October 31, 2003

Yea Right...

CNN
Study: Campus diversity may cut binge drinking

BOSTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) -- Greater diversity on college campuses significantly lowers rates of binge drinking among high-risk students, according to results of a Harvard University study released Thursday.

"If you have younger white males together to the exclusion of other groups, you're going to have fewer role models for lighter or nondrinking behavior," Henry Wechsler, the study's lead author, told Reuters. "That may explain why fraternities have had such a high level of drinking problems."

mmmmmm, I wonder if Harvard was loooking at their own campus, or whether they looked at someplace else.

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Friday Fyve

1. What was your first Halloween costume?
If I remember correctly it wa a robot, im not completely sure about that though. It could have beena ghost or somethign equally un-unique

2. What was your best costume and why?
I have no idea.

3. Did you ever play a trick on someone who didn't give you a treat?
Hell yes. Hasn't everyone done this at some point?

4. Do you have any Halloween traditions? (ie: Family pumpkin carving, special dinner before trick or treating, etc.)
We used to carve pumpkins together and then bake the seeds (yummmm). However since I havn't been at home for halloween for the past 7 (this will be 8) halloweens I havn't really done anything.

5. Share your favorite scary story...real or legend!
The program director of Computer Science at Syracuse...no really, sometimes he scares the living shit out of me for no real reason.

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October 29, 2003

Relationships

Interesting article in the D.O. today.


SU policy prohibits faculty from dating undergrads, restricts professors' relationships with grad students
By Jean Stevens

The student's eyes gaze into the professor's across a packed lecture hall. His returning smile hints at a possible rendezvous after class. Both daydream of beginning a romantic relationship.
This is the last thing that is going through my mind in my classes, more likly is either "How much freaking longer to I have till this cow shuts up and lets us out of here" or "Gee I wonder what would happen if I got up an left"

But if that daydream becomes reality, the professor risks more than a broken heart or one-night stand; he may face severe consequences, including the loss of his job, according to recent policies made at several universities.
perhaps this is a potential way go get rid of some of the faculty that don't teach well

"It's like a love affair gone bad," said Diane Murphy, chairwoman of the Committee of Academic Freedom, Tenure and Professional Ethics, of the consequences that accompany a relationship.
No, its just a love affair

A new policy passed by the Regents of the University of California last July prohibits all professors and faculty from engaging in any sort of sexual or romantic relationship with their students. If any professor or faculty member violates this ban, the university will demand a letter of censure or a dismissal, according to a Los Angeles Times article.
This is a little bit unreasonable, if two people want to jump in the sack together, they should be able to follow their urges (provided the student is above the legal age in their particular state)

While many people on campuses consider the idea of a staff-and-student intimate relationship as taboo, which prevents many relationships from forming, most colleges do not have an explicit policy regarding these relationships and any resulting consequences.

Ohio Wesleyan University, the College of William and Mary and Yale University each have relationship bans. Other schools, such as Syracuse University and Duke University, simply strongly urge school employees to avoid intimate relationships.

SU's policy prohibits staff and faculty, including teaching assistants, from having intimate relationships with undergraduate students, but only strongly discourages these relationships with graduate students, according to the SU Faculty Manual Policies and Procedures.
This is a bit lop sided isn't it. I mean come on, its like the rule you had when you were younger, the older sibling gets to stay up later than you do...wtf? I thought when we came to college e were suppossed to be grown-ups, and now we can't even keep track of our lovelives

"I feel like I hear about this stuff going on all the time," said Jamie Podhaizer, a senior marketing and international relations major who knew of a friend her freshman year who had a relationship with a TA.
I knew a person who slept her way through her entire engineering degree and another who slept with two professors to get better grades. Yes people having two breasts does seem to have an effect on your grades. Hrmmm, now that im thinking about it I do remember a TA who would sleep with pretty much anyone, but he gave the answers to you even if you didn't give him head (not speeking from personal experience)

Podhaizer doesn't think a new policy would change the reality of student-faculty relationships, because relationships already form under SU's current policy.

