So many posts. I can't read them all to find out if anyone suggested this.
Suggestion:
Get her to write a journal of her deepest thoughts about the past, present, herself, you and her children. Paper preferably. To only be opened long after she's gone. There are things that a person will only say if they know that it will only be known long after their time.
Sometimes an oral historian can help to write it if the person can't write themselves.
Yet again, this is not so much interesting as a scientific investigation as being yet another roll of the "Ah, now we have proof of [anyone's choice of God]'s non-existance" dice.
Dream, dream, dream... You won't extinguish humainity's natural mytaphysical bent that easily. "Bring me the severed head of the dead God and then I will believe you.":)
Ref: Scott McCloud: "Understanding Comics"
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I read McCloud's work at least 8 years ago, so I'm guessing it was published in the 90's. This book deserves a reference as a precedent work.
A 215-page comic book about comics that explains the inner workings of the medium and examines many aspects of visual communication along the way. Understanding Comics was a Harvey and Eisner winner, was praised in The New York Times, Publishers Weekly and Wired, and is in over 13 languages. A favorite of interface, game and Web designers despite the fact that it doesn't mention computers once!
(1993 in the comics market, 1994 in the book market). Quotes:
"If you've ever felt bad about wasting your life reading comics, then check out Scott McCloud's classic book immediately. You might still feel you've wasted your life, but you'll know why, and you'll be proud." - Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons.
"In one lucid, well-designed chapter after another, [McCloud] guides us through the elements of comics style, and... how words combine with pictures to work their singular magic. When the 215-page journey is finally over, most readers will find it difficult to look at comics in quite the same way ever again." - New York Times Review of Books review by Garry Trudeau
"BRAVO!! Your Understanding Comics is a landmark dissection and intellectual consideration of comics as a valid medium. Its employment of comic art as its vehicle is brilliant. Everyone...anyone interested in this literary form must read it. Every school teacher should have one." - Will Eisner
"...one of the most insightful books about designing graphic user interfaces ever written, even though it never discusses the subject directly." - Macintosh co-creator Andy Hertzfeld
"With Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics the dialogue on and about what comics are and, more importantly, what comics can be has begun. If you read, write, teach or draw comics; if you want to; or if you simply want to watch a master explainer at work, you must read this book." - Neil Gaiman
"Cleverly disguised as an easy-to-read comic book, Scott McCloud's simple looking tome deconstructs the secret language of comics while casually revealing secrets of Time, Space, Art and the Cosmos! The most intelligent comics I've seen in a long time. Bravo." - Art Spiegelman
"Understanding Comics is quite simply the best analysis of the medium that I have ever encountered. With this book Scott McCloud has taken breathtaking leaps towards establishing a critical language that the comic art form can work with and build upon in the future. Lucid and accessible, it is an astonishing feat of perception. Highly recommended." - Alan Moore
"A must-read classic." - Seybold Seminars Online
"The basic manual for introduction to the medium. Do not attempt to operate your comic without reading this first. " - Warren Ellis
"HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. A superb book-length graphic essay... Fast becoming a classic in graphic communications..." - Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media
"It just might change the way you think about Web design." - HotWired: WebMonkey Design Collection
"McCloud's Understanding Comics is a seminal work at the level of Edward Tufte's Envisioning Information..." - Stewart Brand - Global Business Network
"Scott McCloud's book, Understanding Comics, is a must read for any true connoisseur of comics. Don't let its entertaining format fool you -- it's an in depth look at what makes the comics medium so great. If I knew half as much as Scott, this would be the book I'd write!" - Jim Lee
"...a rare and exciting work that ingeniously uses comics to examine the medium itself." - Publisher's Weekly
"...a brilliant comic book discussion of what makes comics work." - L. A. Times
"[Understanding Comics] might well turn out to be the r
Found the answer to my own question.... It's not under Products - Watchtower It's at: Technology - Open Source Components, so yes, that's up on the main menu, though sideways from Watchtower.
