August 2008
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Personal Responsibility
“After the last speaker had cleared the stage the conference was opened to audience questions. Most drew out details from the speaker’s lines of reasoning. Then a slender man in a well-worn brown jacket stood up. With short, grey hair he looked a youthful sixty. His tone was quiet and respectful. He said (paraphrasing), “For three decades, I’ve heard speakers say things similar to what I’ve...
July 2008
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The above poster appeared in the July 3, 2008 NYT.
Check out the People’s Campaign for the Constitution for more info.
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America: The age of ignorance
I ran across this on AlterNet.org, click on the headline below for a jump to the full article.
Ignorant America: Just How Stupid Are We?
By Rick Shenkman, Tomdispatch.com. Posted July 2, 2008.
’ Five defining characteristics of stupidity, it seems to me, are readily apparent. First, is sheer ignorance: Ignorance of critical facts about important events in the news, and ignorance of...
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I can get behind this
Californians are signing up folks for a ballot initiative to change the California State Constitution to allow for the production, sale and use of weed as an inalienable right. Same ballot initiative gives the State of California the right to tax weed. Californians already voted for Medical marijuana and are in the midst of an intractable financial crisis. The job growth and tax revenues are...
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mushroom spirit
“Most of the volunteers looked back on their experience up to 14 months later and rated it as the most, or one of the five most, personally meaningful and spiritually significant of their lives,” says lead investigator Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., a professor in the Johns Hopkins departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Neuroscience. Another study, in yet another peer reviewed...
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Fiat Money
“money is loaned into existence, but vanishes if the loans are not systematically paid back” Jim Kunstler talks about facets of the “Long Emergency”. Here is a great video that describes how money is created. It is a good supplement for the discussion about how money is born. Federal Reserve money is fiat money that is “loaned into existence”. Now that the...
June 2008
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10 Seconds
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Marijuana is a powerful Medicine
It continues to amaze me that marijuana is still prohibited. Last year it was reported that scientists looking for a link between weed and lung cancer. No correlation or causality was found between the two. Further, the study showed that weed appeared to have a protective effect on the lungs. Here is another link to weed as medicine. Reading about this research it appears that one of the...
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July 6: Seattle Tumblr Meetup!
daryn:
Sunday, July 6th, 4:00pm King’s Hardware ( map )
That’s right, we’re having our first Seattle meetup on Sunday the 6th! Come join us at King’s for delicious food and drinks, an excellent jukebox, and a sunny patio (and they have skeeball!)
So far, karion, suitep, and daryn will be there, how about you? Reblog and spread the word!
(photo from The Kozy Shack on flickr)
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“Stages
As every flower fades and as all youth
Departs, so life at every...”
– Magister Ludi, by Hermann Hesse
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Freedom of Speech
The Seven Words
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Fucking RIP
George Carlin The American Dream
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True Stories Told In One Sentence
True stories told in one sentence.
Looks like a good site to get a story started.
May 2008
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The Mountain Astrologer
I picked up the new issue of The Mountain Astrologer.
This journal has been exploring the transits of Pluto through the different signs. I’m not an astrologer but am keenly interested in these interesting times.
Jessica Murray, writing in the article Astrology in Troubled Times, has this to say about Pluto, “Pluto represents the raw power and inevitability of breakdown and...
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olpc connects to wifi
I was at Mr. Spots Chai House in Ballard today for an iced tea respite during my walk today.
I noticed a young woman using an XO laptop (OLPC-One Laptop Per Child).
I signed up for the 2 for 1 promo at the end of last year and finally received the laptop in April. I couldn’t figure out how to connect to the internet via wifi.
A short conversation later I was reasonably sure that I...
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6932 steps
That is between 5 and 6 miles.
Listened to music most of the way. Stopped for iced tea along the way.
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More Harvest
The Yu Choi Sum came up and started making flower buds. I harvested the whole bunch along with a few radishes. I think I will stirfry the greens. I am still amazed at how fast everything is growing now that we have warm sunny days. We’ll need to water everyday til next week.
The Elephant Snow Peas are reaching for the trellis and I transplanted the Tender Snow Peas. We started five...
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3513 steps
Now I know that my pedometer registers about 1230 steps per mile. I still walk a mile in about 20 minutes without abnormal sweating or difficulty breathing. 10,000 steps equals about 8 miles. It would take about nearly 3 hours of walking daily to hit the 10K steps per day. Ummmmm.
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4485 Steps
“The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.” – Madame du Deffand, in a letter to Jea Le Rond d’Alembert, July 7, 1763
Studies show that 10,000 steps walking per day helps maintain health. 12,000 to 15,000 steps walking is considered about what is needed to lose excess weight. Here are some sites that explain the...
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Taking a walk
Twenty odd years ago I would walk around the lake a couple of times. The first time was for “clearing the head”, and “destressing”. The second time was for “solving the world’s problems”. Recently, I’ve been lamenting not walking, specifically not having a regular walking buddy. Sometime between my walks around the lake and now I organized a...
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Halloween Tombstones
Neighbor had this and other “tombstones” set up for Halloween. They are still in the front yard.
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Spring Harvest
The early harvest is in. My housemate and I started a container garden this year. We got started in February with finding and modifying our containers and building a new trellis. We got some additional rain barrels for collecting water. The seeds came next for starting in the greenhouse. Then came buckets of chickenshit for mixing with the soil. It is amazing really how little it takes to grow...
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Green Goodness
One ripe avocado peeled and cubed One cup frozen spinach defrosted Three tablespoons garlic sauce Two teaspoons chopped garlic One cup cooked penne Two handfuls pine nuts Put all the ingredients in a big bowl and mix together until everything is coated with garlic sauce. Fast, yummy breakfast.