Posts Tagged ‘Perfection’

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Making Sense of History

by Seraphine Khorana on August 14th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Making Sense of History

We spent a few days in Reno, Nevada. It seems a shabbier version of Las Vegas– a few casinos surrounded by pawn shops, tattoo parlors, wedding chapels and budget motels. Despite the recession, there are some signs of urban renewal. They have a new downtown ballpark and a Triple-A level baseball team. The Riverwalk District, not far from the casinos, offers theaters, restaurants and events like Art and Wine Walks. Reno, which proudly proclaims itself as “The Biggest Little City in the World,” has potential.
I decided to take more classes this fall. I’ll learn to create webpages using HTML and Cascading Style Sheets. Wish me luck.

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The Best Sex of your Life

by Seraphine Khorana on July 18th, 2010
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The Best Sex of your Life

Sex is better when you can think of more things to like about someone than things you don’t like. It helps if the things you like aren’t all superficial.

The less you talk, the more sex you will get.
Ryan, 30, as quoted in Glamour Magazine, 101 Ways to Have the Best Sex of Your Life

My grandmother told me, ‘He should love you more than you love him.’ Two years and a bad breakup later, I realized that dating someone I loved less was an exercise in mind-numbing boredom.
Ruthie, 31, ibid.

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Silly Goose

by Seraphine Khorana on May 12th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Silly Goose

Too often, I judge my worth by how others see me. It’s a social thing, not unique to women. I think I could be happier if I was different. I wish I was either [choose one] taller, older, younger, thinner, prettier, more athletic; I want longer hair, shorter hair, shinier hair, highlights, boobs, better complexion, smaller feet, longer fingers. I wish I didn’t wear glasses. I eat well and exercise regularly. I don’t rest enough. Do you like yourself?

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Quotation from Oscar Wilde

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Another quotation from Oscar Wilde

Anniversaire heureux, Northie!

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Perfect Resume

by Seraphine Khorana on May 4th, 2010
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Perfect Resume

You do not want your resume to say more than you are willing to admit. Such as: My work experience includes being a Night Stalker at WalMart. I am currently on maturity leave.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Quotation from Carl Sagan

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
Quotation from George Carlin

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Ugly Hair Day

by Seraphine Khorana on April 19th, 2010
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Ugly Hair Day

When you have an ugly hair day, conventional wisdom says to put your hair into a ponytail or wear a hair accessory. The other option is to wear an invisibility cloak.

Scientists at UC Berkeley have taken a major step toward making Harry Potter’s disguise of choice a reality. They’ve engineered two new materials — one using a fishnet of metal layers, the other using tiny silver wires — that neither absorb nor reflect light, causing it instead to bend backward.
Quotation from Time Magazine

I’m fine but you’re obviously having a bad hair day.
Quotation from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992 movie)

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Metta Metta

by Seraphine Khorana on February 3rd, 2010
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Metta Metta

3) The unexamined life is not worth living.
2) Be mindful of the questions you ask.
1) All questions ultimately have the same answer.

Let none deceive another,
Or despise any being in any state.
Quotation from Sutta Nipata

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Pretty / Ugly

by Seraphine Khorana on January 7th, 2010
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Pretty / Ugly

Comparing myself to others makes me feel bad.

Self-centeredness comes into play when there is not enough self-esteem — not the other way around… Putting others down as a way to feel better about oneself is whack and unattractive. And while [a Diva] may appear confident and strong, usually the opposite holds true.
Quotation from Curly Nikki, Tyra Show

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On Being Bubbly

by Seraphine Khorana on January 1st, 2010
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On Being Bubbly

I want to be bubbly like Sarah Clark or Reese Witherspoon, fresh and full of energy. I can “act” bubbly, but unfortunately, I feel silly when doing so. I can’t even be a convincing perky when i feel really good. I would love to have been born with a bubbly personality.

You know, a girl in my sorority, Tracy Marcinco got a perm once. We all tried to talk her out of it. Curls weren’t a good look for her. She didn’t have your bone structure, but thankfully that same day she entered the Pheta Delta Phi wet t-shirt contest where she was completely hosed to down from head to toe.
Quotation from Elle Woods, Legally Blonde

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Merry Christmas

by Seraphine Khorana on December 25th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Merry Christmas

A wish for world peace from me to you. Merry Christmas.

Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious.
Quotation from Francis C. Farley

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.
Quotation from Janice Maeditere

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Crap is Art

by Seraphine Khorana on December 22nd, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Crap is Art

“When you wet the bed, first it gets warm then it gets cold.” So says James Joyce. And this is true for everything: a man’s life, a mother’s love, worldly passion, weather, fashion, technology, war, a bird in the nest, a beating heart, milk on the floor, ball bearings, anger, the sun, a barking dog, ice cream, the sound of a hand moving through water, words, sulpher, the color blue.

You never know who will have the answers… but you must push to find the questions that need to be asked.
Quotation from Jason Manley

Hence art is indefinable. (Weitz, 1956)
Quotation from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Every Negative has a Corresponding Positive

by Seraphine Khorana on December 7th, 2009
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Every Negative has a Corresponding Positive

Nuclei can decay by positron emission; they may also decay by electron capture, so I’ll try to be positive for you. A life in equilebrium is a happy life.

Gravitation naturally does not exist for this observer. She must fasten herself with strings to the floor, otherwise the slightest impact against the floor will cause her to rise slowly towards the ceiling of the room.
Quotation from Albert Einstein, The Equality of Inertial and Gravitational Mass as an Argument for the General Postulate of Relativity

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Quotation from Carl Jung

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Hungry for Love

by Seraphine Khorana on November 29th, 2009
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Hungry for Love

I think we all hunger for love even when we have it, for without it, we are a shell of what we could be.

I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have been… When I am my present “normal” self, I am far removed from when I have been my liveliest, most productive, most intense, most outgoing and effervescent. In short, for myself, I am a hard act to follow.
Quotation from Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

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The Best Attributes Express a Value

by Seraphine Khorana on November 23rd, 2009
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The Best Attributes Express a Value

An attribute expresses a value and is associated with a person. Attributes provide a default value, but in most cases, individuals can revise an attribute’s default value. Custom attributes become personal extensions, often visible even if one doesn’t have intimate access to the user’s default.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose,
Loveliness extreme.
Extra gaiters,
Loveliness extreme.
Sweetest ice-cream.
Pages ages page ages page ages.
Poem by Gertrude Stein, Sacred Emily

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Do Beautiful People know what Beauty really is?

by Seraphine Khorana on November 15th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Do Beautiful People know what Beauty really is?

A dating website called Beautiful People only accepts new members by a popular vote of its existing members. In the past month, its members rejected almost two million hopefuls who had posted online photos of themselves. Their verdict? Swedish men and Norwegian women are the most beautiful in the world (with 76% of them accepted). Brazilians also scored high. Meanwhile, Britons are considered among the ugliest in the world, along with Russian and Polish men. The Germans also didn’t poll very well (only 14% were accepted).

Beauty stands
In the admiration only of weak minds
Led captive.
Poem from John Milton, Paradise Regained

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Poem from John Keats, Endymion

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She’s the Devil

by Seraphine Khorana on November 5th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
She’s the Devil

Unwanted romantic attention is sexual spam. Sure, you can sexually spam a thousand people and– maybe– get laid once, but what’s the point?

Researchers Become Spammers To See How Successful Spam Is (TechDirt.com) Computer scientists at the University of California took over a zombie network to send out bogus spam and watch the fake orders roll in. Except they didn’t get many orders. They sent out 350 million spam messages, and received a grand total of 28 orders. But, even accepting the researchers’ numbers, they found that the full zombie network they used could probably bring in about $7k per day, or about $2 million per year.

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Waiting for Forever to Happen

by Seraphine Khorana on November 3rd, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Waiting for Forever to Happen

Regarding The Love of Your Life: Do you wait forever for perfection or settle for ‘good enough?’

