Am I published? and what does that mean?
And best way for me to seek out my "group?"
Vista, yes or no? on older (2-3 year computer)?
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Monday, January 29, 2007
Oiy!
And I am sure that is spelled right. Anyway here is a cut and paste of all the "non-beta" google transfer blog site non-errors that I probably didn't get caugt up in. Just seemed like it as a new blogger.
But that is all the fun, no? Just showing up is 80% of the battle (it used to be 50% in roosevelt days I hear but that doesn't apply really today in my opinion (IMO)).
Does everyone know and/or use IMO? Seems to be a good blogger acronym. Speaking of which, everyone on here mst use SHIFT F7 at least as much as me, yeah?
Okay, so before all of this technical admin crap of the last 2 hours, I saved what I thought was worth (borderline) saying. Nope gone; during all of the new password starts it was lost. Too bad, it was the best 239 words of my life ever written, eloquent, succinct, sublime... ahhh...
I will try an attachment to calm (actually will just shove under signiture as text today as PS). Let me know what you think.
Moxie,
Deb
PS: Following is a short disgussing the book, that I lifted from a trusted source.
“It beats everybody. It’ll beat you too,” Chief Bromden warns R. P. McMurphy in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Kesey 187). The Chief is talking about the Combine, which he describes as “a huge organization that aims to adjust the Outside as well as the Inside,” (30). To the Chief, the Combine is society itself, pushing all people to be exactly alike one another. It is based on machines, and only allows mechanical precision. The Combine does not approve of mistakes, and one example of a “mistake” is a person who does not follow the rules. Any person who values individuality is a flaw in the system, and is therefore the enemy. The effects of the Combine are seen easily by the Chief inside the hospital as well as in everyday life on the outside.
Inside the ward, the main figurehead for the Combine is the Big Nurse, Ms. Ratched. She runs the ward like a polished machine, the same schedule is enforced daily, and the rules are rarely broken. Patients obey the Big Nurse because if they do not comply, they are sent for shock treatment or in some cases, lobotomy. When McMurphy arrives on the ward, his presence is felt by all of the patients. “He sounds big,” the Chief realizes (16). Upon McMurphy’s arrival, he talks, laughs, argues with the Big Nurse, and never follows any rules of the Combine. His eccentricity is contagious, and eventually all of the patients in the ward are challenging authority and rebelling against the Combine. In time, the Chief even abandons his fake deaf and dumb act, and opens up to McMurphy about the Combine. In his late night confession, he exclaims, “They work on you in ways you can’t fight! They put things in! They install things,” (187).
The Combine is also constantly at work outside of the hospital. When McMurphy leads 12 patients on a field trip for deep-sea fishing, the Chief realizes how much the Combine has changed things since he’s been Outside. He notices businessmen on their way to work, “Identical insects, half-life things coming pht-pht-pht out of the last car,” (203). The people are not the only victims of the Combine, however, houses are now all the same as well. The Chief is astonished, witnessing the “Five thousand houses punched out identical by a machine and strung across the hills outside of town, so fresh from the factory they’re still linked together like sausages,” (203). The descriptions of the city are just further example of the Combine relentlessly organizing the world into a pattern of sameness, whether it be kids, businessmen, homes, or patients in a mental hospital.
By the end of the book, it seems that the Combine has finally beaten McMurphy. After attacking Nurse Ratched, he is sent away. Weeks later he is wheeled into the ward on a gurney after having a lobotomy. “That ain’t him,” Scanlon says, as all the patients try to make sense of the lifeless body that was once so energetic (269). When the Chief takes action and kills McMurphy, it is truly a noble gesture, not a heatless murder. If McMurphy had remained a Vegetable in the ward, the Nurse would have been able to point to him as “an example of what can happen if you buck the system,” (270). The Chief was able to regain his confidence through McMurphy at the end of the novel, continuing the fight against the Combine even though McMurphy had died.
The only way to fight the Combine is to be relentless and never give up hope. “As soon as you let down your guard, as soon as you lose once, she’s won for good. And eventually we all got to lose,” the Chief realizes during the novel. Although McMurphy has died, his tradition of fighting the Combine is now in the Chief, who escapes the ward by throwing a control panel out of a window. The Chief uses the Combine against itself, using a machine to escape from the imprisonment of the ward. The Combine may not ever let up, but McMurphy and the Chief show that with passion and courage, it can be fought to the death.
But that is all the fun, no? Just showing up is 80% of the battle (it used to be 50% in roosevelt days I hear but that doesn't apply really today in my opinion (IMO)).
