Checking some other links ... Gehlek Rinpoche

Plus ... www.palyul.org ... when I saw it on a links page, I thought the word was 'playful' ... :)

Their summer 2002 retreat sounds interesting ... I suppose it actually IS sumer right now in the Northern Hemisphere ...

Quote of the day: "So, what your're saying is, you want to be closer to Dad, but you don't actually want him around."

Click for more :)

Oh yes, saw an absolutely fabulous photo of Lady Musgrave Island as I briefly browsed a booshop while shopping ... it was taken by Ted Mead ... I like his shot of these cute
little critters

And speaking of pygmy possums ... click

Just checked my inbox again ... and some Leunig news ... click & scroll down to 'House Monsters and Animals Downunder' ...

Hmmm ... went back to that Gehlek Rinpoche search and on an impulse made it exact phrase ... turns up an excellent site called 'Hungry Ghost' - I've seen elsewhere us Westerners referred to as hungry ghosts & that's why we tend NOT to get RIGHT into meditation etc ...

It has a list of responses to sep 11 ... - including a dream project ...

Interesting poem ... came from this large links page - http://www.excitementmachine.org/links/

[  July 6, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "Recognize your neurotic tendencies, overcome them, then transcend them."

Click here for more :)

More famous quotes :)

Testing ... also

Ah yes, a couple of days ago, heard an interesting analogy used by the 'computer guru' on the radio ... apparently each computer has a CMOS ... which he compared to our 'subconscious' ... every morning you wake up and you remember that you have legs ... well suppose one morning you forgot for some reason ... you wouldn't even attempt to get up ... :)

Click here for the computer guru

Now this next link may or may not stay valid but it (currently) has the guru's session from July 4th ... click - the bit about CMOS is abt 14 mins into the audio but it's worth listening to the whole file ...

He also mentioned www.belarc.com as having some quite nifty software ...

Continuing an earlier theme ... click & scroll down to 'eyes that gaze directly into one's soul with neither artifice nor evasion'

Checking a few older links ... tosses up this interesting little search

From one of yesterday's listings ... try this - surely a contender for the longest & strangest website address ... :)

Little Green Men? - from a search for Jacqueline Mitton ... :)

Added a couple more to the wtc list ... after this little hunt ...

July 4th :)

Testing ...

This one also providied a few sites for the wtc list ... :)

[  July 7, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "This sentence is completely meaningless."

Also from recent email exchanges ... ah yes, the yo-yo effect ... I know it well ... might re-scan that image and maybe enlarge ...

And I did just that ... click {Assuming I remember 2 upload the scans & htm}

Hmmm ... well, it still MAY end up at that address ... in the meanwhilst, try clicking here

"Unfortunately, moths ate the remainder of this scroll in the late 12th Century"
Click here for more ...

Hot Spots - includes tips on where 2 live ... :)

http://www.citiesoflight.net/kadjin01.html
- into wtc list ... plus a few more from this search

Yes, be patient for one of those pages to load ... there aint a whole lot of 700 kilobyte pages on the net! ... I suppose the kind of people drawn to such material would tend to have a fair degree of patience ... :)

I keep finding them, don't I ... click :)

That reminds me of the movie The Thirteenth Floor, which I highly recommend if you haven't yet seen it ... really gets the cogs spinning :)

More free webspace? ... http://free.hostdepartment.com/

After a bit of a hiatus, I felt tempted to make this posting ...

{Could well have sent some Leunig & a couple of others, such as this ... oh plus that
ERMHA writing group stuff would be fitting ... there's always next time ...}

Quote of the day: 'Human thought is so primitive it's looked upon as an infectious disease in some of the better galaxies'

Click here for more ... you may also like to scroll down to 'psychotic episode' ...

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/07/06/1025667075082.html

On a lazy Sunday afternoon (sounds a bit like a line from a song??) ... when I probly 'should' be out mowing the lawn ... had another look at this page and some of the links on the page it refers back to ... Laing ... The Troubled Mind collages ... etc ...

Barry Stevens - decided 2 plug his name into Google after seeing one of his mandalas over at the mandala project site ...

Rei Aru as well ... Stephen Beam ... & many others ...

