Saturday, November 24, 2012

Insomnia and Me: 5 Things I've learned before 5:00am - Part VIII

1) During World War II at the Sweden-Norway border, 77 was used as a password, because the tricky pronunciation in Swedish made it easy to instantly discern whether the speaker was native Swedish, Norwegian, or German.
2) Walking through a doorway affects your memory.
3) Where can I find an adorable video of a cat hugging a baby kitten who is having a nightmare? Right here.
4) Your golden birthday is the year you turn the same age as the date on which you were born (e.g. turning 22 on the 22nd). The two most significant golden birthdays are 23 and 31. 
5) The Ancient Astronauts theory "proposes that historical texts, archaeology and legends contain evidence of past human-extraterrestrial contact." Upon review, I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens.

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Far better

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt

Sunday, November 18, 2012

He and I

When words run dry,

he does not try,
nor do I.

We are on par.

He just is,
I just am
and we just are.

~Lang Leav