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A Special Conversation with Cometan on Astronism is available to listen to now – www.youtube.com/watch?v=zigxnpKAeaI
Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Cometan's crucial lecture on the fundamentals of Astronism and the Astronic tradition was forced to take place virtually.
Earlier in November, at the age of just 22, Cometan was invited by Dr. Harith Ramli to discuss his emerging Astronist philosophy and religion as a 21st century movement with partly prehistoric origins in the Astronic religious tradition. Cometan gladly accepted this invitation and the lecture took place on the morning of 2nd December 2020.
It was a great success for Cometan as he had the opportunity to explain and explore his beliefs of Astronism with an engaged audience of university-level students from Edge Hill University, Ormskirk. For anyone interested in what is meant by the phrase "space religion", this lecture is a must listen for you.
Also, the Astronist Institution has just classified this image above as the forty-first Notable Image of Cometan which places this image an elite category of photographs of Cometan that capture an important point in his life's journey. You can learn more about this designation here – astronism.wikia.org/wiki/The_Space_Religion_Lecture
Love love love this page! I completely lifted it from a Pinterest pin but its still fab. If you've for time try it you won't be disappointed cxxx
Computer Programmer.
предлози дебели ланчани аранжмани могући пречници узастопни кругови маскенбал дани велика светла надзор,
Détails de contrepoids dégoulinant graves comptes altérés centre de cire odeurs attendues murs frappants touches d'excitation,
ισχυρό γέλιο παρατηρήθηκε καλώδια εκτροπές κεφαλαίου εξαίσια θαυμαστικά αυξανόμενα μπερδέματα πανέμορφες εκτελέσεις πολιτισμένα εφέ,
equipaggiamento delle varie sale del partito indistinguibile combustibilità vendetta giullare cadaveri infuocati mani invisibili misure ganci aggrappati poesie,
asserções da presunção demonstrando projetos modernos ignorantes tempo adequado injunções contos perguntas castigos interlaring proposições,
improprietăți perversiuni pertinacitatea forme energiile panteiste ale enunțului încercări finale prelegeri alarme discurs condescendent,
まばたきの目のほのめかしのアドバイス明示的な侮辱不快な疑い外部のまぶしさは静かに進行します理由を保存する答えられない言葉無邪気な結果超越的な発言システムが再起動しました.
Steve.D.Hammond.
The Commodore PET 2001 Series keyboard evokes the tech landscape of the late 1970s and early 1980s, a nod to the eras burgeoning computing revolution found in pop culture references like Princes Computer Blue.
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This week .12 Jan.18 Jan. our theme is:
~~~~~ FACES...all kinds ~~
Art Week Gallery Theme
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Our new work-station, an iMac 17'' latest model, with 1GB of memory and a 250GB hard disk. Very cool!
I have 3 boxen at work. Two Dell P3 600's and a G3 Mac. Hardly pushing the envelope but as the development server is a 16 processor Sun box the desktop is not really a problem. The Windows box is mainly used for testing in IE and Eclipse (which I only use as a CVS client) plus stuff like Winamp and GAIM. The Mac is only used for testing IE Mac stuff and we are dropping support for that sooner or later. They share a monitor using a dual input switch but as we dont have a USB KVM anywhere handy there are separate mice and keyboards including a god awful puck mouse.
The linux machine is where I do my work. VIM (or several VIM's), and Firefox + Thunderbird and quite often the GIMP are open constantly plus about 3 or 4 terminal windows to different locations on different servers.
Its not a bad office. I traded in a lack of view from the window (which is pretty good as it looks towards the posh end of Bath over the river) for no one being able to see my screens. Handy that at times.
Little fingers typing on my laptop computer
Guess what she's playing there...
added to the Cream of the Crop as my most viewed photo
I Dislike my computer now,
I can nolonger get on to the BAF.
So I can't check to see when the next convention is:P
could some one please tell me when
the next lego convention will be?
-one that is sponsored by brickarms-
thanks!
