POWER

The topic for today seems to be power. NFI how this came into my head, but there must be some sort of confluence.

Lets start with this a $3000 power cable.
Pure copper, gold plated pins. For the person who has absolutely everything.
Only 250 ever made.



On the other hand, there is the power within.
This is perhaps more important. I do not mean the power that the mad men with the finger on the button of armageddon abuse like a potent drug. I talk about the power that glows within each and every one of us. The power that drives us forward, the power than makes us change the world for the better. I have received some very wise council from a very wise woman recently. This advice has made me look at the world in a new light. I can almost feel the switches within my brain rewiring. A good day in my book.

MY BiG DEAL.

Right. Pay attention. I got a new job. Big project. Here is my project plan. This is highly classified information, so you will have to undergo automagic brainwipe when you leave this site. You agreed to the punitive non-disclosure agreement when you clicked the link. Assuming of course anyone VISITS this site.



Project managment explained.

1) Pretend you are the subject expert. Use long words. Dismiss anyone asking questions as an ignorant peasant.
2) Write a lot of important looking paperwork. No one reads it anyway.
3) Meet with some people. You really should make some things happen. Does not matter what. Create chaos. Blame the unions.
4) Keep shifting appointments, postponing reports. You are too busy to do anything. Take long lunches with the stake-holders (it is important to spread the blame).
5) This is where you hide the bodies and burn the evidence. Alternatively if by some incredible twists of fate, things have worked out, you claim credit.

My contract is up in October. As just evidenced, I am fscking amazing Project Manager. Hire me. I do laundry too.

HUMAN RIGHTS IN AUSTRALIA (Lack thereof).

Believe it or not. Australia is the only county wiht Common law that does not have any legal codex of human rights. One can only speculate that this is because of its origins as a penal colony. Hard to expect one big prison be steeped in the tradition of human rights.

I attended a meeting tonight, intending to change it. An alliance is forming with the intention of building enough movement to push a bill of rights throught the South Australian legislature. It was good to see a 'large' turnout. In today's world of apathy 200 people is a 'large' turnout. I do hope that this comes through THIS time. It is downright embarrasing the way we treat native population and refugees. Then our so called 'leaders' have the temerity to preach to other nations about human rights.

I took a couple of shots with my phonecam. This one is the most important. Courageous citizenry improving the future of their nation. RESPECT!



RUMINATIONS ON LOVE
Original thought{tm} for today. Love blah blah blah. Like anything else, it has intensity. Affection, like a little, trully madly deeply. Imagine a slider control, like a volume on a CD player. What happens when you hit 10. Max. The 11 on the scale of 10.

I can not speak from experience though I have loved and loved deeply, I have never reached this limit. Does one break through and hit Hyperlove? Alternatively, simply bounce off like from a flexible barrier and slide back into affection, then apathy, then contempt? I would like to find out one day. Experience what happens when you love someone so much that you can not love them any more than you do.
Hmmm... there are somethings worth looking forward to. No?

Fehrenheit 9/11

Well, finally had gone to see it. I have read the reviews. I would agree with the opinion of one of the reviewers. This movie is going to preach to the converted. The warmongering lunatics and the zomboids parroting the slogans will likely be not swayed by this movie.

Moore is getting better with each movie he makes. The accusation of propaganda made by the lunatic right is probably true. But if what Moore makes is propaganda, what does one call the constant, sanitized, clean image of war thats presented in the media. Surely we do not live in a totalitarian regime that would have to stoop the the need for PROPAGANDA in lieu of the news! Surely not.

We report, you decide. Indeed.

I do recommend the movie. Especially if you do not have the time to be concerned by politics. In a short time, you will be shown exactly what is so wrong with the war in Iraq and the loss of freedom experienced since 9/11.

Wulf rates this movie 3/5.

GLENS&JOs PARTY.

I was privilidged to be invited to my friends Glen and Jo's, engagement party. After a protracted romance, and I do mean protracted Glen has asked Jo, the love of his life to marry. This was the official party, in the Historian hotel in town. Open bar, baloons everywhere. Great company, close friends and people I have not seen for geological epochs. Great evening.


Glen&Jo, Sorry Jo, LOOK AT THE BIRDY NEXT TIME FFS!

Half way through, my phone battery died. Probably because of all the crappy videos I took of the merriment. Gotta buy a spare, especially since the battery for my phone is so tiny. I was only able to take a few photos of any reasonable quality.


Sam, the life of the party, just one of the funky guests there. She's going to be a great standup comedianne :)

We got thrown out around 1AM after we drunk all the alcohol in the pub and some guests *COUGH*NARA*COUGH* started to suck helium out of baloons. Went to Zhivagos. A night club which was notable for Mal the Linux guru moonlighting on the door as a sekuritate guard. It was fun jumping the queue. The crowd was mostly spawnlets with a few eligable females but the music was absolutely attrocious. Some sort of canned fusion funk that was barely dancable. However the company was excellent, if rather pissed by this late in the night.
At some time around 4AM I have found myself in a bet with Glen and Kent that I will go mountain biking tomorrow. $50 and my honour was riding on it, so Sunday I called Kent around 2PM. He sounded like he was still in bed, cancelled.

GLEN YOU OWE ME $50 :)

I had a great time, Glen&Jo always throw great parties and this was no exception, especially given the occasion. May they live long in marital bliss.

Finer things in life.

It appears that I have very expensive tastes. As I was browsing through an arcade in town a statuette had caught my eye. I am not a collector though I am an afficionado of the female form. This is how I explain why I liked this statuette. "Hey, its cool", I thought. A$300 No problem, I will buy it. When I enquired about the price I was told...

A$1300.

Remember that classic Eddie Murphy movie "Beverley hills cop", when the protagonist enquires about the price of a hotel room and is told some crazy sum? Well, that was me, doing my best impression of looking stunned whilst not looking stunned. It appears that the statues are manufactured by blind hobbits somewhere in a dungeon in italy from a clay that is scraped from the inside of the religious statues.
Or something like that to justify the price. However the manufacturing is trully exquisite, the paintjob reflects shading and the figures even have skintone. If I was comfortably wealthy, I would buy it without hesitation. Naturally the figurine was gone a few days later. Shame, I was considering hawking one of my kidneys to pay for it.

I console myself with the fact that I have very good aesthetic sense :)