[FairfieldLife] Anybody read Accelerando by Charles Stross?

2010-02-14 Thread film_man_pdx
I am thoroughly enjoying this scifi tome, but I just about squirted coffee through my nose yesterday morning when I read this line on page 93 of the hard back edition: He's rocking front to back and jiggling up and down in little hops, like a technophiliacal yogic flyer tring to bounce his way

[FairfieldLife] Re: Macbook Love

2009-03-08 Thread film_man_pdx
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: Rick Archer wrote: Alex, did you see Jim Karpen's article about Boxee in this month's Source? http://boxee.tv/. Looks like an interesting thing to play with if you have a Mac connected to your TV. Doesn't work with PCs yet.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Former Astronaut in Bed with Big Oil?

2009-02-18 Thread film_man_pdx
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: Don't be too surprised that former Apollo astronaut Harrison Schmitt publicly denounced the entire scientific community around climate science. Schmitt provided Fox News another climate denier moment this week when he

[FairfieldLife] Re: Ringing in the ears during meditation

2009-02-07 Thread film_man_pdx
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Gillam jpgil...@... wrote: The last few times I taught TM I got a question I had not prepared for during teacher training. People would ask, What's that ringing in my ears? I figured the sound had always been there, but the person had

[FairfieldLife] Re: Two Weeks from Today

2009-02-03 Thread film_man_pdx
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: Analog television becomes a thing of the past. Though the Senate has voted to delay it Congress didn't agree. Personally we should just get on with the DTV transition. If people aren't ready now they won't be in June

[FairfieldLife] Re: Edwards affair cost Hillary the nomination

2008-08-12 Thread film_man_pdx
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5553013page=1 I seriously doubt Edwards cost Hillary anything. He was my first choice, followed by Obama. Obama became my first choice when Edwards didn't make the cut. One

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's poem to Swami Muktananda

2008-07-19 Thread film_man_pdx
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from Baba Muktananda, A biography by Swami Parkashananda, Sarasvati Productions, ISBN 978-1-886140-13-4, p. 271-272. On 26th of March [1977], Baba moved to a private bungalow on Juju Beach to recuperate. ... ...

[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi's poem to Swami Muktananda

2008-07-19 Thread film_man_pdx
BTW, I forgot to ask if there were any pictures of the meetings posted anywhere on the internet? TIA

[FairfieldLife] Re: Today is Curtis DeltaBlues Mailloux's birthday

2008-06-29 Thread film_man_pdx
-I got dem old Robert Johnson Sidha Birthday Blues!

[FairfieldLife] Re: Macintosh $1000 retail market share greater than 66% in USA

2008-05-28 Thread film_man_pdx
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] What this really means is that you can by a perfectly fine PC for under $1000, even good laptops. Macs are overpriced and Jobs is laughing all the way to the bank. Jobs probably is laughing. I just ordered

[FairfieldLife] Re: MRI study on nuns

2006-08-30 Thread film_man_pdx
This is an interesting article with a flaw on the scientist part: They make the assumption that remembering or reliving process that the mind is doing is the same as the actual, present time, in the now, experience of God. Memory just isn't the same as experience, as intense as those