"There are people who feel strongly that that's as far as we should go, and that we shouldn't be trying to legislate morality," said Curlene Autrey, director of diversity and resolution processes in the Office of Human Resources. "But some people feel it doesn't go far enough."

Many universities change their policies after a specific incident of sexual harassment on their campus. The idea for the California ban became an urgent issue in the fall of 2002 after a law student claimed that her former law professor, John P. Dwyer, fondled her after she passed out from drinking, according to the LA Times article.
Tisk, tisk the law professor should have known better than to be an asshole

The case is similar to an incident at Syracuse University in 1995, when Jennifer Cotter, a graduate student studying English, claimed her professor, Stephen Dobyns, stared at her breasts, swore at her and threw his drink at her at an off-campus party, according to a Post-Standard article. The university suspended Dobyns, who admitted to his action but said it was not sexual harassment. He is no longer employed by the university.
see the comment above

When Murphy wrote SU's policy in 1993, it was the only known policy of its kind at that time, Autrey said.

"The sentiment in 1993 that would probably prevail today is that people have the right to relationships," Murphy said. "So we put in as many protections as we can, short of prohibition."

If a consensual relationship develops, the authority figure in the relationship must report it to a supervisor to be monitored, Murphy said. The supervisor needs to ensure that the authority figure does not make recommendations for the student or treat the student any differently from anybody else he or she is overseeing. In many cases, the other person will be transferred from the authority figure's care.
Maybe they can come on the dates, that way it can be like middle-school dances all over again, complete with parents leering at you from the corners making sur eyou don't get too close to your date.

Many students joke about such intimate relationships, and may not consider their serious repercussions, which can range from favoritism to sexual harassment.

"It's often viewed as cute or interesting, but taken to the extreme, it can impact the student as well as other students," Autrey said.

The SU policy states that "those with authority not abuse, nor seem to abuse, the power with which they are entrusted." The student in the relationship is in a vulnerable position, and other students who become aware of the relationship may feel that that student will receive special treatment.

"I think that having a relationship with a TA or professor totally interferes with that professional, educational scene," said Lauren Clingon, a sophomore biology major. "The bottom line is, teachers and students should stay in their respective roles."

If a student complains about a relationship with a professor, he or she will not be at fault and face no consequences. But the university must step in and follow the steps of its sexual-harassment policy, which begins with an investigation team to determine whether the complaint could be a case of sexual harassment. A panel then investigates the case and recommends appropriate repercussions.

"A consensual relationship only becomes an issue when one of the parties says it is not consensual, and then it becomes an issue of sexual harassment," Autrey said.
translation one party thought their partner was shitty in bed and wanted out of the relationship

If the student begins sexually harassing the authority figure, the sexual-harassment policy procedure should apply in the same way, Autrey said. Yet it would be dangerous for the authority figure to complain, because he or she is publicly admitting that he or she was involved in a consensual relationship.
Yes it should, this I completely agree

"It's very different because the student does not have the same power," Autrey said.

Six grievances have been filed since 1993, but all were settled before reaching an official hearing, Murphy said. Three of the cases involved graduate students, and had SU's policy banned all forms of consensual relationships, those cases might not have arisen, she said.

"It'd be a lot easier if we had outright prohibitions," Murphy said.

But an outright ban would force these relationships to go underground, where the university would have no control or responsibility to help the injured party, Autrey said.

"They're there to teach the kids," said Dave Gomez, a junior biochemistry major who also works in a BIO 121 lab as an assistant. "They shouldn't cross that line."

But Malusi Qhobosheane, an SU food service worker, said if two people believe they are mature enough to separate work from romance, they should be allowed to have an intimate, consensual relationship.
YES

"If you like an individual, there shouldn't be anything prohibiting you from spending time with that individual," Qhobosheane said. "It's a free country."
Yes, but appearantly it isn't a free university...not that it ever claimed to be though

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October 28, 2003

Courses

Well tis that time again course selection time. Ive narrowed it down to a couple of courses for the spring semester
CIS586 - Operating Systems
CIS655 - Computer Architecture
ETS451 - Studies in the Theory of Genre: Gothic Theory
CIS785 - Computer Security
or
IST618 - Survey of Telecom and Info Policy

and in response to people asking me what courses I have already taken, look HERE

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October 26, 2003

Curtosy of SCO /. and Eric Raymond

gotta love /. I wake up in the mornig and one of the firs things that I see is SCo making an ass out of themselves again....then I see further down in the article a like to Jargon File


A couple of my favorite quotes are as follows

It has been observed that many hackers are confused by negative questions — or, at least, that the people to whom they are talking are often confused by the sense of their answers.

