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"Let me be outraged and annihilated, but for one instant, in one being, let Your enormous Library be justified. "
-- Jorge Luis Borges, "The Library of Babel"


jueves, mayo 31, 2001
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cmoore: On the contrary, it would make you a poor sport to not go into them!



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wow. i have so many sociological and personal issues with this that it makes my head spin. but i won't go into them, since that would make me a poor sport with no sense of humor, wouldn't it?



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"For as long as she can remember, Boston Cream has been Emma's favorite kind of doughnut - but her bill had more scientific beginnings. Shannon, whose district includes part of Somerville, had visited her school at a time when the students were making graphs, and Emma proposed a chart on the class's favorite doughnuts. Boston Cream won, five votes ahead of jelly. And Emma, whose interest in the State House had been piqued, decided legislation was in order. She called Senator Shannon herself."



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"Hey everyone, look at me! I'm wearing a blue tie!"



miércoles, mayo 30, 2001

martes, mayo 29, 2001
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Geocaching is being used to help promote the remake of Planet of the Apes. That aside, geocaching seems like a really cool way to get geeks like myself out of the house more often. Do any of us own a GPS unit yet?



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braving that specter from our past, Greenwich High School, i ventured back today to visit the Gay-Straight Alliance. the club's changed quite a bit - the only people there who i knew were kangaroo blue and greg, and mr. ayers and ms. tierney were nowhere to be seen - but it was interesting nonetheless. i was asked to give information on Life After College, which caught a bit unprepared. we also filled out a kinsey-like "sexual orientation worksheet". interesting, although lacking in detail and very subjective.
i was: a 2.3 for past, a 4.6 for present, and a 4.3 for ideal.



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for those of you who haven't read anything by Louis de Bernieres, you should. (i'd especially recommend The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts. i know jrandom, oceanreader, and angrev'p are also fans.) he also wrote Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which was recently made into a movie. haven't seen it yet, but it got some bad reviews.



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for those of you who'll be in boston in the next week or so:
the highly talented deb talan will be headlining at club passim on thursday, june 9th.
boston pride is next weekend - june 9 and 10. free music, throngs of queer people... what could be better?



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Initial cynicism aside, Noami Klein's No Logo is a really fantastic book. Every other page I read a paragraph that makes me think "Ooh! I should post that to the Blog!"

Recent coolness from it: Reclaim The Streets. (June 18, New Yorkers and Bostonites?)

Just grab it from the library and give it a browse sometime soon.






sábado, mayo 26, 2001
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if you needed any more reasons to hate our chimp-faced president, here's one: Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban.

i know Bear and i are grammar freaks, but evidently we're not the only ones.



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Bear! Welcome, I say welcome to the club, son. Blog, that is.

CM: congrats on the place! I look forward to seeing it.

On 6/28, I'm officially homeless. I can stay at friends' houses, but I figure it'll at least keep me on my toes for July. With luck, I'll find someone awesome to travel the country with and a car to travel in. Otherwise, I may just hitchike on my own, which might get lonely, but would be better than sitting in Melbourne like a lump all month.

In other news: I've put some words on hiphop online.



viernes, mayo 25, 2001
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welcome to the club, bear. no worries, you've fouled nothing up.

news in the world of cmoore: oceanreader and i've got an apartment in Medford! it is a wonderful place into which we shall move June 1st. i've also decided to take the dailyjolt job. so... if anyone's passing through boston and wants to chat, hang out, or sleep somewhere, let me know.

jrandom, you'd better water that plant i gave you. if it dies i'll... be mad. or something.

jimmy tones, what are you going to do in the southern hemisphere after your exams are over?



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Hi, howdy! CMoore done invited me here, and I feel right proud. Do excuse me if I foul things up as I've never blogged before, but as my inaugural post I'd like to offer John Bailey's journal, the journal of a oldr gay man living north of London. Complete with a daily poem. Coolness.



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for all y'all who want to unravel some of the mysteries of femmes, Bear has written something for you.



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JR: Y'know, once I re-read that to the class in tutorial some 30-odd minutes after hastily scribbling out the web page, I realized how wrong it was. DeCSS has received some publicity, and Napster has received obviously lots and lots; I guess when I wrote that they hadn't, it came from a feeling that what publicity there was had somehow missed the point. But I'd be hard pressed to say what I think the point actually is...

Hm.



jueves, mayo 24, 2001
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jimmy: So why do you think things like the DeCSS case have had relatively little attention paid?




