Characteristics of Adult Children of Alcoholics -- Roy's Story
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This is the audio for a 9'40" video-version of a presentation I
gave to my AACA group. 'AACA' stands for Al-Anon Adult Children of
Alcoholics. The video is available on my YouTube page:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cKeel484IMkMy mom was an alcoholic from
when I was born, and my dad was a wife-beater and a weekend-drunk.I
made the video to share the four roles adult children of abuse tend
to take on,...
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This is the audio for a 9'40" video-version of a presentation I
gave to my AACA group. 'AACA' stands for Al-Anon Adult Children of
Alcoholics. The video is available on my YouTube page:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cKeel484IMkMy mom was an alcoholic from
when I was born, and my dad was a wife-beater and a weekend-drunk.I
made the video to share the four roles adult children of abuse tend
to take on, and to publicise the 13 characteristics that most of us
tend to have.It's released under a Creative Commons
'Non-Commercial, Attribution, Share-Alike' license. So please feel
free to download it and hand it on to people who might need to know
they're not alone.Here are the details of the musicians whose work
I've been privileged to include on the video. It's all licensed
under the same Creative Commons license I use, and I'm deeply
grateful for that...o 'SchyzophrÃÂnie extatique de l'autochtone'
by arnoldsrecords. Download from http://www.jamendo.com/o 'Lazy
Sunday Morning', 'The Lonesome Death of Jonas Grumby', 'Shunned',
'Timestream Station' by Derek R Audette. Download from
http://DerekAudette.OttawaArts.Como 'Punk-o-Tronika' by MAIS.
Download from http://www.jamendo.com/o 'Trip I - c'est l'heure' by
Miscere. Download from http://www.jamendo.com/Most of the photos
that didn't come out of the family album are from stock.xchng at
http://www.sxc.hu (I'm afraid I don't recall the photographers.
None of them require attribution in their Creative Commons
licensing, so I simply saved them. I regret that. I'd prefer to
acknowledge them. If you recognise any of the pics, please lemme
know, and I'll pop the names in here.)I apologise in advance for
the poor microphone quality. I've done my best to clean up the
audio, and the music certainly does aid in that process. But the
mic problems were entirely my own... I had the input volume up way
too high, so I was unaware that I was saturating the mic. Dammit.I
owe a debt of gratitude to Garr Reynolds for his site on effective
presenting -- PRESENTATION ZEN.
http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/I can only hope that
this presentation of mine reflects some of the insights I've
learned from Garr.Please let me know what you feel about this
viddie.Blue skiesloveRoy
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Sat June 23 2007
This is the audio for a 9'40" video-version of a presentation I
gave to my AACA group. 'AACA' stands for Al-Anon Adult Children of
Alcoholics. The vid...
read more
This is the audio for a 9'40" video-version of a presentation I
gave to my AACA group. 'AACA' stands for Al-Anon Adult Children of
Alcoholics. The video is available on my YouTube page:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cKeel484IMkMy mom was an alcoholic from
when I was born, and my dad was a wife-beater and a weekend-drunk.I
made the video to share the four roles adult children of abuse tend
to take on,...
read more
This is the audio for a 9'40" video-version of a presentation I
gave to my AACA group. 'AACA' stands for Al-Anon Adult Children of
Alcoholics. The video is available on my YouTube page:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cKeel484IMkMy mom was an alcoholic from
when I was born, and my dad was a wife-beater and a weekend-drunk.I
made the video to share the four roles adult children of abuse tend
to take on, and to publicise the 13 characteristics that most of us
tend to have.It's released under a Creative Commons
'Non-Commercial, Attribution, Share-Alike' license. So please feel
free to download it and hand it on to people who might need to know
they're not alone.Here are the details of the musicians whose work
I've been privileged to include on the video. It's all licensed
under the same Creative Commons license I use, and I'm deeply
grateful for that...o 'SchyzophrÃÂnie extatique de l'autochtone'
by arnoldsrecords. Download from http://www.jamendo.com/o 'Lazy
Sunday Morning', 'The Lonesome Death of Jonas Grumby', 'Shunned',
'Timestream Station' by Derek R Audette. Download from
http://DerekAudette.OttawaArts.Como 'Punk-o-Tronika' by MAIS.
Download from http://www.jamendo.com/o 'Trip I - c'est l'heure' by
Miscere. Download from http://www.jamendo.com/Most of the photos
that didn't come out of the family album are from stock.xchng at
http://www.sxc.hu (I'm afraid I don't recall the photographers.
None of them require attribution in their Creative Commons
licensing, so I simply saved them. I regret that. I'd prefer to
acknowledge them. If you recognise any of the pics, please lemme
know, and I'll pop the names in here.)I apologise in advance for
the poor microphone quality. I've done my best to clean up the
audio, and the music certainly does aid in that process. But the
mic problems were entirely my own... I had the input volume up way
too high, so I was unaware that I was saturating the mic. Dammit.I
owe a debt of gratitude to Garr Reynolds for his site on effective
presenting -- PRESENTATION ZEN.
http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/I can only hope that
this presentation of mine reflects some of the insights I've
learned from Garr.Please let me know what you feel about this
viddie.Blue skiesloveRoy
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Sat June 23 2007
This is one of my favourite performance poems.I wrote it many years
ago as part of the libretto for a Flamenco ballet that a work
colleague of mine co...
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This is one of my favourite performance poems.I wrote it many years
ago as part of the libretto for a Flamenco ballet that a work
colleague of mine composed and choreographed. He asked me to put a
story together. So I wrote a bunch of poems for it.The musical
backing here has absolutely nothing to do with the original
Flamenco backing. This one is a mashup of a piece of Creative
Commons licensed f...
