links from today's emails ... many ...

Plus this e-card - click

Loads of today's scribbles may end up in this file along with some interesting snaps - click

... and probably a bunch o' links from today as well ... I never knew there was so much 'stuff' one could add to a garden. They even had a few flowers as well :)

So not a lotta online time with all that stuff going on ...

Looks like the leafy seadragons have been busy - there was a baby in the tank this time round. Either that or one of them has shrunk considerably! The baby eagle rays are also damn cute in the new display. I woulda taken some photos except I saved the meagre capacity of my camera for the flower show and even then, being a bright sunny day outdoors, I could only cram eight images in there - a record low number. Oh well ...

Though it was a bit of a shame as i had to wipe the eighth one to include the wire sculpture of the elephant in fluorescent pink paint. The image I elected to wipe was a lovely shimmring reflection in the duck pond. I figured i could go back after the show next week sometime and maybe get a similar image ... then I realised hmmm, the ripples on the surface would be different (or nonexistent) next time as the water spirals & fountains causing it are just there for the duration of the show. Oh well ... it was a gorgeous image caused by the time of day, the angle of the sun, the colour of the foliage at this point in time ... all transient factors ... :)

I noticed it after looking at the previous image of the frog (statue) in the pond and through the viewfinder it looked great - like video footage except you relaise none of the fleeting transient images are bein recorded unless & until you click the button to capture one particular moment ...

There was also some fabulous art - Kookaburra - Fitzroy gardens - flowers, flowers, & more flowers by local suburban art groups ...

Yes, being a large flower show, you'd have thought I might hav returned with images of nature's cown colours ... well, one was a bed of pansies ... but even then, after the final shot was crammed into the camera, a much more impressive bed of multi-colored pansies presented themselves, as if to mock me (and my dinky camera) ...

Also some lovely ripples on the watery surfaces in the forest gallery as I ducked into the nearby Museum briefly. (I'm a member of the Museum, so it cost me nothing for such a brief stroll around the gallery, which has some neat new features - more little birdies than I remember and a huge log with bullant & termite colonies you can view in somewhat analogous fashion to the old antfarms ... pretty neat, if you ask me ... you peer down a viewer much like a microscope but wide enuf for both eyes and turn a knob which flicks a piece of dark plastic across to one side. I suppose that's cos the little critters prefer it darkish and while nobody's lookin it wounld be a bit bright if nothing covered their chambers. If that description makes little or no sense, pop on a plane to Melbourne and take yourself along to the museum and see 4 yourself. Or you could keep reading this little journal and checking my webshots albums to see if I take a snap of at least the log and possibly the little tikes that live inside it, oblivious to me and my ravings ...)

- Goblin Fish

- loads more in that file I just mentioned a bit earlier ...

- Ice Hotel

Also today's Leunig - reminds me very muchly of that Ron Cobb cartoon - may include it in that link I've mentioned twice today already ...

"Food gets a taste of its own medicine"

[  April 12, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "I love being crazy. It's beautiful. It's just the best way to live."

No online time at all today ...

http://www.angelfire.com/wv/geoall/emails/email66.html

Testing ...

[  April 13, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "I used to believe in all the golden fingers of life"

Nice e-card awaiting me ...

Added a few more pansy links to that garden show page ... the first site I click on is worth your while - by Gil Friedman ...

Have I mentioned those rosella links yet ... such sites as:

Lovely antique rosella bottle
{Use that Ctrl-F trick to locate it}

Aussie groceries for yanks
{Ditto}

Eastern Rosella

The crimson version

Overdue bonehead update ... click here & here & here & here ...

Seems they also have a guest book ... {the first one I read is from Melbourne ... (in Florida) ...}

Chelsea Flower Show

Had another read of that piece on lying ... click :)

Unbelivable! ... after ALL the countless emails back & for'd, I find out that Outlook (& no doubt other progs) can quite simply make the background black & the font colour silver (or gold) ... beats b&w anyday ... :)

- Bepuzzled

Interesting myths/legends about flowers ... click

... scroll down to Thompson & his impressions when seeing a blotched pansy for the first time... :)

Pansies & cat's faces :)

Flower Portraits & Still Lifes

Feel like a few more pansies? ... try this

Web Aperture ... yet more e-cards ...

In fact, any image in their galleries may be sent as an e-card ... this one is a bit cute ...

Testing ...

- William Bullein

- Diana Wells

- Eugene Khoo

"My world is a tiny fraction of the reality of things"

[  April 14, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "Little jelly maggots. Little jelly maggots."

From yesterday's meanderings ... Experience Photography - another site to which people can send their happy snaps ...

Interesting facts about Rodin (there's an exhibition of his stuff in Melb right now)

Unusual aquarium :)

Speaking of underwater things ... click

Another search tosses up some worthy sites/sights ...

Space tourism?

Another lovely e-card this morning in my inbox ... click & scrool down to 'frog sings hello' ... :)

'Hello Town' is fabulous as well ... some highly creative folks over there at Hallmark ... very cute ... I almost did a screen capture but I thought nah, just visit it and see if it stays there ... :)

{Update: should that link fail, click on 'Free e-cards' and then the 'Hi - Hello' section}

Heard these lyrics recited as a poem ... 'cares will drop off like autumn leaves' ...