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cmoore: How does living alone treat me? Well, I generally don't have as much free time as I need to take care of my space, so there are many things I lack by not sharing it with anyone; I get fast food for dinner not because I don't want to cook for myself, but because I simply haven't been able to buy cooking utensils. This, I hope, is not par for the course. On the other hand, I don't have to answer to anybody for it except myself... the only problem being that no one answers to me ;)

That said, the odds (it seems) are stacked against me.




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Check out the notes for my presentation. I think they're nifty.



miércoles, mayo 23, 2001
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The date is five-twentythree. All Hail Discordia.



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HAHAHA! You can go to HELL, all of you Tortoise/Vibert/CinematicOrchestra/Orb/Roots/Antibalas/Prefuse73/DeLaSoul/BizMarkie/KronosQuartet -listening New-England-Dwellers. For 6/27 at Melbourne's Prince Of Wales, I will stand witness to the Squarepusher.

YAHAHAHAHA!

(I think I must have summoned him with last night's blogpost...)



martes, mayo 22, 2001
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my current reading (sorry the current page hasn't been updated in aeons; i'll get back on the ball once my life is less topsy-turvy) is Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body. her books seem a bit... non-linear, but her use of language is extraordinarily beautiful. she comes up with amazing imagery and metaphors, and describes the ordinary world in an amazing way. i can also recommend her novel The Passion. get thee to a library.



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if anyone wants to give me How To Come Out To Your Parents advice, feel free. it must be done soon or i may go crazy. i think they must already know, but i really should have the official Talk.



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interesting article, jrandom. after living in a single room in a house of 100 people for the past three years, it will be an interesting change to live with a roommate for the next year. and after that... i'm not sure if i fear or welcome the prospect of living truly alone. perhaps i won't. you live alone - how does it treat you?




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"This week's newsy trickle across the national spreadsheet reveals, among other things, that more Americans than ever live alone. Twenty-seven million people, give or take. That's a lot of air guitar being played in private. That's a lot of bowls of cereal eaten over the sink around 1 in the morning. That's quite a few people who lost the love of their life, which meant they sold the house they thought was too big for just one person, and moved into a condo, and sometimes drive around the complex wondering which condo, exactly, is theirs."



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"I'm gonna fuck you in my red hot ca-aaaaar..."

Squarepusher squarely mocks 2-Step Garage in his Windowlickerish new single My Red Hot Car. Dig the MP3.




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"This case does raise a number of interesting and somewhat troubling questions. If a person is being paid with public money and is entrusted with the public trust, shouldn't their lives be as open to public view as a private citizen's? Shouldn't the fact that a cop has a felony record or has a bankruptcy—a signal that he might be more vulnerable to bribery or other incentives—be available as part of the public record? Shouldn't public employees be held to at least as high a standard of accountability as someone in the private sector?"



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Potential compensation for my missing TrancePlant: TrainCore

Only in Oz...



lunes, mayo 21, 2001
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jimmy: <$0.02>How about how the Internet circumnavigates the traditional process of music distribution and the implications there of?</$0.02>



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Since I'm horrible at writing reviews, here's one by proxy for The Mummy Returns, which xenodice and I saw last night. Oh, and here's another for those of you who missed it the first time.



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I need to make a presentation Thursday for Cybersociety on anything (anything at all!) related to "Digital Technologies, Media and Hypermedia." Vague, eh? I suspect I could get away with almost anything that falls under the auspices of "Cybersociety." The presentation then needs to be the basis for a 2000 word paper that will count as 50% of my grade in the class. I want, again, to write about something I'm proud of and interested in. Any suggestions? I've been thinking perhaps something to do with copyright issues, DeCSS, MP3 compression, etc...

Of course, I have an almost identical assignment in my other "cyber" class... I'm going to be so sick of this stuff by the end of June.



domingo, mayo 20, 2001
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Blogs are contagious
I've shown a bunch of my friends this blog, and many of them wanted to join it, so I started one of my own a few weeks back. Then the entire strategy club wanted to join mine, so we began stratblog.... Which has quickly taken on a life of it's own.
(several of the posts to my blog will be a little redundant to you guys, I cheat becasue I'm low on time.)



