Archive for August, 2006

poetry from colin

Monday, August 28th, 2006

I just ran across the following poem on the fridge here at home. It was written by a fellow co-op member here. He’s out of town right now, but i’m assuming that since he had it published in this little booklet, he won’t mind if i republish it on the web here. [...]

Gender stereotypes on a Plane

Monday, August 21st, 2006

I went to see the infamous “Snakes on a Plane” movie last week, to satisfy my curiousity. It turns out that it was, in fact, as bad as i expected it to be. One thing about it was interesting though: its illustration of the popular gender stereotypes. Beyond the typical flight [...]

articles about Israel’s attacks on Lebanon

Monday, August 14th, 2006

Just thought I’d throw in a few links about Israel’s latest aggression. Israel is a nation-state, with government representatives that make its policy. Their policy decisions can be criticized just like any other government’s policies.

Lebanon War Question & Answer
Green thinking: How Israel lays waste in the eco-war
Boycott Israel Now [...]

new job started

Saturday, August 12th, 2006

I had my first shift at my new job yesterday. I’m basically a computer babysitter at a place that hosts other people’s computers and hooks them all up to super-high-bandwidth. Big businesses park their servers there so that their customers will have fast access to their shopping websites and stuff like that.
seems pretty [...]

got into my class

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

So I got final approval to take the mandarin immersion classes in January. The first step is complete, now that i’m officially registered in the intro class for september. :)
I also got notice that my student loan is approved. I didn’t doubt it, but it’s nice to hear. I had a second [...]