I wanna be rich...do do do do do do do oooohh...

Remember that song...Well that's one of my many theme songs. Recently my friends and I have been discussing wants and goals. And one of my goals has always been to be rich. For some reason my friends find this funny. Ever since I was a child, I've always heard that money can't buy you happiness, and I want to prove this statement wrong. I want to earn about a million per year, after taxes. I want to make enough that I can pay off all of my student loans, which are about 100,000, and pay off my credit cards which are about 7,000. And any other incendental bills...then I want to be able to buy a nice house/condo and car...and the rest of the money will work for me, so that I can do the things I want in life. I haven't quite figured out how to do this yet.

I have no real focus in life...there's so many different professions I want to do...

The short list...

I love being a web/graphic designer, it's a job I enjoy doing, and I don't mind doing it for fun sometimes, just little things for myself or family that I wouldn't get paid for...

My motto/email signature...is

"If you get a job you love, you'll never work a day in your life." - John P Grier

So that is one job that falls under this category....

I also still want to be a lawyer, intellectual property is the area I want to work in, so I would still be in contact with designers and artists...

Those are my two main things, one I have training for, one I want to have training for, and will hopefully attend law school sometime soon.

Other things I want to do include, owning a natural hair salon and spa, flipping properties, owning a clothing store, owning a bar/night club, I wouldn't mind being a personal shopper so that I get to shop and get paid for it...I love shopping...I would also like to have a non profit so that I can help people, (not quite sure who the targeted group would be, probably inner city children or homeless people), interior designer, clothing designer (I'd specialize in plus size fashions), and last but not least, a writer. For television or children's books, or short stories or something....

I had an idea for a book last night...I'm going to compile stories of people who are over the age of 21 who have had less than five dates in their life. I think it would be an interesting read.

How do mirrors work and skin color confusion.

Ok thanks to a post on a forum, I have a new question to answer...How do mirrors work...

This is the answer I found :

We see objects in a mirror, because a mirror, when hit by particles of light called photons, reflects the photons back to us and some reach, and enter, our eyes. Photons that hit a rough surface will bounce off of the surface in a haphazard manner, while those that hit a smooth surface, such as a mirror, only bounce off of the surface at the same angle at which they hit the object. The scientific term for this phenomenon is reflection.

Not all smooth surfaces reflect photons back to us, even though, technically, they should bounce back at the same angle at which they hit the surface. This exception to the rule results, because some smooth surfaces absorb the light particles hitting them, making it impossible for them to bounce back.

Another apparent exception to this rule is that, although our bodies are rough, uneven surfaces, off of which light bounces at random angles, our images reflect off of a mirror. The reason for this apparent contradiction is simply that when we stand in front of a mirror, some, but not all, of the light particles bouncing off of us will hit the smooth surface of the mirror. The ones that do reflect our images back to our eyes at exactly the same angle at which they hit the mirror.

In other words, photons that bounce off of any part of our bodies and hit the mirror reflect back to our eyes from only one place on the mirror, and at only one angle. It follows that each point on our bodies that reflects back to our eyes from one point on the mirror produces an image in the mirror. All of the images together make up our reflections, like it or not. And remember that mirrors don't lie!

Did you know?
a "mirror image " is actually a backward image.

Found here.

It took me a minute to figure out that last part because I never thought of the image in the mirror as being backwards. Although I may have to find a more laypersons explanation for that one.

I've also found out that my perception on skin color is way off, and I don't know why...For instance I don't think of Morris Chestnut as dark skinned. Although I have been convinced that he is, it's still strange that I don't think of him as so...like wise Brian McKnight is also not considered dark skinned to me. Interesting, but people like Denzel, Cedric the Entertainer or Anthony Anderson would be considered dark to me. And of course the chocolate man himself. Wesley Snipes. I've been trying to figure out why that is...maybe people with a redder undertone appear darker to me than those with a light one....for instance Morris Chestnut compared to Anthony Anderson, my friends say anthony is lighter, but unless i put them next each other, I still say anthony is darker...although even when i do put them next to each other...it's hard to say...that's all for now more later...

Stupid songs/videos and more...

First let me get the and more out of the way...do you ever not pay close attention to some words...for me I had an epiphany today when I realized that the reason they call stainless steel, stainless, is because it doesn't stain. I just dawned on me as I easily wiped the rust out of my kitchen sink left by a rusty cookie sheet. (I should probably buy another one of those, they should make those out of stainless steel too.

Now as for stupid songs. That Pimpin' all of the World song by Ludacris bothers me. How can you try to show your "pride" and admiration for african women while talking about pimping them and calling them hoes at the same time. That just doesn't make sense. Don't do me any favors dude, just stick to your whoremongering and leave the motherland out of this. Along with the other countries of brown people that you wanted to "showcase". URG!

A little more craziness....

I went thrifting yesterday and this crazy man followed me around the store (eventually I shook him and had to hide in different aisles to avoid him)...he wanted to tell me about all of his purchases, and his delivery was ...look at this puzzle i'm buying, you know what i won't be doing when i'm using it, wearing glasses, this one has big pieces, and this one is hard too, you know what i'll be doing when i work on this, taking asprin....so everything was "You know what I won't be doing with this," or "you know what I'll be doing with this." Then I went to the dollar store next door for a few things, and what do you know he needs to come in there two...i had to hide in the aisles again. Then I got in the slowest moving line ever...URG. I was in line for like 20 minutes, and there weren't that many people there. I went thrifting to find some old ties and some records, I have this idea for a shirt...and I wanted to make some record bowls for a few people...I only found one tie that looked decent, and somehow (these things only happen to me) they only had four records in the whole store, the last time I was there they had at least 50.

