Sunday, December 2, 2007

Mood angry

Her voice floats on the breeze into my mind, like the lost wailing of a banshee opera distilled by epochs, by generations of decayed imaginations gone putrid, by the rot of unbelief. Her soul's been calling my name for centuries, but it seems that I'm only hearing it now, as I stand on the rooftop, overlooking the man-made magic of civilization. I wonder, briefly, what ever happened to mysticism, the phenomenological, that which spurned our creativity onward in the sickly universe? I feel a million injustices battered into my very spirit, though they all seem to only affect me indirectly. And yet, somehow, the undeserving always end up with the very things that should be bestowed upon the faithful and the worthy. I feel the hoarse chuckle, one brief exhalation, climb from my stomach and spit it out into the humid air.

I wonder, is it better to end up a spot on the pavement below than to wander aimlessly through this life? Is there truly justice after death for who and what we allow ourselves to become in this life?

The music undulates a rhythm, and the cars meandering by below my rooftop haven don't syncopate, yet somehow add their symphony to the cacophony of my musings. There, again, her voice, so sweet, so beautiful, a rainbow hue of colors caress her lips and drift away into the night. I catch those colors between my ears before they are lost on the void of nothingness. No one will ever be able to even imagine my sorrow. No one will ever be able to understand.

It was this very thought that pushed me to the point of leaning just a bit too far over that edge, my body rigid-straight, head turned upward, eyes closed, listening to her voice. I thought this was the only way to die. Her voice climbed and climbed to impossible notes, harmonious with the vibraphone, as I dropped and dropped, only opening my eyes in those last few seconds to see the expression on one onlooker's face. The chuckle-head pulled one of those squinty, 'it's gonna blow – and all over my face!' expressions, cringing away from my destined drop zone. I knew I was soon to be all over him in bits, but it was pure ecstasy as her voice reached its peak and tremorred…..

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The Peter Answers

How to Use Peter Answers

from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can Edit
Peter answers is a fun little website in which "Peter" appears to read your mind. Use it to prank your friends or to just have a little fun.

Steps

Visit http://www.peteranswers.com where there are two text boxes: "Insert Petition" and "Insert Question."
Ask your audience for a question. If it's a question you know the answer to, proceed to the next step. If it's a question you don't know the answer to, you can ask them for the answer, telling them that if they say the question and answer out loud, Peter will hear them with his psychic powers. If you don't know the answer, you won't be able to follow the next step, and Peter will answer with a very generic statement like "You shall not doubt of me at all, keep trusting on me and soon I'll answer." In other words, the trick won't work!
Enter text into the petition box. The directions tell you to type in either "Peter, please answer the following question:" or "Peter, please answer:" in the petition box. What your audience doesn't know is that you're telling Peter the answer...
- Note the colon ":" at the end of each of these queries. This is essential because without it, you will not be able to proceed to the question box. Once you type the phrase and enter the colon, your cursor will automatically move to the question box.
- Instead of typing "Peter, please answer the following question:" or "Peter, please answer:" start off your petition with a period followed by the answer you're looking for. For example, if you intend to ask "Why is wikiHow the best how-to manual ever?" then in the petition box you would type.Because it's a group effort
- As you type the answer you're looking for, that's not what you will see showing up in the text box. You will see the standard petition being typed, even though you're typing something completely different. Your audience, however, will have their eyes on the screen and will never suspect that you're giving Peter the answer.
- Your answer should be shorter than one of the standard petitions. When you finish typing the answer, the standard petition will still need to be finished on the screen. In the following screenshot, all that has been typed is ".Because it's a group effort."
- So, after you type the answer, end it with a period. The period will show up as another character of the petition. After the period, however, anything you type will show up on the screen as you type it. Finish whatever is left of the query and send it off with a colon. In this screenshot, the actual typing was ".Because it's a group effort.owing:"
Type in the question. Be sure to end it with a question mark "?". As soon as you enter the question mark, a box will appear with some warnings about privacy. For Peter to answer the question, you'll need to click the "I Accept" button.
Watch as Peter thinks for a second and then displays the answer that you typed. If your audience doesn't know that you typed in the answer, they will be flabbergasted. You can probably keep them amazed for quite a while as long as they don't start paying close attention to what your fingers are actually typing.

Tips

When you're typing in the petition box, it helps to NOT look at the screen, because it can throw you off and make you forget what you're typing. Instead, look down as you type the answer. Only look up after you've typed the period to check how much of the query is finished.
Peter is only as accurate as you are, so if you enter a typo, Peter will answer with a typo, and people will get suspicious pretty quickly. If you think you made a mistake, you can backspace and start again at any point. If you delete all of what you entered, remember to enter a period again to signal to Peter that you're entering the answer. But, deleting everything you entered is not a good idea because people will wonder why you're erasing a perfectly good petition.
If you're typing a short answer, you can save time by completing only the shorter petition phrase (Peter, please answer:)
You can also tell your viewers to stare at the screen so that they can correct any spelling errors that you might make.

Warnings

Peter will accept and display answers that are longer than the petition phrase, but it will be pretty obvious something is up if you continue to type after the screen displays the entire petition phrase. Nothing more will show up once you've reached the end of the phrase. Once in a while, at the bottom instead of the repeating "Peter answers:..." it will say "Emily answers" or another name. No one knows for sure what happens at that point.
As soon as you type a colon ":" the cursor will automatically jump to the question box, even if you haven't finished typing out the petition. This will likely ruin the illusion, so don't accidentally type that colon too soon.

Sources and Citations

PeterAnswers.com

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