Does everyone know and/or use IMO? Seems to be a good blogger acronym. Speaking of which, everyone on here mst use SHIFT F7 at least as much as me, yeah?
Okay, so before all of this technical admin crap of the last 2 hours, I saved what I thought was worth (borderline) saying. Nope gone; during all of the new password starts it was lost. Too bad, it was the best 239 words of my life ever written, eloquent, succinct, sublime... ahhh...
I will try an attachment to calm (actually will just shove under signiture as text today as PS). Let me know what you think.
Moxie,
Deb
PS: Following is a short disgussing the book, that I lifted from a trusted source.
“It beats everybody. It’ll beat you too,” Chief Bromden warns R. P. McMurphy in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Kesey 187). The Chief is talking about the Combine, which he describes as “a huge organization that aims to adjust the Outside as well as the Inside,” (30). To the Chief, the Combine is society itself, pushing all people to be exactly alike one another. It is based on machines, and only allows mechanical precision. The Combine does not approve of mistakes, and one example of a “mistake” is a person who does not follow the rules. Any person who values individuality is a flaw in the system, and is therefore the enemy. The effects of the Combine are seen easily by the Chief inside the hospital as well as in everyday life on the outside.
Inside the ward, the main figurehead for the Combine is the Big Nurse, Ms. Ratched. She runs the ward like a polished machine, the same schedule is enforced daily, and the rules are rarely broken. Patients obey the Big Nurse because if they do not comply, they are sent for shock treatment or in some cases, lobotomy. When McMurphy arrives on the ward, his presence is felt by all of the patients. “He sounds big,” the Chief realizes (16). Upon McMurphy’s arrival, he talks, laughs, argues with the Big Nurse, and never follows any rules of the Combine. His eccentricity is contagious, and eventually all of the patients in the ward are challenging authority and rebelling against the Combine. In time, the Chief even abandons his fake deaf and dumb act, and opens up to McMurphy about the Combine. In his late night confession, he exclaims, “They work on you in ways you can’t fight! They put things in! They install things,” (187).
The Combine is also constantly at work outside of the hospital. When McMurphy leads 12 patients on a field trip for deep-sea fishing, the Chief realizes how much the Combine has changed things since he’s been Outside. He notices businessmen on their way to work, “Identical insects, half-life things coming pht-pht-pht out of the last car,” (203). The people are not the only victims of the Combine, however, houses are now all the same as well. The Chief is astonished, witnessing the “Five thousand houses punched out identical by a machine and strung across the hills outside of town, so fresh from the factory they’re still linked together like sausages,” (203). The descriptions of the city are just further example of the Combine relentlessly organizing the world into a pattern of sameness, whether it be kids, businessmen, homes, or patients in a mental hospital.
By the end of the book, it seems that the Combine has finally beaten McMurphy. After attacking Nurse Ratched, he is sent away. Weeks later he is wheeled into the ward on a gurney after having a lobotomy. “That ain’t him,” Scanlon says, as all the patients try to make sense of the lifeless body that was once so energetic (269). When the Chief takes action and kills McMurphy, it is truly a noble gesture, not a heatless murder. If McMurphy had remained a Vegetable in the ward, the Nurse would have been able to point to him as “an example of what can happen if you buck the system,” (270). The Chief was able to regain his confidence through McMurphy at the end of the novel, continuing the fight against the Combine even though McMurphy had died.
The only way to fight the Combine is to be relentless and never give up hope. “As soon as you let down your guard, as soon as you lose once, she’s won for good. And eventually we all got to lose,” the Chief realizes during the novel. Although McMurphy has died, his tradition of fighting the Combine is now in the Chief, who escapes the ward by throwing a control panel out of a window. The Chief uses the Combine against itself, using a machine to escape from the imprisonment of the ward. The Combine may not ever let up, but McMurphy and the Chief show that with passion and courage, it can be fought to the death.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
The Monk Manual - Day 1
Let's start today on pets, k?
Goldfish crackers
loach in a tank
Hannibal, crab, lives
alone in glass
Bird in mesh
trusts me! free
water dog
water them
that. plants, too.
Gold Fish crackers
in soup, in drains,
float & swim
fun!
As I said, Day 1. Let's see what happens...
Goldfish crackers
loach in a tank
Hannibal, crab, lives
alone in glass
Bird in mesh
trusts me! free
water dog
water them
that. plants, too.
Gold Fish crackers
in soup, in drains,
float & swim
fun!
As I said, Day 1. Let's see what happens...
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