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learnteachThings thought about or heard about today:
Lunar Eclipse during burning Man
Motor vs. Engine Etymology (from class)
Temperature of surface of sun is 5770 K (class)
Hungry Ghosts in a Zen way (Big Five)
And the biggest thoughts of all?
OMGWTFBBQROFLMAO YAY! Borrowed Deena's housecleaner. House is cleaner than it has been in
well, a long time. MUST KEEP HOUSECLEANER! Now to go put away the piles.
Bigger thought: setting goals without defined events doesn't work for me at all. I might miss a goal attached to an event, but the urgency leads me to prioritize better. So:
HEALTH/FIGHTING: Run in 5K with L. (Register! Train! Just bought running shoes.) Lead Lance at Mists/Cynagua (Rebuild shield, 2 war swords, make 3 practices minimum) Fight at Alderon's tourney. (Clean armor! Tourney shield! 3 practices!)
HOUSE: Hold Bardic party in August (Clean house, figure date, plan meal, invite people.) Hold Provence food party in backyard (Date, invites, menu, backyard.) ;
ART: Compete in Bard of the Mists (Sep 8). Bardic Comp. at October Crown (work!)
That's enough to start.
Lunar Eclipse during burning Man
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEplot/LEplot2001/LE2007Aug28T.GIF
FULLY VISIBLE! Cool. Hmm. A poem here, perhaps?
Motor vs. Engine Etymology (from class)
motor Look up motor at Dictionary.com
1447, from L. motor, lit. "mover," from movere "to move" (see move). From 15c. as "controller, prime mover" (in reference to God); sense of "agent or force that produces mechanical motion" is first recorded 1664; that of "machine that supplies motive power" is from 1856. With explosive use 20c. as a comb. form of motor-car. First record of motor-cycle attested 1896; motor-boat is from 1902. Motor-car is from 1895; motorist is from 1896. For motorcade (1913) see cavalcade. First record of slang motor-mouth "fast-talking person" is from 1971.
engine Look up engine at Dictionary.com
c.1300, from O.Fr. engin "skill, cleverness," also "war machine," from L. ingenium "inborn qualities, talent," from in- "in" + gen-, root of gignere "to beget, produce." At first meaning a trick or device, or any machine (especially military); sense of one that converts energy to mechanical power is 18c., especially of steam engines. Engineer "locomotive driver" is first attested 1839, Amer.Eng.
Temperature of surface of sun is 5770 K (class)
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=126
Hmm. Bounces around, but it bounces around that number. Great call. Sunspots are 2000 K cooler, eh? Corona can be much hotter, hmm.
Hungry Ghosts in a Zen way (Big Five)
What then is a human beings instinct? Maybe alot of us don't understand because we think entirely too much. Alot of human beings have become hungry ghosts. A hungry ghost is a person that has been given a mouth the size of a pinhead, and a stomach the size of the universe. No matter how much food such a person crams into this mouth, their stomach is never once satisfied. Zen means help everyone. Zen means do not pollute this world, other beings. Zen means understanding your relationship to all of this. Why are you doing such and such? A lot of people don't understand that. If human beings are to survive, what do human beings need to cultivate? War, anger, and greed? Or love, compassion, and kindness?
Love means that you give. What are you doing? Is that clear to you? This is a human being's instinct. But through living in the realm of hungry ghosts, we lose and neglect it. We come to see our survival as more important than mankind as a whole's survival. But this sort of thinking and self serving action will come back to you. If you live a life of doing things only for you, then you do not understand yourself-nor do you understand a human being's instinct. The entire cosmos is one large tree. If I think that chopping large or even small chunks from the trunk of this tree won't hurt myself-the branch-I am delusional. We all share one body in this world. If I stab my heart howver, my body dies. So what is your purpose, your instinct? Bodhisattva vows. Help all beings everywhere, even if this takes 10,000 years. Only try.
