Rubber Chicken’s Dojo

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not that it means much to anyone else, but inyoung and i celebrated six years together on saturday. we celebrated by grocery shopping and studying. yeah, we’re that kind of couple. later that evening, we also participated in earth hour, switching all unnecessary electric lights and appliances off for an hour. apparently it was a global success. we had some quality time together too, so it wasn’t a total loss.

i’ve been playing with the faux hdr action on photoshop and found this old photo i had posted on trek earth. it looks a lot better with the hdr treatment, a lot more depth and a lot darker as a result.

i’ve brought over some shots of myself from the old dojo gallery and made a new album. it’s all about me! good times…

after what has seemed an eternity, i have finally finished a large section of work on a quest at monkeyquests.com. i’ve completed all the animal pages and need to just do the assessment page. hopefully i can knock it off tomorrow.

after celebrating a quiet birthday yesterday, the long weekend is going to be an excellent time for me to catch up on some planning. we have some testing to do in the next two weeks and i’m pretty sure it’s going to be flat-out until the first break, in two weeks time. wow, this year is flying by…

Toward the end of his life, the Buddha took his disciples to a quiet pond for instruction. As they had done so many times before, the Buddha’s followers sat in a small circle around him, and waited for the teaching.

But this time the Buddha had no words. He reached into the muck and pulled up a lotus flower. And he held it silently before them, its roots dripping mud and water.

The disciples were greatly confused. Buddha quietly displayed the lotus to each of them. In turn, the disciples did their best to expound upon the meaning of the flower: what it symbollized, and how it fit into the body of Buddha’s teaching.

When at last the Buddha came to his follower Mahakasyapa, the disciple suddenly understood. He smiled and began to laugh. Buddha handed the lotus to Mahakasyapa and began to speak.

“What can be said I have said to you,” smiled the Buddha, “and what cannot be said, I have given to Mahakashyapa.”

Mahakashyapa became Buddha’s successor from that day forward.

uploaded photos onto the suppository under new album:

category: australian things/stuff

album: museum and sciencentre

inyoung got herself a full time job yesterday, her first in australia. it’s basically doing what she is doing now, financial accounting, but it’ll be full time and it’s for a lot more money than she’s getting now. i’m not afraid to say that’s it’s more than me because she’ll be working for a medium-sized development company in the city, and i only work for the government, state at that. it’s an extremely proud time for her, she’s worked really hard to get where she’s at and now she’s finally getting somewhere.