And finally, after logging off ... late in the afternoon and fairly bright ... took a
couple of photos in the backyard

Oh yes, almost forgot this one ... uploaded this little file in view of recent searches/quotes ... there was some excellent writing in that series ... :)

http://banksiaward.0catch.com/leunig/mumm999c.html

[  July 8, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "Local men & the Chinese blessings"

Another of those mandala artists from yesterday ...

Here's another page I didn't specifically mention yesterday ... click

Nice enough day for a trip into the city & the Museum ... and a fabulous exhibition of photos called 'Spirit of Arnhem Land' by Penny Tweedie ... nextime I'm online ...

Also plug these names in - Tony Bangalang - Yawkyawk - Mooroolbark (Aboriginal name) - David Malangi - Gigs Wena - Albert Barunga (didjeridu) - mimih spirits - Kevin Gilbert (fabulous lino cut) -

Here's one search ...

Quote of the day: "Like a lot of people who can't sleep at night, I am an insomniac."

Didjeridu sites ...

Arnhem Land

Chakra stimulation areas

Added a couple more scans ... click :)

Interesting book ... click

[  July 9, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "I am a perfect example of how human beings sometimes behave."

Today's cartoon - click :)

Talk about timing ... I step in the door after my shopping - and I had to wait 10 to 15 mins in a shelter at the park due to a very heavy downpour ... anyway, I walk in the front door and the first thing I hear on the radio is a description and I just instantly know it's from that book about William Buckley ! ... :)

... they may even put some audio of that interview (with Tim Flannery) ... so, watch this space to see ...

A history of stained glass ... click - saw an excellent example in a church in fairford ...

Quote of the day: "If you're going to be perfectly rational about this then I can't argue with you."

More on Tim & Buckley ... click

Nice gallery

Mystery Photos

The Life of Birds - yes, amazing how they fly in those huge flocks & how their bones is 'hollow' and how fast the metabolism of a humming bird is ...

Some dude's list of interesting linx ... click :)

More birdies ... here

They also have some hummingbirds :)

Need a laugh? - I like the quote garden site ... and needles to say, their linx page ... :)

I was searchin for a quote along the lines of:

"I for one have not cracked under the pressure."
"That's right. Frank showed up here cracked."

Testing ...

http://www.abc.net.au/backberner/s292951.htm

Spent a bit of time looking at the various messages posted at that place ... some diverse points of view ... e.g. this one ... & not to mention this one either ... :)

Checking a broken link ('Touched with Fire' webring) ... found this interesting guestbook ...

www.worth1000.com - looks interesting ... e.g. When animals dream :)

... plus their hoaxes gallery ...

http://www.worth1000.com/toys/wtc/default.asp - into wtc list?

[  July 10, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "One day a man showed me the knowledge of dollars."

Another candidate for my 'list of interesting mental health sites' ... click ...

{Yes, it would be nice to cure depression 'permanentaly' ... & I'd never seen hair described as antennae before ... but what about monks etc who shave their craniums?? ...}

Testing ...

Updated a couple of other files after recent 'discoveries' ... particularly this one

Quote of the day: "Words will never make them understand."

Nice site as well ...

Nice to see they've included the 'Depression Infocenter' link over at the VICSERV page ... but they've also included my speelling mistake ... the word 'therpaies' isn't exactly in common use ... :)

Not sure if this means anything or not - could be just a coincidink. Anyway, I was just testing my 'random page' and the first click took me to this site. I like one of the warnings:

"Do not use Shakti if you have a damaged or compromised brain".

How does one tell? :)

Interesting article ... esp the phrase 'imprisoned splendour' ... SO true ...

http://markov.ucsd.edu/~movellan/mplab/media/EEtimes99/

www.favoritepoem.org

Mandala Symbolism - makes some excellent points ...

[  July 11, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "No batter how mad things may seem at any given moment ..."

Din't jot down many of the sites visited today but a quick glance at the history file reveals
the following ...

