Posted on October 24, 2009 by boonman
Good morning/afternoon/evening/witching hour to you,
I have been silent for too long. You tend to do that a bit as a teacher. Best not rock the boat, but I can’t keep my mouth shut any longer.
This week in New Zealand there was a big hello and heralded fanfare welcoming to national standards. If you are reading [...]
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Posted on August 16, 2009 by boonman
Hello and salutatious welcomings to you all…
Life is all a little bit too serious these days. It’s like someone has removed the funny bone from our society and replaced it with a jelly-like substance that smells of fear and stress. The fearstress jelly seems to run western life with the ruthless efficiency made famous by [...]
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Posted on May 31, 2009 by boonman
Greetings and hello again from New Zealand!!
As a quick aside for all the international readers before I even start, if you’re wondering where “Old Zealand” is click here. The discoverer of our country, Dutchy Abel Tasman decided on a moniker that was dear to his heart.
So I’ve been dribbling the football of thought around my [...]
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Posted on November 22, 2008 by boonman
Can anybody tell me what the hell has happened to capitalism?
Over the course of the 20th century, our market-led capitalist leaders made billions, trillions and maybe even gazillions, selling stuff to we, the consumer, without a second thought from either party. They supplied a good/service, we paid for said good/service. Money changed hands, profits were [...]
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Posted on October 12, 2008 by boonman
This week I attended a conference. I even presented at this conference. This, of course, means I’ve made it. I’m now officially a ‘grown-up’.
Rewind 30 years. If you’d ask me what I wanted to be when I grow up in 1978, I would have said something like ‘fireman’, or ‘astronaut’ or ‘policeman’ or one of [...]
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