I just pulled the sliding door to the patio closed and a gecko [lizard] fell down and hit me on the forehead, bounced onto my top lip and hit the floor before running away.
I did not scream. I did not go all girly. If I wake up in the morning with mutant powers I vow to take them in my stride and make the world a better place.
The damn gecko however, is an endangered species. No one touches the Flamingo Dancer unless I give them permission.
- 09:45 How is it almost 10am already? This morning is going by quickly. #
- 21:40 Finally decided on a library book to read - twitpic.com/plgwh #
- 21:59 @ycgonzalez me neither. #
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In Biblical times, the Scapegoat was an important community ritual, whereby a litany of the sins and tribulations of the tribe were recited, and symbolically laden onto the back of a goat. The goat was then released into the desert, to bear their burdens away.
A cleansing had occurred, through the ritual of naming and atonement.
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But scapegoating isn’t about ritual anymore, is it?
We don’t make masks, or sacrifice goats – we sacrifice people – people who challenge our status quo, make us feel uncomfortable, do things we don’t agree with or think are ‘right’ – or people who fail to do what we have decided they ’should have’ done. Scapegoats are people who are just plain vulnerable to the hostile social, psychological discrediting routine some people use to shift accountability, responsibility, guilt and blame away from themselves. As was said in a recent Tricycle post, “if you want to hurt someone, demonize them first.”
Scapegoats are sisters, brothers, fathers, mothers, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, lovers, husbands, wives, ex-anyones, co-workers – they sit beside you in restaurants, on buses, and at your dinner table.
Scapegoats are never born. They are made.
Scapegoat could be me …
or you.
Thoughts to ponder:
- Do you feel you have been scapegoated in your family?
- Can you be self aware enough to see where you may have scapegoated others in your family?
- What might change in your family if people could deal openly and compassionately with the issue of scapegoating?
Some of Papa's photos mum found in an old album.
Diggers Ball, rural NSW - 1952.
It goes without saying....
I definitely disapprove....
HP joined the microcomputer craze in 1979 with their Series 80s computers. These were usual and actually more like an followup to their calculators. They utilized a custom 8-bit processor made by HP. It had nifty non-standard features. For one thing lots of registers (64 of them) and the system was designed to work with BCD just like a calculator. It supported natively 12 digits with exponents to 499 (IIRC). The first release (HP 85) used a built in tape drive. Again very unusual. When diskette support was released, they chose HP-IB (GP-IB or IEEE-488 nowdays) instrument bus.
This example was picked up at an University of Kentuck Surplus auction. It is an HP 86B with 3 memory cartridges and a ROM expansion cartridge. Hence its total RAM is 448K. Not bad for the early 80s. Too bad it only ran HP series 80s software. Also it would not run the HP 85 binaries! The HP series 80s computers were to some extent incompatible with each other. The series was discontinued in 1984.
EDIT: I believe the only thing I have used it for was as a calculator.
Monitor was bought at Goodwill
Memory expansion was by cartridges like many other systems of the time.
ROM expansion used this carrier with places for individual chips. Very much aimed at the engineer market.
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Today, while we were walking, I was thinking of a comment Apolline had left on my Missing Strangers post about social movements and urbanization. We turned a corner and here was exactly what I had been imagining loneliness all together to look like:
Still in the learning process of using time wisely.
The corporate side of the company is going to change into a new office. It is still the same company compound but we are moving to a diff building. Departments like Finance, Sales & Marketing, Human Resource and the GM Office are shifting to the new office. Flooding with card boxes and tapes, all of us are busy packing up. It is not an easy task to do as we all have tons of documents to mover over. The packing up can be describe as doing a physical work out in the office. The new office is fully renovated, with new furniture and fittings and now with a room shared by other 3 colleagues. No longer need to always keep document and lock them in the drawers/cabinets. Now all we need to do is to close and lock the door. Btw, due to some classification work content... we need to lock our documents and the security is very tight. Kind of looking forward to the move but the thought of packing and unpacking is enough to tired you out. Besides, don't think i be staying in the department for long as be graduating from the course soon. I'm more looking for next year graduation from the course and moving to a new job scope. The reason why i've picked up study again is because of wanting to do something new, learn more things, apply what i've learn in the study to work and most important is... it's time to build a career instead of doing a job. The future is bright!
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