Slumdog Millionaire

Okay, so I've figured out how to blog more without having a lot to new and interesting things to write about... lol... That's right. Cheat.

I've been telling everyone that they should see Slumdog Millionaire because it is amazing! Here is a trailer and some award winning music...

ONe more Awesome viDeo

Music! I Love utube

I was playing around on utube and come across and interview with Cris Martin, lead singer of ColdPlay. I freakin love this band!

One of their most recent singles: :

Poetry sort of

I have this habit of writing barely cryptic, non-rhyming, somewhat obvious poetry... I've found a couple lurking about in old notebooks recently and thought to myself- what else is a blog for? lol....
______________________________________________________
How can I love you if you don’t reject me?
There must be something wrong with you
A hook not yet seen, the lure set
There’s not

I’m used to scraps
I’m used to banging my head against…
I trust when I beg and plead
For love

Too easy, too free…
What’s the catch?
Why don’t you reject me?
Not yet

I’ll push, I’ll shove and fight against
This trap you’ve set
I have no expectations
And they’re always met

Wait and see, you’ll be the same
Once I change you

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Beyond the grasp of echos
On a wire I quietly perch
Reaching, calling out
For memory
Of innocence and hope
Awaiting the key master
to unlock my will
Recollect, Collide
Not pause
But fume and reach
Static with hindrance
A soul without breath
forever must wait

The: I Haven't got my cat neutured yet, oh crap he's pissing everywhere, home game!

Okay, so I haven't gotten around to getting my cat Alister neutered yet. I know! I KNOW! LOL this crap cost money though.

So here is my new home game. I think in the end the cat is always the winner but I think that I should get points just for showing up.

Part One.

Figuring out where that smell is coming from.

This can be tricky. First I recommend paying attention to already peed upon areas... Once a snazzy place to pee always a snazzy place. Secondly, if your cat seems to be spending a particularly long time sniffing a particular spot then that is where to look or in a very near there. Also note that he's probably about to do it again.

Part Two.

Deny areas to the cat that make life extra difficult on you.

Okay so here is the thing... I am willing to argue that there is almost no greater atrocity in life than settling down to have your morning cup of coffee only to bring it towards your lips, to stop just in time to think: 'Hmmm.... Why does my coffee smell funny...'. That's right the f@!$%Kng cat likes to pee on my coffee maker! Oh Yeah! That sucks. So deny him! That's right now when I go to bed or to work or leave for any length of time I've set up an easy to put up and take down fence system to prevent my cat from getting on top of the stove and/or counters. I use a left over strip of wallpaper that I have, taping on end to the fridge, having it run along atop the adjacent counter area where the sink is located, turning the corner braced by strip of laminate floring (of which i have lots) leaning up against the corner, and extending to just in front of my stove (which immediately follows the counter), where, in front of it, I have several more pieces of laminate floring conected together which I clip it to. Besides possibly being the longest sentence in the world. This process takes approx. 1 minute to set up or to take down. As I just move the flooring pieces against the kitchen wall when done and roll up the wallpaper, sticking an empty wrapping paper roll through it so that it can be tucked in beside the fridge. Long story short, NO PEE in my coffee.


Cats in heat like to mew and go nuts over the neighborhood cats. Especially in basements. The best way to solve this is deny them the window. Because the little brat pees all over this too and start howling. so I keep my handy thin wood blinds down. He can't jump through that. Thus I don't have to be woken up by howling or cleaning pee smelling blinds.

Part Three.

Protect all your cool stuff.

Simple, don't leave stuff like important paperwork or your favorite sweater laying around because it will get peed on. I also covered the bottom shelf of my book shelves with plastic so that my books will be safe.

Part Four.

Make things as easy to clean as possible.

I coiled excess cords and picked them up off of the floor twist-tie-ing them together to the furniture nearest the electronic they go with. This way I don't have to scrub every wire (well likely) and my floor is ready to be easily moped everywhere in an instant!

Part Five.

Wish you had fixed your cat long ago so you'd have never needed to figure out this crap.

And, that is the cat-pee-proofing home game. Fun for the whole family. If not them at least for the cat.