Jataka Tales

Woodpeckers - I loved the next episode of 'Life of Birds' which showed the various 'strategies' of our winged friends in their constant search for fuel for flapping their appendages ... :)

They also had a great shot of Dave with rainbow lorikeets perched on his shoulder ... and some hummingbirds with amazingly 'specialised' bills ... and others that manage to scrounge sap from the holes drilled by sapsuckers ... so they time their migrations to coincide with the arrival of those birds rather than, as first thought, the blooming of their favourite flowers ... :)

John Muir's writing looks very appealing ...

"I used to love my oipling-thrab. The world of oipling and the thrab."

Animal Olympics

A touch of nature

Photos

www.robotwisdom.com

Collect MAD - from a search for 'snappy answers to stupid questions' ...

Moon hoax? - was quite an interesting little doco :) I mean how could one ever know 'beyond a shadow of a doubt' ...

More on the dangers/difficulties a trip to the moon might involve

Simpsons episode sparks this little hunt ...

More fun ... :)

Continuing this theme ...

Greeting cards? - click

Testing ...

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[  July 12, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "Sometimes I lay awake at night and the strangest thoughts pass through my mind ... on their way to destinations unknown ..."

Also from ye=sterday's excursions ...

More woodpecker facts

General Foolishness

What's Wrong With Mad Magazine?

Okay, long overdue ...here's that poem from the Nick Drake doco I mentioned almost 2 weeks ago ... {doesn't time fly when you're ...}

www.stupidquestions.org

Cute T-shirt :)

Quote of the day: "Compassion, love, and forgiveness, however, are not luxuries"
Click here for more ...

Some funny stuff on the Backberner show last evening ... :) ... look for references to blind psychics ... and sugar levels in the blood ... and a guest called Tri Sumi ... :)

Just for the heck of it ... created anothe site ... click ... now all I gotta do is upload some interesting 'stuff' to it ... :)

Found this page whilst looking for a quote from 'The Seven Year Itch', would you believe ... something about dark clouds on the psychic horizon ...

Plus the description pf 'dancing like a weird puppet' on this page conjures up some
vivid mental images ... :)

www.kidswhomakeadifference.org

Fun quiz - just see if you can beat 3 out of ten! :)

{Curiously, I got 3 of the first 4 !}

Another page from that list a couple of daze ago ... under robotwisdom ...

{Click on the image to see a 790 kilobyte version of it}

Click here for some more lovely images ...

Testing ...

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[  July 13, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "I love watching the putridness of life as it unfolds before my very eyes."

From last evening's news service ... a description of Weary Dunlop as being 'a lighthouse of sanity in a universe of madness' ...

Should see if there's a photo of his statue somewhere in cyberspace ... really captures his spirit. {Hey, Geoff, seeing as how it was a local news report ... maybe the statue is in Melbourne somewhere or other ...}

Also another wonderful animated Leunig of a cartoon I aint heard of before ... all about a simpleton ... lemme see if I can transcribe the voice-over from the video ...

The only thing worth being in this life is a simpleton. Yes, a simpleton. But how?
There is no magazine. There is no network. No club. No course. No diploma.
Nope. You have to go it alone.

Yet even then, you don't get the full 'impact' of the visuals with the adorable (constantly smiling) simpletons (made of clay or somethin like that) and the music ... if you're ever in the neighbourhood, pop on over & I'll show you the video ... :)

Interesting discussion on forgiveness ... esp the comments in the 'frame' at the right hand side ... if they are still available, scroll down to March 19, 2002 and "Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a decision. Exercise that decision often enough and the feeling will build. It is a muscle that must be developed ..."

Quote of the day: I am a Jungian - so there'll be no blaming mother today

Getting back 2 that Leunig animation ... yes, if I do ever win Keno ... I may look at 'video capture' ... hardware & software ... thought there is that thorny question of copyright ... ah, maybe SBS is thinking of putting them onto DVD ... certainly far better than most of the dross that's currently being etched permanentaly into digital discs ... :)

In case those linx don't work ... here are today's numbers ... I have a good feeling about 'em ...

07-13-2002:     21, 29, 8, 44, 7, 15, 1     Good Luck!

http://www.gottshall.com/squirrels/

Listen to Mr Leunig talking about his creations ... {at the ABC site}

Deoxy

Another poit-of-view

Fantasticards - includes the world's most annoying page ... and an amusing stress reliever ... :)

More cards - here

One more Leunig ...