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Current reading: No Logo by Naomi Klein. (which does, incidentally, have a logo.) If you, like me, want to impress sexy hippies with your vast knowledge and perspective vis-a-vis capitalist wankjobs selling third-world destruction to first-world college students, then this is a good book to read.



sábado, mayo 19, 2001
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I really don't quite know what to make of this:
  "A 2-year-old steer that had been raised at a Christian school in Brea was slaughtered Thursday in front of students, drawing some protest and dismaying an animal rights group.
     An employee at Carbon Canyon Christian School and the butcher the school hired several weeks ago said the slaughter of the 1,100-pound steer named T-bone was educational for the students in kindergarten through 12th grade who attended."



jueves, mayo 17, 2001
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i've been perusing the website of Bear, a friend of Toby's. good stuff.



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Last night, xenodice and I went to the Museum of Fine Arts for an exhibition of works by Takashi Murakami.

Here is what the sponsor of the exhibit, the Boston Phoenix, has to say about it. More interesting, however, is what Murakami has to say for himself.




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The Revolution was televised. It was a really cool ad for shoes.

I uncovered this in research for my essay about hip-hop commercialization. This is six years old, and I had never heard of it. If I had seen the ad at the time, I wouldn't have gotten it. As it is, I think it's either deeply depressing or deeply hillarious.



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"The direction and acting emphasises the cartoon-like aspects of the script. Sometimes this works well, particularly in the investigation scenes and with the sisters' boyfriends. The continuous pantomime-like delivery, however, robs the play of some of its texture."

Oo! Oo! That's me! That's me! It's the StageLeft.com.au review of my play.

There's also a fun QuickTime video of a scene from the play, though I'm not in it.



miércoles, mayo 16, 2001
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I've been MIA for a bit, so here are some batch reactions...

jimmy: Doesn't it seem wretchedly forumlaic to you?

kangaroo: Perhaps this'll shed some light.

cmoore: The Supreme Court is also a bunch of old fuddy-duddies for not legalizing drugs altogether, but I'm not holding my breath.



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jimmy: Well, in a panopticon, there is no measure of resistance. That's the point. Now, we don't live in a panopticon, but we're pretty damn close in terms of lack of measures of resistance. This is because society is largely set up such that if you eschew the mechanisms by which one is tracked, you are at the same time divorcing yourself from mainstream society. Now, perhaps some people can afford to do that, but by definition, most people can't.

On a somewhat more personal sidenote, I've become increasingly less concerned that so much information about me is available (there is next to nothing I could do about that) and more concerned about the accuracy of what is available about me, because that's where most of the problems start.



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If any of you know anything about hopping box cars, or know someone who does, please let me know. I'm thinking about doing some traveling this summer...




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So I've decided not to return to the states until mid-August, at which point I'll live in Greenwich, with frequent and (hopefully) extended visits to friends elsewhere until school starts at the end of the month. So call off keeping me in mind for housing, and I'll hug a kangaroo for each of you.



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Really, though, I prefer my Foucaults plastic.



martes, mayo 15, 2001
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Two of my four classes have had recent focus on surveillance and privacy in today's world, under the heading of Foucaultian Panopticism.I'm a little surprised that neither of them have made any mention of cryptography as a possible measure of resistance. More generally, I'm annoyed that none of them have provided any perspective on the idea of surveillance that I haven't already considered.

But it has got me thinking about it. What do you guys think? Issues of privacy and surveillance have had a strong presence on this blog. Hit me with some general thoughts about the matter.



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I realize that my previous post would have made much more sense if blogger hadn't eaten what I tried to post yesterday ... luckily, I saved it:
There will be no Sunbake this year.
The only band that could play (that the town would allow) was Oleander, who nobody seems to have heard of. After estimating the cost of putting this show together, plus security (we're required to have ten to twelve cops, for 13 hours, at $37.50 per hour, each). We discovered there was no possible way to break even, let alone make money. So there will be no outdoor concert for Arch Street.
it's strange to be working here, in the last few weeks of my senior year, and realize that basically everything that got me involved with arch street is now gone. the theater program is defunct, any attempts at starting an improve troupe have fizzled, and most of my friends who worked there have graduated or moved.
it'd be too easy for me to whine and grumble about the turn arch street's taken in the last year, but at the same time our weekend numbers have been better than ever, and we're getting bigger and bigger bands. which is why it's such a shame that Sunbake has flopped, we had a lot of really great hip hop acts lined up.
There is still the possibility of having an indoor concert- the parks department has no control of what we do inside the building, but it's just not the same. Since we've booked the park anyway, we're trying to have a barbecue outside while bands play indoors, but we will have to see what they say about that....