So what's all this then? http://www.cittio.com/products/open_source_components.html Yes, that link works fine, but I stepped back up their menu to see how prominently they link to it for the public's sake and I can't find it... ? Can you describe the menu clicks to get to it? If it's not in the menu or linked somehow, then it is not really a public page - it's only visible if someone gives you the direct link. (like you did) (Not that I support either case regarding the greater debate raised here.)
if the same amount of money and effort was spent on making friends and fixing social problems at the root, rather than putting up more xenophobic barricades, what chance is there that the problems whoud dissolve? has anyone gone and asked the perceived enemy what their big problem is? has anyone tried to find a way to make friends with these people?.. no, *really* tried. [sigh] we have moved from: "all we are saying, is give peace a chance" to: "i've got the nightly news to get to know the enemy" this is not progress of civilization. this is devolution. "are we not men? (we are devo)".
I think the little "waves" on either side are pushed up mounds of dried mud. ie: the rocks moved when the mud was wet, therefore personal levitation would be required to not leave footprints, unless the persons were stone-wraiths and can form the dried earth with their hands as if it is wet.:)
"the spam on the bulletin board should have clued you in."... refer back to "Last night, wife ordered... paid $30 for it over the internet by credit card. Wife is lovely by all measures, bar tech-savvy."
My absence was pivotal to the moment. Such advice has since been reemphasised.:)
Different scam, but here's one that just happened last 24h. (AU) Last night, wife ordered some kids' name stickers from a company that the kindy had a flyer for on the bulliten board - paid $30 for it over the internet by credit card. She then went browsing for antique books and visited a number of such sites locally and internationally, no payment forms started on any. Wife is lovely by all measures, bar tech-savvy. Phone call next morning from our bank - ANZ - "we believe you have been scammed". Yep, sometime in the small hours two transactions ran up on her card. $1100 and $700 from western EU country locations. ANZ detected it, called us, cancelled the card and the bad transactions, and issued new cards. Hence the plug. Still thinking about how the card details got swiped. Maybe the site had an unencrypted form for cc details? Maybe through the IE browser session not being closed between paying on a weak site and then visiting a trick site? Maybe the sticker co's banking plug-in is working some cheat? Maybe the w2k pc is compromised with a keystroke swiper? Have quarantined the pc, yet to work it over.
Chaser gets away with all sorts of scary and unbelievably insulting stuff. It's the most refreshingly truthful stab at "normalcy" that is around at present in AU. I think there's much less reason to trust the common media than there is to trust Chaser in what they say - Chaser have invested in telling "the stupid truth" via bitter-sweet parody.
(Original sources, should contain podcasts of the segments being mentioned.)
There's some value in the book "I'm OK, You're OK" by Dr Thomas Harris. I wouldn't say it's "spot on", and I don't recommend getting fixated on it as "the Truth", but there's some worthwhile modelling of human relational behaviours in it. Follow on book is Eric Berne's "Games People Play". Again, don't get caught up into thinking it is "Fact" and it has some good ideas on disarming relational traps that arise between players.
Negotiate what you can discuss with him before-hand.
You will feel the breath of hell if you try some "stunt", naively thinking you will have some courageous experience and look like the minority hero like some Robin Williams movie.
If he doesn't agree to a fair debate before hand, you will die the death of a thousand sackings by surprising him on the day. Mainly because you will probably find he is not as unintelligent or uninformed as you may wish to imagine, and will probably be very well armed intellectually so as to fry you in a stand-up debate, then all hell will break loose when the administrators realise you ambushed him to further a minority lobby groups' fringe-legal aims.
I can't hear anything in between 8 and 15 khz anyway. Actually I *can* hear something in that range... all the bloody time in both ears, at about 70-80 dB. There was this shitty support band in 1995, who found the "real" 11 on their gear...
I believe that we may be approaching critical mass (in decades or centuries, not years) within the imposition of legal absurdity upon humankind. I expect that the populace will ultimately become so oppressed by the duress of corporate greed that uses legal thuggery as it's enforcer, that humanity will just quit accepting it and reject the entire premise of law. If there is wisdom within the world of corporate law, someone will realise that this is approaching and will work for internal reform, before external reform arrives as a consequence of insults to humanity like this.
