Guest guest Posted February 28, 2001 Report Share Posted February 28, 2001 ....One day at the beach... in a flock of birds those birds with the fastest wings a haicuckoo sings in a grain of sand outskirts of the universe i watch at the beach a supernova spreading death and destruction but what a great sight an ant passes by with dinner becomes dinner the bird says yummy all that does remain laughs off a me entity what cosmical joke surf laughs what rubble life is like a great image on a soap bubble Jan Attachment: (image/jpeg) NIGHTSKY.JPG [not stored] Attachment: (image/jpeg) AT_THE~1.JPG [not stored] Attachment: (image/jpeg) M2-9.JPG [not stored] Attachment: (image/jpeg) BEACH3.JPG [not stored] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2001 Report Share Posted March 2, 2001 Hi Jan, You keep those pictures and haicuckoos singing, OK ! Not sure that you want to be as productive as Mace... but why not? You must have gone far out for that shot of that supernova. What camera did you use and what was the shutterspeed, did you use macro lenses or just digital zoom? Mister Jan, you make good haikuckies. Wim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2001 Report Share Posted March 2, 2001 On 3/1/01 at 11:53 PM Wim Borsboom wrote: ºHi Jan, º ºYou keep those pictures and haicuckoos singing, OK ! ºNot sure that you want to be as productive as Mace... but why not? ºYou must have gone far out for that shot of that supernova. º ºWhat camera did you use and what was the shutterspeed, did you use macro ºlenses or just digital zoom? º ºMister Jan, you make good haikuckies. º ºWim Hi Wim, On an island where surprisingly little is happening, inspiration is rare... And often, when an occasion arises to take a picture, the camera is forgotten... Like how a victim of road kill, a cat, was buried under the asphalt because for the workers it was too much trouble to remove the body... A bump on the road is the grave... Even at the astronomical observatory here, such a picture of a supernova couldn't have been taken: the picture is made by the Hubble telescope.... More can be found at: http://heritage.stsci.edu/index.html A friend supplied the URL and also a place to read haikus and get familiar with the style: http://www.poetry.com/ And one of her contributions (not a haiku) is at: http://www.poetry.com/Publications/display.asp?ID=P2266392&BN=999&PN=1 Wim, you know the popular saying "van je vrienden moet je hebben" Jan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2001 Report Share Posted March 2, 2001 Hi Jan et al. In the early days of the USA federation the fathers had to take a vote on what language to 'kind of make official' in the new scheme of things. It was only a difference of one vote and it would have been Dutch. (The Dutch also sold New Amsterdam for one dollar and it became New York, Brooklyn is after a little town in Holland called 'Breukelen', etc.) Now whether this is an apocryphal story that the Dutch try to believe, I do not know, but I like to believe it. Anyway if the vote would have swung the other way, everyone in the whole wide world would have known what Jan just said: "van je vrienden moet je hebben" In Loving Friendship Wim PS. I'm sure we would still have botched it up somehow ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2001 Report Share Posted March 2, 2001 Now those were the days when one vote counted! You know Dutch was the main language with which the far east and asia first communicated with the west. After Japan decided to throw all the foreigners out for corrupting their culture, they left one port where only the Dutch might trade. LOve, Gloria - Wim Borsboom <aurasphere <> Friday, March 02, 2001 1:08 PM Re: One day at the beach Hi Jan et al. In the early days of the USA federation the fathers had to take a vote on what language to 'kind of make official' in the new scheme of things. It was only a difference of one vote and it would have been Dutch. (The Dutch also sold New Amsterdam for one dollar and it became New York, Brooklyn is after a little town in Holland called 'Breukelen', etc.) Now whether this is an apocryphal story that the Dutch try to believe, I do not know, but I like to believe it. Anyway if the vote would have swung the other way, everyone in the whole wide world would have known what Jan just said: "van je vrienden moet je hebben" In Loving Friendship Wim PS. I'm sure we would still have botched it up somehow ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2001 Report Share Posted March 2, 2001 I think Michael that you are biased. Losing a soccer match :-( clouds your view. Of course it was Dutch not Deutch. You see those English speaking Yankees did not know the difference. That German fellow knew that Dutch was meant, that's why he voted against it ( I am just making this up as I go.) You know what I think, any minute now a Frenchman will come out of the woodworks and say that is was actually French, not Dutch, not Deutch, not even Spanish... even though that seems winning anyway. What about Irish? Here in Western Canada, Chinese is moving up strong, there is one city Richmond where all the store signs are in Chinese, it is like Hong Kong except that the buildings are still not so tall. Ah, language in any language is reason enough for fighting or... having fun.. the ball (soccer) is in your court now, Wim - <MikeSuesserott <> Friday, March 02, 2001 1:29 PM AW: One day at the beach > Hi Wim and Gloria, > > let me preface that I am very fond of the Dutch (except when they win > against us in soccer <g>). And I know they contributed greatly to the > shaping of the US. But not in this case. > > The language in question was German, not Dutch. However, even that old saw > about German missing to be the U.S. "official language" by one vote during > the 1790's is terribly garbled. The vote had to do with translating > documents into German at government expense and had nothing to do with > official language policy at all. It did miss by one vote in the house; the > Speaker of the House, a native German speaker, voted against it. > > There are many sources about the fascinating history of the English > language; here is one that also makes for entertaining reading: "The Mother > Tongue; English and How It Got That Way" by Bill Bryson, ISBN 0-888-07895-8. > > Best wishes, > > Michael Suesserott > > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > /join > > All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights, > perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside > back into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than > the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of Awareness. > Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It is Home. Home is > where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality of Eternal > Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge, spontaneously > arising from within into It Self. Welcome all to a. > > To from this list, go to the ONElist web site, at > www., and select the User Center link from the > menu bar > on the left. This menu will also let you change your > subscription > between digest and normal mode. > > > > > Your use of is subject to > > > > /join > > All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights, perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside back into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of Awareness. Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It is Home. Home is where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality of Eternal Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge, spontaneously arising from within into It Self. Welcome all to a. > > To from this list, go to the ONElist web site, at > www., and select the User Center link from the menu bar > on the left. This menu will also let you change your subscription > between digest and normal mode. > > > > > Your use of is subject to > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2001 Report Share Posted March 3, 2001 Hi Michael, You wrote: > PS. Everybody knows that we lost that > last soccer match only because the > referee had a squint. And we are still winking to each other ;-) (-; ( I mean "knip ogen" in Dutch, I don't know the German for it) ending up in a big smile :-))) Love, Wim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 5, 2001 Report Share Posted March 5, 2001 , "Wim Borsboom" <aurasphere@h...> wrote: > I think Michael that you are biased. Losing a soccer match :-( > clouds your view. Of course it was Dutch not Deutch. You see those > English speaking Yankees did not know the difference. That German > fellow knew that Dutch was meant, that's why he voted against it > (I am just making this up as I go.) > You know what I think, any minute now a Frenchman will come out of > the woodworks and say that is was actually French, not Dutch, not > Deutch, not even Spanish... even though that seems winning anyway. LOL! Hi Wim. After reading Michael's post I was tempted to post a reply using a French pseudonym such as Jean-Pierre and cook up some silly story about it really being French! Oh well, I read the posts in Digest mode, so I missed the boat on that one. Thanks for the laugh. Love Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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