Re: Bicycle
NYC XYZ
> "Keynes" <Key...@earthlinkspam.net> wrote in message
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> >
> > A bicycle cannot stand. Anybody can see that.
> > With only two wheels it'll fall to the right or the left.
> >
> > Even a kid can see that.
> > So we give him training wheels.
> > Now the bike looks sane, and safe enough to try out.
> >
> > The kid will learn to ride without knowing exactly how.
> > He'll ride with the training wheels off the ground.
> > But he won't let you take them off until he keeps
> > falling down when one of the wheels grabs
> > touching down.
> >
> > Without the trainers, he'll ride with both hands
> > locked tightly on the handlebars. Then loosely.
> > Then just one hand. Then no hands.
> >
> > Why doesn't the bike fall down? It does.
> > It's already falling straight ahead, but the wheels
> > just make the fall forever incomplete.
> >
> > Unless confidence is lost and one slows down.
> > The slower, the more unstable. Then it will fall
> > over to the right or the left and skin a knee.
> >
> > They say you never forget how to ride a bike.
> > But you don't really 'know' how to ride it in the first
> > place.
> > It's not a matter of explanations or descriptions.
> >
> > Riding a bike 'looks' like a practical impossibility.
> > But counter intuitively one learns somehow to ride it.
> > With experience comes confidence and then unconscious
> > mastery. But the training wheels have to come off.
> >
> > Thus is common sense refuted by experience.
> >
>
> The bicycle fell
> the world turned topsy turvey
> swirling gaily
> and inexplicably about my head
>
> Until the bicycle appeared to stand still
> upon the horitional of the ground.
>
> The moment pierced my heart.
Ah, what a delicious discussion, folks. Reminds me of Claire
Petersky's <http://www.bicyclemeditations.org/Welcome.htm>. If this is
Zen Buddhist philosophy and poetry, I wonder what a Zen Buddhist short
story or full-length novel would be like?
the messenjah
The Zen of riding a bike... You must become one with the bike... Thanks
for sharing this. As a bike messenger it certainly caught my
attention...
'snomatter
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Thanks.
But I still your site is total bollocks about immigration.
Raan
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>
The Zen of riding a bike would be to become none with the bike.
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NYC XYZ
the messenjah wrote:
>
>
> The Zen of riding a bike... You must become one with the bike... Thanks
> for sharing this. As a bike messenger it certainly caught my
> attention...
>
> http://skywriter.diaryland.com
Cool, I was a bike messenger too for half a summer in NYC...at times
I'd become one with the damned road!
I love her "Zen" take on "GOTFR"...never realized all those honking
motorists were encouraging my journey!
NYC XYZ
Easier said than none.
Raan
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NYC XYZ
Easier said, bar none.
R Flowers
After a few drinks, there was a flying nun who spoke Tubar.
-- R Flowers
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eoygeo
hill with a race bike, took me a 25minutes non stop, not bad right?
carried on steps to my floor too.
the messenjah
I didn't author the editorial...
the messenjah
Time magazine's recent poll (Jan. 24-26, 2006) found 74 percent favor
"major penalties" on employers of illegals, and 70 percent believe
illegals increase the likelihood of terrorism. Fifty-seven percent
would use military force at the Mexican-American border.
Daedalus
<theguyo...@veryfast.biz> wrote:
You just agree with every word.
Jade
the messenjah
'snomatter
The fact that there are loads of shites does not make you a
shite.
Your own actions determine that.
Dennis M. Hammes
>
> The Zen of riding a bike would be to become none with the bike.
Heh.
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Julian
> Raan wrote:
>
>>
>> The Zen of riding a bike would be to become none with the bike.
>
>
>
> Heh.
>
Scrawlmark... nice one Dennis.
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Non-humorous Jinn
"Julian" <julia...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:442bfa23$0$944$6d36...@titian.nntpserver.com...
> Dennis M. Hammes wrote:
>> Raan wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The Zen of riding a bike would be to become none with the bike.
>>
>>
>>
>> Heh.
>>
>
> Scrawlmark... nice one Dennis.
It's the mark worms make.
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Charles Shannon Lysaght doesn't sound like an American name to me. Are
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the messenjah
Are you that fucking stupid?
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It would explain why he bragged on the occasion he was lucky enough to
get a job that paid minimum wage.
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Al Smith
>
>
>
> Heh.
That's me. I do Zen bike riding all the time. I've progressed so
far, I no longer need the bike.
R Flowers
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I think I just achieved enlightenment.
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'snomatter
You're the one advertising a website like that. Ask
yourself - are you the shite or the arsehole?
'snomatter
Touched a nerve - did it? And you thought you could get away
with it.
Rot in prison wearing an orange jumpsuit for eternity,
illegal.
Julian
Mandatory APZ 3rd. option - the enema.