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kb: what's the deal with sunbake? what went on previous to the event you posted about? has this year's sunbake happened already?



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sigh, there has been more arch street messiness. one of the police officers called Kyle today, and said some rather unpleasant things about sunbake, at one point referring to it as "a drunken orgy barbecue". at first i was incredibly pissed off, until we realized what this meant. after all the underhanded, obnoxious, things that various town organizations have done to try and shut down sunbake (banning Run DMC from the park because they would bring in an "undesirable and rowdy" crowd.) we finally have somebody on record as saying something that is absolutely, indisputably, offensive.
and we can write letters.
we've already talked to both the local papers, as well as assorted town officials. And the adult board members, which include many prominent and wealthy residents, are pissed. The incident only occurred this afternoon, and already we've gotten phone calls from at least 15 parents and other supporters. Which makes me very happy.



lunes, mayo 14, 2001
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ah, heck. the supreme court is a bunch of old fuddy-duddies. they just ruled against allowing medical marijuana usage.



domingo, mayo 13, 2001

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"High on a hill overlooking the central California coast stands the massive and myth-filled estate known as San Simeon. It is largely unchanged from the way media mogul William Randolph Hearst left it more than half a century ago"
and it's much more impressive on film, I find it sort of hard to believe that people actually live like this



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"We should all be so lucky as Myrtle Manville, reports CBS News Correspondent Jim Axelrod for CBS News Sunday Morning.
Turning 95, she's got her health, her family, her friends, days full of activity in Sun City, Ariz. – and absolutely no intention of giving up her car."




sábado, mayo 12, 2001
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ah!
That reminds me, my parents informed me the other day that my Cousin is now working as a production assistant on the matrix 2. She used to work for ILM but quit briefly to take a job with a now defunct Internet startup. She's got her old job back, or something, they're being so secretive about it she can't even tell us exactly what she's doing. I don't know where how keeps getting these jobs, damn good luck I suppose.



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via Nintendo Julian and /.:

Paramount Confirms Star Trek: Enterprise

Starring... the Quantum Leap Guy! And, yes, still produced by Rick "Lets-End-DS9-With-A-Las-Vegas-Lounge-Act" Berman.

I'm not holding my breath.



viernes, mayo 11, 2001
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i got this very strange email today. i have no idea why.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jennifer fiorillo [mailto:jennifer.fiorillo@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 4:49 PM
To: cmoore@email.smith.edu
Subject: wwII

Hi my name is Jennifer. I was wondering if you new how many people in total died in WWII?? If you could email me back ASAP it would be great. I am doing a school project.
Thanx Jenn



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cmoore: Gasp, shock - people cheat. The only real news here is that professors are increasingly turning to technological solutions to detect if/when their students do, as it just may be information overload that prevents them from detecting it otherwise.



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have y'all heard about the UVA cheating scandal? much as i know that i can't simply trust in the goodness of human nature (although i often tend to anyway), it's shocking to me - attending, as i do, a school with a similar honor code/unsupervised exam policy - that so many people would actually think this was a good idea. also, how could the professor not have noticed? sheesh. maybe professors really don't read the papers we turn in...



jueves, mayo 10, 2001
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"Have you ever had a hard time coming up with that perfect domain name? Well don't worry any longer...we have the perfect solution for you. Introducing the Surrealist Domain Name Generator! Just click on the 'Generate Domain' button and leave the rest to Salvador Dali..."



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"The Astor Place Hotel, to be built on the south side of Astor Place between Lafayette Street and Fourth Avenue, will resemble a gigantic pair of slacks with asymmetrical legs cut from shimmering, confetti-patterned fabric."




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beliefnet is 97% sure i'm liberal quaker. how insightful. :) actually, its first choice was neopagan, but hey, close enough. liberal quaker is actually the belief system i adopted in high school.



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when the military decides to build something, no way they're asking congress if they can build it. think they asked congress about this? i doubt it. it's more or less the first step in those directions.



miércoles, mayo 09, 2001
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"Are you a Yale student, alumna, or alumnus? Do you cringe with embarrassment or bristle with rage whenever George W. Bush's undergraduate affiliation is mentioned? Does Dubya stand, for you, for the antithesis of everything that you love and value about your Yale experience? Well, welcome to YADA. We hope you'll join us in our mission: to help find a cure for the blight that is Dubya." Yalies Against Dubya's Ascension
-Is mostly just links to other anti-Bush sites, but an interesting concept nonetheless.



