OpenData is cool but how do you really get civil engagement? There is a cultural shift but beyond that, I don't think OpenData fights against apathy.
 National survey of culture: Montreal did extremely well:
- AMAZING cultural servicing along Eastern end of orange line
- Very few large cultural venues along west end of line
- ...though NDG had a ( Read more... )

I hate pictures. I hate pictures insofar as they often seem to me this desperate cry for attention, for permanence, ...this need to feel a sense of accomplishment or to add weight to moments. I hate everything that flows through and from it. But I have a shitty memory. And I also have a bad habit of *not* privately documenting as much about myself ( Read more... )

Watched Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. The more I watch this movie, the less I like it. It just seems so disjointed thematically and narrative-wise... But then again, I have a feeling that I'm probably better served not rewatching the old Indiana Jones movies, as I might not like what I see there either.

I am so excited to be reading de ( Read more... )

I miss later evenings ( Read more... )

Why am I feeling so philosophical these days... no clue! I feel that the timing is a bit suspicious... I feel less able to act decisively... Makes me think of R, for some reason. I don't know if Philosophy is more often used as a tool for personal development, or a refuge for the passive overthinker.

Anyways, more Kierkegaard.
I feel like I'm getitng ( Read more... )

Enjoying my reading of Kierkegaard...

I always liked his take on religion and faith as needing to be a radically individual act, but I never really got where that logic came from, nor why he was considered this dude that the Existentialists looked up to. I mean, "individual" is sorta an Existentialist calling card, mais encore...

But I think I get it ( Read more... )

Listening to a lot of Philosophy these past weeks...

I have this horrible feeling that there's something really off in my being a pretty staunch Libertarian, though at the same time much more attached to the value of utility in decision-making than to the value of natural rights... If I'm not a Libertarian because of my belief in fundamental rights ( Read more... )

Just watched the Third Jihad, a documentary with a pretty clear agenda. And I feel reassured that I can watch something and appreciate it while thoroughly disagreeing with the fundamental arc of its narrative.

Some things I found off about the movie.

1. The experts appear terribly one-sided and immoderate: aside from Bernard Lewis (!!!!), the experts ( Read more... )

My sense of organization has always amazed and confused me. I have had bouts of such preternatural concentration, and have managed to keep an utterly unrealistic schedule going for months at a time... but I just seem unable to link this together in a greater framework. Working up North afforded me a real chance at a clear and consistent routine ( ( Read more... )

عشرات القتلى ومظاهرات في سوريا
قالت لجان التنسيق المحلية في سوريا إن 63 شخصا قتلوا اليوم برصاص الأمن بينهم خمسة من أفراد الجيش الحر، وذلك في وقت جرت فيه مظاهرات في عدد من المدن والبلدات السورية.
وأضافت اللجان أن 30 من القتلى سقطوا في وادي بردَى في ريف دمشق وحده، وأن 14 منهم قتلوا في حمص، أما الباقون في موزعون بين إدلب ودرعا والقامشلي.
وقال خطيب مسجد ( Read more... )