Sunday, April 26th, 2009 | Author: starlord

(thanks Renee for sending me this! Good enough to blog (once I removed the commentaries from other forwarders)

A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, ‘What does love mean?’

Here are their answers..

‘When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That’s love.’
Rebecca- age 8

‘When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.’
Billy - age 4

‘Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.’
Karl - age 5

‘Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.’
Chrissy - age 6

‘Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired.’
Terri - age 4

‘Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.’
Danny - age 7

‘Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss’
Emily - age 8

‘Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.’
Bobby - age 7

If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,’
Nikka - age 6

‘Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.’
Noelle - age 7

‘Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.’
Tommy - age 6

‘During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that. I wasn’t scared anymore.’
Cindy - age 8

‘My mommy loves me more than anybody You don’t see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.’
Clare - age 6

‘Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.’
Elaine-age 5

‘Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.’
Chris - age 7

‘Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.’
Mary Ann - age 4

‘I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.’
Lauren - age 4

‘When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.’
Karen - age 7

‘Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn’t think it’s gross.’
Mark - age 6

‘You really shouldn’t say ‘I love you’ unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.’
Jessica - age 8

A four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman’s yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, ‘Nothing, I just helped him cry’

Friday, January 16th, 2009 | Author: starlord

Yes, group leader Ruth Majewski took the great initiation and crossed the veil from this world into the next.. Though her meditation group (in Pacifica) continued at her last home (in Millbrae), it has since disbanded and nobody has really taken the reigns to make it a permanent thing again.. Will someone come forward to lead the group?

Some background on what the MysticXchange was, from Ruth’s earlier website (which I copy now..)


Welcome to Ruth’s..

Mystic Xchange!

Pacifica, California

Ruth

 

Welcome ye to Pacifica, California’s Mystic Xchange. We are an on-going gathering of kindred spirits, persons of like mind who express an interest in positive aspects of the occult, and other metaphysical topics such as psychic abilities, mysticism, oracles, omens, and just sharing other peculiarities of daily life! Although hosted by Ruth Majewski, anyone is welcome to attend, or even lead the group!

 

Ruth Majewski is an 80-year old mystic, AMORC Rosicrucian, and hobbyist astrologer who started the group back in 1988 as a temporary home for Pacifica’s world peace meditation — which then ran only once every few months — now it has grown into a small gathering of about 150 regular attendees! Space is limited to about 15 seats (and floor space), each night brings something unique — sometimes we meditate, often there are guest psychics offering free readings, channeling, visualizations, mini-workshops, book readings, who knows! What can YOU share? Come, show us!

Ruth provides complementary self-service tea/coffee and treats. During special evenings she cooks up a batch of her famous vegetarian lasagna, salad, and garlic bread! Love offerings are accepted, but never required — She does her “group” for the sheer enjoyment — sharing experiences with others devoted to (or confused about) the spiritual path — An ye harm none, do as thou will!

The group meets every Thursday evening at 7:00 p.m. Pacfiic Time, reservations are not required, just come as you are, all you need to bring is an open mind! Ruth didn’t want her home number posted here on the internet, however you may email us or reply to this blog post for more info :)

Web services and HTML provided by StarLord’s Cyberspace Portal (thank you!)

Anyone who was with the group and not on the mailing list please let us know so we can keep you up to date, also, anyone who wants to run the group in the SF Bay Area please let us know!

Friday, January 16th, 2009 | Author: starlord

starlight(tm)

Yes, you’ve heard that correct. It’s no longer a question of do they exist? Are they here? It’s taking the idea of SETI one step further by setting up an organization that will be able to liaise with the ET’s if an when they are here, so they can interact with the human race, planet, etc.. This organization, formerly known as The StarLight Federation (or SLF), then StarLight AEGIS around the 1990’s, is now simply known as “STARLIGHT”

First, a bit about what they do. The website (which is hosted here as one of starlord.net’s many other sites, such as Miniology, SOCSF, Game7, Mehrlynne, etc..) gives us a mission statement that reads like any good company mission statement:

Who we are?

  • A fraternal, educational and spiritual organization.

Who are we not?

  • We are non-political.
  • We are not-for-profit.
  • We are non-religious.

What are our goals?

  • Development of alternative, environmentaly-friendly technology, to eventualy replace existing, environmentaly-hostile technologies.
  • Search for, research, contact, and eventualy co-exist with benevolent, sentient species of extra-terrestrial origin - without bias or prejudice of any kind.
  • Provide lingual translation, conflict resolution, and other relevant logistics between terrestrial and extra-terrestrial groups or individuals.
  • To assist in the propigation of benevolent concepts, teachings, and relevant
  • extra-terrestrial cultural studies to interested terrestrials.

How can I learn more?

Interested parties or individuals, please send email to the system admin/webmaster (that’s me, StarLord, for now) for information. You may also use the comment form on the blog here and I will pass along your info. Be sure to include your contact information, a breif declaration of your intent, and preferred method of communication in your response. STARLIGHT(tm) is headquartered in North America, and they have representatives on both sides of the country; One near California, and the other near Washington DC. (Is that strategically located or what?)

So, it sounds like when they come, at least there is an organization that will be able to help the aliens enter the country and interact with the human race. How STARLIGHT(tm) aims to do this isn’t known, but apparently they have things in order and have been doing this sort of thing (dealing with UFO contactees and investigating claims of otherworldly existence) for some time.

At present the website doesn’t give much more than the opening title as you see here, but there is other stuff buried underneath that page that is open for people to look at. Some of it quite interesting! I guess they are screening applicants before they go off and give universally sensitive information to the average Joe wacko wanting to speak with aliens or chase after UFOs? Who knows.. But I will keep watch on what these folks will be doing next.

