Synchronicity, Dreamwidth, Many Essays, Esoterica and the Mid-East

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A couple of strange moments of synchronicity and coincidence this week. About a year ago, I started reading Salmun Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh at a cafe around the corner for work. I know the date I started because I used my ticket from when John Foxx did a movie presentation. Every few days when buying a bite to eat or a coffee I'd read a few pages. Just as I'm about to finish, I discover that John Foxx did the cover for the book.

The second moment of synchronicity was finishing Rolemaster Cyradon, which is almost due for the final draft. About fifteen years ago I did another book for Iron Crown Enterprises. Just as the final draft of this book was due to be sent to the publishes, my hard disk died. This time around, the USB key which I'd kept about nine days of work decided to go belly-up. Fortunately, I discovered a very handy program to recover such things.

I have a Dreamwidth account under the same moniker. This is good because it doesn't have the poor management decisions of Livejournal, but uses pretty much the same technology, plus one can crosspost (like this one). This is a good list of Livejournal features not in Dreamwidth and likewise a list of changes.

Conducted a Philosophy of Economics (Normative Economics) session at the Unitarian Philosophy Forum on Sunday. Have also put up notes for the session on Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast which looks at metaphysics, theology and philosophy. Both of these have been very well received and well attended. Submitted a proposed distance education programme for VPAC as part of my Cert IV in Workplace Training and Assessment.

Visited darviz on Sunday morning, whom I hadn't spent much time with for years. Talked about his band, Darkness Visible, and then apropos, Freemasonry, various forms of esoterica and the politics of the middle-east (he's has a Jewish heritage and a generally pro-Israeli position; I'm probably best described as a secular zionist in that regard). On a related topic, I have finished an essay for isocracy.org on National Self-Determination and Federal Internationalism; comments invited on this oft-tricky subject.

Comments

[blackgrrr.livejournal.com]

ITYM Salman Rushdie. I'm amazed he's still alive.
Is the book any good?
I admit, I have almost no interest in reading it, and I am highly dubious of books that are proclaimed Great Literature, but I am also curious to know what all the fuss is about.

But the main reason I post is that for the past few days, on an off, I have been following this - http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=13824&page=5 (er... I said slowly, right?) which is a log of a person reading TSR/Dragon all the way through. I thought you might be interested. I am finding it lightly entertaining coffee break reading.

[fluffyblanket.livejournal.com]

Yay for synchronicity !
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/jung.html

[mr-figgy.livejournal.com]

Ah, to enjoy new Dreamwidth accounts in a universe of internal relations; I'm on there too, so look for me if you have a hankering for a mellotron_breakfast. I haven't started cooking yet, though.

[cheshirenoir.livejournal.com]

You had important data saved only to a thumbdrive???

I hope you hung your head in shame. Being able to recover it doesn't make it allright.

1) Back up Often
2) Back up Offsite
3) Back up to more than one media

C'mon, GMail accounts are free and you can e-mail yourself docs up to 25Mb. Et Voila!

you of all people should know better...

[darviz.livejournal.com]

I appreciated the visit Lev. You're always interesting company. Speak to you soon.

[recumbenteer.livejournal.com]

I have role playing loot to give away. Are you interested in a couple of Traveller Rule Books (the orginal A5 size ones) or issues of 'Challenge' the GDW house magazine?
I'll be moving house soon and I'd rather give them away to a roleplaying fan than move them to the new place.

[telarus.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! Thanks for the notes on the 'Six Impossible Things' talk.

There's something coming down the Discord Society pipeline that you may be interested in (it's from the 16th century, no seriously). I'll make sure you're on the list when we get further along in the project.

[szeretni.livejournal.com]

Hello! I was just checking out your LJ, because of what you wrote on talk_politics and what a coincidence that you're writing about synchronicity - I'm trying to find out as much as possible about that right now. :)
It's a fascinating subject and if you have any tips on books to read about it, I'd be happy to hear them. :)