Comments on: Born Off-Topic http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/28/born-off-topic/ sensitivitytothings.com Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:08:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: pavitrata http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/28/born-off-topic/#comment-2176 pavitrata Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:13:09 +0000 http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/28/born-off-topic/#comment-2176 Hey, thats a great looking page, (Sri Chinmoy Music) and good links. I really like the celestial colour palette and lofty view! Not sure about the big white borders either side. Is that some constraint of the format or template? I wouldn't put much faith in that new front page Limey/Pom contributor...he has a reputation for being unreliable, evasive and unaccountable. He has caused me problems on more than a few occasions. Scurrilous chap. pip-pip Pavitrata BTW do you know ANYONE in computerloka who actually snax out on healthy food? When you are dealing with all that cyberstuff muesli and carrot juice just don't do it! Hey, thats a great looking page, (Sri Chinmoy Music) and good links. I really like the celestial colour palette and lofty view! Not sure about the big white borders either side. Is that some constraint of the format or template?

I wouldn’t put much faith in that new front page Limey/Pom contributor…he has a reputation for being unreliable, evasive and unaccountable. He has caused me problems on more than a few occasions. Scurrilous chap.

pip-pip
Pavitrata
BTW do you know ANYONE in computerloka who actually snax out on healthy food? When you are dealing with all that cyberstuff muesli and carrot juice just don’t do it!

]]> By: John Gillespie http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/28/born-off-topic/#comment-2062 John Gillespie Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:43:35 +0000 http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/28/born-off-topic/#comment-2062 Hi Pavitrata. I'd better not let on that I do print, web and video for living then had I? ;-) Here’s one example of my recent-ish handiwork: <a href="http://www.srichinmoymusic.com" title="Sri Chinmoy Music" rel="nofollow">Sri Chinmoy Music</a>. The look of my inner being? Ten arms maybe, but also with ten stomachs, perched atop a mountain of deep fried salty snacks, arising volcano like from an ocean of caffeine. Talking of unfinished stories, it is talk no longer—have you seen the <a href="http://sensitivitytothings.com/2008/06/18/from-out-of-the-ether-a-golden-egg/" rel="nofollow">frontpage</a> today? A new story inspired and finished by a reader, and a cheerful one at that! John Gillespies last blog post..<a href="http://sensitivitytothings.com/2008/06/18/from-out-of-the-ether-a-golden-egg/" rel="nofollow">From Out of the Ether a Golden Egg</a> Hi Pavitrata. I’d better not let on that I do print, web and video for living then had I? ;-) Here’s one example of my recent-ish handiwork: Sri Chinmoy Music.

The look of my inner being? Ten arms maybe, but also with ten stomachs, perched atop a mountain of deep fried salty snacks, arising volcano like from an ocean of caffeine.

Talking of unfinished stories, it is talk no longer—have you seen the frontpage today? A new story inspired and finished by a reader, and a cheerful one at that!

John Gillespies last blog post..From Out of the Ether a Golden Egg

]]> By: pavitrata http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/28/born-off-topic/#comment-2059 pavitrata Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:12:56 +0000 http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/28/born-off-topic/#comment-2059 Yikes, a mere spratling, I! Your inner being must look like one of the ten armed Hindu deities, but instead of fruit, maces and conches swirling etc., it would be Macs, mice, discs, kettles and running shoes, and not forgetting bubbles containing the many worlds of blogs and posts and passing pipsqueaks such as I!! Now there's an idea for a techno-collage in Illustrator or Photoshop, all in radiant sunburst colours! Your mistake was telling me about Dreamweaver, as I now have someone I can plague about cascading style sheets and other such mysteries of the universe that at the moment are unfathomable to me. But I digress: procrastinate no longer, start with one unfinished story, finish it, or put it on the blog for others to add to and your readers can have a go at finishing it. What say you, are you up for that? pip-pip Pavitrata Yikes, a mere spratling, I! Your inner being must look like one of the ten armed Hindu deities, but instead of fruit, maces and conches swirling etc., it would be Macs, mice, discs, kettles and running shoes, and not forgetting bubbles containing the many worlds of blogs and posts and passing pipsqueaks such as I!! Now there’s an idea for a techno-collage in Illustrator or Photoshop, all in radiant sunburst colours!
Your mistake was telling me about Dreamweaver, as I now have someone I can plague about cascading style sheets and other such mysteries of the universe that at the moment are unfathomable to me.
But I digress: procrastinate no longer, start with one unfinished story, finish it, or put it on the blog for others to add to and your readers can have a go at finishing it. What say you, are you up for that?

