just got back from the halloween critical mass, here in vancouver. it was a little rainy, but i always enjoy CM. I’ve made a lot of good friends there, and the general atmosphere is very friendly. just a great place to meet interesting people.
I went in my Ming the Merciless costume, and [...]
so i was doin some brainstorming tonight about a vague schedule for when i go down to venezuela in december. in the last few weeks i was kinda toying with the idea of volunteering to do some computer stuff for the teleSUR television station, but i guess i was kinda iffy about it. [...]
i’ve been feeling kinda sluggish lately…since i don’t really have much reason to ride anywhere close to my new place (since it’s out in the suburbs) i’m not riding too much on a regular basis. A lot of my in-city riding used to be just for practical purposes. I think i need to [...]
feels like i haven’t been writing much, again….thought i’d throw a few thoughts up. Lately i’ve been spending a lot of time reading El Señor de los Anillos (lord of the rings, in spanish), trying to wrap my head around spanish. it’s been quite good, actually….it was really hard to read at [...]
books i have, and books i’ve read
don’t have a copy, but enjoyed
my books
politics
Chomsky — Deterring Democracy
Chomsky — Class Warfare
Dobbin, Murray — The Myth of the Good Corporate Citizen
Saadawi, Nawal — The Nawal el-Saadawi Reader
Kohn, Alfie — Punished By Rewards
Bakunin, Mikhail — The Philosophy of Freedom
languages
Japanese [...]
I just sent out some legal documents today. For those who may not have heard, me and my roommates are being sued by a real estate agent, to the tune of $2500. She didn’t give us proper notice to move out of our house last year, and the guy who bought the house [...]
i was just reading a bunch of silly statements by GWB in the newspaper. I guess he’s gettin more pressure to pull out of Iraq, and he felt the need to offer yet more justifications. since they’re no longer searching for WMDs, and it’s not just a bunch of “dead-enders” and “foreign terrorists”, [...]
Hey all. I was just reading one of my favourite news sites, the Narcosphere (which is part of NarcoNews), and they had this really interesting article about the DEA. It seems that the US Drug Enforcement Agency was trying to set up some sort of crime boss, but their inside man started participating [...]