Many more links, images are below
this. I invite you to scroll down to the foot of the page,
and hope that doing so will benefit
you greatly. Learn and be entertained, and kindly advise us of errors.
Is this website not good enough for you? OK, sorry,
mate, I do my very best, so I'm still improving. No worries; maybe you can
make suggestions. It would help me a lot. I believe that the owner-builders
and webmasters of some sites don't like to be told that they have builta site which has some errors, such as missing pages, images or text not
where they should be, spelling mistakes, dead links to other sites, and any errors in general. I do. Very much.
I intend to be doing Wilson's Almanac every
day until the end of my life, and, like many men and women, I'd like to live to at least
century. I calculate that I've spent an
average of 12 hours per day working on it every day since I founded the
Almy online on the
first day of the millennium, 01/01/01, my favourite red-letter day off the 366
within in the Wilson's Almanac Book of Days . That's a lot of days and
hours. And I still really love doing it immensely. I don't seem to need
much sleep, fortunately, and average about five or six hours a night. And I'm
single, with my youngest child a young man, and five grandchildren,
one at university in Sydney, so I'm tapping away at Esmeralda Computer's keyboard on my bedroom/office most of
the time. OK.
Thanks for reading thus far, and I hope you enjoy the rest of the stuff here,
even if just one thing pleases you.
See you later. Thanks for coming here, reader.
Seeya round like a rissole.
Pip Wilson
January 20,
2012
The Alamanac's long-term motto here is, 'Many ways to celebrate each day' and
they are are within the Almy. So, let's celebrate together.
(Fools' paradise? Big deal. As you scroll down, the entire page loads. I hope.
OK, maybe the bludger won't. Chanting the mantra, peace on earth. Cool?
Or knock me clean right out of my
spleen. OK? I'll live.
Just you bloody try it, mate. OK? OK. Cool.)
Oh, me and my staircases. Death traps.
8 Ball Aitken
and Bird Jensen
(they usually form a duet) are two of my favourite loved ones and singer/songwriters
in the known
Universe.
8 is also fantastic on
guitar. I watch and hear them whenever I'm able. Sometimes, they play just a
short
walk from
my
home.
I ask, who on earth would do such a
disgusting, embarrassing thing? Even if they lived near a river. Like, on the
marge of Lake Lebarge. And had to walk
a lot. And didn't have a great many public conveniences nearby.
And it was quite a long way home to the toilet. And he or she needed to go,
for various reasons, because they were busting? Because the night? And did it privately, so nobody
could see? Even passing traffic? Unbelievable, Patti.
I'm just average, common too. Just like him, the same as you, Patti. I'm
everybody's brother ang son. I ain't no different from anyone. It aint no use
talking to me, Patti. It's just the same as talking to you. Wanna try?
I'll knock you clean right out of your spleen, if you do, sheila. You must think I'm crazy.
Not another bloody one. Shite.
Now I'm a believer. To determine what it is in which I believe, you might like to guess
a bit, or ask me. I might tell, if you're nice about it.
So long ago. Was it in a dream, was it just a dream? Pip, Trainee Human
Sacrifice.
Being made a half-blind person by thugs is no impediment, no hassle, no barrier
to frequent, normal human interaction with friends, supporters, and loved ones.
Well ... OK, I lied, but just a wee bit. I'm very sorry about that. It is,
but just a wee bit, actually.
Thank you,
Lynn Fux, for this unsolicited image, c. 2007.
I'll do whatever I choose to do. I'm an idiot. I don't know anything
at all.
I come from China Grove, Gondwana, on the Mysterious Planet. And I
just don't care. (Some blame
Substance D.)
Re: Next November 18. Ronnie Berntsson,
please
contact me if you can, by my gmail. I can't find your email address. Thank you, Ronnie. God
bless. Pip. :)
Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello. If you want to know why so many
people such as I, and even 70-year-old women, in Bellingen are being beaten up
very nearly to death, and almost blinded,why I advise people not to walk at night here any more, unless they're fit, like
me, and know the area as well as I,
and why even at 8 on a Monday morning you can hear crazy kids screaming abuse in
my street, don't just watch tiny little clips about Ice ˗ crystal meth, methamphetamines (mixed with alcohol, a dangerous concoction) ˗ like
these
from episodes of
Breaking
Bad
on
YouTube.Send me ten bucks and I'll send you 40 episodes on a disk, each about 45 minutes
long. I'll do it until I'm ordered not to by someone with the authority to make
me stop.
