tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38810669258444159802024-03-12T22:04:33.997-07:00mizangiedonyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.comBlogger583125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881066925844415980.post-38250366031637982652012-04-11T05:40:00.001-07:002012-04-11T05:40:53.590-07:00Left Overs From The Hunger Games<div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Last night my family and I saw The Hunger Games midnight release. It was a lot of fun though for us all to go we had to save up some…food alone…ugh, the prices. We’ve really enjoyed the books and it’s been fun to go to the show after that…sort of the icing on the cake. I thought all in all they did a good job adapting the story to the big screen…it’s quite a dark show though, make no mistake and the books…darker still. I knew after reading the last book I really wanted to see the show. Closing the back cover left me excited for what it would be like in the theater</span></div></blockquote><br />
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<blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">. If you’ve not read it I recommend it…three books…all worth the read. </span></div><span style="font-size: large;">Okay, there’s The Hunger Games…where do the left overs come in? Well, since I had limited time yesterday I kept some photos and waited until today to post. The weather is really amazing right now</span></blockquote><br />
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<blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">. The skies are beautiful, the buds are beginning to show themselves and the sun has that warmth showing through that I’ve so longed for<img height="298" src="http://inlinethumb54.webshots.com/47733/2208198640035234463S425x425Q85.jpg" width="400" /></span></blockquote><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">. The greens of spring have been quite slow to show but it is slowly making itself known<img src="http://inlinethumb27.webshots.com/47962/2880735080035234463S425x425Q85.jpg" /></span></blockquote><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">. I love when the buds just start popping wide open…as of today these are much more open then in this photo<img src="http://inlinethumb01.webshots.com/48704/2763135100035234463S425x425Q85.jpg" /></span></blockquote><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">. I�$99m ready for the bleak scene in our backyard to green up, I have to tell you…just look at the dead leaf remnants in our rocks<img src="http://inlinethumb04.webshots.com/44227/2854049960035234463S425x425Q85.jpg" /></span></blockquote><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">. The house finches are so pretty to see. I heard some chirping and looked up to see this handsome little fellow<img src="http://inlinethumb13.webshots.com/49228/2655465810035234463S425x425Q85.jpg" /></span></blockquote><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">. It won’t be long and I’ll be in this spot taking pictures of the storms that roll by on the plains in the spring<img src="http://inlinethumb37.webshots.com/28516/2969241190035234463S425x425Q85.jpg" /></span></blockquote><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">. This little ironwork bird is sitting and waiting for the warmer days to come<img src="http://inlinethumb29.webshots.com/50524/2453673790035234463S425x425Q85.jpg" /></span></blockquote><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">…I can hardly wait! The dead leaves in the rocks will give way to our potted garden<img src="http://inlinethumb25.webshots.com/49496/2038315830035234463S425x425Q85.jpg" /></span></blockquote><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">. This year we’ve got everything from egg plants to Asian peppers…it will be beautiful and tasty! This is the beginning of every*walk I take around here…care to join me</span></blockquote><br />
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<blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">?</span></blockquote></div></div>donyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881066925844415980.post-85429745721867200402012-04-11T05:18:00.001-07:002012-04-11T05:18:41.249-07:00Leavin' on a jet plane....<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>don't know when I'll be back again.</b><br />
<b>Wanna go? 3 seats left.</b><br />
