scary lady

6 january 2009 11:00pm

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14 March 2011 02:30PM

mum @ nx1 commented:

so Lena (the only
Lady evident in this
series) is scary???
I think not. Must
have been host lady.

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19 october 2006 06:40am

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18 october 2006 08:22am

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Karloo

17 october 2006 07:21am

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16 october 2006 06:06pm

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Climbing trees in Canberra

18 april 2006 11:39pm

Today I climbed a tree in order to rescue Tristan's frisbee. It was a lot of fun, and felt like quite an accomplishment. It reminded me of two people I know who like to climb trees: Amber and Brad. It's fun to act young.

(more random thoughts that have collected over the easter weekend)

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Personal Notes:

26 december 2004 06:25pm

At Clare's, I read an article in some main stream scientific magazine which referred to Privacy Journal which would be interesting to keep tabs on. Someone in the mall today asked me for my phone number when I was buying something and I said "I'm sorry, but I would rather not give you my phone number."

To which she responded: "Well, do you know anyone's phone number?" as though I would respect someone else's privacy less than my own. It seems to fluster a small percentage of the clerks that I deal with when I refuse to give out my phone number or my zip code. They should have privacy education in this country, but instead the whole system is designed to allow corporations to swallow up as much information as possible from unsuspecting consumers.

Clare said that George Bush "supposedly" said this:

"The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur."

- origin unknown

Which would have been hilarious if true, but according to Wikiquote, it is misattributed. Too bad.

In addition to WikiPedia there are also slew of "sister" projects which will probably prove useful for reference. The only drawback seems to be that they can be quite slow at times. WikiQuote should put IdeaBank out of business, if we were really in business to begin with.

The poorly known "founding father" my mother was talking about during our Christmas Eve political discussion was Charles Thomson. The Wikipedia entry for him is pretty short, but I did find some additional information on him here:

http://www.rebelswithavision.com/CharlesThomson.com/

which corroborates most of the elements of the story that my mother has been telling.