This came to me via Facebook, but I got told off for tagging someone in a picture they weren’t actually in, so I present this groovy meme here as well:
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It’s not easy, but it looks intriguing.
Keith Olberman in blistering form:
It’s incredible to see it all condensed, and slightly sickening to see the extent of the abuse of power.
“The untrained person may believe that their happiness comes from material circumstances. When my new carpet is fitted and I am sitting in my living room with a cup of tasty coffee in my hands, then I will feel happy, one might think. This is the sort of stuff that the advertising industry constantly indoctrinates us with. It too is a myth and a method, but it is a completely different one from that offered by Buddhism. I sit with my cup of coffee and the cat jumps up. The coffee goes flying and comes to rest in a remarkable pattern straight across the middle of the white section of the new carpet. That is the moment of enlightenment.”
David Brazier, The New Buddhism, Robinson, London, 2001, p. 238.
I’ve stopped the poll to help me decide about which poem to put in the exhibition. I was a bit disappointed that it when I changed the design it seemed to have forgotten the previous responses, and at least a couple of people wrote in answers that didn’t get recorded. So not a resounding technological success, but “The Element of Earth” was a clear winner, so many thanks to those who read the poems and voted.
[Update: I applied a different design to the poll, and now it thinks its a new poll - apparently - and has forgotten the previous results! So if you vote, remember there are more responses than what you are shown aftewards...]
I have been asked to put a poem into a local exhibition, and I’d like help to choose which one to put in.
I’ve entered the ones that seem most appropriate to me (have to be short-ish to fit onto one or two at most sheets of paper).
Click the “Poetry” link at the left to have a look at these selections.
What do you think? If you don’t like any of these, write in your wild card choice!
Thanks …
(poll removed)
Setback on the home recording front. I received an adapter to fit our dynamic microphone (with a 3.5mm jack) into my new M-Audio Fast Track box (which has an XLR plug), but it still doesn’t get a signal through. I don’t know if the Mike is no good, or if the box is faulty, or if the adapter isn’t working!
I have a friend who lives nearby who has a Mic I’m going to try to borrow just to make sure the box is working. Hopefully I can borrow the mike for longer, until I can save up my pennies to get myself a new one. I’ve already spent more than I’d have liked, and this adapter really was a waste of money.
Still, I’ve been reading my GarageBand manual, and listening to some of my favorite music to get arrangement ideas, so it’s not been wasted time.
I came across a video demonstrating how to make a cross of St Brighid from reeds:
and here is my first effort (click on the thumbnail below to see the full size, though admittedly low-res, photo). I am fortunate in living near some boggy fields and there are reeds a-plenty for using. I am quite chuffed. I used rubber bands to secure the ends initially, then used short reeds for wrapping the ends which allowed me to remove the rubber bands.
Cross of Bride
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