Why thus longing, thus forever sighing
For the far-off, unattained, and dim,
While the beautiful all round thee lying
Offers up its low, perpetual hymn?
Poem from Harriet Winslow Sewall

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness.
Poem from John Keats

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The Great Pumpkin’s Path of Awakening

by Seraphine Khorana on October 28th, 2009
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The Great Pumpkin’s Path of Awakening

The Great Pumpkin was Alone. He thought “I am One. I want to become Many.” This single thought caused a Vibration, which eventually became Sound (“Om”), which prompted all Creation. Empty furrows–the space between vibrations– begat more Pumpkins, which represent the dream state of all consciousness.
A Pumpkin at rest is Perfect Bliss. Therefore, carve a pumpkin at your own risk.

Creating a Devil Pumpkin Using Kerosene-Soaked Toilet Paper (ExtremePumpkins.com)

“Who is it knocking in the night,
That fain would enter in?”
“The ghost of Lost Delight am I,
The sin you would not sin,
Who comes to look in your two eyes
And see what might have been.”
Poem from Theodosia Garrison

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The Elegant Goal

by Seraphine Khorana on May 31st, 2009
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The Elegant Goal

Aldous Huxley called Chastity the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. It’s either that or my sudden addiction to animal crackers.

[Virginity] pledgers apparently gather strength from the sense that they are an embattled minority; once their numbers exceed thirty percent, and proclaimed chastity becomes the norm, that special identity is lost… Once the self-proclaimed virgin clique hits the thirty-one percent mark, suddenly it’s Sodom and Gomorrah.
Quotation from Margaret Talbot, Red Sex, Blue Sex (The New Yorker)

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Males are Biologically Driven to Hunt Giraffes

by Seraphine Khorana on February 17th, 2009
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Males are Biologically Driven to Hunt Giraffes

If you like someone despite (or perhaps because of) their faults, it’s said you like them “warts and all.” Well… some people hate warts. They prefer the illusion of perfection. Women especially measure their self esteem by how they think they look. Learning to hunt giraffes, the beautiful animal in all of us, is essential to health and self confidence.

At War with Our Bodies (SureWoman.com article by Alicia Howard)

Tomorrow I will discover Sunset Boulevard… hands read, feet manicured, elbows massaged, faces lifted, warts removed, fat reduced, insteps raised, corsets fitted, busts vibrated, corns removed, hair dyed, glasses fitted, soda jerked, hangovers cured, headaches driven away, flatulence dissipated, limousines rented, the future made clear, the war made comprehensible, octane made higher and butane lower, drive in and get indigestion, flush the kidneys, get a cheap car-wash, stay-awake pills and go-to-sleep pills, Chinese herbs are very good for you and without a Coca-Cola life is unthinkable.
Quotation from Henry Miller, Soirée in Hollywood

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If Pressure Made Diamonds, I’d be Rich

by Seraphine Khorana on December 7th, 2008
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If Pressure Made Diamonds, I’d be Rich

I have one eye on a goal, but my other eye wanders. It finds ideas to ponder and pieces of paper, interesting things on television, loading the dishwasher because we’re out of spoons. Can’t I put off Christmas until January?

20 Strategies to Defeat the Urge to Do Useless Tasks (Zen Habits)

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Quotation from Mark Twain

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is.
Quotation from Arnold Bennett

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Nobody’s Perfect (but me)

by Seraphine Khorana on August 19th, 2008
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Nobody’s Perfect (but me)

When we ask “what can I do to make others like me more,”
what we’re really saying is “can I make myself a better person?”
Others can act as mirrors, but change comes from within.

Next time you feel like it’s just one of those days
When you just can’t seem to win
If things don’t turn out the way you plan,
Figure something else out
Don’t stay down, try again, yeah
Nobody’s Perfect, no no, nobody’s perfect
Lyrics from Hannah Montana, Nobody’s Perfect

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An Absolutely Perfect Show/Not!

by Seraphine Khorana on July 22nd, 2008
Posted In: Comics
An Absolutely Perfect Show/Not!

When something bad happens, I wonder if it’s punishment
for a sin committed, or perhaps payback for negative karma.
I went through a phase where my friends and I mooned people
at concerts or late at night as they left the theater.

30th Anniversary of Mooning Amtrak Trains in 2009 (MoonAmtrak.org)
New Moons (Click on the pictures to enlarge) (MooningYou.com)

Moon!
Moon!
I am prone before you.
Pity me,
And drench me in loneliness.
Poem by Amy Lowell, On a Certain Critic

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