The Picture Thread Mark III

perplexity said:
That is why it is basically over at 50,
because of the time it takes to grow an oak.

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the point is - to stop watering the tree before it has had time to grow (I may not even really start til age 49) is stupid. People are taught to misjudge their possibilities at every age. The kid sitting next to you in class isn't really going to be a rock star even though she may be the best singer in town - when the chances are next to none to do truly great things (other than the great things of everyday life), and nobody really knows what is going to have value, why judge anything?

I accomplished more in my career in the first five years than most people do their whole lives, but that was just part of the game, it didn't bring me any closer to true greatness. It showed me that I had a possibility to do something great. If I continue to grow, it may be twenty more years and then the masterworks are created, but if I stop now I only receive the tin crown of semi-great, half-great, or kind-of-great, and resting in that is a death sentence for possibility.

Also, I live in hollywood where people aren't allowed to get old, and average and young is fugly here. This week I saw a woman getting coffee in my neighborhood who had to be at least 40 and looked so amazing that I literally felt physically dizzy standing next to her. I bet she looks better now than at 30 or 20, because she is so perfectly put together.

For some people it is about the norm, for others it's about the exceptions.
 
cole grey said:
I accomplished more in my career in the first five years than most people do their whole lives, but that was just part of the game, it didn't bring me any closer to true greatness.
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What would true greatness be?

What is it that you're actually aiming at?
 
perplexity said:
The difference was in their own judgement, choice and determination.
The World around them was much the same as mine.

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I have a dear friend who once sung this song:




I saw the person you were when you wanted to be.
It's not who you really are, it's just hinting.
We tie a face to our face and play everyone,
when we think no one would want to see the real one.
 
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I thought maybe we could start having pictures on a picture thread

Meet my brother the future lady's man of the family.
 
certified psycho said:
I thought maybe we could start having pictures on a picture thread
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Like you've got anything better to do.

Here is what happens to naughty computers at my house. I did this as a warning to any drives that are thinking about failing on me.

click on picture-
 
oh yeah, I forgot - same thing here, i guess.

Here is a picture of my dog looking tough-




he doesn't look so tough dressed up as grandma -
 
Here is an early attempt at art (ugh):

How about not making a statement about not making a statement ...

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heh in a way i like it, it looks like the shirt is "flying" above the bricks.
Wish i had a camara, the forest i run in looks greate now, all white, clear sky and a light snow fall. And of cause the mandetory frosen lake(pond).
 
Here's a lovely winter scene, near where I live:

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It used to be ma saison preferee.
 
water said:
Hi Hayward!
Did you dress him up like that?
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Yeah.
He gets embarrassed.
It's funny.
The guys in one band I worked with just called him grandma for a while.

He actually doesn't care what kind of attention he gets as long as he can get some kind of attention. I guess that makes sense because he lives in Hollywood.
 
cole grey said:
He actually doesn't care what kind of attention he gets as long as he can get some kind of attention. I guess that makes sense because he lives in Hollywood.
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I doubt that. Dogs need company, they aren't loners.

From what I see, he's just a dear dear dog.
 
water said:
I doubt that. Dogs need company, they aren't loners.
From what I see, he's just a dear dear dog.
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I know - the hollywood thing was a joke
He just likes to be one of the guys, and the bigger the pack is at the house, the happier he is.
 
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