Posted in Cultural, SecondLife, The Main Thread on Jul 31st, 2007 1 Comment »
Well, guess what!? It’s billing time on ‘alter-me’ and the bill is coming to me (no surprise there, and, ‘how rude’ all at the same time)…
What in god’s holy name are you blathering about!?
(another finely crafted Coen Brother’s line… that one from The Big Lebowski)
Virtual Life, Sunny Leafblower, the metaverse, the other place…
Mystified? Well actually [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, The Main Thread, Video on Jul 28th, 2007 No Comments »
Paper cut…
Starry Starry Night…
Movie, .mov, 47M, original article
Gang Gang…
© Himadhu, Flickr, Canberra Area Birds Pool
Original Foo?…
© The Fitzwilliam Museum. In reference to…
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Cultural, The Main Thread on Jul 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Didn’t expect to read any philosophy whilst viewing Flickr photo’s but that’s the Internet for you…
participation is required
participate in life
in community
in art
in the lives of kids
civic responsibilities
Participate to effect change
so that you can live the life you want, always
Lead by example - particpate.
(stepping off my soapbox)
post by Qathi
If you’ve never heard of the ‘Burning Man [...]
Posted in Canberra, The Main Thread on Jul 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Whilst sitting in the sunshine at Mt. Taylor yesterday I noticed a kangaroo, and then another, and another.
As an opening that reminded me of:
Owl loved to rest quietly whilst no one was watching. Sitting on a fence one day, he was surprised when suddenly a kangaroo ran close by.
Now this may not seem strange, but [...]
Posted in Canberra, The Main Thread on Jul 21st, 2007 No Comments »
I spent a few hours wandering about Canberra today and, in the lovely winter sunshine, it struck me that we (Australians) sometimes forget one of our defining characteristics… the space we live in…
Having lived in the UK for 5 years I don’t think I’ve ever found a satisfactory way of explaining this aspect of being [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, The Main Thread on Jul 20th, 2007 No Comments »
maybe I’m still there…
And (theatrical wind swirling noises…), as the snows fall on the mountain views in my part of the ‘antipodes’ (an ode to my old friend JohnQ), I plunge head-long into the flickr pool that is the Tate’s exhibition of contemporary english photography… (said in my best, or is that worst? Scottish brogue…)
Or [...]
Posted in Cultural, The Main Thread on Jul 17th, 2007 No Comments »
A professional acquaintance of mine pointed out one of the latest exhibitions to be mounted by Tate Britian - “How We Are - Photographing Britian“. Nothing too note-worthy there I hear you say… however.. comma.. dit.. dit.. dit..
This is an exhibition with a twist - “Tate Britain is inviting members of the public [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, The Main Thread, Video on Jul 10th, 2007 No Comments »
Connected-ness appears to be the theme of the month…
Well, for I and Me anyway :)
The blog title, by the way, is straight rip from Beatles anthology
The whole thing meddled (or was that muddled) together over the past week. And it’s kind of a follow-on to my previous posts but it came full circle this [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, The Main Thread, Video on Jul 5th, 2007 1 Comment »
Thanks Andrew for a connected (well, to me anyway) inspiration to todays post …
Andrew pointed me to a video over on TED where Dan Dennett gives us his ‘bumper sticker’ when asked (as a philosopher) ‘what the meaning of life is’ as …
The secret to happiness:
Find something more important than you are and dedicate your [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, The Main Thread, The System Admin Zone on Jul 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
Its happened again…
And, as usual, there’s a (possibly too long) story to introduce it.
As an IT professional one of my standard jokes (either to myself or with others) is that if I could just have back all that time I spent waiting for Windows to re-boot. Install a driver, re-boot, test, still doesn’t work, edit [...]