Posts Tagged ‘Water’

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Two Left Feet

by Seraphine Khorana on September 25th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Two Left Feet

I must have done something really awful in a past life. The great karmic hand in the sky reached down and smote me again. Luckily, I didn’t break anything. I sprained my thumb and elbow. I got a few abrasions and contusions (medical talk for scrapes and bruises).

Hang a faceted crystal in the center of the bathroom; place a three-inch round mirror on the ceiling directly above the toilet to visually reverse the downward flow of water; place earth-type objects in the corners of the room to stabilize the energy.
Quotation from Stephanie Roberts, The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Feng Shui
(Feng shui toilet tips)

Women have this higher alternative value of how to spend their time.
Quotation from Grace Tsiang, as quoted in Women Desert Wall Street (Reuters)
I love this quote.

No results found for “Hiking shoes for two left feet”.
Quotation from Google search

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Water is Water is Water

by Seraphine Khorana on May 26th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Water is Water is Water

Water is water is water. Until you mix it with oil. Water and oil do not mix, and that’s a lesson we are learning again and again… and again.
The 10-million gallon Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska 21 years ago isn’t even in the top 30 oil spills of all time. Remember when Iraq opened the spigots on several Kuwaiti oil tankers in 1991? That spill topped 520 million gallons. A rig in Mexico collapsed in 1980 and spilled 30,000 gallons of oil into the ocean every day for a year. Bigger oil spills have occurred in France, Russia, Angola, Canada, Italy and in the Persian Gulf.
The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill on America’s Gulf coast is “officially” leaking 5,000 gallons a day, but “Steven Wereley, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Perdue University, told the House Energy and Commerce Committee that by his calculations… the spill appears to be closer to 72,000 barrels per day–or more than 3 million gallons” of oil per day.
Tomorrow, the Deepwater Horizon will become the second worst oil spill in history. There is no good news in this.
My wish is that we could turn oil into water and let fishes be fishes.

The world’s five largest publicly traded oil companies [are] on track to earn more than $100 billion before year’s end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil’s bottom line is going up, so are Americans’ energy costs.
Quotation from Allyson Schwartz

I hear one message- don’t blame me.
Quotation from Sen. John Barrasso, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. (BP blames Transocean Ltd. and Transocean Ltd. blames BP… or maybe it was Halliburton Inc. Some blame the Republicans while others blame President Barack Obama)

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Rubber and Glue

by Seraphine Khorana on August 30th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Rubber and Glue

I wish I could be more like a duck. Duck feathers have a multi-layered structure which is very hydrophobic – in other words, water rolls off a duck’s back like yesterday’s worries.

Something extraordinary must have taken place; he looks to me as if he were in imminent danger of serious apoplexy. The lower part of his face is composed enough, but the upper part is drawn and distorted. Then there is that peculiar look about the eyes that indicates an effusion of serum in the brain.
Quotation from Honoré de Balzac, Old Goriot

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It’s Earth Day. Are You Serious?

by Seraphine Khorana on April 22nd, 2009
Posted In: Comics
It’s Earth Day. Are You Serious?

A billion people will participate in Earth Day this year. If everyone thinks to better the world, there will be at least a billion acts of green performed. Whether you plant a tree or recycle a post-it note, it all makes a difference.

Earth Day Facts: When It Is, How It Began, What to Do (National Geographic)
Earth Day 2009: The Green Generation (Earth Day Network)

Nature rarer uses yellow
Than another hue;
Saves she all of that for sunsets,—
Prodigal of blue,

Spending scarlet like a woman,
Yellow she affords
Only scantly and selectly,
Like a lover’s words.
Poem by Emily Dickinson, Nature

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Drinking the Water of Lab Rats

by Seraphine Khorana on November 25th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
Drinking the Water of Lab Rats

I wonder if astronauts can wish upon a star? Maybe they have special rules about wishing like “You can’t make a wish on Uranus because that belongs to the Russians” or “No wishing for a parallel universe.” In space, you have to be careful what you wish for. If you get that pony you’ve been wanting, where are you going to put it? And everytime it pees, do you have to drink it? Um, no thank you. I’ll have a diet coke please.

Lab animals on the [International Space Station] breath and urinate, too, and we plan to reclaim their waste products along with the crew’s.
Quotation from Layne Carter, Marshall Space Flight Center

Water on the Space Station (science.nasa.gov) Rationing and recycling will be an essential part of life on the International Space Station.

When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
Quotation from Paris Hilton

The only rule is don’t be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
Another quotation from Paris Hilton

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