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Stand Up #8: mySpace TV is really only a premise to get people to watch Roommates.
Variations: Every try to watch stand up comedy, movie trailers, or other fun things on mySpace video? Seems that the default is always set up to go to Roommates, the TV show. BORING!!
8a) What us the criteria for showing the NEXT available videos? Tags, theme, what? No! More Roommates!
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Friday, March 14, 2008
Thou Shalt #1
Thou Shalt #1
This concept pretty much covers Religion, Rule of Law, Cultural Norms, Family regulation, and the like. Lots of room for discussion of "Me vs. You", as individuals, neighbors, cultural groups, social groups, ethnic groups, national/regional, and on and on and on.
Overview: Thou Shalt -- YOU not ME! Will do something I deem proper.
Function: Thou Shalt -- defines either the behavior or the concept to establish "acceptable" actions.
HowTo: Very simple in theory -- Obey.
Not so simple -- Obey ALL rules and laws, from everyone, all the time, based on what rules currently apply to you, or will apply to you, or did apply to you. Short list, of simple examples: 10 commandments, 99 names for Allah, ettiquette, netiquette, thoughts you have when you see a cop car in your rearview mirror.
Usefulness: Most SMART people would say -- know the rules so you can bend or break them.
'nuff
This concept pretty much covers Religion, Rule of Law, Cultural Norms, Family regulation, and the like. Lots of room for discussion of "Me vs. You", as individuals, neighbors, cultural groups, social groups, ethnic groups, national/regional, and on and on and on.
Overview: Thou Shalt -- YOU not ME! Will do something I deem proper.
Function: Thou Shalt -- defines either the behavior or the concept to establish "acceptable" actions.
HowTo: Very simple in theory -- Obey.
Not so simple -- Obey ALL rules and laws, from everyone, all the time, based on what rules currently apply to you, or will apply to you, or did apply to you. Short list, of simple examples: 10 commandments, 99 names for Allah, ettiquette, netiquette, thoughts you have when you see a cop car in your rearview mirror.
Usefulness: Most SMART people would say -- know the rules so you can bend or break them.
'nuff
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Stand up #7
Even MORE!!!
Stand up theme #7: The Cheaper Version
7) The Cheaper Version concept is "I wanted to -- But didn't have the $$ -- So I..."
Variations: My mom/police/a big dog/etc wouldn't let me,
7a) go to Mexico to lose my virginity -- screamed "Ay Carumba!" as I tapped the local hooker.
7a) go to Mexico to lose my virginity -- imagined the local hooker looked like Vicente Fox.
7c) Get a Porsche -- put a bumper sticker on my GEO saying "My other car is a Porsche"
7d) Travel the World -- "Favorite'd" the Travel Channel website
7e) Write a Novel -- started this blog
7f) Get famous -- watched Paris on TMZ
7g) wanted a woman -- put up a Poster of woman in my bedroom
7h) wanted a mural -- printed 8x10s and stuck up side by side
7i) wanted a Crackberry -- put a 3x5 card with my meetings schedule in my shirt pocket
There are a gazillion of them!
'nuff
Stand up theme #7: The Cheaper Version
7) The Cheaper Version concept is "I wanted to -- But didn't have the $$ -- So I..."
Variations: My mom/police/a big dog/etc wouldn't let me,
7a) go to Mexico to lose my virginity -- screamed "Ay Carumba!" as I tapped the local hooker.
7a) go to Mexico to lose my virginity -- imagined the local hooker looked like Vicente Fox.
7c) Get a Porsche -- put a bumper sticker on my GEO saying "My other car is a Porsche"
7d) Travel the World -- "Favorite'd" the Travel Channel website
7e) Write a Novel -- started this blog
7f) Get famous -- watched Paris on TMZ
7g) wanted a woman -- put up a Poster of woman in my bedroom
7h) wanted a mural -- printed 8x10s and stuck up side by side
7i) wanted a Crackberry -- put a 3x5 card with my meetings schedule in my shirt pocket
There are a gazillion of them!
'nuff
Yoga #2
Yoga #2.
The Pivot Point.
Overview:
All structural joint movement can described as based on a Pivot Point.
Function:
As a joint moves one muscle contracts, the opposite muscle expands.
HowTo:
Here's were it gets tricky! I'm over simplifying for now as I start out.
I think (correct me on this if there is more) that a muscle can ONLY contract. It is designed to tense, get shorter, and pull. The basic concept of a joint is as a hinge, a lever. Tense the bicep as you relax the tricep. Repeat analogy for ALL muscle groups. Rotators TOO!
Usefulness:
Shortening a muscle is ALL you can do physically. Mentally, you can ALSO think in pairs of muscles, IN SPACE, so that as the one muscle contracts you FEEL AS IF you are extending the opposite muscle.
Much of Yoga is based on ALSO feeling this RELEASE of the muscle against the pull of gravity. The relaxing muscle DOES NOT know, and can not distinguish between, the difference of a pull from the opposite muscle and the impulse the achieve "balance" against gravity. Thus there are all the different postures to "learn" how to interact with these, oftentimes conflicting, signals.
'nuff
The Pivot Point.
Overview:
All structural joint movement can described as based on a Pivot Point.
Function:
As a joint moves one muscle contracts, the opposite muscle expands.
HowTo:
Here's were it gets tricky! I'm over simplifying for now as I start out.
