Monday, February 20, 2012

A february morning.

Wednesday, February 08, 2012

new quotes


i will go wherever my flag flies free - t. boyd

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Work as play

Well, we say, "one must live"
Alan Watts — Work As Play (youtube)
Don't make a distinction between work and play. Regard everything you are doing as play, and don't imagine for one minute that you have to be serious about it. 
... 
Now you see, living, like this plant, is something spontateous. ... You stop this spontaneous flowering of nature cold it you tell it it must do it.
... 
The swinging of the ball is just to swing. And if you take it seriously and say "are you doing anything useful?" useful for what? "useful to go on." But if you take that attitude, going on becomes a drag.
 Sublime, and a little ridiculous. This recording is a treasure.

Saturday, January 28, 2012

On trying to arrange a game of AoE on msn


  Never give out your password or credit card number in an instant message conversation.

Davey Boy says:
hey you guys
Rich says:
Nick, do you know where to get the patches for AoE so that I've got thhe same version as you?
Davey Boy says:
The one to ask is Dick
Rich says:
Dick says 'hmmmmm'
Dick says:
http://www.ensemblestudios.com/patches.shtml
Davey Boy says:
you are a big cretin!!!
Rich says:
thankyou
Dick says:
who is?
Davey Boy says:
Bulb.
Davey Boy says:
I seem to remember receiving abuse when this happened to me from a mr bulb, so I though i'd return the favour
Dick says:
a worthy plam
Dick says:
plan
Davey Boy says:
plam is far better
Davey Boy says:
Bulb - are you getting nick's messages?
Rich says:
It's going to take me at least 25mins
Davey Boy says:
not nick's. Dicks
Dick says:
ouch
Rich says:
or maybe 20
Dick says:
ow
Rich says:
nope
Davey Boy says:
shall we reconvene at say 3.30?
Nick says:
3:30?
Nick says:
thas ages!!
Rich says:
yes
Rich says:
plam man
Dick says:
its is quite a while
Nick says:
im going to invite my coising to tghis conversation
Davey Boy says:
but we have to wait for bulb to download the patch
Rich says:
i'll be ready in 30mins at the most i think

  your just a bunch of cowboys. has been added to the conversation.

Nick says:
over here
Rich says:
but if you lot want to play now, go ahead
Dick says:
hello there
Nick says:
no, waiting is fine
Dick says:
ill wait
Davey Boy says:
I'd rather wait until you're ready rich
Nick says:
hello claire i thought id integrate my conversation streams into one
your just a bunch of cowboys. says:
thats v.funny nick-oh hi richy , oh hi dick, oh hi dave!
Nick says:
better for my head
Rich says:
que?
Davey Boy says:
hello!
Dick says:
nice to meet you
your just a bunch of cowboys. says:
yeah-were in a league weh above u
your just a bunch of cowboys. says:
u 2
your just a bunch of cowboys. says:
shame we cant hand shake eh!
Dick says:
true
Rich says:
well hello there
your just a bunch of cowboys. says:
i cant b bothered 2 do the picture-soz!
Nick says:
so rich you are having technical difficulties?
your just a bunch of cowboys. says:
well hello
your just a bunch of cowboys. says:
no im sure hes not-only with u
your just a bunch of cowboys. says:
thanx dave-were pals
your just a bunch of cowboys. says:
B SCARED!
your just a bunch of cowboys. says:
is it davetlloyd?
Davey Boy says:
yup
Rich says:
just waiting for a patch to download
Rich says:
22mins
your just a bunch of cowboys. says:
a patch wot has nick wet himself agen?
Nick says:
ah no problem then
Davey Boy says:
So yeah, anyway, I was just trying to embarrass nick
Davey Boy says:
but seems someone has got there ahead of me
Nick says:
i knew this would be a bad idea

Framed

Quotation station.

... (we are) too engrossed in thinking of everything as a preparation or training or making one fit -- for what? At any minute it is what we are and are doing, not what we plan to be and do that counts.
-J.R.R. Tolkien

I don’t think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That’s not a career — it’s a life!
-Steve Jobs

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
—Gandhi

life without music would be a mistake
-Nietsche

you don't get to speak to the queen just by phoning the palace
-dad