(Click image)
Are you finding missing text or images on
Wilson's Almanac, especially newer pages? So am I, friends. It's due
to my recently acquired poor eyesight, and a host of computer and software
problems, which emerged while I was in hospital for months with
Extreme Traumatic Brain Injury when I was
nearly murdered (again) by unknown assailants. I'm working
on it. Periodically inspired. I expect all such errors to be repaired by early 2012.
Meanwhile, there is still a lot of undamaged stuff at the Almy. Please 'abide with me'.
The whole site, and I, are
Under Reconstruction.
Announcing
The Almies Award. Free entry, $1,000
prize. Christmas, 2012.
A link
anywhere at all on all of Wilson's
Almanac does not indicate approval, but my interest and recommendation.
I suggest you use
Search for words particularly important to your
almanackist, and Wilson's Almanac,
such as day, air, water, energy,
population, age, god,
goddess, mythology, permaculture, planet, revolution, government, king, queen,
slave, teach, learn,
health, earth, independence, poetry, environment,
rebellion, conservative, progressive, American, English, Australian, Asian,
African, battle, peace, war,
plant, tree, animal, human, art, literature, science, universe, ocean, land, river, Christmas, birth, death,
festival, baby, child, man, woman, young, old, and so on.
You'll get hundreds of hits for each. (If you have a few minutes to spare, you
might like to try it just for fun, and learning ˗ the main purposes of Pip and
his 'Almy'.)
But you might prefer to use a usual word or term of your own choice. Out of many millions words of text here,
and growing, chances are excellent you'll find it.
Please tell me if not.
Too
much here? A problem for some (including me sometimes). Please try local
libraries, if it helps.
Kindly scroll down for much more. And please
tell your almanackist if you find an error or dead link, or have a suggestion.
Thank you.
I once wrote a poem, the ironic main line of which was,
'I take
paranoia'. But please don't be paranoid. Decide for yourself. Trust
yourself, if you have submitted yourself to close scrutiny, and not found that
you are an idiot.
And please remember that you might make an idiot out of yourself. A dead-set
idiot. A laughingstock, to yourself. So, be honest, true to yourself.
Know thyself. Criticise yourself. But
THIMK. For yourself. For everyone. Cool?
Calendar customs almanac news Christian
pagan festivals
multicultural holidays alternative humor humour
On This Day funny best neopagan folklore world peace activism environment
celebrate celebration who when was born on what happened on
traditions origins Australia Australian wheel of the year paganism almanac info
Bellingen Sydney Australia
Wilson's Almanac content policy, and my
pledge
Like most webmasters, I use keywords
for the purposes of
search engine and advertising revenue optimization.
This I believe to be not only ethical, but sensible.
Unlike many websites these days, however, Wilson's Almanac will never
feature content (articles, etc) cynically based on keywords for such purposes.
I believe this common practice to be unethical and an insult to one's guests.
Wilson's Almanac reserves the right to construct advertising for content,
but promises never to construct content for advertising.
While I get my two-toned
Ricky Ricardo jacket, trim my pencil-thin
moustache (the
Boston Blackie kind), and find my autographed
picture of
Andy Devine. With me Brownsville Girl. Oh,
yeah. Oh, yeah. Her.
In her broken-down Ford, and her platform heels.
Pip lives at
Paradise, 23 Dowle St, Bellingen, NSW, 2454, Australia. Ph. (02) 6655 2785.
Please phone 9 am - 5 pm. I wish I had a pencil-thin moustache, the Boston
Blackie kind. Thank you, reader.
Almanac Picks
October,
2011. Your almanackist is
particularly interested in the following items in the Almanac. These items
aren't in any particular order, such as alphabetical, nor in order of importance to your
almanackist, Pip, and all items are subject to change, in many ways, thank
you. We're Under
Reconstruction, both your almanac, and your
almanackist, due to my injury. So, kindly use
Search for more information on each and
every item. Please be aware of plurals/singulars, thanks.
And you will know yourself that interest doesn't indicated approval. For
example, I'm very interested in
Jesse James,
Bonnie and Clyde,Ned Kelly,
and so on. But
I certainly wouldn't wish to meet any one of them in a dark alley or at the
end of my bed.
