The Post of Unfinished Tasks
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tcpipLooking back over the past six days I've discovered that I haven't actually finished anything. My thesis subchapter on data security is almost finished (denial of service case studies and conclusion to go), I've started (but not completed) a transcription of a 1990 essay I wrote on cyberpunk and I've started (but not finished) a map of Timor Leste for Red Alert. Having these unfinished tasks at the end of the week is annoying me unduly.
I picked up some more short-term employment this week; heh, two employers for two weeks, I wonder if the rest of the year is going to be like this? It's doing some website development and training for the Asia Pacific Journalist's Centre. Being a nice NGO I did offer them quite a cut rate.
The great tcpip slim-line project goes well. Lifestyle evaluation has made me realize that my great lack has been sufficient excersise, although keeping a closer eye on dietry concerns remains a strong interest. One of the quirky links I discovered whilst looking up the various kilojoule usage rates was this little gem fron the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment.
Our high dependence on cars has some significant environmental impacts. Cars use energy less efficiently than other modes – walking uses 10 times less energy and cycling uses around 100 times less energy than a car… and food is a renewable resource.
http://www.mfe.govt.nz/issues/transport/
Debates on the convert_me community have led me to discover that the Catholic Church isn't infallible on any matters of morality. And they admit it.
From Longi. I think this is Darwin Award material. I mean what was he thinking? Twenty one stories? Suppose she weighed 60 kgs. You do the math....
Apparently the reformed far left of Europe are getting their act together with a new party. I'm not surprised that it's being organized primarily through the German PDS. I've been watching them closely for more than ten years now - they really do seem to have their act together.
Apparently American teenagers aren't having sex. Well, it's their loss then - although someone should remind them you're only a teenager once (carpe diem and soon the roses will die and all that). Describing sex as "not an intractable problem" is quite indicitive of the mindset.
q_skud_ has drawn my attention to a "modest clothing" site for Christian lasses. It has the world's worst domain name:
www.modestapparelchristianclothinglydiaofpurpledressescustomsewing.com
Finally, someone is talking
sense over Palestine/Israel.
In a similar topic, I have been reading Alison Edgley's "The Social and Political Thought of Noam Chomsky" - with takes to task Chomsky's claim that his entire social "theory" could be written on the back of a postage stamp. <http://www.livejournal.com/users/erudito>Erudito would possibly be quite amazed by how similar Chomsky's thinking is to his own (and that's a compliment, btw!).
I picked up some more short-term employment this week; heh, two employers for two weeks, I wonder if the rest of the year is going to be like this? It's doing some website development and training for the Asia Pacific Journalist's Centre. Being a nice NGO I did offer them quite a cut rate.
The great tcpip slim-line project goes well. Lifestyle evaluation has made me realize that my great lack has been sufficient excersise, although keeping a closer eye on dietry concerns remains a strong interest. One of the quirky links I discovered whilst looking up the various kilojoule usage rates was this little gem fron the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment.
Our high dependence on cars has some significant environmental impacts. Cars use energy less efficiently than other modes – walking uses 10 times less energy and cycling uses around 100 times less energy than a car… and food is a renewable resource.
http://www.mfe.govt.nz/issues/transport/
Debates on the convert_me community have led me to discover that the Catholic Church isn't infallible on any matters of morality. And they admit it.
From Longi. I think this is Darwin Award material. I mean what was he thinking? Twenty one stories? Suppose she weighed 60 kgs. You do the math....
Apparently the reformed far left of Europe are getting their act together with a new party. I'm not surprised that it's being organized primarily through the German PDS. I've been watching them closely for more than ten years now - they really do seem to have their act together.
Apparently American teenagers aren't having sex. Well, it's their loss then - although someone should remind them you're only a teenager once (carpe diem and soon the roses will die and all that). Describing sex as "not an intractable problem" is quite indicitive of the mindset.
q_skud_ has drawn my attention to a "modest clothing" site for Christian lasses. It has the world's worst domain name:
www.modestapparelchristianclothinglydiaofpurpledressescustomsewing.com
Finally, someone is talking
sense over Palestine/Israel.
In a similar topic, I have been reading Alison Edgley's "The Social and Political Thought of Noam Chomsky" - with takes to task Chomsky's claim that his entire social "theory" could be written on the back of a postage stamp. <http://www.livejournal.com/users/erudito>Erudito would possibly be quite amazed by how similar Chomsky's thinking is to his own (and that's a compliment, btw!).
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Date: 2004-01-18 01:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-18 02:53 am (UTC)I admire your work ethic. Me, I have a half dozen different things on the boil in various stages of completion. Not setting tight deadlines means I'm much too slack about some things though.
I mean what was he thinking? Twenty one stories? Suppose she weighed 60 kgs. You do the math....
The heart overrules the mind. Think of all the folks who die shortly after their partner's passed on. Some people would risk all for even the slimmest chance their loved one might survive. Something like that can be cast as either a Darwin candidate or a tragic end to a love story. It's all in the telling.
www.modestapparelchristianclothinglydiaofpurpledressescustomsewing.com
This is where being a Jamie Packer would be fun. "I'd like you to make a dress in line with your statement of modesty but made in black-tinted skin-tight clear PVC. Here's $25K for your trouble." Watch 'em squirm between their greed and their God ;-).
