12/24/06

Falls Brook Centre

So time was spent in New Brunswick. I used that time to learn some new and exciting stuff including working with Drupal, Drupal’s eCommerce module, and CiviCRM.

Drupal at http://www.drupal.org and
CiviCRM at http://www.civicrm.org

PHP and mySQL… so far so good, but I got a fair amount of work and learning to do to get these systems to be something I am more comfortable with.

Vancouver was good. It was nice seeing the old crew. Can’t say a whole lot has changed over there… but what has changed has certainly changed for the better. I can’t believe how much I like eating in that city. The idea of trying to eat fruits of the sea any father away than my eyes can see (see that salty orchard) can seem like a futile endeavor.

Did a Wild Rose Cleanse in New Brunswick – nothing like a sore kidney to make life a little more real.

I miss meditating… good thing for new year’s.

Gonna be 32 soon. Good thing I don’t need assets to feel whole, cause then I wouldn’t.

Concepts of Net-Zero and Zero-Footprint are now more than just ideas but still a hair short of realities… for now.

The idea behind zeroing consumption centers on solid commitments to understanding the value of fractional gains, overall direction, and retrofitting systems.

The 5 pushup principal: It’s better to do a mere 5 pushups than to do none at all. Furthermore, the value of the 5 pushups supersedes itself by an undetermined factor. That factoring is related to that little bit of a glow, that self perception, which changes in whatever minute way, and that is perpetual; self-fulfilling; self-propagating.

That said, a 5% reduction is reduction in consumption… supersedes itself…

12/10/06

Definition of recalcitrant - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Definition of recalcitrant - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Main Entry: re·cal·ci·trant
Pronunciation: -tr&nt
Function: adjective
Etymology: Late Latin recalcitrant-, recalcitrans, present participle of recalcitrare to be stubbornly disobedient, from Latin, to kick back, from re- + calcitrare to kick, from calc-, calx heel
1 : obstinately defiant of authority or restraint
2 a : difficult to manage or operate b : not responsive to treatment c : RESISTANT
synonym see UNRULY
- recalcitrant noun