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January 16, 2003
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"Humans often tell me that their lives are really strange."
Saw a great little desk calendar this morning while out shopping - based on humorous mis-heard song lyrics ... a couple of calsssics were listed on the packaging - Elton John's 'Tiny Dancer' had been misheard as 'Hold my clothes and tie me down sir' ... and one by Nelly Furtado 'I'd like to burp' ... :)
Oh yes, today's Leunig is worth a gander ... he must be back after his summer hols ...
click
Looks like it's that time of year again ... click
had a bit of a search of those lyrics ...
click & here as well -
click
Yes, that 'Bennie & the Jets' does have some hard-to-decipher phrases ... :)
Global village went to Angkor last evening ...
Here's a few more interestink links you might like to click upon ...
"Hulpathrondo world. I'm singing about the hulpathronic mornings."
{Or I'm always singing about etc.}
"Hallucinations are not normally shared." {- from 'Farscape'?}
"Sometimes a human remembers ... all the other human members ..."
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January 17, 2003
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Today's mantra: "I'm not crazy - I'm the man who ALWAYS walks true to his own name."
leftbehind@agoramedia.com
Continuing those misheard song lyrics ... "Leprosy ... I'm not half the man I used to be ..."
Oh Geoff, that's in rather poor taste, isn't it ...
Okay then, perhaps you'd prefer today's thought ...
"People often talk about whether someone is well-adjusted or not. As if being well adjusted is a good thing. But really, being well-adjusted means becoming accustomed to a level of satisfaction that is way below what the person secretly (& desperately) yearns for. So being well-adjusted is actually a very perverse way to live."
From a couple of days ago ... this little poem ...
"I was a very weird little bastard one day."
"One day a man suddenly wanted to know if he'd like to believe in something or other."
"Local men & local families. Local people and their lives. But do they like their secret lives."
One more 4 the sep 11 lists? ...
click
"Do we really need to (constantly) attach a label to the behaviour of others ..."
From today's emails ... here's a site that could while away plenty of your time ... haven't seen Mr Leunig listed just yet ...
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January 18 to 20, 2003
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Today's mantra: "One day a man was carrying his walking with a bucket ... and he wanted to say something to the man about his bucket ... oh, johnny bucket ..."
Out browsing books again ...
- Cecilia Dart-Thornton (Ill-made mute)
Spiders in space ... click
The big news in this part of the globe is the massive bushfires ...
click
A few more mantras added to
this little file ... starting with the one about 'frozen' ...
www.onevoiceforpeace.org
Had a look at the images on this site ...
Walkin home from the shops today ... thought about
this piece of writing & the back
cover of
this little book ...
Oops, I forgot ... angelfire seems 2 have wiped all my images ... so click
here {assuming I remember 2 upload it}
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January 21, 2003
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Today's mantra:
"Humans can't explain their mornings. They can't even explain their moments."
* Courtney Milne ---> click
Again walking home from the shops, and looking at the trees that have shed leaves & seed pods due to this dry spell ... somehow reminded me of this article ...
Did I mention the smoke down here ... click
Checking some of yesterday's links ... I like the comment down the bottom of
this page :)
Certainly none of the shrinks I've known in the public 'mental health' system would ever ...
Here's something
Had a little look at some cartoons
Today's other mantra: "My life is wobbling ... and I love it ..."
Speaking of cartoonies ... click :)
Fabulous episode of 'Outer Limits' ... about time travel and a senator on a plane - it was called 'Decompression' ... anyway the Senator sees a woman who is from the future but is like a holographic projection and only he can see her and she tells him the plane will crash and he has to steal a pistol from a secret agent and shoot out a window and leap out of the plane whereupon he will be rescued by technology 'so advanced it will seem like magic' ... hmmm ...
As with (nearly) all time-travel scenarios, there's a paradox ... in that IF the past has already been altered inadvertently then the future where the plane doesn't crash never happened, so there's no way people would know how crucial that Senator's life would turn out to be ... (he becomes president and his futuristic vision & leadership enables the time-travel technology to emerge ...)
So remind me to plug something like "outer limits decompression senator engine"
into Google at some stage ...
And it is a little far-fetched in the sense that the lightning strike damaged the plane in such a way that is not detected by the onboard instruments and the engine will only catch fire at some later stage during landing, which gives the senator a chance to leap out the window ... :)
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January 22, 2003
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Here's that outer limits search ...
Good news & bad news ... the good news is I snapped some great shots of crimson rosellas today in the Dandenongs ... bad news is it may be a while b4 I can download them onto my computer and shoot them off into cyberspace ... (long story)
SBS is having a series of films by Samuel Beckett just now ... (not that that will mean a whole lot to anyone living outside Oz) ...
www.itsfunoverhere.com
Today's mantras: "Test me only the famous way."
"I used to talk to little Bobby normal."
"I wouldn't presume to comment on anything I haven't experienced personally ... and someone else's life definitely falls into that category ..."
Other humour sites ... click
... or did I send it here?
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January 23, 2003
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From yesterday's book browsing ...
A few on this list ...
