Geoff Allen's Journal, September 2003

My Journal

[ September 1st, 2003 '

From that fortune cookie site and plugging one of its quotes into Google ... leads me here ... I like several ...

... but the one that grabs me most ... click

There's a place that holds everything ever thought of or known by any human being who has ever lived. This Education Centre is open to anyone desiring to study there, and access to this information is limited only by the breadth of one's desire to know and one's willingness to explore.
- Click here 4 more ...

... a search for Bruce Moen tosses up a few ... click

... including an Astral Projection Brainwave entrainment CD ... click

Added a few of the recent quotes ... to ... this file ... (once I upload it, that is ...)

My thumb print - get a better one? next trip 2 the Museum ... :)

One more 2 add ...

- busyness kornfield world ... click - the one at 'skepticfiles' sounds familiar ...

Here's some more humour :)

www.wow4u.com

Some more humour - click

Hoax site - click - that is a site ABOUT hoaxes, not a site which IS a hoax :)

Plus a few emails offering to 'enhance your anatomy' ...

[ September 2, 2003 '

While out doing my shopping happened 2 flick open a litle $5 book by Gary Zukav ... and the page i opened it to had a memorable quote about rage ... click ... plugging zukav into the mix reduces the results to zero ... hmmm ...

... then I get home & flick on the tube & there's Dr Phil doing a show about ... you guessed it ... rage ... road rage ... sporting rage ... even supermarket rage ... even getting a comedian to go out & push people's buttons by invading their personal space, smoking in a non-smoking area, cutting in line etc ...

... that dolphin result in the earlier search is worth a read ... click

Today's mantra: "I'm actually a robot from another galaxy."

Interesting ep of DS9 the other day ... lemme see if there's a link ... click

More quotes from that movie I mentioned a while back ... click ... scroll down to the bit about forks :)

Oh yes, how could I forget ... a T-shirt arrives from the good ol' US ... click

More stuff off the tube ... click

www.rocknrollcircus.com

www.seekerscircle.com

... leads me to ... these excerpts ...

Ho w about another little quiz ... click

Hmmm ... some of the images on this page look a tad familiar ... I'm sure I scanned at least three of them judging by how they look :)

... actually found it via this little search ... :)

... that tonglen result could be added 2 my own page ... click

[ September 3, 2003 '

Just checked the file sizes of those Leunig images from yesterday and a couple of them are precisely the same as the ones on my hard drive to the last byte ... hmmm ... :)

From one of yesterday's pages ... may pay 2 checkout this next time I'm online ...

In the morning's emails an interesting quote ... click

Speaking of quotes & yesterday's theme of anger ... "If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful." - Zen master Yuanwu

Here's another one that came from the fortune cookie site ...

www.strike-the-root.com has an interesting quote or two ... esp about the name of the site ...

Took a look at this page for the first time in a while ... the one about Tuvan throat singing sounds worth a listen ...

Today's mantra:
"People love their own questions & then they like to walk for a few moments."

www.ubermidget.com

[ September 4, 2003 '

More cool quotes from one of yesterday's searches ... click

www.worlditc.org

Not a lot of surfing on a day forecast to hit the heights of 19 Celsius ... I'd say it's warmer than that already ...

Also in today's emails ... click

www.angryalien.com

[ September 5, 2003 '

More e-cards ... click

www.smileycentral.com

From that Scientific American mag ...

A corny little card ... click :)

Also in the morning's exchanges ... click

Also from recent daze ... click

Another little search ... click

Ironic timing ?? ... click

Many other interesting articles at that same site ...

Another interesting quote from one of today's sites ... click

... and then it's just a quick little hop to this author :)

Following a few more links ... I arrive here

And a few quotes on that page ... esp Ockham ... is he the same one as in Ockham's razor? ... probably ... so I made a little search ...

... and anothe fairly large links page ...

How about a recent Leunig ... click :)

[ September 6, 2003 '

Also from yesterday ... click

In today's emails ... click

Looked at a few more from this little page ...

Then I got diconnected unexpectedly and it's just about time for my evening meal anyway ...

[ September 7, 2003 '

Today's mantra: "I always try & be patiently absurd."

... or maybe ... "Rooly. Rooly. Life gets unruly."

In the morning's emails ... click

Not a lot else webwise today ...

Oh yes, may as well mention these heroics ...

[ September 8, 2003 '

Looking over some old links ...

Ooops - dead link ???

Sparks this search :)

Federation Flash # 48 - scroll down to the bit about refund :)

A few quotes about a chick in its shell

From one of those earlier searches ... click

Speaking of quotes ... click

More tales of the unexpected ... click

... plus more heroics in the tennis ... click - yes, you don't come back from 2 sets down in a semi-final all that often ...

Checking yet more old stuff ...

Taming the monkey mind

Wing Makers - also has a forum I've hardly visited ...