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According to the Belief-O-Matic, I am 98% Unitarian Universalist. (my closest match)
This brought to you by Beliefnet, one my mom's favorite spiritual sites.




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"If the missile shield program actually gets through Congress, it will not be because people actually believe it can work, but because nobody ever lost an election by voting for defense appropriations. Weapons systems, like highway construction, are on the win-win side of government. If something fails, you put out yet another contract, and all the people who were happy before get even happier."



martes, mayo 08, 2001
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want to know where all that money you just paid in taxes is going?



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do you trust this man with the defense of our country?

i don't. he wants to put sattelite weapons in outer space. zzzap.



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jimmy: FYI, as a possible last resort, xenodice may not be staying with me for the summer and so I'd have room enough for you if need be.

cmoore: The reason I asked is because of a snippet I heard on NPR last night about how recent residential developments in downtown areas are displacing homeless shelters et al. It was posited - and I am paraphrasing greatly here - that the social animal in us could never really seperate a working space from a living space, which is an intriguing idea, but your guess is more convincing. That said, from reading the papers, it would seem that rezoning is relatively easy to do, no?



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timmy: yes, yes you may still live with us this summer. but speak fast, since i'm trying to arrange my job interviews and apartment-hunting for next tuesday (how's that work out lunch-wise, jrandom?). i'll keep in mind the fact that you may need living space when eireann and i apartment-hunt.

jrandom: we did not study that specifically, but my guess would be that it's because there's been a big movement towards decentralization, which leaves the poor in central-city slums while the rich hightail it out to the suburbs and the businesses follow them, forming suburban subcenters of economic activity. and now the tide is starting to shift the other way slightly - now that there's open space in the central city left by fleeing businesses and middle- and upper-class residents, that property is trickling down to whomever will snap it up, which is in this case residential customers. what's interesting to me is that the property would have to be rezoned from commercial to residential. i wonder who pulled that off?



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"Now the premise of this album is very, very simple. What's that? To listen to messages of soul with a solid beat, make you move your feet. Now the premise of the album is to find a passing spaceship and get rescued by it. Oh, come on. Now the premise of this album is, well, the dance, actually, dance business. The highest definition ever achieved in recording. I'll even tell you what two of the secret ingredients are: pure electronic modern electronics. That'll make 'em happy! Oh, look at 'em, they want to get up and dance! Let's have a party, we gonna go swinging! I'm gon' fuck the whole world up! Hahahaha, I'm so full of ideas, and here's a good one!"

Seeing him this Saturday should be fun :)




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cmoore: Why have downtown areas, which were traditionaly designed purely for business, become more and more residential?



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anyone who wants to chat about Urban Economics (such as housing, energy, and taxation policies; unequal acces to quality education; urban/suburban sprawl; why property taxes are a poor way of generating revenue, but local governments don't have any choice; differences between US and European policies on the above; etc.), my brain is full of it right now.

hopefully it shall remain primed while i take my exam from 2-4pm.



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(St. Louis, MO) -- Vintage Vinyl Records in St. Louis is proud to offer Abbie Hoffman?s long out of print Yippie classic, Steal This Book, on its web site. Read it, download it, copy it, distribute it, burn it, whatever you want--at least you can now get it FOR FREE.



lunes, mayo 07, 2001
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After spending $50 or so on guidebooks, I decided not to go to Thailand. I've had three months in a lonely country with no friends already; starting over again in a country where I don't know the language would just be masochistic at this point. Plus, considering that i haven't left Melbourne since I got here, I really ought to explore Australia before I explore Asia.

This may mean I'll come back to the US earlier, but i don't know yet... Still wanna live together, cmoore?

Thought I'd let y'all know.



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"'Open trade is not just an economic opportunity,' Bush said, 'it is a moral imperative.'"

i am hard-pressed to think of anyone who i less want telling me about "moral imperatives".



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"In the early 1900s Prokudin-Gorskii formulated an ambitious plan for a photographic survey of the Russian Empire that won the support of Tsar Nicholas II. Between 1909-1912, and again in 1915, he completed surveys of eleven regions, traveling in a specially equipped railroad car provided by the Ministry of Transportation.

