<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7416978297772058108</id><updated>2024-09-05T02:19:20.525-07:00</updated><title type='text'>some useless thoughts that you might find useful</title><subtitle type='html'>a peek into the world of my useless thoughts. but you may find my tidbits quite amusing or maybe you can just have an epiphany that would actually be significant. i may sometimes post some of my artworks and photographs here...</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://useless-significance.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7416978297772058108/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://useless-significance.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>nathman</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04194119140248984574</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>9</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7416978297772058108.post-4095421299214852888</id><published>2007-08-25T09:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-25T09:15:50.477-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; 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border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102672213706044610&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it&#39;s funny how a single tool from photoshop can make a quite bring picture so interesting...</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://useless-significance.blogspot.com/feeds/4095421299214852888/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7416978297772058108/4095421299214852888' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7416978297772058108/posts/default/4095421299214852888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7416978297772058108/posts/default/4095421299214852888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://useless-significance.blogspot.com/2007/08/its-funny-how-single-tool-from.html' title=''/><author><name>nathman</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04194119140248984574</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpLUGBNv8SR7AwXFEoOPxWV4giBi7gndR3L_yhyqwI00sm6xfC7FFe9PYj_AP6pUU2p3N-LD6UzvnApsKQlREaNmioa6AapdTdgorYgXi08O5aBH7LhJfGKLZgsKjKFGPGtWxLdqM_UrA/s72-c/nathman6.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7416978297772058108.post-8408294463616532059</id><published>2007-08-22T14:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-22T14:45:30.846-07:00</updated><title type='text'>im an indie flick!! haha</title><content type='html'>&lt;table width=350 align=center border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor=&quot;#999999&quot; align=center&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif&quot; style=&#39;color:black; font-size: 14pt;&#39;&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Movie Of Your Life Is An Indie Flick&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor=&quot;#CCCCCC&quot;&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://images.blogthings.com/ifyourlifewasamoviewhatgenrewoulditbequiz/indie-flick.jpg&quot; height=&quot;100&quot; width=&quot;100&quot;&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You do things your own way - and it&#39;s made for colorful times.&lt;br /&gt;Your life hasn&#39;t turned out how anyone expected, thank goodness!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your best movie matches: Clerks, Garden State, Napoleon Dynamite&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogthings.com/ifyourlifewasamoviewhatgenrewoulditbequiz/&quot;&gt;If Your Life Was a Movie, What Genre Would It Be?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://useless-significance.blogspot.com/feeds/8408294463616532059/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7416978297772058108/8408294463616532059' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7416978297772058108/posts/default/8408294463616532059'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7416978297772058108/posts/default/8408294463616532059'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://useless-significance.blogspot.com/2007/08/im-indie-flick-haha.html' title='im an indie flick!! haha'/><author><name>nathman</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04194119140248984574</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7416978297772058108.post-1695707514479113761</id><published>2007-08-22T10:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-22T10:27:55.733-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Destiny</title><content type='html'>During a momentous battle, a Japanese general decided to attack even though his army was&lt;br /&gt;greatly outnumbered. He was confident they would win, but his men were filled with doubt.&lt;br /&gt;On the way to the battle, they stopped at a religious shrine. After praying with the men, the&lt;br /&gt;general took out a coin and said, &quot;I shall now toss this coin. If it is heads, we shall win.&lt;br /&gt;If tails, we shall lose. Destiny will now reveal itself.&quot; He threw the coin into the air and all&lt;br /&gt;watched intently as it landed. It was heads. The soldiers were so overjoyed and filled with&lt;br /&gt;confidence that they vigorously attacked the enemy and were victorious.&lt;br /&gt;After the battle, a lieutenant remarked to the general,&lt;br /&gt;&quot;No one can change destiny.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Quite right,&quot; the general replied as he showed the lieutenant the coin,&lt;br /&gt;which had heads on both sides.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://useless-significance.blogspot.com/feeds/1695707514479113761/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7416978297772058108/1695707514479113761' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7416978297772058108/posts/default/1695707514479113761'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7416978297772058108/posts/default/1695707514479113761'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://useless-significance.blogspot.com/2007/08/destiny.html' title='Destiny'/><author><name>nathman</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04194119140248984574</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7416978297772058108.post-752567076430064587</id><published>2007-08-22T10:22:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-22T10:22:36.880-07:00</updated><title type='text'>the present moment</title><content type='html'>A Japanese warrior was captured by his enemies and thrown into prison. That night he was unable to sleep because he feared that the next day he would be interrogated, tortured, and executed.&lt;br /&gt;Then the words of his Zen master came to him,&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Tomorrow is not real. It is an illusion. The only reality is now.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;Heeding these words, the warrior became peaceful and fell asleep.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://useless-significance.blogspot.com/feeds/752567076430064587/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7416978297772058108/752567076430064587' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7416978297772058108/posts/default/752567076430064587'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7416978297772058108/posts/default/752567076430064587'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://useless-significance.blogspot.com/2007/08/present-moment.html' title='the present moment'/><author><name>nathman</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04194119140248984574</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7416978297772058108.post-1464716540196102929</id><published>2007-08-21T09:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-21T09:59:26.056-07:00</updated><title type='text'>which simpsons character resembles me??