“If you’re going through hell, keep going” Winston Churchill
Highway to Hell
You are on
The fast track
The last track
On a highway
To hell
Intensive pressure
Needing a refresher
Competitive pursuit
Of fame and fortune
Dancing to someone else’s flute
May end up a misfortune
If not stopping
Until you drop
The smart life
The simple life
The only life
You should choose
Before your goose
Is cooked
And you will loose
And get hooked
“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise” Sigmund Freud
The Blame Game
When you are a lying
On that sofa
Crying
Into a coma
Blaming everyone else
Except yourself
Your mother, your father
Even the family pet rather
Than copping-out
It was your self doubt
Accomplishments gone array
Just because of a high
To have and eat the cake
Soon turned out a fake
Excuses made
For each mistake
“It was not my quirk”
“The dog ate the homework”
“The weather was bad”
“The others made me feel sad”
Stop the blame game
Leave the shame
Look in the mirror
The picture getting clearer
Listen to the gong
Playing the same song
It was you
All along
Posted in the series, World Wide Wednesday around the world in photographs
Photography, Poetry, Travel
“Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs” Susan Sontag
A glimpse into the archives of photography from around the world from Rantings Of A Third Kind on Wednesdays.
Posts so far:
Around the World in Black and White, First Edition
Around the World in Black and White, Second Edition, Part One
Around the World in Black and White, Second Edition, Part Two
Around the World in Black and White, Second Edition, Part Three
Around the World in Black and White Presents: Third Edition: Rhodes Island, Part One
Around the World in Black and White Presents: Third Edition: Rhodes Island, Part Two
Around the World in Black and White Presents: Fourth Edition: Rhodes Island, Part One
Around the World in Black and White Presents: Fourth Edition: Rhodes Island, Part Two
Around the World in Black and White Presents: Fifth Edition: Cyprus
Around the World in Black and White Presents: London in the Rain
Around the World in Black and White Presents: London
World Wide Wednesday Presents: Natural History Museum, London
World Wide Wednesday Presents: Helsinki City Centre in Black and White
World Wide Wednesday Presents: Athens, Acropolis
World Wide Wednesday Presents: Mallorca, Part One
World Wide Wednesday Presents: Mallorca, Part Two
World Wide Wednesday Presents: Mallorca, Part Three
World Wide Wednesday Presents: Mallorca, Part Four, Night
World Wide Wednesday Presents: Finland, Espoo, Suburbia
World Wide Wednesday Presents, Delphi, Part Two
World Wide Wednesday Presents, Delphi, Part Three
World Wide Wednesday Presents, Porvoo, Finland, Part One
World Wide Wednesday Presents, Porvoo, Finland, Part Two
Posted in the series, World Wide Wednesday around the world in photographs
Photography, Poetry, Travel
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going” Paul Theroux
Word Wide Wednesday Presents, Porvoo, Finland, Part Two
The old town of Porvoo
A home away from home
Flew there like a crow
Stated ,when in Rome…
Found the nearest cafe
Which was close to the bay
Enjoyed the sunny day
Until turn of eve
When it was time to leave
Blogging 201, Day Eight: Widget Visibility
Widgets: can there possibly be anything left to learn? Yes! Time to dig in to widget visibility.
Today’s takeaway: learn to specify exactly which widgets appear on which posts or pages by using the visibility settings built in to each one.
Action time! Adjust the visibility settings of one of your widgets. You can always undo it, but get a sense of how the settings work.
“I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to.” Adele
Blogging 201, Day Eight: Widget Visibility
Using widget visibility to your advantage
* Hide your Flickr Widget on posts tagged with “photography” if you don’t want Flickr image thumbnails displayed when visitors are viewing a photo-heavy post. (There is such a thing as image overload!) (Select Hide and add Tag is Photography.)
* If you have a group blog, show the Twitter Widget of the appropriate contributor on posts tagged with that author. (Select Show and add Author is [Contributor’s Name].)
* If you’re an author, hide the custom Image Widgets linking to your books on your “Books” page to avoid duplicate information. (Select Hide and add Page is Books.)
* Hide the widget displaying your blogroll on a “Favorites” page, which may also be full of links. (Select Hide and add Page is Favorites.)
I was playing around with the visibility settings a little bit today. I found it useful for the sidebar to be visible for the pages and posts. It’s very easy to navigate back and forth, when the options are handy on the right hand side, rather than using the back button or having to scroll endlessly.
The “hide” and “unhide” is an great option, if you have specific widgets and it was great to have learnt the how-to today:)
Keep calm and keep on blogging!
Celebration time on Rantings Of A Third Kind
“Developing your blog is a balancing act between appeasing current readers and reaching out to new ones.” Scribendi
700 Followers for Rantings Of A Third Kind
I am happy to announce a new milestone achievement today: A total of 700 readers are now following Rantings of a Third Kind!
