After a Tough Morning in the Garden
After having lived outside of Australia for many years, I find myself becoming nostalgic for certain things Australian and nothing brings a lump to my throat or a tear to my eye quicker than Australian country music, a genre I was never all that fond of when I lived back there. One singer who, to […]
The term ‘desirous people’ deserves clarification because in our society it carries specifically sexual overtones which Shantideva didn’t intend. In this instance we might replace ‘desirous people’ with ‘consumerists’, because in this verse Shantideva refers to a particular aspect of Buddhist psychology which suggests that much of our unhappiness is created by attachment/desire at one […]
It’s been a long time coming, but I’ve finally got around to re-building an image gallery. It’s in it’s early stages as far as content goes yet, but I have created a section I’ve called “Portraits of Viet Nam” which, as the name suggests are images of people that I’ve taken over the years while […]
Huynh, T.V. Kim is a 28 year old Vietnamese lady who lives with her mother in the Mekong Delta region near the town of Can Tho. Today I met Kim for the first time because my blood is compatible with hers and without it she may have died. You see Kim has what is called […]
I have been meaning to post these updated philosophical discussions for some time now, and finally I have done it. The Index page is here Or go directly: Stoics added a vital ingredient to our understanding of selfhood. What Heidegger Means by Being-in-the-World. A discussion in relation to the 'Discourse Ethics' of Jurgen Habermas. How […]
Last night we went to Komninos’s home to welcome Jason Nelson to Australia and Griffith University. Jason has taken up a position as the new full time lecturer in CyberStudies. Lisa and I picked Jason up from his apartment and dropped him home again in the small hours of this morning. Talking with him, it […]
Christmas truly is a time for children, so accordingly, “We Wish you a Maddie Christmas!” click here to go to images and video
Komninos came over and had dinner with us last night. He had made a delicious salad and he also brought over some prawns that he had butterflied. I cooked them quickly on a very hot BBQ hotplate so that we could eat the crispy shells. We ate a variety of cheeses, olives, crisp breads, sun-dried […]
Eve, Svenja and Sarah are currently exhibiting their honours art installations in the main gallery at Metro Arts in Brisbane. We travelled up there last night for the opening, and of course for the after exhibition party at the Victory Hotel next door. I was keen on seeing these three pieces of work because, to […]
We have just faxed our acceptances of the offers of employment back to RMIT Vietnam, our flight is booked for late January, and the refrain from the sixties song “I’m Leaving On a Jet Plane” keeps playing inside my head. However, our bags are not quite packed and we are nowhere near ready to go. […]
I have to admit to having mixed feelings about my just completed honours year. It has left me with an empty, unfulfilled sort of feeling which is difficult to work out in my own head, let alone put into words. That is not to say that I did not enjoy the process, (and a process […]
Over the weekend we held a garage sale to clear some of the useless clutter out of our lives. Items that we had not used for years were carted downstairs and thoughtfully arranged to tempt the avid buyers. The advertised starting time was 7.00am with the first prospective customer arriving at 5.30am. The stream of […]
The first Gladioli blooms are emerging, and with them the late Spring storms have returned. The eternal cycle goes on.
I just love this, the most amazing forms created from 9 inch paper plates. Now that I have some time, (well… I will after I catch up on the myriad number of things that I have neglected over the past 8 months), I’m straight down to “ye olde paper plate shoppe” and and try this […]
So…does this mean that if we grow a bit of fungus on some stale porridge and transmit light to it at just the right nanometerage, that we will be able to communicate with it? Wow! Smokin’ the right shit man! Technology Research News November 3, 2003 As computer storage devices cram more information into ever […]