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This is one of my favourite performance poems.I wrote it many years
ago as part of the libretto for a Flamenco ballet that a work
colleague of mine composed and choreographed. He asked me to put a
story together. So I wrote a bunch of poems for it.The musical
backing here has absolutely nothing to do with the original
Flamenco backing. This one is a mashup of a piece of Creative
Commons licensed free music that I found on the web. I've been
reluctant to put the piece online cos I lost the original music
file, and I simply cannot recall who composed it, nor where I
downloaded it from.If you recognise the backing track, PLEASE
PLEASE PLEASE let me know, so I can credit the muso.All of the
voice-work in this performance is by me. I laid a basic track down,
then sliced and diced the music around that. Then I did several
more vocal takes, which I assembled around those elements.For some
bizarre reason, I imported the music file in mono (it was my first
project in Logic HitKit, so I guess I didn't really know what I was
doing). Which has led me to keeping the entire mix mono. But it
still works for me.This piece is released under a Creative Commons
'Share-Alike, Attribution, Non-Commercial' license. This means
you're free to download it, give it to your buddies, mix and match
it, as long as you're not making money from it, and you attach my
name to it as the originator. Enjoy!I built the track in Logic
HitKit, on my Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet pc, using the microphone
supplied with the HitKit (it was one of those Dorling Kindersley
educational packs -- book, microphone, software; a very cheap way
to get a professional piece of music creation software!).
Disclosure: I do not get ANYTHING from Toshiba or Logic for
mentioning their products. I mention them cos I like to let people
know how things are made. I'm an open source kinda guy.
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Fri January 05 2007
Friday, 5 January 2007Photo: ClaireA bunch of tools to help you
with your multinational time-management.Firstly, there's the
freeware/shareware applic...
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Friday, 5 January 2007Photo: ClaireA bunch of tools to help you
with your multinational time-management.Firstly, there's the
freeware/shareware application, Qlock. It sits on your desktop, and
is hugely configurable. So you can see what time it is anywhere in
the world. You can set alarms for any of those cities. And you can
hide or show the clocks with a click of your mouse.Next in the list
is a ...
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Friday, 5 January 2007Photo: ClaireA bunch of tools to help you
with your multinational time-management.Firstly, there's the
freeware/shareware application, Qlock. It sits on your desktop, and
is hugely configurable. So you can see what time it is anywhere in
the world. You can set alarms for any of those cities. And you can
hide or show the clocks with a click of your mouse.Next in the list
is a site for people who don't have a need for a clock on their
desktops 24/7. If you have an occasional need to check times, this
is the place to go... WorldTimeServer.com. This site also offers
you a free widget to add to your blog... you can pop an analog or
digital clock to your site.And if you want to customise a
countdown, and see the time displayed as days, hours, or seconds,
head for TimeAndDate.com. As of this very second, I'll turn 50
years old in exactly... 382 363 170 seconds! Send me a birthday
present. You've got time!*Said the Leaning Tower of Piza to the Big
Ben.Links:Qlock: http://www.qlock.com/World Time Server:
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/Time and Date:
http://www.timeanddate.com/
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Thu January 04 2007
Thursday, 4 January 2007When I first came across the work of Scott
Wade, I thought it was a prank. But a quick Google of his name
yielded dozens of si...
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Thursday, 4 January 2007When I first came across the work of Scott
Wade, I thought it was a prank. But a quick Google of his name
yielded dozens of sites showing his work. He seems to be real! He's
an American artist who works in a particularly transitory medium...
the dust on car windows. He waits for dust to accumulate, and then
hacks at it with paintbrushes and such to remove bits of dust to
ma...
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Thursday, 4 January 2007When I first came across the work of Scott
Wade, I thought it was a prank. But a quick Google of his name
yielded dozens of sites showing his work. He seems to be real! He's
an American artist who works in a particularly transitory medium...
the dust on car windows. He waits for dust to accumulate, and then
hacks at it with paintbrushes and such to remove bits of dust to
make masterpieces. Links: Scott Wade's Home Page:
http://www.dirtycarart.com/Scott Wade's Dirty Car Art Gallery:
http://www.dirtycarart.com/gallery/Footage from K-EYE 42 of Scott
at work on a 'dirty picture':
http://keyetv.com/video/?id=8499@keye.dayport.com A Google search
that shows how wide-spread the dirt: Google search terms: 'Scott
Wade Dirty Car Art'A story about Scott on Autoblog, which has some
really cool pics: http://www.autoblog.com -- scott-wade
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Tue January 02 2007
Tuesday, 2 January 2007The second day of 2007, and you've probably
got some New Year's resolutions that you're still committed to.
Here's a free onlin...
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Tuesday, 2 January 2007The second day of 2007, and you've probably
got some New Year's resolutions that you're still committed to.
Here's a free online tool to help you do the things you want to do.
Joe's Goals is a website that let's you define your positive and
negative goals, and then track your progress. When you do something
towards a goal, you click on the goal. And the online software
keeps...
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Tuesday, 2 January 2007The second day of 2007, and you've probably
got some New Year's resolutions that you're still committed to.
Here's a free online tool to help you do the things you want to do.
Joe's Goals is a website that let's you define your positive and
negative goals, and then track your progress. When you do something
towards a goal, you click on the goal. And the online software
keeps count.There's also a Joe's Logbook option, which is really a
goal-tracking tool for a particular project.For me, one of the best
things about the site is that you can set it up to email you a
reminder if you haven't updated your goals for a while. It really
helps you to be mindful.Links:Joe's Goals:
http://www.joesgoals.com/Joe's Logbook:
http://www.joeslogbook.com/Joe's Blog: http://blog.joesgoals.com/
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