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sábado, junio 30, 2001
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linkydink General question: I haven't been able to publish my own blog at all for several days now, and have been having trouble publishing it for a while. I went though many of the blogger help pages, but found (frustratingly enough) that all the sub pages relating to my particular problem would not load on my computer. Whenever I try to publish it I get a "eror 104:java.lang.NullPointerException" message. I am not particularly knowledgeable about computers and have no clue how to deal with this ... is there any easy way to e mail someone from blogger about it?
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linkydink I feel like a bit of a traitor becasue I like Beck... but this is interesting enough that I wanted to post it.
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linkydink one of the things that concerns me the most about the "all abstinence, all the time" viewpoint that these guys are combatting is that folks are led to believe that you can only get or transmit STDs through man-woman or man-man penetrative sex. of course, that's patently untrue, but nobody tells that to all the little dykes running around thinking they're immune, do they? or to the het couples who don't feel like they need protection from anything unless they're actually having sex. grrr.
viernes, junio 29, 2001
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linkydink "It's possible, I guess, to overrate Campbell as an actor, if only because he's appeared in few things that allow him the chance to do more than kill or be killed. For a while there, he was merely an actor doused with fake blood, the ham-fisted-square-jawed hero wielding a chain saw as he fought off the undead armies of darkness. It was hard to judge his worth as an actor, because he did little more than lead with his prominent chin and hope the rest of the cast and crew followed. He was great in crap, even if it was brilliant crap (the Evil Dead movies, specifically, all directed by childhood pal Sam Raimi before Raimi got called to the bigs to make For Love of the Game and, now, Spider-Man ), but so what? No one ever lauds Jenna Jameson for her excellent line readings in between dual-penetration scenes. No one gives out awards or hands out A-list leading roles for keeping your head above raw sewage."
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linkydink On that note, a new 35mm of The Blue Angel is being released and playing at both these theaters pretty soon... Anyone want to go? 
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linkydink "Of course, the safest way for teens to avoid unwanted pregnancy while satisfying their carnal needs is to limit themselves to homoerotic encounters until they are ready for procreation. But many boys and girls are uncomfortable with the idea of same-sex encounters. Anal sex, however, can be fun for both sexes, and thanks to modern improvements in strap-on sex tools, girls can enjoy being in control of their own anal encounters." Before any of you freak out, though, it's a joke: "We believe that if the current abstinence movement continues to preach total abstinence, it will send the message that only heterosexual vaginal intercourse is 'real sex,' and that other types of sexual behavior are not 'really sex.' In that sense, Technical Virgin is intended as a sort of cautionary example."
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linkydink The hatch-shell movies are good to go to if you've not much to do on a friday night. I am not a Boston Blogger (sadly) but I have spent a summer there. My favorite movie theater in the area, though, is the Brattle Theater.
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linkydink "I usually conclude the story by reassuring the audience that we have now disarmed the kangaroos and it is again safe to fly in Australia."
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linkydink I like candy. I really do. I like opening it, I like the taste, I even like the faint residual guilt I still have over eating things that are "bad for me". But I wouldn't want to eat nothing but candy. Although there is a real, visceral rush I get from eating a Hershey's Special Dark, there's an entirely different pleasant feeling I get from eating a well-made stir-fry - particularly one I've made myself. That's a deep-down, longer lasting, real satisfaction.
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linkydink i think someone should win tickets to the MFA's American Folk exhibit and take me with them. (hint hint, oceanreader...)
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linkydink for all the boston-area blogsters: every friday, free movies at the Hatch Shell! this week's is The Emperor's New Groove.
jueves, junio 28, 2001
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linkydink this morning my rat had a burial at sea. he's currently bobbing his way down the little inlet to the ocean, hopefully. i'm sure it's illegal for me to dump dead things into the bay, but hey, you know me - ms. lawful good, always breaking the rules.
miércoles, junio 27, 2001
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linkydink Myself, I just recently finished Neil Gaiman's new book American Gods. When I read Neverwhere, I was very disappointed, but Stardust restored my faith... now, I'm just confused. I own the entire Sandman series and have read all of his works, but I can't shake the feeling that he never really shines outside of graphic novels or blog posts. That said, if you are not a die-hard fan like I am, then this book may be a waste of your time; if you are a fan, then you'll probably read it anyway and decide for yourself. Now, I've moved on to the infamous Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, though I fear that it may be "ruined" for me having already seen Terry Gilliam's masterpiece film adaptation. Next up to bat will probably be The Money and The Power, a gritty history about the rise of Las Vegas... and if my readings seem a bit preoccupied as of late with Las Vegas, it's because I'll be flying there in two weeks for the Black Hat and DEF CON conferences.
