my, my, my

"I wish" Skee-Lo

Hey, this is radio station W-S-K-E-E
We're takin' calls off the wish line
Making all your wacky wishes come true

Hello

1/
I wish I was little bit taller,
I wish I was a baller
I wish I had a girl who looked good
I would call her
I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat
and a '64 Impala/

I wish I was like six-foot-nine
So I could get with Leoshi
Cause she don't know me but yo she's really fine
You know I see her all the time
Everywhere I go, and even in my dreams
I can scheme of ways to make her mine
Cause I know she's livin phat
Her boyfriend's tall and he plays ball
So how am I gonna compete with that
'Cause when it comes to playing basketball
I'm always last to be picked
And in some cases never picked at all
So I just lean upon the wall
Or sit up in the bleachers with the rest of the girls
Who came to watch their men ball
Dag y'all! I never understood
Why the jocks get the fly girls
And me I get the hood rats
I tell 'em scat, skittle, skibobble
Got hit with a bottle
And put in the hospital, for talkin' that mess
I confess it's a shame when you livin' in a city
That's the size of a box and nobody knows yo' name
Glad I came to my senses
Like quick-quick got sick-sick to my stomach
Overcome with my thoughts of me and her together
Right?
So when I asked her out she said I wasn't her type
(rpt 1, 1)

I wish I had a brand-new car
So far, I got this hatchback
And everywhere I go, yo I gets laughed at
And when I'm in my car I'm laid back
I got an 8-track and a spare tire in the backseat
But that's flat
And do you really wanna know what's really wack, What
See I can't even get a date
So, what do you think of that?
I heard that prom night is the bomb night
With a hood rat you can hold tight
But really tho' on figuero
When I'm in my car I can't even get a hello
Well so many people wanna cruise Crenshaw on Sunday
Well then I'm gonna have to get in my car and go
You know I take the 110 to the 105
Get off on Crenshaw tell my homies look alive
Cause it's hard to survive
Livin' in a concrete jungle and
These girls just keep passin' me by
She looks fly, she looks fly
Makes me say my, my, my
(rpt 1, 1)

I wish I was a little bit taller...
I wish I was a baller...
I wish I was a little bit taller y'all
I wish I was a baller (3)

Hey, I wish I had my way
'Cause everyday would be a Friday
You could even speed on the highway
I would play ghetto games
Name my kids ghetto names
Little Mookie, big Al, Lorraine
Yo you know that's on the real
So if you're down on your luck
Then you should know just how I feel
Cause if you don't want me around
See I go simple, I go easy, I go greyhound
Hey, you, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's going down
Ahhhh, yes, ain't that fresh?
Everybody wants to get down like that
(rpt 1, 1)

I wish, I wish, I wish...

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=icr0eW1fRSs

When you've seen one, you've seen all.

"I was a so-called star because of my limitations and that was always the case. I couldn't do any accents. So I had to pretend. Luckily I was tall, had curly hair and a good voice. I only had to stamp my foot and I'd play the lead -- because I couldn't play character parts."

http://themave.com/Cotten/bio2.htm

heigh ceiling
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2672400384/nm0001072

see (v.)
O.E. seon (contracted class V strong verb; past tense seah, pp. sewen), from P.Gmc. *sekhwanan (cf. O.S., O.H.G. sehan, M.H.G., Ger. sehen, O.Fris. sia, M.Du. sien, O.N. sja, Goth. saihwan), from PIE base *sekw- "to see," which is "probably" the same base that produced words for "say" in Greek and Latin, and also words for "follow" (cf. L. sequor), but "opinions differ in regard to the semantic starting-point and sequences" [Buck]. Thus see could originally mean "follow with the eyes." Used in M.E. to mean "behold in the imagination or in a dream" (c.1200), "to recognize the force of (a demonstration)," also c.1200, "often with ref. to metaphorical light or eyes" [OED], and "to learn by reading" (1426). Past tense saw developed from O.E. pl. sawon.
"When you have seen one of their Pictures, you have seen all." [Blake, c.1811]
Sense of "escort" (e.g. to see someone home) first recorded 1607 in Shakespeare. Meaning "to receive as a visitor" is attested from c.1500. Gambling sense of "equal a bet" is from 1599. See you as a casual farewell first attested 1891. Seeing Eye dog first attested 1929, Amer.Eng., trademarked by Seeing Eye Inc. of New Jersey.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=see

each will

do

humanism doomed

Mars team ponders whether lander sees crack or cocaine

LOS ANGELES - Is the white stuff in the Martian soil crack or cocaine?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080616/ap_on_sc/phoenix_mars

i see beyond

"Like Humans, Other Apes Plan Ahead"

Chimps and orangutans plan for the future just like us.