pip-pip
Pavitrata

]]> By: John Gillespie http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/28/born-off-topic/#comment-2041 John Gillespie Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:18:08 +0000 http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/28/born-off-topic/#comment-2041 Maximising our short time on Earth is good I say! To such ends, and to avoid as long as possible The End, I also have 2 monitors, burn CD's and DVD's while rendering videos while running a Virtual PC while working in InDesign and Illustrator and Photoshop and Dreamweaver simultaneously, not to mention uploading files via Transmit and listening to music on iTunes. And I will usually have several dozen webpages open in tabs in Firefox: some story ideas tagged for future blog posts, others just permanent distractions, while simultaneously boiling the kettle for a cup of tea and waiting for the toast to pop. All of the above can also occur while I head out the door for a run. And I haven't mentioned my writing folder, where several dozen stories sit in states near to not at all finished, all awaiting my ever procrastinating attention... Maximising our short time on Earth is good I say! To such ends, and to avoid as long as possible The End, I also have 2 monitors, burn CD’s and DVD’s while rendering videos while running a Virtual PC while working in InDesign and Illustrator and Photoshop and Dreamweaver simultaneously, not to mention uploading files via Transmit and listening to music on iTunes.

And I will usually have several dozen webpages open in tabs in Firefox: some story ideas tagged for future blog posts, others just permanent distractions, while simultaneously boiling the kettle for a cup of tea and waiting for the toast to pop.

All of the above can also occur while I head out the door for a run.

And I haven’t mentioned my writing folder, where several dozen stories sit in states near to not at all finished, all awaiting my ever procrastinating attention…

]]> By: pavitrata http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/28/born-off-topic/#comment-2040 pavitrata Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:07:25 +0000 http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/28/born-off-topic/#comment-2040 A worthy topic, born off topic! I spend my life in this loka. Alas, I have gone the other way, and have become so obsessed with maximising this short time on earth that I have...that I have....got a second PC monitor. Now I am psychotic off-topic, and can multi-task within multi-task, watch YouTube while waiting for that monster layered Photoshop file to save. This tragic descent into cyberswamp has also seen me this week work out how at the flip of a shortcut key I can switch the keyboard from English to Russian so I can be emailing in English on the one hand and working on a Russian web page on the other. This would actually be impressive if I spoke and wrote Russian. Don't be fooled, I don't, it is all copy and paste from a kindly soul in Moscow doing all the work for me. However, this frantic diversity has its advantages. I can now whip up a passable rocket and celery salad and pita bread with hummus, whilst microwaving soup and cueing up the latest edition of Seinfeld (Season 9 hit the shops last week) and settling in to my big armchair all set to munch/slurp and hit 'play' on the remote, all in the space of seven minutes. Dang, I forgot the Tabasco! I would give the world to be able to do one thing at a time well! A worthy topic, born off topic! I spend my life in this loka. Alas, I have gone the other way, and have become so obsessed with maximising this short time on earth that I have…that I have….got a second PC monitor. Now I am psychotic off-topic, and can multi-task within multi-task, watch YouTube while waiting for that monster layered Photoshop file to save. This tragic descent into cyberswamp has also seen me this week work out how at the flip of a shortcut key I can switch the keyboard from English to Russian so I can be emailing in English on the one hand and working on a Russian web page on the other. This would actually be impressive if I spoke and wrote Russian. Don’t be fooled, I don’t, it is all copy and paste from a kindly soul in Moscow doing all the work for me. However, this frantic diversity has its advantages. I can now whip up a passable rocket and celery salad and pita bread with hummus, whilst microwaving soup and cueing up the latest edition of Seinfeld (Season 9 hit the shops last week) and settling in to my big armchair all set to munch/slurp and hit ‘play’ on the remote, all in the space of seven minutes. Dang, I forgot the Tabasco! I would give the world to be able to do one thing at a time well!

