I really have too many interests to mention...
I'd like to meet:
Maybe you.
Especially if you're pro-peace, like helping others, or care about animals or protecting the environment (without having to spend any money).
Go ahead. Take the initiative. Send me a note or put me on your friends list.
Write to me in English or Spanish, whichever you know better.
Adam's Website :
www.DailyVisits.com
My website is a not-for-profit humanitarian site that will open in a separate window. It has no commercial advertising of any kind. No banners, no pop-ups, no sponsored ads, no webpage dialogs, no flash ads, no DHTML / Fly-In ads, no adware, no spyware, no frames, no cookies, ...
I add more whenever I have the time.
www.PeaceBunny.com
PeaceBunny.com is the "junior partner website" that I set up as an entrance (shortcut) to the "Free Good Deed of the Day" page on DailyVisits.com
My girlfriend chose the "PeaceBunny" domain name and gave me the encouragement and inspiration for this idea. "Copy & Paste" code is provided there for those who want to clone their own PeaceBunny.
Favorite Links :
These will open in a separate window :
Click to do your free "Good Deed of the Day"
News You Won't See On CNN or Fox News
Bored? Really, REALLY bored? Click here to play a silly boring game
I'll probably add more later.
Today's Stuff :
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Today's models. Click to see full size collections in a new window :
These pics always show skin, but never any "obscenity".
(It's art. Not "pornography".)
.SWF Flash Animations :
(Each of the following will load & display in a separate window.)
Quizes:
Saint or sinner? How good or evil are you?
Unofficial IQ Test
Very unusual. From the National Lampoon
Are you dumb or not?
Short, American-oriented quiz
Special:
The amazing flash mind reader
Windows music Wow!
Nice "hand written" flash clock
Cute but really strange kittens
Games:
Tic Tac Toe
Simon. For the musically & artistically inclined
Classic Tetris
Test your coordination by catching bombs
Give Bush a brain
Miscellaneous:
Are you "good enough"?
End of the world story (Contains profanity)
Shockers and Gags:
Optical illusion
Six optical illusions
"Say It" song
About the famous Pakistani pop singer
Look closely to see what's wrong with this room
"Find Waldo" variation. You have 60 seconds
Care About Humans on this Planet?
For world citizens who care about war and peace
For Americans who really care
A Message From Me To You:
Some things seriously worth thinking about
A Few Funny .Gifs For You :
Feel free to copy these animated gifs to email to your "friends"!
Next Category :
Next Category (Later :)
About The Notes I Get :
I usually reply to the notes that I get. That's the general rule.
But, there are exceptions to the rule.
The notes that I sometimes ignore are the ones that seem to be from people who haven't even read my profile and ask questions like:
"Are you really 54?" (Yes! Why would I lie?)
"Why don't you have a pic of yourself?" (I do! In my profile photo album.)
"Aren't you too old to have a MySpace profile?" (No, I'm not. Read the Press Release More than Half of MySpace Visitors are Now Age 35 or Older . And 11% are over 55 years old!)
About The "Friends Comments" Below :
Like most people, I appreciate positive comments (but not false flattery). I read all comments and return the favor by writing a comment in your profile.
However, I realize that not all Comments entered below will be positive. That's to be expected, and I don't let such things upset me.
What anyone writes reflects more on them, their current mood, and their state of mind than on me. After all, few people here know me personally.
"Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you -- not because they are nice, but because you are." - If you like that saying, take it with you and use it.
But if you paste in an image that's wider than the column, I'll remove it. (Images shouldn't be wider than about 300 pixels.) Nothing personal, but I don't want this page any wider than it already is. Having to scroll further to the right messes up the "artistic balance" of the page. OK, so I'm a bit picky about stuff like that.
Ditto for images linked to a commercial website. No commercial ads thanks.
There probably would have been over a thousand Comments, but after they're no longer displayed on the first page I delete the ones that don't really say much worth reading.
Music:
I like most music.
The kind of music I'm into depends on my mood, what I'm doing, who I'm with and what music is available.
I really don't appreciate Rap, Polka, Opera and a couple of other styles but hey... that's just me.
I like these quotations about music:
"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."
- Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
"Music is what feelings sound like."
- Author Unknown
"Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often."
- Samuel Butler (1612-80) English poet, author
"It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself."
- Johann Sebastian Bach
"Play the music, not the instrument."
- Author Unknown
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962
"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; ... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."
- Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading, 1934
"Mathematics is music for the mind; music is mathematics for the soul."
- Anon, quoted in Shapiro, An Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music, 1978
"Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life."
- Jean Paul Richter, Titan, 1800-3
"Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time."
- Busoni in The Essence of Music, 1923
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
- Aldous Huxley
"Music is the art of thinking with sounds."
- Jules Combarieu
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."
- Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886, German philosopher (1844-1900)
"I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality."
- H.A. Overstreet
"This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the floor. Digital technology will now faithfully reproduce these noisy, low-fi, un-professional masters at great expense. Feel stupid yet?"
- Disclaimer on a CD
Movies:
Another long list would go here...
Television:
I usually have the TV on while multitasking. I shift my attention depending on what's on.
Interested in documentaries, music, comedy, action, freaky fiction, mushy sentimental (when I'm in the mood), biographical, science & technology, science fiction, scary, classic, foreign, and miscellaneous. No sports or soap operas.
I dislike commercials.
I like these quotations about TV:
"Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television."
- David Letterman
"You know, l don't kid myself about the show. If it doesn't get ratings, it’s off. Look, if I came up with the cure for cancer and it didn't get ratings, they wouldn't put it on. That's how vicious that business is."
- Donald Trump
"The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were."
- David Brinkley
"I've had it--the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy--it's an advertising medium."
- Robert Altman
"I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth -- I just hate what is being done with it."
- Alton Brown
"Television has brought back murder into the home, where it belongs."
- Alfred Hitchcock
"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper."
- Rod Serling
"Television is simply automated day-dreaming."
- Lee Lovinger
"Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off."
- Unknown
"I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts."
- Orson Welles
Books:
This category includes e-books too, since paper books will become obsolete soon enough. E-books are more ecologically friendly, environmentally sustainable, and cheaper than those made of paper. Harvesting trees to turn into wood pulp & paper products is best left for making more important things -- like toilet paper!
"Book -- what they make a movie out of for television."
- Leonard Louis Levinson
"The wise man reads both books and life itself."
- Lin Yutang
"What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it."
- Stephen Jay Gould
"When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food and clothes."
- Desiderius Erasmus (Dutch writer 1466-1536)
"The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity."
- Thomas Carlyle
"If you believe everything you read, better not read."
- Japanese proverb
"The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them."
- Douglas Everett
"A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test."
- President George W. Bush
(Speaking at Townsend Elementary School, near Knoxville TN, February 21, 2001)
Index Liberis Prohibitorum - Index of Forbidden Books for Children:
The Boy Who Died From Eating All His Vegetables
Curious George and the High-Voltage Fence
Dad's New Wife Robert
Fun Four-letter Words to Know and Share
The Kids' Guide to Hitchhiking
The Magic World Inside the Abandoned Refrigerator
Places Where Mommy and Daddy Hide Neat Things
Pop! Goes The Hamster...And Other Great Microwave Games
Some Kittens Can Fly
Strangers Have the Best Candy
Things Rich Kids Have, But You Never Will
Whining, Kicking, and Crying to Get Your Way
Why Can't Mr. Fork and Ms. Electrical Outlet Be Friends?
You Were an Accident
Your Nightmares Are Real
You're Different, and That's Bad
Heroes:
Who do I consider a hero?
"People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway."
- Mother Teresa
To me, a hero is any person who does those things mentioned above voluntarily and spontaneously, without any expectation or hope of any reward in this world or in any kind of afterlife.
"Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death"
- Albert Einstein
"O God, if I am doing good out of fear of Your hellfire, cast me into it. And if I am doing good out of desire for Your paradise, prohibit me from entering it. And if I am doing good for the sake of Your noble face, do not prohibit me from seeing You."
- Rabi'ah al-'Adawiya (the Sufi woman saint) (Translated and paraphrased from the Fatawa of Imam 'Abd al-Halim Mahmud)
The definition of 'hero' implies some form of self sacrifice for some noble cause. In my opinion a true hero sacrifices his/her "self" (ego), which is the ultimate sacrifice that any individual can make.
By self/ego I don't mean "life". I mean that which seems to separate us from the rest of what we perceive as reality. "Self" in the context of the following 2 quotations:
"The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self."
- Albert Einstein
"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
- Albert Einstein
I could name a few well known or famous 'true heroes' but that would be favoritism. Besides, most of them are as little known or anonymous as you are. If you ever meet one you will recognize them by their words, deeds, and how they treat others.