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linkydink kangaroo: Combatting Cult Mind Control, Peek: Photographs from the Kinsey Institute, and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Good luck!
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linkydink In several weeks I will be leaving for Snow Farm, this hippy art camp near the Berkshires. I'm taking classes in photography and stained and fused glass. unfortunately, I will have very little access to phones, and no access to the internet while I'm up there,so I won't be able to blog, e mail, or talk much with the outside world... In the meantime, I am searching out books to bring with me, to keep busy. I've already got a small collection of books to read, but am welcoming any suggestions you all may have.
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linkydink heh. i'm willie b. on my way to work every morning i walk across the Fort Point bridge in South Boston. every so often new art appears on the bridge or in the water below. on one side are a pyramid and "gnomon", a strangely-shaped but cool-looking floating thing. on monday two new pieces of art appeared on the opposite side: a floating square of grass with a bench on it, and a cool eight-armed movable interactive sculpture. it's got two cranks you can turn to make it move. anyone passing by should go play with it. :)
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linkydink Which gorilla are you? Me, I'm Taz. Apparently I'm friendly, and like to be scratched. Who knew?
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linkydink Published by St. Martin's Press, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a "B" Movie Actor is an autobiography chronicling the life of Bruce Campbell from his earliest childhood anecdotes to the conclusion of the syndicated series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. Witty and down-to-earth, Campbell relates his ascension into obscurity and his misadventures as a cult icon. Apparently, JHaas can't put it down. It's on my to-buy list.
martes, junio 26, 2001
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linkydink i'd say the personality tests are of debatable quality too. my scores (all out of 100): general: 10 Jealousy and your emotions/thinking patterns: 10 Jealous behavior: 8 Irrational jealousy: 6 Dependency issues: 8 Self-esteem issues: 8 Control issues: 0 well, don't i feel better now?
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linkydink Looking for more ways to <sarcasm>definitively</sarcasm> test one's homosexuality online, I came across this jealousy test. Oh, and "As of today QueenDom contains 318 Tests and Quizzes!". <insert witty comment here about how the Internet, despite the noble intentions, is only good for pornography and personality tests... and even the pornography is of debatable quality!>
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linkydink are you too gay? not gay enough? according to Channel4, i'm 58% gay. i laugh at them. also according to them, i'm 45% a gay man. that i'm more willing to agree with. ;)
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linkydink  You lucky bitches!! Those of you venturing to see The Cinematic Orchestra at Summerstage on Thursday will also be gifted with a DJ set from the fantastically chilled-out ninja mastermind Mixmaster Morris (aka The Irresistible Force), who as of last summer liked my Superman shirt because it looked like the logo for some strange pharmaceutical company.
lunes, junio 25, 2001
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linkydink "What they tell us (is) ... in America, we think noise equates with more power," she said.
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linkydink "All the freaky people make the beauty of the world..." I can't express how wonderful the new Spearhead album is! They are on tour in the US- Boston 6/26 and NYC 6/27 and 6/28. This is music that's meant to be heard live, and to be heard by freaky people like us. Dig it.
domingo, junio 24, 2001
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linkydink "WASHINGTON, June 20 — Billy Collins, distinguished professor of English at Lehman College at the City University of New York, was named today as the nation's next poet laureate." (for anyone who hasn't already heard...)
sábado, junio 23, 2001
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linkydink jimmy tones: Who I am is a difficult question to answer, isn't it? I was recently informed that what I do for a living (programmer) is an insufficient answer, a sentiment I am inclined to agree with... I could describe myself in terms of who I know (cmoore, for example), but that is merely describing who I like to spend time with. Again, this seems insufficient. There is a facet of myself that lives on the web at www.fuzrocks.com, so if you browse around there perhaps your rampant curiousity may be satisfied. I kind of like the song, but it is nothing particularly special. Worth listening to a couple times, I would say, but no special effort need be put into it. I must apologize to all if this missive seems incoherent or rambling, I appear to be two or three sheets to the wind. A party, and yet I spend my time on the inter-net. That may be an indicator of who I am as well...
