tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55502662012-02-01T02:37:42.558-08:00Moments sparked by the contempoary zeitgeist and a variety of venues. <br> What's <i>your</i> experience? A Fusion of NLP (TONS of NLP! Whoo-Whoo! NLP for life!), Humor, Inpsiration, Environmental Health and Awareness, Journals, Celebrity and Film News, Scientific Coolness, Health Awareness, International events, Awesome linguistics, and amazing factoids!John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarskinoreply@blogger.comBlogger3061100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550266.post-25543946125995008382009-06-11T11:51:00.001-07:002009-06-11T11:54:27.250-07:00

After literally probably a gallon of coffee, tons of focus, mad coding skills, a whole heap of "How-Tos", and a lot of victory dances, we've moved to a newer, better, bigger, faster, stronger, higher, wordpress, self-hosted main blog!!BOOKMARK OUR NEW SPOT!

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Purpose and Tools for Getting ThereDefining Purpose and Tools to get there.  GREAT Lucid Ideas  I asked myself what my purpose in life is.  I couldn't figure it out.  So I asked, "Okay, what definitely IS NOT my purpose in life?".  I thought about it and said, "to wear socks -- my purpose on life is definitely NOT to wear socks."  That's great!! Why because that process of elimination helps

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http://www.yahoo.com/s/1081179Carradine's death and Heath's death in early 2008 (both suicides) shows that actors are unhappy. They need and are lost and confused. I'm 100% convinced that the reaons for following film and studying acting for a bit was to eventually Coach actors in areas of fulfilment and health and performance and meaning. It's simple. Actor's have a lot of money and little

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Dear Governor Schwarzenneger,(From John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarski)I'm a strong believer that the purpose of a city should serve Nature. Nature -- wildlife, animals, we homo sapiens ARE Nature -- should be the intention of anything municipal, or city-based. Therefore the idea of actually closing beaches, closing a way for humans to enjoy nature (the ocean and beaches) would be undermining the very

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Accessing the Core of Spirituality: Religion in Equus John Kuczmarski November 8, 2004 Professor Soderholm Accessing the Core of Spirituality: Religion in Equus What is a church?  What makes up a religiously spiritual sanctuary?  Is it darkened corridors echoing with hymnal reverberations , ornately colored stained glass, and the smoothened, mahogany wood found in most chapels?  Or is it some

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"I'm not interested". "I love your energy and you're doing a great job selling, but I'm not interested, mate." "I can tell you REALLY want me to, but not interested. Thanks though! Happy travels!" "No, zero interested". There's magic in those phrases. There's abundant, liberating, FREEDOM in those phrases. What do those phrases do? Those phrases reclaim your time. Those phrases reclaim

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In the business, professional, internet, or any world with which you associate yourself. Professionalism, formality, closure and safety are all important. Read on to see why contracts move goals forward!1. Formality. It adds to the REALNESS of the coaching relationship for BOTH the client and coach. As a coach I don't want some client joking around wasting my time if they aren't committed to

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John Kuczmarski 11/03/05 Hinduism Professor Coleman Self-Love and Jinana: The Symbiosis of Desire and the Mind When the major cities of Harrappa and Mohenjo Daro collapsed, the Indus Valley Civilization became extinct, resulting in a large migration of strongly militant, Sanskrit-speaking western people into the Indus Valley (Olivelle xxv).  The link between these people and the origin of the

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John Kuczmarski 11/16/05 Professor Coleman Hinduism Hold Your Breath or Embrace the Process:  The Bhakti and Moksha Feast of Rama, Rhada, and Ramprasad In March of 2002, “vengeful Hindu mobs burned Muslim homes” and ended up killing over three hundred people in Gujarat, India (Dugger 1).  In 2002 Muslims launched a terrorist attack on a Hindu train traveling to Ayodha; Hindus responded with

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Moby Dick: Capturing the Geist of the American Renaissance through Melville’s Transparent Eye John Kuczmarski  “It may no be precisely accurate to refer to our mid-nineteenth century as a re-birth; but that was how the writers themselves viewed it.  Not as a re-birth of values that had existed previously in America, but as America’s way of producing a renaissance, by coming to

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The Necessity of Emotional Authenticity: Gabriel’s Deteriorating Sequence in The Dead   James Joyce, 1882-1941 John Kuczmarski (John Thomas aka John Kooz) December 1, 2004 Professor Soderholm The Necessity of Emotional Authenticity: Gabriel’s Deteriorating Sequence in The Dead If you were born blind, were unable to see your entire life, and then suddenly could see for five seconds, what would