Well, you don't want smart cows do you? You just want them to be smart enough to eat grass and be able to be rounded up and milked every day. The last thing you want in your milking herd is a bunch of smart cows noticing that they are a kept species, just being milked by the farmer. They might get cranky and start knocking the fences down and escape from the milking paddock they are kept in. That wouldn't do.
Moo.
"I don't believe there are any Russians, and there ain't no Yanks! Just Corporate Criminals!"
"""... the roots of morality can be seen in the social behavior of monkeys and apes. """
Another delightful logical possibility is that apes are "being raised up by Ghod" to take over after we flush ourselves down the evolutionary toilet.:D ie: Are apes exhibiting "the roots of morality" because all creatures are capable of sensing the elusive moral imperative that we claim to sense and respond to? Humans aren't so immensely special?
The point? Proving that we have a bio-mechanical capacity to do something does little to affect adhesive theories of metaphysics - metaphysics being the "slippery pig" within the field of intellectual pursuits.
My only comment to offer is to congratulate anyone who adds to these sciento-philosophical discussions in a mood of humility and teachability, willing to champion their own thoughts in an assertive yet modest way, and willing to hear the other without xenophobia.
I hope that this state of philosophical peace of mind can be found by more people, especially here, as I believe that there is a profound A-Ha! to be found once relaxing one's need to be "absolutely right". There is much to be found in (honestly) imagining the alternate state. And it needn't cost you your own position - we all have to operate on *some* assumptions.
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So many posts. I can't read them all to find out if anyone suggested this.
Suggestion:
Get her to write a journal of her deepest thoughts about the past, present, herself, you and her children. Paper preferably. To only be opened long after she's gone. There are things that a person will only say if they know that it will only be known long after their time.
Sometimes an oral historian can help to write it if the person can't write themselves.
Peace be upon you.
Yet again, this is not so much interesting as a scientific investigation as being yet another roll of the "Ah, now we have proof of [anyone's choice of God]'s non-existance" dice. Dream, dream, dream ... You won't extinguish humainity's natural mytaphysical bent that easily. "Bring me the severed head of the dead God and then I will believe you." :)
I read McCloud's work at least 8 years ago, so I'm guessing it was published in the 90's. This book deserves a reference as a precedent work.
http://www.scottmccloud.com/store/books/uc.html
Quoted from the website:
Overview:
A 215-page comic book about comics that explains the inner workings of the medium and examines many aspects of visual communication along the way. Understanding Comics was a Harvey and Eisner winner, was praised in The New York Times, Publishers Weekly and Wired, and is in over 13 languages. A favorite of interface, game and Web designers despite the fact that it doesn't mention computers once!
(1993 in the comics market, 1994 in the book market). Quotes:
"If you've ever felt bad about wasting your life reading comics, then check out Scott McCloud's classic book immediately. You might still feel you've wasted your life, but you'll know why, and you'll be proud."
- Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons.
"In one lucid, well-designed chapter after another, [McCloud] guides us through the elements of comics style, and... how words combine with pictures to work their singular magic. When the 215-page journey is finally over, most readers will find it difficult to look at comics in quite the same way ever again."
- New York Times Review of Books review by Garry Trudeau
"BRAVO!! Your Understanding Comics is a landmark dissection and intellectual consideration of comics as a valid medium. Its employment of comic art as its vehicle is brilliant. Everyone...anyone interested in this literary form must read it. Every school teacher should have one."
- Will Eisner
"...one of the most insightful books about designing graphic user interfaces ever written, even though it never discusses the subject directly."
- Macintosh co-creator Andy Hertzfeld
"With Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics the dialogue on and about what comics are and, more importantly, what comics can be has begun. If you read, write, teach or draw comics; if you want to; or if you simply want to watch a master explainer at work, you must read this book."
- Neil Gaiman
"Cleverly disguised as an easy-to-read comic book, Scott McCloud's simple looking tome deconstructs the secret language of comics while casually revealing secrets of Time, Space, Art and the Cosmos! The most intelligent comics I've seen in a long time. Bravo."