A most sincere and huge thanks to all my readers!
Keep calm and keep on blogging!
Gun
Writing 101, Day Seven: Let social media inspire you
One of the goals of Writing 101 is to tap into new and unexpected places for post ideas. Today, let’s look to Twitter for inspiration. Don’t worry — you don’t need an account to participate in this prompt. Even if Twitter isn’t your thing, you might be surprised that you can find starting points for our own writing in other people’s tweets.
Today, write a response to one of these tweets. Shape your post in any way you choose — agree or disagree with the tweet, or use it as a starting point for a story, personal essay, poem, or something else.
“Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill” Christopher Parker
Writing 101, Day Seven: Let social media inspire you
“I can’t decide if procrastination kills creativity or is essential to it.”
Dancing, romancing
Laughing, prancing
Completely trancing
Time fast advancing
Panic quickly attacks
There is no turning back
Time was supposed to lack
Or maybe I am a quack
I was supposed to do
An essay, story, poem or a few
If I only had the slightest clue
I would not be feeling blue
Right now
Was I procrastinating?
Maybe just contemplating?
Planning my next writing?
Or simply, just waiting?
A simple prompt enough
Not too a difficult task
But if I must, I must
With these words at last
I am not going to be defeated
And this poem is completed
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Some socialmedia bullshit
‘Connecting people – The artist formerly known as Nokia’
Some Social Media Bullshit
You don’t have to like it, but have to be in there: The social media of the world wide web. After all, who wants to be a complete social outcast!
Here are a few examples of what can be used for keeping in touch with family, friends and even your favourite movie stars!
* Assbook: Like opinions, everyone has more than one
* Angstagram: I post photos of myself and my eating habits, therefore I am
* Bitter: You would be too if no one is following you, right?
* Benchpress: For every self aware blabber, but more artistic ;P
* Tiedup: A must for professionals, endorse endorse endorse until you drop!
* You-boob: You did something stupid, maybe flashed a body part usually hidden, it got on video and uploaded on the internet and now you are the star of your own show!
A typical modern person’s day
@In the morning
The alarm clock is going off, it’s time to get up.
What is the first thing you do?
#Pick up your phone from the night stand and:
A) Check your social media apps
B) Check your email
@Driving in the car to your place of work.
Listening to the radio and the DJ is urging you to snap a photo and upload it to their site:
#uploadfunnypic
A) You are snapping selfies and almost bumping into the car that stopped in front of you. (The other driver possibly doing the same thing as you).
B) You are twatting your social media buddies of what you just did.
@Lunch time everyone with their phones in their respective hands. Not one word is spoken to anyone ‘live’, but they all are:
A) Chatting (and oh yes, there are actually office use approved ones too: Yank!)
B) Updating statuses on various social media apps.
C) Uploading photos of what they ate (of course, a must for every self aware social medialite).
D) Someone shared a funny video and twatted the link to everyone else around the table.
E) Everyone watching the video.
F) Everyone twatting feedback to each other.
@Coffee break everyone is:
A) Uploading photos of coffee and doughnuts they will consume.
B) Chatting with the people around the coffee table.
Back home from the office.
@Dinner table the family is sharing a meal and their respective day:
A-F apply here too.
@Midnight, bedtime:
A) Time to recap today’s event in your “blab”.
B) Latest friend updates to be checked (so not to miss any important things such as what your friends ate or what they were watching on TV, etc.)
C) Twatting everyone
#g’night!
Sometimes though, you have to be more low tech. For example in the situation, where your respective spouse is not quite on the same level of enlightenment regarding the social conventions of the social media as you are. Then you have to resort to archaic methods like the SMS.
Wishing your spouse
#sweet dreams xoxo
Lesson learnt:
Getting anything done; 3% is talent, 97% is staying off the internet.
Posted in A Quote a Week Tuesday
“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up” A. A. Milne
A Quote a Week Tuesday #1
First quote of the series, is a rather funny one. For one thing, it is often true. But then again, like most quotes, it can inspire to think and as an extension, write 😉
“A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business” A.A. Milne, If I May
Posted in A Quote a Week Tuesday
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation” Oscar Wilde
A Quote a Week Tuesday: New Tuesday Series
As inspired by the 3 day quote challenge, I am launching a new serial, “A Quote a Week Tuesday”.
Since I am so fond of quotes and use them in all my posts, I decided this could be a fun challenge for Tuesdays.
Any quote, own or borrowed will be posted each Tuesday accompanied by photos of the same theme.
If you want, you can ping back your own post to this site. This, however, is not a round robin type thing, rather just something on the side 😉
Let the quotations continue!
“Life itself is a quotation” Jorge Luis Borges
