and i'm in the motherland. i couldn't really ask for anything more. our director is intelligent, funny, shares great anecdotes and smokes and drinks like a fiend. our travels the first day left us rather drunk in some theater and full of lamb and all sorts of great meats. it shows great promise for the rest of the program ( Read more... )

one small step, in europe.

Mr. Luke Ryan Ifland ( Read more... )

that's me. i've been...... around. not so much on livejournal ( Read more... )

last week i got carded to buy pizza. whoa, guys. whoa ( Read more... )

after a heated discussion and many resolutions, i've decided to let jessica keep the rats she bought. i hate them, but i can live with them.... i guess. assassination attempts are still being made. basically, they just stay in the closet all day and night and i'm happy. for those of you who have the pleasure of living in berkeley, you know just how ( Read more... )

i suppose some kind of update is in order ( Read more... )

reading with farnaz and came across a wee tid-bit.
on the russian military:
In September 1994, the Moscow regional electricity authority cut all power to the federal Strategic Nuclear Missile Command Center for nonpayment of bills. Repeated occurrences of power stoppage forced the Federation Council in 1997 to pass an amendment to the criminal code ( Read more... )

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.59

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

and i thought i was more conservative. guess not.

the ultimate irony of writing this paper is running across websites about marxism with about half a page of advertisements. here is one for example.

8 more pages to go talking about alienation and objectification and WHAT IT ALL MEANS.
see, marx's problem is that he thinks that people actually care. or are smart enough to realize they're being ( Read more... )