My old job

I found this story I wrote as a goodbye to the folks I worked at Tim Horton's with... Gosh, I'm funny. :):

Rhetorical Fondant
by Janita Davis


I entered the room and it seemed to buzz with caffiene induced life and the air around me crackled like a wet and then dry again sugar packet. I sent a whistful glance towards the door hoping that merely a look would transport me back to somewhere, anywhere, that wasn't work with a preference given to my chesterfield at home while enjoying an episode of the ever fantastic Buffy series on television. With just a glimmer of a tear forming in the corner of my eye, oh Buffy, I turn my head back towards my eight hour imprisonment and finding myself strangely drawn into the kitchen. I sense something is amis and stride deliberately toward the sanctuary of the office where I intend to contruct some sort of doohicky designed to protect me from unseen evil out of drive-through time print out papers. They always work. After creating a large web-like barrier of protection in the office I spin around three times, raise my palsm up in the air calling upon supernatural forces to protect me from food poisoning and the bitchy lady in the white car who never smiles. Now I am ready to work.

The trees outside blew about omniously once night had fallen. A shiver ran through me and I shut the drive-thru window. A young man was staring at me intently as he stood in line. I caught his eye and couldn't look away drawn in by his questioning glaze. What is he thinking I wonder.... Could he be thinking... "Is franchising our society killing the newcomer small business owner, pushing low quality product like a clown with a balloon puppet and laying further foundation for the destruction of any remenance of a non-comercialized society?" I can feel his gaze penetrating my left earlobe as I draw up closer to the cash that he is approaching. He is near now and my palse begins to race as he gets closer; still he stares.... A hint of a smile is playing on his lips... Is he judging me? That judger... Now I need to know! Pushing my way to the cash I position myself so that I am his next server.. Tick tock tick tock.... I glance at the clock, still four hours left. I glance back. He smiles at me and I feel myself longing for the safety of the evil protected office. His mouth opens and he speaks...: "Hey, can I have a free donut?"

"No." I reply. "No, you can't." My heart is crying out! It is crying out for justice and values! It is crying out that nothing is free you creten! It cries out against the blackness in the hearts of our fellow human beings like the holes in ring donuts! I turn from the cash after the obligatory roll of my eyes and a profane decloration uttered underneath my breath... What I really need is a sandwich.

Time is a tricky thing. I broke the clock.

After the customer debackle I retreat to the back where I can, more or less, safely pretend that I'm in my happy place. ...And no, I'm not telling you where that is. I don't want it to get crowded.

Humans are creatures of habit and nothing cries out more of routine than staging donuts. It calls to me like a really creepy thing lurking about in the darkness that some stupid blond in a horror movie will no doubt be investigating at any moment. Like a film actress going back to her roots I stand at a forty-five degree angel to the freezer and cry in an overly loud talking voice... "If anyone needs me I'll be in the freezer." And I charge in gallantly with no regard for the my own life. A short while later I come out a bit colder, a bit foggier and quite possibly a hero. Yes a hero. A warrior of frozen goods cursed with the responsibility of ridding the world of it's supply and demand worries. Yes soon it will be another day and there WILL be a donut. As I stand brimming with pride the errie feeling of doom I felt earlier in the evening starts to return and I find my gaze drawn towards the fondant. All that chocolate, maple and vanella fondant... just siting there.... congealing innocently. My vision narrows to that of pin points and I know what needs to be done. I circle the the fondant trays menacingly as past experience has told me that is how best to handle this situation. I take off the lids and there it sits staring at me out of empty air bubbles. If evil bred goo this fondant would surely be it's spawn. Without giving it time to react, I charge forth arming myself with it's own wooden spoon and overpowering it, plopping it's gloppy contents into the garbage bin. It gurgled! I snarled working my way determindly from one flavor to the next. Unexpectedly some of the hot-ish contents spilled upon my arm and I cried out in pain! "Why God why? It burns! It burns! Why have you forsaken me?" I stop with the dramatics and settle on waving my wooden spoon disaprovingly at the fondant and retreating into paper webbed office coccooning myself protectively while I order someone else to finish the terrifying and sticky task I abandoned. Everything is okay now. The clock reads 10:45 and I know that the end of my time here draws near. As I wait and avoid further work for the rest of the evening I think to myself about the meaning of my existence and my role in society as fondant slayer and find myself wondering... What the hell am I babbling on about. : )

Thank you everyone and take care,

Janita

speed reading video

I'm going to see if I can embed the video here too I'm not sure if it will work, if not I'll post it elsewhere on the site.

