Geoff Allen's Journal, May 2003, part 2

My Journal

[ May 16, 2003 '

Well, I went along to see it ... can't recall the last time I made a point of seein a filum on its first day of release ... I thought I may have seen a few too many previews but I still enjoyed it immensely ... several memorable scenes & quotes ... can't find any of them in cyberspace JUST yet ... :)

Here's a couple from the trailer ...

There were some excellent previews as well ... terminator 3 for instance ... as well as Bruce Almighty ...

This is the site for terminator 3 ...

And we may as well have a hunt for the other movie - click

Then I decided 2 have a little look for the script of the Matrix sequel ...

That search may vary with time and more people seein it ...

www.computercrowsnest.com

Today's mantra:

My name was decided,
By all the invited.

[ May 17 & 18, 2003 '

Nice e-card in my email this morning ... click

Today's mantra: "My doctor wants me to say something normal."

Not a lot of online time ...

Interesting quote ... click

They keep putting this show on way too late down here ... :)

This one has some interesting links & stuff ...

Quote of the day: "Don't think you don't know what you don't know, only you know that."
- Click here for more :)

More good postings ... click

Led me to this site - after a search for a simple quote - somehting like happy people rarely (never?) get sick ...

[ May 19, 2003 '

Today's mantra: "I wanted to believe in all the questions of life."

Quite a few sites in my email etc this morning ... like www.incomingcash.com ....

Also these -

Virtual lab

Leprechaun watch

Fun site

Kim's ten commandments

The light of asia

Some 'toons :)

www.100th monkey.com

From yesterday's themes ... click

Where else did we visit ... click - after reading the latest stuff at the forum :)

Today's other mantra:
"When we scream, we scream with one voice. And it's always a mild choice."

From one of today's searches ... comes this little page ... "when they slept that night each had a vivid dream of a splendid woman whose eyes were as soft as feather and as deep as eternity itself, and whose body was the spectacular dance of atoms and universes."

[ May 20, 2003 '

"One day a man woke up & he suddenly wanted to blame his own chapters."

Had a little think as I walked home from the shops ... to add to those (growing) list of quotes ... like ... um, well for starters my compiled list of buddhist quotes

... that in itself is enuf food 4 thought ... then there's a couple of things from the Bible ... the exact quotes for casting the first stone ... and the one about loving your (or thy) enemy

... oh yes, then there's the great one about the two dogs ... where was that ... clcik ...

Plus Heaven & Hell on that same page ...

... come to think of it, I did compile a list of quotes somewhere ... click

... then there's song lyrics ... such as this ... & this to name a couple off the top o' my head ...

... there's a couple over at this site - the quotes section changes each time you visit the page ... I like the one about metaphysics by Woody Allen ... click

Cropped image of bird singing on top of someone's head :)

... oh yes, then there was that great page comparing the 'golden rule' in all the various faiths ... where was that ... well, one search tosses up some interesting places - click

http://www.geocities.com/lzell_2000/chat524362.html

Another page abt the 100th monkey ... click

Found this interesting site from a search of a defunct link ...

A cartoon that's sad but true

One more - from the churchill quote abt stumbling ... click :)

[ May 21, 2003 '

www.lifeisajoke.com

Today's mantra: "I could walk a mile in anyone's shoes at the moment."

This one from yesterday - it's worth reading his may 19th stuff ... if it ends up in the archives with the passage of time ...

Continuing our quotes theme ... click

These aint bad either ...

And there's one from the forum I thought I'd look up ... click :)

www.jumptheshark.com

[ May 22, 2003 '

Today's mantra: "It happens & sometimes it happens again."

In today's emails ... click - sounds wonderful ... IF I had the dollars ... :)

Checkin over some old links ... click

Today's quote comes from some photocopies I found last evening ...

THIS BOOK
ATTEMPTS TO PUT INTO WORDS
THAT WHICH IS BEYOND EXPRESSION

ITS TRUTH IS TO BE FOUND
IN THE REALMS
OF THE PRACTICE
AND THE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
OF
MEDITATION

IF YOU ARE SERIOUS ABOUT
LEARNING TO MEDITATE,
YOU MUST PRACTICE
REGULARLY

ENJOY IT!

It was from a library book by Ian Gawler

Oh yes, I also looked up the full lyrics from that Osbourne quote ... click

[ May 23, 2003 '

Guess what sparked this search ... :)

So ... not a lot of online time at all ... did look up that Ian Gawler site - click

[ May 24, 2003 '

This proved quite effective as an inhalant as well ... now, whether the cold would disappear any faster 'on its own' ... but at least today I can breathe freely through the nose again ... it's not until it's taken away that you appreciate such a simple thing ... :)

Continuing the latest theme ... click :)

Lemme see, what else is there to tell you before I go off to the shops, with a tad more energy than this time yesterday ...

Boy ... the vapor cream on this page ... scroll down to "Herbal vapor cream" to read alll the ingerdients!

They don't mention adding it to hot water and inhaling the vapours ... I find that's the best method with vaporub anyway ... if you want a quick(er) fix ...

Today's mantra: "Sometimes I like to do something normal."

Here's a few more I just received in my email -

Ah yes, also pondered some of the stuff in these excerpts ...

Oh there was somethink else ... hmmm ... maybe I'll think of it as I walk home from the shops ...

Speakin of cartoons ... click :)

Well, there was also a few pasages from this piece of writing ...