Likewise with some religious leaders, such as
Garner Ted Armstrong. I'm interested
in him, that's
all. I think he preached absolute rubbish. And I'm rarely using ellipses at all
on
this site.
In most cases, I tend only to use a semi-colon (';'), with
which to end items, some in each and any
category. I hope you enjoy some of these, and find some interesting
as well. Please note that for some time, words and names will be linked to
Wikipedia, but I am gradually, "slowly but slowly" changing them all to
Google, for far better results. For example, 'dog' gets 'About 1,410,000,000
results' in Google, yet in Wikipedia (linked prominently as well, in
Google), the number of helpful links is only in the hundreds. (On Wilson's
Almanac, more than 290.) I wish I'd
worked it out years ago, but it's one of those errors a person makes with
the best of intentions. If it had been mentioned to me, I'd have changed
it, but in all those years, not one of many thousands of readers ever
mentioned it. They probably didn't think it through either, because I've
obtained countless excellent suggestions from readers since the Wilson's
Almanac 'Foundation Day'. Even
Baz le Tuff, who built
Esmeralda (this
computer),
learnt new, important things on the Net, recently. Now, it might take some
years to undo the damage, but I'm proceeding steadily, and hope that before
too long I'll be finished, but the Almanac is, as I've stated, my life's
work, for decades to come, one hopes. I trust that the ever-growing
Malapropisms page, for example, is of interest, along with thousands of
others on this site, and millions of words. Thank you,
reader. Greetings, and love, as well as one can send, from Pip, of
Bellingen,
Australia.
I hope you'll heartily enjoy your
days, and this
Almanac. If you find errors of any kind, I hope
you'll advise me quickly, if possible, by email, and I shall try very
quickly to amend them. Thank you, dear reader. Abundant
bright
blessings. Might you
live well, and happily, and may
God
bless you.
Pip.
Mabon;
Canada; Australia; Christmas; Beltaine; Lammas; thin; solstice; equinox; NASA;
Universe Today; zodiac; Pisces; Leo; Capricorn; Aquarius; March 1, 1953;
March 26; 1980; Lughnsadh; belfires; Henry Lawson; Louisa Lawson, Emperor
Norton, orphan; Mark Twain; outlaw; ghosts; alchemists; RSI; Sir Isaac Newton;
Malcolm Fraser; Bob Brown; Jeff; Misty; Mistyka; Gough Whitlam; Richard the
Lionheart; Sir Isaac Isaacs; Battle of Cajamarca; Gold Rush Australia;
Australia; Christmas; 9/11; WWI; WWII; pagan; alchemist; ancient Chinese
map; love; overweight; virtue; May 5, 2010; 2011; Bellingen; Creation, knee; Birth of Christ,
Permaculture; global warming; conquistadores; Vietnam; Kampuchea;
Afghanistan; Iraq; Cambodia; Rwanda; heredity; senility; disease; obese; Victoria
Island; refugee; immigrant; American; Australian; Canadian; British;
colonial; Northern Suburbs, Sydney; devoted; Western Suburbs, Sydney;
senility; knee; Ernest Shackleton; Sir Douglas Mawson; Oates; Titus Oates;
Wat Tyler; Beatles; John Lennon; Paul McCartney;
Pip.
A
Fool for Christ. I pray that visitors will
use
Search. And other stuff below. And the homepage.
Beware the self-doubt monkey. I'll try, and do my best. I'll trust
myself. Should I trust someone else?
From some old book? From anywhere? By anyone? Not where I live? Not
knowing me personally?
OK. So,
please explain. Why? Thimk
through it, ok? Breathe through it.
Be here now.
I dropped my harmonica, Albert.Imagine
that. Justimagine that!
Greetings
from soggy Bellingen, NSW, Australia. I've been very busy lately, and still am,
have very much going on in my life (most of it Wilson's Almanac-related), and
regret that it will be quite a few days before my return to Facebook, the
Blogmanac, and the daily ezine. I intend to be in Sydney for up to a week from
October 5, so, unfortunately, the Almanac will be in abeyance about then as
well. So, in fact, the Almanac will be gone in all its forms for two weeks or a
bit more. However, I intend to resume all Almanac activities in full by October
8, the birthday of the mother of my No. 2-born son, Remy, namely
Kanagampuspavallee, or very soon after, depending on my own schedule, bus
timetables, and so on. I'm looking forward to full resumption of the Almanac's
many ways to commemorate and celebrate every day of the year. I believe that
you'll find almost anything which particularly interests you, by using the
Almy's Search page to plumb its depths of more than 4 million words, so please
advise if something's incorrect, missing, or just plain stupid, in your view, at
the Almy. Search is at http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/search.html. Thank you,
friends. Abundance and gratitude. Carpe diem. Seize the day. Pip.
