Monthly Archives: October, 2008

Some Study Resources (by Danaeah Ballinger)

As we start to discuss Jack Kornfield’s book, A Path With a Heart, there is a wealth of material on the website for Spirit Rock, the Meditation Center where Jack teaches and of which he is a co-founder: http://www.spiritrock.org/ Follow the links to Vipassana 101, and the audio resources for a number of recorded talks. [...]

Cool Music Tools – Power Tab (Free) & Guitar Pro

The Fall is coming in, and I have been home slowly getting over the flu. In Oregon, when the skies start going gray and the trees outside my window start turning shades of yellow them red, it is the perfect time to stay home and appreciate the time that a good flu can give you. [...]

Presidential Candidates Funny

  A few days ago McCain and Obama were at the Alfred E Smith dinner.  John McCain was actually much funnier than I ever imagined.  Here are the clips from the dinner if you have not seen them yet.  Very funny. Enjoy!   [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.724168&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] more about “Sen. John McCain – 2008 Al Smith Dinn…“, [...]

I’m not George Bush – And other strange photos

Morphing software is cool huh… had to try it McCain as Zombie? Today there was a news report that McCain is actually a zombie… this one cracked me up. From: http://actionnooz.com/news/?p=2042 So funny See I knew he switched to democrat before the last debate … Wild way to get the Democrat vote. Maybe the Republicans [...]

Random thoughts during the last debate

McCain is doing a lot better than the previous debates, but boy he is still awful. Obama is shining..  Obama seems a thoughtful, detail oriented, articulate, considerate, a seemingly caring person. Obama is just plain out-intelligencing McCain. I pity McCain.  I am listening but he just cannot explain to me clearly what he would do.  [...]

Discussion Notes October 14th – Concentration Part III

We started our discussions at our new place. Yay! The friends who joined us today were Dogen Coldstream, Renwick Tomsen, Danaeah Ballinger, Solari Georgia, and new friend Mavrick Aero and my lion self. [17:45] : Dogen Coldstream sounds the friendship bell… [17:45] : A reminder to be… mindful… [17:55] Dharma Voyager: hey there [17:55] Danaeah [...]

Issues around renting land in Second Life

Since I have started talking about the various problems I had run into renting land from other than the Lindens in Second Life, others have mentioned to me that they have run into the same type of problems.  (Check out the post Why you shouldn’t rent from FairChang a SL horror story for more details). [...]

Putting the pieces of my Second Life back together

After the great FairChang hurricane that ended up destroying my property and shipping it to me in random sized pieces, (read the post “Why you shouldn’t rent from FairChang – A SL Horror Story” for the details,) Dogen and I decided to find us some linden land. What we found was much larger, allows much [...]

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