He’s Just Had Coffee

So yesterday, I went with Liz to visit Woody at Amazon. Pictures on the Flickr feed as usual. I liked Amazon. It had a lovely feeling in the corridors. People bring their dogs to work and we saw Jeff Bezos quietly reading over lunch in the cafeteria. On the way home we dropped into the Seattle […]

So, from where I’m sitting at my friend Woody’s kitchen table, I can see the Space Needle on an overcast day in late Spring. Seattle is a beautiful town. I don’t mean every building is gorgeous (this neighbourhood has a troubling romance with chamferboard, for instance), but it has gently rolling hills, you keep getting glimpses […]

… and so I’m off on my trip. Blogging and perhaps email will be a little sporadic. I hope to drop in the occasional trip report and my Flickr feed should feature some pics. Soon, my dear friends, soon.

… about what to contribute to the ongoing discussion of Ken Wilber’s Wyatt Earp post and I was just reading Tom’s post about his own feather-ruffling post on Zaadz and a thought arose that I thought might be worth contributing. In the follow-up to a first post which offended and delighted people in various proportions, […]

More about kaidevis’s statements about the omission of Hermetica from Integral Theory… He accuses Wilber of ignoring the western spiritual traditions, which I think is a fair call. But a little perspective: the Sufis, Jains, the Yezidis, neo-Pagans, Scientologists, neo-Theravadins all have some pretty interesting practices and cosmologies but none of them get much airplay from […]

This is the sound of me saying nothing about the current dust-up in the Integral community… In its place, here’s a quote from kaidevis who is doing some groundbreaking work on an Integral Magick saying things I wish I’d said about the absence of the Western Hermetic tradition from the palette of integral spiritual practices. Wilber […]

In ‘Father, can’t you see I’m burning?’ The death drive in X-Men: The Last Stand, k-punk exposes himself as, not only one of the few people of the planet who enjoyed X-Men 3 but also (correctly in my view) spots a shift from the realistic psychodrama of the previous two to the subtlety of myth. His […]

To quote Bruce Sterling, “When Lanier cares enough to write it, you oughta care enough to read it”. Jaron Lanier has a decent contrarian essay up on Edge about the stupidity of crowds, the decontextualising mess of Wikipedia and naivety of Google. Despite the fact that I have been spotted publicly raving about Wikipedia on a […]

There’s an article in today’s Sydney Morning Herald about the demise of a series of IT research centres in Australia, the one I worked for among them. Because I’m the only staff member left in Sydney, they photographed me for the article - which is a strange distinction. Although the result sounds a bit tragic, I’m […]

I was just reading “Don’t Try This At Home” in Wired and the article mentioned Forrest Mims III and I recalled, with delight, the many hours I spent as a teenager reading “Engineer’s Notebook 1″ (modern edition) and tinkering with circuit designs. The book not only fanned the flames of my obsession with electronics, it […]

Imagine desparate villainies of scale Shifting flesh, long-lasting hunger Bereft of late show cruelties We snipe and croon of hate best forgotten Thrown Tong-sparkling back in distant stars. My arteries confess your efficacious pull Your whirlpool bumps my whirlpool Eddies chafe between us Who winds down? Imagine the collapse of history, gobbled snicker snackfood Mr Future licks her lips and grins. […]

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