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John Kuczmarski Beginning Fiction Writing Beginnings 250 (Perspective w/light) June 7, 2005 Rekindle the Rapport The reflection of the office lamp on the window made it nearly impossible for Rebecca to see out into the ghostly summer night.  Not that she was concerned with the arid desert evening; she was fervently pecking away at the conclusion to her “Metaphors of Sexuality in American Society

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I stumbled across a flirting, date "tip". This was phrased as a tip and it was about self-touch. It detailed that if a woman is interested in a man, she will touch her chest, leg.I know (because I've dated women and we've discussed how they don't subscribe to that) that some women do not touch themselves ad a part of their body and then expect a man to obsequiously sidle up to her because of

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Holmes' Meta Strategy!This is the transcription and reflection on Robert Dilts' Strategies of Genius.Perception of Clusters of Details ---> Behavioral Observations + Environmental Observations ---> Inferences ---> Combinations of inferences ---> ConclusionsCultural Assumptions & Facts are matched up with the observations to draw inferences, then the inferences are "compiled" to generate

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As a followup to this post, I don't think ANY post on these theme of liberating yourself from religion could be complete without Mentioned Richard Dawkins. Read Richard Dawkins. I just finished his book The God Delusion and hearing such a massively well-scholared intelligent dissection of religion and the commitment to understanding truth restored my faith in humanity and mankind.Some notes on

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“There are these four ways of answering questions. Which four? There are questions that should be answered categorically [straightforwardly yes, no, this, that]. There are questions that should be answered with an analytical (qualified) answer [defining or redefining the terms]. There are questions that should be answered with a counter-question. There are questions that should be put aside.These

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just woke up, just water, wore black (Great), no food, no coffee before, energizing awesome convo. good. I saw a darren brown and david tennant clip (for darren's tv show) and I relized that they went out into public to have a woman draw a picture and david was supposed to have predicted what she'd draw, but the interesting thing was how it almost seemed like david and darren were competing for

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First off I noticed that the ICA Coaching Process Diagram resembles Joseph Campbell's Hero of a Thousand Faces 12-phases of the heroic Journey. Joseph campbell is an author of mythology and kind of mythological dissection. He went back and scrutinized myriad myths and plugging in some Jungian archetypes extracting some archetypes, he extracted these 12 stages that occur in almost every myth be

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Homework3-4 days per weekweek one: observation-comment-questionweek two: put-onweek three: blurt-out-sincerityweek four: mixThree Types of OpenersObservation-Comment-Question OpenerSimple, make an internal observation."I noticed you standing there...""XYZ Question"Put-On OpenerApproach with a goofy, funny humorous opener.Accomplishes:Relieves tensionShows I'm humorousReveals to her that my world

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My Elevator Speech is called "Specifics of Application". I've chiseled this down to being able to deliver it in 15 seconds. I love it and am interested and psyched about practicing it more. Everytime I've practiced it, I've gotten great "reviews". Great Reviews from an elevator speech means:1) If I tell the person it's an elevator speech and I'm approaching it from the POV of evaluating my

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Question. You're drinking a cup of lukewarm tea? You want to have it taste warmer. How do you make it taste warmer without a stove, microwave or anyway to heat the tea?? Think about this. It's a riddle. Now the answer to our riddle as you may have guess. Answer: You drink a cup of frigid icewater!! Seriously, try this is it's amazing. The contrast principle seriously does work on a

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There were some problems with the 2008 Code. 2009 Organizational code of computer and household files has greatly improved so that all computer files are primarily all mobile accessible from ANY mobile phone, laptop, and/or desktop. Amazing improvement! And for the reference files all of them are organized in a fashion so that manual backups are smooth and simple (in contrast the 2008

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Advanced Coach AC110: Challenging ClientsRonnie NoiseThis is pretty off topic but it does propose an alternative viewpoint to the question of uniquely or "colorfully" ;) challenging clients. And that was "screamers". LOL! We started discussing corporate clients who scream apparently. Now, the idea of corporate managers screaming like literally increasing the loudness of their voice and shouting

