The Psychedelic Tourist

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- bodhi
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Urergent

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:50:00 +0000

"I am Zoltan from the Planet Bonk. I come to you to warn you of the means you must take to avoid the destruction of your civilization. Schlaketizzyonnymazzim. Pardon me, my translator podule seems to be malfuncfuncfunckukdfowegyfgsdyioyuefh ... Duracell ...fhrhfjkdgvfhfiouhwdcklsdjfhsdlfsdf... ack to the shop. I have very little time. Here are the three warnings you must heed to avoid the destruction of your civilization. Sackittomeg. fhweruifhkwwyerguiphiwe, fhwuiefrhuiowe. Secondly, Doctor David Owendfweuqif, rhuioghfa, sfgyfasdfgasdklh2djiolarge bucket of manure. And thirdly, beware the one who calls himself Princess Diana. Farewell, and may your lives be weruif3rhfuibklvqbnefipuqrefhwjklasdjklsdjklucking hell!"
- Rowan Atkinson

Boulder Yoga Girl

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:46:00 +0000

TO THE BOULDER YOGA GIRL IN THE PARK: If you don't want us old guys sitting around watching you while you do your yoga exercises PLEASE quit wearing those scratch-n-sniff tights!!

einstein

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:42:00 +0000

Yoga Coffee

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:41:00 +0000

Rocky Mountain breakfast!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:40:00 +0000

Is the Pope Catholic?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:38:00 +0000

foiled again!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:34:00 +0000

genesis

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 23:43:00 +0000

Fibonacci, God's Fingerprint

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 08 May 2013 23:24:00 +0000

The fact that a great many unconnected animate or inanimate structures in nature are shaped according to a specific mathematical formula, is one of the clearest proofs that these have been specially created.
The golden ratio is an aesthetic rule well known and applied by artists.
Works of art based on that ratio represent aesthetic perfection.
Plants, galaxies, microorganisms, crystals and living things created according to this rule imitated by artists are all examples of God's superior artistry.

20 things we wouldn't know if it wasn't for the movies

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 18:55:00 +0000

1. The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding place. No one will ever think of looking for you in there, and you can travel to any other part of the building you want without difficulty. The same is true with elevators. There always seems to be an easily accessible door built into the ceiling that the hero can use to escape.

2. You're very likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.

3. Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it is not necessary to speak the language. A German accent will do.

4. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.

5. People falling from high buildings always land on a car.

6. If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrown through it before long.

7. Breakfast is always cooked each morning but the husband never has time to eat it.

8. Remote places of the world contain unknown giant versions of animals.

9. It is not necessary to say hello or goodbye when beginning or ending phone conversations. And none of your friends have to knock when they come for a visit.

10. Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments.

11. All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.

12. A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.

13. Characters in the future will continue to use present-day slang and pop culture references.

14. Given an easy opportunity to kill the hero, any villain will decline and justify this by suggesting that the hero ‘might be useful' at some point. They never are. Alternatively, the villain will trap the hero and try to kill them slowly using an overly complicated deathtrap device such as a slow-moving laser beam or sharks; the hero will escape and get revenge on the villain, but only after the villain reveals his plans.

15. Airplanes with nuns on board ALWAYS crash. Moral of the story, never get on a plane with a nun.

16. Women will fall to the ground while being chased by a bad guy, even when running over level, unobstructed terrain.

17. Movie passengers can get cabs instantly - unless they are in danger, whereupon no cab can be found. Movie passengers are never seen paying cabs, same is true in restaurants.

18. A dying person's last words will always be coherent and significant.

19. Anything alien that turns up on our planet uninvited is invariably out to kill us all.

And last but not least -

20. When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other.

More Movie Cliches:

Summer Flood Boulder Creek

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 05:46:00 +0000

Thunderstorms along Colorado Front Range spur concerns of possible flooding

BOULDER, Colo. — Predictions of thunderstorms for Boulder County have emergency officials on alert for possible flooding where a wildfire last year left mountainsides west of Boulder bare of trees and bushes.

The National Weather Service has issued flash flood watches for parts of Colorado's Front Range, including parts of Boulder, Larimer, Jefferson, Douglas and Gilpin counties.

