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Re: Are You Taking Your Frugal Lifestyle Too Far?

suki — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:49:57 -0000

Wow, I'm not that extreme. :) And I'm willing to splurge on certain things.

Re: Randomguru 2.0

Randomguru — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:22:10 -0000

Well, I have a wordpress plugin that recycles older blog posts, especially when i have writer's block or on hiatus... maybe i'll remove it now...

anyway, i can sympathize with your bad financial thing. it happens sometimes, but with me being a working musician, it makes it all the more challenging to find work and manage the bills since i don't have a steady check coming in every 2 weeks.

it's challenging but rewarding since i am doing what i love. play music. lately i've been blessed with musicians and singers who like my playing and keep me coming back. god bless them. :)

Re: Randomguru 2.0

Manny — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:07:04 -0000

Great NYR! Glad to see the new post. I was afraid this was turning into the I Love Lucy of the blogosphere with the "reruns". Glad to see you resume your exercise with the walking. I'm slowly transitioning from power walks to jogs to light running. I'm recovering from a very bad financial experience and have learned a lot of lessons that will help me not repeat the same mistakes.

Re: Amazing…

Randomguru — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:27:35 -0000

Gee, thanks..... I think? :o/

Re: Amazing…

Manny — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:17:12 -0000

The first two original words for this blog in 2012! :)

Re: 10 Practical Reasons For Wearing a Wig

Amberlyn — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:46:33 -0000

I wear wigs every day. Im 17, and love it. It also saves damage to your hair! I can't STAND bleaching, so i just wear colored wigs. Im wearing a black one right now, and it's so soft and pretty, and it was only 75 bucks! Ive had it for months! I used to pay 80$ for somebody to dye my hair and it still never looked this great. Thumbs up to this!

Re: I Carry Your Heart: by E.E. Cummings

Samyzzz — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:59:06 -0000

I just read the poem and loved it. Could some one plz give a link to the music. samyzzz@sify.com

Re: Are Filipinos Asian?

whocares — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:17:44 -0000

Filipinos are geographically, culturally and genetically asians. Those who disagree are logically impaired and just dumbasses overall. This isn't a subjective idea; it's a fact. Look at your history books and stop being so stupid about shit.

Re: Are Filipinos Asian?

Mfskins — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:09:25 -0000

well sir by using your own logic and understanding the obvious enumerated facts arguing about the credibility of this article shouldnt even be the case. Its merely stating the obvious so why are you bitching if you totally agree with the article? I guess you want to look smart or some shit eh?

Re: Drums

The_Real_Hans — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:36:48 -0000

Nice drum set bro!

Re: Yes, Filipinos Are Asian!

Meiann — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:18:50 -0000

"TGIF -Thanks God I'm Filipino" and I'm an Asian i don't care about they say but I know I'm an Asian.

(over-emotional) haha..

Re: CD Review: Jackie Evancho – Dream With Me

DLH726 — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:34:09 -0000

What are you smoking?! She has one of the clearest cleanest enunciations and pronunciations in popular and classical music today! I'd recommend that you have your hearing checked (really), if you think her voice is muddled or garbled as you may have either a conductive or a neurosensory deficit.

Re: A Raw Veganist: Coming Back Full Circle

Randomguru — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:30:10 -0000

I think that if you were to slaughter and butcher your own cattle, you'll think twice about eating a paleo diet. Humans back in paleo days were also savages and were nowhere near as civilized as humans today. They HAD to eat animals in order to survive. Humans today have a choice, and the American Dietetic Association has confirmed that a vegan and vegetarian diet is healthy as long as a person eats a well-balanced diet.

Some top athletes have been vegan, such as Dave Scott, 6 time Iron Man Triathlon winner, and especially with such a grueling competition as swimming 2 miles, biking 100+ miles and running a 26 mile marathon all in one day, he just proves that it is possible to function at a high level of performance as a vegan.

Animals used for food still have feelings, have sensitivity, and cry and scream when they are about to die. Even eating "happy" animals that have been grown with more compassionate surroundings, free range and grass fed, still have to be slaughtered and butchered.

Read my other post: http://carlosrull.com/2011/10/...

Paul McCartney narrates the documentary "If Slaughterhouses Had Glass Walls, Everyone Would Be Vegetarian". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Animals still raised as a commodity for food, is still economically wasteful and a bad for the environment. The meat industry is very powerful and will find ways to keep you eating meat, even by promoting the grass-fed free-range answer. Fact is, grass fed cattle are the ones who are super healthy because they are vegetarian!!!! They are getting that wonderful "liquid sunshine" first hand... meat eaters are getting it secondhand! And via a very wasteful system!Anyway, thanks for the Paleo promo, but when I wrote that I was coming around full-circle I meant it, and hope that people will respect my decision to be a vegan. And respect my love for animals... all animals!