<b>:)</b><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div align="center"><b><span style="font-size: large;">ah, well.</span></b></div><div align="center"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Moving on......</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4hoHBe53Jx6HjKvfeuht56yV4X4Zvz6d2kX1twyVVleWonIu-vHOe63vIPfTGIr5wPcWqh_4R8XSAsrdYKMQF4Ee9nmKmrFT7vuWTLVHlIutW7slsB2G0-kCh8l6cWwBF762e-YcodrY/s1600/mana.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img aea="true" border="0" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4hoHBe53Jx6HjKvfeuht56yV4X4Zvz6d2kX1twyVVleWonIu-vHOe63vIPfTGIr5wPcWqh_4R8XSAsrdYKMQF4Ee9nmKmrFT7vuWTLVHlIutW7slsB2G0-kCh8l6cWwBF762e-YcodrY/s640/mana.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div align="center"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Got my toes did by a munchkin</span></b></div><div align="center"><b><span style="font-size: large;">the other day!</span></b></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;">:)</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Have a great day!</span></div>donyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881066925844415980.post-13011993758701113192012-04-11T05:18:00.000-07:002012-04-11T05:18:00.120-07:00Wordless Wednesday....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZWapy3mvi-j-f6dtoXJSMRcyRL6vxSKVEKmtC8GG5alq69fzVu80v39GtCnYU4KdI2zFGHI6U9BBHk_ChVlymYLy7aDm6x9tG2W21IecywTOJL-CKZz9XUins4AqoNF0gSWtTWN54ziA/s1600/525220_396686297027867_100000595005573_1493692_507800889_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" nda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZWapy3mvi-j-f6dtoXJSMRcyRL6vxSKVEKmtC8GG5alq69fzVu80v39GtCnYU4KdI2zFGHI6U9BBHk_ChVlymYLy7aDm6x9tG2W21IecywTOJL-CKZz9XUins4AqoNF0gSWtTWN54ziA/s400/525220_396686297027867_100000595005573_1493692_507800889_n.jpg" width="300px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidtaHoL09URIgp7LW9Sub9w6QEeio71hEYme86W5eq3zEg8-2WcmqCvmF7q4T0quEw08Cqri14uxzxPAiajfrDZfvJtu_AOtY-0SgoCDmODMuuWBE0eSS24hW2KOwIpi-yYj12VJCUVUY/s1600/554619_396673607029136_100000595005573_1493659_1232547935_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" nda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidtaHoL09URIgp7LW9Sub9w6QEeio71hEYme86W5eq3zEg8-2WcmqCvmF7q4T0quEw08Cqri14uxzxPAiajfrDZfvJtu_AOtY-0SgoCDmODMuuWBE0eSS24hW2KOwIpi-yYj12VJCUVUY/s320/554619_396673607029136_100000595005573_1493659_1232547935_n.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div><b><span style="font-size: large;"></span></b><br />
<div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Have a great day!</span></b></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">:)</span></b></div>donyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881066925844415980.post-75074998514310096922012-04-11T05:17:00.002-07:002012-04-11T05:17:51.328-07:00Wallpaper<div class="mobile-photo"><img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5728065653316249586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAbo9HZqFjmXM3ym-guPQtszkwVj3td0O1MmTcA3sZuroLM8goPAnYxQkfykjAkG6LnTv4Fw72kGyu7lg1TZruXw0W4ag_Td1Ytyb3uXDg1MjWTn8F4t-593OqBtml2VXSk3jiWR513to/s640/photo-711847.JPG" width="480" /></div>donyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881066925844415980.post-54389598067866625522012-04-11T05:17:00.001-07:002012-04-11T05:17:29.870-07:00I live without cash – and I manage just fine | Mark Boyle | Environment| guardian.co.ukI live without cash – and I manage just fine | Mark Boyle | Environment | guardian.co.uk:<br />
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<i>After managing a couple of organic food companies made me realise that even "ethical business" would never be quite enough, an afternoon's philosophising with a mate changed everything. We were looking at the world's issues – environmental destruction, sweatshops, factory farms, wars over resources – and wondering which of them we should dedicate our lives to. But I realised that I was looking at the world in the same way a western medical practitioner looks at a patient, seeing symptoms and wondering how to firefight them, without any thought for their root cause. So I decided instead to become a social homeopath, a pro-activist, and to investigate the root cause of these symptoms.<br />