Proof Positive The Forest Service Are Clowns!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:36:00 +0000

Be Kind To My Family This Year, fellas
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HAVE A GREAT RAINBOW GATHERING !!

"North Boulder Farmer's Ditch"

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 02 May 2011 05:30:00 +0000

This is a view outside my window. I use to tell my out-of-state friends that my apartment building was built over the Boulder creek.

But that's not exactly true.

In reality my apartment building was build over a agricultural run-off ditch !!!!

I know ... it doesn't sound the least bit romantic. In fact it sounds rather unpleasant.

But it does make for an interesting story, tho ...

This following is from the article: The Ditch Project: Man-made tributaries of Boulder County transform natural landscape

From desert to oasis

Boulder was once considered a part of the so-called Great American Desert, a phrase coined by explorer Major Stephen H. Long to describe the flat, arid and treeless area now known as the Great Plains, unsuitable in its raw state for agriculture or habitation (at least by water-needy settlers).

It is safe to say that Long would find the region dominated to the west by the angular 14,000-foot mountain that bears his name nearly unrecognizable.

The series of irrigation ditches and reservoirs both created new ecosystems and replaced others, bringing new plants and wildlife and ultimately the tens of thousands of residents that now reside in Boulder County.

The transformation was quick. The area's first ditches were built by and for settlers chasing gold in Gold Hill, Idaho Springs and Black Hawk. The Smith Goss Ditch was the first ditch built in 1859 and by 1864, there were 36 Boulder ditches.

"My" ditch is called the "North Boulder Farmer's Ditch" and it shares the headgate with the "White Rock Ditch" and the "Left Hand Ditch"
It was built in 1861 - almost a 150 years ago !!

Last Day of Snowboarding Eldora??

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:17:00 +0000

Everybody in Boulder skipped work today in order to spend one last day on the slopes! Eldora Ski Resort is 9,200 feet above sea level and about 2,000 feet above where I live!!

MEGA DOOM FRIDAY

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:40:00 +0000

Japan earthquake: Tsunami hits north-east

Tsunami from Japanese quake prompts evacuation of 11,000 residents on Russia's Pacific islands

Three volcanoes erupt almost at the same time after Japan Earthquake

Japan's quake shifts earth's axis by 25 centimetres

Japan earthquake: nuclear disaster fears as reactor overheats

"Beware the Ides of March"
- An old soothsayer's warning to Julius Caesar.

"Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy night."
- Bette Davis

"I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom."
- Pierre Corneille

"The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our
friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of
dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom."
- Clarence Darrow

“We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are
threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is
not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the
fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I
add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the
last days of Arda.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien

Solar Rooftop

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 04:42:00 +0000

With over 300 sunny days a year in Boulder it makes perfect sense to utilize energy effective solar technology. My apartment building has taken advantage of this new technology by forming an alliance with the local utility company Xcel, to use solar power to off-set our utility bills. Today I went up to the rooftop and took some piktures of the new solar panel array being installed on my apartment building. What a view!! Thanks to the Obama stimulus package we're receiving almost a thousand solar panels on our very large roof! The energy produced will be sold to Xcel as part of the "renewable energy credit" program created and designed to save money on loal utility costs.
At least that how it was originally intended. Now Xcel is getting greedy ...

Boulder County solar industry decries Xcel's plan to slash incentives

By Laura Snider, Camera Staff Writer

Posted: 02/16/2011 03:23:40 PM MST

Xcel Energy plans to slash its solar incentive program by nearly 50 percent, the Colorado utility announced Wednesday in a move that Boulder County companies say will devastate the local solar industry.
Currently, customers who install small solar arrays on their properties receive two types of incentives from Xcel's Solar Rewards program: a rebate worth $2 per watt and a "renewable energy credit" payment of $0.35 per watt.
Xcel said Wednesday that, effective immediately, the combined incentive for new solar installations would decrease from $2.35 to $2.01 per watt. The company also filed paperwork with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission on Wednesday that, if approved, would further drop the combined incentive to $1.25 per watt.
Members of the Colorado solar industry say the deep and sudden cuts to the incentive program could be ruinous.
"In one move, Xcel would slash the incentives to such a degree that it would fundamentally destabilize the marketplace," said Neal Lurie, executive director of the Boulder-based Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association. "They are nuking small businesses."