Nearly all hackers past their teens are either college-degreed or self-educated to an equivalent level. The self-taught hacker is often considered (at least by other hackers) to be better-motivated, and may be more respected, than his school-shaped counterpart. Academic areas from which people often gravitate into hackerdom include (besides the obvious computer science and electrical engineering) physics, mathematics, linguistics, and philosophy.


Things Hackers Detest and Avoid
All the works of Microsoft. Smurfs, Ewoks, and other forms of offensive cuteness. Bureaucracies. Stupid people. Easy listening music. Television (with occasional exceptions for cartoons, movies, and good SF like Star Trek classic or Babylon 5). Business suits. Dishonesty. Incompetence. Boredom. COBOL. BASIC. Character-based menu interfaces.

anyway you get the idea.

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YES!

Priest gets life for assaulting 13-year-old

Friday, October 24, 2003 Posted: 1:38 PM EDT (1738 GMT)

TYLER, Texas (AP) -- A former priest who fled to South America to evade prosecution was sentenced by a jury to life in prison for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old altar girl...

Finally the courts are begining to do somethign correctly. The Abuse of children is something definitly not to be tolerated in any way shape or form. Even more cowardly was the fact that the accussed fled to South America to avoid the consequences of his actions.

Entire Article

On a side note, isn't the picture of the church in that article sort of creepy looking?


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October 21, 2003

My weekend in a nutshell

Update on what happened because im sick and tired of explaining it to people.

Friday: I packed (sort of) Thursday night and left Friday after I was done teaching and sitting in on my 583 lecture…man I love walking into a class when thee are only 7 or so minutes left in it. I decided to skip my OpenGL lab so that I could get back to Concord at a decent hour (and it’s a good thing I decided to skip it).

“Hi I’m home.” wtf there’s no one in the house. I probably shouldn’t care too much. Ok well ill unpack the car and start laundry. <30 minutes later> “Hrmmmm perhaps I should marinate the steak for dinner.” Done.

Called the ‘rents cell to see wtf was up with no one around the house. “Henry can you take the steak out of the fridge and marinate it, and while your at it can you thaw some chicken. We decided to have two of emily’s friends over for dinner.”

<15 minutes later>

to the sounds of sizzling teriyaki chicken. I see the car pull into the driveway, and people begin to pile out. Hmmmm, there are more people coming out that I though, good thing I decided to cook more than asked to. Pulling the table away from the wall so we can fit more people at it.

Well the mother, sister and three of her friends, father and yours truly sit down to a dinner of steak marinated in a combination of pepper, lemon juice and freshly ground salt, chicken teriyaki, salad, pureed butternut squash, fresh baguette, rice pilaf and for dessert gingerbread.

Everyone seems to be happy with the dinner, which makes me feel good because I HATE it when people come over unannounced…{RING} “Hey, its Bea im stopping by the house, ill be there in about 2 minutes”

This isn’t exactly a person we can turn away either. She went to high school with my mother, is one of the two people who manages the Head of the Charles Regatta (the other being her husband the Executive Director Fred Schoch). She arrives at the front door has a wine glass forced into her hand and sits down to dinner. I don’t think she has actually had a home cooked meal for the past week so she is eternally grateful for the food.

Fast forward some more:

Saturday: Up at 630am to get food for the Wisco crew team. The mother has been up since 530 backing some 3 (or more) dozen blueberry muffins for them. We arrive at the hotel, unload the stuff into a bellhop cart and set it up on a giant credenza on the 5th floor (the team rented the entire floor). We then tore out of the parking lot crossed over JFK(I think) bridge and pulled up unto the grass beside the weeks footbridge. Its nice being able to park where your not supposed to park, finished setting up the Reunion Village venue, then people started to arrive.

