Desktops

I've spent most of the day setting up workstations. My G4 iMac is now in the kitchen. The 17" PowerBook is in the office. I'm using th Soundsticks with the PowerBook. The 24" iMac is in the study. I'm gradually eliminating the clutter. I'm creating themes for each workstation. All white in the kitchen, white with touches of blue in the study. Office theme is yet to be revealed. It's all coming together. All's right with the world.

I will do two organizing mini-projects before I go to sleep.

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Tech Upgrade

OK. Time to double up. Technology raises its beautiful silicon head. Sooooo. Cable should be upgraded to accomodate HDTV. Interenet access should be changed to save some bucks and to get a faster connection. I may be able to get this all in one blow. This pm a group of sellers came to the door hawking AT&T internet and tv. My mind was open to it because of the iPhone coming to AT&T. Sooooo...It looks like by Monday my system will be wired in! cool.

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Women Portraits Of Western Art

Landscape

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The Green Bag

I saw this bag today. I love the simple lines and the grace of the tie. It's just a bag, you say? Perhaps; but it's beautiful.






Etsy :: AV Designs - The Green Bag

Gaylord's

Gaylord's
Originally uploaded by vajra.

Quiet Sunday

I was reading the New York Times this afternoon, and suddenly I was addicted to the printed page again. I've been gorging on visuals recently so this came as a surprise. The world of print has been swallowed somehow by other things. Like Claudia Elmhirst, it's as if my frontal lobe has been bulging with pictures and images so that print was too small make an impression. But DNA will out: the need for the word.

Tonight, I'm lucky enough to read Breathless Noon. To read about one woman's courage: stating her truth.

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Perfection

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Walking the Reservoir

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Cat Friday

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum...

Sometimes all you can do is survive while the wicked flourish like a green bay tree. But I'm grateful that I am delivered...

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Lamps Are Like Sunflowers

Lamps Can Be Sexy: Corona Lamps Are Like Sunflowers For Your Tortured Soul - Gizmodo

Take One If Distracted

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Top 10 Multi Display Mac Setups

Glenn Wolsey : Blog Archive : Top 10 Multi Display Mac Setups

Be kind whenever possible.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
                                             --Dalai Lama

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Missing the Point of Twitter

Johnnie Moore's Weblog: Missing the point of twitter


And if you'd like to join the micro-blogging world, add me.

Some Like It Hot

Sunday

Going to the theater: Blackbird at ACT.

Saw Porgy and Bess at the Paramount, Friday. It was so good; but it could have been thrilling if not for the amplification of the principals' voices. When the principals are louder than the chorus you know something is wrong. And of course the mikes have a tendency to make the upper ranges muddy. Nevertheless, it was a fine evening.

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******

Blackbird was the best play I've seen this season. Remarkable. Can an unspeakable act be based on love? Is love the word we use to manipulate ourselves and others whenever we use it?

Hopi Pot

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Cat Friday, Too

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Cat Friday

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Fountain

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Finch

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Orchid

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Goodbye To Bad Rubbish

Jerry Falwell is dead. Or at least his body followed his head and heart which died at much earlier date. He won't be missed.

Flickr = Censorship

Flickr = Censorship
Originally uploaded by Thomas Hawk.

Flickr = Censorship

[I am CEO of Zooomr]

I'm pretty pissed right now. Two days ago I blogged about an incident involving Rebekka Guðleifsdóttira. Rebekka is one of the most popular photographers on Flickr and definitely someone that those of us who have been around for a while would consider "Old Skool" (RIP).

Rebekka is a single mom and art student living in Iceland. She's an artist and a talented one at that. She does amazing things with her camerea. Recently she discovered that a gallery Only-Dreemin had been ripping her off. They'd sold thousands of dollars worth of her images and when she caught them and tried to make them give her the money that they stole from her they refused. So Rebekka did what anyone with a following on the internet might do and she posted about her frustration and plight on her flickrstream. And her story resonated loudly with the flickr community. Her story made the front page of digg and by days end she had 100,000 views on this particular photograph with hundreds of supportive comments.