They are capable of exercising self-control to postpone gratification and to imagine future events via "mental time travel," according to new research from Lunds University Cognitive Science in Sweden.

The skill of future planning was commonly thought to be exclusive to humans, although some studies of apes and crows have challenged this idea, say researchers Mathias and Helena Osvath. Now, for the first time, there is "conclusive evidence of advanced planning capacities in non-human species," they say.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/likehumansotherapesplanahead


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laïcité
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular

[Origin: 1250–1300; < ML séculāris, LL saeculāris worldly, temporal (opposed to eternal), L: of an age, equiv. to L saecul(um) long period of time + -āris -ar1; r. ME seculer < OF < L, as above]

secular
c.1290, "living in the world, not belonging to a religious order," also "belonging to the state," from O.Fr. seculer, from L.L. sæcularis "worldly, secular," from L. sæcularis "of an age, occurring once in an age," from sæculum "age, span of time, generation," probably originally cognate with words for "seed," from PIE base *se(i)- "to sow" (cf. Goth. mana-seþs "mankind, world," lit. "seed of men"). Used in ecclesiastical writing like Gk. aion "of this world" (see cosmos). It is source of Fr. siècle. Ancient Roman ludi sæculares was a three-day, day-and-night celebration coming once in an "age" (120 years). Secularism "doctrine that morality should be based on the well-being of man in the present life, without regard to religious belief or a hereafter" first recorded 1846.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=s&p=11

misty

"Misty" as sang by Ella Fitzgerald

Look at me,
I'm (as) helpless as a kitten up a tree
And I feel like I'm clinging to a cloud,
I can't understand,
I get misty just holding your hand.

Walk my way
And a thousand violins begin to play,
Or it may be the sound of your hello,
That music I hear, I get misty whenever you're near.

You can say that you're leading me on,
And it's just what I want you to do,
Don't you notice how hopelessly I'm lost
That's why I'm following you.

On my own, would I wander through this wonderland alone,
Never knowing my right foot from my left
My hat from my glove,
I'm too misty and too much in love.
(I'm too misty and too much in love.)

(Look at me.)
Look at love.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misty_(jazz)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Fitzgerald

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=oNDuH9IJhGA

Burning old life for new life

Biogenic theory
Most geologists view crude oil and natural gas as the product of compression and heating of ancient organic materials over geological time. Oil is formed from the preserved remains of prehistoric zooplankton and algae which have been settled to the sea (or lake) bottom in large quantities under anoxic conditions. Terrestrial plants, on the other hand, tend to form coal. Over geological time this organic matter, mixed with mud, is buried under heavy layers of sediment. The resulting high levels of heat and pressure cause the organic matter to chemically change during diagenesis, first into a waxy material known as kerogen which is found in various oil shales around the world, and then with more heat into liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons in a process known as catagenesis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipids
http://www.csu.org/extrx/education/adventure/origins/biobkg.htm
http://www.gasresources.net/Introduction.htm

Abiogenic Origin of Hydrocarbons: An Historical Overview"; Geoffrey P.GLASBY
http://static.scribd.com/docs/j79lhbgbjbqrb.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Agricola
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Lomonosov
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Louis_Gay-Lussac
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcellin_Berthelot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Mendeleev
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Kudryavtsev
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_B._Porfir'ev
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gold

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masudi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Razi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pierre_Ancillon_de_la_Sablonnière
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Pineo_Gesner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacy_Łukasiewicz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Silliman

Grand Paris

1. Richard Rogers (Royaume-Uni)
2. Finn Geipel (Allemagne)
3. le groupement MVRDV (Pays-Bas)
4. Bernardo Secchi (Italie)

côté français:
5. Djamel Klouche
6. Yves Lion
7. Jean Nouvel
8. Christian de Portzamparc
9. Antoine Grumbach
10. Roland Castro

Les cabinets de
1. Roland Castro
2. Antoine Grumbach
3. Djamel Klouche
4. Yves Lion
5. Jacob Van Rijs et Nathalie de Vries
6. Jean Nouvel
7. Fin Geipel
8. Winy Maas
9. Richard Rogers
10. Bernardo Secchi et de Paola Vigano.

Parmi les heureux sélectionnés,
de grandes stars internationales (les Pritzker Priées 1. Richard Rogers ou 2. Christian de Portzamparc),
et des architectes très parisiens (3. Antoine Grumbach).
Des vieux briscards (4. Roland Castro),
des valeurs montantes (5. Finn Geipel, 6. MVRDV)
et de jeunes Apaches (7. Djamel Klouch).
De grands urbanistes peu architectes (8. Bernardo Secchi, 9. Yves Lion)
et de grands architectes peu urbanistes (10. Jean Nouvel).

