The Post of Unfinished Tasks

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Looking 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!).

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[stimps.livejournal.com]

Hee hee! I am still chortling over Lydia of Purple's MODEST SWIMWEAR. Bwahahaha!

[zey.livejournal.com]

Looking back over the past six days I've discovered that I haven't actually finished anything.

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 ;-).

[v3nu5.livejournal.com]

Your posts are always the most intelligent and interesting on my friends list.

Thanks.

[angel80.livejournal.com]

What is there to stop Israel building yet another wall at a later date, when the present one fails to achieve its goal? In my view, there is already a one-state solution. It's an apartheid state incorporating two, possibly more, bantustans.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

The car may not be efficient, but it is cheap (compared to public transport) and timely. Sad, but true.

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.

Odd clothing...

[angel80.livejournal.com]

Lydia of Purple appears to hail from Lake Ozark in central Missouri.

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!

[caseopaya.livejournal.com]

Looking back over the past six days I've discovered that I haven't actually finished anything.

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

[shorxrore.livejournal.com]

happy birthday sucka!

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