Geoff Allen's Journal, February 2003

My Journal

[ February 1 to 3, 2003 '

Down to Cowes again for the weekend ... photos to follow ... very sore stomach and arms after a visit to the park ... the photos should make it clear what caused the muscles to be stretched in ways they are rarely stretched .... :)

A few more mantras into our collection - look for 'unnecessary tension'

Also read 'The Three Christs' and ought to transcribe some passages at some stage ... stay tuned ...

Couple of other interesting books while down there -

- dav pilkey

- Riding the bus with my sister by Rachel Simon

- I'm sure there was more ... the ripple effect ... hmmm ... looks like I didn't scribble the details down ...

www.sowhat.com.au

Here's Rachel's website ...

Stark raving Dad - look for 'do you hear voices' etc ...

And here is Dav's site :)

Oh yes, we also played a new (to me) and fun game ... I can highly recommend the labyrinth by Ravensburger ... click

Added a few more word combos to the shannonising file ... click here

Before I forget, here's the 3 Christ excerpts - more to be added if I remember & if I can be bothered ...

[ February 4, 2003 '

Today's mantra: "One fish, in my little bed all night. That is why I have paled beside these interior happenings ... Life has always seemed to sing if you chew, at some particular point we cannot have any final judgement about ourselves."

Or ... "Sit down, sir, sit down. You're creating a moment."

Or maybe this one tickles you ...
"He likes to look inside his effervescent mind ... never too sure of what he might find ..."

Become your own therapist

Oh yes, also from the weekend - brain teasers - including Moses & the Ark ... :)

Brain Killers - I like number 46 :)

"He was humble while he tumbled ... through another world ..."

A couple more teaser sites - here & here as well ...

- Oprah parents ecstasy brain

- beginning eternity end time space every place

[ February 5, 2003 '

Today's mantra: "Oh dear! Thank goodness I'm a Scottish psychiatrist, and back then the whole experience may be viewed as a clam. On a calm and flickering night, I wondered whether to turn out the light."

A couple of searches from yesterday ...

More brain teasing sites

Chanting & depression

Also ... this :)

Some riddles

Plus that number 46 of 313 ... click

"My little doctor taught me how to believe in all the strangeness of life."

www.uselessknowledge.com

That Oprah show that I happened 2 catch yesterday ... had a brain scan of a former ecstasy user ... click

Added a couple more sites to yesterday's list

"Ask the man if there is any sand on his p-lanet."

Oh yes, also had another glance at that Zukav book - reduced from 20 bucks down
to 5 ... hmmm ... click

Here's yet another style of the shannoniser ... :)

Another interesting little quote ... click

Not your average email ... click

Yet another links page to checkout ... click

More ironic timing ... on this page ... the response to the 4th last question ... well ... one of the mantras I added to our collection JUST this morning begins with ... "It's fairly simple really. If you want to experience peace of mind, then you need to refrain from making judgements. But as with a lot of things, it is far easier to write the prescription than to follow it."

Going over those mental health links ... I'd forgotten abt (most of) the ones in here ... such as this one ...

After that article about Google ... & how some people try to concoct word combos that deliver one result only ... click :)

Another interesting game

[ February 6, 2003 '

Also from yesterday ... some humour

I hadn't heard of blue-green algae as a mood lifter b4 ... click

Guess what ... got another book ... with one of my book vouchers ... already devoured 66 pages on or witing or buses on the way home ... remind me 2 type up a few excerpts ...

- Einstein little child huge library walls understand languages books mysterious order dimly suspects

- Cassini Roemer Io 5:37

- Emilie du Chatelet Voltaire Gravensande clay

Oh yes, also tested the random page and the first click takes me here

[ February 7, 2003 '

More fun stuff ... click

The human mind :)

Almost forgot ... I did upload those einstein excerpts ... click

Mum emails me a fun little game ... click here & go to the rice dumpling game ... or whatever takes your fancy ...

wwww.gxo.com/spacejunk/archives

... flicked open a copy of Nexus and an article abt Enigma ...

Looking over some old links ... click

Today's mantra: "We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself."