Did you ever want to learn how to speed read?

Check out the following article on how...

How to Learn Speed Reading

from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can Edit

Whether you're hitting the textbooks in philosophy class, reading long-winded emails from co-workers, or just reading the morning newspaper, chances are at one time or another you've wished you could read a little faster. So widespread is the desire to learn speed reading, in fact, that teaching the skill has become big business: a host of companies now offer books, training sessions and even computer programs to increase reading speed, sometimes at a cost of hundreds of dollars. But why fork over your paycheck or student loan money for a speed reading system when you can start reading faster today by following these simple steps?

Steps

1. Have your eyes checked. Many people who read particularly slowly do so because they have an undiagnosed vision problem. Even if you think you have perfect vision, if you haven't had an eye exam recently, there's no time like the present.
   
2. Time your current reading speed. It is important to find out how fast you read now so that you can track your improvement through subsequent timings. Not only will timing help you to tell if you're improving, but it will also keep you motivated.
   
   • You can break out a book and a stopwatch and either time how long it takes you to read a certain number of words on a page or find out how many words you read in a given amount of time.
     
   • An easier way to time yourself is to take an online reading speed test. There are a plethora of these available: just enter "reading speed test" in your search engine. Many of these have reading comprehension tests, as well, so you can see how well you're understanding what you're reading.
     
   • Regardless of how you decide to time yourself, be sure to read at your normal speed during the timing, and time yourself on a few different pages - the average of your times should approximate your average reading speed.
     
   
   
3. Get rid of distractions. Even if you think you read better when you have music playing or when you're in a crowded coffee house, you can probably increase your speed if you reduce distractions to a bare minimum. Try to find a solitary place to read, and turn off the TV, radio and cell phone. Even being in a room of people talking is distracting. If no solitary place is available, try using earplugs to block out any distractions around you. In order to maximize comprehension while reading quickly, you will need to focus on the material at hand as closely as possible.
   
4. Adjust reading speed depending on the material. Often, we must trade off comprehension for speed, so an important part of increasing reading speed is deciding how thoroughly you need to comprehend a particular piece of writing. So before you even start reading, decide how fast you intend to go. If you're reading a newspaper article, chances are you just want to get the main ideas, and you can skim through the passages quite rapidly. If, however, you're reading a mathematics textbook or a demanding philosophical treatise - and you need to fully understand the material - you do not want to rush.
   
5. Learn to separate the wheat from the chaff with pre-reading. No matter what you are reading, there is frequently a lot of "filler" that you can read quickly through or even skim over. With practice, you will be able to identify the most important parts of a book as you skim through it. When you get to such a passage, slow down. Before you begin a chapter or book, look over the entire piece very quickly. Try to find patterns of repeated words, key ideas, bold print and other indicators of important concepts. Then, when you actually do your reading you may be able to skim over large portions of the text, slowing only when you come to something you know is important.
   
6. Train yourself not to reread. Most people frequently stop and skip back to words or sentences they just read to try to make sure they understood the meaning. This is usually unnecessary, but it can easily become a habit, and many times you will not even notice you're doing it. One exercise to help you avoid rereading is to take a sheet of paper or index card and drag it down the page as you read, covering each line once you've read it. Try to drag the card in a steady motion; start slowly, and increase your speed as you feel more comfortable.
   
7. Stop reading to yourself. As you read you probably subvocalise, or pronounce the words to yourself. Almost everybody does it, although to different degrees: some people actually move their lips or say the words under their breath, while others simply say each word in their heads. Regardless of how you subvocalise, it slows you down. (You are concerned with speed reading here, not reading to practice communicating the material verbally, which can be done later if you find it necessary.) To break the habit, try to be conscious of it. When you notice yourself pronouncing words to yourself, try to stop doing it. It may help to focus on key words and skip over others, or you may want to try humming to yourself or counting "1,2,3,4" repeatedly in order to prevent subvocalising. One exercise to stop your lips from moving is to put a finger on your mouth and keep it there while you read.
   
