Love songs, movies and real life

There is a song named Heaven knows from the 1995 movie Hackers: In real life, people often don't reach the end of their personal movie, i.e. there is a kiss but maybe with a less suitable partner who is just regarded as Mr. or Mrs. Right.

In movies - such as Hackers - they luckily mostly get the chance to give their kiss to the right counterpart: If it's most romantic, we will see a kiss of surrender (from both sides) - to admit that there is something more important than oneself.

Actually, love in real life should be like that, too: The kiss, being a moment of absolut balance and truth and peace with yourself.

Über die Fähigkeit Musik zu hören und Bilder zu betrachten

Für wen ist es leichter Musik zu hören oder Bilder zu betrachten ?

Ich denke für denjenigen, der dieses noch nie gemacht hat: Denn wer Musik zum ersten Mal hört, der besitzt die Gnade der Unschärfe: Er hört die Melodie und die Stimmung.

Wer Erfahrung hat, der hört die einzelnen Noten und die minimalen Abweichungen und Fehler im Spiel.

Genauso bei einem Bild: Ein Fachmann sieht die einzelnen Bildpunkte, ein Anfänger die Stimmung und das Gesamte.

So sollte der schaffende Künstler am besten einen Anfänger nach seiner Meinung fragen.-

About being grown up

Being grown up is a state where you have convinced yourself that you know more about life than somebody else. Thus grown up means that you think that you have grown in mental size up upon some other people.

An amusing idea.

Are you really bigger or do you just copy behaviour to pretend that you are bigger ? Do you use those phrases or cloth to pretend ?

And by the way: Is it really necessary for your life to be bigger than someone else ??

Maybe you should have a look upwards to realize that there are other peole who have grown even above your size.

My suggestion: Don't waste too much time on thinking about your size. It's all relative.

Just try to learn some more every day and pass your knowledge on.

About extraterrestrial life

Observation: From time to time - when there is a German astronaut involved in a space project - I observe this news in the (German) press:
German astronaut believes in extra terrestrial life

It's never been said directly so far, but what is says in between the lines is:
German astronaut believes in little green men from planet Mars

My statement concerning such articles: Are we still in medieval times ? Does anybody still seriously believe that all life forms on earth (Menkind, trees, animals, bacteria...) are the only life forms in the whole universe ?

Suggestion for people believing in that:

• Check out the undersea research concerning bacteria life
• Check out astronomy sources concerning extra solar planets
• Just think how unique life really is.

Reference:
"Deutscher Astronaut glaubt an außerirdisches Leben"
DPA - Samstag, 2. Februar, 16:11 Uhr

Lübeck (dpa) - Der deutsche Astronaut Hans Schlegel glaubt an außerirdisches Leben. «Da bin ich felsenfest von überzeugt», sagte er den «Lübecker Nachrichten».

«Auf welchem Niveau, ist aber Spekulation. Die entscheidende Frage ist, werden wir jemals so weit kommen, um in der Lage zu sein, mit außerirdischem Leben Kontakt aufzunehmen? Da bin ich skeptisch.» Der 56-Jährige startet am kommenden Donnerstag (7.2.) mit der US-Raumfähre «Atlantis» und dem europäischen Weltraumlabor «Columbus» vom Weltraumbahnhof Cape Canaveral (Florida) zur ISS.

Schlegel soll bei seinem ersten Außeneinsatz in den Weltraum aussteigen, um «Columbus» an die Station anzubauen. «Dass mein amerikanischer Kollege und ich aussteigen, stellt schon eine höhere Gefährdung da», sagte er. «Die Anzüge sind praktisch unser eigenes kleines Raumschiff. Wir haben darin unsere eigene Kühlung, Sauerstoff und Stromversorgung, und wir sind nur mit einer Sicherheitsleine mit der ISS verbunden. Da muss alles funktionieren.» Er freue sich sehr auf den Einsatz.

How to cross a street

Theme: I read that our brain takes 3 seconds to analyse a situation. So what happens if there are cars driving on the street ? You don't have 3 seconds to react.

Thesis: Our brain is triggered by the approaching cars. It just plays the snippets of software that are appropiate for the situation. Even for cars approaching with different speeds, it has different replies.

Annotation: I think that it's one of the first things that a baby learns how to get from A to B and watch the reaction of your environment C while doing that.

Remark: Please excuse if the text above appears trivial. I didn't check on Google if the thesis is wrong, already known or whatever. I just wrote it down for fun.

All you do

All you do is not too much,
because you need not do it.

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People often help out other people and...

* think they're doing a good deed.
* think the other one would need their help.

