The 1000 Day Holiday

A bit delayed.

But rocking nite with S & the girls. They really do put on a great show.

some great freestyle action, and it was a good thing to go to the Monday nite concert which avoided the throngs of 10 year olds.

Wired News: Inventor Rejoices as TVs Go DarkTV-B-Gone enables you to switch off almost any TV set from the push of a button on your keyring.

Simple, yet effective.

A camera with a phone, not a phone with a camera!

I have been awaiting the time that a >3MP camera is released that includes a Cellphone.

It looks to have arrived!

WOrld’s first Camera phone with 3megapixel and 3x optical Zoom.

yummy.

Are you a lefty?

Do you want a society where everyone gets the same, blah blah blah utopia.
Free everything… dont have to work if you dont want, “can’t” and still get enough to live +vice/s (alcohol, gambling, drugs, smokes, wants)
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Question: how can you implement this personally on a large scale? What is your circle of influence?

Answer? hmm maybe I can give a coin here a buck there, and vote Leftism.

Question: Is being financially sucessful evil or bad?
eg driving a Porsche, having a big house overlooking the water, whatever.

My Answer: No.

Why?
because as you are right now. how big is your circle of influence.
Say you sponsor a kid in africa, buy a badge for some charity day, and volunteer a day of your time to a cause.

Lets say that all your pro humanity donations/effort = $600/yr.

Example of increasing your circle of influence:
A woman who is a counsellor, liked to donate 2 hours a week to pro bono cases.
2hrs * 48 weeks * $50/hr value = $4800 benefit for humanity.

She decided instead of leasing a consulting room in a clinic, established her own clinic.
as a condition of the sub leases to other counsellors she required that they all do a minimum of 2 hours a week pro bono work.
the result:
8 counsellors * 2hrs * 48 weeks * $50 = $38400 = 800% increase in clircle of influence.

Now there is no way that she could personally create a $38400 circle of influence for her causes.

Then add the indirect value added:
profits from the clinic can pay for her improved lifestyle. Porsche, whatever. It can also be used to increase her circle of influence even more. as she can direct the profits use.

But that doesn’t happen in real life:

Is Bill Gates bad? One of the richest men in the world.

Come back to me when you have donated $23 Billion USD to causes you believe in.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-11-21-big-gates-charity-total_x.htm

What is bill gates circle of influence:
Aids, Earthquakes, Famine, TB, Underpriviledged……….

Rant 3:
that dollar you give to the dude on the street with his little box out in front of him, while he’s curled up asleep.

Is this helping form a positive feedback loop?

i.e will this positively reinforce change?

No: dude gets to sleep, gets money = 0 effort : a little return
No: looses selfesteem because he is relying on peoples pity.
No: doesn’t gain many/any new relationships or education by interacting with others.

Now take the example of the magazine: The Big Issue
You may have seen homeless people selling these.

The model: it costs $3 for you to buy it (retail).
it costs them $1.50 (wholesale = 100% profit margin)

Does this have a positive feedback loop?

Yes: creates higher level interaction/relationships with a wide circle of people within their community.
Yes: rewards them for their efforts. more effort = more reward
Yes: Promotes an understanding of basic business principles.
Yes: Increases confidence and self esteem

all in all, it gives the opportunity to the vendor to change their life.

I buy these, they are actually a very good read.

other note: Ill give to anyone putting in effort. Singing, dancing whatever. As long as theres effort involved.

Bloody leftys.
😛

Was a wicked gig, totally rocking. And very impressive to see the Hordern sold out.

Now can’t wait for this weekend: Black Eyed Peas

And considering: Groove Armada on the 30th.

Is 3 Concerts in a month excessive?

and the Leprechaun was standing on his bed, smacking at the fireplace in his room with a broom asking me if there was a hole in it that the mouse could get in from.

Running around the house looking for something to ‘board up’ the fireplace with.

and generally being a little scaredy cat. 😛

Then finally leaving to stay at his GF’s place, cause hes not sleeping if something can get into his room.

tee hee hee

So I now have 2 tickets to Faithless.

Yay,
the Gig is going to rock!
Just have to palm off the second ticket now.

I’ve been Japan crazy lately. Can’t get enough of the food or small amount of culture I can find.
I’m even dredging up my 3 & 4th form Japanese!

and the article doesnt even mention the masses of snow it gets.

hmmph.

I want to go go go!
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From the second you land, the Japanese-ness assaults you: the cab doors that open and close by themselves, the obsession with hi-tech toilet seats, the rows of vending machines selling hot and cold drinks in the street.

Almost no one speaks English, and when you do see or hear it, it’s usually some fruity Japanese interpretation – jet rug, eyes cream, pot ato fu rai, or the little boy in the lobby of our hotel saying to his sister “talko to the hando”.

There are also many contradictions: the drunk salarymen sleeping in the street at 3am, the wonderful understanding of space and scale, the constant desire for novelty and change in a culture built on ritual and honour.

All this adds up to a culture which feels completely true to itself; one that, despite its place at the forefront of globalisation, somehow remains undiluted and unhomogenised.

Tokyo – showing its true colours

With less than 2 months before my contract ends, I have to decide what to do with my life.

If you have any groovy ideas, let me know!

Still pondering travelling. The idea of contracting 2 – 3 days a week is really appealing to me also. This way I have time to focus on some of the hair brained schemes.

I think its time to sit down with the interested parties and discuss the $$.

Political Rant:
I PAY ENOUGH TAX TO SUPPORT 5 or 6 aussie bludgers. and thats bothering me!

Wicked weekend was had.

They have 3 buses, their own lodge/pub/niteclub so its like hire a party!

the majority of the bus was relatively subdued. but we got the front of the bus crew rarked up a bit. One of the other buses had beer funnels, boxer runs thru McDees etc…

Saturday was primo weather, but the snow off piste didn’t soften up at all. extremely unforgiving. On trail was good tho.

Saturday nite it snowed in Jindy! and snowed most of the day sunday. So conditions were great. It was a bit wet, but freshies! no complaints!

All round a great trip. Think I might do their learn to surf trip.