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w/Ronnie Noize "What if you asked to be born?" This is a fascinating question. It sparks and generates allusions to fate, destiny, and having a life mission and purpose. With questions like "Am I just feeling out life?" Did I signup for life to "Investigate life?" It makes you cognizant with your relationship to life! You start to think, "Did I ask to be born because I wanted to party and

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Most of these were galvanized from changingminds.org, a fantastic site (listed in "choice linkage").Yes set close is actually asking a series of 2-3 "definite yes" answers. "You're alive right?" Right. Now, you've slept in the past 48 hours right? Right. You remember what the face of your Parents look like right? Right . You want to sign this contract now right? Right. Yes set close is

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State Calibration Body language can never lie; words and statements, however, can. Learning to calibrate increases your ability to know what a person is feeling. This becomes extremely potent when trying to eliminate confusion in communication and also to avoid getting deluded with words. In Neuro-Linguistic Programming, State Calibration is just "indicators" of a person's state.

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Very Cool list of 4 Personality types on persuasion blog. This article covers the driver, which may be my personality most often. Although I can definitely relate to amiable, analytical and definitely expressive, too. I may be analytical; highly likely with a few expressive or driver traits. My brother James seems to be analytical. My brother thomas, possibly amiable.However, these are

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Thank the Google God, the Yahoo Yogi, and the Live Leader that this site exists. It's truly awesome and has answered many of my SEO questions.

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I can't get over how awesome this is. Namely for the following reasons:1. Health. This SERIOUSLY has got to be one of the most aligning and emotionally healthy experiences possible. I mean talking with a coach is inspiring, and becoming a coach is empowering, but interacting and exchanging with the hub of coaches becoming coaches, coaching each other and it's like 100% pure premium motivational

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I like to swim upstream. What this means? Life is a circular mote flowing downstream. Life's a gigantic circular mote. Most people float and surrender to the currents' of life's river. And the unaware people don't pick up on the fact that it's merely one gigantic circle they keep revolving in. I've surrendered. I've let life's river take me, twirl me around, slosh me into addictions and fixations

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Here's a list of dog chemistry words to make you sound high-tech when discussing things in relation to dogs:Theobromine. The substance (along with caffeine) in chocolate that makes dogs die if they eat too much of it. Leathal dose is 150mg/1kg of bodyweight but don't push this (great site; uses questions http://www.dogtopics.com/165/7-questions-about-dogs-and-chocolate/)Antibiotic. A drug that

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I'm a HUGE believer in the understanding of epi-geneticism and how your completely aren't bound into your genes. But even if you WERE bound into your genes? WHERE is this "homosexual chromosome"? The entire idea of a "Gay Gene" is the most wretchedly absurd thing I've ever encountered or even heard of in my entire life. You genes only understand replication -- pure, straight-forward reproductive

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April 2, 2009 -- 8:50 AMMarch 27, 200910:00 PMJust woke up and DAMN. I'm angry. I'm FURIOUS. This is something I'm certain about. HEre's the list of things that have made me furious.. 1. kyle for cutting me off on phone call 2. Eric for making me panic about going up and then trivializing it by inviting everyone up on stage (even the audience non comedians) 3. Jack for being so confusing

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Buying in bulk solves three problems very vital problems in life. Buying in bulk boost finances, is healthy from a temporal-sentient point of view, and keeps our planet cleaner and less polluted. Oh, you don't understand how did my mental-math? I'll show my work: Saving money. Anyway you cut it, whether it be bulk salmon or bulk soap, purchasing in bulk means less marketing costs for the

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I think one thing going on in life is that I'm discovering what systems and methods work for me. And career is part of this.This is a reference toOrganization systems -- the literally dozen and dozens (over 50 easily) organizational system methods for emails, todos, phonecalls and life, and none of the systems work, but I've created one that works for meDiets -- Again, found what works best for

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An excerpt taken from Mark Twain's Autobiography. I don't think it'd be possible to experience a harsher or more bemusing critic than the iconic American wordsmith, Mark Twain himself.Amongst. Wasn't "among" good enough? Next half-dozen Corrections. Have you failed to perceive that by taking the word "both" out of its proper place you have made foolishness of the sentence? And don't you see

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Finally, the best article on (anti) Christianity that I needed to read to reaffirm my new intentions, emerging beliefs, and values (Basically I've realized that all religions are just clever cult-worshipping myths. They're just elaborate myths, fables. Jesus isn't any different from the Hare in the tortoise and the hair or Buddha isn't any different from Prometheus (the god of fire from ancient