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One of the critical causes of those symptoms is the fact we no longer have to see the direct repercussions our purchases have on the people, environment and animals they affect. The degrees of separation between the consumer and the consumed have increased so much that we're completely unaware of the levels of destruction and suffering embodied in the stuff we buy. The tool that has enabled this separation is money.</i>donyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881066925844415980.post-75778400016578171792012-04-11T05:17:00.000-07:002012-04-11T05:17:21.586-07:00Rysk blåstjärna...[Explore, Front Page 03.04.2012]<img alt="Rysk blåstjärna...[Explore, Front Page 03.04.2012]" border="1" height="333" hspace="4" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7242/7041978329_d55013d048.jpg" vspace="4" width="500" />donyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881066925844415980.post-21382421830944280332012-04-10T07:39:00.000-07:002012-04-11T05:20:59.701-07:00Tuesday toodles....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbQIJ8xek3vfofWD_CU_LK6QUL5Wvowq4IQWEc6At6rStJ5vITLuWeIbsbmUwgHC-Hl9CS6IXM6uaBMqHUrDu8AXGBJoJaqlEwgdAqP7qHaJWp4kubhqjjmvOUjPLwsJE4ry3uSMAx2Lw/s1600/image002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="205px" nda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbQIJ8xek3vfofWD_CU_LK6QUL5Wvowq4IQWEc6At6rStJ5vITLuWeIbsbmUwgHC-Hl9CS6IXM6uaBMqHUrDu8AXGBJoJaqlEwgdAqP7qHaJWp4kubhqjjmvOUjPLwsJE4ry3uSMAx2Lw/s400/image002.jpg" width="400px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguLin-BCyZZIVUeGn1kX5LNOGJdst2nsfSEgytnxl_Dqrdk1weezUlkSy_W1KlrS5bW9pHBc1nRs-N6g9if2n7Xend53p1CHOmk9unYh7qHNB4I9ac5h_PToaUMHarMrkfvtXdQ3sXmHY/s1600/image007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="205px" nda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguLin-BCyZZIVUeGn1kX5LNOGJdst2nsfSEgytnxl_Dqrdk1weezUlkSy_W1KlrS5bW9pHBc1nRs-N6g9if2n7Xend53p1CHOmk9unYh7qHNB4I9ac5h_PToaUMHarMrkfvtXdQ3sXmHY/s400/image007.jpg" width="400px" /></a></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Have a wonderful day!</span></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">:)</span></strong></div>donyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881066925844415980.post-89053871933675380852012-04-09T21:23:00.000-07:002012-04-11T05:20:59.701-07:00Rescue Panther<a href="http://mikedaisey.com/images/panther.jpg" onclick="window.open('http://mikedaisey.com/images/panther.jpg','popup','width=574,height=759,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false"><img src="http://mikedaisey.com/images/panther.jpg" height="616" width="462" border="1" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="Panther" /></a><br />donyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881066925844415980.post-73347071122356863852012-04-09T21:19:00.000-07:002012-04-11T05:20:59.701-07:00Now Can We Start Talking About the Real Foxconn? - Bloomberg<a href="http://go.bloomberg.com/tech-blog/2012-03-20-now-can-we-start-talking-about-the-real-foxconn/#disqus_thread">Now Can We Start Talking About the Real Foxconn? - Bloomberg</a>:<br /><em><br />From the comments~</em><br /><em><br />There are many kinds of truth. Just ask a novelist, an oral historian, an artist...or a playwright. My biggest fear with the explosion of the Daisey story has come true - he wove together multiple true stories into a story with a lot of truth to it, but which was not literally true, and since the inexactitude has come to light, almost every comment on this board has used this as an excuse to downplay the daily injustices that Chinese factory workers face.<br /><br />So their lives are better than if they continued to farm - does that make it ok that MOST of them do not receive legal rates for overtime work? So Apple's a scapegoat when actually EVERYTHING YOU OWN was manufactured under illegal conditions - does that make Apple an angel? (Citation: I worked in Chinese factory consulting and am fluent in Chinese.) Whatever Daisey did, at least he cares about victims of injustice. The rest of you ought to be ashamed.</em><br />donyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881066925844415980.post-52718567674739250392012-04-09T10:25:00.000-07:002012-04-11T05:20:59.701-07:00Cape Cod Theatre Project Will Offer Premieres by Mike Daisey and Neil
LaBute - Playbill.com<a href="http://www.playbill.com/news/article/161563-Cape-Cod-Theatre-Project-Will-Offer-Premieres-by-Mike-Daisey-and-Neil-LaBute">Cape Cod Theatre Project Will Offer Premieres by Mike Daisey and Neil LaBute - Playbill.com</a>:<br /><br /><em>Neil LaBute and monologist Mike Daisey will develop new works as part of the Cape Cod Theatre Project's 18th season this summer in Falmouth, MA.<br /><br />Daisey (The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, The Last Cargo Cult, How Theatre Failed America) will develop a new piece that will launch the season with public performances July 5-7.<br /></em>donyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881066925844415980.post-81504893029737599302012-04-09T09:01:00.000-07:002012-04-11T05:20:59.702-07:00David Sedaris' family of characters | The News Journal |
