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[thedarkproject]

I think summer might have finished already. Boring.

It's been a frustrating week on a personal level, but then most weeks are, so there's nothing new there.

Yesterday I bought a bendy tripod thing for my camera, so I can take long exposure pictures of the garden and make the resident squirrels look like Speedy Gonzales.

In unrelated events, there may be some very good news on the band front soon. Watch this space (if you care).

A couple of questions:

- anybody know of a cheap mp3 player that has gapless playback? Or even a cheap hi-fi? I need something that will just play a cd through from start to end without inserting extra silence where there shouldn't be any.
- there are lots of people protesting here against the Dalai Lama, since he's in town. But why are they protesting?

EDIT: Today's annoyance - open source software projects that expect you to jump through hoops in order to report a defect. Why do they have to be such twats about it?

And yeah, my entries are quite disjointed at the moment, because I have nothing of any real worth to say.

Comments

[spazzhammer.livejournal.com]

From here : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7411939.stm

"The protests will be staged by the Western Shugden Society, which is calling for freedom to worship the deity Dorje Shugden.

The Dalai Lama has rejected worship of Dorje Shugden, saying it is an evil force."

[thedarkproject]

Yeah, I saw that he doesn't allow 'religious freedom', but it seems a bit ridiculous to me since (a) he is a religious leader anyway, so it's like complaining that the Pope doesn't like Hinduism or something, and (b) he isn't even running Tibet anyway. So it seems somewhat bizarre.

[spazzhammer.livejournal.com]

I think Budhism is slightly different from some religions in that you are allowed to do things like celebrate other religious festivals with family/friends so long as that religion preaches love and peace (which almost all do).
Either way, not being a fan of religion I don't really care what the protesters or the llama do.

[soldatengrab.livejournal.com]

they are protesting cause wars are fucking cool and the Dalai is against them. My favorite wars are:-

The Falklands War
The Hundred Years War
The Great War
The War Of Spanish Succession
The Star Wars
The War Of The Ring

[kali-ya.livejournal.com]

Ok that's weird, protesting *against* the Dalai Lama? What the hell?

**Edited after reading the above posts (probably should have done that *before* I posted...)***

It still makes sketchy sense. I mean Buddhism is so liberal as it is, makes me wonder if they're just protesting because they've been told they *can't* or *shouldn't* worship this god.

People are fucking weird.