حذرت واشنطن النظام السوري اليوم من اتخاذ إجراءات دولية جديدة بحقه في حال واصل انتهاك مبادرة السلام العربية التي وقعها، وقالت إن الأعمال التي ترتكب بحق المدنيين تثبت أن الرئيس بشار الأسد لا يستحق حكم سوريا، داعية إلى تطبيق المبادرة العربية.

وقال المتحدث باسم البيت الأبيض جاي كارني "نحض الداعمين القلائل لسوريا في المجتمع الدولي على تحذير دمشق من أن ( Read more... )

Goddam this song is awesome...

I’ve been called
A bad boyfriend and even worse ex
Told put God first and her next
If she’s the only girl like Snow White or Smurfette
She’s not, I am
Dating nobody - nobody’s perfect
And there’s no sure bets
Just courage and first steps
We don’t talk - got hang-ups and one-word texts
Lessons learned on hurt and discipline
In ( Read more... )

Taking a moment to reflect, I realize that I'm drinking almond milk, prepping a couple of tofu dishes in a home that is free of meat, poultry, fish, and essentially free of animal products (though this is because I finished off the cheese I had there earlier... man, cheese is a hard one to remove.)
It's strange because I don't feel in it much pride ( Read more... )

(Today's thesis: My increased self-consciousness has made me more critical of myself. I've sacrificed some of the sure footing of unblinking self-assurance at the altar of a kind of introspection I may not have allowed myself in the past.)

I think one of my big issues right now is that I'm improperly consuming information. This has been a year where ( Read more... )

Went to see Faust before-yesterday with my dad. In the name of figuring out what my dealy-yo is with opera, I bought myself a couple of tix for Live in HD events. I`ve got to say, I think this Live in HD initiative is friggin' amazing. You go to a local theater, and they have live feeds from events happening all around the world (like the MET Opera ( Read more... )

It's been a trying year.
Trying in the way that the previous years working up North were and weren't.It has had me working the same kinds of hours, and filled me with some of the same sense of isolation. But it hasn't been as physically isolating, which makes me wonder what it is exactly that has me feeling this way.

I've been reflecting on this on ( Read more... )

Well, let's try this out.

I'm been thoroughly enjoying reading Founding Brothers, a book that tries to encapsulate the lives of the founding fathers by discussing specific stories in depth (Hamilton's death by duel, Jefferson inviting people to his crib to negotiate the future home of the capital, the general awesomeness that is oft called Benjamin ( Read more... )

# PythonWin assumes strings are encoded in LATIN-1
# PythonWin prints strings as encoded in UTF8
value = "teinté"

print("Displayed in original encoding: "),
print(value)

print("Ord\tLATIN-1\t\tUTF8")
for x in value.decode('LATIN-1'):
print(str(ord(x)) + "\t"),
print(x.encode('LATIN-1') + ' \t\t'),
print(x.encode('UTF8'))

value3 = value.decode('LATIN-1')
print ( Read more... )

What I'm working towards (Stray thoughts)
Work stuff in one of the following locations:
- On work network (either in Personal Folder, Project Folders or General Folders)
- On computer at work (for large processes that run like mud when files are non-local)
- My single work notebook
- Google Tasks: Work TODO
- Google Calendar Tab: Work

Daily Life ( Read more... )

I'm also trying to establish a file management system to consolidate every stray piece of paper or data I possess.

Current configuration
Work stuff in one of the following locations:- On work network (either in Personal Folder, Project Folders or General Folders ( Read more... )