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A huge fan of the "rolling clothes" WITH RUBBERBAND (Huge tip), I kept all my clothes like that even while at home!! I actually just stopped recently keeping all my clothes and rubberbanded AT HOME, but will likely do that on a trip.My biggest problem is the "what if the opportunity arises for xyz?" and xyz could be "wearing a suit", looking sharp, that random sporting event that pops up, using

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safe plastics healthy ocean article. My questions. what plastics are safe? Other than buying unwrapped produce, how can I as a consumer not contribute to ocean toxic waste and help the environment? If I have to buy plastic-wrapped items is there any kind that's "safer"? I'm a HUGE fan of reusing containers and I do. yogurt containers, coffee cans, protein containers I rarely ever discard

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INTERESTING day!! Was outside doing stuff nonstop for 10.5 hours basically. Woke up noon. immediately did 6 circuts, showerd, tie, jacket, etc. Then drove to Michael Zanuck Agency. cool as!! Met katherine she said a lot:I shouldn't squint during interviewsmy glasses looked goodI looked thinner around the cheekbones than my 2006 picturethat my 2006 headshot didn't look professiona (I said

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Hello! I just feel angry, financially exploited, and a little upset because I spent $19 sending a 40z ipod through the UPS store and checked the same price and it would have been $4.00 with just general post office. It sold for $21.00 and I recieved $29.99 from the buyer for the entire exchange (including s&h). So despite my reaction to the shipping part, I definitely felt stoked to earn ANY

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I had 634 which was INSANE. I whittled it down to 514, but still want to edit it and get rid of a lot. Felt awesome to sort through them (all electronic of course, Apple Address Book); if you still use paper non-electronic address books, don't even respond, you're too outdated. Wondered what criteria people use for saving/editing out contacts. I've got work, biz, friend, random project, old new

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I'm beginning to see how the working world works. How people invent products that are completely useless, copying various competitor brands, when always the simplest (and cheapest) is always the best. The simple best cheapest products stand out on a store shelf. Example: I went to go pick up dog shampoo. I knew the only thing I need for my awesome dog is 2 bowls (1 for food, 1 for water),

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we talked about the like design of our diploma, thomas being a doctor, my awesome NLP stuff I loved, That felt like a REAL conversation. A great and valuable and meaningful conversation, too! Because we talked about something obscure (a lot of my conversations are like my reciting some blog post or future blog post sometimes haha!) the diplomas, thomas being a doctor -- stuff that basically

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Basically what you're going through is changing your life program. Everyone has a life prgram -- a series of steps and procedures, strategies, and environmental cues that make what they do simpler, easier, and feel more productive. I remember doing some work for a comedy club in North Hollywood. I planned to make some calls to invite more people to the club. To do that I had access to the

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Basically this specific part is messy and infected with a lot of David Allen's GTD muck. Frankly GTD is too bloated of an organizational system; you take on a lot of crap you don't need if you use it. It has some great concepts but as a whole the system sucks. So I'm on the process of writing up details of my own system. For computers, it basically uses all online documents, almost all

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Body language can never lie; words and statements, however, can. Learning to calibrate increases your ability to know what a person is feeling. This becomes extremely potent when trying to eliminate confusion in communication and also to avoid getting deluded with words.State Calibration is just "indicators" of a person's state. When the red light is on on the oven, it mean it's heating up.

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Here's my view on suits. It's different. the whole double-breasted thing seems cheesy. Really REALLY expensive suits seem extremely cheesy. I don't mind wearing them. If people would look at me and see me as professional-looking in athletic clothes as suits, I wouldn't wear suits! I really like my cheapo $120 suit. However, these really expensive ones, look fantastic on me, and people may look at

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The Assignment:Practice Rapport and Mismatching!!! -- 2 Phone Convos -- in phone call observe auditorally the quality of the conversation with matching voice tone nad language rapport and then see how easy (hopefully) it is to end the call when you mismatch rapport (speaking loud if voice is soft, soft if loud slow if fast, fast if slow etc) mabye may not even need to say " gotta go !" --March

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“A state is our way of being in any moment It comes from our physiology.thinking and emotions, and is greater than the sum of its parts. Weexperience states from the inside, but they have external markers that canbe measured from the outside, like a particular frequency of brain waves,pulse rate, etc. But none of these can tell you what it is like to feel angryor to be in love. “Oconnor.SOOOO