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linkydink ...Gorillaz is not only Automator-produced, it features Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, the dude from Blur, the dude from Cibo Matto, and (you guessed it) Kid Koala. It's like a watered-down version of the already-disapointing Deltron 3030... Hm.
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linkydink JT: my one and only experience with hitchhiking was this: oceanreader and i drove down to Walden Pond (yes, the Walden Pond) to go swimming, but there was some kind of Art in the Park thing going on, so we had to park miles away. we took the Art in the Park shuttle bus halfway there, but had to walk the rest of the way. on the return trip, we were running a little late and decided to hitchhike back to save ourselves the 45-minute walk. nobody in semi-rural eastern MA seemed to want to pick up two laughing happy hitchhiking girls, so we started walking. finally, a woman in a pickup truck let us hop in the back and took us halfway to the car. from there we flagged down a shuttle bus (the driver was not pleased to pick us up mid-route) and made it safely back to our car. it was fun. i'd do it again. good luck!
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linkydink Fuz: I saw the Gorillaz video last night. It was stoopid phunky. I was told the song was crap, so I kept it on mute, but now that I know it was Automator-produced, I wish I had tuned in. Who are you? JR: Congrats! I'll be at one of the NYC shows on 8/16 or 8/17, depending on the way things go. (This is after arriving in CT on 8/15!) All: I'm taking a one-way flight to Darwin at the end of this week. This is in the northern boondocks of Oz, and I'll be chilling at a friend's house for a week and then hitchiking back to Melbourne. Ee!
viernes, junio 22, 2001
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linkydink as my fellow jolt-worker Pedro says, "i don't know whether this is sad, or amazingly heroic." of course, he's got nothin' on this guy.
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linkydink jimmy: I can't thank you enough for the heads up re: Kid Koala & Radiohead. I would have thought all the shows were already sold out, but I managed to get a couple of tickets for xenodice and I to see them at Suffolk Downs in Boston. Which show did you get tickets for?
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linkydink "A quarter of all boys surveyed said they’ve asked girls out using IM, and 13 percent of both boys and girls say they’ve used IM to break up." ouch.
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linkydink "We wanted to manufacture a band properly to show up this crap on the charts." --Gorillaz creator Jamie Hewlett If you haven't seen the video for Clint Eastwood, you are missing out. Go find it on bearshare or something.
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linkydink And I thought all I had to worry about was being pulled over by the police. Think the insurance companies would like a product like this?
jueves, junio 21, 2001
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linkydink "Seven seas and seven seal, Neptune world, nose code. I am the future - and all who doubt it, go and ask Satan: Lucifer, de Devil, Phantom Pluto, Lex Luther, the arch-criminal from Krypton (Phantom Zone Jail), where he escape in a pail of shit by drinking acid and turning into mercury, in Oblivion. But I came and I saw and I conquer. I came to London, England, Britian, and conquered. I capture Lex Luthor with my Teddy Bear, my hair, and my Invisible Chair, and my 144,000 Mosquito Angels what sting with lightning, psssst." 
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linkydink woah! truly, you should all AIM the GooglyMinotaur. it's fun. when i pretend to be a guy, my celebrity match is Catherine Zeta-Jones. yow.
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linkydink jimmy: when are you going? aah! radiohead and kid koala will be in Boston... when i'm not. oh well; can't really complain, can i, since i'll be in Costa Rica? (in preparation for which, by the way, we were sent Spanish language flash cards in the mail. i'm intrigued.) kangaroo: looks like you'll have at least one more day to pester them. i should've known; every time oceanreader and i travel, the floodgates open. i thought our car would be swept away in the downpour last night.
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linkydink I got Cameron Diaz. Thrills and chills. If you have AIM, you need to send a message to GooglyMinotaur. Ask him about movies, music, or his favorite band ever, Radiohead.
