Nadi Astrology

So I've admitted that I'm not an expert on the new age... I made the mistake of asking an Indian co-worker whether chakras were connected to the Hindu religion and he said they were not. But then he started telling me about the Indian practice of Nadi astrology and I found it to be quite interesting. In India, a friend of his took him to a Nadi Astrologer and the man asked a few yes or no questions and then opened up this big ancient book and read from it. My friend said that it had his parents name, his wife's name, his children's names, his profession and then what was going to happen to him in the future. And it was all written down! So I've been doing some googling and there are a lot of websites out there and some want you to give a credit card number (bad idea, right). Some day, if I ever go to India, I will get a reading. I wonder if there are any Nadi practitioners in the U.S that don't charge an arm and a leg. I think it would be interesting just to see what they say. Also - I would like to read more about it, but google searches don't always turn up the best, so I'd love to hear from anyone who has found a 'favorite' website.

Synchronicity: Post Secret

In one week, two of my friend separately told me about Post Secret , a "cool website" that they found. I've known about it and have had it bookmarked here for months.

I guess my "secret" is I don't tell my friends about my blog because I don't think they would be interested.

Synchronicity: North Dakota

North Dakota is a random state that you don't usually hear mentioned very often. Two people brought up North Dakota to me in two separate conversations last week. First, a co-worker who has been to 44 states in the country said, "Just because I've never been to North Dakota, that doesn't mean I want to go there."

Then I was at a conference with Dave Barry as a guest speaker and he spoke for several minutes about North Dakota. There's a long history with him and that state.

Small World: The odd exchange student

My friend Dave was as an exchange student in Norway and the host family told him that the previous guy who lived with them was really strange. We'll call the strange one 'Bill'.

Two or three years later, Dave was at a party in Wisconsin and saw a guy wearing a Norweigan jacket. Dave approached the guy who was quite proud of his time spent in Norway and after a few minutes Dave found out it was the same guy.

Random Poem Generator

So I'm lame and I was having trouble submitting something to a mother-in-law's birthday scrapbook and I googled 'poem generator' and came across this website that can generate a poem from any website. Boundless possibilities. Synchronistic, maybe not, but still cool.

http://cmdrtaco.net/poemgen.cgi

The poem I generated:

Follow the
first place, I
brought it off, the
Wizard of text that I was in it all,
what would that means we
were to keep a a:
day. I was the couch
I believe that I heard his as you think
Google News Postsecret a to you.
guessed it was websurfing
and not sure how
to keep a friend who
lost it.
in awe of the woman I
was
sitting on blog
for lost it, all, the same
company but no
necklace. Since I love.