Damn sick of hearing about Mr. T Woods and his affairs. He's like last year's Amy Winehouse, never out of the headlines. The latest thing on the radio about him was the excuse he did what he did because of what his father did and he was distressed by it. If he saw he own dad cheat on his mum, saw and felt the pain, yes you could say he saw and replicated that, equally you could say he saw the pain caused and vowed never to do it. You are responsible for your own actions and to like father ... like son , well I don't think it's black and white, a lot of it depends on yourself.
In my own world, my dad cheated on my mum am I going to do the same thing ? I saw the pain it caused and the trouble and it made me more determined not to do the kind of things that made me hate him. He's also a compulsive gambler spending most of his life in a casino, I feel so much revulsion that I've never stepped foot into a Casino ever.
Trying to improve my photography ....
Growing up our family never really celebrated Xmas, we didn't give or get any gifts, have a turkey dinner, maybe send some Xmas cards. My dad was at home on Xmas day because the casino was closed. I never had the shock of finding out Santa Claus does n't really exist. Every year during Christmas something was sure to happen the Christmas decorations he always made an effort to put up, the Charlie style way of course.
We never had a Christmas tree at home (one year me and my siblings pretended the potted plant was a Christmas tree, wrapped our own presents to put underneath it), but we did have the fairy lights for a tree. Which were taped to the top of the living room wall. After a week or so the tape would peel away leaving bits of the lights dangling, coming off. In later years, the fairy lights became disco style lights.
The parents live in a a block of flats full of old folks. When I go up to visit them I see the other elderly people around and occasional have to help them fix a TV or translate a letter something like that (though my brother gets the bulk of these duties). I blogged about this before that I feel most old people have two extremes, they can be jolly and bright or grumpy and uptight, most falling in the latter category. I wonder have they become that way because of circumstance ? Is that the fate for everyone ? There one of the old ladies in the flats, I can jam jokes and hip hop bullsh*t with, she doesn't take life too seriously.
There is a new book called the Wonder Years I was looking at, it's about elderly people only starting to take up sports in the later years of life. Like body building in your 70's or archery in your 80's. These guys didn't believe age was a limit, I can put my hand up and say they made me feel shameful and inspired me too. We can shape our lives by the choices and decisions we make.
After all the news and watching the long around 20 minutes of the video showcasing it, I registered for a google wave invite, which I joined and I noticed I had some other gmail contacts there too. After messing around with some test posts and playbacks, also trying the instant ping ... now what do I do with it ? I don't have many people to collaborate or communicate with ..!
The instant message ping is ok for short sessions, but the older text remains at the top of the screen which is split into two for your text and the person you are talking to, because of this if the conversation is too long you have to manual scroll the screen to view the new text WTF ! Also the interface is somewhat confusing I've accidently created many "blips" within the wave.. (it's not as exciting as it sounds)
The sites I visit for work are for electronic components which are usually designed in a sterile and functional way.. however l one of them strives to be different Samtec with it's mascot tiger !
On the front page of the website the tiger is humorously photoshoppped into different scenarios, ok the photoshopping maybe a bit flaky but the results and intent are a refreshing change with a good dose of humour !
Some of my favourites
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The tiger is on the error pages too !
I was digging through my old blogspot hosted blog, where I said I intended to write some poetry, six years later I've only written two poems and looking back on the they read awful ...
In the corner of my eye,
Past the narrow window space,
In front of the muted industrial background,
A clean pure white cloth,
Punctured with a blood red circle,
Dancing in the cool autumn wind,
Too much clichéd words and generic imagery .... ugh
My second effort isn't too good either ...
Time is never a factor
When you know somebody you thought you knew
Who's actions turned out a different shade and hue
Simple white mindful expectations
Erupted by silently broken rules
False hope held by the vehement hands of fools
Encircled by a self inflicting pain
Blind to the fiery cold truth that...
Past and present are not the same
It sounds like random ranting !
There are a group of people who do not believe climate change is happening and we are the cause of it ...They have various conspicacy theories and facts that earth's climate has always been continually changing, "inter planetary activity", the sun spouting solar flares ...
Well you could debate that climate change happens for only thousands of years not the rapid change we've been seeing recently ... although in essence there is no real proof. If there was a problem would it be far easier to ignore it ... to admit we have a problem and we caused it would mean we need to change our lifestyles, the way businesses are run. If it's not out fault then we have zero effort required to do nothing we don't have to change the way we live.
I believe climate change is happening because of us, also there is no denying the resources of the planet are limited and the human population is every increasing, for the sake of future generations we have to think and care for the environment and our planet.