Gunnars
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The Amiga 500 was Commodore's best-selling model of Amiga.
The name "Amiga" is Spanish for "a female friend". Commodore wanted users to think of the computer as user-friendly, and indeed, the Amiga inspired a very ardent community of supporters that exist to this day.
From a Facebook posting by John Barry Graham on 8 August 2023:
"A tornado in 2015 took the roof off. The community that saved and restored the two old churches has $16,000 saved up thus far to put a new roof on and save the elevator. It is the most photographed elevator in Western Canada."
Drone footage of Dorothy elevator and old bridge East Coulee, by DanOCan
I had put these five photos aside when I last deleted a few more photos from my computer. Gradually, I will add the description that I had written under a different posted photo taken on the same day.
Just playing with the settings of my camera, Panasonic FZ200, back in 2014. Taken on 29 September 2014, before the roof was blown off in a wind storm in 2015. Unfortunately, it has never been repaired.
"On 29 September 2014, I finally drove out to an area that lies NE of Calgary, that I had longed to go to for so many years. It must have been 30+ years ago that I first saw one particular area of the Badlands of Alberta. A few times since then, I had been fairly close when I went on several botany trips out that way, but when you are carpooling, you can't just go wherever you want. So, my youngest daughter and I decided that we both wanted to make this trip. All summer, we had been waiting for a day on which she didn't have to work and where the weather forecast was for no rain on the day or there had been no rain the previous day. The Bentonite Clay in the area becomes treacherously slippery when wet. The forecast for this day was for a mainly sunny day - at last, we were going!
I think this was the longest day of driving I had ever done, especially to, and in, an area that I'd never driven to before. For anyone who doesn't know me, I have battled a driving phobia for decades, plus I have no sense of direction, lol! Thankfully, my daughter has an amazing sense of direction, so I knew we wouldn't be stuck out on the prairies in the middle of nowhere. A typical question at too many intersections went as follows: me - "Do we go left?"; my daughter - "No, we go right", lol!
I met my daughter at 8:00 am. and I got home shortly before 9:00 pm. Much of that time was spent driving; the rest was spent wandering round three main areas - The Hoodoo Trail, Dorothy and Rowley, in different directions from Drumheller (known for its remarkable dinosaur findings). The forecast was far from accurate on our drive out to the Badlands and I began to wonder if we'd made a mistake going on this trip on that particular day. However, knowing that snow would be returning very soon ("returning" because we had two snowstorms on 9 and 10 September), I was beginning to feel rather desperate and really didn't want to risk not getting out there this year. The afternoon was less cloudy and we did have some sun.
So, the first of our destinations was The Hoodoo Trail, a small area of protected, spectacular hoodoos (rock formations), and then we went further, to the almost-ghost-town of Dorothy. I had longed, for such a long time, to see the two small, old churches that are to be found in Dorothy, as well as the old grain elevator seen in this photo. This photo was obviously taken before the sun eventually came out. This abandoned icon of the prairies stands at the edge of the main road and will probably end up crumbling or being destroyed before too long, like so many other grain elevators in Alberta. Such a waste, that they are not protected.
After that, we drove over 11 bridges and called in at the tiny hamlet of Wayne, passing the old Atlas Coal Mine. Much as we would have liked to visit the mine, we knew that we just didn't have time. Then we went to Rowley to see the old grain elevators and to wander round this very small, historical place. There are actually three elevators, with two being right next to each other and the other one a little further from them. Dorothy felt and looked almost deserted, whereas Rowley was beautifully kept.
From Rowley, we made our way back across the prairies to Calgary. I had planned on getting back before it got dark as I no longer like night driving and very rarely do it, but we didn't quite make it. On the return drive, the last sighting was a Great Horned Owl that was perched part way up a power pole. Well done, Rachel, spotting this welcome bird! Not easy to see in the dark. By the time I got home, I was so tired and my arms were so painful from driving, but, what a great day we had!!