delawareonline.com<a href="http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20120409/LIFE/204090302/David-Sedaris-family-characters?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CLife%7Cp&nclick_check=1">David Sedaris' family of characters | The News Journal | delawareonline.com</a>:<br /><br /><strong><em>News Journal: </em></strong><em>NPR's "This American Life," a radio program to which you have contributed, recently retracted Mike Daisey's controversial report on Apple factory workers in China after it determined that some of the information was fabricated. Do you think nonfiction writers have a license to embellish?<br /></em><em><br /></em><strong><em>Sedaris: </em></strong><em>There was only one time in my life when I wrote something for "Esquire" as a journalist. I went to a morgue in Phoenix and spent 10 days there. I don't want to be a journalist. It does not interest me. What are you going to do if comedian Chris Rock gets up on stage and says his father beat him until he was black and blue? Are you going to fact-check that? I don't think humor writers should be journalists. I embellish as much as I can get away with.</em><br />donyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881066925844415980.post-28759949008575748652012-04-09T07:29:00.000-07:002012-04-11T05:20:59.702-07:00I Got The Blogger App!<br /><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB08bJHfhUiLN-3C2KiO9VMDtsU7bw8aAPeSTxER9jpoDiFLYe3zz4i9W5ktE66yiBhKpgE88tIB-CVbTohuMD1YwS94_DHa3sn2eYn0x74i0lLf7MXG5A1gYDxHSXgj6B-8KsAkOr2zsr/s1600/blogger-image--106210900.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB08bJHfhUiLN-3C2KiO9VMDtsU7bw8aAPeSTxER9jpoDiFLYe3zz4i9W5ktE66yiBhKpgE88tIB-CVbTohuMD1YwS94_DHa3sn2eYn0x74i0lLf7MXG5A1gYDxHSXgj6B-8KsAkOr2zsr/s200/blogger-image--106210900.jpg" width="200" /></a>Hey there guys! So I recently purchased an iPhone and just yesterday I decided to get the Blogger app! I gotta admit, the app is well laid out and super easy to use. I can now keep you guys updated on the cool stuff that I find or that are happening around the world. Thank you guys for sticking around.</div>donyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881066925844415980.post-30100523130274860602012-04-09T07:10:00.000-07:002012-04-11T05:20:59.702-07:00Spring...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFIuzM12hbvughR8YRyXn5POIztGuPE00nlnmSZVbV21uCsRnry-XyZuakzXfqnuXuwWfcW0niLMO5xDYjEhU6P2LFv9519pbTIztjo_dV7eGIi2OMS56Wxas90xm6rmffzIebo1UvY34/s1600/545682_243056952459510_153731281392078_448441_888932313_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="293px" nda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFIuzM12hbvughR8YRyXn5POIztGuPE00nlnmSZVbV21uCsRnry-XyZuakzXfqnuXuwWfcW0niLMO5xDYjEhU6P2LFv9519pbTIztjo_dV7eGIi2OMS56Wxas90xm6rmffzIebo1UvY34/s400/545682_243056952459510_153731281392078_448441_888932313_n.jpg" width="400px" /></a></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">signifies Hope!</span></strong></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">We had a lovely Easter. My brother took four generations of women out to dinner, (he's a brave man) and a long </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: large;">drive afterwards through some beautiful scenery south of St. Augustine.</span></strong></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">My sis-in-law, her mom, Patti and I. "Granny"</span></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">is 87 and a hoot. She kept us laughing the</span></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">whole time. My brother just drove shaking</span></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">his head back and forth. :)</span></strong></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Speaking of Mike, please keep him in your</span></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">prayers; they're doing more tests today</span></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">to determine why his heart rate doesn't</span></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">increase while they run stress tests.</span></strong></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">HOPE+FAITH my favorite words for today!</span></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">I hope you had a wonderful Easter!