So what's got me pissed today? What's got me pissed today is that according to Rebekka, Flickr has removed her image from their site. That's right. Not only did they remove and kill her image and her *non-violent* words of protest, but they censored each and every one of us who commented on her photograph, who offered support to Rebekka, who shared in her frustration by wiping every single one of our comments off the face of the internet forever.

According to Rebekka, Flickr's explanation?

“Flickr is not a venue for to you harass, abuse, impersonate, or intimidate others. If we receive a valid complaint about your conduct, we will send you a warning or
terminate your account.”

WTF?!?

So a flickr photographer gets ripped off. Dares to complain about it. Has an outpouring of support on the internet over it and Yahoo decides censorship is the way to handle this? This is the worst I've seen from Yahoo yet.

You know when Yahoo decided to without my permission delete a photograph I'd posted of Michael Crook and along with it a long dialog of community conversation I was pissed. But I'm even more pissed now.

Yahoo should not get away with this. This type of censorship is not right. They should apologize to Rebekka and reinstate this photo that they deleted and all its comments. These comments don't belong to them. They belong to all of us. All of us, the community that make Flickr even possible. Remember the community Yahoo? Remember the community that Flickr used to stand behind.

I remember back when I posted a much earlier photo on Flickr when I'd almost been ripped off by PriceRitePhoto. I used this photo to put pressure on PriceRitePhoto which eventually put them and their sleazy business practices out of business. You know what? Back when this happened I actually got a personal email supportive of my plight from someone on Flickr staff. That was then though. This is now.

Rebekka, I'm sorry that Yahoo has decided to censor you. Consider this post a protest in support of you and your right to share your frustrations in your photostream and in your art.

This really sucks, and know that even without Flickr, the attention to this matter will not die down. I'm not sure how this company got to Flickr and Yahoo, but this will not make their problem of cheating you go away. Because when people censor it only makes the censored story ring louder in the end.

Rebekka, you had my support when you originally posted about your plight and you have it now.

And to Yahoo and Flickr? Shame on you.

Uploaded by Thomas Hawk on 15 May 07, 3.15PM PDT.
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Parfait

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Mother's Day

The only thing a mother should have to carry today is a handkerchief.

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Summer Is Coming

The first sunflowers are blooming.  The whole neighborhood is a riot of colors.  Blue skies with just a few silver clouds.

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Cat Friday

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Connections

I love new communication: e-mail, twitter, im, blogging.  Old tell is boring and cumbersome. Telephone, telegraph, television...dieing.

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Finding Time

It is just there for the finding. There's always more. Just look.

White By Design

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Fog Rolls In

Two days of heat, and we're on the ropes. In a form of pathetic fallacy, my 2d 1gig xd card burned out. I'm beginning to think it's the card reader and not the card. Had to use another camera for today's pic. Whatever.

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Belief

believe nothing,
no matter where you read it
or who has said it,
not even if i have said it,
unless it agrees wtih your own reason
and your own common sense.

-buddha

Forgetting

I went to Kristie's blog yesterday: erased and purged. I don't understand why it was taken down. Why should her voice be silenced? Death is not reason enough. Is it intended to make us forget her? Unlikely; I think about her every day. I miss her every day. But it would be nice if some trace of her remained on her blog.

The Unconference

Take Your PowerPoint And...

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Pastoral

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Cat Friday

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The Sprituality of Imperfection

Practicing the spirituality of imperfection begins where I am. Choose a discipline an try to practice it. Mindfulness.

Perfection

Perfectionism is the enemy of spirituality. Catholics call it scrupulosity. "Scrupulosity is obsessive concern with one's personal sins, including "sinful" acts or thoughts usually considered minor or not sins at all within one's religious tradition. The condition can occur in nearly all religions having some sort of religious code (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, etc.). The term is derived from the Latin scrupulus, a sharp stone, implying a stabbing pain on the conscience." While some saints have been scrupulous, for most of us the guilt associated with it stands in the way of grace, and turns us to discouragement and despair.

Thus, I propose the spirituality of imperfection. "Lord, I believe. Help thou my unbelief."

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Rattling Sabers

Duhbya vetoed the emergency spending measure which was supposedly designed to pay for the "surge." Not a single soldier with boots on the ground will be affected by this bill and he knows it. But he has to posture and pout. What a poseur.

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