BOYCE and BOICE are two demons that interfere with any electronic equipment, i.e., phone, computer, printer, automibile.
If something malfunctions, BIND UP these two demons, and command them to leave your equipment, in the name of Jesus.

I don't really recommend going to demonbuster.com, which is the site containing the above quote, because it plays a hideous faux-organ piece which I guess is supposed to sound churchy. 'Demonbusters.com' is the home of the End-Time Deliverance Ministry', and I didn't read all of, but I get the gist and it's one loong, poorly formatted roll of strange bible excerpts and stuff which is surely made up, plus some links to homes for sale and to one of the Ministers - who is also a Mary Kay (think 'Avon') consultant.  read more »

In conversation at home lately, I have mentioned Edward De Bono. Specifically - the man is clearly a genius, because he has no idea at all about making up catchy new words. The example I use is 'po' - not quite yes, not quite no, it's 'beyond yes and no'. Today on the National Press Club thing (ABC), Edward De Bono was on, and it was interesting and enjoyable to watch. Then Edward mentioned that in a few days he will be launching a new concept to counter 'cool'.

Because cool, in youth culture as Edward sees it, needs countering, I guess. He summed up cool as something a murderer or rapist could be, and spoke about being cool as being aloof, distant, unimpressed. So we will now have 'Warm Form' - which people might like to shorten to 'WaFo'. WaFo is warm and caring, smiling, and reminiscent of sunshine.  read more »

Reverend, my arse.

Not much has been going on lately. I took Thursday and Friday off work because:

o I have the flu
o I've been feeling 74

Take your pick.

I've spent the time going through the place and throwing things away, just for kicks. I'm finding it particularly cathartic shredding my old scribblings.

Today I found something little unusual in my mail box. It's a pamphlet titled "America's wars, Australia's poverty" from the Christians Against Exploitation. I've read diatribes that make much less sense, so that's in their favour.

I sympathise with some of what they are saying. But I suspect it's been produced by a noxious little band of anti-semites that used to paste similar things around the place. They seemed to favour industrial areas. I forget their name... something that sounded morally upright and patriotic in a KKK way. The reason I think this is the same mob is the part where they suggest the US war machine is really a puppet of the 'American Jewry', and how America is doing all this just to fund Israel vs Islam.  read more »

Today I heard somebody use the terms 'beautiful,' and 'work of art' to refer to spreadsheets. And that person is obviously a freak.

I was reminded of why I've given up on watching news on the TV tonight. Impulse Airlines - a new discount airfare mob - have just bowed out of the game. So they are referred to as 'victims'. I'm sorry, but they're not. It's not like they were an innocent group of people, unrelated to the business at hand, who fell prey to a surprise attack. They were business people who went in with some kind of plan, eyes open... and they failed. Thus, they are losers.  read more »

I'm sorry, but I just can never be bothered finding and then linking to prior entries where I've referred to something before. That being said - I saw the weird little man at Flinders Street Station again today. I was minding my own business, noticing that the stupid banners ('The escalators move - so you don't have to!) have been taken down, when I heard 'Are you going home?' I looked around and he was next to me. The guy that builds up these questions until he tells you that he walks round his house naked when it's hot. And asks whether you walk around naked, too. I could say that I think he has Down Syndrome, but in this case I prefer the more offensive term. He's a mongoloid.  read more »

Yesterday, I was waiting for the train home when this guy sidled up to me. He's partially blind, and 'intellectually disabled.' I'm being nice there. I've met this guy before on a train, roughly four years ago. Yesterday, he asked me what the next train was, and I told him. He said he was going home... where was I going? Home. Where do I work? In the city. What do I do? I collect debts. (That stops alot of these guys dead, I love it.) What do I do in summer? I collect debts. Do I go swimming? At this point I explain to him that we met once before, and I know where this is going. The next question is what do I wear when I swim? Do I wear a bikini? Sometimes he walks around the house with no clothes on... do I do that? I reminded him that last time we met, I told him that I had no interest in speaking with him, and back then he tried telling me how disabled he is, I told him to piss off, the people on the train laughed and he changed seats. He went away yesterday, too.  read more »