</span></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">:)</span></strong></div>donyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881066925844415980.post-89378347916830317182012-04-09T05:19:00.000-07:002012-04-11T05:20:59.702-07:00New HeaderI thought I would leave this for awhile as my header. One of my sons just came back from a visit to NYC to see a relative and some friends. While there and while touring various places, he went to Hyde Park and there..behold! A street with my name. Even spelled correctly with an "e" on the end. <br /><br />I am getting ready to go work out and not sure of the rest of the day but you can be sure that it will be busy. <br /><br />Have a happy! xoxdonyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881066925844415980.post-53543495022806170272012-04-08T14:00:00.000-07:002012-04-11T05:20:59.702-07:00Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive ‘Stupid Games’ -
NYTimes.com<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/magazine/angry-birds-farmville-and-other-hyperaddictive-stupid-games.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all">Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive ‘Stupid Games’ - NYTimes.com</a>:<br /><br /><em>As for my nightmare vision of a world splintered by addiction to stupid games, Lantz had a different perspective. He said that he liked to think Drop7 was not only addictive but also, on some level, about addiction. Games, he told me, are like “homebrew neuroscience” — “a little digital drug you can use to run experiments on your own brain.” Part of the point of letting them seduce you, as Lantz sees it, is to come out the other side a more interesting and self-aware person; more conscious of your habits, weaknesses, desires and strengths. “It’s like heroin that is abstracted or compressed or stylized,” he said. “It gives you a window into your brain that doesn’t crush your brain.”<br /><br />I tried to think about what — if anything — I had learned from this window into my brain. Like their spiritual forefather, Tetris, most stupid games are about walls: building them, scaling them, knocking them down. Walls made of numbers, walls made of digital bricks, walls with green pigs hiding behind them. They’re like miniature boot camps of containment. Ultimately, I realized, these games are also about a more subtle and mysterious form of wall-building: the internal walls we build to compartmentalize our time, our attention, our lives. The legendary game designer Sid Meier once defined a game as, simply, “a series of interesting choices.” Maybe that’s the secret genius of stupid games: they force us to make a series of interesting choices about what matters, moment to moment, in our lives.</em><br />donyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881066925844415980.post-57452258893887633722012-04-08T09:38:00.000-07:002012-04-11T05:20:59.703-07:00How Can We Know The Way?<p> </p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-YsAJRkta5bo/T4G-Petd-0I/AAAAAAAABig/r_hg0VFMPvo/s1600-h/DSCF2895%252520John3%252520-16%252520bg%252520copy%25255B12%25255D.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="DSCF2895 John3 -16 " border="0" alt="DSCF2895 John3 -16 " align="left" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvjgmQJsYrmY567D7KdJ-dEuHjz72eN5Oj2r1iLHCPMg6b0wE4SRKr-rAtQ4n22FAixT5D2Fj-zWOohjGmwOtWvDtVUTJCtTiDOXZ1I7vyafXnCxNVbJNTIag1IhUFy_higr_2UF_nR-I/?imgmax=800" width="184" height="244"></a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><font size="3">Jesus’s disciples felt confused when he talked about going away. “You know the way to the place where I am going,” He told them. Thomas voiced the question burning in all their minds: “Lord we don’t know where you’re going. So how can we know the way? Jesus’s answer was simple and direct: I am the way, the truth and the life. No one goes to the Father except through me.”</font></p> <p><font size="3">It may be popular to claim that many paths lead to God, but that contradicts what the Bible teaches. Jesus taught that access to God can only come through placing our faith in His sacrificial death and resurrection. The way is clear and open to everyone, blocked only by a person’s unwillingness to believe. There is no alternate route. People who denounce the gospel as narrow minded miss the wonder that God provided a way for us to come to Him at all.</font></p> <p><font size="3">Jesus is more than the path to salvation and eternal life: He shows us the way to live a life of true meaning and purpose. Nurturing our relationship with Him and following the directions in God’s Word are the only way to travel. We may be temped to let our life be guided by sources that seem more exciting, but we’ll only end up feeling confused.