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Dreams of domination
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A changeable flame
One of my brother's favoured ways of tormenting me when we were young was to assure me that, in fact, I was an android, turned on only minutes ago. All my memories, dreams, wants and preferences, merely manufactured artifacts.
I used to get very angry about that, which of course was what made it such a favourite of his.
Many years later, I see ( Read more... ) -
Obsessions
After over 15 years messing with desktop Linux, I finally got tired of fiddling drivers and got a Mac Mini. Good decision.
As a perhaps unfortunate side effect I've gotten into World of Warcraft. My mentor, Kremlin, recently revealed his evil plan to me (my irrelevant dialog deleted):
Now sack up and finish that scotch.
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[NVC] Ease and comfort
I've been doing a lot of thinking about my need for ease and comfort, in the NVC sense. Like the need for (non-physical) safety, I have become suspicious of this need, thinking it conceals something else.
My first clue has generally been how often this need is associated with anger--in fact, almost the most intense anger I experience, especially in ( Read more... ) -
New blog is up
I told my employer, so I don't have to sneak around so much anymore.
My new blog, about my trip to San Diego by bicycle (that's the goal, I haven't left yet), is up: http://heartspolestar.wordpress.com/. -
Naming a new blog and a new bike
Hi folks,
I'm wanting to set up a blog to record my epic journey from Vancouver, BC to San Diego, CA. "Epic" because this will be accomplished on a Brooks B-17 saddle (it is green, pretty, and right now, brutally hard, yet oddly comfy) attached to a Fuji Touring bicycle with a lot of crap attached to it so that I can eat and sleep and so on.
I'm not ( Read more... ) -
Blogging for non-blog-readers
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Over-stuffed goose of NVC
I've been at a nonviolent communication International Intensive Training for the last couple of days. I'm not just meeting needs, they are getting nailed down and crammed like some kind of mad wonderful pate fois gras. My friend was pleased for me:
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In Albuquerque 1 - 15 Dec.
I'll be in Albuquerque from 1-15 December, for an intensive 10-day training in Nonviolent Communication. Unfortunately that means I won't be socializing that much but I will have Sunday the 2nd and Friday and Saturday the 14th and 15th available to do a bit of socializing ( Read more... )