Goofy Young Mick - 1992 NIU dorm

Goofy Young Mick - 1992 NIU dorm
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Drinking gluwein

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This photo didn't scan too well, but it's a favourite. Young hippy Mick drunk from drinking gluwein (that's whats in the big pot.)

Memories: the Chicken Pot Pie

When I was younger, and still living in South Africa, I did a lot of hitch hiking. I didn't have a car of my own and by and large hitch hiking was a dependable way to get around. I had a few incidents, but not many. Some amusing, some less so. Here's one of the amusing ones.
I was hiking back from my sister's place in Table View to the flat in Milnerton where I was living with my mother. I got a ride from a young gent, who was eating a pot pie as he drove. (I must pause to say that pot pies in South Africa are usually one hell of a lot tastier than American ones.)
He had another one, a chicken pot pie, and offered it to me. I was touched. I said something like, "Gosh, it's not often that someone will just give you a pot pie."
"Well," he said, "you get nothing for nothing."
I wasn't so much shocked as his proposition as amused that he thought me so cheap. A pot pie? You've got to be kidding. But I just answered, "Umm... never mind."
He continued to try to convince me to "go out for a drink" with him, but I was steadfast. I got back to my flat and we parted ways. But he let me keep the pot pie after all. Nice of him.

Very cool indeed: multisided dice from Thinkgeek

In bone, hematite, and brushed steel.

Inbox Zero

Like me, you probably get many emails a day, and there is the danger of getting behind and overwhelmed. 43 Folders Inbox Zero series is for you.

The Beast on Google Scholar

Search for 'Aleister Crowley' on Google Scholar and you find some interesting papers apart from the usual books. Here are a few that I haven't yet read and that look intriguing:

The Sorcerer and His Apprentice: Aleister Crowley and the Magical Exploration of Edwardian Subjectivity. Alex Owen. Journal of British Studies, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Jan., 1997) , pp. 99-133

Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley and British Intelligence in America, 1914-1918. Richard B. Spence. International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence. Volume 13, Number 3 / October 1, 2000.

The Neverendingly Told Story: recent biographies of Aleister Crowley. Marco Pasi. Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism. Volume 3, Number 2. July 2003

Another list of Social Software

Here. But is Google Web 2.0?