]]> By: John Gillespie http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/28/born-off-topic/#comment-1445 John Gillespie Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:34:16 +0000 http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/28/born-off-topic/#comment-1445 Well that's a little off-topic Damion. Well that’s a little off-topic Damion.

]]> By: Damion Kutaeff http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/28/born-off-topic/#comment-1444 Damion Kutaeff Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:23:31 +0000 http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/28/born-off-topic/#comment-1444 Hello everybody, my name is Damion, and I'm glad to join your community, and wish to assist as far as possible. Hello everybody, my name is Damion, and I’m glad to join your community, and wish to assist as far as possible.

]]> By: John Gillespie http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/28/born-off-topic/#comment-482 John Gillespie Tue, 29 May 2007 03:04:59 +0000 http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/28/born-off-topic/#comment-482 Thank-you very much Savannah. Believe it or not it is comments—sentiments really—like yours for which I am writing this blog. I myself may not always feel inspired, but I do intend on occasion to write things that might be, and while yes my pen is somewhat stuck in a groove on this point, meditation is, for me at least, an in-exhaustively inspiring topic. Thanks also Camille—glad to be acquainted with a fellow runner and meditator! Yes it’s true—the always just over the horizon lustre of the world ideas has its allure, but it is hard to beat the satisfaction of turning them into hold-in-your hand accomplishments. I’ll get there one day myself... Thank-you very much Savannah. Believe it or not it is comments—sentiments really—like yours for which I am writing this blog. I myself may not always feel inspired, but I do intend on occasion to write things that might be, and while yes my pen is somewhat stuck in a groove on this point, meditation is, for me at least, an in-exhaustively inspiring topic.

Thanks also Camille—glad to be acquainted with a fellow runner and meditator! Yes it’s true—the always just over the horizon lustre of the world ideas has its allure, but it is hard to beat the satisfaction of turning them into hold-in-your hand accomplishments. I’ll get there one day myself…

]]> By: Camille Crawford http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/28/born-off-topic/#comment-481 Camille Crawford Mon, 28 May 2007 21:54:11 +0000 http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/28/born-off-topic/#comment-481 Hey John... 1, 4, and 5 I do too. 2 and 3 I probably should do. I'm happy to hear you point out that 'taking in' can become out of balance. I'm a sponge at times. Then, when it gets to be too much I have to start 'doing' something to give it back. The blog helps with a little of that and 'reapplying' myself to being good at my job or expressing myself creatively does too. Someone commented recently on my blog that my ideas were like 'orchids and butterflies... i should chase down hard just one of them for a while'. It's still sitting with me and here you are 'born off-topic', sweetly related in theory. Enjoyed this post :smile: Hey John… 1, 4, and 5 I do too. 2 and 3 I probably should do. I’m happy to hear you point out that ‘taking in’ can become out of balance. I’m a sponge at times. Then, when it gets to be too much I have to start ‘doing’ something to give it back. The blog helps with a little of that and ‘reapplying’ myself to being good at my job or expressing myself creatively does too.
Someone commented recently on my blog that my ideas were like ‘orchids and butterflies… i should chase down hard just one of them for a while’. It’s still sitting with me and here you are ‘born off-topic’, sweetly related in theory.

Enjoyed this post :smile:

]]> By: savannah http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/28/born-off-topic/#comment-480 savannah Mon, 28 May 2007 21:21:39 +0000 http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/05/28/born-off-topic/#comment-480 inspiring, john! seriously. today has been a total and complete over the edge downer and once again i'm reminded of how remiss i have been for the last 2 weeks in truly caring for myself... in this world, we touch people in ways we sometimes never know...be well, sugar. inspiring, john! seriously. today has been a total and complete over the edge downer and once again i’m reminded of how remiss i have been for the last 2 weeks in truly caring for myself…

in this world, we touch people in ways we sometimes never know…be well, sugar.

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