Post Dalai Lama WTF

This is the first email I read after leaving yesterday’s talk by the Dalai Lama in Maribor. There’s voodoo at play here that I just can’t put my finger on.

This just in …

“Nostalgia is good when kept in reasonable doses. i know people who never managed to break away from the past and more or less live the same lifestyle. good times, but you have to move on.”

Copied verbatim from Skype to living memory. I love the people I meet.

The Curse of Global

I’ve been ordering flowers online from the same home-town shop for about 10 years now. They’re fantastic and the results always bring a smile to my “ladies back home.” Yesterday, I was a bit surprised to find that they had introduced Youtube-style regional content blocking when I hopped on to buy some Mother’s Day flowers.  Like I said, they always managed to provide excellent bang-for-the-buck so I had no problem leaving the final choice to their discretion. “I’ll pay max $XX; you just take care of the arrangement and delivery.”

I’ve been thinking a little bit about this. It’s actually the first time where I was restricted from shopping online based on where I live. I’ve seen specific products blocked; RedBull was banned in France for example causing stress on a previous-life product and the Android market is full of stupidity in this regard; I’ve however never seen entire sites blocked. I’m hurt.

Regardless of whether or not this was intentional (and I’m inclined to believe it wasn’t), I’m just worried about how this sort of thing will evolve. Is the internet really contracting into a group of protected cells? I certainly hope not.

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Man is a giddy thing

Actually spent the time to “google” the lyrics to a song I’ve had on rotation for the better part of the past year.

Amazing.

Love it will not betray you, dismay, or enslave you.
It will set you free.
Be more like the man you were made to be.
There is a design, an alignment to cry, of my heart to see.
The beauty of love as it was made to be.

Noted as possibly the best lyric ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1PpeDRfxp4

Last night I met a mouse

You know the kind. Small and cute; if it was a few pounds heavier it would probably be cuddly. Nice little guy. I fed him some horse sausage.
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Tonight I want …

It’s been one-hell-of-a stressful few days. Sitting here on the terrace, looking at nothing; hearing nothing; my mind went momentarily blank. It should do that more often.

Also, I’m pretty sure I just saw two crickets humping.

The things you see when your eyes are open.

Hello

Today we said goodbye to a very close friend. It got me thinking: the only thing worse than saying goodbye is never saying hello. I’m certainly not the first to say this. I’m just glad I did.

Hello.

A man walks into a bar …

… and finds a colleague he hasn’t seen out for a while. The colleague invites him to a night of drinks but his wife is expecting him home soon for dinner.

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Decisions. Decisions.

Was just going through some PR texts and stumbled on:

Food for thought

Received this via email today. Posting for posterity.