Imagination

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, imagination circles the world.

Albert Einstein

For Today

Close your eyes and recall ten distincy smells. Keep each smell in mind for a few minutes. It is amazing how strong some smells are and how long they stay around and how easily they can be recalled.

Any memories you thought you'd forgotten?

Possible: grass, spicy, perfume, a particular person.

Grease monkey - taking control back, orders of magnitude change

Back when I was doing my MBA in ITManagement we learned about the value of bringing information together, being an exponential vs mulitple.

ie Information + Information = Information squared (not 2 X information)

Here is a real example of some technology that should the world, slowing perhaps and in ways that we do not realise -

http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/

I think is may only possible does to xml and a bunch of other applications. Anyway very COOL

Life as a TV show

If your life was a TV show, which one would it be and why? Which one would you want it to be?

Suggestions please.

Possible ideas:
Gilmore girls
House
CSI
The office
Cracker
Coronation street
Friends
Law and order
Reba

What's in a birthday

There is life, full on
There is change, measured and unavoidable
There is friendship, pure and simple
There are dreams, filled and real dreams

There peach blush, smiling, knowing
There is pride, prudence and old spice gathered
There is anticipation, abundant and wasted
There is appreciation and love unlimited, unconditionally

There is it all, face to face, figured and final.

non-verbalize

Too early expression may commit an idea to a pattern of development it may not naturally have followed

- Edward de Bono

Everyday

Write the entry in your diary for tomorrow.

budism and me

Budism does not have answers, but is has good questions....

We are thinking all of the time, the question is what do you want to think about- Bmw's, boats, angry or pure and happy and acceptance.

We are always inter-conected to people so we have to do the best here and now.

The unenlightened life is suffering. Unenlightened means not knowing who you are, not having the operating manual for your life.

I am not the only one, I am one of the ones.

Surf the life wave dont try to change it.

Infinite Life by, Robert A. F. Thurman - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1594480699/qid=1127179201/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/701-8042309-0585917

a good day

The primary determinor for if we have a good day is us or our attitude. It is not the news, food, cars, air conditioning.

So we should spend time on us now as that is what matters not anything else.

Civilization as Experientation

Civilization is an experiment. Civilizations died out, often every quickly where the people seemed to have no understanding of the problem they faced. What was going throught the heads of the Easter island people as they cut the last tree down? Do we have a last tree? Will we know when we cut it down? Have we cut it down already? Is it possible that progress in genetics and material sciences will enable us to break the cycle of the rise and fall of civilizations? What part with culture play?

Self-experimentation

Self-experimentation seems like a path to life and learning

Here is one that was not -

The 19th-century German medical researcher Max von Pettenkofer once drank a test tube of cholera bacteria to try to disprove the emerging theory that diseases are caused by germs. Von Pettenkofer managed to not get cholera, but he did commit suicide after a cholera outbreak proved his anti-germ hypothesis disastrously wrong.

Fema Humm

What is this all about?

http://www.fema.gov/storm/katrina/photo_katrina1.fema?id=1

Chemical Engineers Rule

Chemical Engineers are bright and funny

Examples include:

Arthur D. Little - started 1st consulting company
Dolph Lundgren - IQ 160
Nancy Pimental - Writer for South Park
Jack Welch

bikram yoga

Just discovered this type of yoga. Yoga in the sauna. Amazing.

It is the hardest workout I have every done. After you feel energised and peaceful in a whole new way.


http://www.bikramyogacentre.com/