**Huh. Not what I thought. And not really applying to the situation at all. Interesting. **
Lunar Eclipse during burning Man
Motor vs. Engine Etymology (from class)
Temperature of surface of sun is 5770 K (class)
Hungry Ghosts in a Zen way (Big Five)
And the biggest thoughts of all?
OMGWTFBBQROFLMAO YAY! Borrowed Deena's housecleaner. House is cleaner than it has been in
well, a long time. MUST KEEP HOUSECLEANER! Now to go put away the piles.
Bigger thought: setting goals without defined events doesn't work for me at all. I might miss a goal attached to an event, but the urgency leads me to prioritize better. So:
HEALTH/FIGHTING: Run in 5K with L. (Register! Train! Just bought running shoes.) Lead Lance at Mists/Cynagua (Rebuild shield, 2 war swords, make 3 practices minimum) Fight at Alderon's tourney. (Clean armor! Tourney shield! 3 practices!)
HOUSE: Hold Bardic party in August (Clean house, figure date, plan meal, invite people.) Hold Provence food party in backyard (Date, invites, menu, backyard.) ;
ART: Compete in Bard of the Mists (Sep 8). Bardic Comp. at October Crown (work!)
That's enough to start.
Lunar Eclipse during burning Man
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEplot/LEplot2001/LE2007Aug28T.GIF
FULLY VISIBLE! Cool. Hmm. A poem here, perhaps?
Motor vs. Engine Etymology (from class)
motor Look up motor at Dictionary.com
1447, from L. motor, lit. "mover," from movere "to move" (see move). From 15c. as "controller, prime mover" (in reference to God); sense of "agent or force that produces mechanical motion" is first recorded 1664; that of "machine that supplies motive power" is from 1856. With explosive use 20c. as a comb. form of motor-car. First record of motor-cycle attested 1896; motor-boat is from 1902. Motor-car is from 1895; motorist is from 1896. For motorcade (1913) see cavalcade. First record of slang motor-mouth "fast-talking person" is from 1971.
engine Look up engine at Dictionary.com
c.1300, from O.Fr. engin "skill, cleverness," also "war machine," from L. ingenium "inborn qualities, talent," from in- "in" + gen-, root of gignere "to beget, produce." At first meaning a trick or device, or any machine (especially military); sense of one that converts energy to mechanical power is 18c., especially of steam engines. Engineer "locomotive driver" is first attested 1839, Amer.Eng.
Temperature of surface of sun is 5770 K (class)
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=126
Hmm. Bounces around, but it bounces around that number. Great call. Sunspots are 2000 K cooler, eh? Corona can be much hotter, hmm.
Hungry Ghosts in a Zen way (Big Five)
What then is a human beings instinct? Maybe alot of us don't understand because we think entirely too much. Alot of human beings have become hungry ghosts. A hungry ghost is a person that has been given a mouth the size of a pinhead, and a stomach the size of the universe. No matter how much food such a person crams into this mouth, their stomach is never once satisfied. Zen means help everyone. Zen means do not pollute this world, other beings. Zen means understanding your relationship to all of this. Why are you doing such and such? A lot of people don't understand that. If human beings are to survive, what do human beings need to cultivate? War, anger, and greed? Or love, compassion, and kindness?
Love means that you give. What are you doing? Is that clear to you? This is a human being's instinct. But through living in the realm of hungry ghosts, we lose and neglect it. We come to see our survival as more important than mankind as a whole's survival. But this sort of thinking and self serving action will come back to you. If you live a life of doing things only for you, then you do not understand yourself-nor do you understand a human being's instinct. The entire cosmos is one large tree. If I think that chopping large or even small chunks from the trunk of this tree won't hurt myself-the branch-I am delusional. We all share one body in this world. If I stab my heart howver, my body dies. So what is your purpose, your instinct? Bodhisattva vows. Help all beings everywhere, even if this takes 10,000 years. Only try.
**Huh. Not what I thought. And not really applying to the situation at all. Interesting. **