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In "Maslow on Management", Maslow talks about the necessity and importance of self-actualization, but realizes that frequently, "flakes and gurus" as he calls them, learn of a new trend and bank on that to earn capital. True, true, but we must also respect the passion of such "flakes and gurus". After all, while they may try to swindle money, they do connect with honest, healthy visions that

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Everyone Loves some Good Ol' Factoids!!!ToothbrushesOriginaly made in China by drilling holes in Ivory and inserting horse hair!They can be made by hand with fine copper wire and looping that around pig’s bristles, forming a tuft.Celcius to Farenheit Conversion GeneralizationsCelcius TO Farenheit-20-40C = -4-104 F (60 degrees of Celcius equals roughly 100 degrees of Farenheit)-20—10 = (0-15) (-4

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Really deeply fascinating NLP work from scrutinizing the representational system predicates in Jack London’s White Fang. If you examine the dialogue on the early chapters (and then the predicates throughout the rest of the novel) almost ALL of them are gustatory!! They “digested ideas”; someone was “plumb tuckered out”, even the visual dispalys were gustorary with a “cinnamon” color; someone

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Paul New Man NotesFrom 10/10/2008 E Weekly"Newman won just once, for The Color of Money, and took home two honorary Academy Awards, one for his contribution to film and one for the hundreds of millions of dollars in charitable contributions generated by sales of popcorn and salad dressing to which he lent his name, his face, and witty understanding that he could do an immense amount of good by

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I liked the days before all the massive spam bulk forwarding email freak fests...When an email was as rare as a letter from a friend or a postcard from a traveler...sigh.In any case, I realized I'm very much like a kid. When I was a lot younger I never really dreamt of being a Superman or a super hero or a fireman or things that kids typically dream of an envision themselves as. So I realized

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I seriously thought the reporter was acting. how could she be so serious and controlling and almost hostilely reprimanding?? wtf?!!! lol. have people become so foully political that a good party is severely scolded? WHERE the hell do you have raging good parties where you can be LOUD (and everyone's safe, all good stuff, etc.) did people forget how ... Read Moreimportant actually having fun is?

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General Chess Strategy Guidelines Useful Jargon~"Bishop pair"= You possess two bishops and your opponent does not.Cliffs NotesDetailed GuidelinesAnywhere1. Calculate the value of each piece for you and your style of play. If you use a lot of back-rank mating combinations frequently, for example, a rook might be worth 5.75 or 6 to you. If you thrive with end game and passed pawns, then a pawn

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Tom Cruise Notes"I eat life" LOL such a great quote."Every actor has their own voice and what turns them on and what they like. It's not analytical; it's instinctual. It is their own voice...[and that is what is needed to make movies]". AWESOME quote because"What I want in a performance is I want it to be spontaneous; I want it to be now. Not you know happening in the past. We try to work

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Machinist INteresting b/c He has to seperate himself from all "potential relationships" (the hooker gf, the "quasi-friends at the plant, etc" so he can do himself justice and turn himself in. His compulsion for honesty is was intuitively causes him to sever all those relationships subconsciously. The severings (chopping off arms, throwing dishes at the gf) were harsh and uncooth, but those

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The human race is vagrant. It's designed to be vagrant. We originated in Kenya. We've traveled, we've roamed. We're itinerant. Vagrancy shouldn't have a negative connotation. And neither should rogue - someone without a master, without consistent income, without land, without legitimate trade, but is healthy. A rogue can sound like freedom. The human race by nature is evolving rogue.We're

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Staying On Top of the Game: Declining Invitations GracefullyTreat every invitation as a mere compliment and that way declining the invitation is a lot easier to do!! When someone invites you to a group, a party, an event, or to be a member that's a MASSIVE compliment!! They're saying "hey, we like you, we can tell you're a good person, we want to interact with you more often or on a regular

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It's AMAZING how the fusing chemical processings and neurosynaptic firings of the brain appear so random at first but seem to have a pattern. Recently, "my pattern" has been southern California. Every little thought I have leads me back to Los Angeles. It's amazing!! It's captivating. It's kind of frighteningly weird, too. Like take this little example. I keep thinking of the phrase "Nature

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What's amazing to me is how so many people are connected. I was reading up on Malibu and came across Santa Monica Daily Press. GREAT magazine. And there was an article on Roman Polanski and learned that his wife Sharon Tate was murdered by Charles Manson, which is really fucked up. And Owen Wilson lives in Malibu and has been declared part of the "frat pack" the zoolander cast of comedy actors

