Employment Changes, Land Tax, Labor for Refugees, Beowulf, Gaming, Numbers

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Well, I was a pleasant part-time working situation. However in the past couple of weeks I've picked up two major contracts. So now I'm working about 55 hours/week and my probable annual income looking, ahhh, quite high. Certainly an extraordinary turn-around from six months ago. Nevertheless, the time constrains means that something obviously has to go, and sadly I suspect it's going to be the community research organisation, Borderlands.

Just had another letter published in The Age today over land tax, under the title A dumb deal must not kill a good tax, following an article from the previous day.

Had dinner last night with a member of the NSW Right, who is a co-convenor of Labor for Refugees over there. At last, some national face-to-face meeting! We reached the agreement to push the national co-ordination issue and raise the idea of a national plebiscite on refugee issues (that should scare the pants of the party hierarchy). We also have Laurie Ferguson in our sights after publically promoting policy that is worse that the Labor Party's official refugee policy. Honestly, Petro Georgiou is better than Labor's shadow minister on immigration. As an aside to all this, I'm speaking at an anti-war rally on March 18th at the State Library in my capacity as convenor of Labor for Refugees.

Regrettably missed bar_bar_ella's birthday drinks last Saturday, but did make it to horngirl's with severina_242. Lots of enjoyable discussion. Also managed (finally!) to get to visit missmalice and hand on a swag of computer books to her partner, who seems to know what he's doing. Met their adorable rodents.

Was going to attend Beowulf on Tuesday eve but the theatre company has sold our pre-purchased tickets (we were late, but still). Ran into Johan Scheffer, a local MP, after this incident who considered a little illegal, so I rang consumer affairs the following day - two tickets are being held for Saturday.

On a very related thread to Beowulf, gaming is going well. caseopaya, strangedave, jazzyjay all making excellent contributions, as is Andrew L (non-livejournal, amazing). The illusion seems more or less complete - behind the narrative it may actually amaze some people but I actually have a system (of sorts) running. I should have a fifth scene up this weekend, and although I haven't done anything for it yet, I've started the livejournal community runequest. Let's hack that third edition into something brilliant.

In other news, I conducted the service at the Unitarian's last Sunday. I used the example of the Canadian Unitarian Church offering sanctuary to asylum seekers in the opening words, a reading on the establishment of the Unitarian Service Committe, who provided safe passage for refugees from Nazi Germany from inside Czechoslavakia, and a combined Thomas Jefferson quote in the closing words; "A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither... Dissent is the highest form of patriotism"

Recent brain-breaker award goes to jahbulon. Pythagoras once claimed "all is numbers", and as a Little black box predicts the occurrence of major world events such as 9/11 and tsunami, he might be right.

Comments

Re: the little black box stuff

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Heh. I kinda thought that you'd respond to this thread.

I've had an amusing side interest in Mayan mathematics and the end of the age of jaguars (Dec 23, 2012) for quite some time now. At least one other person agrees with me...

I've always quite liked the idea of following natural time rather than artificial time. Mind you, I argued that for nearly all things that concern chronology...

Of course, with all this interest in the Mayan calender, the poor ol' Incan calender (with a different "end time") is forgotton.

Re: the little black box stuff

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well the reason i've studied mayan and not incan is largely because of the musings that were pointed in my direction, and the roots in toltec knowledge, however, being such a busy traveller i have not had any meritable study in ancient history. some of the women elders in my family have visited some of the ancient sites in peru and panamerica, and so i'm curious. how is incan mathematics different and/or its calendar? as far as i can tell, mayan mathematics is perfect in every way, forward and backward, because it's the only viable explanation for the visions and lost time phenomena i've experienced since i was small. mayan ideology and some aztecan as well, have been the only fair illustration to me of what encounters i've had in both the dream world and the "living" reality in which i am inevitably stuck until the winter solstice of 2012..

Re: the little black box stuff

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I'm not sure how different the mathematics is, but the calendars have different cycles.

I reckon you'll like this;

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rjsalvad/scmfaq/calendar.html

Re: the little black box stuff

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To that I say, "I do." Let's go on our honeymoon, post-haste.
Or we could always just pretend we did.

I have now owned you, thank you, come again.

[tornspacetime.livejournal.com]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/tornspacetime/59072.html
Moo hua hah huh hah

Re: I have now owned you, thank you, come again.

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Heheh...

I reckon we start at Tenochtitlan then down to Cusco and to conclude back up to Xunuantunich, in awe of their buildings and their sheer stupidity which caused the civilization to fall into ruin...

After that is mescal with the Pueblo and gamble away the world....

When do we get pregnant again?

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Too bad anevilyak is reading my copy of The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness by Carl Johan Calleman, Ph.D. with foreword by Argoolez (Arguelles with lacking a fancy ass keyboard or memory for alt codes).

But I'm starting to have to more seriously propel that we're married, babe. You're a fucking gem in my heart.