Lots of rowers, lots of people, sort of shitty weather

That evening we were all so tired we ended up having waffles for dinner and going to bed at around 9pm.

Sunday:

Today is the really important race day, where most of the colleges race, plus the US national team and several foreign national teams row. The weather was even more shitty than the day before and im wearing a turtleneck, a wool sweater, a fleece and a goretex jacket and im still fucking cold.

Lots more shells go by, people cheering, saw one of my relatives Bruce Beall, saw my sister wiz by in the Wisco quad, saw a bunch of boats hit each other ( its amazing how fragine and expensive those fuckers are, ill post prices in a bit), saw the US national team (I think it was anyway) blow their chance of winning their flight and a bunch of other things.

Arrived home took a shower, had a glass of wine, finished packing the car, and started driving back to ‘cuse. I got here around 1245am, without having touched a computer since Friday afternoon, and surprisingly there wasn’t much email to deal with.

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October 20, 2003

Procrastination

vamp
You are Form 9, Vampire: The Undying.

"And The Vampire was all that remained on
the blood drowned creation. She attempted to
regrow life from the dead. But as she was
about to give the breath of life, she was
consumed in the flame of The Phoenix and the
cycle began again."

Some examples of the Vampire Form are Hades (Greek)
and Isis (Egyptian).
The Vampire is associated with the concept of
death, the number 9, and the element of fire.
Her sign is the eclipsed moon.

As a member of Form 9, you are a very realistic
individual. You may be a little idealistic,
but you are very grounded and down to earth.
You realize that not everything lasts, but you
savor every minute of the good times. While
you may sometimes find yourself lonely, you
have strong ties with people that will never be
broken. Vampires are the best friends to have
because they are sensible.


Which Mythological Form Are You?
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Update on this weekend coming later tonight

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October 16, 2003

Defending

There’s been someone I know rather well for the past 2 and a half years who seems to be rather blunt with his comments and as such gets on people nerves a lot. I always defend him when people start complaining to me. This is all about to change, I stumbled into Link this morning and the first thing out of his mouth when he saw me was a complaint. Normally I’ll just sit back and take this (After being around children for a while my patience is amazing), however after our discussion today I will never again defend the prick.

On the upside I am soooo looking forward to being back in Boston for the weekend. Getting together with a few friends to talk, seeing the Head of the Charles race and in general having a blast.


Current Artist: Pulsedriver

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October 15, 2003

License Level License Type Reason for Issue Noted on License Buy - Sell - Own CCW
      Low Cap Long Guns High Cap Long Guns Low Cap Hand Guns High Cap Hand Guns  
5 Class A LTC All Lawful Purposes (1) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
4 Class A LTC Target & Hunting Yes Yes Yes Yes No
3 Class B LTC Target & Hunting Yes Yes Yes No No
2 FID Target & Hunting Yes No No No No
1 FID Pepper Spray (2) No No No No No
Ive often thought it might be interesting to get a gun license just to say I have one (not that I support handguns and all, although some training in how to use one might be an interesting thing to do...interesting in the same way that Skydiving was interesting). There is a place that I have found that does a certification course for Massachusetts 'Class 3' gun licenses (which I would get rather than a NY license). The course itself costs $190 (including ammo used) and meets for 4 nights after I get out of school for the holiday break in December...now if only I had the money to do it... Current Music: REM - Night Swimming
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Weather

Detailed Local Forecast For Syracuse, NY (13210)
Today: Windy with periods of rain. High 54F. Winds W at 30 to 40 mph. Rainfall near a half an inch. Winds could occasionally gust over 60 mph.

translation: don't use a fucking umbrella

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October 14, 2003

Added

I added a new blog today,
ferociouscheese.

Theres a text component to it, but im more impressed with the PhotoBlog part of it.

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Whats up

What is up with this schizophrenic, bipolar Syracuse weather? I get out of my 20 minutes rowing and hour of yoga then come back to the apartment. Its like a nice warm spring day. Sunny, a few puffy clouds REALLY warm, then I get out of my shower about 10 minutes later and its gotten colder (enough to put on pants) and the sun went away and it got windy and generally looked like rainish type things were about to happen.

