Tao 64

What I've been doing is clicking randomly here and using that as good inspiration for the day. I hope it inspires you too.

Squiggle Time will come sometime soon, I have to go to rehearsals. :)


64
What is rooted is easy to nourish.
What is recent is easy to correct.
What is brittle is easy to break.
What is small is easy to scatter.

Prevent trouble before it arises.
Put things in order before they exist.
The giant pine tree
grows from a tiny sprout.
The journey of a thousand miles
starts from beneath your feet.

Rushing into action, you fail.
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion,
you ruin what was almost ripe.

Therefore the Master takes action
by letting things take their course.
He remains as calm
at the end as at the beginning.
He has nothing,
thus has nothing to lose.
What he desires is non-desire;
what he learns is to unlearn.
He simply reminds people
of who they have always been.
He cares about nothing but the Tao.
Thus he can care for all things.

Squiggle Time

January 11, 1988 (9)

One time I was in a
plane I had fun. An other
plane was abuv me it blu up,
I was glad it wosen't
my plane but maybe some
of my frenids were in it
I wloud be sad if some of
my frends were in it, But
all of my frends were
in my plane because
it was my birthday I was
going to Hollywood.

Teach: Were you taking your friends to your birthday party in Hollywood? Yes.

An Open Letter to Television

An open letter to FOX, NBC Universal and HULU (and for that matter, ABC)

I am worried because I don't know if you are recording what I'm watching on HULU.

Let me start at the beginning. I am addicted to television. I'm not ashamed and I'm not doing anything to stop it. I watch shows on FOX, NBC and ABC because I do not have cable. I watch everything from Bones to 30 Rock to Lost....to the Office, Fringe, Scrubs, ER, SNL, Heroes, Chuck...I think you get the idea. If I can't watch it I record it.

I'm going to add another factor into this. I am an actor. I usually have rehearsals at night during all the prime-time hours. Thats no problem for me because, like I said, if I can't watch it I record it. Before HULU and all this extremely convenient "online tv" I just assumed that you probably knew that I was recording the show and therefore added me to your "viewer" list.

Lets add something else - I don't know how your neilsen ratings work. I like to make up my own rules.

And another addition. I know this whole "online tv" is new to you. HULU only getting online in the last year. ABC, you had eleven different full episode players...

This is why I'm worried. I was okay when I recorded tv on my DVR. But, I don't know if you are actually paying attention to what I'm watching on your online sites. And what if more and more people are not watching regular tv and just catching up on your websites? What if because of that you feel that no one is watching a show and therefore cancel it? What if I am the reason that Fringe is cancelled? I worry about this because I am addicted to television. And I need tv. Especially one hour dramas and 30 minute comedy shows. I need it.

I am going to suggest to you to pay more attention to what people watch on your episode players. Please. Because as much as I'm kinda disappointed in Heroes, I still watch it every week.

Oh and...
FOX? I heard what one of your CEO's said. People don't like Science Fiction? Are you serious? Don't generalize man. And don't cancel Dollhouse before people get a chance to fall in love with it. You are on thin ice FOX, what with playing the series finale of Arrested Development during the opening of the Olympics in 2004. That was ridiculous. Don't even get me started with Firefly.
You've got a good thing with Fringe. Keep it.

NBC? I just don't get how Jay Leno is getting another hour long talk show. It almost makes me wanna punch a really nice car.

ABC? Thanks for picking up Scrubs. I enjoy that one.

CBS? I'm sorry but, my basic cable has replaced you with a 24 hour infomercial channel. I don't understand either. But...you're cool.

Sincerely,
Leslie

An Eavesdrop

On Thursday, February 5th, 2009, I was playing an online game.
This online game was fun.
I was a dude in a bubble and had to pop my bubble on a needle.
Easy.
Good.
Fun.
On the side of the game I was playing was a chat room.
Remember chat rooms?
I eavesdropped and read what they were saying.
Most was rubbish.
Some of it was actually about Doctor Who. I'm not kidding.
I took a picture of it.
So I could show you guys.

Mostly because it was complete gibberish

But also because its hilarious that chat rooms still exist.
VanillaBear talked a LOT
Animeal is apparently from Argentina
And they ALL know each other....

So Vanillabear puts up a music video (some how they are all watching something at the same time)
Animeal says:
VanillaBear is a flogger. end of story, they all move on.
I'm on level 6
It comes back later::
At this point I'm just reading their converstion.
But I'm also on level 19 when this happens::

MUFFIN.
Muffin is a girl.
She is online.
They want to talk to her.
All except Animeal who doesn't want her to add him
And vanilla Bear is like ::


Yeah. Only special people get to talk to muffin.
Muffin is someone people fight over.
And Ethan is a liar
and then...off topic again?


But wait! The "Vids from the party saturday!" ????
These guys hang out!?
AH, who are you people!

but then...
Then...
I had to go to rehearsal.

Super crazy dream

So I had this dream about me hanging out in a wood cabin. It was in a city, but basically abandoned. I was hanging out with my boat friends and we were all having a good time.
I was talking to one of them and he was so high. He was looking with these surprised eyes out towards the south and I looked too. There was a huge freight airplane that had all the engines out and was crashing down towards us. It passed us and dropped something and then circled around and crashed into the cabin. It destroyed half of it and all I could think of was, boy I was there a second ago I could have died!

This dream seems weird and innocent yeah? Well, here's what I got when I looked up (on my favorite dream website) the definitions of the two most prominent things in my dream.

Airplane Crash : To dream that a plane crashes, suggests that you have set overly high and unrealistic goals for yourself. Your goals may be too high and are impossible to realize. You are in danger of having it come crashing down. Alternatively, your lack of confidence, self-defeating attitude and self-doubt toward the goals you have set for yourself is represented by the crashing airplane; you do not believe in your ability to attain those goals. Loss of power and uncertainty in achieving your goals are also signified.

Wood Cabin : To see or dream that you are in a wood cabin, indicates that you will succeed via your own means. It suggests that you are self-reliant and independent, yet still remain humble. You prefer the simpler things in life.

Well I'll be damned. What do you think? Let me say this, these two definitions? Very true in my life right now. Now, lets just put them in the perspective of the dream......

Thoughts?

Tao 45

45

True perfection seems imperfect,

yet it is perfectly itself.

True fullness seems empty,

yet it is fully present.


True straightness seems crooked.

True wisdom seems foolish.

True art seems artless.


The Master allows things to happen.

She shapes events as they come.

She steps out of the way

and lets the Tao speak for itself.