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linkydink Holy shit! Kid Koala's touring the US with Radiohead! (and they're in NYC after I'm back!) Also, DJ Vadim touring the US eastcoast in September. Yummy.
miércoles, junio 20, 2001
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linkydink Tomorrow, Air Friday, Squarepusher 6/23 & 6/24, Mogwai (don't miss) 6/30, Oval 7/3, Mouse on Mars Lovely. Simply lovely.
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linkydink Thank you all for your suggestions after several phone calls to student activities, and my mom throwing a few well timed comments about the legality of not providing adequate services they claim that they are "working on it" but they won't say exactly how, and when probed for more information, they quickly find an excuse to get off the phone.... We shall see what happens tomorrow. on a lighter note... my celebrity match was Mel Gibson.... ick.
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linkydink get three 2x4s, and nail them evenly spaced (six inches from each end and one in the middle), to a large thick sheet of plywood. Wrap the ends that ar esticking out in foam, and tape them over. Spray paint the entire thing gold or silver if you have time. When Amanda's name is called, get six cuties of her preferred gender to help her onto it and carry her aloft - waving and tossing candy - onto the podium to recieve her diploma. Make this take a good long time.
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linkydink kangaroo: Call all the news outlets you care to, by all means. Nothing gets their attention like discrimination in Greenwich. cmoore: Just goes to show. Mine is Cameron Diaz, of all people.
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linkydink More reasons to like being out of high school.... The school said that they would provide a wheelchair ramp for my friend Amanda at graduation, but they informed her this morning that there was to be no ramp and that there wasn't really much of anything we could do about it. I am incredibly angry about this, and plan on doing something about it, even though there's little hope of them getting a ramp up by tomorrow, I figure the least we can do is make them look really bad. grrrrrrrrrrrrr. any suggestions?
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linkydink Can Computers Think?: "A set of 7 poster-sized argumentation maps that chart the entire history of the debate" from MacroVU. It's $99 for all seven or $24 for one- anybody want to split the cost for the set of seven so we all have cool posters for our rooms? (via the Loebner Prize homepage [the Turing-Test-contest!] via my AI class, {from which you should glean: This is what I'm doing instead of studying for the exam tomorrow.})
martes, junio 19, 2001
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linkydink in case anyone didn't hear about this when the news broke (and since i know many of the blogsters are vegetarians): McDonald's uses beef in its fries. many hindus are, of course, also irate about this.
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linkydink this morning on my way to work, i rode the elevator up with a man who evidently works at another company on my floor. he looked at me and asked, "how's the riding?" i glanced down at myself, confused, assumed he meant bike riding, and answered truthfully, "good." i walked into the office puzzled as to why he thought i was a bike messenger. my bag is vaguely messenger-ish, but i'm not really wearing bike messenger clothing. i only just now noticed that my right pant leg is still rolled up so as not to catch in my gears. maybe that was what tipped him off.
lunes, junio 18, 2001
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linkydink The kids who showed up had a good time, but there was a lower turnout than we had hoped. Everyone from TEC and a few other arch street diehards were there, and a few brought friends. They allowed underclassmen to show up (the senior/senior thing was mostly just a catchy way to promote it) and even the freshmen were well behaved and courteous.
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linkydink I'm beginning to suspect the case of Red Bull I bought this morning from the corner store (!) is giving me only enough energy to drink and buy more Red Bull. Hmm. Well, it could be worse.
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linkydink kb, that is a rockin' book award. i got to choose my book (paid for by the AAUW), which ended up being Catch-22. the senior booty call sounds like an interesting idea. it actually went over well with the high school seniors?
domingo, junio 17, 2001
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linkydink the folks at RISD were kind enough to give me a book award a few weeks ago. after it got lost in the mail and wandered all around the country it finally came to me this morning. They gave me a copy of Faces by Francois and Jean Robert, and i flipped though it this morning.  I shall be seeing faces in small electronics for weeks.
