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Last Thursday was spent with Caseopaya at Supersize Me, being Tabouli's birthday gathering. A thoroughly disturbing, eccentric and confrontational production, it does leave relatively unanswered what exactly do we do about the junk-food inspired health disaster that the overly wealthy advanced nations are facing. Loki, despite having some troubling personal times, excelled in his wit and irony and brought MacDonalds cookies for all to eat. For the first time in twenty two years I ate something from MacDonalds.
My practical take on the issue is as following: On one hand I think that producers do have the freedom to produce whatever crap they think will sell - although I may also hold that they are (*ahem*), "ethically challenged". I also think that people can consume whatever junk they want (up to and including hard drugs). By the same token, I also hold that prior to production and consumption individuals must be educated on what the health risks are and the producer should be required (as with other food products) to list on the packaging what nutritional value is in their product.
Sunday night was spent with severina_242 at Golgotha, the irregular goth/ebm evening at the Megabar (yes, by the gods, I went out!). It was a great night. Caught up with a lot of people (and missed quite a few others apparently), including frou_frou, dr_zero, horngirl, blithespririt, adricongirl and lo-and-behold a bunch of Perth people who were over for a sf con, including David, Sarah and Sheldon - the latter whom I hadn't spoken to for over a decade.
Handed in version 0.904 of my thesis. I predict my supervisors recommend I reduce it by about 35,000 words and read and reference a dozen more books and about twenty journal articles. Yes, I realize this is contrarictory. Still, it feels amazing to have the entire thing printed and bound. And I must say I'm pretty happy with it as a complete product.
At long last I've managed to put together a preliminary webpage of photos from East Timor, Tasmania and New Zealand. Enjoy these holiday/work snapshots. Note that I have dozens more yet to go up... (nota bene for dailup people - 30 photos, c30K each)
Blair takes a beating over Iraq, but Red Ken wins again. The vanguard parties ought to look Green. What to draw out of all this? Don't get involved in unjust wars, federations will fail unless you involve people and don't think that criticism of the system is enough - you also need an alternative.
Dogs are smatter than you think. So are ducks apparently (from JesusAndrew). And whilst on the topic of smart animals, let's have ones that choose a religion...
Brain breaker of the week is from convert_me. The lamb of god (for kids).
My practical take on the issue is as following: On one hand I think that producers do have the freedom to produce whatever crap they think will sell - although I may also hold that they are (*ahem*), "ethically challenged". I also think that people can consume whatever junk they want (up to and including hard drugs). By the same token, I also hold that prior to production and consumption individuals must be educated on what the health risks are and the producer should be required (as with other food products) to list on the packaging what nutritional value is in their product.
Sunday night was spent with severina_242 at Golgotha, the irregular goth/ebm evening at the Megabar (yes, by the gods, I went out!). It was a great night. Caught up with a lot of people (and missed quite a few others apparently), including frou_frou, dr_zero, horngirl, blithespririt, adricongirl and lo-and-behold a bunch of Perth people who were over for a sf con, including David, Sarah and Sheldon - the latter whom I hadn't spoken to for over a decade.
Handed in version 0.904 of my thesis. I predict my supervisors recommend I reduce it by about 35,000 words and read and reference a dozen more books and about twenty journal articles. Yes, I realize this is contrarictory. Still, it feels amazing to have the entire thing printed and bound. And I must say I'm pretty happy with it as a complete product.
At long last I've managed to put together a preliminary webpage of photos from East Timor, Tasmania and New Zealand. Enjoy these holiday/work snapshots. Note that I have dozens more yet to go up... (nota bene for dailup people - 30 photos, c30K each)
Blair takes a beating over Iraq, but Red Ken wins again. The vanguard parties ought to look Green. What to draw out of all this? Don't get involved in unjust wars, federations will fail unless you involve people and don't think that criticism of the system is enough - you also need an alternative.
Dogs are smatter than you think. So are ducks apparently (from JesusAndrew). And whilst on the topic of smart animals, let's have ones that choose a religion...
Brain breaker of the week is from convert_me. The lamb of god (for kids).