The Queen of Memes has done it again! My best friend Starr Ann (hi, Starr Ann) and I are being held in the dungeon at Bloggingham Palace until we respond to Mimi's Message In a Bottle Meme.
Here's how this one is supposed to work:
You are about to send a virtual Message In a Bottle across the Blog Ocean. Leave a message in the sand or on the bottle. Write anything you wish. Be a pirate or a poet. Serious or silly. Anonymous or not.
What message would you like to send out to the universe?
Message In A Bottle Meme
1. Compose a message to place in your virtual bottle
2. Right click and Save the graphic below
3. Use a graphics program of your choice to place the message on the picture
4. Post the meme and these rules on your blog
5. Return your "Message In a Bottle" to Mimi via email ~ mimiwrites2005 at yahoo.com, sign the Mr. Linky below her post and leave a comment THERE telling her you've finished. IF YOU WANT YOUR MESSAGE TO BE ANONYMOUS PLEASE SAY SO.
6. Tag a minimum of five people - or your entire blogroll - to do the same. Notify them of the tag.
Here's how Starr Ann insists we do it:
You open the bottle only to find another, teensy bottle inside. On that tiny bottle, there's a label that reads, This Bottle Contains One of Two Things - Unbounded Joy, or Dreadful Misery.
Your dilemma is whether to open the second bottle.
This is Starr Ann's version of Schrödinger's Cat, that famous thought experiment posed by Erwin Schrödinger. According to Starr Ann (and Schrödinger), until you actually open that second bottle, indeterminacy dominates the whole situation. In other words, you're caught up someplace between Joy and Misery, living a mixture of the two.
So, if Starr Ann's bottle washes up into your life, you can choose to leave it corked, not mess with the indeterminacy, or pull the cork out and risk Dreadful Misery in your hope of attaining Unbounded Joy.
Sounds scary, doesn't it?
Well, here's the good news. Starr Ann claims human spirit and perception trumps paradoxes in quantum theory. As the observer, you get to choose whether what you're looking at is Misery or Joy. So, what are you made of? Will you be opening the bottle?
(Starr Ann tags: Our Fine Strappin' Cap'n, Drowning Pisces, Current Jam, and Creatively Flowing.
19 comments:
Very clever :)
FRoG! We've missed you, girl.
SOO glad you're back..... Also I'm trying to get back too. Been in a black hole as of late...but will happily do this meme....
missed ya kiddo!
Awww, Frannie, thanks for missing us. Maybe this meme will be your ticket back to blogplay? Hope so.
Well, I did it, but for some reason can't seem to post it up here or there...it's up over at creatively Flowing...blurry tho. What program do you use?
My printer's (Lexmark 8300) photo editor. Gonna go look at yours!
Dang, Frannie. Thanks for the heads up about providing the blank bottle image.
i'm not gonna lie, i'm stressed out just THINKING about the bottle. i'd totally be the person exhausting herself with "do i" or "don't i".
i'm so impulsive, i'd end up doing it.
ask Starr Ann if there are "do overs" if I don't get the answer I want.... :)
Booonnnnnnkkkkkk!!! Ding, ding, ding!
Starr Ann says you get the prize, Heather. Part of her whole 'human spirit and perception' thing is that you can ALWAYS allow yourself do overs.
Damn. Th' Cap'n loves Me Mighty Heart Rustler even more now...
Ooooh, My High Seas Warrior be clickable! Yay.
Starr Ann loves you, too, Cap'n. Says to tell you, "We haz Big Playground."
Me Magnificent Meltable Margo Moon, Th' Cap'n is Clickable in th'Extreme at times...wink
Tell Starr Ann (hi, Starr Ann)that there is no one this lesbian Pirate Queen would rather Rule th'Playground with than th'pair o'ye.
Rule th'Playground? My Finest, You ARE the Playground. Silly.
O'course...there was n'er any question o'that. Iffin there had been, th'punishment dock would have been mentioned.
Damn, but Th' Cap'n be frickin' Humble. Just sayin'.
Frickin' what? Humble? Gotta remember to notice that.
Mayhaps Ye might look it up in Th'Dyke Dictionary Th' Cap'n hears Ye be compilin'.
Dang it! If you sneaked in and put your picture next to Humble in Our Dyketionary, I'm really gonna...laugh.
Then Ye might as well start...laughin'...now, Me Danger Girl.
hmmmm...
yup, i would just open it, too damn inquisitive to just leave it.
a life of unbounded joy might well be almost as dreadful as a life of dreadful misery.
dang starrann...now you started me thinkin' and i was havin' such a peaceful day!
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