(Mirrored from my journal homepage)

In my personal life, a lot has been going on this summer. This entry is going to be long and it's going to require a good amount of background information. So here we go.

( Background )

I found a fake ad for a roommate near UCI today. It went something along the lines of this: "we will pay you to get rid of our roommate, we've tried everything short of using force. If you can pull it off, we'll give you 350". More interesting to me were the little contact snippets at the bottom of the page displaying ( Read more... )

Happy 666 day! Enjoy it but once a century =D

It's been a while since I made a thought-journal entry. I mirror these and angst-y entries on my ICS webspace, which I guess I link to from this journal every now and then.

( Ethics )

This week there's a club on campus talking about these two people. Apparently they face up to 15 years in prison for providing medical aid to people trying to cross the Mexican-American border.

This is week 9 at UCI, less than 2 more weeks of pain ( Read more... )

( You don't want to read this )

Not too long after I went to China, I had a discussion with my then-roommate about soldiers. I said I couldn't abide by people who volunteered their services for killing. Government approved murder is still murder, I said.

Recently he sent an LA Times article to me, saying that this columnist makes some of the same points that I did. He's a lot ( Read more... )

( NY Times article on Google's censoring )

I happened upon the wikipedia entry on Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire". Reading the entry, it amazes me how the song is mostly in chronological order and manages to break up years into rhyming verses ( Read more... )