All In a Day's Work
Checked the Blogs on My Blogroll: 5 times
Took my glasses off and put them back on again: 27 times
Got up for a glass of water: 97 times
Coffee: 4 times
kicked back to do a semi-circle on the swivel chair: 14 times
eh ... and other things
Monday, June 2, 2003 03:07 p.m.
Interpol
Nice. Zoe is a top search result for "I Left My Urge in the Icebox." Where would we be without google, eh? Good reference; a damn good song.
She swears I’m a slave to the details
But if your life is such a big joke, why should I care?
Though, I'm still partial to "Stella," because I've had those kind of "walks." How sad is it that in this day and age the lyrics "I love you" in a chorus sound weird?
Monday, June 2, 2003 02:00 p.m.
Baby, It's You
For as much as we would like to believe our childhood has nothing to do with our adult self, and its just a collection of memories distant from us -- there's no doubt in my mind that it does. Everyone, everyone I have met in this town is the oldest in his family or an only child. The one exception I can think of is a girl who's the youngest with three brothers; that too, I guess, creates similar drive
Monday, June 2, 2003 01:22 p.m. Here I am/ Blogging Like a Hurricaine!
First day of work, what can I tell ya? Here's something on India going
open source or bust
Monday, June 2, 2003 01:05 p.m.
The Prick of Tact
Alina has a very thoughtful post, I should have linked to earlier
We've gotten so good at coyness, cattiness, and other such Junior-League-esque virtues that we have forgotten how to excite each other with the subject matter. When I think of all the conversations deferred or put off due to the general acceptance of relativist assumptions (i.e. everyone has their own truth), it seems fair to say coyness might be no more than a delicate veil for cowardice. People should discuss the topics that matter to them-- it is the only way to ensure that we learn to understand both ourselves and humankind in a broader sense. Enough of the excuses masquerading as tact or politeness! You cannot even mount the pretense to a serious discussion without conceding your own moral and philosophical perspectives, and agreeing to discuss them as well as their particular applications.
I'm no fan of small talk, but neither am I one to spill my guts to the first person who will listen. That being said I'm sick of people excusing the superfluousness of others because either party is, or wants to be percieved as "nice." The best friendships-- with the people most worth keeping as friends-- take a lot of time to flourish. Coyness can deliver a punch -- and an unexpected one to boot. Sometimes with human interactions a little game theory is fun.
But cattiness is always unacceptable
Monday, June 2, 2003 11:31 a.m. More of a Scavanger Hunt Tech Dirt pans LookSmart's "distributed search engine." They link to a Business 2.0 article that explains its a good way for webmasters to get their site listed first, and therefore, hardly user friendly
Monday, June 2, 2003 06:09 a.m.
Gentrify This Post
I'll complete this one sometime later in the day
Here's Baltimore City Paper on my new favorite discussion topic: urban development. The article -- that I have not yet completed reading -- seems to go on to what I was itching at before: is there any hope for a ravaged suburb? What's the incentive to "gentrify" a neighborhood too far removed from the hub?
It's a game of musical chairs, and if you are one of the unlucky ones you may find yourself out on the street.
Says this very good article from the Weekly Dig, noting that poorer residents are getting priced out of Boston's city limits and moving down to my already ghetto-fabulous dear hometown of Brockton, Taxachussetts. No diggity.
So now all the nice white folk -- who keep living in the one West side patch of the city safe from minorities -- that make up the city government are scrambling to revitalize the downtown area before it hits the fan. They decided to blow all their revenue on a new courthouse and other fancy government offices right between the crackhouses. Nice try.
At a peace conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, last year, Kucinich was more specific about his beliefs. He spoke about how the Eagle Nebula, a star-forming region that is 7,000 light years from Earth, reminds him of the relationship between stardust and the human spirit.
``The energy of the stars becomes us. We become the energy of the stars. Stardust and spirit unite and we begin: One with the universe,'' Kucinich said.
Monday, June 2, 2003 02:06 a.m.
Pink and the Brain
I haven't got time for much commentrary, so just read this for yourself. My pet theory is that intellegent people have entirely androgynous brains.
Sunday, June 1, 2003 11:55 p.m.
Sixes and Sevens
I don't watch television. Stating this always smacks of lefty "Smash Your TV" sanctimony, but look, I don't watch TV because I can't sit still for longer than five minutes. So I was quite suprised that though I've got a million worries now on my mind, I could sit back and unwind --and pay attention! -- to an hour long drama this evening. The medium exists for instant and easy empathy. Just as the twelve year old girl in me leaps for joy over Trinity, I immediatly, and unsurprisingly, responded to Six Feet Under's sullen girl. But all the women on the show are dark. There is a fallacy that to be a woman is to be warm, flirtatious, extroverted, etc etc. I wish this stereotype would die painfully along with the happy housewife scrubbing away at the kitchen floor. I'm going to link to the Trinty fan page again because it's a really good one
Thursday, May 23, 2002 06:48 p.m.
Hey, like, do you go to shows? Fun times ahead. Spiritualized on June 8th can't be missed. The seminal LA punk band X is at the 9:30 on the 14. And -- ::sigh:: -- The Fall is playing July 10th.
Haaaa
Had to share this from the Shirt's Off mailing list:
Our campaign will seek to highlight the role the AEI plays in policy decisions made by this and previous administrations. We will strive to discredit the fallacy that the AEI is a credible think-tank worth citing in a rational discourse
Surf's Up
Without porn and music downloads, high-speed internet would not exist. At least not in Europe
Wednesday, May 28, 2003 01:59 p.m.
Grid Orwell Priceline's developer has moved on to critical infrastructure. Jay Walker's USHomeGuard will theoretically enlist participants at a rate of $ 10/hour to monitor video-footage of critical infrastructure such as power plants and airline. They will click "yes" if they see potential attackers. He compares the scheme to a "digital victory garden."
Wednesday, May 28, 2003 10:38 a.m.
Thanks to Arrow 94.7 for neglecting classic rock radio protocol and playing "Tuesday Afternoon" on a Wednesday morning. Just the way to begin this day.
The Lipstick on the Collar
MRI scans may unseat polygraphs. A Liar's Trap is on the tech horizon. Hide your brains, unfaithful ones.
"There's only one thing worse than a lie detector that doesn't work, and that's a lie detector that does work," said physicist Robert Park, a longtime polygraph critic. "It's the last invasion of privacy that you can imagine, and it frightens me that we seem to be almost able to do it."
