We Still Hadn’t Learned, Though, That Growing Up Is All About Getting Hurt. And Then Getting Over It.

“How are you defining love?” “It isn’t a simple formula, Harry. I’m not sure. I recognize it when I see it.” “So what’s love look like?” “You can have everything in the world, but if you don’t have love, none of it means crap,” he said promptly. “Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures. Love never fails. When every star in the heavens grows cold, and when silence lies once more on the face of the deep, three things will endure: faith, hope, and love.” “And the greatest of these is love,” I finished. “That’s from the Bible.” “First Corinthians, chapter thirteen,” Thomas confirmed. “I paraphrased. Father makes all of us memorize that passage. Like when parents put those green yucky-face stickers on the poisonous cleaning products under the kitchen sink.”

Blood Rites (Dresden Files book 6) - Jim Butcher (via canceroftheearth)

I've used this quote alot to define love, Thomas (Jim B.) hits it dead on :)

So damn true...

O.M.G... I never even knew these versions existed...Whelp it's been a few years since I bought the first book, time to replace it.

I admit, I shamelessly judge books by their covers, and I think I would enjoy The Dresden Files about 30% more if my set featured the European cover art. I love the paper texture, the haphazard taping job, the typewriter font, the various scuffs and stains that Dresden would inevitably accumulate on his case files, and the tagline at the top: MAGIC - IT CAN GET A GUY KILLED.

AD Justin Morrison from the Portland Mercury asked me to do a cover and some spot illustrations of people making out for their Valentine’s Day issue, and then gave me complete creative freedom! It was a fantastically fun assignment—thanks so much, Justin!

Futuristic Laser Space Engine Passes Its First Test

Someday it could get us to the moon within hours and Mars within days

“In 2013, Y.K. Bae scored funding from NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program to study an amazing new kind of propulsion: Thrust that comes not from liquid rockets but from lasers continuously fired at the spacecraft, which would steadily gain momentum in the frictionless vacuum of space. It’s called the Photonic Laser Thrust system, and it could drastically reduce the amount of fuel needed for space missions. And now, Bae has announced that lab tests of the technology were successful.In the experiment, Bae fired a laser at a one-pound mock spaceship on a frictionless track and successfully produced thrust. The laser bounced continuously between two mirrors inside a cavity at the bottom of the simulated spaceship, building momentum of 1.1 milliNewtons. We’re not talking about a lot of thrust. For example, the full sized, 6.2-million-pound Saturn V rocket that sent the Apollo 11 moon mission to space needed about 34.5 million Newtons of thrust to lift off. It was many, many orders of magnitude more powerful. However, the goal of the laser system isn’t to get things off the ground. The goal is to boost a spacecraft’s momentum when it’s already in space—which, if you can reach it, requires much less energy than getting a big, heavy hunk of metal off the ground.”

Let's say you had a chance to play any hero and any villain you wanted, what two characters would you pick?

Personally I'd pick Deadpool and Carnage

Damn right

Grades are getting low, the teens are getting high. That 12 year old is pregnant and her parents wonder why. A 1st grader is swearing, a 3rd grader has been raped. Just take a look around you, isn't the system great? Who isn't faded these days, teens are sending nudes, kids are getting beaten, the teachers see the bruises. No calls for help are spoken, teens are smoking weed, young girls are cutting, this isn't what we need. The marks of taunt and yelling, parents are divorced. That 14 year old is drinking beer, this can't get any worse. A little girl has killed herself, nobody seems to care. Another kid has been expelled for a stupid dare. But it needs to change. Our world is officially broken. It's time to take a stand, your thoughts need to be spoken.

OHHHHHhhh yeah! Spar Ops!

Halo 4 - Spartan Ops Episode 8 Trailer Caps

beginning of my bio for a show

i would like to believe that I could be angry, that I could loath them just as much if not more then they me. I'm alone here, where there shouldn't be lines drawn and where eyes should be blind to colors and the judgement that tollows would be treated as something for the masses. Yet here I'm tormented by bias, by someones hope that I'd live as low as their expectations. Where open words and physical abuse once sufficed now rules and limitations seek to break my will. They make it out to be a sport, a game of me. Yet it only makes it easier for me to win. I can eat alone, live alone, and learn alone just fine my dear. They would not be able to get me out, that I'm sure of. My entire time at the acadmeny I was shunned, though my father had been a military man, and a leader at that just by the fact alone that I was colored made me less then any other cadet. We knew the same things, I would think that we had shared the same qualitications of enrollment, even the same education. It was still meaningless to them all. I was required to (Insert task here)