Vacant Mind

The Sorry Debate March 6th, 2008

I’m not going to weight to much into the debate about the stolen generation or about sorry day.  I don’t think that I am qualified enough even though I do have feelings about the situation. I am posting this picture of an article that I found int he MX, because it really got me thinking about arguments from both sides of the fence.

I hope that you get something out of it as well.

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Journey November 9th, 2006

It started with grand plans,
on a wiff of a small dream
that ends in the promised lands.

It wasn’t a mighty plan but still grand,
a trip overseas a house maybe more
and possibly baked bean cans
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Advice from my Father November 6th, 2006

I have never been comfortable with this, I’m not sure why there is nothing wrong with what he is saying, I suppose that most of it is true but there is something about it which doesn’t sit quite right. I don’t think that I’m alone because most of my mates have said the same thing as well.

This is the first time that he has tried to give me ‘life advice’ the other times had always been school and friends stuff which is harmless but then we got to the sex talk….uncomfortable!

Everything he said just was really weird and disjointed I was more embarrassed for him rather than me, it’s actually quite funny now that I think of it how he decided to deliver his speech and mum for some reason thought that it was his job to do it rather than hers or both. From here it moved to relationship advice, marriage advice with the odd technical stuff thrown in for good measure to make sure I am enough of a man…roar!!
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Photo a Day October 19th, 2006

I wasn’t really a big photo taking person, but since going overseas and pretty much going nuts I am a little addicted to it. I now carry my camera everywhere in case there is a something unique or funny that I want to take a photo of.

But almost a year has past since I have come back and I don’t really have much to show for it (in terms of photos) I have have the odd batch here and there but nothing consistent. I have started a photoblog at least a couple of times but still can’t keep it going for very long.

I would like to think that the problem is that my weekly schedule doesn’t really allow me to see enough of the world to photograph. Money to Friday is Uni and work, which is mainly indoors and doesn’t provide much variety in terms of differing scenery. The weekends…well nothing happens on the weekends (which is another gripe of mine that I won’t go into)

I do try to keep my eyes on the web about how to become better at taking photos, ideas about what to take or even reviews on that Canon 350D that I desperately (but can’t justify) want – because I stupidly think that it will make me better or inspire me more. But then recently I stumbled across an interesting post.

Project 365

I wasn’t too sure about starting something like this, I mean I haven’t been very successful in the past with taking photos just randomly, but now that I have to will I be able to find something. But hey, what would it hurt…if I don’t do it or doesn’t work out nothing lost. If I do it and I do get something out of it…all the better.
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Dissemination of Parts October 14th, 2006

It is inevitable I suppose as you get older things start to change, you think differently, act differently your general tastes in various pursuits change as well. Parties are no longer an excuse to just get wasted, although I still do that now I try to do it somewhere nice or a pub that I haven’t been before and generally I don’t get as paralytic as I used to. Movies are seen in a different light as to before and they are more varied. It would only have been last year that I would have never considering going to see Macbeth (2006) but this time around it’s on the cards.

The changes that I have seen in myself I have also seen in my group of friends, as we have group we have always been good mates and I have no doubt that we always will be, but we have begun to separate and follow different paths. Read more..

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From Coffee To Tea October 6th, 2006

I have been a long time coffee drinker, and I think that being a technical enthusiast (ie: tech geek) it’s pretty much mandatory to be addicted to some sort of caffeine – my drug of choice was coffee. Nothing fancy, not a mocha chino skim no froth, just a plain cafe latte with 2 sugars and if I am out it might be a cafe mocha. For years it has been this way, increasingly so this past year I have found that the use of a good coffee at 5:30pm does wonders for my concentration level.

But I have started something else at home, I’ve started with the flavoured tea’s – green, green chai, strawberry, lemon, blackcurrant. The list goes on, after I tried one I couldn’t stop buying until I had every flavour on the shelf.

I’m uncertain what it is about them but I have at least 2 – 3 cups a day, all different flavours, the smell it’s just more….exotic than the coffee and less overpowering. There is no instant hit that I always seem to get with coffee but there is the often touted benefits that are seem to pop up everywhere, although I haven’t given up coffee I am enjoying the change.

So now I’m an avid tea drinker, now I just need some bells and a tea room!

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What Becomes of Us August 20th, 2006

I thought that love was meant to be grand
One of lifes events that are never planned
The times of absolute bliss
The conteted feeling of that perfect kiss
That all knowing look like no one else exists
The women who will be always be first and last on the list

What happened how did it change
Why do they feel locked together in chains
Now the wrong conversation can bring the most unbarable pain
The sanity of their relationship now insane

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Anti-Hero July 28th, 2006

I used to like the traditional hero when I was younger, but as I have gotten older I don’t seem to like them as I used to, don’t get me wrong they still pose the intent of good will and the warm fuzzy feeling that you get after reading and watching them.But as I started to get to know fictional characters such as Wolverine, Spawn and Batman and more recently on T.V and at the movies characters such as House M.D, Riddick (Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick) possibly some of Sin City and even good old Jack Sparrow .

I’m uncertain what it is but I find them so much more interesting to watch, it’s probably because of their instability and the fact that they don’t confirm to the traditional guidelines to what a hero should embody and don’t follow the normal rules.

Wikipedia probably has the best definition:

When the anti-hero is a central character in a work of fiction the work will frequently deal with the effect their flawed character has on them and those they meet along the narrative. In other words, an anti-hero is a protagonist that lives by the guidance of their own moral compass, striving to define and construe their own values as opposed to those recognized by the society in which they live. Additionally, the work may depict how their character alters over time, either leading to punishment, un-heroic success, or redemption.

I hope that there are more stories and characters that emerge as this, because as the traditional hero ( Superman, Justice League, Sir Galahad are probably the best examples) might have had its time, the world today isn’t able to believe that someone can be that pure and wholesome and still be mentally stable. Such characters I think will remain in the realm of fiction, but someone with a flaw that would be his/her downfall that makes them more human, more damaged more like us.

I would like to note the fact that I’m mainly referring to fictional heroes here, there are many cases for people to be considered heroes or to have possible heroic qualities the list is way to long (Gandhi, Rosa Parks, Mother Teresa) and can list those that have fought for a cause or an ideal that should have existed but didn’t, I am not arguing this.

Like The Architect said in The Matrix Reloaded possibly an imperfect world is a perfect one, so possibly making characters flawed like us makes them more believable, it makes sense because many of the comic book anti-heros are some of the most revered that you will come across: Batman and Wolverine are the best examples off the top of my head.

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