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House moving party
I'm going to be moving back to my house in Gaithersburg at the end of the month (weekend of the 29th) and will need some help moving my stuff. If there is enough of us we can get everything moved very quickly with nobody having to break much of a sweat. Then we can PARTY ( Read more... ) -
An indelible influence.
The memorial service for Bagel was very healing. It was good to be around our friends and there was so much love, it was quite overwhelming. There was so much that I wanted to say about my friend and so little time to say it. I wanted to speak more about his loyalty to his friends, how you knew at core that Bagel always had your back if you needed ( Read more... ) -
Losing my mind... and my car
I drove into work this morning to find that several blocks around the office have been marked off for emergency no parking. I usually park in the office parking lot and if there isn't a spot I pretty much park in the same spot a block around back. Today, I couldn't park in my usual spot ( Read more... ) -
Bagel's Online Memorial
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Remembering Bagel Online Memorial
I spoke with Bagel's sister Lisa this morning to get his family's blessing for us to put up a memorial website in Bagel's honor. I know a few other people are pulling some stuff together to go online so please contact me to coordinate this effort. I plan to work on this tomorrow and hopefully have a site up by the end of the day ( Read more... ) -
Cheers Bagel
Just when I thought my heart could be broken no more I am proven horribly wrong. My beloved friend Bagel (David Baker) has been cruelly stolen from us in a traffic accident early this morning. Bagel and I shared the house at 11th street in DC and was my partner is crime; throwing the Freaks On Friday parties. When I first met him he told me his ( Read more... ) -
Happy 06/06/06
I've been invited to a couple of 666 parties tonight. I'm going to try and make one of them after my class tonight, but it will not be a late night for me since it is a week night. -
My blog is boring
I have been recently informed that my LJ blog is boring ( Read more... ) -
Current valuation of my LJ: B$2,976.87
BlogShares: Carodej the Sybarite & LiveJournal
An interesting online fantasy stock market game. Looks like valuations are based in part on links-in, probably number of comments etc. Possibly a cool way for organizations that use blogs to measure their impact.
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Slavery by any other name would taste as bitter.
The Prison Industrial Complex
In a nationwide implementation of the notorious Georgia chain-gangs the US legacy of slavery continues despite the 13th amendment of the US constitution: since that amendment allows for 'involuntary servitude' in connection to a punishment for a crime. As the US has privatized it's prison industries there is a strong ( Read more... )