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 6/26/2008  Quoted in SF Chronicle
 6/18/2008  Strange Attractors at ...
 6/3/2008  
 6/1/2008  motivational links
 6/1/2008  comments page
 6/1/2008  Quote from Pema Chödrön
 5/21/2008  back from mexico - alm...
 5/16/2008  Douglas Feith on the D...
 5/16/2008  new host
 3/7/2008  new music friday :-)
 2/21/2008  new songs up today....
 2/10/2008  new song posted.... pi...
 2/7/2008  new photos up...
 12/7/2007  bear with me - some ch...
 6/14/2006  new days
 4/15/2006  convergence xii
 3/30/2006  state of shock - seat...
 3/28/2006  warning: political rant
 3/27/2006  Burners Without Borders
 3/26/2006  the rumble of terror t...
 3/18/2006  www.pandora.com
 3/9/2006  an OMFG! moment
 3/9/2006  Spiraling
 1/4/2006  Procrastination, Fear,...
 12/21/2005  Yay! Wired.com finally...
 12/16/2005  The patient will live...
 12/7/2005  Woo-Hoo! RSS Feed is up!
 12/7/2005  NIN
 12/6/2005  The Curse of the Class...
 12/3/2005  doing what I love...
 11/30/2005  PhotoBooth Fun!
 11/17/2005  Vote for SCARY STAR!
 10/15/2005  A Funny and Sad look a...
 10/7/2005  feeling like a social ...
 9/15/2005  New Clothes
 8/31/2005  Katrina vs. New Orleans
 8/30/2005  Burning Man 2005
 8/5/2005  cyber fashion show sig...
 7/8/2005  birthing
 7/7/2005  musing
 6/27/2005  Words of Wisdom from Jean
 6/23/2005  Dad...
 1/4/2005  Say No to Torture
 6/23/2004  Back Again...
 5/10/2004  Super Size Me
 5/3/2004  Disgusted
 3/20/2003  What would I be thinking?
 1/24/2003  On Passion and Compassion
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 4/25/2002  telepathy revisited
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 Thursday Jun 26 2008 15:24   Quoted in SF Chronicle

I was quoted recently in this article regarding my clothing line - Strange Attractor Fashions and my participation in both Burning Man and Prepare for the Playa events.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/22/LV1K11B15T.DTL

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 Wednesday Jun 18 2008 07:09   Strange Attractors at Prepare for the Playa

Melinda and I will be vending at the 6/2, 7/20, and 8/17 Prepare for the Playa events - Burners helping Burners to get gussied up real perty for the pilgrimage to the Playa. I can't make it out to the desert this year, but I've been working very hard to make sure that there are plenty of sexy clothes to keep the event smokin' hot without me. :-)

www.strangeattractorfashions.com

Strange Attractors at Prepare for the Playa
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 Tuesday Jun 3 2008 01:14   

I cannot control my reality -
I can control my perception of it.

I cannot control the pain -
I can control the suffering

I can breathe for myself
I can breathe for those I love
I can breathe for all humanity

May we not cause harm.

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 Sunday Jun 1 2008 19:19   motivational links

I plan to get this new book, which has a spiffy trailer:
Johnny Bunko

And a great read by Paul Graham:
How to do What You Love

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 Sunday Jun 1 2008 19:16   comments page

hooray! the dates on the comments pages have been fixed. :-)

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 Sunday Jun 1 2008 18:47   Quote from Pema Chödrön

I've been reading and re-reading Pema Chödrön over the last year, trying to gain some sense of clarity amidst an overwhelming sense of groundlessness. I really love these several paragraphs from When Things Fall Apart: "Without giving up hope - that there's somewhere better to be, that there's someone better to be - we will never relax with where we are or who we are."

"Theism is a deep-seated conviction that there's some hand to hold: if we just do the right things, someone will appreciate us and take care of us. It means thinking that there's always going to be a babysitter available when we need one."

Abandoning Hope in ordering to get at what's real is such a novel concept to me - and it goes against all that I have previously been indoctrinated in to. Yet, it seems to be real and requires personal accountability. The crux of being grown-up.

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 Wednesday May 21 2008 03:09   back from mexico - almost recovered

I had a great time on a cruise to Mexico (check out the Flickr set). There's nothing like a complete change of environment to shake things up. The cruise ship was fun, and, interestingly, a number of nostalgic memories of the Navy Days bubbled up.

I didn't feel like I really visited Mexico at all. A few hours here and there... no opportunity to get a vibe of any sort. But mainly, it was a chance to put my chattering mind on hold for a bit.

After returning, I fell ill with a very tough summer cold. I haven't had one for awhile, so I guess my number was up. :-) I'm glad that it was after the cruise and not during it. I guess I've become a silver-lining kind of guy. Really?

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 Friday May 16 2008 18:36   Douglas Feith on the Daily Show

Why is it that when things go wrong, politicians look back on history and say "they were wrong in that...." or "they should have done this..." - even when said politician was a senior official in that administration?! Such was the case with Doug Feith on the Daily Show (www.thedailyshow.com). At no point did he accept any responsibility, even while admitting that "the administration grossly mishandled the public explanation of the Iraq war." It was part of his job to gather and filter intelligence - which, in turn, Donald Rumsfeld used to declare the war to be a "slam dunk".

Feith always comes out looking clean as he claims to have warned about the great risks and that going to war was simply the most necessary of two evils, yet the rhetoric that the administration put forth an the time clearly purported that the war would be short-lived ("six days, six weeks, I doubt six months" - Rumsfeld, 3/7/2003). You can't have it both ways. Either you screwed up or you lied - please admit to one or the other and let's move on. I'm sick of the pols claiming to be heroes when that's just not the case.

And I'm not just slamming the Bush Administration. I think that they are simply the most bold and blatant example of a society that has adopted a 'rush to spin.' The impulse in the public, private, and non-profit sectors is to first do damage control (sadly, I mean in the figurative sense), and then eventually coming around to dealing with the problem. Often the damage control consumes the majority of the resources and the actual issue is pushed to furthest back burner.

We are a culture obsessed with public relations.

Responsibility seems to be lacking.

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 Friday May 16 2008 18:14   new host

hey - I've moved over to a new web host - A2 Hosting (www.a2hosting.com). Better support, more features, better QoS gurantees. I think that I'm going to like it here. :-)

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 Friday Mar 7 2008 03:33   new music friday :-)

a new tune for Friday...

kyotolookingglass.mp3

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