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My favorite hot cereal

skycor — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:59:49 +0000

Growing up in the Sharp household meant having Wheat Hearts Cereal for breakfast. One of us kids would make the cereal, another would toast the bread, another would make the orange juice and another would set the table. It was quite a family affair. Wheat Hearts Cereal became quite the favorite food, with a lot of fun and amusing memories associated with it. So I was quite disappointed when General Mills decided to stop making it.

Then one of my sisters found Cream Of The West cereal. I tried it and it tastes just like Wheat Hearts! Cool!

An Amazing Dance

skycor — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:12:53 +0000

READ THE STORY BEFORE YOU WATCH THE VIDEO.

Here’s their story …

In a Chinese modern dance competition on TV, one very unique couple won one of the top prizes. The lady, in her 30′s, was a dancer who had trained since she was a little girl. Later in life, she lost her entire left arm in an accident and fell into a state of depression for a few years. Someone then asked her to coach a Children’s dancing group. From that point on, she realized that she could not forget dancing. She still loved to dance and wanted to dance again. So, she started to do some of her old routines, but having lost her arm, she had also lost her balance. It took a while before she could even make simple turns and spins without falling.

Then she heard of a man in his 20s who had lost a leg in an accident. He had also fallen into the usual denial, depression, and anger type of emotional roller coaster. But she determined to find him and persuade him to dance with her. He had never danced, and to “dance with one leg….are you joking with me? No way!” But, she didn’t give up, and he reluctantly agreed thinking, “I have nothing else to do anyway.”

She started to teach him dancing 101. The two broke up a few times because he had no concept of using muscle, how to control his body, and knew none of the basic things about dancing. When she became frustrated and lost patience with him, he would walk out. Eventually, they came back together and started training seriously. They hired a choreographer to design routines for them. She would fly high (held by him) with both arms (a sleeve for an arm) flying in the air. He could bend horizontally supported by one leg with her leaning on him, etc. In the competition, as you will see, they dance beautifully and they legitimately won the competition.”

Healing The Rift

skycor — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:12:19 +0000

I listened to an archive today of the Mark Maxon Radio Show from Wednesday, March 18th. Mark had Dr. Leo Kim, author of “Healing The Rift – Bridging The Gap Between Science And Spirituality“. What an interesting interview!

Dr. Kim spoke about a great number of things, but the one that really resonated with me is “gratitude”. He spoke about it approximately 15 minutes into the second hour.

Microsoft VS Linux

skycor — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:46:51 +0000

Until November 14th, 2007, I had a pronounced dislike of Microsoft. That attitude was fueled by the perception and belief that Microsoft has grown due to exploitative, monopolistic and anti-competitive business practices. But I had an epiphany that changed my attitude towards Microsoft. I’m no longer concerned with whether-or-not the business practices of Microsoft are either this or that and I don’t care. I have come to the realization that Microsoft has done some tremendous things with how a personal computer operates and how humans interact with and use it. The software that Microsoft has created has enabled just about anyone to operate a computer with relative ease. And other individuals and companies, using the foundations that Microsoft created, have written useful software for just about any purpose.

Now, don’t take that last paragraph as a confession that I would rather use Microsoft Windows than Linux. I still prefer Linux and linux-based applications. But I use Microsoft and Microsoft-based products, too. And I believe that Linux exists because of how easy and affordable personal computers are. Personal computers, due largely to Microsoft’s efforts, are practically everywhere and are relatively inexpensive. The ubiquity of the PC was definitely, in my opinion, a contributing factor to the creation and adoption of Linux.

So, my new attitude about Microsoft is one of gratitude and goes like this, “Thank you, Microsoft, for helping make the PC an everyday, useful tool in our lives. And thank you, Linus Torvalds, for creating the linux kernel and giving us options!”