'snomatter
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There is no bike.
There is no ride.
'snomatter
With friends like that who needs enemas?
Julian
Julian
Non-humorous Jinn
"Julian" <julia...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:442c830f$0$9748$6d36...@titian.nntpserver.com...
>>
> http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/31/mp3/272618_SOUNDDOGS_CH.mp3
this is really dumb...
Try any of:
http://midis.here.nu
Here's one:
http://clitin.com/Mids/Ragtime/Adventurous%20Ragtime.mid
Dennis M. Hammes
Ah. You're a fish.
Dennis M. Hammes
I do that every night at dusk.
Not always a satori, of course; sometimes a flash is just a flash.
Dennis M. Hammes
There is no pain.
There is no gain.
Julian
Non-humorous Jinn wrote:
> "Julian" <julia...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:442c830f$0$9748$6d36...@titian.nntpserver.com...
>
> >>
> > http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/31/mp3/272618_SOUNDDOGS_CH.mp3
>
> this is really dumb...
When in Rome etc.
> Try any of:
> http://midis.here.nu
What for?
'snomatter
"Dennis M. Hammes" <scraw...@arvig.net> wrote in message
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> 'snomatter wrote:
>
>> "Al Smith" <inv...@address.com> wrote in message
>> news:AfZWf.52157$VV4.8...@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
>>
>>>>>The Zen of riding a bike would be to become none with
>>>>>the bike.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Heh.
>>>
>>>That's me. I do Zen bike riding all the time. I've
>>>progressed so far, I no longer need the bike.
>>
>>
>> There is no bike.
>> There is no ride.
> There is no pain.
> There is no gain.
>
Now you're getting it.
Non-humorous Jinn
"Julian" <julia...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1143800576.4...@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>
> Non-humorous Jinn wrote:
>> "Julian" <julia...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:442c830f$0$9748$6d36...@titian.nntpserver.com...
>>
>> >>
>> > http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/31/mp3/272618_SOUNDDOGS_CH.mp3
>>
>> this is really dumb...
>
> When in Rome etc.
Just saying that there is no content. No art.
>
>> Try any of:
>> http://midis.here.nu
>
> What for?
Because there is art in every one.
>
> http://ptlslzb87.blogspot.com/
>
Your art isn't bad, but no real /production/... You need to be
more prolific, or perhaps there's more?
Non-humorous Jinn
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If you see the saddlesoap on the road,
kill it.
Julian
> "Julian" <julia...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1143800576.4...@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>
>>Non-humorous Jinn wrote:
>>
>>>"Julian" <julia...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:442c830f$0$9748$6d36...@titian.nntpserver.com...
>>>
>>>
>>>>http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/31/mp3/272618_SOUNDDOGS_CH.mp3
>>>
>>>this is really dumb...
>>
>>When in Rome etc.
>
>
> Just saying that there is no content. No art.
>
>
>>>Try any of:
>>> http://midis.here.nu
>>
>>What for?
>
>
> Because there is art in every one.
>
>
>>http://ptlslzb87.blogspot.com/
>>
>
>
> Your art isn't bad, but no real /production/... You need to be
> more prolific, or perhaps there's more?
There are 13 volumes containing 1000+
pages of illuminated manuscripts.
Scanning them is quite a task and I'm in no hurry.
Julian
> "Julian" <julia...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1143800576.4...@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>
>>Non-humorous Jinn wrote:
>>
>>>"Julian" <julia...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:442c830f$0$9748$6d36...@titian.nntpserver.com...
>>>
>>>
>>>>http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/31/mp3/272618_SOUNDDOGS_CH.mp3
>>>
>>>this is really dumb...
>>
>>When in Rome etc.
>
>
> Just saying that there is no content. No art.
>
>
>>>Try any of:
>>> http://midis.here.nu
>>
>>What for?
>
>
> Because there is art in every one.
The electronic/digital quality to the sound clips
is most distinctly unappealing to my ears.
It makes http://www.dubreq.com/stylophone_past.php
sound like http://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/home/
in comparison.
Non-humorous Jinn
"Julian" <julia...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:442d1249$0$22963$6d36...@titian.nntpserver.com...
> Non-humorous Jinn wrote:
>> "Julian" <julia...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1143800576.4...@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>>Non-humorous Jinn wrote:
>>>
>>>>"Julian" <julia...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:442c830f$0$9748$6d36...@titian.nntpserver.com...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/31/mp3/272618_SOUNDDOGS_CH.mp3
>>>>
>>>>this is really dumb...
>>>
>>>When in Rome etc.
>>
>>
>> Just saying that there is no content. No art.
>>
>>
>>>>Try any of:
>>>> http://midis.here.nu
>>>
>>>What for?
>>
>>
>> Because there is art in every one.