8. Read with your hand. Smooth, consistent eye motion is essential to speed reading. You can maximize your eyes' efficiency by using your hand to guide them. One such method is to simply draw your hand down each page as you read. You can also brush your hand under each line you read, as if you are brushing dust off the lines. Your eyes instinctively follow motion, and the movement of your hand serves to keep your eyes moving constantly forward. Note, however, that many speed reading instruction books warn off using a tracking member in speed reading as it inhibits the process.
   
9. Practice reading blocks of words. Nearly everyone learned to read word-by-word or even letter-by-letter, but once you know the language, that's not the most efficient method of reading. Not every word is important, and in order to read quickly, you'll need to read groups of words - or even whole sentences or short paragraphs - instantaneously. The good news is you probably already do this to some extent: most people read three or four words at a time. Once you make an effort to be aware of your reading style, you'll discover how many words you read at a time. Now you just need to increase that number. Using your hand as a guide may help, as may holding the book a little further from your eyes than you usually do.
   
10. Practice and push yourself. While you may see some gains in speed the moment you start using these tips, speed reading is a skill that requires a lot of practice. Always push yourself to your comfort level and beyond - if you end up having to reread a section, it's not a big deal. Keep practicing regularly.
    
11. Time yourself regularly. After a week or so of practice, time yourself as in step two. Do this regularly thereafter, and keep track of your improvement. Don't forget to pat yourself on the back every time your reading speed increases!
    

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Tips

• Try books with large font to start. A book with small letters might be hard at first because it is easy to skip lines by mistake.
  
• Start by reading a book or article that you have already read. It will be easier to skip words and keep up a smooth flow if you're familiar with the material.
  
• When using your hand or finger to guide your eyes, start slowly, but at a challenging pace. Even if you don't think you're keeping up with your hand, keep going for a page or two and then test your comprehension. With practice, you'll be able to move your hand and read faster that way.
  
• Take frequent breaks. Your comprehension and focus will be better if you take a five-minute break every hour or half-hour. Taking breaks is also important to keep your eyes healthy and avoid eye strain.
  
• You may not want to read some things quickly, even if you can. Fiction for example, is usually relatively easy to read quickly, but you can miss out on a lot of the nuance and beauty of the fiction writer's craft, even if you understand everything that's going on in a story. The same is doubly true for poetry. If you're reading for enjoyment, it may be best to savor the words.
  
• An index card, bookmark, or other page-width item might help increase speed more than a finger. By obscuring surrounding text, a card prevents your eyes from wandering.
  
• Read every day at least 10 minutes.
  

Warnings

• While faster reading can actually improve your comprehension by making you a more active, focused reader, reading too fast can also lead to decreased comprehension. You read in order to get important information; if you're reducing your comprehension dramatically, you might as well not read at all.
  
• Beware of expensive speed reading products. Try the tips above before you spend money on a speed reading book or kit. If you're still not making progress after a few weeks of regular, serious practice, you may want to consider paying for a product, but do some research and compare your options before you do.
  
• Sleep well! You won't be able to have a good understanding of the text if you don't. It will make you spend a lot more time on reading, and even like that, the comprehension isn't going to be as high as you may wish.
  

Things You'll Need

• Reading material
  
• Good eyesight
  
• Patience
  
• Earplugs
  

Related wikiHows

• How to Cram for an Exam
  
• How to Exercise Your Eyes
  
• How to Take Perfect Lecture Notes
  
• How to Read and Write in 1337
  
• How to Read While Walking
  
• How to Recognize the Signs of Attention Deficit Disorder
  

Sources and Citations

• Hand techniques to aid speed reading
  
• Keith Drury's speed reading and retention tips
  
• Reading tips from Virginia Tech and Michigan Reach Out
  

Article provided by wikiHow, a wiki how-to manual. Please edit this article and find author credits at the original wikiHow article on How to Learn Speed Reading. All content on wikiHow can be shared under a Creative Commons license.

I Agree!!

Okay, I finally watched "Slum-Dog Millionaire" and "The Wrestler" and they were fantastic!!! It makes absolute sense that Slum-Dog Millionaire cleaned up at the golden globes and that The Wrestler earned Mickey Rourke with best actor.

