modern-day electric vehicle, back in 1996. We are also the guys that devoted tremendous resources to design, engineer, and market this vehicle. Although the technical innovation and marketing efforts behind the EV1 were unparalleled, only 800 people were willing to lease the EV1. Yes, the EV1 quickly became the worldwide benchmark for electric vehicles, but its timing wasn’t quite right. When GM launched the EV1, gas was cheap, there wasn’t a war in Iraq, and there was less discussion about global warming. There were far fewer reasons for people to make the trade-offs in their transportation lifestyle to make the EV1 work for them.


“We didn’t kill the electric car; electric vehicle technology is far from dead.”

The good news is that both the technology and the GM team who developed the EV1 live on. Chevy’s next generation of low- and zero-emission vehicles - Tahoe and Malibu Hybrids,(1) Equinox Fuel Cell electric vehicles,(2) and our range-extended electric E-Flex system (found on the concept Volt) - all feature technologies and innovations from the EV1. We didn’t kill the electric car; electric vehicle technology is far from dead.”


…..”So as long as people are buying these behemoths to haul their yachts up 17% grades at 70 mph (or get the kids home from school…y’know….whichever) it’s probably a good idea to try to make them more fuel-efficient. And the Chevy Tahoe 2 mode hybrid absolutly does that.”
-Hank Green
March 7
An article on the release of 240 sea turtles states the difficulty these babies face from the very start of their life. “Now climate change poses a potentially more devastating threat, he said. Rising ocean levels mean the loss of more nesting beaches, while warmer temperatures affect the reproduction process by causing more females than males to hatch. Eventually, such an imbalance will doom affected species, Putra said. He suggested a mitigation strategy: plant more coastal trees to provide shade for the turtle nests, keeping them cooler. The olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) is listed as Vulnerable and the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) as Endangered, meaning threatened with extinction, by the IUCN. They are most vulnerable as eggs incubating in nests on the beach, and then when they hatch and scramble to their ocean home. The hatchlings released on Bali were from eggs kept in protected nests, then allowed to reach the ocean free of preying birds and other threats.” “They have a less than 1 percent chance of surviving to adulthood,” Putra noted. “We’re just trying to give them a little help here at the start.” *Click picture to read full article

An article on the release of 240 sea turtles states the difficulty these babies face from the very start of their life.


“Now climate change poses a potentially more devastating threat, he said. Rising ocean levels mean the loss of more nesting beaches, while warmer temperatures affect the reproduction process by causing more females than males to hatch. Eventually, such an imbalance will doom affected species, Putra said. He suggested a mitigation strategy: plant more coastal trees to provide shade for the turtle nests, keeping them cooler.

The olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) is listed as Vulnerable and the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) as Endangered, meaning threatened with extinction, by the IUCN. They are most vulnerable as eggs incubating in nests on the beach, and then when they hatch and scramble to their ocean home. The hatchlings released on Bali were from eggs kept in protected nests, then allowed to reach the ocean free of preying birds and other threats.”

“They have a less than 1 percent chance of surviving to adulthood,” Putra noted. “We’re just trying to give them a little help here at the start.”


*Click picture to read full article