Loving me some Bees...

The Chicken Payback (An ideal song for when things get too serious and a cheese intervention is required!)


Wash In The Rain



Who Cares What The Question Is?

Enjoy!

Amos 5: 21-24 (The Message) wordle #3 for iphone

Amos 5-21-24 (The Message) wordle #3 for iphone, originally uploaded by Headphonaught.

Here's a wee wallpaper for your iPhone... based on the challenging words of Amos 5: 21 - 24 (The Message):

I can't stand your religious meetings.
I'm fed up with your conferences and conventions.
I want nothing to do with your religion projects, your pretentious slogans and goals.
I'm sick of your fund-raising schemes, your public relations and image making.
I've had all I can take of your noisy ego-music.
When was the last time you sang to me?
Do you know what I want?
I want justice—oceans of it.
I want fairness—rivers of it.
That's what I want. That's all I want.

I make no appology for repeating these words... because I believe them to remain extremely relevant and pertinent to today's church. So much so... I created a wallpaper to remind myself of them.

Go here to download. My thanks, as always, to wordle.net for the graphic. Oh and if someone can tell me what the dimensions are for a Blackberry... I'll make one for the BB too.

Olly & I

Olly & I, originally uploaded by Headphonaught.

Geekin' out...

I really geeked out while out with Olly & the we'ans... Picked up a Staedtler "Learner's Pencil"... a bottle of Kia-Ora... some "gerkin relish"... and a "Mount Doom Frodo" action figure for my computer desk.

To make my day even better... I got home to find a Starbucks "Brewed Coffee Card" posted through the letterbox which entitles me to 1 free "tall estima" each day after 2pm between the 20th Feb & 21st Apr. Result!

It's amazing how completely random things make me happy.

What random things make you happy?

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Finding inspiration in the love of a life time...

I like to watch people dance. I prefer passion to skill... any day of the week. To witness the love of a lifetime expressed with the eloquence of fluid movement... with a gesture... and a smile... is so inspiring. Keep dancing!
 
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I'm a blessed man!

Olly aka littlelaughalot
 
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A salt water bath (51/365)

Today is the last day of my recouperation... Back to work on Monday. No more midday baths for me.

Salt is a wonderful thing. It adds flavour... it heals or at least helps in the healing process... and it protects - it cures food & helps to melt ice.

All this in moderation, however.

Too much salt can overpower, hurt & sully... but the right amount brings considerable benefit.

Made me think of Jesus' metaphor of salt... calling His followers to be salt in their world.

Do we overpower or do we flavour? Hmm...

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U*P*D*A*T*E
I loved this comment from CowPunkMom:

Salt is best if it is spread through-out the dish, isn't it? Out of the shaker and into the dish.

Sometimes it's nice to listening to music in an old fashioned way...

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Loving me some... Bag Of Nothingness

Every so often something comes along and knocks me off my feet... in doing so it challenges what I have held up as true and makes me reassess my views.

The Error Broadcast compilation Bag of Nothingness has done just that. You see... I always thought I wasn't a big fan of hip hop... but then I listened to this compilation and it reminded me of all the good things that hip hop has to offer, especially the leftfield... experimental... abstract... styles that push boundaries with their creativity.

Listening to this album reminded me of the early days of Mo' Wax... listening to Shadow... Krush... the first Headz compilation... Attica Blues... etc etc. Back when hip hop was, for me, vital.



Thats when I realised it wasn't the music... I love me some big, chunky beats... it was the inane rapping that turned me off. All that "money 'n' hos" mentality that switched me off... and in doing so blinded me to all that is good, authentic and vibrant in the genre.

This is a great compilation of bass-heavy beat-centric kind of abstract instrumental hip hop that truly wonderful. Music that deserves its place on my iPhone. Music that will keep my head nodding for a long time to come. Some people may say "dubstep" is the sound of bass just now... if they do, they haven't heard this compilation.

Whats more... the compilation is a free download... released under a Creative Commons license... and features musicians/producers from throughout the world. Truly a global effort!

Artists from the US, Russia, Japan, Germany and a lot more joined the Error Broadcast Collective. The compilation is online for free download, so please support our artists and ourselves by saving the record to your players and spreading the word. Watch this place!

Check it out!

Top picture posted with LifeCast... the remaining picture and the thoughts we added later.

These are not tools that enhance, they are tools that displace...

There is an interesting report on the BBC NEWS website about a Doctor's fears regarding social media...

/..Dr Sigman maintains that social networking sites have played a significant role in making people become more isolated.

"Social networking is the internet's biggest growth area, particular among young children," he said.

"Social networking sites should allow us to embellish our social lives, but what we find is very different. The tail is wagging the dog. These are not tools that enhance, they are tools that displace." ../

/..And he claims that interacting "in person" has an affect on the body that is not seen when e-mails are written.

"When we are 'really' with people different things happen," he said.

"It's probably an evolutionary mechanism that recognises the benefits of us being together geographically.

"Much of it isn't understood, but there does seem to be a difference between 'real presence' and the virtual variety." ../

/.."One of the most pronounced changes in the daily habits of British citizens is a reduction in the number of minutes per day that they interact with another human being," he said.

"In less than two decades, the number of people saying there is no-one with whom they discuss important matters nearly tripled."

Dr Sigman says he is "worried about where this is all leading"../

It would be easy to dismiss these comments as the ramblings of someone who hasn't "got it"... but I won't... because I can see truth in them.

Whilst I am an advocate for social media and strongly believe that community is no longer defined by only one atribute - namely physicality - but can be defined by interest/passion too, I do see the need for physical community too. I believe both can/do/should enhance our lives... my recent time off is testament to that - 5 people visited me, a lot more sent cards/tweets/SMS etc. I valued all forms of contact.

I am a firm believer in a firm hug... I believe in the power of sitting down with someone for a pint, a coffee, a tea or another beverage. Most of all... I believe in peoples stories and the power of just coming together to talk (albeit I am learning to talk less and listen more). I believe these elements to be crucial... because we have an inate need to be together... to be in community.

This is why the Twestival was such a success... and why gatherings/tweet ups/meet ups are of such value... because they bring the online into the offline dimension.

We lose a lot in email. I have seen this to be true time and again. We gain so much by speaking... picking up the phone or hooking up via Skype.

Regardless of how we do it... We need to be there... spending time with people... discussing the matters that matter... not on our agenda but their's. Ideally this should be done face-to-face but if it can't we should still seek to connect.

Be there for someone today!