- Art Spiegelman
"Understanding Comics is quite simply the best analysis of the medium that I have ever encountered. With this book Scott McCloud has taken breathtaking leaps towards establishing a critical language that the comic art form can work with and build upon in the future. Lucid and accessible, it is an astonishing feat of perception. Highly recommended."
- Alan Moore
"A must-read classic."
- Seybold Seminars Online
"The basic manual for introduction to the medium. Do not attempt to operate your comic without reading this first. "
- Warren Ellis
"HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. A superb book-length graphic essay... Fast becoming a classic in graphic communications..."
- Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media
"It just might change the way you think about Web design."
- HotWired: WebMonkey Design Collection
"McCloud's Understanding Comics is a seminal work at the level of Edward Tufte's Envisioning Information..."
- Stewart Brand - Global Business Network
"Scott McCloud's book, Understanding Comics, is a must read for any true connoisseur of comics. Don't let its entertaining format fool you -- it's an in depth look at what makes the comics medium so great. If I knew half as much as Scott, this would be the book I'd write!"
- Jim Lee
"...a rare and exciting work that ingeniously uses comics to examine the medium itself."
- Publisher's Weekly
"...a brilliant comic book discussion of what makes comics work."
- L. A. Times
"[Understanding Comics] might well turn out to be the r
Found the answer to my own question ....
It's not under Products - Watchtower
It's at: Technology - Open Source Components, so yes, that's up on the main menu, though sideways from Watchtower.
(Not that I support either case regarding the greater debate raised here.)
if the same amount of money and effort was spent on making friends and fixing social problems at the root, rather than putting up more xenophobic barricades, what chance is there that the problems whoud dissolve? .. no, *really* tried.
has anyone gone and asked the perceived enemy what their big problem is? has anyone tried to find a way to make friends with these people?
[sigh]
we have moved from:
"all we are saying, is give peace a chance"
to:
"i've got the nightly news to get to know the enemy"
this is not progress of civilization. this is devolution. "are we not men? (we are devo)".
3.1 ... ?
You're kidding aren't you?
I'm not touching it till it's 3.11 "for Workgroups".
I think the little "waves" on either side are pushed up mounds of dried mud. ie: the rocks moved when the mud was wet, therefore personal levitation would be required to not leave footprints, unless the persons were stone-wraiths and can form the dried earth with their hands as if it is wet. :)
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Thanks for the tips.
... refer back to "Last night, wife ordered ... paid $30 for it over the internet by credit card. Wife is lovely by all measures, bar tech-savvy."
:)
"the spam on the bulletin board should have clued you in."
My absence was pivotal to the moment. Such advice has since been reemphasised.
Different scam, but here's one that just happened last 24h. (AU)
Last night, wife ordered some kids' name stickers from a company that the kindy had a flyer for on the bulliten board - paid $30 for it over the internet by credit card.
She then went browsing for antique books and visited a number of such sites locally and internationally, no payment forms started on any.
Wife is lovely by all measures, bar tech-savvy.
Phone call next morning from our bank - ANZ - "we believe you have been scammed".
Yep, sometime in the small hours two transactions ran up on her card. $1100 and $700 from western EU country locations.
ANZ detected it, called us, cancelled the card and the bad transactions, and issued new cards. Hence the plug.
Still thinking about how the card details got swiped. Maybe the site had an unencrypted form for cc details? Maybe through the IE browser session not being closed between paying on a weak site and then visiting a trick site? Maybe the sticker co's banking plug-in is working some cheat? Maybe the w2k pc is compromised with a keystroke swiper?
Have quarantined the pc, yet to work it over.
Australia, while we're having a belt at comparing measurements ...
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/as.html
total: 7,686,850 sq km
land: 7,617,930 sq km
water: 68,920 sq km
About 15,748 sq km of which is NOT freaking desert only inhabited by lizards.
Well that's very clever sonny, but it's telescopes all the way down.
