At 9:07 AM -0300 7/10/11, G. Beurlen wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Geoffrey Heard wrote:
>
>>  Actually, I would say it is more human to attribute human qualities to the
>>  rich, famous, and powerful. Good King Wenceslas forsooth -- PR spin, the
>>  dead were many and even the flkp side of the poor man gathering wood is that
>>  the king made him poor! I would suspect the notion of bring nice about the
>>  dead comes from the fear of spirits coming back for vengeance in early
>>  spirit worship, translated later into the notion of them sitting up there in
>>  heaven with the ear of the god person.
>>
>>  But meu deus, I'm just a cynical animal!  :)
>
>Maybe, a little bit... :-)
>
>But in a general sense, I think you are ot to far away from the truth.
>
>>  Cheers, geoff
>
>Have a nice weekend.

Obrigado, G. !  :)

In fact, it's now Saturday so in a couple of hours, I'll be on the 
train overnight headed for Sydney and Brisbane, and from there by 
plane to Port Moresby and Rabaul (ah, paradise). In Sydney tomorrow, 
assuming it turns out to be the beautiful spring day the forecast 
tells me it will be, I'll be on the Sydney Harbour ferries 
photographing the yachts, the shore, the quays, and my fellow 
passengers, then I'll be around at Mrs Macquarie's Chair to 
photograph the Harbour Bridge and Opera House with the sun setting 
behind them. On Monday morning, I'll be on the bridge photographing 
the Opera house in the pre-dawn (always assuming I'm allowed on to 
the Bridge at that time -- I hope so!).

And one item of my luggage is an Apple 23" Cinema screen I will leave 
in PNG so that in future when I go there, I can just arrive and plug 
straight in -- as I do at home.

A few weeks dodging the "raskols" in Port Moresby and contemplating 
the volcanoes in Rabaul should put the brakes on my cynicism.

I have some DTP to do during my "holiday". STILL haven't got a decent 
font menu and managemernt system on the Mac. Oh well.

Cheers, geoff