</font></p> <p><font size="3">Jesus answered him, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one goes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6</font></p> <p><font size="3"></font> </p> <p><font size="3"></font> </p> <p><font size="3">I want to wish you all a Happy Easter as we celebrate the Life, the death and Resurrection of our Savior, Jesus Christ , The Son of Almighty God.</font></p> <p><font size="3">For God so loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son that who so ever believes in Him shall not perish but have Ever Lasting Life. John 3:16. </font></p> <p> </p> <p><font size="3">Love and Care</font></p> <p><font size="3">Dianne :)</font></p> <p><font size="3"></font></p> donyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881066925844415980.post-16521755141824104812012-04-08T08:05:00.000-07:002012-04-11T05:20:59.703-07:00<a href="http://mikedaisey.com/images/gggh.jpeg" onclick="window.open('http://mikedaisey.com/images/gggh.jpeg','popup','width=500,height=394,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false"><img src="http://mikedaisey.com/images/gggh.jpeg" height="394" width="497" border="1" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="Gggh" /></a><br />donyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881066925844415980.post-39949903577694279042012-04-08T05:24:00.000-07:002012-04-11T05:20:59.703-07:00Happy Easter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ8JgF9um5p5q6rWuoBzFb6wB4nL1bbd2LtvlRKFtx5v6cyf-P50NLiOIg0EOj_JrIFMAemrHmES4ddy2QtWokv2fPWiq9hnMHgs9zq1KAQR2MtB4llGR-m8CRU6k0oG6BQT6TwTjNjDqK/s1600/bloodrootDSC_47451.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ8JgF9um5p5q6rWuoBzFb6wB4nL1bbd2LtvlRKFtx5v6cyf-P50NLiOIg0EOj_JrIFMAemrHmES4ddy2QtWokv2fPWiq9hnMHgs9zq1KAQR2MtB4llGR-m8CRU6k0oG6BQT6TwTjNjDqK/s320/bloodrootDSC_47451.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Happy Easter everyone. <br /><br />Like the sun on this flower, He is Risen.donyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881066925844415980.post-994620031646174652012-04-07T09:58:00.000-07:002012-04-11T05:20:59.703-07:00Corporations Flee Right-Wing ALEC: Yet Another Win for Progressives «
2012 The Awakening<a href="http://ascendingstarseed.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/corporations-flee-right-wing-alec-yet-another-win-for-progressives/">Corporations Flee Right-Wing ALEC: Yet Another Win for Progressives « 2012 The Awakening</a>:<br /><br /><em>With all the hubbub over Mike Daisey’s unfortunate embellishments in his spoken-word performance about Foxconn workers, it became easy to lose sight of the truths in Daisey’s work: namely that factory workers at Foxconn do routinely endure unacceptable conditions to make the products that we, as consumers, enjoy on a regular basis. We created the market for those workers’ jobs, and then we allowed our beloved tech companies to get away with not enforcing labor rules as strictly as they should. It’s a situation that was not okay before Daisey infamously lied to This American Life fact-checkers, and it is a situation that is not okay now.<br /><br />The good news is that activists have made at least some headway in campaigns targeting Apple for its lax enforcement of labor rules in China. Both Daisey’s story and a subsequent investigation in the New York Times helped prompt a new wave of public interest in Foxconn worker conditions earlier this year (we can thank Daisey for that). Change.org supporters and other activists ran with that interest, pulling in more than 250,000 signatures for a petition targeting Apple and organizing protests around the world.<br /><br />Soon after, watchdog group the Fair Labor Association released a new report on worker conditions at the plant, finding “at least 43 violations of Chinese laws and regulations, and numerous instances where Foxconn defied industry codes of conduct by having employees work more than 60 hours a week, and sometimes more than 11 days in a row,” according to the Times. In response, Foxconn said it would “work with Apple to carry out [a] remediation program, developed by both our companies.” Although there is legitimate concern about how much of an impact these changes will have, and when they will be implemented, the changes could, per the Times, “signal a new, wide-reaching change in working conditions throughout China.”<br /><br />It may not be enough, but it is a significant step forward that activists (and yes, Mike Daisey) should celebrate.<br /></em>donyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881066925844415980.post-22336916552117978522012-04-07T08:09:00.000-07:002012-04-11T05:20:59.703-07:00Actor slits his own throat as knife switch turns fiction into reality |
