Observations on the world and its inhabitants
In recent weeks the hype about Samsung Galaxy S4 has grown to maddening proportions. There were leaks about the phone in China and other parts of the world. It was reported that HTC were so worried that they gate crashed the launch of the S4 to promote their own stuff. Well the fever continues as ...
For the last two years or so I’ve been thinking more and more about publishing stuff. I must say that I have been hesitant. All of my writings have not been inspired by the ‘love (or want) of money’. In fact as I get older I grow to resent the effect money has on minds. ...
Now you know. [scribd id=127449438 key=key-4p0ug721jmr5ozbgjt0 mode=scroll] Full credit to HackCollege.com with this graphic.
“When status is sufficiently important relative to intrinsic utility, many individuals conform to a single, homogeneous standard of behaviour, despite heterogeneous underlying preferences. They are willing to conform because they recognise that even small departures from the social norm will seriously impair their status. The fact that society harshly censures all nonconformists is not simply ...
Yes the attacker is wrong – totally wrong. I reckon 90-something percent of people seeing the video will say “Serves him right!!” And that is called animal thinking consequent on animal behaviour. Watch the old geyser with the umbrella. He’s just comes in to have his share of the ‘fun’. It’s a thing called assault ...
“Survival is not an option. Suicide is.” – Captain Walker (Jan 2013). p.s. I’m amused in advance that readers of the above will be ‘concerned’ for my state of being/mind. Yes – I know you can’t blame them, and people need to show that they care etc etc. Jeez. You can’t mention suicide without being ...
This is not a joke or paradoxically intended to be jokey. This is a summary of reasons why I suffer and sack fools who distribute my private email address. I thought I’d put this together so that I can hyperlink it to those who are let into my inner circle – who may at some ...
“If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured, or far away.“ – Henry David Thoreau
I’m slightly afraid to post this video below – worried that I’ll be immediately categorised as a “fan of Porcupine Tree“. Then I’m likely to attract conversation about “Porcupine Tree” or porcupines etc in casual conversation. I’m not a bleeding ‘fan’ of anything or object! I just find that the lyrics were interesting and deep. ...
“I did not know what to do!!! I asked you for help. You did not help me. You are selfish and unhelpful!” – by Captain Walker
“It is a myth that problems perpetuate themselves. It is people, in general, who perpetuate problems. People need to start thinking and activating themselves to solve their problems.” …. Captain Walker
Yawwwnnnnn!!! It’s the first day of the year. I was up late last night sipping champagne and chilling at home. This morning, I decided to go a bit surfing on the net. Yeah, for sure I checked out Rock newspapers, and then drifted on to so-called ‘British news’. One of the best papers to get ...
So enlightening is this video. I was in awe, listening to Mintzberg.
Save your empathy and expression of concern for my unhappiness. Happiness and by extension unhappiness are not concepts I subscribe to, even if you do and insist that I must know about them – a sort of ‘bullying’ of me to obey concepts I reject. “What’s the matter now?” – you wondered. What’s disturbed my ...
Video speaks a million more words than text…
“The Truth never damages a cause that is just.” – Mahatma Ghandi
“Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You” – Mardy Grothe
I’ve given Facebook the kick. It happened on 17th November 2012. Yes – I’ve deactivated my account and downloaded all my posts. When one attempts to leave FB after some four years, it becomes apparent that there is some strange kind of ‘force’ pulling you back. It is really hard to define. It’s not exactly ...
Human nature absolutely fascinates me!! As I have said in various ways before, we’re still ‘animals’ confused by the demands of a modern world requiring cognition. Some will get my drift by observing the following conversation – and others will argue blindly that it was a reasonable mistake to make. The scene is me shopping ...
“I wish to remain a pawn – a mere cog – a mechanism in a massive machinery, shaped and predestined by my ‘owners’, who allow me a small amount of freedom and pleasure to cherish, who serve me chemicals designed to numb my pain…so I can work harder and die younger. I worship my masters ...
So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service ...
Most people know that to err is human. What arises from that is something I explore in outline here. I do not give out my mobile (aka cell phone) number or private email address to loads of people who might think of me as their friend. Why? It is not because I don’t trust them. ...
This is about a kind of mind game where a superficial or simplistic explanation for stupid actions (words/conduct) is proffered in a way that if challenged leads the challenger to appear to be paranoid, obsessed or hostile in the eyes of observers, who won’t know the depths of a situation and therefore fail to see ...
It is really quite simple – if you don’t manage your time, other people and circumstances will mismanage it for you. It’s not money. It’s not love. It’s not food. It’s not even air! Your most valuable asset – the most valuable asset for all sentient human life is ‘time’. All things in your frame ...
Restraint, balance and wisdom must prevail in the exercise of all power, lest the risks of chaos, abuse and suffering, materialise. – Captain Walker (August 2012)
I’ve been shouting and screaming about the need to backup all important electronic data, for quite some time. See what happened when Mat Honan, “a senior reporter for Gizmodo, got hacked [and]…lost most of his digital property (photos, emails, documents and so on), and most of his ways of communicating with the outside world. Not ...
Yesterday I wrote about ‘Assessing Accountability’. That made me think more about the concept. I included words related to ‘trust’, ‘honesty’ etc. As I’m writing this I’m having vague recollections of persons in my past asserting that they ‘trust [such and such person] implicitly!!’, whilst waving hands around to get the point across. In public ...
The definition of accountability is not very sharp, from sources accessible via the internet. I decided to define the concept as I see it. I thought hard about persons in my life who I had considered to be ‘accountable’. I drew up a list of descriptors and then grouped them as shown below in my ...
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and our common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred ...
Immediately I can expect that people reading this will be further driven to think that I have OCD or that I’m terribly organised and IT proficient etc. I’m not into a debate today, on how people take small pieces of information and build pictures of ‘reality’ in their heads. Today I’m giving a tip, not ...