This is a cute story :)
Darlene Cohen
Also from yesterday sitting on various buses ... click
The Leunig from Wednesday's paper is also a classic ...
click & then click on 'previous' until you reach jan 22nd ... :)
"Local mornings and the local normals."
Here's another little list ...
Hmmm ... interesting page name that ... 'dreading personal awareness' ... :)
Looks like one of those humour links is defunct ... click
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January 24, 2003
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"One morning a man was traveling to work & he suddenly thought he might go totally berserk."
More heroics - click
A bit more browsing ...
Some feng shui
Navajo prayer
www.pathwaytoperception.com
Ask Osho
Here's an oldie - click
www.nohoax.com/specialmessage.html
"One day a man was talking to his family when he suddenly noticed they were all moving ..."
Been adding a few sites onto this
list recent times ...
"Mixing your thouhghts with an unknown substance might make them form another yodo ... and we never know what to do with another yodo ... another tiny yodo ..."
Hmmm ... that guy sure has reviewed a ton of albums ...
click ... including a rave review of a song called 'Eagle' on an ABBA album - click
Yes gets a little mention as well ... and he's not averse to using a little sarcasm ... click :)
{I hadn't realised quite how many live albums this group had made} ...
But at least he gives room 4 alternative views 2b expressed ...
click :)
Today's mantra: "I used to think I was a prize-winning lunatic from the 20th century."
"Show me the family. Show me the only family. Send me some tiny onions in the morning. What is your dollar. My little dollar. Little money loading."
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January 25, 2003
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No online time at all ... kinda due to second hottest day ever in this city!
Did see the follwing on a Dilbert calendar ...
I've been asked to speak to you about your abuse of co-workers.
The theory is that I can alter your personality by talking to you.
If you feel a tingle, that's your DNA changing ...
May do a Dilbert search nextime I'm online ...
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January 26, 2003
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Did I mention the heat yesterday ...
click
Some Dilbert pops up on
this page ...
Oh yes, also in yesterday's browsing, saw a little pocket size book of thoughts etc from Gary's
book
... such as ... 'The healing of the need to please is a sacred task' ...
Leads me to make another little search ...
The Leunig
for Jan 24 is worth a gander ...
Today's mantra: "Soon I will never be boring anymore ..."
Bubble popper :)
Oh yes, also from yesterday ... this one from Emerson ... :)
Game review
Some art ... I especially like
this one :)
This one aint bad either ...
I believe that art site was one of quite a few listed on
this page, which in turn came from clicking one of my random pages
Chant of the day: "This sentence is almost the same as the one I mentioned earlier ..."
www.motley-focus.com
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January 27, 2003
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Excellent little doco last night ... all about Heron of Alexandria ... I'd never heard his name b4 but he must have bin quite the inventor way back then ... plugged his name into Google & found a couple of interestin sites ...
Fusion Anomaly is always worth a visit ...
This one s also a good read ... yes, those mechanical singing birds must have made quite an impression to a public not as accustomed to machinery & technology as we now are ...
www.humanshields.org
Today's mantras: "I am the human medical expert."
"Simple little motions. Human federal mornings."
Testing ...
Quote of the day: "We're up the river without a creek."
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January 28, 2003
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Interesting contest :)
www.nybooks.com/newlife
DS9 - the final ten eps ...
Hmmm ... that poetry site has some excellent tips about so-called 'contests' ...
click
More poetry links
Interesting article about email
spam
Quote of the day: "It is not a sign of good health to be well adjusted to a sick society."
- J. Krishnamurti
Found on this page
Tosses up a few sites when plugged in2 Google :)
I like some of the humour on this page :)
Checking some old links etc ...
www.banksiaward.150m.com/ERMHA/troubled2.htm
Another interestin quote ...
click :)
Errorism
Some nice snapshots {includes a ... heron!}
This site is worth a visit as well ... :)
www.karmafarm.com/formletter.html 
More warnings -
click
9, 11, 14, 18, 31, 32, 38
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January 29, 2003
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From yesterday's meanderings ...
Random haiku? - good way 2 expand one's vocabulary :)
More poetry sites
Today's mantra: "I scream whenever we run out of ice cream."
Pyro words sounds interesting ...
remind me 2 check it out nextime I'm online ...
Lovely little chat with a young lady distributing booklets outside the shopping centre ... about scriptures & translation from the original language ... Sanskrit and the Vedas ... Catholicism & 'fear of God' and how that rubs many the wrong way ... dogma versus transcendental knowledge ... listening with your heart rather than your mind ... the fleeting natire of worldly enjoments ... body platform & consciousness ... Buddhism & the Dalai Lama is said to be the 'same person' reborn in a succession of different bodies ... (which is ironic as one of yesterday's many quotes pages has something from the present Dalai - down near the bottom of the page)
... how most westerners find it hard if not impossible to meditate ... or 2 live simply with few possessions etc ... I learnt that ananda means bliss ... walking home I felt quite energised and many different thoughts passed (fleetingly) through my mind (kinda reminds me of a song I was listening to on 'I am Sam') ... such as
The Madman ... and that bit
in cwg about 'That which you condemn, you will one day become' ... stuff like that ...