The story of "Slum-Dog Millionaire" is gripping, touching and spirited; and the way it was shot, the camera angles, the way the shots were framed and the colour was absolutely fantastic!! I couldn't pull my eyes away. When I first heard the premise I must admit I didn't think much of it... A contestant on India's version of "Who wants to be a millionaire" didn't sound very interesting to me. The show part of the movie made for an excellent and original device to tell us the lead characters life over a broad time frame. "Thumbs-up to "Slumdog Millionaire"! Briliant!

Mickey Rourke portrayed Randy (The Ram), a wrestler who's past it and struggling to find his place now. His fear of being alone spurs on the best of intentions but alas he is eternally flawed and destined to be a tragic character. You can't help but feel sympathetic towards his character and his failures break your heart.

So, now my friend Dan can be happy. He's been driving me nuts trying to get me to watch these movies. Well he was right, they were awesome!

I'm a smarty pants!!

I was bored again and decided to smack my brain into working... I only had to smack myself around for an hour or so... lol... Anyway, look how smart I am!!



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A Personality Test! --My Results!

Rational Portrait of the Architect (INTP)

Architects need not be thought of as only interested in drawing blueprints for buildings or roads or bridges. They are the master designers of all kinds of theoretical systems, including school curricula, corporate strategies, and new technologies. For Architects, the world exists primarily to be analyzed, understood, explained - and re-designed. External reality in itself is unimportant, little more than raw material to be organized into structural models. What is important for Architects is that they grasp fundamental principles and natural laws, and that their designs are elegant, that is, efficient and coherent.

Architects are rare - maybe one percent of the population - and show the greatest precision in thought and speech of all the types. They tend to see distinctions and inconsistencies instantaneously, and can detect contradictions no matter when or where they were made. It is difficult for an Architect to listen to nonsense, even in a casual conversation, without pointing out the speaker's error. And in any serious discussion or debate Architects are devastating, their skill in framing arguments giving them an enormous advantage. Architects regard all discussions as a search for understanding, and believe their function is to eliminate inconsistencies, which can make communication with them an uncomfortable experience for many.

Ruthless pragmatists about ideas, and insatiably curious, Architects are driven to find the most efficient means to their ends, and they will learn in any manner and degree they can. They will listen to amateurs if their ideas are useful, and will ignore the experts if theirs are not. Authority derived from office, credential, or celebrity does not impress them. Architects are interested only in what make sense, and thus only statements that are consistent and coherent carry any weight with them.

Architects often seem difficult to know. They are inclined to be shy except with close friends, and their reserve is difficult to penetrate. Able to concentrate better than any other type, they prefer to work quietly at their computers or drafting tables, and often alone. Architects also become obsessed with analysis, and this can seem to shut others out. Once caught up in a thought process, Architects close off and persevere until they comprehend the issue in all its complexity. Architects prize intelligence, and with their grand desire to grasp the structure of the universe, they can seem arrogant and may show impatience with others who have less ability, or who are less driven.

Albert Einstein as the iconic Rational is an Architect

Dr. David Keirsey, Robert Rosen, George Soros, Gregory Peck, James Madison, Ludwig Boltzman, Charles Darwin, Adam Smith, and Thomas Jefferson" /> are examples of the Architect Rationals

No way to work

Okay, so this bus strike is finally starting to get to me. I just had an unplanned vacation over the Christmas holidays. My only ride was going on vacation so therefore so was I. That was kind of fun but scarcely affordable and now, my first week back to work, she is staying home again and therefore again, so am I. Don't get me wrong, I'm not at all angry with my ride... My getting to work shouldn't be her problem to begin with. As this bus strike continues though, and the OC Transpo Union leader and our major continue their pissing contest I would just like to point out that the little people like myself, who only clear $1200 to $1300 per month anyway, are struggling to survive. Since this bus strike started I've lost approximately $790 worth of work spread out over just December and January so far! So no, I really don't care about a 3.8% raise or 8 extra sick days and free choice of scheduling for our drivers here in Ottawa. I care about if my bills get paid and how I'm gonna eat when my groceries run out. This is the reality behind our public transportation strike.