by cameron | Jan 19, 2007 | Uncategorized
I actually had a nightmare last night that I was still working at Microsoft. Woke up about 4am and took a few minutes to remember I left 30 months
ago. Was still in such shock I couldn’t get back to sleep…. weird. In the dream, someone in HR had compiled a document about dealing with difficult employees which was pretty much an indirect attack on me. Even mentioned what to do when someone comes to work wearing Elvis sunnies.
I bet that document actually does exist in Microsoft HR somewhere.
by cameron | Jan 18, 2007 | Podcast, Uncategorized
Some of you may know that for a long while I co-hosted a weekly podcast here on The Podcast Network with Australian cleric Father Bob Maguire. Recently Poland-based News Corp blogger (figure *that* one out) Evan Maloney wrote a post suggesting that Father Bob would make a much better leader of the Catholic Church in Australia than the current top dog George Pell who, as Evan points out, has a track record of excluding women, gays, lesbians and tagging Islam. It’s worth reading the 90-odd comments on the post to get a whiff of the stink you can cause in this country if you *dare* criticize a powerbroker of the Catholic Church (even if in doing so you are extolling the virtues of another Catholic cleric).
by cameron | Jan 18, 2007 | Podcast
On the show tonight….
The word of the day is “Ringtonitis”: When that personalized ringtone you added to your mobile phone just doesn’t seem funny or clever anymore and you are completely sick of it. eg “Making the Galaga theme my ringtone was funny for about a week but now it’s giving me ringtonitis.”
I talk a little bit about this highs and lows of my day – being in the Green Guide, losing a host, and getting unceremoniously thrown out of someone’s office – and then move onto The National Conference for Media Reform and play a clip from Bill Moyers opening speech.
Then I talk about Joseph Campbell, one of the 20th centuries greatest Mythology experts and Reginald Finely’s new site Freethinker Finder – a dating site for rational, logical people.
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The G’Day World Theme Song is “Save Me†by The Napoleon Blown Aparts.
by cameron | Jan 18, 2007 | Melbourne, Uncategorized
For folks in Melbourne or Sydney, check out the Green Guide in The Age or SMH respectively. There’s a fairly large interview with me about halfway in.
by cameron | Jan 18, 2007 | science vs religion
Hugo Sharp posted a link to this in the comments but I thought it deserved to be up here. Very clever stuff. Great performances. Am I the only person who thinks Mr Deity is based loosely on George Lucas?
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzf8q9QHfhI]
