Translates roughly to North Rider, but more literally to North Riding. Riding in a generally northern direction.


In reply to this comment by marinara:
does your name mean 'northern lights'?

does your name mean 'northern lights'?

I put some links to the DVD in my above post. The White Stripes are so fantastic live.>> ^Abel_Prisc:
Sweet! I went to the Calgary show during this tour. AMAZING performance. I'm excited to see the footage of it.

Thanks, buddy!

In reply to this comment by Fusionaut:
*promote

1. My mom and dad met at a Denny's, he was a fry cook and she was a waitress.

2. I have a deep love for diners.

3. My military records show me as 5'10" 98lbs when I entered boot camp.

4. My first dog was named Breezer because of his long hair in the breeze.

5. I once saw the northern lights from a helicopter off the coast of Norway.

6. My youngest brother's favorite memory of me is when I beat up a bully for him at an HS football game.

7. My favorite memory of my younger brother is when he confronted a guy in a bar who wanted to hit me and poked him in the chest until he left.

8. My first car was a Rover 2000.

9. I lived on the streets in Orange County CA for 3 years.

10. I bought a bike while in Shanghai China, rode it for a week then gave it to a poor bicycle repairman.

11. My worst job ever was cleaning the bottoms of boats.

12. I bought a hooker in Den Helder Netherlands when I was 19.

13. I once dated the daughter of the guy who invented Astroturf.

14. I'm not a huge music fan and despise people who can't function without it.

15. I've been to the desert and feel that the silence has changed me.

16. I had a professor once call me a melodrama junkie.

17. I am the only member of my family that likes both lima beans and liver.

18. My dad died as a hermit living in a tool shed in Alabama.

19. I've been truly in love twice.

20. I once shared a beer with Kathy Valentine of the Go Go's.

21. My sister blames me for 2 of my 4 nephews being atheists.

22. I had a military trainer once tell me I had great flexibility and no balance.

>> ^grahamslam:
And I thought there was no sound in space? Is it because they are still in somewhat of the atmosphere?

The SRBs never exit the atmosphere. The highest point they reach is around 67 km (220 000 feet), which is about the same altitude where meteors burn up, and well below the altitude of the Northern Lights.

Night Drive
(Yellowhead highway)

How bright the stars
How dark the night
How long have I been sleeping?
Sleep overtook me on my westward flight
Held me in its keeping
I had a dream; it seemed so real
Its passing left me shaking
I saw you here behind the wheel
On this very road I'm taking

Hurtling westward through the prairie night
Under the spell of the motion
Your eyes were keen and bright in the dashboard light
Dreaming of the western ocean
Dusty towns left far behind
Mountains drawing ever nearer
Your face was then as it was tonight
Ever young
Ever dearer

I know this road
And its every curve
Where the hills commence their climbing
We rested here
If my memory serves
The Northern Lights were shining
You lit a smoke
We shared some wine
We watched the sky in wonder
Your laughter echoes after all this time
In that high and wild blue yonder

I don't know why I write these lines
It's not like I could send you the letter
It's that I love your more after all this time
It's that I wish I'd shown you better
Years have slipped
Beneath my wheels
Dwindling in my rear view mirror
As time has passed
Your life has seemed less real
But these night drives bring you nearer

So tonight I'll wish upon these stars
As they rise upward to guide me
That I'll see you here just as you are
Now, as then, beside me
Scares me how the years have flown
Like the leaves drift in September
They've lost sight of you as your legacy's grown
But this road and I
We remember

Oh look, alien chants!

In reply to this comment by choggie:
Religiously, I mystically chant and recite on mic's
At astronomical heights
Guided by the northern lights
Poltergeist, masquerade as Christ, entice like Heidi Fleiss
Trying ta put the righteous on ice
You're a holographic device, I simply see through
Robotic like R2D2, I'm original like Hebrews
-excerpt from Tesh's, "Jedi Mind Tricks "

Religiously, I mystically chant and recite on mic's
At astronomical heights
Guided by the northern lights
Poltergeist, masquerade as Christ, entice like Heidi Fleiss
Trying ta put the righteous on ice
You're a holographic device, I simply see through
Robotic like R2D2, I'm original like Hebrews
-excerpt from Tesh's, "Jedi Mind Tricks "

...but mommy said god made the northern lights

I've only seen the northern lights once where they were really strong and they were still only a fraction of this. Nonetheless they were absolutely breathtaking, something everyone should witness in person at least once in their lifetime.