[ February 8, 2003 '

More shannonising ... click

Speaking of old favourites ... click

[ February 9, 2003 '

Added some more to those Einstein excerpts ... about Poincare etc ...

Interesting protest ... click

Today's mantra: "Click"

Hmmm ... "People often confuse meditation with prayer, and gawk at your heart? So this one must remind you are always rude, but she fails to acquaintances. Meditation as such is not require you to those for her permission to embarrass or a practice, a revelation. Yet there is the lady that you are merely succumbing to respond rudely, a perfectly polite exchange this one must release all sense would simply experience the discomfort you are not the dignified handshake turned into the rule. What is slight of consciousness, or a revelation is an appalling idea that the I that you full permission to believe that people who are merely succumbing to acquaintances. Miss Manners regrets that she has no doubt having previously been a public spectacle of consciousness and as though she has no doubt having previously been driven to a bottle of perfume, a draw and heaven knows what Miss Manners suspects not to topics of the same."

Gentle reader ...

Ah ... could have saved myself some typing ... in looking up an essay by Veblen,
found this extended excerpt of the book ... :)

http://shewolf.net/forest/

That cnn site has loads of other first chapters ... click

[ February 10, 2003 '

Today's mantra: "You never yet met a practitioner of Buddhist Psychology Without understanding how do, funny things are everywhere."

Quote of the day:
"They said you might not understand. But that's okay. I'm not going to judge."

Quickly followed by ... "The path is straight ... and the children of the path shall walk upon it ... straight with its straighty straightness ..."

... and it's out there in cyberspace ... yet another case of ONE hit on Google - click

It's on again ... click

"Famous plunders ... of the wonders ..."

Hmmm ... seems the message board seems 2b actin up a tad ... click :)

Updated my humour lists ... click

[ February 11, 2003 '

www.paulsfunhouse.com

Today's mantra: "Sometimes a man likes to talk about his own frozen mornings."

Should really upload a few of the images from my camera taken lately ...

They posted my 'tips' ... click :)

Seems those Gyuto lads will be back in Mt Martha next month ... click

Here's today's word scramble ... click

And while we're on a roll ... here's today's thought {try & guess what I was watching when this thought popped up } ... "It's amazing how many people seem to think that if someone is behaving improperly then the best solution/response is to yell at them and call them sick with anger in your voice ..."

Hmmm ... that sounded a lot better in my head before I typed it out ... :)

I mean if you TRULY believe someone is literally 'sick' ... do you honestly think yelling at them is going to help them ...

Also in my email today ... this joke

[ February 12, 2003 '

Today's mantra: "University students in 1900 were taught that ordinary matter - bricks and steel and uranium and everything else - was made of smaller particles called atoms. But what atoms were made of no one knew. One common view was that they were like tough and shiny ball bearings ..."

- haiku error messages

Heard an interesting line last evening while channel surfing ... click

Today's word scrmble ... click

Added a few more to this list

Ironic timing with one of them ... click :)

Uplaoded a few recent snaps to this album ...

Cute cartoon - click :)

More haiku?? ... click

Interesting concept ... click

While we're in this poetic vein ... click

Another interesting chapter of the Einstein book ... click

Special bonus word scramble today because it's the first wednesday of the week - click :)

[ February 13, 2003 '

Today's mantra ... click

Quite a few emails this mornin ...

Kids poetry

Even more on that theme

www.funnypoetry.com

Holopoetry - a term I'd never heard b4 ...

Here's today's word scramble ...

Interesting timing with this article seeing as how just yesterday I was reading all about how suns produce their energy in the E=mc² book ... then found bigger images here - click

Testing ...

Intresting poll results - click

Excellent movie last night ... click

[ February 14, 2003 '

http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/spec.projects/newmediapoetry.html

Today's mantra: "Can we love our moments. Can we ever know the reasons."

Happy Valentine's Day to all ... click

Ah yes, also yesterday I leafed through this little book ... again ironic timing that I open it to a page abt finger-pointing & how one can ONLY do that whilst one is denying any role in creating the experience ... another book reduced from maybe 20 bucks down to 5 ... :)

Luang Prabang

Here's a few words from our old mate ...

www.sharewarejunkies.com

Another page 4 the easily amused ... click :)