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Hey LJ. I've been neglecting you something fierce, but I'm going to assume that I haven't lost any viewers by sheer dint of laziness alone ( Read more... ) -
Just watched Lawnmower Man
Fantastic early-90s movie featuring what must have been state-of-the-art CGI for the time. A lot of the themes of the movie are hammered in pretty heavy-handedly, but they all still resonate today. People getting sucked into computers and communications technology (in this case, "sucked in" both literally and figuratively). The government only ( Read more... ) -
some food for thought, discussion welcomed
The breakdown of "community" has, of course, been well noted already by political scientists, both [in Britian] and in America... Robert D. Putnam sees a broad pattern that resonates in Britian as much as in America: for the first two thirds of the twentieth century, a tide bore Americans deeper into the life of their communities, but a few decades ( Read more... ) -
More things to disgust and
Dontcha hate when you take your computer into the bathroom to read the news (hey I'm a twenty-first century guy; paper news is sooo last century), but you forget to turn off your iTunes and then you realize that you've been pooping to Paul McCartney and Wings?
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Everyone on the internet has an agenda
So you may have heard of omegle.com. It's an interesting concept: a site where you are connected to a random person via a very simple chat interface. I have to say that the few times I have used it before I found it not very enjoyable, as we both sat there waiting for the other person to be exciting. Tonight though I found a conversation partner ( Read more... ) -
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I saw Regina Spektor last night at the Greek Theatre. She was amazing. She played a lot of stuff from her last two albums but definitely hit the high points of her earlier stuff, including accompanying herself with a drumstick and wooden chair on "Poor Little Rich Boy". She had a string quartet and drummer on stage to accompany her on the new songs ( Read more... ) -
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It never occured to me before, what a great message the Odyssey has about relationships. Odysseus has 2 choices of possible mates. Return to his wife who is firmly entrenched in the oikos (home) and society of Ithaka, or stay alone on a desert isle with a dread goddess. I.E. have a healthy relationship with outside friends or a super codependent ( Read more... ) -
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So I finally have started settling myself in LA. I now own some pretty cool furniture including a rolltop desk that might be way too big for my tiny little room. It's a quaint little condo in Chinatown. I'm not far from all the hipster-y stuff in Echo Park and SIlverlake (oneword?), but I'm close to Union Station so I can catch a free bus to campus ( Read more... ) -
Are all the people who use the internet fucking bonkers?
I recently posted some of my things on craigslist, and in addition to the annoying spam responses I got these:
For my bookshelf
Posting:
Black wooden bookcase. The kind you can buy at Walmart for 50 bucks. Approx. 1' deep x 6' tall x 2.5' wide. Put it together myself. Has a couple of stickers from the Mushroom and Dirty Coast on one side.
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