Stage | The Guardian<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/11/actor-slits-throat?fb_action_ids=998242047880%2C10150787614063200&fb_action_types=news.reads&fb_source=other_multiline">Actor slits his own throat as knife switch turns fiction into reality | Stage | The Guardian</a>:<br /><br /><em>An actor slit his throat on stage when the prop knife for his suicide scene turned out to be a real one.<br /><br />Daniel Hoevels, 30, slumped over with blood pouring from his neck while the audience broke into applause at the "special effect". Police are investigating whether the knife was a mistake or a murder plot. They are questioning the rest of the cast, and backstage hands with access to props; they will also carry out DNA tests.<br /><br />Things went wrong at Vienna's Burgtheater as Hoevels' character went to "kill himself" in the final scene of Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart, about Mary Queen of Scots, on Saturday night<br /><br />It was only when he did not get up to take a bow that anyone realised something had gone wrong.</em><br />donyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881066925844415980.post-82513884101255739682012-04-07T06:55:00.000-07:002012-04-11T05:20:59.704-07:00On this Easter weekend....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSK7oPrV2zFTKcY6KWdaZuNwXlHAgjiso_lqh6n6PmVVLmHprL6PPcW1qtBZyB-3JlfQJoN-aDd7LM593ya9mIS-vwKtzAbRs4lJb2ZAPfZgmRtR4Q6FYqzfGpLhoF-hhe-SfG3Gi9oCQ/s1600/D30_0401.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211px" nda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSK7oPrV2zFTKcY6KWdaZuNwXlHAgjiso_lqh6n6PmVVLmHprL6PPcW1qtBZyB-3JlfQJoN-aDd7LM593ya9mIS-vwKtzAbRs4lJb2ZAPfZgmRtR4Q6FYqzfGpLhoF-hhe-SfG3Gi9oCQ/s320/D30_0401.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">I wish you many blessings,</span></strong></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">and happy hearts.</span></strong></div>donyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881066925844415980.post-69925131687659967842012-04-06T18:08:00.000-07:002012-04-11T05:20:59.704-07:00....<a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7100/7049191703_5a15d312f1.jpg" onclick="window.open('http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7100/7049191703_5a15d312f1.jpg','popup','width=500,height=500,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7100/7049191703_5a15d312f1.jpg" height="500" width="500" border="1" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="the forbidden" /></a><br />donyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881066925844415980.post-81502563714740241672012-04-06T10:33:00.000-07:002012-04-11T05:20:59.704-07:00On Cornish's Decision<strong>I was asked earlier this year to give the commencement speech for Cornish College of the Arts graduation ceremonies. In advance of the Retraction episode of THIS AMERICAN LIFE going public, I reached out to Nancy Uscher, Cornish's president, and told her what was going to happen.<br /><br />After the show aired we talked, and I agreed with her that it would be best that I withdraw from the ceremonies. I was asked for a statement, which I sent her on March 27th, and which I stand by. Here's that statement:<br /><br />"A graduation is a day for the students who are stepping out into the world as artists in their own right. I would hate to see anything distract from their day, and so I respectfully withdraw from Cornish's graduation ceremonies this year. My best wishes to the young artists—I hope to see you out in our culture, making works that shake and stir us, and I hope you have a fantastic graduation."<br /><br />I had been told that they would make the announcement with my statement, and that it would be a low-key, mutual parting of the ways without recriminations. This was made very clear to me by Ms. Uscher.<br /><br />I have been asking Cornish often when they were going to make their statement. They've been uncommunicative and cagey—Nancy dodged my emails, and delayed until their statement was out this morning. When I called Karen Bystrom, the communications director, she passed the buck back up to Nancy, the same person who had been calling with supportive calls until her board told her not to, and who then </strong><strong><a href="http://www.cornish.edu/news/release/2012_commencement/" target="_blank">drafted a statement condemning me</a></strong><strong> after seeking my honorable withdrawal, which I gave her willingly.