{Kinda makes one nostalgic given it has over 50,000 messages }

Sparks this little search after reading only a few entries ...

www.wakingworld.com

Here's some music mentioned at that forum ...

Interesting definition - click :)

... leads me to yet another message board which looks eerily familiar ... click :)

[ September 9, 2003 '

Watched 'Who wants to be a millionaire?' last night - It's a quiz show where the questions get tougher as you approach the million dollars. Anyway, last night this guy gets to the million dollar question and it was 'How many Dalai Lamas have there been?' He didn't know and neither did his phone-a-friend.

It's the first time I have known the answer to a question worth that amount of money. :)

From the morning's emails ... click

A free offer that sounds just dandy ... click :)

... and following a few links pages leads me ... here

... and one of most 'interesting' definitions of cancer can be found on this page of theirs ...

... and their page on shen chi is worht a read or two ...

The book nook is also one to visit ... click

A bit later I arrive at this site

Looking at some defunct links ... click

... esp his cosmic cookies ...

[ September 10, 2003 '

Speaking of the 14th Dalai Lama ...

Hey almost that time of the year again ... click

... raises an important question ... click

... and I plug this name into Google ... click

"The farther you go into truth, the deeper it is." � Zen master Bankei

I notice a couple of mine pop up in those results ... like this :)

And that prompts yet another little search ...

Plus another - from the www.dayofcompassion.com site & a couple of the Thomas Merton quotes ... thoughts in solitude ...

Interesting interview at a site called the drunken boat ... click

More old stuff ... click ... scroll down to laughter ... :)

Also old-2 and 3 ... forum-83, cwg11 ... etc

Following an earlier search ... I arrive at yet another interesting quotes site - click ... I like the section on madness :)

[ September 11, 2003 '

From yesterday ... click

Plus a few more sparked by reading some of those ... click

Nice e-card ... click

More quotes etc. - click

Then a bad system freeze up drops my connection ...

[ September 12, 2003 '

Um ... not a whole lot 2 report ...

Did check out a few more pages from one of yesterday's sites ... eg click

... the one about native americans was an eye-opener ... and the others is worth a read also ...

Checking over some old stuff ... click ... & why not try their random joke ... most seem clean enough :)

www.engrish.com

Some odd poetry ... click

Also had a look around this site

... even a few products you can purchase - click

Some more interesting quotes ... click

[ September 13, 2003 '

From yesterday ... click

Plus this little article caught my eye ... (ouch)

Also from that engrish site ... click

More along a similar vein ... click - the funnyjunk site has some interesting 'stuff' ... try the one called 'madness' for example ...

Another famous quote ... click :)

Interesting debate ... sections of it kinda remind me of cwg which I aint opened in a while ...

Also reminds me of something from CNNNN last night ... they have a send up of the little 'ticker-tape' running along the bottom of the screen giving 'news' updates ... one of last night's was "Witty banner outside church converts atheist" ... as well as "Fully dressed sportswoman photographed" ... :)

Today's mantra ... take your pick ... the latest ones are towrds the bottom ... :)

From today's emails ... "Pass by peacefully and go a stainless way, free from theories, lusts, and dogmas." - from "Buddha Speaks," edited by Anne Bancroft ... click

Heard this quote about hope recently somewhere or other ...

A little search sparked by that cnnnn program ... they call it a newsbar ...

Checking my random page ... first click takes me here ... excellent links page there as well ... :)

http://www.romanm.ch/ascii-movies/ascii-matrix2.htm

Looking over more old stuff ... click

[ September 14, 2003 '

More stuff from recent times ...

Omni god challenge

The Dharmacist has a few links

More quotes

Living meditation

And in today's emails ... click :)

www.melbournefringe.com.au

Checking over one of yesterday's searches and the Google results seem to have omitted the one which topped the list yesterday ... very odd ... anyway, click to see the newsbars I mentioned ...

Hmmm ... a couple of the dharmacist links seem defunct ... eg click

John Howard reverses all policies after persuasive student rally

{Howard is our current Prime Minister}

Interesting article - click

... prompts another little search

www.sobonfu.com

This film sounds worth checking out ...

Yet another search tosses up a few sites worth exploring ... click

... eg this one

[ September 15, 2003 '

From one of yesterday's searches comes the following quote I'd never thought of it this way - "If you have more than you require, you are a thief."

Here's the page in question

Plus "You may know a hundred systems of truth ..."

Comes from this page

In the day's emails ... click

Following one of the earlier links ... "It is important for them to understand that if you meditate for longer hours and spend a lot of time reflecting on God, over a period of time you will become otherworldly. In some cases, it may even create depression ..."

Click here 4 more

Today's puzzle ... click

"People love their own questions & there's nothing more to mention."

Another linky dinky email ...

Optical stuff

Free candy?

Aw, so cute!

You know, people spend hours and hours making things like this, just to amuse strangers they'll never hear from

Not your average menu :)

Tarot reading

Don't Worry, Be Happy

A bed of bags