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5
Oct
BRAINS My Brain is like a wild jungle. Lorelei’s Brain is like a wild jungle. Thus my brain is like lorelei’s My thought process goes a little something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiyiZXCtHGc Novels Rika and I are writing a joint novel (and individual ones) for NaNoWriMo this year Its about us Its pretty freakin amazing Will [...]
Tags: hope, list, NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, quote, rika, sarah, TNF, writing
12
Sep
So all of you by this time, I’m sure, realize how in absolutely in love with Damian McGinty I am. Anyways, he hosted a live chat on Stickam last night. He answered questions from 60,000 people in 30 minutes to an hour (they were simple questions) but there was one answer that I found super [...]
Tags: Damian McGinty, hope, quote, sarah
8
Sep
Watching the news today, I saw the story of young Patrick Lyons Jr. He was named for his father, a NY firefighter whom he never met. Patrick Sr. was on dispatch on that fateful day– 9/11/01. There was something the newscaster said, while showing that the fire trucks had the names of each firefighter lost [...]
Tags: , FDNY, hope, new york firefighters and police not invited to the 10th anniversary of 9/11 at ground zero, NYPD, quote, sarah
3
Sep
Today’s quote: Why? Well, I kinda just wanted to post a cool picture… and then I found this one with a quote too! Win-win situation *Love Always, Sarah*
Tags: books, cool picture, don't forget to fly, fly, hope, picture, quote, sarah
1
Sep
29
Aug
Being a writer makes one a hopeless romantic. I should know. So does Rika. So what do you do when you fall for someone, but the feeling’s not reciprocal? As a writer, there are many options–but generally just one or two get chosen. The first: you write out your tragedy, eventually placing the character based [...]
Tags: hope, hopless romantic, maday parade, picture, quote, sarah, writing
27
Aug
I Love P!nk. Especially “Raise your glass”, here’s today’s quote. So Raise your glass if you are wrong, in all the right ways. All my underdogs. We will never be, never be anything but loud. This is also pretty much the motto of the TNF staff. Why? Because: People say we’re wrong, We have all [...]
Tags: hope, p!nk, picture, pink, quote, raise your glass, sarah, TNF
20
Aug
Sorry I haven’t posted in a while. I just started back to school, and we all know how hectic that gets But I’m back today with a quote! This one I actually got off of Rika’s other website. Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. Don’t ever take [...]
Tags: goal, hope, obstacles, overcoming, picture, quote, sarah
13
Aug
Sing is a song by My Chemical Romance. It goes like this: Sing it out Boy, you got to see what tomorrow brings Sing it out Girl, you’ve got to be what tomorrow needs For every time that they want to count you out Use your voice every single time you open up your mouth [...]
Tags: hope, lyrics, My Chemical Romance, picture, quote, sarah, sing, Sing it for the boys sing it for the girls, sing it for the world, Sing lyrics by My Chemical Romance, song, speak out
8
Aug
Most little girls dream of being the princess in all the fairy-tales they read. I never did. I wanted to be the knight in shinning armor. I wanted the girl to be the hero for once. ……Which is probably why i love this quote so much. Young girls are told you have to be the [...]
Tags: Emma Watson, fairy tale, Harry Potter, Hermione, hero, HFCS, hope, knight, pictures, princess, quote, sarah, warrior
25
May
Hey everybody! So I posted a random quote from National Treasure 2 on my facebook page the other day, and my friend brought up a very good point. The quote was from Ben Gates, talking to the President in the tunnels under the cellar. Everything I am is because of my ancestors My friend argued [...]
Tags: agency, ancestry, choices, destiny, future, hope, quote, sarah
17
Oct
Malaria is a problem that plagues our entire world. Anywhere between 350 and 500 MILLION new cases arise per year. Malaria kills over 1,000,000 people annually, and most of these people are African children. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, [...]
Tags: disease, foundations, future, help, hope, institutes, malaria, research, sarah
2
Jun
We now have a cafepress account! Check it out! More designs to come! http://shops.cafepress.com/TheNearbyFuture -The entire Staff
Tags: ari, Calister, hope, merchendise, mr. agent dr. pepper, rika, sarah, staff, TNF
22
Apr
This is kind of an “unofficial” post. It has nothing to do with anything except me telling the world how AMAZING Rika is. She is INCREDIBLE!!!!! Remember how my VERY FIRST post here was about Script Frenzy Month? “http://www.thenearbyfuture.com/2010/04/script-frenzy-month/ ” well, anyways Rika gave me the most EPIC news today. (Please keep in mind that this [...]
Tags: hope, rika, script frenzy, staff, thanks, updates, writing
2
Jul
On July 4th family, friends, and relatives will be celebrating the United State’s independence from Britain, although we all just like cooking hot dogs on the grill, maybe getting a nice tan in the sun, and watching the fireworks at night. This was also the day when Continential Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. But [...]