<br /><br />I've apologized for what I've done wrong. Cornish's choice to grandstand on my back, when they had a very open statement from me withdrawing almost two weeks ago, is their choice. I applaud their embrace of "professional integrity"—it's unfortunate that they didn't exercise that integrity in this case.<br /><br />But I certainly forgive them—I know what it's like to be caught between different sets of obligations, and how the pressure of public scrutiny can help us make unfortunate choices.<br /><br />There is a lesson here for the artists that are graduating, but I do not think it is the one Cornish thinks it is teaching.<br /></strong>donyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881066925844415980.post-69661188174638207692012-04-06T10:15:00.000-07:002012-04-11T05:20:59.704-07:00...<a href="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5343/7048768111_9cbc96d455.jpg" onclick="window.open('http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5343/7048768111_9cbc96d455.jpg','popup','width=336,height=500,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5343/7048768111_9cbc96d455.jpg" height="500" width="336" border="1" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="..." /></a><br />donyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881066925844415980.post-30324519692847295622012-04-06T09:42:00.000-07:002012-04-11T05:20:59.704-07:00A Letter From An Audience Member<strong>A letter I received yesterday from an audience member:<br /><br />***<br /><br />Mike,<br /><br />I saw your show about a month ago and I want to you and thank you. The show was great, and I have a deeply personal connection to the topic of labor in China. <br /><br />Mike, the reason I'm writing is that I was a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in China from 2001-2003 and I witnessed the destruction and injustice of Chinese labor practices. The experiences I had have stuck with me and I am so grateful to you for addressing them in your work. I went to Bates and I studied in China three times while I was a student before joining the Peace Corps, and today I work in Chinatown. I have been intimately connected to China for 15 years now. <br /><br />I am not a story teller, so I cannot convey this memory with the emotion that it still holds for me, but I will try. My Peace Corps town was not a prestigious town among Peace Corps towns in China, it was poor by comparison. Lu Zhou is its name. It's an industrial town near the border of GuiZhou. My friends there tell me it was prestigious 1,200 years ago for its alcohol industry, but not as much now. <br /><br />I taught at a teachers college outside the city along the banks of the Yangtze. It was not the type of school that drew students from great distances. It was kind of a Chinese community college. Most of my students came from farm families. On holidays my students went home and picked tea leaves. Many students had siblings who were not allowed to go to college, because the families could pick only one child to go to school.<br /><br />One morning I walked out of my Soviet style concrete dorm and found a bunch of students waiting to get onto busses parked in the center of my campus. The students each had bed rolls and a back pack. These represented their life's possessions. We were in Sichuan and the busses were bound for Shenzhen, a journey of over a thousand miles. The students were mostly sixteen to eighteen year old girls and they were traveling to the factories. They weren't abandoning their studies officially, but I learned later that these students wouldn't return. They had no money. They were traveling "free of charge" thanks to the companies in Shenzhen. It was a one-way ticket. What happens to a seventeen year old Chinese girl with no money a thousand miles from home? <br /><br />I couldn't comprehend what was going on. Those students were my charges and they were so vulnerable and innocent. They looked like little kids. I was only twenty-one and to me they looked like babies. They were kids. <br /><br />I am an English teacher now and I often give my students the poem Chicago by Carl Sandburg. There are dark references in that poem to prostitution, murder, starvation, and abuse. My Chinese students understood that poem well because industrial US America in that age isn't very different from China today.<br /><br />That day when the busses took my students away has been in my memory for ages. Your performance brought some attention to this topic and I'm very grateful for it. Ira Glass seems to have missed the point if you ask me. <br /><br />Thanks again,<br />Brian Knudsen <br /></strong>donyo bronohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983504785834798504noreply@blogger.com