Epic Guide

I love this photo of a USC cheeleader celebrating Texas’ touch down, especially with like 1000 people behind her saying “what the $%9%@ just happened?

Epic Guide’s coverage of the Ferrari Enzo on PCH, you can read the previous posts, Million-Dollar Ferrari Crashes in Malibu. More Twists and turn in the Malibu Crash

A videotape apparently shot from inside the rare $1 million Ferrari that crashed in Malibu last month may shed new light on who was actually driving the speeding sports car, it was reported Thursday - North County Times
The sources said that Ferrari owner Stefan Eriksson and the other man in the car, identified by authorities as Trevor Karney, had a video camera rolling as they raced on Pacific Coast Highway on the morning of Feb. 21 at speeds in excess of 162 mph. - KTLA

• Get the Facts about the Ferrari Enzo Crash

• Watch the Ferrari Crash Video
  

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Epicureanism is a philosophy based upon Epicurus teachings. The basis for the philosophy was in materialism, or the idea that the only true existence is in atomic matter, which would sharply contrast idealism.  Epicureanism philosophy died when Constantine approved Christianity.  One of the more famous modern day Epicurean idealists was our own, Tomas Jefferson, whose own tombstone states that he was for Religious Freedom, which may suggest, that he was not much of a Christian.

I do not think Epic Guide subscribes much to this philosophy, however, one of the main Epicurian tenants was that Epicurus and his followers shunned politics, which Epic Guide parallels in many ways.

• http://www.twinleaf.org/articles/jeffersonia.html
• http://www.monticello.org/reports/people/short.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicurian
• Epicurus Greek Guy
• Epicharmus, other  Greek Guy

Jeremy, here’s my response to your comment.

“Anno Domini (”In the Year of the Lord”), abbreviated as AD or A.D. defines an epoch based on the traditionally-reckoned year of the birth (or actually Incarnation) of Jesus of Nazareth.

This Christian era is currently dominant all around the world in both commercial and scientific use.

Presently, it is the common, international standard, recognised by international institutions such as the United Nations and the Universal Postal Union.
This is due both to the tradition and to the fact that the solar Gregorian calendar has long time been considered to be astronomically correct.

Further more, a monk invented the calendar, therefore, why should people strip the meaning out of the original work to suit their purpose? The original works include A.D. /B.C. If someone wants to rename it, they should make there own calendar.

The Anno Domini system was developed by a Scythian monk named Dionysius Exiguus in Rome in 525, as an outcome of his work on calculating the date of Easter. Byzantine chroniclers like Theophanes continued to date each year in their world chronicles on a different Judaeo-Christian basis — from the notional creation of the World as calculated by Christian scholars in the first five centuries of the Christian era. These eras, sometimes called Anno Mundi, “year of the world” (abbreviated AM), by modern scholars, had their own disagreements. No single Anno Mundi epoch was dominant. One popular formulation was that established by Eusebius of Caesarea, a historian at the time of Constantine I. The Latin translator Jerome helped popularize Eusebius’s AM count in the West. Another formulation, dominant in the East during the early centuries of the Byzantine Empire, was developed by the Alexandrian monk Anninus.

Epicurus was a Greek philosopher credited with the founding of Epicuranism, one of the most popular schools of Hellenistic Philosophy. Epicurus lived in Athens from 341-270 before Christ. Epicurus’ school was considered on the of the three dominant schools in Hellenistic Philosophy along with Stoicism and Skepticism.

• http://www.epicurus.info
• Other Epic Guides - Epicharmus of Kos

Oh boy, I’m excited know, we found the missing link, we are all monkeys!! Well at least the press is a bunch of monkeys. Here’s a story about 5 children, out of 19 that can’t walk upright. The parents are already closely related, so add 1 and 1 together, your going to have problems. I can’t believe that scientist that haven’t seen or heard about this are all ready stating that they must have missing genes or have mutated. This may be a case of natural selection, but a gene regression seems a bit far out. Even if these poor people can’t walk, whether it’s due to physical or mental problems, doesn’t mean they are the missing link. I guess we could surmise in the other direction, that people that can’t walk but use wheel chair are a link to the future, and more advanced than those who can walk.

Humans are not built to walk as quadrupeds, our hips, hands, leg length and the fact that we don’t have a tail, might suggest that we walk upright, and always have. I know scientist have been looking for missing links since the 1800’s but seriously, none have ever been found, and these unfortunate people are not them. Lets us leave them alone to live out their lives in peace.

Read some of these articles and tell me the media isn’t stretching on this.

• Family Walks on All Fours, May Offer Evolution Insight, Experts Say
• Human quadrupeds discovered in Turkey
• Human quadrupeds discovered
• Human quadrupeds in Turkey

I’ll be beginning a series called “becoming enlightened”. It will document my own personal reflections on selected poetry and art. My goal is to have something new each Saturday and then have my personal response by the middle of the week.

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The first is a poem entitled, “Be with those who help your being” by the Sufi poet Rumi. Rumi is the bestselling poet in America.

Be with those who help your being.
Don’t sit with indifferent people, whose breath
comes cold out of their mouths.
Not these visible forms, your work is deeper.

A chunk of dirt thrown in the air breaks to pieces.
If you don’t try to fly,
and so break yourself apart,
you will be broken open by death,
when it’s too late for all you could become.

Leaves get yellow. The tree puts out fresh roots
and makes them green.
Why are you so content with a love that turns you yellow?

-Rumi

A paper back copy of the Illustrated Rumi

A hardcover book of selected poetry with accompanied artwork

This is the Third class seating.

I have been reading though Technorati, wondering what this “Origami” tag is. So I did some research and figured it out, and it may become a household name (or not).

So what is Origami? Origami is Microsoft’s new portable computer, sort of. Microsoft is not a hardware company so it designed the specs and farmed out the design to manufacturers, supplying its software, a modified version of XP Windows. Microsoft is clearly trying to enter into the handheld world to hold on to its operating market share, not to make the best product on the market. Reviews seem to bash the product, saying it will never handle the software that Microsoft intends it to use.

• Origami looks paper-thin
• Is Microsoft’s Origami Just a Paper Tiger?
• Introduced at CeBIT, the new mobile PC form factor, formerly codenamed “Origami”