more and more, everyone is family -- really an adventure, just Sondra Spies and I jumping to a rented small house in Imperial Beach a month ago -- we slept on the beach sand yesterday afternoon for an hour, then had mocha by a long tourist pier, then watched chess players, and I gave her a warm-up teaching game, as the sun settled, our first chess since I turned her into a happy player by carefully losing to her for a year about 3 years ago -- ask your Tibetan friend about his spiritual adventures -- they're getting very advanced with their catalytic penetration of all facets of global civilization -- India was cunning to welcome them after 1950 -- I just got absorbed with
http://www.not-knowing.com/is-there-any-point-in-a-practice-article#.TwXixtTV2So My second degree, self-awarded, WWBT Woo Woo Big Time first was SfDb Santa Fe Ding Bat for 38 years there yeah, Rich On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:31 AM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rick, > > I wondered if my terse, snippy little remark might get a counter > response. Thanks for clarifying you thoughts on the matter. > > Just so you know, I think you do good work, despite my occasional > philosophical disagreements I have with some of your opinions and > perceptions. To disagree is just a facet life. > > The initial point I was trying to make is that I'm constantly being > barraged with SPAM informing me of the fact that I can get an iPad (or > some other hi-tec product) really cheap if I just click on the > following link. Most of this stuff is just plain SPAM aka B&LLSH#T! > Regardless of whether my original analysis was accurate or not, what > you posted initially looked to me like you had done nothing more than > perform a cut & past of a SPAM message, and then you posted it on > vortex-l. > > I suspect I wouldn't have retaliated if you had simply added something > personal at the beginning, something personally written for which I > knew came directly from you (your own fingertips), something to the > effect that you discovered what appears to be a very innovative > business effort to get technology into the needy hands of the > developing world. I think this is a very good idea. Adding something > personal would have at least alerted me to the effect that what comes > next is something important to you and that you wanted to share it > within the Vort Collective. > > Just a suggestion. > > I'm sure I will have more conflicts with you in our future! ;-) > > PS: In our building we have a Tibetan refugee who works down in the > scanning department. His grasp of English is slowly getting better. He > is in charge of running and operating several $20,000 high volume > scanners. He's pretty good at it. He's a cool, philosophical dude. > I've enjoyed talking to him about some of his childhood adventures, > traveling across the mountains as a small child, escaping from Tibet > into India. > > Regards > Steven Vincent Johnson > www.OrionWorks.com > www.zazzle.com/orionworks >