A chat with an old mate (at a cafe in the shopping centre) reminds me of this little story ... :)

[ May 25, 2003 '

Also from yesterday ... the past ... does it exist ... or does the very word 'exist' carry with it a sense of HERE & NOW ... hmmm ... there was more to that train of thought but I never scribbled it down ... plus that quote about silence ... and just LOOK at the kind of world you get when most people's minds are hardly EVER silent whether they be awake or dreaming ... :)

The lyrics to a Monty Python song popped into my head yesterday ... something like 'other things just make you swear & curse' ... what are the actual words ... click

That chat I mentioned yesterday also reminded me of Stevie Hawking ... and what a mind he has ... must look up a link next time I'm online ... yes, the origin of the universe ... and the evolution of creatures such as ourselves ... makes the mind fairly boggle ...

Oh yes, also from yesterday ... that cartoon about yearning ...

Today's mantra: "I'd like to adjust my impact on reality."

Had a bit of trouble sleepin last night ... pondered a few things ... such as these stories ...

... plus some of the stuff in this little book ... or is it somewhere else? ... like here ... hmmm ...

Well, I did have a little lookie in the book itself & found this - "Just as a trainer disciplines and calms a wild and wilful steed by subjecting it to skilful and prolonged training, so must the wild, wandering, random activities of body and speech be tamed to make them docile, righteous and skilful."

Lemme see ... what else was there ... a poem or two ...

Looks like the Aussies are kinda starting to make one-day cricket just a bit too
predictable at the moment - click

In my email this morning - click

Looks like some defunct links in those lama pages ... pity I caint upload to angelfire anymore ... :)

Fabulous cropped image from Leunig's Book of Common Prayer ... I read the intro today at Springvale library ... ought to link it 2 a place online where one might purchase such a book ...

Oh yes, saw an interesting book while out shopping yesterday avo ... click

Some interesting music (as well as the band name) - click

Funny joke - click

A few more ... click

Today's bonus mantra: "If you look forward to your knowledge of life."

[ May 26, 2003 '

Today's mantra: "Twice the average. Twice the average."

From yesterday's book browsing ...

Chuck Spezzano

Francis webb

Yes, the intro to the poetry book mentioned our old mate R.D.Laing ... click

Must remember 2 lookup the 'Discover Victoria' site ... they went to William Ricketts Sanctuary on last night's show ... reminding me of that poem I wrote & those photos I
took ... click

www.markthispot.com

Made a little search for one of yesterday's quotes ... click :)

"A person so trained will be endowed with the wonderful quality of being able to bear patiently the miseries and suffering which are the fruit of his past Karma."

[ May 27, 2003 '

Switched over to a 'new' computer ...

Saw an interesting book today - by Fynn, who wrote the book about Anna & Mister God ... click

From the morning's emails ... click

Today's mantra: "He gets there by the local methods."

Took another peek in htat poetry book I mentioned a couple of days ago ... "Words move within the grain" was the first line of one of them ...

[ May 28, 2003 '

While out shopping again, I opened a book by Clare Wilde to a page where she mentions the effects of paint colours in a room ... align to chakras ?? ... click

Today's mantra: "Always meditate on whatever you resent."
- Click here for more advice

What else did we do today ... not online terribly long ...

Computer pranks? Need to check out this link when next I'm online ... :)

Hadn't visited Webshots in a while ...

[ May 29, 2003 '

Bit more book browsing today ... click

Plus oh what was it ... oh yes, a joke I hadn't really heard b4 - click ... hmmm ... that doesn't really lead to the joke but some interesting sites anyways ... basically, this guy wanders up to a mountain and asks the guru what is the menaing of life and the guru replies 'fish'. The man is incredulous and says 'Are you telling me the meaning of life is fish??!!' The guru calmly responds 'You mean it isn't' ... or somethin like that ... it was actually in a computer book about researching via the web ...

Cute e-card ... click

www.save-ningaloo.org

What else was there ... oh yes, I have been pondering some of my book excerpts ... like the ELS addicts mentioned in Bob Monroe's book - click

Then there's Leon in this book

The main excerpt page would be here

Checking some old links etc ...

The 4 sublime states

www.tvfreak.com.au

Today's mantra: "I used to think I was one of the 14 local madmen."

Did a little search for a quote I've also been pondering a fair bit lately - click :)

Daily thoughts ... click

Speaking of Leon ... click :)

[ May 30, 2003 '

15, 18, 22, 24, 38, 54, 56, 58, 65, 72.

Today's mantra: "Sometimes I like to sit in a chair & make silly noises all day long."
- Gandhi

Or try this one: "Earth Life System addicts may not understand, but that is their problem."

May plug that into Google (at some stage) ... :)

Had a little look at some old GWBASIC files ... one quite timely ...

20 RANDOMIZE TIMER
30 CLS:COLOR 6,0
31 REM COULD MAKE IT ANY COLOR THAT TAKES YOUR FANCY :)
40 LET A=INT(RAND*23) + 1
50 LET B=INT(RAND*79) + 1
60 LET D=INT(RAND*254) + 1
70 IF D=7 THEN GOTO 60
80 IF D=11 THEN GOTO 60
90 IF D=12 THEN GOTO 60
100 LOCATE A,B: PRINT CHR$(D)
105 IF INKEY$<>"" THEN GOTO 200
110 goto 40
200 PRINT:PRINT "This program written by Mark Eccles & Geoff Allen"