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[  July 14, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "Little by joking. World by joking. Little by the world."

Mention the Falun Gong group in the Plaza yesterday ... the stretching exercises looked quite analogous to Tai Chi ... and the recommendation to do them first thing in the morning to get the blood (& energy) flowing ... www.falundafa.org ... {Yet, they still have that taint of being something of a 'cult' - mainly because the Chinese authorities have attempted 2 pin that label on them ... and people do tend 2 accept such reports without investigating the matter 4 themselves ...}

{The 'swastika' emblem might also tend to put a few souls off ... }

Al Jafee :)

http://acaciaward.0catch.com/mantras/mantra31.htm :)

- Hylton Mowday {composer for the background music accompanying those Leunig animations}

- Site du Jour of the Day :)

More quotes ...

A few more ... here

43, 7, 38, 79, 12, 16, 69, 67, 73, 75     Good Luck!

In the morning's emails ...

Outwitting squirrels :)

More quotes ... about cats ...

Important arrivals

Heard a wonderful poem this morning on the radio (as I slowly returned to conventional reality from the Land of Nod) ... by John Betjeman ... and recited quite beautifully ... :)

Oh yes ... this morning I also heard how the Kangaroo came to have such a name. The first setllers naturally enough were bewildered to see such a creature - I mean it's unlike anythin you're ever likely to see in England! Anyway, they asked the natives what the animal was called and the aborigines replied 'Kangaroo'. So, naturally enough the whiteys thought that was the name of the animal. However, 'kangaroo' actually means 'we don't understand you' ! Great story! :)

(Kinda reminds me of a comedy show where aliens call everything & everyone Marklar :)

Hmmm ... is that kangaroo story really 'true' ... :)

From one of today's quotes ... Harriet Beecher Stowe {a writing career of 51 years! - a bit before the development of cyberspace}

Parody I saw whilst browsing bookstores the other day :)

Seems they have their own website (who doesn't, these days) ... click

Include shewolf link?? ... http://shewolf.net/forest/ ... some fabulous art ...

Kid's view of things :)

Okay ... one last Leunig for the day ... (probably printed in Saturday's paper)

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[  July 15, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "Hello doctor. Tell me doctor. World doctor. Famous doctor."

Idea for poem/song 'Let's get punitive' ... cos it really is ONLY in a very sad & warped society that people come to the conclusion that the 'answer' consists of 'getting tough' and punishing ...

To lighten the mood a tad ... a fun liddle quiz arrived in my email ... why not try it ... click

Testing ...

- dostoyevsky the idiot (on sbs today - kind f freaky timing with that leunig being just a few days ago ...)

{Update: you are just NOT going 2 believe this ... I switch on SBS in the evenin and there it is again - the 'simpleton' animation! - in Japanese with subtitles }

That sparks a little search that tosses up some interesting pages ... like this ... or this ... or this one - scroll right down to the very bottom, if you'll pardon the expression. Have a read of the one about Gandhi! I was reading it and wondering what the profound 'punchline' would be ...

More remarkable scores ... click ... yes, you get 325 and you would tend 2 think that's probably enough ... :)

Gentle Engineeer Of Floating Facts
Generous Example Of Friendly Forgiveness
Greedy Egomaniac Opening Ferocious Fantasies

Tried that quiz again ... and the song titles 'Nowhere Man'; 'Magical Mystery Tour'; 'Paranoid' (any Black Sabbath fans out there?) ... and Fool on the Hill {Honourable mentions to Child in Time, Strawberry Fields, Wuthering Heights & a few others ...}

... you also need to be 'careful' in the numbers you select ... or your wish may notcome true ...

Another interesting search ... :)

Having a look over recent days ... that crumpled paper site does have some great pages ... :)

... including magnetic poetry ... and various other 'coffee break' activities to keep you amused for a while ... speaking of cute things ...

Hmmm ... I was considering going along to see this movie ... nice site though ... :)

Speaking of crumpled paper ... :)

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Interesting discussion on forgiveness ... esp the comments in the 'frame' at the right hand side ... if they are still available, scroll down to March 19, 2002 and "Forgiveness is not a feeling;