Tolle , Oprah, Black Sun and The Long Emergency I read the latest Tolle book twice while waiting for the world teleclass. It is a familiar message. Never showed up in my seat. Checked to download the video. Heard of the first week's fiasco. Second week there was an MP3 available. Smaller download. Got it. Started listening. Shut it off. Third week (maybe) there was a pdf. Downloaded all three weeks. Started to read. Bored. Somewhere along that time line I was made aware of this place - blacksunjournal.com - and poked around a little. It's a peek at another side. Still bored. Since then I have started reading The Long Emergency. Less bored. You could read some reviews on Amazon. Not a big commitment. I wonder how all this recent pop spirituality will fare when we're actually chopping wood and carrying water.

I read the latest Tolle book twice while waiting for the world
teleclass. It is a familiar message.

Never showed up in my seat. Checked to download the video. Heard of
the first week's fiasco.

Second week there was an MP3 available. Smaller download. Got it.
Started listening. Shut it off.

Third week (maybe) there was a pdf. Downloaded all three weeks.
Started to read. Bored.

Somewhere along that time line I was made aware of this place -
blacksunjournal.com - and poked around a little.

It's a peek at another side. Still bored.

Since then I have started reading The Long Emergency. Less bored.

You could read some reviews on Amazon.

Not a big commitment.

I wonder how all this recent pop spirituality will fare when we're
actually chopping wood and carrying water.

The Long Emergency

The link here is to the Amazon review section for the 2005 book The
Long Emergency.

You might want to read it. Or you may be satisfied with the reviews -
not all of them positive.

http://tinyurl.com/27ztnx

You can read more current writings by the author James Howard
Kunstler on his blog.

http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/

The subject is life after peak oil. The author speculates about
details. He provides few footnotes or bibliography.
That's a bit of a shame but a curious reader can find those
resources. The thing that they do not speculate on is the peak oil
paradigm.

Fascinating.

And the big picture

http://tinyurl.com/32vlqs

4000 Dead - a Photo Mosaic

http://tinyurl.com/3dppol

Fwd: Web sites are opening up college classrooms

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> Tim,
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> Last time we met I told you about the article I read in the Journal.
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> Web sites are opening up college classrooms
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> Here it is http://tinyurl.com/2umh3d
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> Thought it mght be interesting.
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> dlw
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Another clock

http://www.yugop.com/ver3/stuff/03/fla.html

More Good News

Sex Hormones, Mood Stabilizers Found In Drinking Water Of 41 Million
Americans

http://tinyurl.com/2cl2b7

Etch A Sketch Clock

http://www.revver.com/video/719432/etch-a-sketch-clock/

Fun with Photoshop - Disaaasters

http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/

The On-Purpose Person

Hi Steve,

We were talking about being too busy and what to do about it.

Remember - I said we could practice. I could ask you to do something
and you could say -
"Aw, shucks." - or - "Thank you for thinking of me. I'm sorry I
can't help you out this time."

Or, similar. Praise the person and let them down gently. Just say no
is unnecessarily brief.

We also spoke of organization and priorities.
I mentioned David Allen - Getting Things Done aka GTD.

And then I came across this fellow at http://zenhabits.net. I have
not yet begun to dig into it but it seems refreshing, simple, even
minimalist; a way to get things done without carrying around a
weighty set of rules.

And, I mentioned this book - here's the info. The book is in the
County library and you can call them up and have it delivered to Oak
Creek library.

The On-Purpose Person
Making You Life Make Sense
by Kevin W. McCarthy

I am having trouble finding out what to call this system for
determining the winner. The tennis people call it a draw sheet.

One sheet of paper for each category. The categories below are as
presented in the book. The book says these are guidelines. You can
change the categories: rename them as you wish, have more or less of
them, etc. Write down everything you want to have, do, or be in each
category.

• Physical/Health/Recreational
• Financial/Material
• Family
• Vocational/Career
• Social/Community
• Spiritual
• Mental/Intellectual
• Other

I am having trouble finding out what to call this system for
determining the winner. The tennis people call it a draw sheet.
You've seen it before. Here it is again.

Then, one sheet at at time you will do a run-off ... What thing,
outcome, or result do you want more than another?
Then do a run-off from the single result of each sheet.

Just another tool for the set. Use as necessary. Once a year. Once a
week.

You can read reviews about it on Amazon if you have the time. http://
tinyurl.com/2nzazg

This Kevin Kelly is an interesting fellow

http://www.kk.org/writings/index.php
http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_6.html#kelly

How Much Power Does the Internet Consume?

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2007/10/how_much_power.php

35th or 36th Annual Int'l. Hobo Daze

I was looking for the anonymous author to the essay called GET OUT in Seth Godin's The Big Moo.

So far can't find it. I will keep looking. Lots of sanity in that reading.

Lost in the mists of antiquity - it was '72 0r '73, i invented a holiday - Hobo Day.

And I've spent most of that time trying to explain it. Well, that time surrounding the anniversary dates.

Here's Christine Kane talking about her Adventure Day. http://tinyurl.com/2o63bp

The thing I like so much better about her holiday  over my holiday is that hers are once or twice a month.

And who knows what similar gems are waiting down in the comments to this post.

And - Google this: - myss duck club for another hint at Hobo Daze. It'll be good for you. Really.

zenhabits.net - general goodies

http://zenhabits.net/

Hmmm ....

"A company's best ideas mostly come not from the top, but from lower
level employees. "
– Inspired by Sam Walton

Simple Truths - Johnny the Bagger

A wonderful story about making a difference.
It's good for people. And, it's good for business.

It's not necessarily new unless you haven't see it yet.

http://www.stservicemovie.com/

George Carlin reads more blogs than you do

Catch him on HBO, like, right NOW.

"George Carlin: It's Bad For Ya"

http://tinyurl.com/256bc3

Can you describe your life in half a dozen words?

Memoir in six words

Can you describe your life in half a dozen words?

Here's a fun thing to think about and a few people who thought about
it already.

http://www.salon.com/tt/best/2008/02/29/best/