| Whither tonight |
[Oct. 29th, 2010|09:01 am] |
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The Tantra Center? The Lafayette? Or bed and a book? |
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| November Eve Approaches |
[Oct. 29th, 2010|02:26 am] |
And I don't know what to write.
Perhaps my celebration of the season will be limited to Brenna's do at Je'Bon Wednesday night. So be it. There were other nights, other years. Indeed, I recall an early November evening at Galapagos in Brooklyn, and have a YouTube link to remind me of it. And Veteran's Day, as we name the end date of the War to End All Wars, which wasn't, will mark a decade.
It is, or rather will be, for us Celts, a new year.
A time for resolutions? Perhaps, in a sense. Discernments may be a better term.
I discern that my discovery of Don Colacho may continue to orient and console me in many ways.
I discern that my involvement with Zurvita will take hold and flourish while my other business ventures continue.
I discern that I will need to spend more time on the Internet away from Facebook, which had been my main venue since I got fed up with LiveJournal and Taki stopped publishing me, and that I will need to gather up and edit a body of work for print publication.
In a week's time the political situation will have clarified itself. Perhaps some of the spiritual poison of the election season will dissipate, at least for another year or so. Is the Day of the Dead auspicious for voting? The idea is amusing.
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| Facebook Down |
[Sep. 23rd, 2010|04:22 pm] |
A fantasy story about a network for bunnywabbits. Oh, wait...
In related news. Got bored with Ancient Faith Radio. Went back to WQXR. That's boring too.
Did I mention that my FB friend Ray recorded a webinar about the current Numis Network promotion? If you are curious about what I have been blathering on about, check out http://promo.arisbe.net . Yeah, I thought it was important enough to set up a subdomain for it. Then again, that's the sort of thing I do. I was even thinking about setting one up for this journal. If I do it will probably be journal.arisbe.net.
Waiting somewhat impatiently for Diaspora to go live. Then Facebook can kiss my... diaspora.
Must go out to the drugstore for some family meds.
Later, dudes.
PS -- if you're reading this on LJ, consider DW.
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| From White Harlem to Old Byzantium |
[Jul. 3rd, 2010|07:01 pm] |
Spent yesterday afternoon in a comfy chair in reading room next to the old Philosophy Library with Dvornik's history of the Photian schism and Centuries of Meditations, neither of which were on the shelves of the old PL. I am a bit more gruntled about the removal of the philosophy books to a room by the entrance and of the portraits to God knows where -- probably Philosophy Hall.
Wasn't much of a schism as far as I can tell until 1054 revived the more extreme positions. The Pope of Old Rome, who had had problems with the appointment of Patriarch Ignatius, had problems with his forced resignation. Tough. Ignatius had been part, though probably an unknowing part, of a conspiracy to murder the emperor, and was lucky to be allowed to live, even in detention. At least Photius was properly elected, as Ignatius had not been. To be sure, he was a layman at the time, though one who had felt called to the monastic life, and one of the co-consecrating bishops was considered suspended by Rome. Still, Papa Nicholas was willing to forget all that if the Empire was willing to give his Franks control of Bulgaria. Well, the emperor was murdered after all and Ignatius rehabilitated, and Photius took an honorable retirement until Ignatius met his end and he was again properly elected with no complaints from Rome. In between there was of course the Eighth Ecumenical Council. Two of them, one accepted by the Catholics and one by the Orthodox. Each hurling anathemas until the air was thick with them. Which proved very useful to both sides a couple of hundred years later. And to Dr. Rudolph Steiner more recently.
That's what I get from the first third of the book.
To which I reply -- Can't we all just get along?
Evidently not.
Meanwhile I am writing (in my head) a post titled, Professional Integrity is a Luxury: Make Sure You Can Afford It. Based on a painful personal experience. Painful not because I was put to the test, but because somebody else was. He failed. I was punished. And that's the way the world goes.