"There were 1,651 elevators in Alberta in 1951, but by 1982 a total of 979 elevators remained. The 1990s spelled the death of the wooden “country” or “primary” elevator. At the end of the 1990s, as the full impact of both of the ending of the Crow Rate in 1995 and further impending rail abandonment was felt, the pace of demolition accelerated at an unprecedented rate. At the end of the 1996-1997 crop year, there were only 327 elevators left. Alberta’s largest cooperative grain companies, the Alberta Wheat Pool (which amalgamated with Manitoba Pool Elevators in 1998 as Agricore) and United Grain Growers, ultimately formed a new corporate entity known as Agricore United in 2001, issuing issued public shares. Demolition of country elevators has continued, and in 2005 there were only 156 wooden elevators of any kind still standing, only a handful of which are used by the grain trade.
The Government of Alberta has recognised the significance of the traditional wood grain elevators, and has designated 12 as Provincial Historic Resources. They are located in the following communities: Andrew, Castor, Leduc, Meeting Creek, Paradise Valley, Radway, Rowley (3 elevators), Scandia and St. Albert (2 elevators)."
www.grainelevatorsalberta.ca/articles/HRM-history.pdf
www.bigdoer.com/8049/exploring-history/prairie-sentinels-...
An interesting film about how the old grain elevators work (or worked). Grain Elevator by Charles Konowal, National Film Board of Canada, 15:57 minutes in length.
Trading Stocks online on Notebook Computer.
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I feel as if we're living on the fringe of an apocalypse. Ike's "afterbirth" (as I call it) stirred up a Category 1 hurricane through Cincinnati, an area that is about 700 miles from the nearest coast. 850,000 people are without power. 85mph winds knocked down trees, ripped off roofs and -- in an area that wouldn't imagine experiencing these types of winds -- mass chaos ensued. Gas stations closed. Grocery stores closed. School closed. Lines form in every store with power, and supplies of food and gas are running out.
The past 2 days I've had to work from our bathtub because its the only place in the house that I get a wireless signal (thanks to a neighbor who has a different internet provider). Thankfully, somehow, we still have electricity. I might go out there and see if I can't document some of it.
I saw this on Jon Hick’s flickr account. Very impressive and makes me want to get a mac even more. Who needs a pc anyway? It uses parallels to switch between the OS and is only $39 which is pretty good value in my opinion.
From Parallels website,”Parallels Desktop for Mac is an easy to use virtual machine which allows users to run Windows and other OSes in virtual containers directly on Mac OS X desktop. Use Windows applications without losing the functionality of your Mac - no rebooting required.”
You Tube Vid - Fast OS swithing on a Macbook on you tube
Epcot's Spaceship Earth.
"In the early years of computers, only governments and large corporations could afford them. And their binary language was known to only a handful of people. These large behemoths took up an enormous amount of space and required chilled rooms in which to operate".
land.allears.net/blogs/jackspence/2010/01/spaceship_earth...
Items featured on my desk but not readily apparent from this angle:
- Large EuroTrip (the movie) cup full to brim with old keys, coin, and fingernail clippers.
- 1 bathroom token for Baja Fresh
- Girl sunglasses
- Canned air
- Oakley hardcase for the pipe.
- "nobody gives a fuck about your blog"
- "learning how to smile" pouty-face & Radiohead bear
- 1 spool Gold ribbon
- Box of Hot & Spicy Cheez-Its
- CDR spool
- 8 more Dr. Pepper cans
- Rolling tupperware stack used as receptacle for periodic desk-sweep-apocalypse.
- Secret entrance to the magical world of Narnia.
The computers at Beta I are being upgraded today. Almost everyone is rather cheerful about it, except for Benny. He's trying hard to smile and not cry. I don't know what he dislikes more: replacing the old computers, or that the manufacturer doesn't make the new model in blue.
This picture required all the trans-yellow plates I have. In the process of moving some from other models, I found they are more brittle than opaque plates, even ones the same age. Between that and how it makes dealing with the colors difficult, I think I may stop filtering the primary light source through the old plates.