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last week i took a train to sydney with some other poets and herewith is the efflusion: train train takes the mind train takes the heart train cuts through hills train knows the way the low strung out tide of rising rails and fall the talk of all the town is gliding before all a … Read more
I recently read about an interesting study that found that removing mistletoes from eucalyptus trees actually caused biodiversity to further deteriorate, particularly in the number of insect eating bird species present in the forest. Mistletoe is often considered a sort of pest as it is parasitic to its host tree. Anyone who has spent time … Read more
Attended a really interesting talk last week, the ANU’s Jager Hales lecture which this year was given by Professor Edouard Bard (Collège de France & CEREGE Univ. Aix-Marseille, France) about the end of the last ice age, where from about 18,000 to 10,000 years ago the Earth slowly thawed out. It wasn’t a process that … Read more
I read two poems, edit and the Pact at the recent Poets for Peace event and they were well received by the Southside Poets. I liked the venue, Manning Clark House which was full of old books and winter sun streaming brightly in. It made me laugh to see photos of my old agriculture teacher … Read more
In recent posts I have mused on new mental techniques like ‘pistons’ in the mind, and also on the mind experiencing time as dimension(s) beyond the three of the material world. I’m going to work these ideas together here a little more. Lets conduct an experiment. We are sealed in a room, without windows or … Read more
i have in mind a new kind of religion that explains everything. i’m certain that i will get it all right this time. there is an opening salvo on my wardrobe blog. the eternal play of light and dark, matter and spirit, is just the interaction of the finite and the infinite. i call finite … Read more
I have had lots of ideas flowing freely through my head of late but I haven’t had time to get them all down. Time is the limiter, flattening the peaks of our imagination. I have also been music processing lately, and had an insight into how compression is the bowl to the porridge of sound recording. … Read more
Good to read the article in the telegraph about the prohibition of pot coming to an end. I do hope that pot becomes legal, it is such an peaceful drug. Update: and coming from the other side, today I read an article in the Conversation calling for a ban on tobacco in Australia. Two smokable … Read more
Couple o things. First, I want to plug the ‘iterated dynamics’ Fractint for windows beta by Richard Thompson, available at Legalize Adulthood. I spent many long hours with fractint on my old 386 and my 586. I’m looking forward to speedy fractal generation in my new Sandybridge i3, and will post some new juicy images … Read more
St valentines day, how exciting. A new mood for the planet for a day. We are all lovers with each other. A skipping rope fillip from google. Except, some of us are picky. I wonder what soulmates are, perhaps just an illusion, collusion, allusion, alluria. I write about lovers but i have never had any. … Read more
I have finally released all my work here into the public domain for good. I first released some of my work onto the public domain about three years ago, but then wavered, and put a creative commons license on new work for a time instead. But I have come full circle now and decided that … Read more