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A card carrying bone fide

Joanna — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:08:24 +0000

Yippee I think! I’m officially still a disabled person again as far as an airline is concerned. The wheelchair or the fact that they have loaded it or me before is apparently not enough evidence. I need to have the right “card” telling them and me that yes I am in fact disabled. All the proof I need that I was neither imagining nor dreaming this life long pain arrived in the pobox today!! next time I express any pride on having been a bureaucrat bop me one.

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6WS: late

Joanna — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:56:58 +0000

love returning later to old books

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The view from 40 years on

Joanna — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:56:44 +0000

I remember studying the Stamford Prison Experiment nearly 15 years ago. It was shocking then. Now 40 years on the reflections are really just as interesting.

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Introductions — nicely done

Joanna — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 07:11:29 +0000

From an unexpected source in some ways.

Proper introductions aren’t exactly a simple matter:

The younger person is always presented to the older or more distinguished, but a gentleman is always presented to a lady, even though he is an old gentleman of great distinction and the lady a mere slip of a girl […] No lady is ever, except to the President of the United States, a cardinal, or a reigning sovereign, presented to a man.

Also:

Do not say: “Mr. Jones, shake hands with Mr. Smith,” or “Mrs. Jones, I want to make you acquainted with Mrs. Smith.” Never say: “make you acquainted with” and do not, in introducing one person to another, call one of them “my friend.” You can say “my aunt,” or “my sister,” or “my cousin” — but to pick out a particular person as “my friend” is not only bad style but, unless you have only one friend, bad manners — as it implies Mrs. Smith is “my friend” and you are a stranger.

One has to be wary of inflection, and things get even more complicated when you have to actually shake hands.

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Still thankful and remembering

Joanna — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:39:01 +0000

My faith, while a small part of this blog is a larger part of my life. I saw this on a Catholic blog, whose podcast is a staple in my diet. Ironically this video is of a song I sang all through my Uniting Church intense youth. It gave me nice memories, and a good reminder.

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slowing the cars down in the City of Sydney

Joanna — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 01:30:52 +0000

I think this is good. I just hope this also means that pedestrians and cyclist get training in road rules and “shared zones” too especially after this .

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6WS after a gap

Joanna — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:47:08 +0000

Described more fully here, its basically to describe your life in that moment or a thing in your life in a phrase containing 6 words. During this disciplined blogging exercise I thought I’d try it.

Quite sorely, listening to audio Austen

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buried

Joanna — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:28:43 +0000

GTD Times have some great advice as to how to save oneself from incidental reading overload especially for knowledge workers. I wish I knew this sooner.

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Bake sale

Joanna — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:01:54 +0000

This is a photo of this evening’s labour. My first attempt at baking in this kitchen, with this oven since the move but more importantly for me it’s shortbread complete with my grandmother’s pricking technique.

It may not have been so evenly spread but for a first batch in several years it smells amazing.

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tweet tweet

Joanna — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:07:49 +0000

i used twitter yesterday much like I think it was intended, or at least a very handy way of using it to broadcast a problem PB was having with Vodafone (the Australian phone company) and his iPhone. It wasn’t solved through the tweeting but the up to the minute information was shared and further broadcasted. It is strange but I feel a strange coming of age feeling -using the web for up to the minute goodness in Australia.

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