Didgeridoo: Day 2

Bloggish, Music

Today I’m practicing in short 10-15 minute sessions spread throughout the day. So far five of them. The goal this morning was to just get a drone out of the didge. Thankfully that worked out pretty well.  Meaning, I managed to get a drone for part of the ten minutes. Don’t use a clock, that’s just about how long I can go before getting light-headed.

I suppose the getting light-headed part might be something to look into — wrong breath, wrong technique, mucho pollen, plastic bag over my head — I’m sure there is something that will need to be changed. But, later for that. Right now my only goal is to get on the drone as quickly as possible.  Continue reading →

How using Om Mani Padme Hum App can change your life

Bloggish, Gaming

Let’s consider for a moment what it means to use the Om Mani Padme Hum App.

First you find the icon on your phone or tablet. Then you tap on the icon to open the app.

Following this you select the “flavor” of prayer you want to run — that particular day. After this you manually activate each step of the process — frame by frame, intentional moment by intentional moment. All of this on behalf of another, or on behalf of all beings everywhere. Continue reading →

Wind On The Pond

Bloggish, Tid-Bits

To illustrate a point, I’d like to represent one’s inner world as a pond. For me when I think of a pond I am reminded of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden Pond. Off the topic at hand, but if you have never encountered the book you may want to give a few portions of it a read.

In any case, we started with the notion of using a pond to represent one’s inner world.

So, moving forward, I’d like to observe that more than a few folks have noticed (and mentioned) the presence of ripples, waves, and darn near tsunamis mucking about on their little pond.

The general presumption is that: “if my pond is unsettled it must be something happening with me.” That is not necessarily the case. There are a variety of potential sources of “winds” that can disturb the surface of your pond: Continue reading →

I’m Basically Agnostic

Bloggish

As usual, given enough time, people will dumb down a concept to such an extent that it will come to bear no resemblance to its original concept — and often come to mean the exact opposite of its original.

Consider “agnostic”. If you care to look the word up in the dictionary (www.dictionary.com) you’ll find definitions of the following sort: Continue reading →

What Is A Game?

Gaming

In The Study of Games, Brian Sutton-Smith writes, “Each person defines games in his own way—the anthropologists and folklorists in terms of historical origins; the military men, businessmen, and educators in terms of usages; the social scientists in terms of psychological and social functions.  There is overwhelming evidence in all this that the meaning of games is, in part, a function of the ideas of those who think about them.”

If the meaning of games is a function of the ideas of those who think about them, how then would a spiritual gamer think about games? Continue reading →

Gaming Goals

Gaming

A useful first step when looking at gaming goals is to differentiate between goals of the character and goals of the player.

In Diablo Lord of Destruction the character could have a goal such as eliminating the evil creatures currently infesting the system of tunnels called “Den of Evil.” When the character accomplishes this task a skill level is given to the character as a reward.

What would the player’s goal be during all of this? Depends upon the player, and depends upon where the player is in his (or her) ladder of gaming experience. Continue reading →

Greatest Joy

Tid-Bits

Few of us experience our greatest joy — for fear of annihilation.
Later we may be able to deal with it. But, not then when it is offered.
We aren’t brave enough or experienced when it’s offered.

Forget About SEO

SEO, Web-Dev

Well, maybe “Forget About SEO” is a little inflammatory. Perhaps a more accurate way to phrase this would be: “refocus your attention on content and user experience.”

There are many websites and SEO gurus that have much to say about keyword density, header balance, and dozens of other SEO gimmicks and tricks. Are these really just gimmicks and tricks? Or, are they sound advice? That all depends upon you the reader. If you are looking for a magic wand that will transform your website with a flick of the wrist, then they are gimmicks and tricks. However, if you have laid a firm foundation of solid content and optimized user experience, then the gimmicks and tricks are transformed into sound advice. Continue reading →

Helping A Friend With Their SEO

SEO

Today I received an email from a friend asking my advice about a comment posted on her website. The comment was from an individual giving her advice on what she was doing wrong with the SEO on her page. AND, advertising his or her services at the same time. Below is my response.

First and foremost (please take to heart what I am saying) you are already doing something right. With zero concern about SEO you are doing well in organic searches. You seem to have a knack for doing something right. We don’t know what precisely. But, you can see the results in the SERP (Search Engine Results Pages).

So, in my opinion, you could safely disregard SEO advice. However, if you want to improve your page content generation, I would recommend the following: Continue reading →