Geoff Allen's Journal, December 2002, part 2

My Journal

[ December 16, 2002 '

Today's mantra: "Sometimes I feel like one of the human organisms of the world."

More history ... plus some ready-made puns ... click

Some dud links in this collection ... I suppose that's what I get for being lazy & just scanning the txt ... :)

Great episode of 'Global Village' I just happened 2 catch just now ... all about the fabulous statues & temples located in a place called Sukhothai (I think that's the spelling) ... something to checkout next time I'm online ...

Or maybe this page from an old journal ... {go & make a cup of tea - or a four-course meal - while the many, many images load}

Ah! That page is where I saw the buddha head in the tree roots - scroll maybe 3/5 the way down the page - the caption says "But the trees' roots erected it again: a sign that Buddhism will always survive."

Quote of the day: "Have you gone completely crazy and insane with madness?"

[ December 17, 2002 '

Today's mantra: "People are not even the medicals of their own."

Little trip in2 the city for a spot of christmas shopping ...

- Cat haiku by Deborah Coates

- Edward Ryan is into as well

- Heaven & Earth by Phaidon? - huge book and gorgeous images

- saw a quote in one book --- "If all (or each?) of us could boast a spotless mind, why would the prophets mingle with mankind."

Here's a chapter from Deb's book ...

Found a few more haiku sites ... like this & this huge directory of sites ...

[ December 18, 2002 '

Today's mantra: "One day a man wanted to say OILY-MEGGSAGROINKLY but his friends wouldn't let him. So, he enjoyed the niceness of each boredom and played around with all his worlds."

In my email recenty ... these gorgeous images ... click

Cynical quote of the day ...
"Serving on a jury is a civic responsibility. It's part of the price you pay for living in a democracy."
"No, the price you pay for living in a democracy is that morons can vote, say anything they want & procreate at will."

From yesterday ... that Heaven & Earth book ... click ... the insights site sure gives it a huge wrap ...

Interesting plot on 'Outer Limits' ... this guy travels forward in time 2 days and finds his wife dead and his 'future self' driving away from the scene, so he wonders if he is the murderer even though he's never considered himself capable of such an act. The process of travelling forward & backward in time has some neurological impact and he starts to wonder if he imagined the whole thing. He tries 2 persuade his wife to leave town for a couple of days to protect her but she doubts his story abt the time machine & her own demise. Then he gets arrested for breaking into the lab so he can't protect her (unless he's the murderer). But then he escapes and goes to the house where he accidentally does shoot her. So, he then goes back in time again but this time it is to the day he first met his wife and he shoots his former self to create the ultimate time paradox - I mean if he gets shot that evening, how the heck can he eventually make a time machine that enabled him to travel back to shoot himself ... but surely he could come up with a slightly less drastic way to prevent their first meeting ... as always, there's a twist in the tale in most episodes ... that night they met was a low point in her life and without their meeting to lift her spirits she takes an overdose ... hmmm ...

Testing ...

[ December 19, 2002 '

Today's mantra: "Once upon a time, a man wanted to walk along the chinese border but he couldn't wait."

More a bit later ... well, it's now later and I aint been online during another busy old day, so here they are 4 your edificiation ... make of the what you will (not that you really need MY permission) ...

"I'm not actually human. I'm an alien from your other galaxy. And I think I'm slowly losing my mind."

"One day a man said I want some more money & then the other man said you don't EVEN want the money & then another man said money-money-my-money."

"IDDY-WIDDY-BIBBITY-BABBITY-BOOPS"
{That's the same 'oo' sound as in books, rather than the word boom}

"Something about the early-whirly ... the early-whirly! ... that's your early-whirly of life."

"Yesterday I was estimated by nobody else (in the furniture)."

Ought 2b a lovely faceless nameless figure sitting in a peaceful meditative pose

"One daya man wanted 2b the first p[erson in his neighbourhood to say that life is stranger than an onion sandwich."

"It's the YO-YO-YO-YO-YIDDLE-ME-WOAH." {or 'it's that' if you like}

"Not in knowledge. Not in the knowledge. Not even in the knowledge of worlds."

"HITS-A-BIDDY ... ITS-A-BIDDY-WOPPSO ... LIDDLE-BIDDY-WOPPSO ..."

{Note: CAPITALS doesn't necessarily mean shouting, as is usually the case with the internet etc ...}

- Rainbow serpent barrier reef :)

- Jean-Marie Jolidon (Tibet - gorgeous images on a calendar I saw today)

- artist Peter Schouten

In yesterday's emails ... click

Some pretty images ... pity there's no larger version for some of them ...