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Are they production? Are they for film or productions? Who produces tv or film? How do they handle copyrights or distribution?Why would anyone want to know this? Or who the hell cares? I DO!! If you're watching film and have half a brain to think about the process of "How the hell do I have this DVD or how am I able to watch this footage of actors in this theatre?" or better yet, if you're

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Wrote Taboo and Avolon in 5,200 words on 12/30TabooI watched the bartender serve this green drink in a glass tumbler and asked the nearby bar-waitress what that was."A tokya iced tea." She mentioned a barrage of ingredients in it. I went outside in the back area and met an accountant named Amonn and his cousin, Doll. They were warm, cheerful, african american, people in probably late 20s early

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The Lesson of Knowing When to Actively Observe amidst Acting: A Sub-Lesson of "The Best Commitments Never Bind and Allow Advantageous Flexibility"One thing I realized I NEVER do in life is watch the movie of life. I'm OBSESSED With acting in it; engaging, moving, being active in life. All very good things. After all many a great wise man can espouse the value of being active and interacting

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Obama is a story of a person inspiring and leading a disillusioned country. I'm adamantly a supporter of Obama.Man he definitely has tremendous words of hope, unfathomably inspiring hope, but they aren't hollow; you can tell what Obama says is authentic and originates from a source of true belief. In terms of his speaking style, the way he floats from a comical message, like the puppy in the

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Astronomy: The Phoenix craft of the "Mars Scout Program" to mars is a $475 million mission to launch and land the Phoenix spacecraft on the surface of Mars and explore it. When you consider the massive undertaking of such a project, NASA's slim budget of $475 million is extremely frugal, pennies really, but despite it's relatively slim budget, it's been an incredible success. The Phoenix

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Science: The journal of Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion just announced a possible breakthrough for astronauts enduring long-distance space travel. The earth is protected from meteorites, high velocity cosmic rays, and other space debris from its surrounding "magnetosphere". Cutting edge physicists aim to simulate this magnetosphere around a space craft. Scientists intelligiently merely

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Great News: Man, amazing passion speech. It was really wise to speak of unity, a topic that gets people charged, instead of complex policies from the get-go of his opening speech. Obama appears extremely intelligent, honest, good, and unlike his predecessor, Obama truly understand and most importantly believes the words that he communicates. Obama should be awesome. Hope reigns in america

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Legal Crap and Frightening News: There's a lot of lame crap going on in the legal world. The attorney general of California sued three small trucking companies for violating labors to avoid paying payroll taxes. Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was convicted on 7 counts of corruption and should serve 5 years for each count, but apparently may serve much less. On a much scarier note, the Alchohol,

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Athletics: Roger Bannister, born almost 80 years ago, in 1929, was the first human ever to run a mile in under four-minutes. He accomplished this amazing feat in 1954 during a track meet in Oxford, UK. The winds were high at first, died down, Bannister ran, and when the announcer announced his time of "3..." the crowd went mad. His official time was 3:59.4.That's a great achievement but what was

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Technology: Apple's innovation cease to amaze. The cutting edge rumor is that they intend to release a special laptop known as "the brick". Doing its name justice, "the brick" is supposedly carved out of a solid "brick" of titanium, making it seamless and screwless! The price for such water-blasting crafted item sounds like it would be extraordinary. While it may not be 100% indesctructible

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The Large Hadron Collider was such massive news that it definitely needs its own article.LHC will reveal to us details about dark and antimatter. It's like an opportunity to replicate some never before-seen conditions, and answer millions of unknown questions; doing that, sometimes scares people! haha. It excites me and most scientists, too, though.Basically it gives us an inside look into how

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Welcome back to the Productivity and Organizational Progress (POP) Suite. Today we're talking about Email Organization.Here's my two cents on email productivity. THEGoogle's Recommendations for IMAP Settings"> source for clarity on [Gmail] IMAP bugginess.When add the [Gmail] Pretext to my Gmail account only certain gmail folders pop up:All mailDeleted messagesSpamStarredand One other folderWhen

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digg_url = 'http://validatelife.blogspot.com/2008/09/tuesday-news-blip_09.html';Transportation: Interestingly enough, local Californians and many other commuters have grown a liking to the public transportation method of commuting they adopted to deal with outrageous gas prices not too long ago. Now that gas prices have dropped, many commuters still prefer the public transportation method. Hey