</title><content type='html'>&lt;table width=350 align=center border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor=&quot;#DDDDDD&quot; align=center&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif&quot; style=&#39;color:black; font-size: 14pt;&#39;&gt;&lt;b&gt;You Are Homer Simpson&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor=&quot;#EEEEEE&quot;&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://images.blogthings.com/thesimpsonspersonalitytest/homer-simpson.jpg&quot; height=&quot;100&quot; width=&quot;100&quot;&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You&#39;re just an ordinary, all-American working Joe...&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;With a special fondness for pork rinds and donuts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You will be remembered for: your little &quot;isms&quot; and philosophies on life&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your life philosophy: &quot;Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It&#39;s what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel.&quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogthings.com/thesimpsonspersonalitytest/&quot;&gt;The Simpsons Personality Test&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;funny, i always see myself as a homer simpson in real life.. or id be like homer by the time i get married..</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://useless-significance.blogspot.com/feeds/1464716540196102929/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7416978297772058108/1464716540196102929' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7416978297772058108/posts/default/1464716540196102929'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7416978297772058108/posts/default/1464716540196102929'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://useless-significance.blogspot.com/2007/08/which-simpsons-character-resembles-me.html' title='which simpsons character resembles me??'/><author><name>nathman</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04194119140248984574</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7416978297772058108.post-2353701397687649199</id><published>2007-08-21T05:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-21T06:00:02.706-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; 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href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-tuQuK2djSoP_bv_psp3M-1RAEkFEfT9alotQ8NhlvWI8ApYgI0eEw4idd8Wug2xAll8unaVEEP58xouZTcVzvjSHmNjuo-G53M0WRre9RFsHz3wJ3N-N88BkY5o0b8NmT7zpZQNR8o0/s1600-h/nath.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-tuQuK2djSoP_bv_psp3M-1RAEkFEfT9alotQ8NhlvWI8ApYgI0eEw4idd8Wug2xAll8unaVEEP58xouZTcVzvjSHmNjuo-G53M0WRre9RFsHz3wJ3N-N88BkY5o0b8NmT7zpZQNR8o0/s320/nath.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101136861681972370&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;o yeah... thas me alright.... the contemplative geek who tries to find out what the real world is... well, im not much of a geek, just an ordinary guy thinking he&#39;s a geek... well, that&#39;s just a glimpse of me</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://useless-significance.blogspot.com/feeds/1373310916099279177/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7416978297772058108/1373310916099279177' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7416978297772058108/posts/default/1373310916099279177'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7416978297772058108/posts/default/1373310916099279177'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://useless-significance.blogspot.com/2007/08/revelation.html' title='revelation'/><author><name>nathman</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04194119140248984574</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-tuQuK2djSoP_bv_psp3M-1RAEkFEfT9alotQ8NhlvWI8ApYgI0eEw4idd8Wug2xAll8unaVEEP58xouZTcVzvjSHmNjuo-G53M0WRre9RFsHz3wJ3N-N88BkY5o0b8NmT7zpZQNR8o0/s72-c/nath.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7416978297772058108.post-5297838103935159548</id><published>2007-08-21T05:48:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-21T05:48:50.588-07:00</updated><title type='text'>im a realist!!! hahahaha!! seems fair to me</title><content type='html'>&lt;table width=&quot;350&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bg align=&quot;center&quot; style=&quot;color:#DDDDDD;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&#39;color:black;font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;You Are a Realist&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor=&quot;#EEEEEE&quot;&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://images.blogthings.com/areyouanoptimistorpessimistquiz/realist.jpg&quot; height=&quot;100&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color:#000000;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You don&#39;t see the glass as half empty or half full. You see what&#39;s exactly in the glass.&lt;br /&gt;You never try to make a bad situation seem better than it is...&lt;br /&gt;But you also never sabotage any good things you have going on.&lt;br /&gt;You are brutally honest in your assessments of situations - and this always seems to help you cope.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogthings.com/areyouanoptimistorpessimistquiz/&quot;&gt;Are You An Optimist or Pessimist?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://useless-significance.blogspot.com/feeds/5297838103935159548/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7416978297772058108/5297838103935159548' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7416978297772058108/posts/default/5297838103935159548'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7416978297772058108/posts/default/5297838103935159548'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://useless-significance.blogspot.com/2007/08/im-realist-hahahaha-seems-fair-to-me.html' title='im a realist!!! hahahaha!! seems fair to me'/><author><name>nathman</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04194119140248984574</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7416978297772058108.post-4141566227302345609</id><published>2007-08-20T13:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-20T14:02:30.149-07:00</updated><title type='text'>death threat...</title><content type='html'>4:55 am and I&#39;m freakin worried about my family way back at the province. some guy just barged into our bakeshop and took 8,000 pesos and threatened my mom. my mom is the station manager of a local network here in the Philippines and she can be quite of a critic of some people especially those obviously corrupt politicians.  receiving threats like that aren&#39;t really new. she gets that a lot. but man, the lives of our employees suddenly became at stake there... that is not right. nobody should be at risk just because of my mom&#39;s job. it ain&#39;t worth it even if you got a good-paying job. i really hope my mom would come to her senses and leave that job of hers..</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://useless-significance.blogspot.com/feeds/4141566227302345609/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7416978297772058108/4141566227302345609' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7416978297772058108/posts/default/4141566227302345609'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7416978297772058108/posts/default/4141566227302345609'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://useless-significance.blogspot.com/2007/08/death-threat.html' title='death threat...'/><author><name>nathman</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04194119140248984574</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>