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linkydink As much as I was skeptical about the Arch Street senior prom, I had a good time last night. I tried to post something about it yesterday but either blogger or AOL ate it, so I'll recap for you. The prom, or "senior booty call", is this dance Kyle cooked up. We pair a high school senior with a senior citizen from one of the local nursing homes or the senior center, and bring them to Arch Street where there's dancing, food, and various other forms of entertainment. The senior citizens who helped organize it were actually the ones who deemed it "the booty call", and the name stuck because it was an easy way to distinguish it from the senior prom at GHS. (which i found considerably less enjoyable) Anyway, I was a little apprehensive about the whole idea, but it turned out to be a lot of fun, the music was good, a lot of people were dancing, and everybody's acts were really cute. Arch Street will post video clips of it to their webpage if they ever get it running, but they've been working on it for three years so I'm not holding my breath. channel 12 news put the story up on the Internet, and I think you can see part of my little sister's dance routine there (I use macs and can't get the file to play properly so i'm not sure.) The press will hopefully be good for us, despite having to put up with overzealous reporters that followed my sister around and continually referred to Brittany spiers as "hip hop." -Jrandom, I was supposed to give you a message from someone, I think her name was Elizabeth, but I'm not sure. She was an old babysitter of yours? I'm terrible with names and forgot it by the end of the night. Anyway, she says hello and quizzed me for quite some time about how you and your siblings were doing.
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linkydink You have 1 new voice message. Message one, one-fifty-five p m today: You see what I have to deal with?
sábado, junio 16, 2001
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linkydink Recent reading: Two truthful and elegant works of fiction-- Art & Lies by Jeanette Winterson and So Long and Thanks For All The Fish by the late Douglas Adams. The former:
The latter:
It's a weird and beautiful world.
viernes, junio 15, 2001
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linkydink does anyone know any good resources on SQL server optimization? (or even SQL database optimization; i'll take those too.)
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linkydink maybe we should teach american children to tastefully embroider cuddly animals. ...or we could just take away their school funding.
jueves, junio 14, 2001
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linkydink I'll be in the city that sunday with some freinds... I don't think I'll be with the GHS GSA people because I forgot to talk to Mrs Miller about it this week. (I assume this is the same event we were discussing a few weeks ago...) I'd be more than happy to hang out with anybody there, just Email me or something...
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linkydink I'm gonna make a point to see Kid Koala on July 21 since I recently realized that the USENIX Annual Technical Conference will prevent me from seeing Cinematic Orchestra. Doh!
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linkydink damn! i won't be able to go because i'll be at GHS graduation watching my brother wear a red polyester robe and get handed a piece of paper. rats. but i will be in NYC that weekend - to visit people and for NYC Pride. anyone gonna be around?
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linkydink The greatest concert I've ever been to was the awesome (like literally awe-some) Kid Koala and his amazing 4-piece backup band Bullfrog. They'll be playing at the New York 'Celebrate Brooklyn' Festival on July 21. It will be very worth going to for anyone and everyone.
miércoles, junio 13, 2001
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linkydink Wiretap has an interesting article on trans issues. they mention smith (including a smithie or two who i know), among other schools both coed and single-sex. wiretap also includes a link to Testem's article on genderqueerness. also an interesting read.
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linkydink "Here is a weird one for you. It was a couple of years ago, and I was 19, and getting ready to move out of my folks' house, and get out on my own, and one day as I was getting ready, I suddenly get this memory of my father waggling his dick in my face one time when I was a little kid..." Nothing Happened- a short story by David Foster Wallace.
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linkydink 'Rhythm is texture writ large: peaks and valleys turned to pulse. Texture is rhythm rendered microscopic: (ir)regularity encoded and impressed upon the surface of sound. Where these two break and cleave apart, the click: smooth-faced, one-dimensional, textureless and out of time. The atomic test of sound’s durability; a black hole like a tiny diamond...' Philip Sherburne, Mille Plateaux Clicktheory.
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linkydink 'Perhaps only a man who never takes off his mask, who hides his real name, could lead this caravan of renegades, rebels, loners and anarchists on this two-week trek. These are people who have learned to steer clear of charismatic leaders with one-size-fits-all ideologies. These aren't party loyalists; these are members of groups that pride themselves on their autonomy and lack of hierarchy. Marcos - with his black wool mask, two eyes and pipe - seems to be an anti-leader tailor-made for this suspicious, critical lot. Not only does he refuse to show his face, undercutting (and simultaneously augmenting) his own celebrity, but Marcos's story is of a man who came to his leadership, not through swaggering certainty, but by coming to terms with political uncertainty, by learning to follow.' Naomi Klein writes of Subcommandante Marcos and the Zapatistas- Mexican revolutionaries who 'insist they are not interested in "the Revolution", but rather in "a revolution that makes revolution possible."' Something to ponder.
martes, junio 12, 2001
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linkydink here's another weird and wacky internet find: the confluence project. they want to get photographs and descriptions of every point where lines of latitude and longitude cross (excluding oceans and poles).