I think (correct me on this if there is more) that a muscle can ONLY contract. It is designed to tense, get shorter, and pull. The basic concept of a joint is as a hinge, a lever. Tense the bicep as you relax the tricep. Repeat analogy for ALL muscle groups. Rotators TOO!
Usefulness:
Shortening a muscle is ALL you can do physically. Mentally, you can ALSO think in pairs of muscles, IN SPACE, so that as the one muscle contracts you FEEL AS IF you are extending the opposite muscle.
Much of Yoga is based on ALSO feeling this RELEASE of the muscle against the pull of gravity. The relaxing muscle DOES NOT know, and can not distinguish between, the difference of a pull from the opposite muscle and the impulse the achieve "balance" against gravity. Thus there are all the different postures to "learn" how to interact with these, oftentimes conflicting, signals.
'nuff
Yoga #1
I'm getting confused. Whereas that is not unusual, Listing, as in numbering in sequence, seems to help somewhat. So-o-o...
I'm going to # my Yoga questions and comments. For now, they will just be "next"ed. Maybe, someday, after I've got my Yoga moves numbered the way I like them, I'll cross reference them to that. Anyway,
Yoga #1
Follow the Breath.
Overview:
The human body has a natural ebb and flow based on the heart beat. The heart has a natural rise and fall of speed of about 2 beats a minute. This ebb and flow is DIRECTLY related to the breath by three breaths in, three breaths out.
Function:
This sets up a normal tense and relax cycle. Both for the natural flow of the heart beat, and the natural speed and inclination to breath.
HowTo:
The easiest way to get into the cycle rhythm is to exhale very very very slowly. As one exhales one starts to notice that the breath has a slight pulse. This pulse is based on the pumping heart pushing against the diaphragm. As one exhales there comes a very specific feeling at the end of one heartbeat. That feeling is "the signal to start to INHALE". That is the "pivot" point, the top (or bottom, I forget the diagram off-hand of the biofeedback view ) of the envelop of heart beat speed changes.
Usefulness:
This is the CENTERing that happens for the human system. This centering is talked about in Yoga and religious offerings. ALL the other "tense/relax" cycles of muscle use, in the whole body, ALL the time, is based on, is coordinated with, is trying to synchronize with, this cycle.
I've blogged other aspects of this recently, so I won't do it here.
'nuff
I'm going to # my Yoga questions and comments. For now, they will just be "next"ed. Maybe, someday, after I've got my Yoga moves numbered the way I like them, I'll cross reference them to that. Anyway,
Yoga #1
Follow the Breath.
Overview:
The human body has a natural ebb and flow based on the heart beat. The heart has a natural rise and fall of speed of about 2 beats a minute. This ebb and flow is DIRECTLY related to the breath by three breaths in, three breaths out.
Function:
This sets up a normal tense and relax cycle. Both for the natural flow of the heart beat, and the natural speed and inclination to breath.
HowTo:
The easiest way to get into the cycle rhythm is to exhale very very very slowly. As one exhales one starts to notice that the breath has a slight pulse. This pulse is based on the pumping heart pushing against the diaphragm. As one exhales there comes a very specific feeling at the end of one heartbeat. That feeling is "the signal to start to INHALE". That is the "pivot" point, the top (or bottom, I forget the diagram off-hand of the biofeedback view ) of the envelop of heart beat speed changes.
Usefulness:
This is the CENTERing that happens for the human system. This centering is talked about in Yoga and religious offerings. ALL the other "tense/relax" cycles of muscle use, in the whole body, ALL the time, is based on, is coordinated with, is trying to synchronize with, this cycle.
I've blogged other aspects of this recently, so I won't do it here.
'nuff
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Stand Up #6
More Stand Up themes.
6) MySpace "Friend Requests" with THE SAME blurb, and a link to SEE MY PICs Variations: Man! There are a bunch of these! I get one almost every day! I deny mostly. I will SPAM if I get two in one day that are identical.
6) MySpace "Friend Requests" with THE SAME blurb, and a link to SEE MY PICs Variations: Man! There are a bunch of these! I get one almost every day! I deny mostly. I will SPAM if I get two in one day that are identical.
Stand Up #5
More Stand Up themes.
5) the look of the WIFE of a politician as he speaks.
Variations: Huckaby's wife during his final speech looked alert at first, faded to looking tired, then VERY tired, then a "Oh, come ON! Get DONE!" look. Eliott Spitzer's wife as he admitted spending thousands of call-girls. Kind of a blank stare.
5a) OK everyone! I'm going to give acting classes! These classes will make heavy use of facial expressions. My only clients will be the wives of politicians! They stand in the background during good times and bad. For LONG speeches and short. What is their face saying? Approval? Denial? Boredom? !!!! So how can we improve on this? FROZEN SMILE FACE! Like Hilary Clinton when she is trying to present herself as being WARM! BIG TEETH! No change for HOURS!
'nuff
5) the look of the WIFE of a politician as he speaks.
Variations: Huckaby's wife during his final speech looked alert at first, faded to looking tired, then VERY tired, then a "Oh, come ON! Get DONE!" look. Eliott Spitzer's wife as he admitted spending thousands of call-girls. Kind of a blank stare.
5a) OK everyone! I'm going to give acting classes! These classes will make heavy use of facial expressions. My only clients will be the wives of politicians! They stand in the background during good times and bad. For LONG speeches and short. What is their face saying? Approval? Denial? Boredom? !!!! So how can we improve on this? FROZEN SMILE FACE! Like Hilary Clinton when she is trying to present herself as being WARM! BIG TEETH! No change for HOURS!
'nuff
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