Posts by Chris Waugh
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Speaker: TPP: This is a fight worth joining, in reply to Sacha,
China must be loving this.
You'd think, but I've searched Baidu News, Xinhua and The Beijing News and can't find anything. Still, it is only quarter past nine, and the Third Plenum is hogging all the column inches and pixels. Maybe there'll be something this afternoon.
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Speaker: TPP: This is a fight worth joining, in reply to David Hood,
NZ Herald, too. It looks to me like the USA should never have been allowed to join, and now that it is in, we should get out.
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Very relaxed.
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'Twas a cold and slightly ominous sunrise this morning.
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Hard News: How do you sleep?, in reply to Marcus Turner,
Edit: Here's the story: http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhistworld/chan.htm
(because I'm supposed to be working on a translation and I'm way behind in essay marking)
Interesting story, pity about the messed up attempt at old school Wade-Giles transliteration. Zen is chán (禅). Wikipedia has a slightly more detailed and coherent version of the story using Hànyǔ Pīnyīn (not perfect, but much more consistent and logical than badly done Wade-Giles), and has the decency to get its spelling right.
#ignore me, I'm peeving
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Capture: Two Tone, in reply to Carol Green,
Te Atatu Peninsula Community Centre, mid-demolition.
My first response: scary image.
My second response: Oh, hang on, I helped my father in law put asbestos roofing tiles on what was once his sheep pen.
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Capture: Two Tone, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Chris – your black and whites are getting more and more luminous
I'm having lots of fun trying to find the limits of what the hard- and software can do to the pictures before I turn them all to rotten custard.
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Autumn morning roadside trees.
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Hard News: How do you sleep?, in reply to TracyMac,
The Manifesto is not in copyright, and is freely available online.
If only, at 3am frustrated by my inability to get back to sleep, I'd thought to either check the bookshelf or, considering the computer was going and I sat down to read online for a bit, had googled it.... Oh well, next time.
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Hard News: How do you sleep?, in reply to Stephen Judd,
a worry that sits behind the other worries – what if I can’t get to sleep at all?
That sounds familiar. When I find myself in that state, I get up and read a book or watch TV for a bit. Basically, busy my mind on something relaxing. Or dead boring - I've found the Communist Manifesto is a great cure for insomnia. Unfortunately, though, I don't know where my copy is - probably out in the village, which is annoying because I could've used it when we were up there on the weekend, but I didn't think of it.
