Castle Shima

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
-- Thomas Carlyle

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If I Only Could

Running Up That Hill by Placebo

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I am a prison for sperm. Those poor little tadpoles have been sentenced to life in Jeff Murdock's groin.
-- Jeff from Coupling

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Swimmers
Parents tend to know when their kids are heading to greatness when they are pretty young. Case in point...


Hat tip to Hoyt for this.
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I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.
-- Steven Wright

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Play Time


more cat pictures
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Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man, who has no gills.
-- Ambrose Bierce

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Wetworks

We Will Rock You by Waterboy

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The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The Clouds All Scatter

Sound of Thunder/Hold Back The Rain by Duran Duran

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Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.
-- Pele

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Kick To The Head
Here is a rare photo of the intermural soccer group. There is actually nearly 70 of us, but only a few that can make it for the lunch time games.


I cant wait til the season starts again. Heh.
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Alone we live and die
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Death often weighs heavier on us by its weight on others and pains us by their pain almost as much as by our own, and sometimes even more.
-- Montaigne

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Panegyric
For Clan Roma

The Pallid Wreath by Walt Whitman
Somehow I cannot let it go yet, funeral though it is,
Let it remain back there on its nail suspended,
With pink, blue, yellow, all blanch'd, and the white now gray
and ashy,
One wither'd rose put years ago for thee, dear friend;
But I do not forget thee. Hast thou then faded?
Is the odor exhaled? Are the colors, vitalities, dead?
No, while memories subtly play--the past vivid as ever;
For but last night I woke, and in that spectral ring saw thee,
Thy smile, eyes, face, calm, silent, loving as ever:
So let the wreath hang still awhile within my eye-reach,
It is not yet dead to me, nor even pallid.
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Alone we live and die
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We carry this mortal coil
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Vincent: You know, I'm getting kinda tired. I could use a foot massage myself.
Jules: Man, you best back off. I'm getting a little pissed here.
-- from Pulp Fiction

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Frack Em If They Can't Take A Joke
Ever make a funny or goofy face while someone was taking a picture? I used to do it alot as a kid, even as a teenager.

Supposedly I'm more mature nowadays. Right.








Hat tip to Fury for these great pics.
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Alone we live and die
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To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping
-- Chinese Proverb

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Trip To Memory Lane
In the past, I've never really cared too much about the Olympics, but I've really enjoyed them this time around.

Perhaps since its in China, that was a natural interest to me. Perhaps its because I'm more into athletics than I was in the past, especially with cycling, soccer, and volleyball. Perhaps its the chance of seeing history in the making. Case in point: Michael Phelps trying to win eight gold medals.

Whatever the reason, there will be some memories that I will carry with me.

Speaking of which, here is an unforgettable ad that the BBC ran just before the Olympics began.

Journey To the West by The Gorillaz

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Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
-- Buddha

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Awake And Unafraid

Famous Last Words by My Chemical Romance

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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
-- Voltaire

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Ignorance Is Bliss
Yeah, some days are just like this.


more cat pictures
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
-- from The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams

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Explaining Myself
Although I tend to have road rage, its pretty much calmed down over the years. But then again, my stories simply dont compare to other stories out there.

I rear-ended the car in front of me. I admit that. It was my fault.

So, we both pull over to the side of the road, and slowly the driver of the car I hit gets out of his car. . and you know how you just-get-sooo-stressed... and life...sometimes life seems like... suddenly funny?

Well, the driver of the car I hit is a DWARF! He gets out of his car and I get out of my car. He is frowning and scowling and he storms over to me. Right up close to me he looks up in my face and says,

"I AM NOT HAPPY!"

I don't know what possessed me, officer, but I looked down at him and I said,
"Well, if you're not Happy -- which one are you?"

And that's when the fight started...

Good thing this wasnt me. Heh. I would have made a comment about the guy having a short fuse.

Hat tip to Tigress for this.
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Alone we live and die
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Breath after breath
We carry this mortal coil
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