"Spend my days locked in a haze Trying to forget you babe I fall back down"
This is a very deep and poetic view of humans by the intuitive and genius mind of Carl Sagan. His breath marked of a great time for science.
“Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.” Jane Goodall
I don't believe in luck. I do believe we've known each other since forever, though. Her: Really? Yeah. You know how? When the big bang happened, all the atoms in the universe, they were all smashed together into one little dot that exploded outward. So my atoms and your atoms were certainly together then, and, who knows, probably smashed together several times in the last 13.7 billion years. So my atoms have known your atoms and they've always known your atoms. My atoms have always loved your atoms.
Apollo era is still the golden age of aerospace!
Ode to Apollo 11 and the joy of discovery
Before you start to read this post, listen to this music as you read through.
My taste in music is “eclectic”*. I like all of the music I listen to, so obviously I have really good taste in music.
There is nothing quite so magical or moving as an powerful orchestral piece played by a full symphony orchestra. I have nothing against poppy music, nor do I have anything against wild bashing and screaming music (except that I mostly hate it), but if I were stuck in Antarctic for the rest of my life, I would die quickly of Hypothermia listen to epic soundtracks like:
“Imagine the Fire”, Hans Zimmer, The Dark Knight Rises
“The Promise”, Michael Nyman
“Extraction Point” , Hans Zimmer, Modern Warfare 2 (a video game with epic score?)
“Escape”, Craig Armstrong
London Philharmonic’s finest.
Or simply instrumental.
If you’re still listening to the music, I hope so, right? Imagine you’re sitting in that room, as a group of 50 people playing a song – using violins, bass drums, cellos, and a touch of piano – it precisely melds together into a beautiful, powerful, multifaceted sound… and it’s just magical as the conductor keeps the whole thing together..
As you might have seen in movies (like Harry Potter), a wand is portrayed as an instrument for magical occurrence. If you realize, a conductor’s baton (wand) also produces magical waves. I mean, with the flick of a wrist, a conductor can shape music like a painter with his paint brush. He can create striking thunders from the bass drums to the electrifying sharp pitch of the violins.
*I really do have a weird (wide spectrum) taste in music.
By the time I finished writing this, I realized that music is an expression, as it can only be played or heard (its really hard to ‘talk’ about music).
Welcome to 2013
Gregorian calendar 2013 MMXIII
Ab urbe condita 2766
Armenian calendar 1462 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԲ
Assyrian calendar 6763
Bahá'í calendar 169–170
Bengali calendar 1420
Berber calendar 2963
British Regnal year - 61 Eliz. 2 – 62 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar 2557
Burmese calendar 1375
Byzantine calendar 7521–7522
Chinese calendar 壬辰年十一月二十日 (4649/4709-11-20) 癸巳年十一月廿九日 (4650/4710-11-29)
Coptic calendar 1729–1730
Ethiopian calendar 2005–2006
Hebrew calendar 5773–5774
Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 2069–2070 - Shaka Samvat 1935–1936 - Kali Yuga 5114–5115
Holocene calendar 12013
Igbo calendar - Ǹrí Ìgbò 1013–1014
Iranian calendar 1391–1392
Islamic calendar 1434–1435
Japanese calendar Heisei 25 (平成25年)
Juche calendar 102
Julian calendar Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar 4346
Minguo calendar ROC 102 民國102年
Thai solar calendar 2556
Unix time 1356998400–1388534399
Source: Wikipedia
In a nutshell or two: I love aerospace. I'm an engineer, writer, a photographer, and a reader. And, of course, a blogger. I spent my high school years in New York City, managing to defy every urban bum new yorker stereotype (except for the "bum" part). My school life basically revolved around Aviation and Science Bowl. If you continue to read this, I can assure you three (3) things: (1) impeccable grammar (yea, ok) and spelling (thanks to auto spell check), (2) a total lack of entertainment (literally, everyone’s view of entertainment is different), (3) an alliteration of photos, and (4) so many listings. (and of course parentheses)
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