Tags: barbeque, fourth of july, freedom, hope, traditions
24
Dec
This year The Nearby Future staff has written a collective 48,747 words! Here are your favorite articles from staff members with the most page views (not counting Jala, because she writes pages, not posts). Rika’s best articles: “Corn“, “Stress: Side Effects Include…”, and “The World is Not Coming to an End“ Calister F. Well’s best [...]
Tags: , 2008, articles, best, Calister, clocky, corn, future, hope, HPV, hummers, Izze, new year, of, PLOTG, rika, Side Effects, stress, Think Like the Greeks
25
Aug
Here’s the catch: if you don’t wake up right away, or you hit the snooze button too many times, you’re going to have to get up and shut it off because it’ll be halfway across the room, thanks to it’s very own set of wheels. It purposely has a very annoying ringing sound that makes it impossible to sleep through- think of R2d2 from Star Wars.
Tags: , alarm clock, clocky, high tech, hope, sleeping in, snooze button, wheels
4
Aug
If you remember, I wrote an article a while ago about the iPhone. The price was outrageous- and I guess they listened to the public, because there’s a new iPhone! Don’t you think that sooner or later people are going to get tired of the new upgraded iPhones because then the public feels like they [...]
Tags: , 3g, gps, great phone, great price, hope, internet, iphone, ipod, rika, Technology
8
Jun
This is 2008 which means it’s another year to elect a new person to lead our country. If you have ever looked at the headers on the homepage on this website, you’ll note that you will see one just for the 2008 Presidential Election. Just Friday, it was down to the 2 Democrats~Hillary Clinton and [...]
Tags: , Barrack Obama, election, elections page, Hillary Clinton, Hillary endorsing Barrack, hope, meeting, Oprah Winfrey, presidential election, rika
4
Jun
As usual, I am a huge Oprah fan and I was totally inspired by her latest episode. It was about helping schools in West Africa, East Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Latin America. The children there want to learn, but are unfortunately unable receive adequate instruction due to the lack of materials and the [...]
Tags: , electricity, Free the Children, help, hope, ipods, oambassadors, Oprah
27
May
The only real big difference between normal cars and hybrid cars is that hybrid cars have a special system that captures braking energy, which is then stored in an onboard battery.
People are now picking hybrids because hybrids are the most gasoline efficient of all cars, they typically get 48 to 60 mpg. That’s great, but it’s only about 20% to 35% better than a fuel efficient gasoline powered vehicle such as the Honda Civic in which gets 36 mpg. When you compare prices, however, hybrids cost from $19,000 to $25,000 and gas saver cars cost $14,000 to $17,000.
Not only is the hybrid cars fuel efficient, it is also “green” for the environment, and we all know this website is definitely pro-environment. But hybrid cars offer more than just great fuel economy, they offer many green advantages as well. Where pollution is the worst (large cities), it produces smaller emissions when you’re in those stop-and-go traffic jams.
Applaud Japanese companies because the two hybrid cars that are the most popular are the Honda Insight and the Toyota Prius. Come on, U.S., catch up!
Tags: , Cars, future, hope, hybrid, nearby, percentages, vehicles, what is
29
Mar
Welcome to the first annual staff contest for thenearbyfuture.com!
To vote for your favorite staff member, leave a comment below OR take our survey! Taking our survey would help us out a lot more, but you can do either one. We suggest the quick, four question survey.
Tags: , , 2008, annual, april, ashley, Calister, contest, guitars, hope, jala, lampost, link, lord, piratical, rika, staff, survey, wells
17
Mar
You cannot wish for something you never wanted. Rika’s Thoughts: Wishes are born out of goals; often times goals that are difficult or impossible. You can’t wish for something you don’t want, but you can’t wish for something so easily acquired: then the wish is just a mere thought and nothing more. The goal must [...]
Tags: , goals, hope, mere, naive, never, point, realistic, rika, socrates, wanted, wishes
20
Feb
Everybody is talking about the new Macbook Air notebook. It costs $1799+. Is it worth it? How much would you pay for a notebook? I definitely would not pay that much. I mean, it’s cool and the new thing, but something new will come out and it won’t be cool anymore. Just like we thought [...]
Tags: air, cost, hope, itunes, macbook, notebook, rika, superdrive
19
Feb
We want to know your comments about the Gardasil vaccines. If you have heard of it, you know that some people believe it is good and others are against it. Gardasil is the only vaccine out there that may help prevent diseases that are caused by type 6, 11, 16, and 18 of HPV as [...]
16
Feb
Should sixteen year olds be able to vote? I mean, you know there are mature teens as well as others that aren’t. We feel very strongly about the 2008 elections, as displayed on the “2008 Elections Page”. So who’s your favorite candidate? Even though some of our readers can’t vote, they should still listen to [...]
Tags: , compromises, election, fun, hope, mature, presidential, sixteen, vote