| Про гармонию. |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|01:49 pm] |
Правое (подсознание) и левое (логика) полушарии работают несинхронно, в результате возникает внутренняя дисгармония, что тут же отражается на лице: оно становится асимметричным. Если человеку вовремя показать его духовный и жизненный портреты, мозги встают на место и начинают работать правильно.
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| War and Peace |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|06:31 pm] |
It's brilliant! No wonder it is often listed as one of the best novels of all time.
I have yet to finish it - I am in the middle of the dramatic fall of Moscow.
The characterisation is unbelievable. It's like watching real people.
And the plot! I must admit I prefer the WAR to the PEACE, but the whole novel shows how the people live in both states. |
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| Опасные насекомые. |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|01:28 pm] |
Следующая серия роликов не рекомендуется женственным мужчинам и беременным детям.
Паук против мыши:
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| 3 hours, 5 phone calls...still no cab |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|09:30 pm] |
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I live in Gladstone Park, which is near the Airport.
Does anyone else who live in that area have trouble getting cabs to pick them up?
I rang for a cab at 6.15pm....and it still hasn't turned up - 3 hours later.
I've made 5 phonecalls and even spoken to the supervisor who has rebooked a cab every time.
When I've called, I'm told that a taxi driver has reported that he's already picked me up.
/Apparently/ all the cabs are waiting at the airport in the hope of getting a good job. Jobs pop up on their screen so they can only see so many at a time. To get rid of them, they just 'delete' them off the list, sending a message back to HQ that the person has been picked up.
So after 5 phone calls and 3 hours of waiting I've taken the make up off, kicked off the heels, put my trackies on and am now spending a Friday night in.
Anyone else have this really frustrating thing happen to them? |
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| d'awww |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|05:46 pm] |
via Dwaleberry
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| Кому что! |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|12:33 pm] |
Вот так всегда! Всё внимание какой-то "крысе"!
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[Nov. 27th, 2009|08:25 pm] |
My parents' two-week-long visit down under is finally over, and I've finally got a moment to say how thankful I am.
No, not that they've gone home! That they put in such an effort to keep in touch with me, no matter how long a schlep or what the exchange rate. Even over Thanksgiving. The very fact that traipsing around Canberra with them could feel routine is a sign of just how blessed we are. |
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| Clara's taking over, room by room... |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|08:17 pm] |
I am in no way a home decorating kind of person (plus it doesn't help that I've always rented), but I'm quite pleased with the corner(s) I've been setting up for Clara in the kitchen eating area.
She has one table there for eating (although she usually stands at the table or sits in her couch, or sits up at the table with me in her booster chair), and another one for drawing. There's a nice little shelf for some of her toys, and I'm putting her paintings up as she does them.
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| ...Vatever happened to my Transylvania Tvist? |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|08:17 pm] |
Whoa, where did that come from? I took a break from hanging around in the Beach Boys / Brian Wilson arena, because there didn't seem to be anything on the horizon... but then the Prisoner miniseries sent me scurrying back. (More on that later.) All of a sudden, out of nowhere, Brian Wilson has suddenly gotten yet another second wind -- he's in the studio right now recording a collection of George Gershwin songs, including two unfinished songs which the Gershwin estate is having him finish. Yep, not content with finishing Smile, now he's finishing stuff for other geniuses! Plus he's got a deal for a second album, of Brian-arranged Disney songs -- which is kind of neat, given that Disney launched his songwriting career ("Surfer Girl" was inspired straight from "When You Wish Upon A Star").
And on top of that, he's just had a six-week US tour which even the jaded Brian's-a-hollow-shell-puppet-type fanboys are raving about as his best tour since the sixties. He's loose, he's funny, he's interacting unscriptedly with his audience, he's playing obscure solo gems ("Soul Searchin'", "Desert Drive", "Your Imagination") on top of the usual deep tracks and the new stuff from "That Lucky Old Sun", he's playing piano or bass on almost every song, and he's clearly having a ball! They're even messing around with the set list a bit -- here's him and the band working out "Monster Mash" for their Halloween show, and they liked it so much they added it for the rest of the tour...
The guy's still bipolar, but it's wonderful to see him so much on the upside. Every time I worry about not having done enough in my career by 37, I remember how most people had written Brian off 10-15 years ago, and now he's on the far side of 65 and still getting stronger... |
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| breastfeeding |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|08:05 pm] |
Clara's been on three breastfeeds a day for ages, until the last 2 days.
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My little girl is growing up! 1.5 next month...
Here's a lovely pic of my cheeky monkey at my parents' house. She still uses a high chair there, mainly to keep her food as far as possible away from the dog, who is very very food focused...
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[Nov. 27th, 2009|04:48 pm] |
Purrdence bought Magical Mystery Tour the other day. This probably explains why I spent much of this afternoon singing 'Strawberry Fields Forever'
It doesn't explain why I sang it as if it was being played on a theremin |
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| Уделите внимание, пожалуйста. |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|11:42 am] |
Общение вот тут cammala.livejournal.com/86959.html породило желание выяснить на практике достаточно простую вещь.
Уважаемые посетители моей скромной пещерки, не пожалейте, пожалуйста, времени на один (кажущийся простым) вопрос.
В чём вы видите отличие католического христианства от православного?
Меня не забанили на яндексе и гугле, и речь не о том, как возник раскол и какие цели при этом преследовались. Интересует непосредственно ваше бытовое восприятие.
Спасибо. |
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| Опять же не удивили ))) |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|11:26 am] |
Прошёл очередной "никчёмный" тест:
Результат понятен, но самое интересное, в этом тесте встретились два вопроса, которые меня сильно удивили тем, что обычно в тестах таких вопросов, действительно заставляющих тебя заглянуть к себе внутрь, не встречается.