Xcel said the deep cuts were prompted by the decreasing cost of solar panels and the increasing number of government subsidies available for solar installations, such as the federal tax credit worth 30 percent of the system's cost.
"We established Solar Rewards to stimulate interest in installing solar systems on homes and businesses, and to make sure the technology is part of Colorado's energy mix," said David Eves, president and CEO of Xcel's Colorado operations, in a news release. "The program has been successful in doing that."
Xcel already has a plan in place to ratchet down its Solar Rewards program over time -- a strategy that many local companies were on board with. But now Xcel wants to scrap that plan in response to the solar industry's quick pace of growth.
"It grew faster and became more stable at a quicker pace than we had anticipated with the ratcheting down (plan)," Xcel spokeswoman Michelle Aguayo said.
Last week, the Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association held its annual conference in Loveland, which attracted businesses from all over the country and as far away as China that were interested in investing in Colorado's solar industry, Lurie said.
"Xcel's move is putting that investment in Colorado at risk and putting all the gains in Colorado's new energy economy in jeopardy," he said.
Blake Jones, president and chief executive officer of Namaste Solar in Boulder, agrees with Lurie's dire assessment of the impacts associated with Xcel's plan.
These cuts "would effectively kill Colorado's solar market, and along with it, hundreds of solar companies like Namaste Solar and thousands of jobs," he said. "This is our worst nightmare come true."

Giffords Loughner Conspiracy

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:47:00 +0000

Boulder homeless memorial: 'All you got is your people'

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:50:00 +0000

Boulder homeless memorial: 'All you got is your people'
Group remembers 22 local homeless people who died this year
By Brittany Anas Camera Staff Writer
Posted: 12/21/2010

Jay Keithline walked into his favorite tavern and met a woman with blonde hair, piercing blue eyes and sass.

"You're sitting in my chair," he announced to her and the bar.

Delores -- or DeDe, as she would become known -- swiveled around and replied: "I don't see your name on the back of this chair."

Keithline, who was then working as a carpet layer, bought her a double rum and coke. That was their start. Over the next 17 years, they stuck together in the roughest of times: keeping each other warm; panhandling to feed each other; drinking to forget what they ran away from; and passing their days playing trivia about Wild West movies.

In March, Jay Keithline, 55, panhandled $500 in a week so that he could afford to have his wife's body cremated after she turned jaundice, and was taken by ambulance to the hospital where she died from an infection.

Keithline used a napkin to wipe tears from his almond-colored eyes during a memorial Tuesday morning that honored DeDe Keithline, 55, and 21 other local homeless people who have died in the past year.

Several of Boulder's homeless -- and the professionals and volunteers who work with them -- huddled at the bandshell in Central Park for the memorial. Because photos were difficult to find, prints of police mug shots sufficed in some cases. Flowers decorated the stage, and polished stones were given out as symbols of hope.

"We have no addresses," Keithline said to the crowd of about 100. "We have no phones. We have no clean clothes.

"All you got is your people."

Every year, out of a Boulder County homeless population of approximately 1,200, about 20 people die of various causes, according to Joy Eckstine, executive director of Carriage House Community Table, a service organization that helps Boulder's homeless. Of that homeless population, an estimated 250 to 300 homeless live on the streets.

Eckstine keeps a list of "next of kin" for the people who visit the Carriage House and works closely with the Boulder County Coroner's Office, as does the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless, to let family members know when a homeless person dies.

She has worked with those who were memorialized Tuesday, and said she witnessed their resilience.

"If you want to call it God, if you want to call it hope, if you want to call it holding on to dreams, I got to see that," she said.

After he finished his own tribute, Keithline looked up and told DeDe that he missed her. Just like that, he talks to the sky throughout the day. He said he doesn't care that people thinks he's crazy.

"She was a tough lady, but so weak on the inside," he said. "It's because there was no love inside for so long. Her first husband beat her. Her second husband was a junky. And, me, I was just Jay. I miss her so bad. I don't think I ever loved anybody but her."