Prokudin-Gorskii left Russia in 1918, going first to Norway and England before settling in France. By then, the tsar and his family had been murdered and the empire that Prokudin-Gorskii so carefully documented had been destroyed. His unique images of Russia on the eve of revolution--recorded on glass plates--were purchased by the Library of Congress in 1948 from his heirs. For this exhibition, the glass plates have been scanned and, through an innovative process known as digichromatography, brilliant color images have been produced. This exhibition features a sampling of Prokudin-Gorskii's historic images produced through the new process; the digital technology that makes these superior color prints possible; and celebrates the fact that for the first time many of these wonderful images are available to the public."



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"Such is the unlikely world of Mongolian rap. It's hard to imagine a more dramatic crossover act: from the street culture of inner-city America to a rugged, formerly communist country where 15 percent of the population is no madic. Yet over the past three years, hip-hop music has become immensely popular with young Mongolians."




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I found out a little more about it. Apparently Maz was yelling at some kid misbehaving in the student center, and a mother (not the kids mother, but a random mom who happened to walk by) got upset and publicly berated him for doing so. Maz got mad at her, and told her that he was only doing his job by telling students what they can and cannot do. i don't know how he got her e mail address, but somehow got it and sent her some rather unpleasant letters, so she is bringing up harassment charges.
I think it's a case of a woman with a bored lawyer and too much money to pay him. my mom was all irate about it because even though I've never had Maz, she has heard wonderful things about him form my freinds and all the other local moms. My friend Janet even had Maz over to her 19th birthday party last summer, and he hung out in the living room with all the kids. From what I know the school thinks the case is sort of frivolous, and is backing Maz, but nobody will answer any of my questions so I can't be sure. I will give updates whenever I hear more.



domingo, mayo 06, 2001
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ack! Maz! my favorite high school teacher ever! (along with ms. bushell and ms. barry, that is.) i've no idea what's going on, since - not being in Greenwich - i don't have access to any local newsmedia coverage, but i do know that while Maz did have quite a temper, it was reserved for those who did something stupid to piss him off, e.g. Brock Tellier.

em, let us know if you find out anything, please?




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Another friend with another LiveJournal.



viernes, mayo 04, 2001

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Does anybody here know anything about the big controversy over Maz? It was in the Greenwich time today, he allegedly sent threatening letters to a parent and is currently under investigation. I don't actually have a copy of the article, and the Greenwich Times website is unhelpful as usual (they never put the interesting news on the Internet.) It's all being kept very quiet at GHS, and nobody will answer any questions about it. My friend's dad is maz's lawyer, but he obviously can't tell me anything about the case ...
it's all very odd.



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What with my reccomending Cerebus recently, I think I would be remiss if I didn't mention this article on Suck about comic cranks. Let it be known, though, that the issue of his comic Dave Sim is taken to task for is not really typical of all his other issues.

jimmy: Of course computers can create, but whether it's art or not is up to you.



jueves, mayo 03, 2001
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Fodder for an upcoming project: Tell me what you think: Can computers create art? Or, since art is sometimes defined as explicitly as a "human" process: Can computers create?



miércoles, mayo 02, 2001
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You are correct, my birthday is soon, on monday in fact....
your birthday is May first right? hmmmm, maybe i am just on crazy blogger time, but i could have sworn i posted that yesterday. i should write theese things down for future refrence so i won't haave to ask.



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"Further, Wei said he had confirmed, through a plan hatched with a 20-year-old cellmate, that executed prisoners were being harvested against their will. The young man, whom he called Zhang, was to cry out, 'I'm not sick, I don't need a doctor,' if he saw a medical team equipped to harvest his organs waiting at his execution. If there was no evidence of this, Zhang was to scream as the condemned normally would."



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you are incorrect. My birthday was yesterday. We had a party on our porch with fireworks, alcohal, and birthday cake with chocolate poop on top. Yes, I was forced to eat all of the poop, which was in fact iceing. The fuzz came to break it up and the officer said,"enough with the fucking fireworks cause it makes the fucking old people next store fucking shit in their fucking depends."

Am I crazy or is your birthday very soon?



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For Future reference, the words "stuffing," "hickey," and "DJ Jimmytones" conjure horrible memories. Please refrain from the combination in the future.



martes, mayo 01, 2001
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Even more amusing is that I have been stuffing the other box! So how is it that Jimmy got caught but not I?

And they say electronic voting is the future...



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aha! i have discovered a hideous moral outrage in our very midst! jimmy tones has been stuffing the ballot box of the "hickeys" poll, making it appear that more of the blog-voting contingent frowns on hickeys than actually does.

shame, shame!



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Christian- am i crazy or is it your birthday today?