I’m still super busy with class. haven’t had much time for anything except homework and studying, although i did manage to ride my bike up the mountain yesterday for the first time in 3 months. On thursday we attended a meeting about our upcoming flight to china in may, and we heard from [...]
I’m really busy with school lately. Suddenly it feels like i’m falling behind in class, but maybe it’s because i’m comparing myself to this one guy who already speaks cantonese and seems to be catching on to mandarin really damn fast. I really need to work on speaking and listening, i think. [...]
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Ugh. If you can handle it, check out this video of british troops beating iraqi children while being filmed by another british soldier who supplies the commentary about how the “naughty boys” are “gonna get it”, “yes, yes, yes” as the soldiers punch and kick them.
Then, you can check out the BBC news article [...]
I’ve been reading a really excellent book by a geographer and social theorist named David Harvey. The book is called “Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development”. I’ll have to read it over again a few more times just to squeeze every last drop of insight out of it, [...]
i’ve been in geek mode again lately. I recently acquired a laptop, after years of resisting, so i’ve been trying to set that up for the past while. I immediately installed Ubuntu Linux on it, and i’m quite happy with that choice. The install was a breeze, it detected all my hardware [...]