The temp has continued to drop (slowly) L so Henry is no longer in a good mood. However thinking about seeing friends this weekend makes things better.

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October 13, 2003

Party Weekend?

Party Weekend

Iceland Party Weekend

You've studied hard, so now enjoy an invigorating, exciting party weekend in “the last, best place on earth."

Every Thursday evening starting October 9th , and continuing all Winter and Spring, jump on board Icelandair's dinner and movie night flight from Boston, Baltimore or Minneapolis and head North to the exciting top of the world capital city of Reykjavik, home of Bjork and the longest hot dogs. Easy non stop connecting flights are available from Atlanta, Orlando and Rochester, New York.

Reykjavik has a reputation for some the hottest nightlife in Europe. Beautiful people, great clubs, friendly pubs, coffee houses, and fine restaurants all combine to make the city a true party destination.

Vogue, March 2000
"The women look like either Uma Thurman or Patsy Kensit, and every third man resembles Brad Pitt... Reykjavik has acquired such wholesome reputation for good looks - and such subsequent notoriety as party town, a winter Ibiza."

Despite what are sure to be frigid temps I still want to at some point go (perhaps over spring break)

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Its official (more or less)

Let me get this out of the way by saying I completely blame my sister for getting me hooked. It was probably when she brought home a Hudson Racing Shell this summer. I'm now rowing an average of 20-30 minutes a day depending on how I did the day before. Anyway back the the info.

I got the email this morning (while I was at the gym) from one of the two lead organizers, im going to be in Boston helping out at the Head of the Charles Regatta. I'm plannong on leaving sometime Friday around noon (as soon as the class I teach gets out), and I won't be back until sometime on sunday afternoon.

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October 12, 2003

Ahhhhhhhhhh

Well its been an interesting, albet shitty weekend. On thursday evening one of my hard drives got corrupted and I'm pretty sure that I lost all of the data on it (The one saving grace was that it wasn't the drive where I store the OS and development tools I use) however all of my data files are most likly wiped out.... Im slowly reconstructing the various links to things and trying to find copies of all of the technical papers I was keeping around (this is a pain in the ass seeing as a number of they were pulled from distribution do to alleged DMCA violations)

current mood: Pissed off
current music: none. That was also on the same hd that got corrupted.

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October 10, 2003

has it been a week already?

1. Do you watch sports? If so, which ones?
Baseball (occasionally), Waterskiing, Extreme Sports (if on). I dont' really watch sports on TV all that much. I get as much out of reading a paper in the morning summerizing what happened, also that way its less of a waste of my time

2. What/who are your favorite sports teams and/or favorite athletes?
RedSox, Pats,Celtics,Bruins (can you guess what state I origionally came from?)

3. Are there any sports you hate?
Not really.

4. Have you ever been to a sports event?
Yes, who hasn't been to some sort of sporting event. Freshmen and Sophmore years I went to every football game that Syracuse played, plus a couple of other sports.

5. Do/did you play any sports (in school or other)? How long did you play?
Get in touch with me if you want the long answer to this question.


friday five

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October 08, 2003

And thus begins the legacy

Excerpt from the Will of Alfred Nobel

"The whole of my remaining realizable estate shall be dealt with in the following
way: the capital, invested in safe securities by my executors, shall constitute a
fund, the interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to
those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit
on mankind. The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts, which shall
be apportioned as follows: one part to the person who shall have made the most
important discovery or invention within the field of physics; one part to the
person who shall have made the most important chemical discovery or
improvement; one part to the person who shall have made the most important
discovery within the domain of physiology or medicine; one part to the person
who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in
an ideal direction; and one part to the person who shall have done the most or
the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of
standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses. The
prizes for physics and chemistry shall be awarded by the Swedish Academy of
Sciences; that for physiology or medical works by the Karolinska Institute in
Stockholm; that for literature by the Academy in Stockholm, and that for
champions of peace by a committee of five persons to be elected by the
Norwegian Storting. It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no
consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most
worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not
."