Kindly scroll down,
and please excuse any computer-generated errors. Or mine.
Get to know your almanackist, at
About Pip
He'd like to get to know About You.
F2F if possible.
But email, too, is fine, and so is Facebook.
Good analysis of Woodstock (quite a
bit about Woodstock, at Wilson's Almanac),
and some very good mates of mine from
Nimbin. And a Hopi Native American elder says, "At least they grow their hair
long. That's a good sign".
And it is a good sign, too, in
every culture I've studied or stumbled upon, or in a link on a site for some
other people.
I highly recommend letting the hair
grow, men. So far I'm very happy with the results. I'll cut it, if not,
should that happen.
And to all readers, I highly
recommend this documentary.
Dear fellow traveller,
If you got to
http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/australian_slang.html, and scroll down to read
the Malapropisms section, you'll see why I'm dropping out of monitoring ABC and
BBC for ridiculous language usage. But I intend to be doing the daily Almanac
ezine, and the Blogmanac, and visit my many Facebook friends, several times a
day, sometimes, within a week, with all the best stuff I have found, or am
finding, on the Internet. And I'm finding lots. Pictures, links,
contacts, ideas - and the usual daily Almy, different from before, and much
better than it was even two years ago, I believe. Please send any corrections,
good links, and ideas to help make it one of the best wwebsites in the world, so
suggestions are welcome, and I intend to reply fast. Say whatever you want. I
have a thick skin. Thank you.
Abundance and gratitude,
Pip
Please read to the foot of Almanac pages, even if you can abide it, and
kindly correspond if
you can. All suggestions welcome. Love, Pip. That's my name.
Don't wear
it out.
I especially dedicate this site to
my
daughter
Julia Wilson, in the confident expectation she
will
disagree with much of it, but know that her father adores Toots, and
intends to
do so always.
As Toots knows, a character defect of his is that he might change his
mind on anything,
but his stated intentions remain unless otherwise persuaded with
compelling,
loving, logical argument.
Virtuosity
We live in the age of liars, so this is newish (not lying to you). So
please
add your ideas by email. andI'll add them
ASAP.
Thanks, human beings.
I also use the
word Almanack on my
homepage, because I find so many people differ in spelling, and I want
to be
found on Google, for obvious reasons. Some people I've met don't even
know what
an Almanac is. Look it up, as my late mate Julius Sumner Miller used to
say.
Australian
slang These 24 pages have
been a
long process due to computer probs mostly,
but please
keep sending in contributions. I believe it's the biggest Aussie slang
dictionary in the world., unhampered by censorship of any kind.
Pip's
addressed groups of people in Baptist, Pagan, Methodist, Charismatic,
Anglican, and Roman Catholic churches, hippie communes, high schools,
universities, the House of the New World, a Christian coffee house in
Perth, a Utopia home study group. poetry nights, urban and rural
communes,
Neopagan and Christian,
Inter-School Christian Fellowship classes
and camps,
ABC Radio, the
Mitchell Library,
2BBB-FM, and more. I've been in the main
and best-known Australian place of worship of, or maybe had a meal
with, maybe been a close friend of, Seventh-Day Adventists, Mormons,
Tibetan Buddhists, Jews, Bahais, Neopagans, Assemblies of God
adherents, etc, etc. Shall we chat over Almy stuff? So, that's it, thus far.
That's
Pip.
Welcome to the Axis of Medieval, about calendar
stuff. How to celebrate each day of the year. First, let’s get to
know each
other, shall we?
Here are the facts, ma'am. I want to live poor, but to have
enough. I don't care if nobody knows, nor cares who I am. But it would
be nice to be rich and famous, if I saw my family and loved ones
regularly. To rebuild the Almanac to this point has been incredbly
onerous with a damaged computer, half blind, and with many other
matters which would spook most people I know, and they would cower from
the tasks, and rarely tell the truth about it, while I have remained
extremely kind to all and sundry, regardless of their behavior, in
almost all cases. Am I an egotist? Maybe. You decide. Any
errors? Please advise. It's
nearly the 10th anniversary of 9/11. If what I've written
bores you, if you use Search at the Almanac, and read it all,
that won't bore you at all. September 9, 2011.