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linkydink my "fun internet game of the day" is to go to cdnow and type names into the search engine, choose "song title" and see what comes up. there are lots of "caroline" songs, evidently.
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linkydink "Under that formula, only 16 percent of students can come from the top tier on standardized tests; 16 percent must come from the bottom tier and the rest from the middle. Some parents say this punishes children from middle-class families with educated parents, who tend to do better than average."
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linkydink hmmm, so here is my first attempt at posting As for cool things going on in Hamburg...well, a lot of German stuff. Like plays, brought to you nearly free of charge by the best and brightest (or at least most gullible) dramaturgical intern of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus And i dunno if I made the link work, being less than well-versed in html, and having AIM eat cmoore's instructions to me... Not that it's much help if you don't speak German...but there are some cool animations and stuff of all my actors.
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linkydink friday night oceanreader and i saw Antigone Rising, Alix Olson, and Bitch and Animal (oceanreader suggests you read their Pussy Manifesto). i've slapped up a couple of mp3s from Alix Olson's new cd. download and play. she is awesome.
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linkydink i'm going to germany! i'm going to germany! booked my tickets through expedia, got 'em two days later. my trip is july 4-11th. anyone know about anything cool going on in Hamburg then? (not that i'll be lacking for entertainment...)
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linkydink Media Circus is a gathering of people who create, consume, critique and distribute media content that challenges, questions, expresses and celebrates our culture, our society and the way we live. Naomi "No Logo" Klein to guest speak. The following weekend, Squarepusher and Spearhead play the Byron Bay Splendour In The Grass festival. Goodness is in store. Expect my Blogposts to dwindle.
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linkydink DJ I ROBOT can spin a platter fast enough to chop heads, but apparently can't keep his webpage up and running. We are the robots...
lunes, junio 11, 2001
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linkydink "DJ I ROBOT uses a PC, several micro-controllers, and an advanced "motion control" system to automatically mix, scratch, and search a pair of custom vinyl records on the robotic phonographs. It can spin the platters at speeds up to 800 RPM, and has an advanced database system that analyzes and processes current information, hints from the operator, and an "expert system" of early DJ techniques. DJ I, ROBOT is the first random-access, fully analog robotic dj system."
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linkydink speaking of social pseudorelevance... last night i went to see Kate Bornstein and Barbara Carellas' show Too Tall Blondes in Love, . it was great - hilarious and moving and all-around interesting. (bear liked it too.) it's running through the 16th, so if you're in the Boston area you should see it sometime between this thursday and saturday. go, go!
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linkydink "Like Disneyland, the Casino is interesting to study because it functions as a parallel and exaggerated microcosm of consumer culture as a whole. It is through a careful and nonironic analysis of overtly predatory institutions such as the Crown Casino Complex that we can gain insight and a point of resistance to the similar and subtler machinations of large-scale consumer marketing." -Me, just now Booya, baby. I'll work some social pseudorelevance into these infernal theoreticaler-than-thou essay topics if it kills me. Two down, one to go...
jueves, junio 07, 2001
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linkydink Ugh. It's 5:20AM. I've been up all night wasting time, and am now in the middle of the dirty business of writing an essay. Cause in Australia, y'see, EVERYTHING IS DUE AT THE SAME TIME. They don't even make a pretense of spacing things out. An easy-sailing semester, then BLAMMO death death death. mrph. also: I take it back, Survivor is a crap book, don't read it.
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linkydink "In fact, women who consider themselves hackers, as well as women like Ms. Flannery who just plain enjoy math and technology, have been part of the computer world for decades. Some are prominent for their accomplishments; all tend to stand out in their field just because they are women."
miércoles, junio 06, 2001
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linkydink i've only read the first few pages of this, but it looks to be an interesting article on "The Impact of Gender on Communication". you'll need a little DejaVu plugin from AT&T.