>>
>>
>>>http://ptlslzb87.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>
>>
>> Your art isn't bad, but no real /production/... You need to be
>> more prolific, or perhaps there's more?
>
> There are 13 volumes containing 1000+
> pages of illuminated manuscripts.
Your words were boring, at least what I read.
What is your best, most compact?
> Scanning them is quite a task and I'm in no hurry.
No kidding. If you're creating this stuff you should
be having fun.
...is a better scan.
Some great stuff...
I have some slideshows: http://Art.Here.nu
...and process graphics with a certain flair.
Might be interesting to use your Art in various
maskings...
Julian
> "Julian" <julia...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:442d1249$0$22963$6d36...@titian.nntpserver.com...
>
>>Non-humorous Jinn wrote:
>>
>>>"Julian" <julia...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1143800576.4...@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>>>
>>>
>>>>Non-humorous Jinn wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>"Julian" <julia...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:442c830f$0$9748$6d36...@titian.nntpserver.com...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/31/mp3/272618_SOUNDDOGS_CH.mp3
>>>>>
>>>>>this is really dumb...
>>>>
>>>>When in Rome etc.
>>>
>>>
>>>Just saying that there is no content. No art.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>Try any of:
>>>>> http://midis.here.nu
>>>>
>>>>What for?
>>>
>>>
>>>Because there is art in every one.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>http://ptlslzb87.blogspot.com/
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Your art isn't bad, but no real /production/... You need to be
>>>more prolific, or perhaps there's more?
>>
>>There are 13 volumes containing 1000+
>>pages of illuminated manuscripts.
>
>
> Your words were boring, at least what I read.
Like beauty, boring is in the eye of the beholder.
> What is your best, most compact?
>
>
>>Scanning them is quite a task and I'm in no hurry.
>
>
> No kidding. If you're creating this stuff you should
> be having fun.
>
> http://ptlsv13.blogspot.com/
>
> ...is a better scan.
>
> Some great stuff...
>
> I have some slideshows: http://Art.Here.nu
> ...and process graphics with a certain flair.
I have already decided upon the books eventual
web format... a good example is to be seen
by selecting
PINNACLE OF ANGLO-SAXON ART
The priceless Lindisfarne Gospels
at http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
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Non-humorous Jinn
"Julian" <julia...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:442d1633$0$22853$6d36...@titian.nntpserver.com...
> Non-humorous Jinn wrote:
>> "Julian" <julia...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1143800576.4...@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>>Non-humorous Jinn wrote:
>>>
>>>>"Julian" <julia...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:442c830f$0$9748$6d36...@titian.nntpserver.com...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/31/mp3/272618_SOUNDDOGS_CH.mp3
>>>>
>>>>this is really dumb...
>>>
>>>When in Rome etc.
>>
>>
>> Just saying that there is no content. No art.
>>
>>
>>>>Try any of:
>>>> http://midis.here.nu
>>>
>>>What for?
>>
>>
>> Because there is art in every one.
>
> The electronic/digital quality to the sound clips
> is most distinctly unappealing to my ears.
I prefer Ive's 3rd Symphony, but just me.
Coltrane's "Om", etc...
Everything else is total shit including all the midis,
but they beat most midis.
>
> It makes http://www.dubreq.com/stylophone_past.php
Right: <brit-blah> ...pretty funny. Thx.
> sound like http://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/home/
> in comparison.
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NYC XYZ
R Flowers wrote:
> I once knew a bar nun. She sat on my left, and a bar fly sat on my right.
> After a few drinks, there was a flying nun who spoke Tubar.
>
> -- R Flowers
Reminds me of the ol' stand-by "what's the difference between a dog and
a fox?"
(Ten pints!)
NYC XYZ
eoygeo wrote:
> I used to full cycle in the Central park rode through a heart break
> hill with a race bike, took me a 25minutes non stop, not bad right?
> carried on steps to my floor too.
25 minutes????
I think The Loop is only six miles long....
Dennis M. Hammes
I dreamed somebody poasted something.
When I woke, I was a butterfly.
Diana
Dennis M. Hammes wrote:
> 'snomatter wrote:
>
> > "Dennis M. Hammes" <scraw...@arvig.net> wrote in message
> > news:ruydnQmmNLS...@onvoy.com...
> >
> >>'snomatter wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>"Al Smith" <inv...@address.com> wrote in message
> >>>news:AfZWf.52157$VV4.8...@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>>The Zen of riding a bike would be to become none with
> >>>>>>the bike.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Heh.
> >>>>
> >>>>That's me. I do Zen bike riding all the time. I've
> >>>>progressed so far, I no longer need the bike.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>There is no bike.
> >>>There is no ride.
> >>
> >>There is no pain.
> >>There is no gain.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Now you're getting it.
> >
> >
> I dreamed somebody poasted something.