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digg_url = 'WEBSITE_URL';Entertainment: Hollywood does it again, with the inverse relationship between entertainment and economy -- if the economy slumps, movie ticket profit soars -- Hollywood has made $4.2 billion from May to Labor Day. Interesting to note that the big box-office sellers were super-hero movies like "The Incredible Hulk", "Batman", "Hancock", and "Iron man". Who knew that

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If there's one thing I have to say about electronic organization, it's this: close open loops FAST! I've surfed the net many a time and accumulated 8 open windows, and over 30 tabs in less than an hour. That's a lot to sort through. Just develop the habit of executing lightning-fast decisions to quickly archive, capture, delete, discard, dismiss, are do things that catch your interest. In

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digg_url = 'http://validatelife.blogspot.com/2008/08/pop-suite-part-4-electronic.html';Welcome back to the Productivity and Organizational Progress (POP) Suite. Today we're talking about electronic organization.We're jumping straight to the nitty gritty here. In today's age, "paper-based organization" is an incredibly small percentage of the organization management we conduct; mostly all of it

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digg_url = 'WEBSITE_URL';California: Good ol' Scharzeneggar has created a temporary solution to get moving with the california budget. No one could decide how to close the 15.2 billion deficit. Republicans disliked the idea of tax raises, while democrats vied for tax increases and cuts to clear the deficit. Likely using a trusty math calculator, Arnie crafted a temporary budget to short-term

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Athletics:Strange episode for West African country, Togo, at the Olympics. One of their competitors, whom many Togolese did not know because he resided in France and had only visited his home country once, won Togo's first Olympic medal!Boukpeti, 27, who chose to compete for Togo in Beijing when it became clear he was too old for France, said he now had a “very good reason” to visit the African

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digg_url = 'http://validatelife.blogspot.com/2008/08/tuesday-news-blip.html';Weather: Man what is up with seismology on Tuesdays?! Last tuesday California experienced a deep seismic shake and today China gets hit with a 6.0! The Sichuan province of China got hit with an after shock from a quake that occurred almost 3 months ago. I had not idea earthquakes were still wreaking such havoc.

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Meteorology: Cool that twitter proved to be the main method of communication after the earthquake today.Celebrity: This site was shocking. It's old news. Many of those people died years ago, but how in the hell was Jimi Hendrix (for example, on the shock list) only 27? He looks like he's 50 in some pictures! Another shock was James Dean's early death. I had no idea some of those Politics:

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Here's a desk I painted my Junior year of Highschool. And this was the year-long art project of (I think) 4th grade and 6th grade, respectively.I'd done pinch pots, but The canvas one was an amazingly cool effect (painting over your masterpiece black and then scratching off to reveal color)So worthwhile and good to have these memorabilia archived!

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As a closer note...here's the best collection of old school cheesy computer nerds possible ever created: I think keywords for this vid are "pascal" and "floppy disk" serve as a blurb.This also serves as a testament to how outrageously lax television production rights were back in the 90s. haha! But that blonde nerd chick...total hottie.

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digg_url = 'http://validatelife.blogspot.com/2008/07/bill-gates-last-day-and-vision-of-apple.html';This is in place of the Tuesday News Blip for this week.I got a huge kick out of this video.Very impressed with the diverse collaboration of so many well known people for this humorous anecdote of Billy boy's last day. Also, it's always amusing and cool to see so many well-known people just

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Woz. He's so brilliant. But he just appears so gypped in the business world. Trampled on by cutthroat business sharks. But ironically he's the smartest person with apple. The mind behind the first apple computer. Jobs definitely always pushed the sales. Woz is just a curious. He just looks so uncomfortable these days! Like uncomfortable with his body. One interesting pattern you'll notice

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Clooney had some wisdom on fame. Basically you can still make it at an older age, and should, to carry the success, apparently. Reassuring for young burgeoning actors.And Crowe had some wise wisdom (that's totally true, I agree) about Hollywood. People get paid out of there but it's not necessarily The Hub for all film. It's certainly undeniably a major one (and has been The Hub) but the

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Welcome back to the Productivity and Organizational Progress (POP) Suite. Today we're talking about just an overview of notes that sparked a lot these organizationally productive practices.Before we get into the nitty-gritty of where the "REAL" organization needs to occur and delve into sub-topics like email, I think we could use a little insight from our friend Merlin Mann. This guy is chock