Who
controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present,
controls the past.
That's it. That's Pip.
Please note that the Almanac, after more than a
decade
online, is being rebuilt for many hours a day (up to 18, done often),
seven
days a week, while the computer and its software are damaged for
various
reasons, as has been your almanackist for
various
reasons. Mainly, unknown assailants. You
might find
some things, such as columns, spelling, and so on, not as good as might
be. But
the project continues. Kindly be patient, as I
endeavour to do
for the reader, as well as myself and my loved ones.
I mention within that I
like to
collect interesting ashtrays. By far the most interesting one I have is
one
that I stole (below) from the floor rubble of Gaddafi's bombed-out loungeroom in Tripoli while almost surrounded by
secret
police, within days of being imprisoned in Misurata
with Michael Mansell because
we strayed
too far from our hotel in that city.
Michael and Aboriginal-lover Pip also had a four-continent argument in
hotels
and planes. It started the morning we had breakfast in Kuala Lumpur and
I blithely
remarked that his skin was rather white for an Indigenous person.
He’s a
barrister and footballer, and he let me have it, over my porridge with
a raw
egg on top. (I still suck eggs.)
It's the only time I've been overseas, and it was only six days in
April, 1987.
We were attending a conference called 'Peace and Revolution in the
Pacific'.
More at my Memoirs page.
And I used to think my life had been pretty boring. My memoirs don't
concur. I
gave the big brass ashtray to my friend Peg.
I'm also asking Peg to have it engraved. He’s also offered to
return it
to me and I offered him the terms of having it on loan from him for
twelve
months. I also have photographs in Simply Living magazine of Gaddafi's
house,
and interviews I did with quite a few interesting revolutionaries from
around
the Pacific, including Luis Jalandoni,
and so on - it was the first anniversary of the American bombing, but
unfortunately I don't have a scanner than works. Mansell was trying to raise money from the Mathaba. Other
delegates wanted
to bomb to US Air Force base in Thailand,
and said so from the podium.
I nearly got arrested again when I was found to have sent this
information by
fax to the Australian press, and the secret police told me in no
uncertain
terms. I recall it well.
From another source, there's also a photo of Gaddafi standing right
behind your
almanackist, and many other interesting
photos over
several continents.
The Leptis Magna photos
with all the
other many delegates are great. I'm trying to obtain those as well. And
so on. Slowly but slowly.
Millions of mind
guerrillas. Some
kind if Druid dudes, chantintg
the
mantra, peace on earth. No feelings for anybody else?
Hang about the Almanac. We try.
The Almanac has had
computer and
other problems in 2011. Stuff might be missing. But it
can be as addictive as crack or heroin. Hang about Wilson’s Almanac. No viruses, AKAIK.
I was about to walk to the Prov, and decided I'd had so many
hassles with
sight, memory, software, hardware, etc, and because I'll probably be
doing this
for forty or more years, I would time- and date-stamp every significant
paragraph I change. I might go the Prov
half-way
through. I tried looking for an auto time/date stamp and couldn't find
one for FrontPage.
I'll do it by hand, as I often change a paragraph and would like
readers to
know. I might have changed my sources and links, maybe my mind. I trust
all
will advise of any errors, after a few days. Let's co-build the Almy. I believe it to have the biggest Aussie
literary
chronology, the biggest and best On This Day, biggest Australian Slang
dictionary, the most about Henry Lawson, the most comprehensive global
free
directory, and more, in the world. Show me I'm wrong, and this note's
gone.
Tell others, OK? The seeming indifference to a grandfather of five
being
murdered in the town he loves staggers me. But I shall stagger on, and
not be
murdered, and keep living in Bellingen, no matter if people can abide
it.
Ryde Royalconcentration
camp, so-called 'hospital' for brain-injured people, Pip Wilson among
them.
How
to be
abandoned by every person you love in Bellimgen, Australia,
the town you love and have worked for, for so very long. Almost get
murdered
three times. Easy as pie.
Have
you any comments? Know any good links? Kindly send one or some to the Almanac
by email.
