Yearly Archives: 2007

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Mammalian Diving Reflex Presentation

This is the Mammalian Diving Reflex, a public report

Over the last 4 months, performance company Mammalian Diving Reflex has been to Mumbai, Lahore, New York, Dublin, Portland, Austria, Vancouver and Regina. We’ve walked through states of emergency, hung out in slums, met diplomats, had children cut our hair, got sick, had fights, offended powerful people [...]

Enneagram Personality 2007

Site 1 (http://www.similarminds.com)

Main Type

Overall Self

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Site 2 (http://www.personalityonline.com/)
Enneagram – Your Results
Your Enneagram Type(s): Type 8
Eight’s need to be powerful to make their own way in life. They are motivated to maintain territorial control over anything that can influence their lives and by the desire to stay on top in any power [...]

The 22nd Century City

From Goodreads 07w49:4

Figure 1. A 22nd Century Bridged City
The above is actually from an episode of the Star Trek series Enterprise. It came to my attention the other day through a montage depicting history in another episode of the series. As fans of the show know, one of the running plots involved time travel, [...]

101 and Anatomy

Born in 1906, lived through the USSR.

Photo: Sergei Grits/AP
Alexandra Zhaldybina, 101, signs papers Sunday before voting in a village of Markovo, 80 kilometres west of Smolensk, in western Russia.
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Photo: Laszlo Balogh/Reuters
Competitors warm up Sunday during the International Fitness and Bodybuilding Competition in Budapest.
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The inability to mind our own business

John Ralston Saul, Voltaire’s Bastards (1992), pages: 503-504:
Buddhist societies are horrified by a great deal in the West, but the element which horrifies them most is our obsession with ourselves as a subject of unending interest. By their standards nothing could be unhealthier than a guilt-ridden1, self-obsessed, proselytizing white male or female, selling God [...]

What can happen in 50 years

Margaret Atwood’s high school year book, 1957.
(From Torontoist)

I’m still at the point where I can’t even imagine fifty-years. My equivalent of this photo (fifty years after graduating from high school) is the year 2043, by which time I hope the world will be unbelievably different in a good way. Bush and Co will long [...]

Q & A

Rebbecca Young had this in her Facebook, and I’ve decided to fill it out too:
Single or Taken: single
Happy about that: not really
Siblings: a sister
Eye color: brown
Height: 5′11
Can you make a dollar in change right now?: yes considering I’m at my desk and my change jar is to my right.
FAVORITES
Kind of pants: I don’t even [...]

Brian Grazer’s Workspace

Brian Grazer in his Malibu Home (New York Times)

Blade Runner: The Final Cut (2007)

07w46:6 : Movie Review: Blade Runner: The Final Cut (1982; 2007)

1982: The first edition of Blade Runner is released on 25 June.
1992: The second edition ‘Director’s Cut‘ is released on 11 July. At the time I’m a student of history and as a pet project I’m trying to write a history of Earth from the [...]