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[Oct. 13th, 2006|08:29 am] |
Poll #843839 Sean's snap poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 24If the election was tomorrow, who would you vote for? |
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[Oct. 3rd, 2006|11:15 am] |
Yesterday was the first Monday and I forgot (again).
This is the rare non friends locked post, so everyone can share in the secretness... enjoy. And please, amuse me. My life is a series of readings on what constitues consideration, and that gets kind of boring.
TELL ME A SECRET
1) Post anonymously, I have no way of knowing who it is, IP logging is off.
2) Tell me anything you wish, it can be directed at me or it can be completely random or just something you need or want to get off your chest. Silly or serious. |
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| Ways to tell you are not in New York |
[Sep. 27th, 2006|11:45 am] |
Standing in line at the bakery and the guy behind you says
"Isn't this intersting? They say its called Challah bread". |
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[Sep. 21st, 2006|12:06 am] |
We cliched the AL East by losing!
That's a good sign! |
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[Sep. 18th, 2006|05:33 pm] |
My former co-workers will be saddened to see that it took me this long to get the word out on what's happening around Guantanmo and the rights of the detainees there. This shit is as basic as the law gets. Everyone should have a trial, everyone should get a lawyer. If you don't think that, then you're an asshole and no friend to freedom either.
Take a second and fill out this petition from CCR.
thanks
Sean |
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| The Time Has Come. |
[Sep. 6th, 2006|02:58 pm] |
Friends Only.
From here on out, this journal will be "friends only" meaning if you're not on my Live Journal friends list, you can't read it. Comment to be added.
If you're a friend in real life who doesn't have a live journal, you're going to have to get one to keep up with what is going on in my life. |
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[Sep. 4th, 2006|11:18 am] |
It is indeed first Monday, and a holiday, which means most of you aren't shut in a library like I am, but what the hell, amuse me while I read Marbury v. Madison...
TELL ME A SECRET
1) Post anonymously, I have no way of knowing who it is, IP logging is off.
2) Tell me anything you wish, it can be directed at me or it can be completely random or just something you need or want to get off your chest. Silly or serious. |
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| #776, Braudel's The Wheel's of Commerce |
[Aug. 24th, 2006|10:29 am] |
In October of 1992, I start a little notebook where I recorded the books I wanted to read. The first half dozen entries tell you a lot about who I was then, they include Naked Lunch, Kafka, and for some unknown reason, Kierkegard.
Soon after the notebook developed into a list of all the books I read, separated by year. The current total is 776*.
As a diversion while I am down here in D.C., I thought it’d be fun to write short reviews of some of these books. I’ll start with the one I finished yesterday.
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| Firestorm! |
[Aug. 16th, 2006|02:35 pm] |
this is just too amazing. I had to steal it from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) the_sikh_geek
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* Earth Crisis is a famous vegan straight edge hardcore band, for those of you out there who didn't grow up in punk rock. |
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[Aug. 16th, 2006|09:02 am] |
1. Thanks to everyone who filled out the fashion survey. I love the answers!
2. I am back in BK for the day before heading to Seattle tonight. It's nice to be back, I like it here.
3. Two must read articles in todays nyt:
the important bit:
Hezbollah’s reputation as an efficient grass-roots social service network — as opposed to the Lebanese government, regarded by many here as sleek men in suits doing well — was in evidence everywhere. Young men with walkie-talkies and clipboards were in the battered Shiite neighborhoods on the southern edge of Bint Jbail, taking notes on the extent of the damage.
“Hezbollah’s strength,” said Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, a professor at the Lebanese American University here, who has written extensively about the organization, in large part derives from “the gross vacuum left by the state.”
Hezbollah was not, she said, a state within a state, but rather “a state within a nonstate, actually.”
Sheik Nasrallah said in his speech that “the brothers in the towns and villages will turn to those whose homes are badly damaged and help rebuild them.
“Today is the day to keep up our promises,” he said. “All our brothers will be in your service starting tomorrow.”