Gardenology

Today's mantra: "I'm being remote-controlled by aliens from another galaxy - I really have no choice over what I say or do."

Or maybe you prefer this one: "I like to put 14 dollars in a tin and then make a bed out of straw that I can sleep in."

Latest email newsletter from the Gyuto monks arrives ... seems their site has even won a couple of web awards ...

More fun under the water ... click :)

{But be sure to get an adult's permission }

Checkout their kids zone page as well ...

More toys

www.mostembarrassingmoment.com

Want hot sex with an alien?

I also like their story about a space alien wandered the streets of L.A. for six hours on Halloween night, but left Earth in frustration after failing to convince a single soul that he was the real thing ... :)

Quote of the day: "Nothing he does will ever cease to amaze me."
{Huh? - heard on a sporting telecast}

Closely followed on the SAME program by this gem: "The top six places on the leader board are occupied by the top seven players in the world."
Um, could you run that past me again? :)

Looking over some old images ... click ... or here (it's from page 255)

Yes, I'd forgotten the kinds of things Leon said in that book ... and yet he was still regraded as a 'loony' ... all in the eye ...

... on page 256 ... I thought 'chiasma' was a made-up word (or neologism) ... until I plugged it into my nearest friendly neighbourhood search engine ... the first I click on was www.dictionary.com ...

Then Google tosses up some I hadn't previously read ... click ...

Yes, I wonder when he wrote that piece - maybe many moons ago - yet the 'situation' it refers to has barely changed ...

Third quote of the day ... "I don't think there is a real me"

IJ(['

[  April 15, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "I'm nearly learning about all kinds of things"

www.wakeuplaughing.com

A few more random snipppets from the past coupla days ...

"The best advice I ever receeived came from a man in a psychiatric hospital. He said whenever anyone offers you advice, take a good look at them and at their lives and if they look like clueless twits, then don't listen to a word of it."

or more succinctly ... "Any advice coming from the mouths of the unjoyous can be safely ignored ..."

"I wouldn't expect to be forgiven. Genuine forgiveness comes only from people who understand the true nature of their own existence, so it's as rare as hen's teeth in a world such as this one."

- Christopher Tilghman (spelling?) 'The way people run' ... briefly picked it up as I wandered past a booksale today ...

- Catch a cricket (as a 'temporary pet') - using a jar with a piece of carrot & cover loosely with bits of bark

- Temple India rats worship (sacred)

- doomed observation car (seen in a brochure)

- also children's jigsaw with the warning 'Do not use near overhead power lines'

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Email privacy - excellent article ... well, it's a book chapter actually ...

Alexander Calder

Another search

Spider facts

Catching crickets

Sacred Rats

Some interesting quotes by people who all share the same first name ...

{I like the 'blockhead' quote but I'm surprised Mr Blake used such a term. I thought it was more modern.}

Click :)

Read this

Today's odd spot is a good one too ... click (& backtrack to April 15, 2002)

More pets

... that site even has home movies in Real Player format ... :)

Today's mantras:

"Food gets delivered in its own special package."

"I think that everyone should believe in their own Chinese salesman."

"Suddenly, I'm calling myself a madman"

"You should recite these ancient handwritten mantras early in the morning and late at night."

"Food gets its own lovely structure from the morning."
{Note: Our distinguished panel of illustrious experts advise that this mantra should work equally well if the word lovely is replaced with the word silent}

"Okay, now can we do that again without all the melodrama."

"I like to put circles underneath my eyes. It gives people such a nicie surprise."

"Food is always the ancient message of life"

"I used to believe in all the federal big workings."

"Food always acts like its own substance."

"My doctor told me things about the way my brain works that I find hard to believe."

"People try to talk to their kids but they can never find enough room underneath the breakfast lids."

"I used to think that people were journeying through their own sentimental famous nightmare of life."

"Those worlds. Those those those those worlds."

"Local men, children & babies."

"Food is usually available on the ordinary weekends of life"

"Don't scare me with any more of your boredom, please."

"Food is the earliest weekend of Jesus. Food is the easiest medical history of life."

"I like to walk into the room and start singing about all the food additives of life."

"There;s just one thing I'd like to know. Have you ever sen twelve apostles all sitting in a row?"

"Medical. Medical. Medical. I like to live in a medical world."

"Local men and the children of women."

"Food gets another mention in the Bible."

"I find myself designing rooms that never let the light in, with no way in and no way out and a space to fly my kite in."

"Suddenly I've become vertically insane ... in another circular horizontal plane."

"Why do people try to scare me with their lives?"

"I used to jump down from the jumping track and jump down while I was jumping back."

"Food listens to itself in all the silent magic of each morning."

{Many of these mantras are not recommended for beginners and you should always get an adult's permission before using them in a public place. You might like to practice at home in front of a mirror.}

Thirsty Kitty :)

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