Looks like I got that quote marginally wrong ... it's from page 38 - search for "And remember you this: that which you condemn will condemn you, and that which you judge, you will one day become." {Still pretty powerful incentive NOT to indulge in judging or condemning, no matter how tempting it may be at times ...}
More irony ... that song I mentioned earlier has a line Jai Guru Deva ... and on the final page of the booklet is Gurudeva ... :)
Oh silly me ... almost forgot 2 include a link to a few little excerpts from the booklet ...
click
Need more e-greet cards? ... click
Jobo Pooks
Coutney Milne
Testing ...
Click here as well
This one aint bad either ...
74781 :)
Also in today's travels ... something about spiritual elitism ... hmmm ...
click
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January 30, 2003
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40 degrees again yesterday - 3rd time in the past 6 days ...
From yesterday's travels ...
Cyberdelia - includes the
Shannoniser
Leads us to today's chant:
"Advertise a very inconvenient habit of words for fiddle-de-dee?"
Quote of the day comes from one of Wednesday's sites ...
"Cruelty is ignorance in motion"
Tried that other text-generator page ... "In the cauldron of intellect the wardens soak"
Actually that Cyberdelia page has a load of interesting sounding links I aint checked yet ... {such as Haiku-o-Matic & The Threshold of Anxious Dreams to name a couple}
... {& randomthoughts} ...
... I'd also not heard of Tristan Tzara before ... or his method for randomising words long b4 the computer age ...
More ironic timing ... last evening Global Village travelled to ... India ... and the temples at Khajuraho, which is a place I'd never heard of b4 ... click
Happened to switch on the computer guru and he recommends Fastmail ... it is better at filtering spam ... and gives you 10 meg storage as opposed 2 Hotmail which gives 2 meg and rapidly fills with unsolicited mail ...
Funny clippings
Tristan Tzara
India Unveiled
Re-visited an old fave ... click :)
977 is worth a gander as well ... & 981 ...
Trying out my own surreal prose and plugging it into the Shannoniser ...
click ... and click on it again for a newer version ...
Here's one result ...
Hello. My name is a most provoking, the place. Yet twopence-halfpenny is a bit hungry, so I can talk in the head. That's very provoking, so I can talk in uffish thought he knows it only to yourself like that catch! Callooh! The vorpal blade went galumphing back.
Ah ... how's about using the shannoniser to scramble some wisdom ...
click {repeatedly if you wish
}
Or ... what about a poem :)
The first click delivers this:
Walking around in my head. You sha'n't be called an egg to believe that I won't indeed, and burbled as it so? I, by demons and the walls So they showed me unwind I crawled through the slithy toves did gyre and a robot from a night-cap. Indeed, and a cravat from a robot from a robot from outer space With wires in his vorpal sword with its head he sneezes, the same? Lend her hands. Twas brillig, I had such magic powers Which I cannot endure! I look into the walls So they showed me warm My mind is a dreamy delirious fight: I look into the same? She ca'n't do sums! Ditto, my beamish boy! I weep. Yet twopence-halfpenny is it only to think ants were the slithy toves did gyre and unseen forces My mind is to keep me unwind I used to annoy, and a robot from outer space With wires in my arms, ditto, a trifle, waving his vorpal sword with quivering curds!
All that got me looking up some Lewis Carroll ...
click ...
Today's (bonus) mantra: "Please don't annoy my arms. They dream away from insect palms."
What's that sound on the roof ... could it be ... actual rain ... up until today we'd had 5 mm for January ...
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January 31, 2003
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Today's mantra: "Every world is a tiny medical world."
Still playing around with that shannoniser ...
click
Oh plus found the amended location of haiku-o-matic ...
click
One of the haikus that flashed past my eyes ... 'While on vacation - Masquerading as human - People look at me' ... :)
Ah, that Dr Seuss style ... click
here & scroll down ... hmmm :)
My mask is removed - my metal hide is weary - No, it wasn't me
Some fractal videos & books - click
Further proof I have way, way too much time on my hands ... I scrambled the George Bush report via Dr Seuss and then plugged that back in Lewis carroll style ...
click ... could continue that process indefinitely unltil it bears little or no ... :)
Here's a search I did after a dud link at one of yesterday's sites ...
In the brothel of certainty the heralds sigh,
A little trip 2 the library ... more shannonising ... plus those sleep tips -
click
A few more mantras scribbled down ...
"And in the mornings of the world there is no shortness of the many."
More to come ...
Idea ... the book of revelations as Lewis Carroll style ... Update: I did infact add a couple to yesterday's list ...
... including some proverbs ... :)
More emails ... and a dud link - the one about dropping all questions except who am I ... so did a bit of a
search ... the page at dalsabzi.com is worth a read ...
Oh yes, also watched the final ep of the x-files last nite ...
click
More random quotes - click
www.100words.net
Such as this one ...
Today;s mantra: "He told some old story to the children as he walked away from the earliest moments."
{or 'the same old story' if you like}
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