> When I woke, I was a butterfly.
Lucky! You've got wings. All I can do is sit here and munch on
milkweedd.
barbz
If you're munching on milkweed, I can predict that someday, you will
take a long trip...and wind up in Monterey.
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$cientology oozes _under_ terrorists to hide."
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Non-humorous Jinn
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>
Al Smith
>>> When I woke, I was a butterfly.
>
>
> Lucky! You've got wings. All I can do is sit here and munch on
> milkweedd.
You and me both, kid.
Non-humorous Jinn
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Butter lies are flea.
Non-humorous Jinn
"Non-humorous Jinn" <ajinnNO...@here.nu> wrote in message news:zABXf.63444$Jd.3...@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net...
>
> "Al Smith" <inv...@address.com> wrote in message news:zWAXf.53141$VV4.9...@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
>>>>I dreamed somebody poasted something.
>>>>> When I woke, I was a butterfly.
>>>
>>>
>>> Lucky! You've got wings. All I can do is sit here and munch on
>>> milkweedd.
>>
>> You and me both, kid.
You mean: you and me, both kid.
Why milkweed?
Julian
Non-humorous Jinn wrote:
> "Julian" <julia...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:442d1249$0$22963$6d36...@titian.nntpserver.com...
> > Non-humorous Jinn wrote:
> >> "Julian" <julia...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1143800576.4...@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> >>
> >>>Non-humorous Jinn wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>"Julian" <julia...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:442c830f$0$9748$6d36...@titian.nntpserver.com...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>http://www.sounddogs.com/previews/31/mp3/272618_SOUNDDOGS_CH.mp3
> >>>>
> >>>>this is really dumb...
> >>>
> >>>When in Rome etc.
> >>
> >>
> >> Just saying that there is no content. No art.
> >>
> >>
> >>>>Try any of:
> >>>> http://midis.here.nu
> >>>
> >>>What for?
> >>
> >>
> >> Because there is art in every one.
> >>
> >>
> >>>http://ptlslzb87.blogspot.com/
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Your art isn't bad, but no real /production/... You need to be
> >> more prolific, or perhaps there's more?
> >
> > There are 13 volumes containing 1000+
> > pages of illuminated manuscripts.
>
> Your words were boring, at least what I read.
ps. The words weren't mine, I found them.
However, they're mine insofaras I can change them.
Do me a favour and let me know which bits are particularly
dodgy and I'll do some maintenance and a spring clean.
Al Smith
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> When I woke, I was a butterfly.
>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Lucky! You've got wings. All I can do is sit here and munch on
>>>>>>> milkweedd.
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You and me both, kid.
>
>
>
> You mean: you and me, both kid.
>
> Why milkweed?
>
Beats ragweed.
Diana
<claps caterpillar hands/legs together in delight>
Yay! I love travel, and hate the cold. I hear I get to do this every
year! But first I gotta grow up, and earn my wings!
<munches on yet another milkweed leaf>
Diana "Hungry Caterpillar" of the Hunt
Thanks barbz. I didn't actually know about Monarch migration. Pretty
neat. And I was actually born in Monterey. :)
dee
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
http://www.valdosta.edu/~argreene/paint.html
Diana
Heh. No matter. It's not always gonna be this way. Just keep eating.
<points at leaf> See that one over there on your right? It looks really
tasty.
Diana
Pretending to be 4th Generation
nget
butterfly nonsense. Was I really all that bad? But now I get it,April
fools right?
Maybe you bunch of cuties could get a job breaking the will of the
Islamic terrorists by making them listen to this fluff.
--
nget
Diana
dee wrote:
<snip, but no snip on the wings>
I love this book, dee!
I sometimes read it to my son at bedtime. We love the part where the
caterpillar becomes FAT!
Eric Carle is awesome!
Diana
"Purple cat, purple cat what do you see?"
barbz
> "Non-humorous Jinn" <ajinnNO...@here.nu> wrote in message news:zABXf.63444$Jd.3...@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net...
>
>>"Al Smith" <inv...@address.com> wrote in message news:zWAXf.53141$VV4.9...@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
>>
>>>>>I dreamed somebody poasted something.
>>>>>
>>>>>> When I woke, I was a butterfly.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Lucky! You've got wings. All I can do is sit here and munch on
>>>>milkweedd.
>>>
>>>You and me both, kid.
>
>
>
> You mean: you and me, both kid.
>
> Why milkweed?
Because pickleweed is sour.
>
>
>>Butter lies are flea.
>>
>>
>>--
>>AJ - http://clitin.com
>> (the biggest clit in pornetry)
>>Sat.Map: http://tinyurl.com/cjo5b
>>
>
>
>
Dennis M. Hammes
/Per Ashton ad ashtray/.
Dennis M. Hammes
In the game of Consciousness, everybody's First Generation.