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Finances:Turns out when the FDIC seized the mortgage company IndyMac on July 11, the inevitable cascade of financial repercussions has started to appear.The chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Tuesday more banks are in danger of failing, and that the government agency expects to raise premiums to restore its reserve fund after paying out billions of dollars to depositors at

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digg_url = 'http://validatelife.blogspot.com/2008/07/productivity-and-organizational.html';Welcome back to the Productivity and Organizational Progress (POP) Suite. Today we're talking about Approaches to Organization.First off, time for a little reminiscence...High school and elementary, oddly enough, carried the most structured time in my life. Towards the end of high school and definitely in

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digg_url = 'http://validatelife.blogspot.com/2008/07/productivity-organizational-progress_17.html';[2)Some solutions people have have just so much absence of logic and lack of practicality imbedded in them it's hilarious.] Cont...I'm seriously thinking of submitting "Stupidest Productivity Ideas" to some kind of segment for the Jay Leno Show. I hear people rave and talk about how these "

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digg_url = 'http://validatelife.blogspot.com/2008/07/productivity-organizational-progress.html';Thus begin the first installment of the Productivity & Organizational Progress (POP) Suite. Stay tuned for the next 5 (or more) installments detailing everything from organizational mastery within email, on the homefront, within your office, how to douse email insanity, and get clear and stay clear on

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digg_url = 'http://validatelife.blogspot.com/2008/07/remembering-90smusic-videos.html';I first discovered MTV in the 90s. Once the 21st century hit, I had peeled off into other interests, and if I hit up the MTV Channel post-90s I usually get bombarded with some rapper I don't know decorated in "bling" or some odd band whose acoustics don't really tickle my fancy. I'm not some geezer

John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarskinoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550266.post-78051697346513089342008-07-15T09:24:00.001-07:002008-07-17T19:10:53.402-07:00

Tour de France: Cadel Evans leads from Australia. Way to go getting the "down under" guys showing up for a change from all the Italian, French, and European spin vets.Latest iPhone App: via iPhone's amazing (and free) AOL Radio App , I've been dialing into KFWB. While they may not be the largest radio station out there, for local SoCal news, they present a very solid rap and have their act

John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarskinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550266.post-78398737698284742822008-07-14T03:31:00.000-07:002008-07-29T03:31:38.948-07:00

This move was a great documentary but incredibly vexxing because it's so obvious that kasparov didn't lose, that deep blue cheated, and that he kasparov won.Not revealing log files, not being allowed to enter the deep blue room, the secrecy, ibm controlling everything, it's so obvious that the computer was tweaked and wired as a marketing ploy with human intervention. In my book, kasparov never

John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarskinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550266.post-37022607391469458292008-07-13T17:52:00.001-07:002008-07-17T19:11:16.961-07:00

Just a recent update on eReader. So far this app has crashed multiple times and failed to download the book on my electronic bookshelf. With signing up for an annoying web-based account, the vexing crashes, and the books that never download, don't get the eReader app; it's just way too bug-infested, cumbersome, and a time-drain. Jott, and Todo, on the other hand, are excellent productivity

John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarskinoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550266.post-26712387673210626302008-07-13T17:50:00.001-07:002008-07-17T19:11:52.131-07:00

Heath Ledger might win the oscar for his maniacal Joker character, making this the second posthumous "Best Actor" award in over 30 years, the most recent (hardly not recent) went to Peter Finch in Network in 1977.Also, I noticed the ever-growing "I hate Paris club" has continued to spawn. Disdain for that woman -- who, imho, is not really that bad, and in some areas, quite likeable, like her

John Thomas "Kooz" Kuczmarskinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550266.post-66692323212114201562008-07-12T13:08:00.001-07:002008-07-17T19:12:02.050-07:00

This is pretty big news. I'm familiar with Vivendi (owned some stock traded over the european market for awhile) and know the Activision and Blizzard game brands, this merger is about as big as Macromedia and Adobe fusing to one killer web development app.

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Well, iPhone continues it's assault in knocking off numerous other electronic devices. Along with GPS devices, household-wide remotes, now it's the killer device for the Amazon Kindle Kindle.It's also going to slaughter the less popular Sony Reader eReader.com released an elegant and intuitive eReader app on the app store. The app itself and the ereader.com account that let's you download

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