var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-3430821-4"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}Tumblr (3.0; @dki)http://dorianinnes.com/<p><a href="http://tinybuddha.com/blog/one-simple-way-to-make-a-big-difference-in-someones-life/">via TinyBuddha.com </a></p> <p><i>by Therese Ember</i></p> <p><b>“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”  ~Samuel Johnson</b></p> <p>Just after my mother’s colon cancer surgery, my father was laid off from work.</p> <p>I was 16 years old and felt silently helpless and terrified.  My Mom had been attending church but, on this certain day, she didn’t feel well enough to attend. After this particular church service, an exceedingly thin, frail, elderly woman approached me. She requested if I would please accompany her on an errand.</p> <p>I felt too afraid of being disrespectful of the elderly, so shyly I sat next to her in her car as she drove to a grocery store. Her name was Georgie.</p> <p>I began pushing Georgie’s grocery cart down the first aisle. It was then that she paused, pointed to an item, and asked, “Do you have this in your house?”</p> <p>I started to cry, realizing the true purpose of her “errand.”</p> <p>She continued, “Now, tell me yes or no.”</p> <p>I answered, “no”.  She placed the item in the cart. She continued down every single aisle of the supermarket, pointing to every inconceivably generous object.  I couldn’t contain my tears of vulnerability in public nor of her profound generosity to an utter stranger’s family. Someone must have told her about our family’s dire situation.</p> <p>I stammered, “I haven’t any money or a job. My father got laid off from work. My mother has cancer.”</p> <p>She said, “Someday you’re going to meet someone in a similar situation and do the same thing for them and that’s how you’ll pay me back”.</p> <p>She never accepted personal compensation.</p> <p>Beloved Georgie has long since passed away.</p> <p>Yet since then, I have secretly tried to emulate Georgie in the hidden way that she conducted “errands.”  To strangers.  They usually initially stammer to decline, until I begin to tell them my story about Georgie. Somehow Georgie gives them permission to safely receive.</p> <p>I repeat to them what Georgie said to me.  In addition I say, “This is a gift from Georgie.”  They cry and we hug; and thus beloved Georgie lives on into eternity in unimaginably grateful hearts.</p>http://dorianinnes.com/post/423523712http://dorianinnes.com/post/423523712Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:50:51 -0800<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kykwxurasS1qz5fczo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><b>Enjoying the beautiful day on two wheels:</b> <p>Posted by Ping.fm</p>http://dorianinnes.com/post/418759858http://dorianinnes.com/post/418759858Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:17:17 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kygovwveAN1qz5fczo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Happy Birthday, Johnny.</p>http://dorianinnes.com/post/413657420http://dorianinnes.com/post/413657420Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:33:32 -0800<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://dorianinnes.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/412750046/tumblr_kyfptoFiEm1qz5fcz&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p>Neil Young Cover</p>http://dorianinnes.com/post/412750046http://dorianinnes.com/post/412750046Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:56:00 -0800<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/7271960/Hollywood-is-100-years-old-a-history-of-Tinseltown-in-pictures.html">Hollywood is 100 years old: a history of Tinseltown in pictures</a>http://dorianinnes.com/post/407884810http://dorianinnes.com/post/407884810Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:16:29 -0800<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dl7z9RMUV3A&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dl7z9RMUV3A&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl7z9RMUV3A&feature=youtube_gdata">Kitten Under Car</a></p>http://dorianinnes.com/post/396560535http://dorianinnes.com/post/396560535Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:17:04 -0800<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky07ab4vOx1qz5fczo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>There was a kitten in my car this morning</b></p>http://dorianinnes.com/post/395211203http://dorianinnes.com/post/395211203Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:51:49 -0800<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxih8cJXRQ1qz5fczo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The Bible has been translated into lolspeak!</p> <p>A sampling:</p> <p><a href="#1">1</a> Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem.</p> <p><a href="#2">2</a> Da Urfs no had shapez An haded dark face, An Ceiling Cat rode invisible bike over teh waterz.</p> <p><a href="#3">3</a> At start, no has lyte. An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite? An lite wuz.