"I believe that everyone
believes what they believe because
they believe it. I believe I didn't believe it in the past, but I
believe I
believe it now. I believe I don't know
if I believe whether I'll believe it in the future. I don't believe I
can, if
belief has anything to do with it. I believe that I'm right. But I also
believe
that I might be wrong."
Archibald Sarantoff (we believe that we
believe)
Before you
scroll down, a special welcome, and a special note, a
'Please Read'
Welcome
to the tens of thousands of daily readers of Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine from every conteinent
in
the world, and many islands. Some of you are PhDs, some of you hotel
maids -
our email conversations have been great, and when I've had your written
permission (an email), I've shared them with readers. Because I believe
in free
things, and in honesty, this site is completely free. But there
is one condition of entry.
That is tell one other person, three if you can, preferably webmasters
who'll
link it, anything you like about the almy.
Anything
you hate. I'm a trusting soul, and I've seen what dishonesty does to
people.
And, maybe worse, what stupidity does. No need to tell me, I'll trust
you, and
I don't want to reply about this stuff. Other stuff, great! Very few
people, as
we know, lie, and those who do, are idiots, or 'come to grief'. Soon
after we
started the almy, the daily growth rate of
Wilson's
Almanac free
daily ezine grew at such a rate,a
50-plus-years (now) close friend of mine, a professor of at one of the
premier
and oldest universities of the world, calculated that in 4.25 years,
there
would be more members than the population of Planet Earth.
Then
it fell
to very few, and lately, almost nothing. Zilch. So what happened? Well,
I said
that I believed George Bush was intending to invade Iraq
and Afghanistan,
and he did. Who now thinks that was a good idea? Who thinks 'Dubya' was a real smart and honest guy? Tell me
in private
if you like. I can't think of one - professors, politicians, widows,
maimed
soldiers, kids without power and water ... can you?
And
then
something else happened. I was assaulted by at last two carloads of
persons
unknown, and left overnight for seven hours to die on a road at zero
degrees
Celsius, my body temperature four degrees below what's normal. I got Extreme
Traumatic Brain Injury. Great way to win readers, huh? Great way to get
even a
dollar when you plead for months that you might have to move out of
your warm
house into a box by the road. I almost pleaded. Things are
still the
same (my late mum's birthday, June 4, 2011 - check it out). Again, zip.
No
money, no emails, except some welcome support from one dear friend, an
old boss
and co-traveller (we once, by chance, found ourselves tother in Misurata, Libya, which is Gaddafi's hot spot
now, and a
dear old reader from Belgium reader. In ten months! I once got $US588
in a
month. So now, there's never a Support
link, no request for money, no ads in the Almanac.
None, never will be. That's my intention. I've never been so happy nor
thought
so well in my life. People will get the message. And I
have years to
go, probably decades. I learned patience in a terrible hospital, and I
intend
to win back that growth rate. The Almy's
getting
better. I work at it nearly all of the 18 hours a day that I'm awake. I
like
doing it, I learn a lot.
And
what a
day it was. I live on the nothsaide
of Bellingen, in the Ponderosa, I
call it, in
Dowle St, and I was walking down Hammond St to get some substantial
food at the
Bean Cafe, because I', 'beefing up', and my stove doesn't work
properly. I
found a wallet near Black Steert, and I
asked at a stret stall in Hyde Street
if they could direct me to the
address that was on cards in the wallet. I was advised that Connell
Place was
off Crown St, and thinking of Crown Street as the once that was almost wahsed away in Bellingen's five-flood year of
2009, I
walked about two miles. I got wrong directions from about four
householders I
asked, and finally found the place. Another nice young man who knew
nothing of
assaults in Bellingen. I finally walked back 'to town', as we say, and
laughingly told the charity stallholder, a nice woman of about 40 years
of age.
Much later, tonight, I also had to leave home a couple of times, for
different
reasons. And I met a young woman whole birthday was today. She gave me
a hug. I
liked it. I tried to buy a phone because this is as ruined as my
computer. - couldn't. Shorter of breath, one day closer to death.
Also,
I
might add, this age of the new discovery of neuroplasticity
is so exciiting - people smelling through
their
tongues, people born with one hemisphere of their brain missing, but
being OK,
blind people riding bikes through Central Pak
... and genetics as well. Families that feel no pain. It tuns me
on, and
I'll keep the stuff about movie stars, celebrations around the world, inxcredible things that happened On This Day,
and add more
virtually every day, probably several times a day, because others and I
like it
too, but I bet you know what I'm spending much of my time looking for.