[ December 20, 2002 '

Today's mantra: "I'm not mad and I'm not even crazy ... I'm the man who can enjoy the navy."

In the mood for some meditation balm?? ... well then, try clicking

From recent emails ... click for scifi fans ...

The flick filosopher :)

... and what do you know ... they have a review of ... wait for it ... or click here :)

Interesting search :)

... I like the red sugar site and the quote about jurors ... :)

Here's another quotes page & site

[ December 21, 2002 '

Today's mantra: "Early best warnings ... the early best of the mornings ..."

"Hello. My name is Mister Ed."

Hmmm ... trouble loging on ... is someone trying to tell me somethin ... :)

Quote of the day: "It's for your own good."
"Have you ever noticed how you never hear that about anything fun." :)

When (or if) I do connect ... plug 'robbie williams lyrics feel head language understand' into good ol' Google ... his latest song ... excellent lyrics IMHO ...

A bit more browsing of shops ...

- stragazedvd.com

- microcosmos

- Jimmy Tabernacle (silly party)

- Jerry Uelsmann

- Captain Sensible

Lessons from a bear of very little brain

Ditto :)

http://www.arts.ufl.edu/ART/creative_photography/faculty/jerry_uelsmann/22.html

Also spotted this CD ...

Ah, the other DVD I spotted has a link on the stargaze site ... click

Interesting page from a search of 'atom heart mother', which I also saw 2day ... click

Hmmm ... I hadn't realised what a range of tracks were on 'Echoes' ... click

[ December 22, 2002 '

Today's mantra: "YUB-YUB-YUB-YUB-YUBBLE-ME-WUB"

Interesting turn of phrase ... click

And here's today's bible verse ... click

Which in itself contains some familiar and/or memorable turns of phrase ... like 'waxed strong in spirit' fer instance ...

[ December 23, 2002 '

Today's mantra: "I think that aliens are controlling my brain but are they trying to drive me insane."

Some more book browsing in various shops ...

[ December 24, 2002 '

Cute e-card ... click :)

Especially when viewed at full size

And speaking of cats, did I mention these scans from a 2003 calendar ... click ... my scanner doesn't really do them justice but there's not a whole lot I can do about that apart from purchasing a snazzier one ... :)

This one is cute as well :)

www.radicalrecords.com.au

Interesting quote from the other day ...

Some humour :)

That site has loads of funny stuff ... some of which continues today's feline theme ... click

http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/humor/theplan.html aint bad either :)

Flicked open the newie from Neale Walsch and there was a passage along the lines that 'Learning about God through one's sixth sense has always been forbidden' ... couldnt find that turn of phrase on the web ...

[ December 25 to 27, 2002 '

Down to Cowes for Christmas for the first time in ages ...

So no online time atall ...

There may be some images to follow ... from my new camera ... once I have fathomed its intricacies & menus ...

Okay, here's one ...

Today's mantra: "It's the little bit. It's the little bit. It's the little little little bit. It's the little. It's the little. It's the little bit."

Hmmm ... that's interesting ... I can rotate images whilst they're still in the camera ... and even zoom into them to see finer details ... click :)

Testing ...

[ December 28, 2002 '

More emails ...

Episodes of compassion :)

Hey, did I mention this link yet ...

Also an interesting email abt the taste of water

Checking some 'old' links ... click

Ooops, a broken link? on 'Taming the monkey mind' ... it's now here ... may need to alter a couple of pages ...

Had a bit of a read of the stuff at this site ...

Looks like that Bhagavad Gita is worth checking out a bit further, if this list of comments is anythink to go by ... :)

And it's available on CD from the looks of things ...

So, let's try today's mantra: "Federal early medical. The early medical world."

[ December 29, 2002 '

Natural remedies for anxiety - found the ref to ginseng in a book at the library called 'Nature's Prozac' ... click

Interesting atricle on vegetarianism ... click

This page at their site has some chanting available ... {plus a whole heap more Bhagavad links}

Today's mantra: "I'm not even crazy ... and I'm not even a madman ... I'm not the crazy madman ... I'm just the bloke who lives in the street ... and I can tell everybody how to live because I'm a remote-controlled robot from another galaxy in a spaceship ..."

Testing ...

If I do log back on this evening ... {which I didn't as it was a steamy evening & I was a bit zonked}