So my neighbor and I went to a different store today...found some ties, and some records, 2 purses, and I even got a dress and a skirt that I'm going to make some bohemian styled shirts out of. My neighbor makes shirts by hand, and is very talented at it. So he's helping me with them later on this week...whoo hoo...The purses are awesome, well one is basic black leather clutch with a black chain strap, and the other one is this huge woven basket with these 3d flowers on the front that says Alculpoco. It matches my new green dress/future shirt perfectly. I'll take pictures and post them once I get my outfit together.

Til then I'll post things I think are cute, like this dress for instance:


or this one :



They can be found on this site : http://www.phishin4kompliments.com/

BTW I put some shirts on cafepress for my animated cartoon (that's not quite done yet) The Adventures of Jayne Bondage, it's in progress, but I have a very basic trailer in flash here. http://www.soulcurve.com/episode1.swf

The shirts are available here : http://www.cafepress.com/taojb
That's all for now...ciao!

No crazies today...Just more pondering

Thinking about my last question, "Why do we cry?" I wondered today, "Do other animals cry?" So I went on another question on google, and I fell better that I'm not the only one asking this because the first result pretty much answered my question. They basically said that although animals produce tears to clean and protect the eye, we don't really know for certain if they produce emotional tears. Human's are so far the only definite "animals" that produce emotional tears. Although elephants are said to do it, I don't know if it's the same as us. Also animals do cry vocally because of distress or sorrow, they just don't produce the actual tears necessarily. Read the article.

My other question is one that's been asked by many, especially comedians..."Why do men have nipples?" There really is no reason for it. So I looked that up too, the article said that it may be that the nipples are sexually independent, like brains and arms and legs. You get it independently of the sex, but in some male mammals such as rats and mice, the nipple development is suppressed by male hormones, so I still don't know the answer to the question.

But other animals such as boars, dogs, cats, and all primates have male nipples, which are also known as mammae masculinae. So that's that, although we still don't know why, this gives me a tad more information....2 articles for ya.... One .... Two

I'll think of some more questions later, I had a really good one last night, and then I forgot what it was, hopefully I'll think of it tonight.

R.I.P. Luther Vandross - You will be missed

My favorite singer ever, Luther Ronzoni Vandross, passed away on July 1, 2005. He has been my favorite singer since I heard Hear and Now in 6th grade. I even did a fan website for him for an information archtecture class. I'm going to redo it now, since my web design skills have improved immensly if you ask me. I'm also a moderator for the yahoo fan group. We had 14 new people join the group yesterday...a little late if you ask me. So let's have a moment of silence for the man with the velvet voice.

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Ok...on other topics I went to the Taste of Chicago today with my friends. That was fun, another way to meet/see lots of crazy people. One thing that's weird is that this is the second year I've ever been to the taste, and it's also the second time I've seen people that I've known from college or met in another city. It's odd for there to be sooooooooo many people there and yet still find someone you know...but maybe this is just an oddity for me, does this happen to others. I remember when I went on spring break twice I saw people from my college that did not go with us. Once in our hotel in Las Vegas and another time in Cozumel, Mexico on the way back to our cruise ship. Craziness.


People I randomly meet like to confide in me for some reason sometimes, like the lady walking behind me at the taste who felt the need to tell me that she has a bad hip, and then once noticing my friends funnel cake decides to tell me that she'd want one of those but she's scared of getting the sugar in her teeth. Why me?

Well my favorite crazy person of today has to be the weird guy on the train. I think he was one of those performers in the subway because he had one of those special ID passes. I sit down in the seats that face each other...he's sitting in the seat that's side closest to me. Keep in mind it's kinda crowded because of the Taste, so there aren't a lot of available seats. A nice Hispanic lady sits there and her kid sits across from her. The guy immediately starts talking to her about the weather, etc, blah blah blah, she's trying to talk to her kid across the aisle, but every time she leans over he says something else and she's nice enough to sit back up and nod. Finally another seat opens up and she moves. Then an Asian lady sits there and she kinda nods along too, finally she moves to another seat. So I'm thinking to myself, (since I know people like that are drawn to me) I just won't make eye contact, so I'm looking everywhere except at him. All of a sudden I feel a tap on my shoulder, and the guy's asking me if I heard about Luther, and how sad it was....I'm like yeah I heard I'm a big fan, I was hoping that would be it, but he proceeded to talk, and talk, and talk. At one point he said yeah it's sad that Luther is dead, it's just like when Al Green died....and I'm thinking to myself WHAT!!! AL GREEN IS DEAD???! And then I'm like wait, and I tell him Al Green isn't dead, lol. At this point my friends are just cracking up a few seats away. So them cracking up is making me crack up. Yet the guy keeps talking to me I guess he just thinks I'm jolly or something. Another girl is behind the guy and suddenly she's cracking up too, and shaking her head. The guy talks and talks and talks, he sings, he raps, he recites his poetry, this is from like Grand on the redline all the way to the Lawrence or Argyle stop where he finally gets off, and I can stop laughing because I was starting to get lightheaded, not to mention I had to go to the bathroom. So that was my craziness for the day...

BTW, I finally have a job! YAY! I work for http://www.talhavision.com. I'm designing the advertisments for the kiosks. I still freelance on the side, and I may get a part time job just to have spending money so that I can start saving up for the future.