Some
people haven't even heard of neuroplasticity
- I was
speaking with one today. A nice, intelligent man. An Almanac fan every
day (on
radio). He barely believed me, and had never heard of it. I just said
"Look it up!" That's my job, I guess. And I like it. I'll find what I
can most days and share it with TBI people and everyone, all free.
This note will probably stay up
for months or years, maybe decades.
I intend to keep it here always. OK?
Thanks for
reading, now have
fun and learn a lot of whatever you like. That's the idea, always was,
always
will be :). Pip.
Bright blessings.
Wilson's Almanac
Online fellowship of the
sub-clinically prophetic, the recovering,
and those aspiring.
If you stumble upon a dead link on the Almy,
please inform me and I'll give it a dignified funeral. Top right of
this
homepage, the current
moon
phase.
"Think
universally. Act
terrestrially."
The page
is always cached, either in my software, or Google's, or
both, anyway
- for up to an hour, or even two weeks. So all should be fine in a day,
or
some. Keep coming back, friends!
This page
is big! If it fails to load fully, please click Refresh on your
browser
menu. It's fully loaded when you see the purple menu bar at the foot of
the
page. Scroll down, the malarki never stops.
Let us hope.
Welcome
to The Scriptorium
New! I'm
redesigning 'About Pip' with a new 3,300+word article about me, police,
brain
injury, hospital treatment, and other matters. A new Pip to be 'About',
and a
new page to stay up for some time again.
Some keyboard bugs (although my new free FirefoxFireFTP is so
much better
than CuteFTP), and difficult matters at
the Bellingen Show, 200 metres from home, have slowed
me down
considerably for a few days,
so my new article's slower that I expected and announced in good faith.
However,
there's not much yet to be done, so it should be soon, this morning,
May 22,
AEST. I have about three hours to go, but zzz
soon.
My father's
family name being Pirrip,
and my christian name Philip, my infant
tongue could
make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.
So, I
called
myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. Opening paragraph of Great
Expectations, by Charles
Dickens
Pip, though
over tender-hearted, was at bottom very
bright, with that pleasant, genial, jolly brightness peculiar to his
tribe; a
tribe,
which ever enjoy all holidays and festivities with finer, freer
relish
than any other race. Moby Dick, by Herman
Melville, The Castaway'
Many thanks to NóraUíDhuibhir,
or, Nora from Ireland,
who
helped to support
'The Almy' for a decade. And to Baz le Tuff, likewise.
Funny bloke, great mate, always helping me and the Almanac.
This bloke.
He not die too easy, either. Instant karma might get youse too, so
please join
the human race. Je finis this page. Done me dash. Gods bless. Make
a great
day.
Keywords include
Calendar customs almanac pagan festivals Christian multicultural holidays
alternative
On This Day funny best neopagan folklore world peace activism environment
celebrate celebration
traditions origins Australia Australian wheel of the year paganism almanac info
humor humour
My content policy and pledge
Like most webmasters, I use keywords for the purposes of
search engine and advertising revenue optimisation.
This I believe to be not only ethical, but sensible.
Unlike many websites, however, I intend that Wilson's Almanac will never
feature content (articles, etc) cynically based on keywords for such purposes.
I believe this common practice to be unethical and an insult to one's guests.
Wilson's Almanac reserves the right to construct advertising for content,
but promises never to construct content for advertising.
Pip
On October 30, 2011,
Richard Aedy on ABC Radio National's
Life Matters said there are 60,000 charitable organisations in Australia.
How many do I support? Some, but nowhere near enough. If you're an
Aussie, how many do you support? Some, but not enough? If so, let's both
get cracking, and each of us keep it private.
The following paragraph, in grey, is from
my Facebook page, but I ask all friends and supporters of mine, and of the
Almanac, the same question, and may be emailed if you have a solution to my
question:
This is a challenge for me, but perhaps some
Facebook friend can help. I ask not out of trying to promote my website in this
post on Facebook (well, just a bit, as I'll promote it anywhere, of course), but
because I want to promote the site on itself. How many words are currently on
Wilson's Almanac, and how did you work it out? If every page were amended with
my new intro, sidebar, and footer, as on the Almy's
December 28, how many would there be then? Any
answers? Thanks a lot if you can help.
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