Parmi une quarantaine de candidats, un jury a choisi, le 21 mai dernier, de confier la tâche de rêver ce fameux Grand Paris
aux Français 1. Jean Nouvel, associé à Michel Cantal-Dupart et Jean-Marie Duthilleul,
2. Christian de Portzamparc,
3. Roland Castro,
4. Antoine Grumbach,
5. Yves Lion,
6. Djamel Klouche,
7. au Britannique Richard Rogers,
8. aux Italiens Bernardo Secchi et Paola Vigano du Studio 08,
9. aux Néerlandais de l'agence MVRDV
10. et, enfin, à l'Allemand Finn Geipel.

http://grandparis.over-blog.com/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/2080999/Nicolas-Sarkozy-plans-for-'Grand-Paris'.html
http://www.lemoniteur-expert.com/actualite/architecture_maitrise_oeuvre/grand_paris_architectes_recus_elysee/DE491AA9C.htm
http://parisobs.nouvelobs.com/article/politique/les-dix-archis-du-grand-paris,3511,page1.html
http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2008/06/05/03004-20080605ARTFIG00426-dix-architectes-vont-plancher-sur-le-projet-du-grand-paris-.php

http://www.wikio.fr/news/Richard+Rogers
http://www.wikio.fr/news/Antoine+GRUMBACH

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann's_renovation_of_Paris
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformations_de_Paris_sous_le_Second_Empire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Eugène_Haussmann
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Eugène_Haussmann

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rond-point
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrefour_giratoire
http://www.archicool.com/cgi-bin/presse/pg-newspro.cgi?id_news=527

L’histoire du rond point ; une histoire de bon sens. “ Du rond-point au giratoire”
un livre de Eric Alonzo aux éditions “Parenthèses.”

le rond point est cependant loin d’être une invention récente, l’histoire commence au coeur des forêts de chasse près des relais du même nom du XVIIe siècle, puis dans les jardins classiques, lieu de rencontre et de spectacularisation. Le rond point sera perçu comme solutoire aux “conflits des voitures” en 1906 sur l’idée de Eugène Hénard qui inventa le “carrefour à giration.”

Life formulation: spruce

World’s oldest living tree discovered in Sweden

The world’s oldest recorded tree is a 9,550 year old spruce in the Dalarna province of Sweden. The spruce tree has shown to be a tenacious survivor that has endured by growing between erect trees and smaller bushes in pace with the dramatic climate changes over time.

http://www.info.umu.se/NYHETER/PressmeddelandeEng.aspx?id=3061
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway_spruce

Plant Genome Offers Clues to Longevity
Arabidopsis can survive the loss of an enzyme that prevents aging

Researchers studying the tips of chromosomes in Arabidopsis thaliana-a weed in the mustard family-are learning about gene functions that determine how rapidly plants age, which could lead eventually to advances in human medicine.

"Much of the plant genome is very similar to the human genome," said Dorothy Shippen, Texas A&M associate professor of biochemistry and biophysics. "Also, because we can do these wonderful genetic tricks in plants, we think that much of what we learn in the plant system will be ultimately translatable, and perhaps have significant impact, in human medicine."
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/press/01/pr0115.htm

ross andrew mcginnis

McGinnis sacrificed himself in an act of supreme bravery on December 4, belying his status as the youngest soldier in Company C, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, attached to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division.

The 19-year-old amateur mechanic from Knox, Pa., who enjoyed poker and loud music, likely saved the lives of four soldiers riding with him on a mission in Baghdad.

McGinnis was manning the gunner’s hatch when an insurgent tossed a grenade from above. It flew past McGinnis and down through the hatch before lodging near the radio. His platoon sergeant, Sgt. 1st Class Cedric Thomas of Longview, Texas, recalled what happened next.

“Pfc. McGinnis yelled ‘Grenade! … It’s in the truck,’” Thomas said. “I looked out of the corner of my eye as I was crouching down and I saw him pin it down.” McGinnis did so even though he could have escaped. “He had time to jump out of the truck,” Thomas said. “He chose not to.”

Thomas remembered McGinnis talking about how he would respond in such a situation. McGinnis said then he didn’t know how he would act, but when the time came, he delivered. “He gave his life to save his crew and his platoon sergeant,” Thomas said. “He’s a hero. He’s a professional. He was just an awesome guy.”

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/ramcginnis.htm