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linkydink hmm. looks like MoHo has stopped requiring SAT scores with their applications, because of the inherent unfairness to women and minorities in the tests. i wonder if this will become a trend among liberal arts institutions? they've also changed their college logo. how come so much psychological b.s. has to go into creating a new logo? can't it just look nifty?
martes, junio 05, 2001
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linkydink There was a flyer floating around school today for "teen night" at a stamford night club. I normally don't pay too much attention to them, but this one said in big red letters across the bottom, "ladies, the less you wear, the less you pay!". I was pretty appalled (considering most of the girls who go to these things are between 14-17) and asked my clubgoing friends if this was true, sure enough, they do knock a few bucks off entry price if you show some skin. ick.
domingo, junio 03, 2001
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linkydink "Goldberger fears what he calls America's front yard is about to be ruined, not by a parking lot, not by a skyscraper, but by a monument, a monument to America's men and women who fought in World War II." I've been getting a lot of mixed feedback on this article, on the one hand, WWII veterans are overdue for a large memorial in Washington; but at the same time it's like that particular part of the mall is already a sort of monument, to past protests and the civil rights moovment. So many important gatherings and speeches have taken place there, it seems a shame to take that space away from future generations of marchers.
sábado, junio 02, 2001
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linkydink why yes, yes i do wish that. how can you possibly read my mind from all the way around the globe? o nameless funky australian, blog to me about Jeanette Winterson. speaking of quality fiction, have any of you read Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg? you should. it's worth it. oceanreader's engrossed in it now, and i watch her laugh and cry by turns.
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linkydink Gosh- Don't you all just wish a funky Australian weirdo would post to this weblog a few times about Jeanette Winterson and other cool shit before he flees to China forever? Ah, but surely this is mere fantasy...
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linkydink I make frequent visits to the all-night Coles supermarket across the street from my flat to buy bannanas, batteries, and candy bars. I've developed an awkward raport with one of the night security guards. He asks me how my studies are going, I tell him fine, and I awkwardly try to find some equivilant question to ask him. For instance: "How's the security going?," to which he nods, smiles a weary and kind smile, and tells me it's fine. Tonight, he asked what my plans are after exams, and I told him I was returning to the US in August. I wasn't sure how to return the polite curiosity, so I asked him where he was from, and he told me Pakistan. I asked, "Where in Pakistan?" He responded with an unintelligible string of syllables, and when he saw my look of blank confusion, he again smiled his weary and kind smile and said, "It's the capital." "Ah..." I said. "Um. I don't know anything about it." He wanted to know if I had ever been to Asia, and I told him I hadn't. I wanted to ask what Pakistan was like, but all I could think of were Naomi Klein's Nike sweatshops and bloody jihads on CNN. I swallowed, smiled, and said good night.
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linkydink All the ads I see for Classmates.com say "classMATES".com" and have pics of big-breasty women. I'd steer clear.
viernes, junio 01, 2001
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linkydink My mom's been browsing several of those "find lost high school classmates online" sites this afternoon. She's been a fan of them ever since she signed up and got back in touch with a few old friends from hamburg high school. she randomly searched the GHS page on classmates.com and pointed out that Margaret has registered. I looked around with her account, and there are a whole bunch of names I recognize, but Margaret stood out because it's been so long since I've talked to her. About 75 people have registered for the class of 98 and 18 people from my class have registered, even though graduation's not 'till the 21st. You have to sign up to view the pages (a sneaky little way of getting curious folks to register) but one person from GHS's 97 class is listed as "didn't didn't" so I guess they're not too careful in checking the accuracy of the information you provide. You're only listed if you sign up, but in order to contact people you have to pay $30 to be a "premium member" which I find sort of annoying since this whole thing is advertised as some friendly service, and they've already got advertisements up on the page. I know there some non pay sites out there, but they aren't as well advertised. I don't know that I want everyone in my class to have access to me after I graduate, I meticulously avoided filling out the senior survey ( which was more trouble than you'd think considering they've called my house several times to ask me about my future plans ) and the whole idea seems a little superfluous if it's only been a year or two since graduation. Any opinions?
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linkydink "The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is proud to announce a competition that we hope will focus the world's artists, architects, and visionary thinkers on a problem that has all but stumped the world's policy makers, scientists, and leaders: the problem of plutonium disposal."
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