A lyrical drift on a Myan end...

Restless and lonely at the end of the world

Where storm's rage is it's only herald

Clouds gather as they say the end is near

Madmen kissed by passions of crazy fear

A trembling in my uprooted soul

Stirring frustrations left never consoled

Wind whipped cries the night air makes

Sing a song of the spirit's secret aches

City lights shimmer against frosted night

Those seeking comfort in sin's delicious bite

They'll press on for what all they do seek

Everybody knows not just the flesh that's weak

Can't I just reach out for only a touch

But then would that ever be just enough

My senses are hungry, screaming to be fed

Taken down any dark path they could be led

Some say there's a great war coming at the end

Where mighty nations surely crumple and bend

Look, they cry, to the wisdom of another age

The gift of foresight from the tireless sage

And somehow it's gotten so far from here to there

Where city's people play out on their end game scare

New dawn is coming, first hoped for light

Surely we all know it's not our final night

Storms will pass as they will go

A course of secret only they will know

But longing still stirs trapped deep in me

At the end of the world, restless and lonely

Take It from Me

Hey, there, look in her eyes;
Deeper than deep, her world on the rise.
Smile and a laugh, a voice and a tune,
And I'm off like a shot, no I'm not immune.

'Cause she does what she please and take it from me;
there's no turning back, her course set, on track.
In the palm of her hand, all she commands.
Her will is her force, she'll never quit;
And I'm working so hard to keep up with her.
Take it from me, she'll be what she'll be.
A fire from a spark to light up the dark.
She's who they'll want, you can take that from me.

Hey, there, it's the touch of her hand,
A kiss on the cheek that makes me grow weak.
When she's open with me, those stories she'll tell.
Take it from me, I've known her quite well.
And when sleep finally comes late in the night
I'll hold her real close and everything's right.
And I'll treasure this for all that I can.
'Cause take it from me, it's just not to be.

For it's "So long, there's places to be."
She'll never stop, you can take that from me.
Her battles she fought and treasures she's sought
Someone else gets to see, they're not for me.
All that I give, and all that I've got;
Just not enough, there's more that she wants.
My fire from her spark, how she lit up my dark.
But will she ever know, when I had to let her go,
That in the palm of her hand my heart she'd command?
It's where I wanted to be, you can take that from me.

Hey, there, when you look in her eyes,
See what I see? Her world on the rise.

Hey, there, well I want you to know
She's so special, you see.
And you can't take that from me...

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Love, loss, and what inspirations remain in the heart of the left behind. While this isn't exactly what I wanted to be for the first release of lyrics for National Railway Sound Project, it is, never the less, what got polished off, first. It's not a sad song, so much as a song of hopeful longing.

Maybe you know what it's talking about...?

Like litte mud huts...

Adobe's In Design, Photoshop, and rat bastard wayward child, Illustrator.

Ah, the Adobe creative suite. if you do pretty much anything with creating graphics, layouts, or design, there's a good chance you've used an Adobe product at one time, or another. Or, in some cases, yelled at it in late night fits of last minute deadlines and homework.

Or, is it just me?

Anyway, Adobe was founded in 1982 by by John Warnock and Charles Geschke; who left Xerox in order to develop their Postscript page description language. After Postscript, they went on to market fonts which they released in a proprietary format called, simply enough, Type 1; a single byte font format which eventually went public. eventually Type 1 would fall to Apple's True Type font.

In the mid 80's - during the great video game and garage start up age - Adobe threw their hat into the graphics creating ring with Illustrator, to compete with Apple's QuickDraw. Illustrator used a Bezier curve, which gave greater accuracy to shape rendering and allowed for greater scalability.

However, in 1989, Adobe released probably their greatest achievement; they gave the world Photoshop. And, with that, ushered in a new golden age for amateur and professional  photographers the world over. And, of course, it wouldn't take us comic book folks long to figure out how to put it to good use, either.

Adobe, which takes its name from the Adobe Creek in Los Altos, Ca - which ran behind Warnock and Geschke's house, has been responsible for many standards in graphic and interactive design, as well as web standards, like the Portable Document Format (PDF) and Acrobat reader. And, even though making a few mistakes in trying to predict the trends in persona and business computing, as managed to stay both profitable and relevant in the field of graphic and interactive design. Slowly, over the years, they've been able to buy out and absorb other competitors in their respective fields to become the giant they are, today.

Today their product line includes layout software, like In Design, replacing PageMaker, and acquired Macromedia in 2005; expanding their reach into video production with Premiere, Director, and other editing programs.

Today, based out of San Jose, Ca (With offices also in San Francisco.), Adobe controls the lion's share of the graphic software and design market. They have grown from a mere handful of fonts into the main power behind desk top publishing and marketing; as well as small and large studio house production, and have a net worth of close to $9bil.