</p> <p><a href="#4">4</a> An Ceiling Cat sawed teh lite, to seez stuffs, An splitted teh lite from dark but taht wuz ok cuz kittehs can see in teh dark An not tripz over nethin.</p> <p><a href="#5">5</a> An Ceiling Cat sayed light Day An dark no Day. It were FURST!!!1</p> <p><a href="#6">6</a> An Ceiling Cat sayed, im in ur waterz makin a ceiling. But he no yet make a ur. An he maded a hole in teh Ceiling.</p> <p><a href="#7">7</a>An Ceiling Cat doed teh skiez with waterz down An waterz up. It happen.</p> <p><a href="#8">8</a> An Ceiling Cat sayed, i can has teh firmmint wich iz funny bibel naim 4 ceiling, so wuz teh twoth day.</p> <p><a href="#9">9</a> An Ceiling Cat gotted all teh waterz in ur base, An Ceiling Cat hadz dry placez cuz kittehs DO NOT WANT get wet.</p> <p><a href="#10">10</a> An Ceiling Cat called no waterz urth and waters oshun. Iz good.</p>http://dorianinnes.com/post/377684440http://dorianinnes.com/post/377684440Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:09:00 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxign7WNmX1qz5fczo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://icanhascheezburger.com/2010/02/03/funny-pictures-day-of-school/">Basement Cat Jr’s - Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?</a></p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basement_Cat#Ceiling_Cat_and_Basement_Cat">The Backstory of Basement Cat</a></p>http://dorianinnes.com/post/377668009http://dorianinnes.com/post/377668009Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:57:00 -0800<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://dorianinnes.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/377654591/tumblr_kxig6hG6s51qz5fcz&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p>I always hated this song when it was new, but now I’d say it’s a pretty seminal song to hip hop.</p>http://dorianinnes.com/post/377654591http://dorianinnes.com/post/377654591Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:47:05 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxg2afJul01qz5fczo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><b>RIP Grandma:</b> <p>Posted by Ping.fm</p>http://dorianinnes.com/post/374936801http://dorianinnes.com/post/374936801Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:51:49 -0800<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx0csj7wiz1qz5fczo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><b>Mos Def at the Key Club:</b> <p>Posted by Ping.fm</p>http://dorianinnes.com/post/359545851http://dorianinnes.com/post/359545851Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:17:09 -0800<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwoi77BzeW1qz5fczo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><b>What I see when I wake up in the morning: My whiteboard closet.:</b> <p>Posted by Ping.fm</p>http://dorianinnes.com/post/348264603http://dorianinnes.com/post/348264603Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:42:40 -0800<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22848704@N03/4281444237/">The shoulder situation is slowly improving</a>http://dorianinnes.com/post/339452726http://dorianinnes.com/post/339452726Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:38:54 -0800<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kvpiof4G6d1qz5fczo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://dorianinnes.com/post/315802102http://dorianinnes.com/post/315802102Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:17:03 -0800<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://dorianinnes.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/314253812/tumblr_kvnuoitpcN1qz5fcz&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/>http://dorianinnes.com/post/314253812http://dorianinnes.com/post/314253812Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:41:00 -0800<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kvhim7eWIH1qz5fczo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><b>Northstar:</b> <p>Posted by Ping.fm</p>http://dorianinnes.com/post/308496994http://dorianinnes.com/post/308496994Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:34:57 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kvg6r8x6ul1qz5fczo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><b>California state capital:</b> <p>Posted by Ping.fm</p>http://dorianinnes.com/post/307325765http://dorianinnes.com/post/307325765Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:21:09 -0800<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kveqcxIWoe1qz5fczo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>SEA to BUR</b></p>http://dorianinnes.com/post/305953505http://dorianinnes.com/post/305953505Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:29:23 -0800<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kvc03aGHeb1qz5fczo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><b>Mt. Rainer:</b> <p>Posted by Ping.fm</p>http://dorianinnes.com/post/303270482http://dorianinnes.com/post/303270482Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:06:48 -0800