Friday, January 16th, 2009 | Author: starlord

This is a bit dated since they recently added more stuff to the game, but, for the main quests (Black Pearl), finding your way around island areas, and locating the monsters (er, whatever) within the game, It is highly useful.

First off, what is POTCO? It is Disney’s MMORPG, often rated one of the best online games in spite of a bit lower quality graphics, the experience of playing is fun. Clans and friendships are formed. You can advance through the levels of your avatar to level 40, master each weapon to level 25 (gaining skill points which can be used to enhance your skills, raise health, voodoo, sailing, or other new abilities)  all in all it’s a free game, with extra stuff available for paid (premium) memberships. It’s about $9 a month to play the premium version and unlike WoW for example, all expansions and  updates are free! Yay! Anyway, here’s a link to files I have collected on POTCO..

Screenshots
Founder’s Feast Bonfire
A Glitch in Tortuga the GM showed me
Founders Feast Meat! Gives 2000 health!

Maps
Cuba
Location of monsters
About the islands
Kingshead
Padres Del Fuego
Businesses in PDF
Businesses in PR
Port Royal
Big Map of the game
Tortuga

Oh, one more thing.. I don’t know where I downloaded these from, it was awhile ago and the maps are now dated (don’t include new islands or enemy info).  If anyone knows who made these please let me know so I can give credit and maybe we all can get updated maps ;)

You can find me on POTCO (Pirates Of The Carribean Online) as ‘StarLord’ — my good friend in the game (who is way beyond me in ability) is a crazy woman named ‘Jade Wildstack’ — if you need help with anything contained in the game, ask me, her, or one of the other fine officers in the Clan. They are there to help keep the game fun for everyone!

PS: At POTCO, every day is talk like a pirate day! Anyone caught playing out of character will be ‘asked’ to walk the plank (or bribe said captain with good rum) arrr!

Friday, January 16th, 2009 | Author: starlord

Before Miniology, there was StarLord Mini Podcast. Here is an archived page with all the earlier episodes, for your listening and pleasure (LOL..) 

Please note these are download files, do not stream them directly from the site if possible, right-click (or ctrl-click on a mac) and save the file to your computer. There are FLV and iPod Video format for most shows. FLV is much like what you get from YouTube.. You can also stream most of these directly from Miniology.com

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 Subscribe to my feed (FREE!) by clicking this icon.

This will take you to my feedburner page, where you can add the podcast to iTunes or other podcatchers! woot! http://podcast.starlord.net/ (bookmark me!)

iPod Format (30fps 320x240, QuickTime MOV MP4 M4V) and FlashVideo (FLV)
Note the download sizes are approximate.

Podcast Episodes in Video iPod format
Episode 0   - Test (Sadie/Guinness)     - download  8 Mb [mov] | 18.7 Mb [flv]
Episode 1   - Welcome                   - download 60 Mb [m4v] | 39.3 Mb [flv]
Episode 2   - Easter Run                - download 38 Mb [mp4] | 29.6 Mb [flv]
Episode 2.5 - Mindi                     - download 15 Mb [m4v] | 10.8 Mb [flv]
Episode 3   - Mini Spares and Nite Runs - download 46 Mb [m4v] | 47.8 Mb [flv]
Episode 4   - More Shiny Bits           - download 40 Mb [m4v] | 28.6 Mb [flv]
Episode 5   - Run to Seven Enterprises  - download 19 Mb [m4v] | 16.0 Mb [flv]
Episode 6   - Brit. Car Show Highlight  - download 19 Mb [mov] | 21.4 Mb [flv]
Episdoe 7   - MTTS Preview and ??       - download 36 Mb [m4v] | 23.0 Mb [flv]
Episode 8   - MTTS Pt. 1 - To Monterey  - download 55 Mb [m4v] | 36.2 Mb [flv]
Episode 8   - MTTS Pt. 2 - More Racing  - download 14 Mb [m4v] | 09.2 Mb [flv]
Episode 8   - MTTS Pt. 3 - Mini Takes.. - download 58 Mb [m4v] | 37.5 Mb [flv]
Episode 9   - Some Mini Repairs         - download 42 Mb [m4v] | 34.8 Mb [flv]
Episode10   - San Francisco SunriseTour - download 43 Mb [m4v] | 26.8 Mb [flv]
Episode11   - 2007 model MINIs          - download 36 Mb [m4v] | 23.0 Mb [flv]
Episode12   - Across the Pond           - download 43 Mb [m4v] | 29.1 Mb [flv]
Episode13   - Rear Camber (Classic)     - download 75 Mb [m4v] | 47.8 Mb [flv]
Episode14   - Minis and Miatas          - download 32 Mb [m4v] | 19.3 Mb [flv]
Episode15   - Huffaker                  - download 24 Mb [m4v] | xx.x Mb [xxx]
Episode16   - Sweet Sixteen             - download 38 Mb [m4v] | xx.x Mb [xxx]

Note 'MTTS' = 'Mini Takes The States' - There is another version of this,
with all 3 parts edited together on YouTube.. Also there was a short 17th episode,
directing people to the Miniology site.. But I won't bore you with it LOL..
These mpeg4 files will play equally well in the latest version of QuickTime or from within iTunes.
The FlashVideo (flv) files may require a stand-alone player if your version of Flash or QuickTime doesn't play them.
Again, please do not simply click or double-click on these. They aren't setup to stream online. Thanks!
Of course, you *can* watch these online via Google Video/YouTube. Just search for 'starlord mini' to find them on either site! If you have a website, you are welcome to link to this page, but please don't link to individual files, or I will block you.
Eventually, this page will be removed when HD space gets low on my website,
but until then, please enjoy!