Re: A Raw Veganist: Coming Back Full Circle

Crazytrumpetman — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:13:13 -0000

Well, I think you are definitely benefiting from eating healthy vegetables as opposed to unhealthy animals. Of course, the distinction would be to eat healthy organically raised animals that eat their natural food, as well as organic vegetables. Humans have a 200,000+ year history of thriving by eating animals and wild vegetables. The onset of health problems came around 12,000 bc with the processing of grains. No culture has thrived that didn't eat animals. There are important nutrients that humans need that can only come from eating animals, one being B12. The modern vegan lifestyle is a luxury and fairy tale, because if you had to survive in the wild eating just plants you would starve or develop malnutrition - probably both. B12 tablets don't grow on trees!
Glad you're feeling better, but I encourage you to do research. Don't eat anything that comes out of a box or is advertised on tv. Eat only organic grass fed beef and pasture raised animals, and organic plants. Limit your carbs to 150 grams a day or less. Avoid grain, potatoes, beans.
Best of luck in your endeavor!

Crazy Trumpet Man

Re: Flickr-ations: Some of my Best Photos on Flickr.com

Randomguru — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:37:35 -0000

the post was updated....

Re: Facebook Timeline: Another Look at What’s to Come…

Randomguru — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:12:48 -0000

I have to admit, it was quite involved... there should be 1 button to preview the new layout, and monitor if people are really switching to the new layout or staying with the current one.

Re: Facebook Timeline: Another Look at What’s to Come…

suki — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:13:56 -0000

I saw links on how to set it up, but I was just too lazy to do so. I will wait for the release. :)

Re: Are Filipinos Asian? – Part 3: A Search for Cultural Identity

Tittagirl — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:38:41 -0000

I think if you ask someone living in philippines they would never ever think of mentioning they're polynesian...however, Filipinos in the states have been influenced and adapted a culture 'Pacific islander...and Filipinos from Hawaii would not say they're Polynesian but really an islander...it's a way of life, not race/ethnicity

Re: Are Filipinos Asian?

Chris — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:22:23 -0000

T Lau you're an idiot. Asian refers to the Asian continent. So yes that includes India, Pakistan, etc. All over the UK people refer to Indians and Pakistanis as Asian. Take some classes on history, cultures, and geography.

Re: Drums

Randomguru — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:24:01 -0000

yep, thanks. and it's a nice little drumset to easily transport around town! :o)

Re: Esperanza Spalding – Ponta de Areia

Davidreis — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:39:55 -0000

You've the wrong place. The song talks about the dismantling of the Minas-Bahia railroad. Its final destination was Ponta de Areia near Caravelas in southern Bahia. Info here: http://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki...

To give some insight on the song, Milton and Fernando were very the prime musicians from Minas Gerais at a time where most popular music came elsewhere. Thus they were pretty important and formed an informal group and movement called Clube da Esquina.
Trains and railroads were always something very important to the state, so thuggery were a big part of the culture. At the time the song eras written, railroads in general and that one in particular were dying and with them an important of the culture of Minas, thus the melancholic tone and lyric.
Hope this is helpful :-)

Re: Somewhat of a Hiatus… and Burn Out…

Randomguru — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:25:29 -0000

Thanks for chimin' in, Manny! I remember when you were posting about those events in your life. But I totally agree that many blogs have faded away into semi-active status, etc.

Facebook and Twitter, especially (and now Google+ to some extent) seem to be sucking up people's attention spans... and there are only so many hours in a day and we have other things to do.

And you are right, however it goes it's important to be happy. :)

Re: Somewhat of a Hiatus… and Burn Out…

Randomguru — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:22:35 -0000

dude. i predicted you'd chime in, and you DID! LOL. ;oP

Re: Somewhat of a Hiatus… and Burn Out…

Manny — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:10:31 -0000

I can feel some of your pain, Carlos. I felt similarly in 2009, when real-life events pushed my online presence and particularly the blog into the background. But I was able to come back and have kept up my blog. Sadly, most of the blogs on my blogroll have faded into semi-active status or worse. It must be a trend, as everyone has shifted to Facebook, Twitter, and slowly, to Google+. But as long as we're happy, that's all that matters.

Re: CD Review: Jackie Evancho – Dream With Me

A JE Enunciation Fan! — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:39:57 -0000

Huh?!? And yet, I find her lyrical enunciation PRISTINE. It is one of the many, many eloquent, and immensely pleasing things about JE and her talent. So many singers trail off and do not completely enunciate their songs' lyrics. Listen to JE on Silent Night. She's profoundly enunciate in it. And, at age 10/11 to pick up Italian enunciation as well as she has (I have to quote more experienced classical cross and opera fans on that) is clearly impressive. Admittedly, and I speak French, she was challenged with Imaginer on her CD. David Foster was stretching her there. Seems as though she's always up to a challenge!