My Brothers Wedding

I had the pleasure of doing the photography for my brothers wedding, while it was a lot of work I found it rewarding, here are some of the my favourite photos.

By defending being Gay we all make it diffrent.

I was listening to morning radio and the announcer was going on about how a local sitcom has introduced a gay character and that was fine. He then wanted people to call in with their opinions, as you would guess you have the people who demand that it not be shown and then people who are gay calling up saying they didn’t choose this life style and on it went.

One thing that stuck me like a truck; Because our media attempts to support people who are gay this creates a sense that being gay is different enough from “everyone else” that its worth talking point. Well people don’t think like that, if its big enough to make a fuss about, its different! When stuff is different then its bad.

Working on this premise I would suggest that talking about “gay” people be stopped and move them into the “so what” category the same way heterosexuals are, you don’t see heterosexual people “fighting for their right” or “Heterosexual pride parade” the fact that these movements exist cause the people who are not gay instantly put them into the bad basket, no amount of “its ok” is going to change that. What is going to change, is when you see same sex couples together as “so what”!

Your gay! “SO WHAT!” get on with life.

Corporation Puppet!

I have been thinking about my life and how I got here the choices I made to get me here I have come to relise that most of them were not really made by me but by some corporate PR department/consulting firm.

It’s disturbing to think that from the day I was born my life has been manipulated so that I grew up to become an all consuming being for the sake of generating more revenue for corporations around the world. I have only begun to realise the impact this has had on my purchasing choices, everything from my house to the toothpaste, its all been through manipulation of my primal instinct to be instantly gratified and to fill some mythical “desire” that I have.

I have been thinking can I really avoid or even eliminate this manipulation now that I know it exists?
How can one man fight a well oiled system of manipulation that has existed for generations?
What if we all put the media on a black ban for 1 week?
How would this effect the corporations and government?
Would this cause panic?
Would this create a sense of control within the population?
Has the majority of the population been manipulated to the point of no return?
Do people really want to be free from these chains?

So many questions and none that I have an answer for right now, I wouldn’t even know how to approach each question for discussion and thought. So I have resigned myself to think about each question on its own or with its consequence and see were it leads me.

Motorcyclist that Think the cars owe them!

It astounds me how many motorcyclist believe that car drivers owe them!  Just to be clear, I ride a motorcycle every day into work and I tend to see a lot of things that you would otherwise miss unless you were a rider.  

This morning on the way in, I was following a motorcyclist lane split as I do most mornings it was all going as normal until the gap between two cars was not wide enough for the motorcyclist to get through.  This is when the bullshit antics started  he would rev his engine, shake his hand at them while screaming obscenities  at them like they owe him..

What a joke! Car drivers owe us riders nothing, when one of them moves out of my way I consider it a selfes act of kindness towards motorcyclists.  I thank them if I can, this type of behavour should always be responded in kind. 

If  the driver doesn’t want to move then I simply wait for the opportunity to get past,  if they deliberately block me from getting past I pull back and wait, because they owe me nothing as I am just another user of the road.  

I just wanted to put this out there for people who drive that not all motorcyclists are pricks and we do appreciate when you move out of the way.  I would just like to say a big thank you, you make my day when ever you allow me to lane split past you, even when your not expecting it.

What Long term means in IT

I have learned two things about time and planning when it comes to IT:

1. Long term means 3 months!
2. Temporary means 7 years!

Victorian Fires

Vehicles on the Yea Road near Kinglake, I used to do weekend rides along this road. Photo: John Woudstra

I can’t help but think about all those families that died over the weekend, there is a sadness in my heart that just won’t go away.  Australian bush-fires in the past have been known to be aggressive and unpredictable, but this one was just completely out of control.  What makes this even worse is that someone actually lit it win intent to cause a fire and as a consequence cause the untimely death of 100+ people!

When I think about this arsonist, I only have destructive thoughts towards them; like burning them putting out the flames and letting them writhe in pain until they die.  These are not good thoughts but I can’t help it,  why should these people get to live and these other 100 people die?  I know these people aren’t innocent by any means but they also do not deserve to die engulfed in flames they deserve to die in their sleep after living a LONG and fruitful life.

Events like this always cause greif within our community for these people, it also makes us take stock of our own lives,  how short they really are, are we living them as fully as we would like to? some of us might be, but the rest of us are just walking around like living dead, Seize the day is the biggest thought in my head today.

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Vonnegut’s Advice on writing short stories.

I was jumping around the web and found a great little video that someone put together that had advice from Vonnegut about writing short stories here it is. I enjoyed it so much I figured I would blog it

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things – reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and inocent your characters are make awful things happen to them in order that your reader see what they are made of.
7. Write to please one person. If you write to please the world your story will get pneumonia.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To Heck with suspense readers should have such a complete understanding of the book that if the last few pages were eaten by cockroaches they would be able to finish the story themselves.

Atheist – yes I am one and proud

I have been reading a lot about atheists, it makes me very happy that finally people who don’t believe in God are being vocal about their views.  Far too long have we hidden away from the public eye or called ourselves agnostic because this  is socially acceptable.

Interesting Universal Point

I had a read of this slashdot story

“If the universe is teeming with advanced civilizations capable of communicating over interstellar distances, then surely we ought to have seen them by now. That’s the gist of a paradoxical line of reasoning put forward by the physicist Enrico Fermi in 1950. The so-called Fermi Paradox has haunted SETI researchers ever since. Not least because if the number of intelligent civilizations capable of communication in our galaxy is greater than 1, then we should eventually hear from them. Now one astrophysicist says this thinking fails to take into account the limit to how far a signal from ET can travel before it becomes too faint to hear. Factor that in and everything changes. Assuming the average communicating civilization has a lifetime of 1,000 years, ten times longer than Earth has been broadcasting, and has a signal horizon of 1,000 light-years, you need a minimum of over 300 communicating civilizations in the Milky Way to ensure that you’ll see one of them. Any less than that and the chances are that they’ll live out their days entirely ignorant of each other’s existence. Paradox solved, right?”

My initial thought on this was, what IF every civilisation in our known universe is up to the same stage of development as us?  So No-One within the universe has the technology to transmit outside of what we do now and that’s the reason we have not heard from any civilisations.

Just my thought.

GTD – Experiment gone bad

Well I thought it would be easy, but alas its all over the place I am lucky if I could organize a fuck in a whore house at the moment.

I am in a worse state then I was last August, and now I am in the bottom of the hole looking up trying to work out if I need someone to throw down a rope or I have to start carving steps in the sand to try and climb back out. I suspect its going to be the steps as no-one can really help me except myself.

At this moment I am not even sure how I should approach getting my life re-organised, as always there are so many options been presented to me and in the past i have gotten so caught up in the technology of the hows and not actually doing the Do’s which is what been organised is all about.

Well its time I sat down with GTD and simply do what he suggests to get started again, I am just not looking forward to it.. How strange is that I want to be organised but not willing to do the hard yards, makes me wonder were that comes from! More internalising required to work out the event that caused that way of thinking.

Peter Out