Любопытно, поймёте ли вы о каких вопросах я говорю )))
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| 5000km |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|04:18 pm] |
The odometer I installed on my bike in 2005 (sometime around May??) reached 5000km last week.
It's slowed down a lot since I quit the job I had out near Curtin; I was doing 70-80km a week then. Now it's more like five or ten (one or two trips into the CBD, or occasionally heading in to Northbridge).
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| Grateful |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|04:16 pm] |
Things that I am grateful for this week.
Rediscovering music. Been pulling out artists that I haven't listened to for a while, like Godspeed You Black Emperor, and Air, and Laurie Anderson, and loving it.
A nice stereo at home, and a cute little one in my office, to facilitate this.
Catching up with old friends that I haven't see for far too long, which I did last weekend, and yesterday afternoon.
My wonderful, hardworking (in lots of ways at the moment), caring, resourceful wife.
Good friends and long-running roleplaying games.
Good food available within easy walking distance
The advances in medicine that offer viable treatment and hope for the future to so many people I know with chronic and/or life-threatening medical conditions
Delicious beer. I have monk beer from New Norcia.
And OK, just a little bit of schadenfreude at the Liberal Party implosion. OK, maybe a lot of schadenfreude. I'm actually kind of pleased that the showdown is over climate change. If it was over any other issue, we'd see the delusionist disease continue to fester in the heart of the party rooms, but the way things are going, in a few months it might be driven out of mainstream politics. Either that, or the Libs will be consigned to being even more unelectable. Either is good. |
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| Icons :D |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|07:08 pm] |
Actor/Actress: Leighton Meester, Blake Lively, Colin Morgan & Katie McGrath, Bradley James & Angel Coulby, Billie Piper, David Tennant, Eve Myles, Gareth David-Lloyd
TV Shows: Gossip Girl, Merlin, Torchwood, Doctor Who
Banners: Leighton Meester, Merlin
  
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[Nov. 27th, 2009|01:41 am] |
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Dinner with work admin group at Gaylords, then to be whisked away for a night out with Anastasia. Waiting to hear about Isobels trip to ED |
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| Look up |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|03:20 pm] |
Do you ever look at the sky and wonder what's going on up there?
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| speaking from the heart (ed sally morgan et al) and on that thing we don't talk about |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|05:48 pm] |
I've been thinking about making this post for a while, but I've not been quite sure how to write it.
There's this attitude in Australia that I come up against all the time, this sort of 'the lot of Aboriginal Australians would be fine if they'd just pull themselves up by their bootstraps.'
When I encounter this, I have to assume that the person making such a statement simply doesn't
a) know; or
b) understand
the history of this country, because the alternative,
c) they don't care
both horrifies and disgusts me. And I don't mean that hyperbolically - it actually disgusts me.
I just finished reading Speaking from the Heart, a collection of stories and essays edited by Sally Morgan, Tjalaminu Mia and Blaze Kwaymullina. Last year I read and reviewed Heartsick for Country, which followed a similar style and made me weep. It's a great book to read if you haven't.
Speaking from the Heart, like Heartsick for Country, made me weep and cry and feel excited and want to know more. I want to know more about Australia's horrible history. I want others to know more about Australia's history. And I want to acknowledge and do something about the way Indigenous Australians are treated today, this legacy of this shitty racist system, that still has its claws and its branches in our hearts and in our institutions.
Mia writes (p. 213), 'Why can't you tell us stories about other spiritual beings besides Jesus and the Holy Ghost?' I used to ask them. I wanted to hear stories like the ones Grandad used to tell. ' Your grandfather made all that up,' they told me. 'Your family don't really care about you or your brothers and sisters.'
There are lots of stories in Speaking from the Heart that talk about this disconnect, this distance and this erasure, and being erased is totally the worst, and the continuous erasure even now on an institutional and public level frustrates me, makes me wonder how complicit I am in this, makes me hate everyone for every silence, every street law that's about 'public decency' but is actually about limiting the freedom of Aboriginal Australians (there's a commentary to be made here about a local law about to come into effect in the City of Yarra, but I don't know sufficient about it to make that commentary). The kind of institutionalisation that I and my brothers and sisters experienced as children doesn't prepare you for life, it just prepares you for more institutionalisation. A lot of the kids from homes ended up as prison inmates and this included my own brothers.
- Tjalaminu Mia in Speaking from the Heart p.217 Robbo at Biting the Dust has some great links on Indigenous Australians in the justice system.
There's this excellent post up at Crikey, National Imprisonment Rates, that illustrates this very well. If you look at the figures, in the NT, 645.8 people for every 100 000 of the adult population is incarcerated. In WA, it's 274.5. In Victoria, it's 106.9. Do you really think it's coincidence?
Finally, WA Today (I know) has an article that is interesting but unsurprising reading: Stolen generations mums, violence linkIndigenous women from rural areas who were forcibly removed from their birth families are three times more likely to experience violence than other indigenous mothers, a new report reveals.
It's the first report of its kind to examine the lasting effects of forcible removal on indigenous mums of the stolen generations.
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"Here are mums that have been taken away as children themselves and possibly, they've never been provided with interventions saying `violence isn't acceptable' or that `what you've been through is incredibly traumatic.'" So yes. The only thing preventing Indigenous Australians from a life of middle-class aspirations is their inability to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Yes. Sure. That's totally what it is.
I don't want to be silent, I want to acknowledge this, I want to do something about it. And I want you to acknowledge it too. |
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