happy eid

a big "Bali" laugh

it seems i don't laugh as much as i used too...
today, at work , i was reminded of how good it is to laugh out loud....

merry xmas and happy new year

first holiday season away from home....

senseless sit in drags on

insights from al hayat article , touches on a bunch of things....

"nouvelle" drive

yet another video, unedited, uncut, and for the first time in color
the significance is unclear yet, for now something semi-creative to do....
maybe a round about way to share music

sah el noum

posted by special request

a glimpse of the future if they have their way

a hizbollah monkey climbs a pole and performs a trick involving the lebanese flag

cute korean killer robot

how terminator began
and how we might end
see it hunt humans

Thermopylae

it seems that history does repeat itself sometimes....
almost 2000 years ago the persian empire was trying to complete its domination of the Mediterranean....as it is trying to do today.
there was one free state left in their path, ancient greece
a massive horde of hundreds of thousands descended on greece
a few hundred spartans stopped their advance.
those spartans eventually all died...but they delayed the persians enough for the rest of greece to prepare and eventually defeat the persians...
the place where Xerxes was stopped by the free democratic greeks was called Thermopylae...
so i guess quality does trump quantity...
السرايا is the new thermopylae......