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October 14, 2009
foucault on discourses concerning sex

This wordle is created from an essay I wrote about Foucault’s notion that modern society “put into operation an entire machinery for producing true discourses concerning sex”.  

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October 14, 2009
royby.com wordle

I just created this wordle using the royby.com RSS feed. Wordle generates word clouds giving greatest prominence to words most frequently used in the text. I’m happy to discover that “desire” is my most commonly used word, but I’m bemused to find that I have used “man” just as frequently. Is this some strange latent […]

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October 7, 2009
Christoph Rehage’s hairy video

This is a great idea. I wish I’d thought of it. Come to think of it I wish I’d done the trip! The Longest Way 1.0 - one year walk/beard grow time lapse from Christoph Rehage on Vimeo.

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July 17, 2009
Quotes from Norse Edda

For my friends who have just visited or are about to visit Iceland, some quotes from the Norse Edda. “Who travels widely needs his wits about him. The stupid should stay at home.” “A man knows less the more he drinks. Becomes a muddled fool.” “It is best for man to be middle-wise, Not over […]

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June 26, 2009
Happy Birthday Jay

Happy birthday #3 little man love from Grandpa

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April 13, 2009
Jiddu Krishnamurti

We are all so crazy about desire, we want to fulfill ourselves through desire. But we do not see what havoc it creates in the world?the desire for individual security, for individual attainment, success, power, prestige. We do not feel that we are totally responsible for everything we do. If one understands desire, the nature […]

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April 8, 2009
it is me

oh.. it is me, I know that, I’ve known that for the longest time, but what can I do?

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January 9, 2009
simple pleasures

Yesterday I did nothing. Well, that’s not entirely correct, of course I did some things, but I didn’t do the things that I have been doing on a daily basis like working on my thesis and re-developing the royby.com back end. What I did instead was very simple and immensely satisfying. Thursdays I usually go […]

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December 31, 2008
we didn’t start the fire

This site had already had over 10 million hits as at February this year, so maybe you have already seen it. Even if you have it’s worth another look. So pay a visit, turn the sound up and enjoy the 120 images in 3 minutes that encapsulate a slice of our recent history.  

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December 17, 2008
dharma bums

colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the […]

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November 24, 2008
We Speak English in Australia

On the flight from Hong Kong to San Francisco on Saturday I was seated next to a guy from Austin in Texas who was friendly and interested to know where I came from and what I was going to do in the States. He gave me plenty of helpful advice advice about things I could […]

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November 10, 2008
A quote that was way before it’s time

‘I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their […]

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October 29, 2008
PalinAsPresident.com

Just keep clicking around, there are a lot of hidden jokes. http://palinaspresident.us/  

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October 29, 2008
If the world could vote (in the US Presidential election)

November 4th 2008 the American people will choose a new president. The president of the United States of America is the most powerful person in the world. We would like to know who would be the next president of the United States of America - if the world could vote! In the presidential election in […]

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August 10, 2008
George Orwell blog

George Orwell blog For a confirmed Orwellian like myself, the publication in blog form of George Orwell’s Diaries, 70 years to the day after he had written them, is exciting news. Links to Google maps allow us to follow events geographically, plus links to relevant articles, (I’ve included the link to Morrocco below), will only […]

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May 2, 2008
quote of the day

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.   - Christopher Morley

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April 1, 2008
too true…

we males don’t really stand a chance… At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.   - PG Wodehouse  

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March 31, 2008
happiness is…

Recently, a friend of mine updated his Facebook status to read that what he wanted was “to be happy”. Since then I’ve been thinking a lot about what happiness is and what it takes for us to “be happy”, and I’ve come to a conclusion. In order for us to be happy we simply need […]

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