Galaxy @ MindSay

            I don't know how stable your life is just now.  If you think it really is quite stable, you might re-think your status after watching this cute little video.  Really.  I doesn't seem like we're spinning along, crashing along through space like this to me!  

             And insignificant?  Well, I don't feel insignificant, because I know that I am a son of our heavenly Father, by the wonderful grace of God and the sacrifice of Jesus, regardless of how big this universe of ours is.  But don't you just wonder why He did all of this?  Wow!

             http://dingo.care2.com/cards/flash/5409/galaxy.swf

This Saturday my brother had his birthday. He's now 11 years old, and as the big present he got a wii.

O WOW! I was skeptical in the beginning both of the entire consule and the choice of game my Father bought. I mean its not the classical controller its a remote control like you use for a tv. with a weird numchuck you attack to it. and it vibrates in your hand and is weird to use. And then I tried and boy oh boy I was hooked. I played till I had a pounding headache and felt nauseous. And I am pretty much a hardcore gamer! (well on the PC I am). Super Mario Galaxy is a really really fun game. My brother is slightly better than I am though. But eh, I'll take the excuse that I am ahead of him in the game and had to discover everything for myself and how it all works (including the wiimote). We also went to the mandarin restaurant and stuffed our faces.
 
today, I woke up and also played till I felt bleah and then ate some cake from yesterday. No wonder they call it the wheeeeee!

Friday My friend called me and we went around first to the coffee shop and then we walked to the promanade found out we were late for movies. I forgot my idea so couldn't take the bus to any billiard place nor to the sushi place to get some sake. One of my characters in an online game is nickname shortened to 'sake' (but sounds more like cake). And then we went to country style and got some more team and something fatty to eat. And two really really ugly guys came up to me and her and asked if they can join us. Bleah. no thanks. asked us if we go to a school around here. I asked them if they are. apparently one of them is going to go to the UofT. well yeah high school grads of ugly doom. Since my friend swallowed her tongue I told them they are a bit too young for us, lol. Which they probably are. Just becuase we are short gals doesnt mean we are that young. I am going to go to my 4th year (and then I'll have to stay some more, because while I was not put on probation thank goodness, I will have to repeat some courses ;.; ) and my friend is a working woman dammit.

Earlier that week I went out with her the entire day , and in the morning we got some fattening chocolate chiller and then went to a Vietnamese's place where we stuffed out faces in a non politically correct size dishes.She paid for EVERYTHING, because I didnt have any money and then she bought me a purse. Because I never had a bag of my own, and i dont really know anything about them and she was going to buy one herself cause the seller guy talked her into it and I was using a small green bag from a store to carry my stuff always.so yeah my first purse ever is a designer purse that cost over 100$.
 
Monday last week we also went to a bar and I got food and something similar to bloody mary which was very yummy.

So yeah, I am a fatass, and I was planning to lose some weight too but things get in my way and I just wanted to get in the moment and have fun . Bleah. Why cant I be like those girls who eat and eat and still thin despite the fact they have like 0 muscle and never exercise? I never was skinny not even when i used to exercise a lot.

Anyhow: the manager of home depot called, calling me for a job interview for a part time cashier. omg yay! only wait! she wants me to bring in not one but TWO! references. Yes, standard, I know. Only I really dont have any. And I don't have any friends like my friend has who are going to pretend to be my previous boss or something and neither do my parents. what am I going to do? =(( I really need a job and I want that job cause the distance is convenient, and the pay is ok and there is a lot of stuff I want to buy/pay for besides the essentials. Also, I would be very embarrassed if I didn't get it because my friend works there.

To finish this post I will post a fairy me I created from that disney website, simply because those things are SO FUN to do, also I am a sucker for fairies. My hair is tied up most times now like that, only right now its more reddish and not purpleish (well more on brown too cause its fading out) , BUT it used to be that colour back when i coloured it purple, so nya.

Again, I’m amazed—as apparently these scientists are as well—at the amazing universe that God created.

 

And, no, let's be rational, please—all of this wonder didn’t just spontaneously explode from a pinhead-sized piece of matter.

 

Here’s the link from the Discovery Channel: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/01/11/violent-universe.html

 

Jan. 11, 2008 -- The deeper astronomers gaze into the cosmos, the more they find it's a bizarre and violent universe.

 

The research findings from this week's annual meeting of U.S. astronomers range from blue orphaned baby stars to menacing "rogue" black holes that roam our galaxy.

"It's an odd universe we live in," said Vanderbilt University astronomer Kelly Holley-Bockelmann. She presented her theory on rogue black holes at the American Astronomical Society's meeting in Austin, Texas, earlier this week.