Meanwhile, I do hope you have visited my business site at http://numis1.com/arisbe
Have a a great Fourth. |
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| Social Media and Me |
[Jul. 1st, 2010|12:06 am] |
I'm a Yahoo! groupie. At least I was. I had been active on E-groups when Yahoo! acquired them, and remained active, especially since Yahoo! had acquired my webmail host, Rocketmail. I joined quite a few groups, many quite esoteric, with few posts a week, or even a month. Then, around 2002, Yahoo! seemed to give up on groups, and the interface for checking your groups on the web became so clunky I almost never used it. Now I see that something called Grouply -- http://www.grouply.com -- has built its own front end to Yahoo! and Google Groups, making them fun again. By the way, it looks an aweful lot like Ning, and Ning networks, which used to be free but aren't any more, are moving over there. That's how I found it. Now I was a big fan of Ning when they started out, but not any more, and I think I will be moving my own small network in a day or two. One thing I like is that it reminds me just a little of Delphi Forums, where I started two or three back in '97 or so. It seems a bit homier than MySpace and Facebook, social networking for the rest of us. I suggest you take a look, and, if you join, I invite you to friend me there. |
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| Revisited |
[Jun. 30th, 2010|01:36 am] |
Thirty years ago I qualified for a Teachers College alumnus ID, good for admission to the Columbia libraries and some other services as well. I have one now. Things are largely unchanged, both at TC and Butler, the former a bit seedier, cafeteria still unairconditioned, unlike the new Starbucks concession upstairs. I had been told the Philosophy Library was still intact, but it isn't. The interior balconies were still in place, but with a different range of books, and the portraits are gone. I wandered about to get a little used to the place, caught a 104 back down to 72nd Street.
I will not say it is where I lost my innocence. Or where I held on to it at what ghastly cost. |
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| Guilty |
[Jun. 29th, 2010|05:25 am] |
I am far behind in reading your posts, and I guess I won't come here often enough unless I start posting again. I admit I spend a lot of time on Facebook. Facebook is Slacker City, a place to share links, and to comment on links others have shared. It's also full of Klansmen (should I say Klanspersons?) and Nazis whom I somehow attracted when I was writing for that Taki fellow.
And I guess you could blame Taki for my becoming less active here. Why 'blog when you can write something you can sell? And LJ is not exactly your high class joint in online blogging communities. Well, I guess it is, in a way. It wasn't my idea to come here anyway -- that Russian woman moved my whole bunch of friends -- then quit herself. Anyway.
So what am I up to? Back in multilevel marketing, for one thing. I found the one product I didn't mind accumulating on autoship. Coins. Silver coins. Graded, certified, numismatic silver coins. At a good price. I am not going to go into that here. If you want to know more, there is a well done presentation at http://numis1.com/arisbe .
And that has moved me to work on my own website, now at http://frankpurcell.net . Not much there at the moment, but you can sign up for the notification list at http://subscribe.arisbe.net -- and if you do you will, as a free bonus, be redirected to info about the coin business. That's what I love about TrafficWave. If you ever need an autoresponder, they are the people to go to. In fact they are (cleverly) set up as an MLM, so if you have three friends who need autoresponders, yours is free. I mean yours are free -- it's an all you can eat price. Let's see if I can remember the URL, since I am popping in URLs -- let's try http://trafficwave.net/members/arisbe . I will test it when I save this, delete it if it's wrong.
Now will go to bed for a couple of hours. Srsti is back from Alaska, Maya is off for the Summer, so my best 'puter time is at night.
And yes, that was Nazi in the bad sense of the term. In fact I can't think of a good one at the tired moment.
Be well, peeps. Se y'all soon. |
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| Here's Waving at You! |
[Nov. 26th, 2009|02:28 pm] |
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For anyone on GoogleWave who wants to connect with me there, I am (as you might have guessed!) "frank.p.purcell" -- of course without the quotes. |
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