The couple criss-crossed the country, traveling to Florida, California and spending much time in Boulder. When DeDe got sick, they gave up their vices to pay for her treatments. Keithline laughs at the thought of her trying to bum a cigarette in heaven.

"She wasn't my half," he said. "She was my whole. We were lovers. Friends. Soulmates."

The memorial service, an initiative of the National Coalition for the Homeless, was sponsored by the City of Boulder Human Relations Commission, McGuckin Hardware and Blessings in Bloom.

“oppositional defiant disorder”

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:37:00 +0000

From the very start of my life I've ALWAYS had a problem with "authority." I do not hide it and never will. So, guess I'm "odd"

Is Free Thinking A Mental Illness?
Is nonconformity and freethinking a mental illness? According to the newest addition of the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), it certainly is. The manual identifies a new mental illness called “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD. Defined as an “ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile and defiant behavior,”
symptoms include questioning authority, negativity, defiance, argumentativeness, and being easily annoyed.
The DSM-IV is the manual used by psychiatrists to diagnose mental illnesses and, with each new edition, there are scores of new mental illnesses.
New mental illnesses identified by the DSM-IV include arrogance, narcissism, above-average creativity, cynicism, and antisocial behavior. In the past, these were called “personality traits,” but now they’re diseases.
And there are treatments available.
All of this is a symptom of our over-diagnosing and overmedicating culture. In the last 50 years, the DSM-IV has gone from 130 to 357 mental illnesses. A majority of these illnesses afflict children. Although the manual is an important diagnostic tool for the psychiatric industry, it has also been responsible for social changes. The rise in ADD, bipolar disorder, and depression in children has been largely because of the manual’s identifying certain behaviors as symptoms. A Washington Post article observed that, if Mozart were born today, he would be diagnosed with ADD and “medicated into barren normality.”
The Soviet Union used new “mental illnesses” for political repression. People who didn’t accept the beliefs of the Communist Party developed a new type of schizophrenia. They suffered from the delusion of believing communism was wrong. They were isolated, forcefully medicated, and put through repressive “therapy” to bring them back to sanity.
Although the authors of the manual claim no ulterior motives but simply better diagnostic practices, the labeling of freethinking and nonconformity as mental illnesses has a lot of potential for abuse. It can easily become a weapon in the arsenal of a repressive state.
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yeah, I've seen this movie before
'I was cured alright'!!

Volcano Watch

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:29:00 +0000

I'm back on Katla Volcano Watch -watching a Live Feed from Iceland

International Concern Over Iceland's Katla Volcano Erupting Soon Is Justified

Speaking in terms of probability, history would seem to indicate that the Katla Volcano could erupt relatively soon, perhaps before the end of 2010. Again, attempting to find reputable information in regard the Katla Volcano isn't easy, however some of it is out there, and to be frank, the future in regard Katla doesn't look promising at all"

From a political and financial standpoint, it's understandable that Great Britain and the European Union are crossing their fingers in regard a Katla eruption rather than sounding an alarm. Their collective economies are suffering and a significant Katla eruption could upset the "recovery" and has the potential to kill tens of thousands of European citizens, most likely the elderly and those with chronic or significant health issues.

The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 06:22:00 +0000

"A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life
as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that
there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o'
everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're
thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like,
plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation.
No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic
unconciousness."
-RepoMan

The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon
Alan Bellows
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=417

You may have heard about Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon before. In fact,
you probably learned about it for the first time very recently. If
not, then you just might hear about it again very soon. Baader-Meinhof
is the phenomenon where one happens upon some obscure piece of
information– often an unfamiliar word or name– and soon afterwards
encounters the same subject again, often repeatedly. Anytime the
phrase "That's so weird, I just heard about that the other day" would
be appropriate, the utterer is hip-deep in Baader-Meinhof.

Most people seem to have experienced the phenomenon at least a few
times in their lives, and many people encounter it with such
regularity that they anticipate it upon the introduction of new
information. But what is the underlying cause? Is there some hidden
meaning behind Baader-Meinhof events?