 

It should be noted that she's not worried, and you shouldn't be either. The odds of one of these black holes swallowing up Earth or the sun or wreaking other havoc is somewhere around 1 in 10 quadrillion in any given year.

 

"This is the glory of the universe," added J. Craig Wheeler, president of the astronomy association. "What is odd and what is normal is changing."

 

Just five years ago, astronomers were gazing at a few thousand galaxies where stars formed in a bizarre and violent manner. Now the number is in the millions, thanks to more powerful telescopes and supercomputers to crunch the crucial numbers streaming in from space, said Wheeler, a University of Texas astronomer.

 

Scientists are finding that not only are they improving their understanding of the basic questions of the universe—such as how did it all start and where is it all going—they also keep stumbling upon unexpected, hard-to-explain cosmic quirks and the potential, but comfortably distant, dangers.

 

Much of what they keep finding plays out like a stellar version of a violent Quentin Tarantino movie. The violence surrounds and approaches Earth, even though our planet is safe and "in a pretty quiet neighborhood," said Wheeler, author of the book "Cosmic Catastrophes."

 

One example is an approaching gas cloud discussed at the meeting Friday. The cloud has a mass 1 million times that of the sun. It is 47 quadrillion miles away. But it's heading toward our Milky Way galaxy at 150 miles per second. And when it hits, there will be fireworks that form new stars and "really light up the neighborhood," said astronomer Jay Lockman at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in West Virginia.

But don't worry. It will hit a part of the Milky Way far from Earth and the biggest collision will be 40 million years in the future.

 

The giant cloud has been known for more than 40 years, but only now have scientists realized how fast it's moving. So fast, Lockman said, that "we can see it sort of plowing up a wave of galactic material in front of it."

 

When astronomers this week unveiled a giant map of mysterious dark matter in a super-cluster of galaxies, they explained that the violence of the cramped-together galaxies is so great that there is now an accepted vocabulary for various types of cosmic brutal behavior.

 

The gravitational force between the clashing galaxies can cause "slow strangulation," in which crucial gas is gradually removed from the victim galaxy. "Stripping" is a more violent process in which the larger galaxy rips gas from the smaller one. And then there's "harassment," which is a quick fly-by encounter, said astronomer Meghan Gray of the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.

 

Gray's presentation essentially showed the victims of galaxy-on-galaxy violence. She and her colleagues are trying to figure out the how the dirty deeds were done.

 

In the past few days, scientists have unveiled plenty to ooh and aah over:

 

Photos of "blue blobs" that astronomers figure are orphaned baby stars. They're called orphans because they were "born in the middle of nowhere" instead of within gas clouds, said Catholic University of America astronomer Duilia F. de Mello.

 

*A strange quadruplet of four hugging stars, which may eventually help astronomers understand better how stars form.

 

*A young star surrounded by dust, that may eventually become a planet. It's nicknamed "the moth," because the interaction of star and dust are shaped like one.

 

*A spiral galaxy with two pairs of arms spinning in opposite directions, like a double pinwheel. It defies what astronomers believe should happen. It is akin to one of those spinning-armed flamingo lawn ornaments, said astronomer Gene Byrd of the University of Alabama.

 

*The equivalent of post-menopausal stars giving unlikely birth to new planets. Most planets form soon after a sun, but astronomers found two older stars, one at least 400 million years old, with new planets.

 

"Intellectually and spiritually, if I can use that word with a lower case 's,' it's awe-inspiring," Wheeler said. "It's a great universe."

 

 

 

 

 

When 82000+ people turned up to the SFS to watch the LA Galaxy lock horns with Sydney FC there was one name on peoples lips. David Beckham.

 

In the first 10 minutes, it looked as though the Galaxy were going to nail Sydney to the wall..... with long nails..... However at the 20 minute mark a perfect ball was threaded to the feet of Alex Brosque by Juninho and Sydnes top scorer made no mistake scoring effectively against the run of play. The first goal broke the shackles and sent Sydney players running at speed and with purpose. After another from Brosque and one to Zadkovich things were looking bleak for the Galaxy.

 

But nearly on the stroke of halftime the crowd got to see a litle slice of Beckham magic. A free-kick from just outside the box giving Sydney custodian Clint Bolton absolutley no chance as it bent into the top corner.

 

The scond half was nearly as enthralling as the first, with four more goals hitting the back of the net making it a rather high-scoring affair.

 

In the end Sydney FC 5 def LA Galaxy 3

 

LA will now back up this weekend against cellar-dwellars Wellington Phoenix to try to restore some pride.

 

 

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