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Date: 2004-01-19 12:05 am (UTC)Do you think it would be easier or harder for a Calvinist? ;-)
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Date: 2004-01-22 01:46 am (UTC)As for the black-tinted PVC - just let them squirm :)
BTW: friend of
Re: tragic love
Date: 2004-01-23 10:46 pm (UTC)Yes, truly they were staring into each others eyes in the final moment....
Gosh, where does this macabre humour come from?
Friend of Catherine17s eh? Hmm, that's a pretty good endorsement! Tagged!
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Date: 2004-01-18 03:31 am (UTC)Thanks.
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Date: 2004-01-18 05:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-18 11:36 pm (UTC)Yes, I agree with you. Recently there was an article in Le Monde Diplomatique which claimed that it wasn't "really" apartheid because a lot of the land had been purchased legally prior to 1948. That's being a bit facetious in my opinion.
After all, from the perspective from someone who actually lived under apartheid, Bishop Desmond Tutu has this to say:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,706911,00.html
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Date: 2004-01-19 01:47 am (UTC)Israel increases its population these days mainly by encouraging Jewish immigration (but see the racial discrimination against Ethiopian Jews who arrive often unable to speak Hebrew and are subjected to debates about whether they are 'really' Jewish before they are allowed to come). Non-Jewish Israeli citizens who marry Palestinians from the occupied territories are unable to cohabit. Other states that imposed religious and ethnic tests like this would be branded as part of the axis of evil, particularly if they were armed to the teeth as Israel is!
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Date: 2004-01-18 05:43 am (UTC)I do wonder if abstenance is the answer, though, to the linked age article.
And, I cannot express how worrying:
http://www.modestapparelchristianclothinglydiaofpurpledressescustomsewing.com/look_a_like.htm
and this:
http://www.modestapparelchristianclothinglydiaofpurpledressescustomsewing.com/American%20girl%20look%20a%20like.htm
are - especially when the main page pic looks like pre-slut Nikki Webster.
And, I argee that too much beachwear is slutwear, but the jester on RentaGhost worse less than their 'Modest Swimwear'.
I disagree that anyone in said article is talking sense about Israel/Palestine. The solution to that problem has not yet been invented. They need some kind of functioning system which does not yet exist, or has not been tried.
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Date: 2004-01-18 05:55 am (UTC)Since the Israelis have effectively blocked the 'two state solution', the only remaining option is a 'one state solution' with the Israelis getting sanctions imposed for one of: (i) failing to accept their responsibilities as an occupying power according to whichever UN regs cover it, (ii) installing an Apartheid system on ethnic lines.
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Date: 2004-01-19 12:01 am (UTC)It's an "interesting" version of apartheid - primarily along religious lines (e.g., law of return, almost all land being controlled by a religious authority etc).
It's where nationality and citizenship are confused where it gets quite strange. In Israel, citizenship (le'um) and nationality (ezrahut) are not interchangeable terms.
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0190/9001020.htm
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Date: 2004-01-18 11:44 pm (UTC)The "solution" is quite simple.
Have one state that incorporates all of current Israel and the occupied territories.
Remove all discrimitory laws based on ethnic and religious lines.
Have two official languages (Hebrew and Arabic).
Have two official names for the nation (Israel or Palestine).
End of problem.
Of course, that doesn't suit the religious and ethnic supremicists.
Odd clothing...
Date: 2004-01-18 01:04 pm (UTC)http://www.odd.net/ozarks/
Note that the address is "odd.net"
The first item on the official Lake Ozark website is 'churches'. Ho hum!
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Date: 2004-01-18 09:47 pm (UTC)You know full well that you will get them finished! And that you are doing a lot better than - well - than a lot of people who have no projects going thus none to even complete, or like myself continually procrastinate :P
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Date: 2004-01-20 07:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-20 10:07 pm (UTC)LOL! Someone's been reading my userinfo!
Had a excellent day out in the Victorian countryside - a little town called Daylesford, a journey which included natural springs, some lakes, an interesting gallery (which was a former nunnery) and and a visit of a fine second hand bookshop.
Not quite the same as my epic cocktail parties of recent years, but my home is a little smaller these days...
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Date: 2004-01-20 10:21 pm (UTC)sounds like fun to me! my livejournal update tool thingy tell's me when people's birthdays are - it's quite useful :)
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Date: 2004-01-20 11:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-21 03:01 am (UTC)No problems.. I've found several very interesting people myself by random links.. Mind you, you can tell the interesting ones from the dull ones in about thirty seconds flat...
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Date: 2004-01-21 04:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-23 10:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-23 10:51 pm (UTC)It could also be that I've spent the last two weeks researching data security... everything from fraud to fraggles...
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Date: 2004-01-25 08:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-25 08:49 am (UTC)