hey

what's up

I don't know what to say

I'm not always there when you call but I'm always on time

going nuclear

sometimes i worry that an atomic bomb will be detonated in a big city somewhere.

it just seems like it's bound to happen eventually.

what will all those soviet suitcase bombs unaccounted for. it doesn't keep me up at night really, but every once in a while i just think about it. that's all.

magnetic ribbon vs. colored bracelets

which of these two trendy phenomenon is the most widespread?

are they somehow related?

how the hell did this happen?

AlterNet: Start Making Sense: Start Making Sense: How To Talk To America: "We are living in the good old days. The century defining crises have yet to hit. The energy crunch, peak oil has yet to hit. The globalization; China, India coming on line and finally being able to come into their own; that has not yet hit and affected our economy. Global warming hasn't hit. The massive species extinctions haven't hit. We are in the good old days. Whatever movement prepares itself now not to protest but to govern. [Applause.] A movement that prepares itself to govern a broken country, a hurt country, a country that needs solutions, not issues, not critiques, not complaints, not kvetches but the country that needs strong people who are willing to take responsibility and bring forth solutions. That movement will be welcomed, beloved, accepted, celebrated and lauded at Thanksgiving tables in blue states and red states."

AlterNet: Special Coverage: Start Making Sense

i found this set of articles to be rather thought provoking--a nice touching off point for several discussions.

Truth in the hands of artists-III (GreaterKashmir.com) 5/6/2005 : 5:09:28 PM

Here's an interesting conversation between Thom Yorke (of Radiohead) and Howard Zinn (who authored the People's History of the United States)

AlterNet: The Foreign Language of Choice

I think George Lakoff's a brilliant man. He has tremendous insight into the way language shapes the way we comprehend the world. In a way it's a bit like Marshall Mcluhan's 'the media is the message.' Any real changes that are to take place in our current political circumstance will have to account for the way language plays such an important role. There, I did it too. "Language plays such an important role." I'm using the metaphor of acting and a play to convey a particular idea. Strange.

I read Lakoff's "Metaphors We Live By" for an anthropology class as an undergrad--thanks Dr. Mueggler. Lakoff has recently written Don't Think of an Elephant It's sort of a progressive manifesto for communicating our ideas and values to the populace.

so i've been heading over to the the blue room website on a pretty regular basis to download recent shows. rob debank's on saturday mornings while chris coco is on sunday mornings. very cool. i like to record and then throw it onto my ipod.

i've now got a way to see how often my site is viewed, etc, so maybe if i post here a bit more often it'll translate into more pageviews.

sorry everything on here's so boring right now. it's just sort of a experimental space for me to get my shit together. i'll also be looking into uploading images and audio soon.

so um

now i have a widget that allows me to post directly to my blog. cool.

so i've made the switch.

to a mac that is.

and now i'm in the process of getting all of my dashboard widgets up and running.

i just got a nice little one that shows me the number of new messages in my gmail inbox.

and now i'm looking into adsense (not like anyone reads this)

so i have my doppler radar and my reversi and my network connections and my dictionary.

so handy.

so this is when i think things change.

now that i have a new laptop i will be able to post to this weblog so much more. yes yes. still, no one is reading this but me.

maybe that will change.

from now on i'll be trying to link to and write about various topics that i find curious.

i've been getting into the podcast thing a lot lately.

i listen mostly to bbc and npr shows (on the media, etc) and mac podcasts.

i've also figured out how to record streaming audio radio shows so i can listen to them on the ride into oakland.
v. cool.

i want to create a car ribbon magnet (i'm not sure what color) that says "this is not a ribbon" on it. sorta metaphysical i think. maybe i'm trying too hard.

freethinking topics of interest

the middle east
economic development
postmodernism
kings of convenience
postal service
the breakout principle
meditation
springtime
bicycles
punks
balancing sustainability and ambition
wireless technology
cellphones in the lesser developed world
opensource
yes yes
meetings
papers
internships
trade and finance
goodbye

march twenty-third two thousand and five.

we live in a world of specialization. the mere act of gaining knowledge forces one to limit their outlook. a necessity really. how to balance in depth knowledge of a particular topic or field while maintain a holistic perspective of outlying perspective. that is the challenge.

i think about postmodernism sometimes.

a postmodern boy in a modern world maybe.
is the US still modern? some things i read tell me so. and american's seem blind to potential postmodern perspectives and concepts. it's kinda nice in a way. things out there that seem so obvious that some can't see.

spring is upon us. hopefully. and with it rebirth and renewal. spring cleaning of the mind and the body. maybe seasonal affective disorder applies to all the seasons we just tend to apply it to winter because that's when we feel crummy.

enough.

i've been saying this all along...

A Milli Vanilli President

Stacey Dominici voices her opinion during a protest Sunday at the Springdale Borough Police Department. The protest centered around the arrests of three teens and a man Friday after Springdale’s football game.
STEVEN DIETZ, contributing photographer
courtesy of the Valley News Dispatch
 

guys run road in Harmar, Allegheny County 

tarentum in the flood two weeks ago