I hope you will not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic contrafribularities.
(apol: blackadder)
Chaser gets away with all sorts of scary and unbelievably insulting stuff. It's the most refreshingly truthful stab at "normalcy" that is around at present in AU. I think there's much less reason to trust the common media than there is to trust Chaser in what they say - Chaser have invested in telling "the stupid truth" via bitter-sweet parody.
. htm
(Original sources, should contain podcasts of the segments being mentioned.)
ABC Chaser's War site:
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/chaser/war/
Chaser's War Video archive:
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/chaser/war/video/default
Chaser's ongoing website:
http://www.chaser.com.au/
Chaser CNN takeoff series: (aged material)
http://www.cnnnn.com/
Oblig Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaser
There's some value in the book "I'm OK, You're OK" by Dr Thomas Harris. I wouldn't say it's "spot on", and I don't recommend getting fixated on it as "the Truth", but there's some worthwhile modelling of human relational behaviours in it. Follow on book is Eric Berne's "Games People Play". Again, don't get caught up into thinking it is "Fact" and it has some good ideas on disarming relational traps that arise between players.
Seriously.
Negotiate what you can discuss with him before-hand.
You will feel the breath of hell if you try some "stunt", naively thinking you will have some courageous experience and look like the minority hero like some Robin Williams movie.
If he doesn't agree to a fair debate before hand, you will die the death of a thousand sackings by surprising him on the day. Mainly because you will probably find he is not as unintelligent or uninformed as you may wish to imagine, and will probably be very well armed intellectually so as to fry you in a stand-up debate, then all hell will break loose when the administrators realise you ambushed him to further a minority lobby groups' fringe-legal aims.
A time to hone your humility.
I can't hear anything in between 8 and 15 khz anyway. ... all the bloody time in both ears, at about 70-80 dB. ...
Actually I *can* hear something in that range
There was this shitty support band in 1995, who found the "real" 11 on their gear
I believe that we may be approaching critical mass (in decades or centuries, not years) within the imposition of legal absurdity upon humankind. I expect that the populace will ultimately become so oppressed by the duress of corporate greed that uses legal thuggery as it's enforcer, that humanity will just quit accepting it and reject the entire premise of law.
If there is wisdom within the world of corporate law, someone will realise that this is approaching and will work for internal reform, before external reform arrives as a consequence of insults to humanity like this.
Jake: SCMODS?
Well, you don't want smart cows do you? You just want them to be smart enough to eat grass and be able to be rounded up and milked every day. The last thing you want in your milking herd is a bunch of smart cows noticing that they are a kept species, just being milked by the farmer. They might get cranky and start knocking the fences down and escape from the milking paddock they are kept in. That wouldn't do.
Moo.
"I don't believe there are any Russians, and there ain't no Yanks! Just Corporate Criminals!"
Geocentric? ... Rubbish! Reality is Ideocentric isn't it? Moi! ... :)
Then there's the Turtles of course
... unless somebody sees them, then they do! Hey, GW ... *now* I understand! That's why we have to keep looking!
""" ... the roots of morality can be seen in the social behavior of monkeys and apes. """ :D ie: Are apes exhibiting "the roots of morality" because all creatures are capable of sensing the elusive moral imperative that we claim to sense and respond to? Humans aren't so immensely special?
Another delightful logical possibility is that apes are "being raised up by Ghod" to take over after we flush ourselves down the evolutionary toilet.
The point? Proving that we have a bio-mechanical capacity to do something does little to affect adhesive theories of metaphysics - metaphysics being the "slippery pig" within the field of intellectual pursuits.
My only comment to offer is to congratulate anyone who adds to these sciento-philosophical discussions in a mood of humility and teachability, willing to champion their own thoughts in an assertive yet modest way, and willing to hear the other without xenophobia. I hope that this state of philosophical peace of mind can be found by more people, especially here, as I believe that there is a profound A-Ha! to be found once relaxing one's need to be "absolutely right". There is much to be found in (honestly) imagining the alternate state. And it needn't cost you your own position - we all have to operate on *some* assumptions.