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                      The Selfie
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                      The Selfie

                      Whenever I see a photo of myself taken by someone else I have a massive shock. This isn’t something new, or something that is age related...
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                      Why yet another blog?
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                      Why yet another blog?

                      Given that there are so many that I started and then abandoned? There are sometimes little things that I want to note down or show some i...
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                      While transferring the blog…
                      • 1 min

                      While transferring the blog…

                      I encountered myself from years ago. There is even a photo that Lanfranco took in Singapore in 2008 where I look not just 10 years, but 2...
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                      After 6 years…
                      • 1 min

                      After 6 years…

                      I want to start blogging again. shorter posts this time around. Mostly, just jotting down ideas, really. But maybe sometimes a bit more. ...
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                      Smoking…
                      • 5 min

                      Smoking…

                      During my last trip I bought very little, which is not really usual behavior for me, normally I go crazy shopping whenever I travel (or w...
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                      There is a definite change
                      • 2 min

                      There is a definite change

                      I am noticing it from my favorites on Flickr, which are mostly RL things. And what I put on flickr myself, for that matter. I seem to sor...
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                      Full Circle
                      • 1 min

                      Full Circle

                      So here I am, back where I started. When I look at this blog I notice that it has 3 quite distinct phases. In the beginning there seems ...
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                      No Trust
                      • 3 min

                      No Trust

                      I am sitting here and thinking: How many people do I know that I can trust? In the true sense of the word? Who, in their turn, trust me a...
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                      A Eureka moment
                      • 3 min

                      A Eureka moment

                      I have been sitting here all weekend – reading, taking notes, even starting the draft of the draft of a draft of a paper. (Need to read a...
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                      Continued from the other day
                      • 5 min

                      Continued from the other day

                      I am still wondering here. The previous post, where this bit belongs to as well, is already way too long. So, I am starting a new one. … ...
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                      as alpha.tribe slowly comes into being…
                      • 3 min

                      as alpha.tribe slowly comes into being…

                      And what a collaboration this promises to be folks! The good news is that I seem to be finally coming out of the creative slump – and abo...
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                      My Alts
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                      My Alts

                      From an old blog of Alpha’s: “I did not use to have them – alts I mean. I was way too engrossed with my life and all of the countless ev...
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                      "This time I am alone. This time I will not leave"
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                      "This time I am alone. This time I will not leave"

                      I think they call this low grade depression. It is not fatal, it will resolve itself eventually, I suppose. I do not sleep very well at n...
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                      A feeling of not belonging
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                      A feeling of not belonging

                      Dedicated to the anonymous reader of this blog… … There is a woman playing the piano. You probably cannot hear the notes but you see her...
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                      Enter Grapho Fullstop
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                      Enter Grapho Fullstop

                      I am not sure how I managed to get to Grapho in my convoluted thought patterns. Bett made a post on the neko gym on the NPIRL blog. From ...
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                      a la guerre comme a la guerre…
                      • 4 min

                      a la guerre comme a la guerre…

                      (… except that I do seem to be meeting my Waterloo over here, aren’t I?!?) … To say that there is some considerable cause for concern is ...
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                      The look-alike avatar
                      • 3 min

                      The look-alike avatar

                      In the last post I added something pretty much in the twelfth hour, at the very end. I said “your vanity” and then in parentheses I added...
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                      inter-face
                      • 4 min

                      inter-face

                      I have been spending quite a bit of time in RL lately. I am very familiar with the faces that surround me in everyday life. My family, my...
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                      Not Belonging
                      • 2 min

                      Not Belonging

                      ISEA 2008. I am one of the presenters. Of course I am terribly happy, not to mention proud to be here. But… There was this art opening, a...
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                      The New Aggressive Look
                      • 5 min

                      The New Aggressive Look

                      I have been wearing my ninja cat boots and arm brace for quite a bit now and I truly did not realize that the two sticks are these really...
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