The phenomenon bears some similarity to synchronicity, which is the
experience of having a highly meaningful coincidence… such as having
someone telephone you while you are thinking about them. Both
phenomena invoke a feeling of mild surprise, and cause one to ponder
the odds of such an intersection. Both smack of destiny, as though the
events were supposed to occur in just that arrangement… as though
we're witnessing yet another domino tip over in a chain of dominoes
beyond our reckoning.

Despite science's cries that a world as complex as ours invites
frequent coincidences, observation tells us that such an explanation
is inadequate. Observation shows us that Baader-Meinhof strikes with
blurring accuracy, and too frequently to be explained away so easily.
But over the centuries, observation has also shown us that observation
itself is highly flawed, and not to be trusted.

The reason for this is our brains' prejudice towards patterns. Our
brains are fantastic pattern recognition engines, a characteristic
which is highly useful for learning, but it does cause the brain to
lend excessive importance to unremarkable events. Considering how many
words, names, and ideas a person is exposed to in any given day, it is
unsurprising that we sometimes encounter the same information again
within a short time. When that occasional intersection occurs, the
brain promotes the information because the two instances make up the
beginnings of a sequence. What we fail to notice is the hundreds or
thousands of pieces of information which aren't repeated, because they
do not conform to an interesting pattern. This tendency to ignore the
"uninteresting" data is an example of selective attention.

In point of fact, coincidences themselves are usually just an artifact
of perception. We humans tend to underestimate the probability of
coinciding events, so our expectations are at odds with reality. And
non-coincidental events do not grab our attention with anywhere near
the same intensity, because coincidences are patterns, and the brain
actually stimulates us for successfully detecting patterns… hence
their inflated value. In short, patterns are habit-forming.

But when we hear a word or name which we just learned the previous
day, it often feels like more than a mere coincidence. This is because
Baader-Meinhof is amplified by the recency effect, a cognitive bias
that inflates the importance of recent stimuli or observations. This
increases the chances of being more aware of the subject when we
encounter it again in the near future.

How the phenomenon came to be known as "Baader-Meinhof" is uncertain.
It seems likely that some individual learned of the existence of the
historic German urban guerrilla group which went by that name, and
then heard the name again soon afterwards. This plucky wordsmith may
then have named the phenomenon after the very subject which triggered
it. But it is certainly a mouthful; a shorter name might have more
hope of penetrating the lexicon.

However it came to be known by such a name, it is clear that Baader-
Meinhof is yet another charming fantasy whose magic is diluted by
stick-in-the-mud science and its sinister cohort: facts. But if you've
never heard of the phenomenon before, be sure to watch for it in the
next few days… brain stimulation is nice.

Thousands Flee Worst Wildfire in Boulder, Colorado History

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:08:00 +0000

I spent all day today indoors because of the smoke in the air. Everyone in town is hoping the winds (60 miles per hour) don't shift and send the fire towards Boulder .....

The headline sez it all - another fine day on the Front Range ....

Thousands Flee Worst Wildfire in Boulder, Colorado History

BOULDER, Colorado, September 7, 2010 (ENS) - The worst wildfire in Boulder County history is blazing uncontrolled in rugged, steep terrain west and northwest of the Boulder City limits.
While no deaths or injuries have been reported as a result of the fire, 92 structures have burned down, eight others are damaged, and 500 more are threatened.
The fire began on Monday in Emerson Gulch located in Four Mile Canyon about five miles west of downtown Boulder, a university town in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
By Tuesday afternoon, the Fourmile Canyon wildfire had grown to at least 7,100 acres in size and forced the mandatory evacuation of more than 3,500 residents living in the steep, heavily forested hills west of the City of Boulder.
More than 200 firefighters from at least 35 local, regional and national agencies are struggling to contain the fire feeding on a forested area heavy with dead and down trees ravaged by mountain pine beetles. Eight air tankers and three helicopters joined the effort Tuesday. Due to a thick inversion layer limiting visibility, air tankers were unable take off Tuesday morning, but dropped more than 90,000 gallons of fire retardant later in the day. Teams have been on the scene all day cataloging burned structures and investigating the fire's cause and origin, which are still unknown.

I would LOVE to have one of these RFR i-phones .... BUT

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.... LOL! ..I'm afraid I would LOSE it!!
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8/17 Joy

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:40:00 +0000

"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures."

- Saint Thomas Aquinas

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