The important bit:
More generally, the participants said, the president expressed frustration that Iraqis had not come to appreciate the sacrifices the United States had made in Iraq, and was puzzled as to how a recent anti-American rally in support of Hezbollah in Baghdad could draw such a large crowd. “I do think he was frustrated about why 10,000 Shiites would go into the streets and demonstrate against the United States,” said another person who attended.
Conclusions - Hezbollah is the clear winner in the war, the President of the United States is a either and idiot, or unable to admit how horribly he fucked up Iraq, or both.
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[Aug. 15th, 2006|09:53 am] |
Poll #796105 you're my style icons
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 18Occupation Residence Style Icons Signature Look Favorite Tailor Favorite Shoes Style Influences Most Stylish Person Quote |
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[Aug. 13th, 2006|12:56 pm] |
After a very long and grueling day (where shinybolt once again proved she deserves the best gf/partner/lover award) me and all my shit are in D.C.
I am here until tuesday, then its back to NYC to catch a plane to Seattle then back to New York on Sunday and then back down here to start getting ready for school in a serious way.
more later. |
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| nerd alert. |
[Aug. 8th, 2006|10:08 pm] |
I am siting here hitting refresh over and over again on the wfsb website trying to get the most up to the minute results from Ct.
I am a total nerd for election nights. |
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[Aug. 7th, 2006|09:17 am] |
Now that I am out of the work force, my life lacks drama. Tell me a secret to keep me occupied and to keep you from working on a Monday in August.
TELL ME A SECRET
1) Post anonymously, I have no way of knowing who it is, IP logging is off.
2) Tell me anything you wish, it can be directed at me or it can be completely random or just something you need or want to get off your chest. Silly or serious. |
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| up the punx! |
[Aug. 2nd, 2006|06:37 pm] |
This is Jeffrey Sebelia. He is a contestant on Project Runway this year and about half the time, he looks like a gutter punk (like buttflaps and leather hooded sweatshirts and neck tattoos). The other half he looks like a model for Jean-Paul Gaultier circa 1995 (meaning hyper styled b&w suits).
I should probably hate him for commodifying all that Jake Filth and C.R.A.S.S. created, but I am generally fascinated by the whole thing.
EDITED: Slanderous points out that he used the word "feminazi" seriously. I'd missed that. Now I hope he doesn't win. But I am still fascintated. |
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[Aug. 2nd, 2006|03:23 pm] |
it is still way too fucking hot out there. being that I am not as hard as never_the_less, I will run at the gym today.
here's a picture of snow for everyone:
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[Aug. 1st, 2006|12:02 pm] |
1. It is really fucking hot.
2. I am old enough to remember when the rape in lambdamoo happen, and when I read the article in the Village Voice I remember thinking that this was a watershed moment in the internet. I had largely forgotten about the whole thing until Kottke linked to the article last week.
Its a long piece, but worth reading I think because of what is says about the investment people felt in a online community, about the nature of sexual assualt and about the ways people tried to deal with the situation.
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| jock update |
[Jul. 31st, 2006|11:11 am] |
So people seem interested in hearing about the jock exploits. Here they are:
i am once again behind in my long runs which shouldn't surprise anyone. I did 13.5 miles yesterday (I was supposed to do 18). I feel confident that by the middle of the month I'll be where I need to be, but for now, the pain in the soles of my feet once I cross that ten mile threshold is almost unbearable. Is this going to go away?
As for the weight loss, its coming along. I weighed myself last night after the run and came in at 187. This morning I was back at 189 water weight, I imagine.
I need to be losing a pound a week, which i think I can do without too much trouble if I just keep to the eat sensibly and don't fucking drink so much beer diet plan.
This week, I'll be adding more bike rides to the schedule in an attempt to burn more calories without bashing the shit our of my feet. I'll keep you updated on the progress. |
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[Jul. 28th, 2006|12:05 pm] |
dobrovolets got me thinking about wikipedia yesterday (though I didn't have time to comment on his page) and I was wondering about what you all thought of it. So here's a poll.
Poll #780249 wikipedia...
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 34How often do you use wikipedia? I think wikipedia is Do you edit wikipedia pages? How many wiki pages have you edited? |
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