Pants on Fire....

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Celebrate your thirst for knowledge, celebrate your continuing tolerance for your fellow human neighbors, celebrate the love that exists in peace. Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. for being a brave soul when he could have backed down. Celebrate his life, his death, and his legacy that inspires freedom for all mankind.

» Wiki: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Ping Pong, kinda, sorta...

Casually Making it Up

Spin-Cycle Downwards I Play in the Sprinkler
Casually drifting between my two speakers
The water it tickles alone by my ankles

The sun and it's wind both changing direction
The Leaves slightly bothering their neighbors complexion
And taking up room where there were conversations

Dry-Cycle Upwards I Fall out of the Sprinkler
Cautiously Awaken the child inside her
And beg him to play... one more time...

- KMF 1.18.07

A first! Snow falls in Baghdad

(Perhaps some evidence of the magic of snow)..

"I rushed quickly to the balcony to see a very beautiful scene," he said. "I tried to film it with my cell phone camera. This scene has really brought me joy. I called my other friends and the morning turned to be a very happy one in my life."

For a couple of hours anyway, a city where mortar shells routinely zoom across to the Green Zone became united as one big White Zone. As of late afternoon, there were no reports of violence. The snow showed no favoritism as it fell faintly on neighborhoods Shiite and Sunni alike, and upon all the living and the dead.

Source: Iraq first snow in memory

Happy Birthday to me!

Woke up today one year older, 27 big ones and counting.. with quite the awesome birthday surprise in the news: What America saw this morning: Hope

Also, the company I work for (Empire Labs) was featured in today's Portland Tribune: Portland company finds a racy niche for lifelike resin

Happy Birthday indeed. January 4th!!! WOOT WOOT!!!