However... noone... not your brother, not your sister, not your father nor your mother is indispensable. Not your teacher, not your boss, not your wife... and especially you yourself are not indispensable.

People are stronger than you think they are...
and that includes you yourself.

Roses

What's so special about roses ?


After all, roses are just flowers.
But flowers color our lives.
They enlighten it.
And they give us landmarks so that we know where we are.

Finally, flowers emerge from plain soil -
and give their unconditional beauty to us.

Cat or slice of marmelade bread ?

There is a saying that a slice of marmelade bread always falls onto its marmelade side if falling to the ground.

Furthermore in regard to cats it is known that cats always fall onto their paws if falling from a tree or whenceever.

Last year I had a discussion about which urge is stronger: The urge of the cat to land on its paws or the urge of the slice of marmelade bread to land on its marmelade side.

A scientific experiment certainly would help shed some light on this question.

So quickly an experimental setup was conceived: The slice of marmelade bread should be fastened to the back of a voluntary cat with its marmelade side pointing upwards.

The experimental setup (cat and fastened slice of marmelade bread) should then be lifted to an unperilous altitude of approximately 2m.

To give both test objects same starting conditions the cat should be turned 90° around its length axis so that the cat's paws and the slice of marmelade bread both had an angle of 90° in regard to the ground.

However, due to objections of some local animal welfare institutions the experiment had to be cancelled. In a way this is unfortunate as scientific progress was impeded. Well, maybe another setup can help solving this interesting problem.

Life is indefinite

R1) Life is expanding indefinitely.
R2) Life in universe is not an exception, it's the rule.
R3) The distance between inanimate spots is finite.

Grim Reaper

Well, I was walking home this afternoon, meaning I was the third and weakest chain link of our town's population, a pedestrian.

Have I mentioned that some bikers nearly ran me over the other day on the sidewalk at midday even though there was a clearly marked bike path (made of red paving) next to the sidewalk??

Well, I was just feeling too sure. Damn bikers ! But I looked up in time so I was lucky.

Today I encountered another biker (I thought), the front lamp of the approaching bike was already shining as it was getting dark.

Well, as the biker was getting real big and real close I perceived a big arched chin sticking out of a dark opening of a dark hood. I couldn't see a face though.

That made me think. Scythe blade shaped chin, no face. Who might this be? Well, of course my first impression was that Grim Reaper was on his way to work.

I naturally wondered if he'd continue aiming into my direction or if he'd pass by. Ok, I think I'm telling no secret here that the mysterious biker passed me by (in the last moment possible), turning his handle bar unwillingly a little to the left.

However, getting brave again since Grim Reaper seemed to have other intentions today I had a closer look at him and realized:

• Grim Reaper had forgotten his invaluable attribut of power: his scythe.
• He was in his late 60s or early 70s.
• What made me actually ponder was: He wore a dark blue cloak.

So, finally I start to think that this biker was possibly just a relative of Grim Reaper. Maybe a human relative if there is such.

Phew... he looked that real from a distance! Well, not that I was really keen on meeting him.

Mean talking about Ronald

Ok... it's mean what I'm gonna say. You see... that's a bad habit of mine !!

I mentioned my friend Ronald the other day. Well, Ronald has a funny surname. And his surname is his real surname but it's so common (like Miller) that I can tell it here. No problem. Besides, Ronald is a funny guy himself... he always makes fun of himself so he won't mind.

His last name is Dumbfield. Yep... it's true! Now, what I always wondered but didn't dare to ask him: What's 'field' to do with 'dumb'?? Or have you ever seen a 'dumb field'? That doesn't make sense at all - and I've thought that for all the years that I know Ronny now.

But then it hit me lately: Ronny mentioned one day that some of his male European ancestors who at times became soldiers had actually little luck as such. As the story goes they usually didn't manage to see the end of the respective war in good health. They are even said to have not been of great use for their respective warlords. So... maybe as a kind of self-punishement or result of their embarassement, maybe because their former warlord forced them to, they adopted 'Dumbfield' as their family name.

Having the martial background of his ancestors in mind the riddle about my friends' surname is certainly easy to unveil: I'm pretty sure now that his ancestors were not very successful or lucky in the field of war. So... to be 'dumb in the field' explains itself: It's simply someone who is a little dumb in the handicraft of war.

Second clue for my assumption: the word 'field' from his name means actually 'feld' in German. So, a guy who was said to be 'in the field' was actually taking part in some kind of war. Funny, isn't it? Why didn't they just say: He's taking part in a war. Instead they hid his true profession by saying: He's 'in the field'.

Must ask Ronny next time we meet if my assumptions are right !