For those of you that have been in a hole for the past week and half the Nobel committee has been awarding the Nobel prizes for the 2002-2003 year. The winners are as follows:

Economics: Robert Engle for "methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)"
and
Clive W. J. Granger for ""methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends (cointegration)"

Literature: John Maxwell Coetzee

Physiology or Medicine: Paul C. Lauterbur and Sir Peter Mansfield for "their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging"

Chemistry: Peter Agre for "the discovery of water channels"
and
Roderick MacKinnon for "structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels"


Physics: Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg and Anthony J. Leggett for " pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids"


Yes the Main one, the Peace prize has yet to be awarded...

for more information on this go to www.nobel.se and it isn't in sweedish so don't worry, you'll be able to read the information.

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October 07, 2003

Gotta love shorts

I really love shorts (the films not the clothes) and Pixar lately has been putting out some really spectacular work.

Short
http://www.pixar.com/shorts/gg/theater/short_320.html

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Project

This weeksnds project: Move two 15gb HDs from my backup computer into my main one. I'm begining to run out of space and as we all know msft apps are more or less bloatware. Fucking .NET taking up 2gb of space

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From the Darwin Award hopeful files.

Canon City, Colorado-AP -- Authorities in Colorado say an Australian skydiver
was killed today while attempting a stunt. Officials say 30-year-old Dwain
Weston had jumped from an airplane with another parachutist.

Well Duh what would he have been jumping off of a car? Actually don't
answer that I've seen people parachute out of cars

They were supposed to free fall until they reached the one-thousand-foot high
Royal Gorge Bridge

Pull at 4k feet moron.

Weston was supposed to go above the bridge and the other athlete would go
under it.

But Weston, traveling at an estimated 100 miles-an-hour, miscalculated his
distance from the bridge and struck a railing. He fell onto a rock face roughly
300 feet from the bottom of the gorge.

Can I have some Tylenol please? I've got a splitting headache


Before the accident, Weston had participated in the "Go Fast Games," jumping
off the bridge with about 40 other BASE jumpers -- athletes who skydive from
fixed objects.

Technically its Building Antenna Span Earth for those who are interested

The Royal Gorge Bridge is the world's highest suspension bridge.

Does it want a medal for getting first place?

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October 03, 2003

That time again

What happens every friday kiddies? Thats right, Friday Five

1. What vehicle do you drive?
1998 GMC Jimmy SLT 4door. Color = Smoky Metallic Caramel (I didn't know the name of the color until about three weeks ago when I was ordering some touchup paint). Its got about 70k miles on it now.

2. How long have you had it?
I got it the summer after my freshmen year in college, so that would be the summer of 2000 I believe. So I guess that makes it 3 full years + a couple of months.


3. What is the coolest feature on your vehicle?
Either climate control or the display that tell me the temp outside :-)

4. What is the most annoying thing about your vehicle?
Hands down by far it the really shitty gas milage that it gets. I do a fair amount of highway driving and when your only getting 18-20mpg it SUCKS.


5. If money were no object, what vehicle would you be driving right now?
Most likly a SAAB 9^5 or a 9^3. (see earlier post). It gets really good gas milage, is relativly safe and best yet comes in a standard (despite driving an automatic I would much reather be driving standard

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October 02, 2003

What the hell were they thinking?

Generally I don't comment on government affairs, but in this instance I feel the need to say something. What the fuck is the government doing legislating what a woman can or can not due to her body?
----------
House approves ban on controversial abortion procedure
Senate to take up measure

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House voted Thursday to ban a type of abortion that
for years has been at the center of the debate over a woman's reproductive
rights. President Bush has promised to sign the bill into law and opponents say
they will immediately challenge it in court...
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I really hope that they do challenge this particular law in court. If the government decides that it has the ability to regulate what a woman does to her body, what is to stop them from doing even stupider things such as banning breast implants or telling men that they can’t go to the gym more than 4 days a week?

The government needs to stop meddling in affairs that they have no right getting into. Actually I suppose it isn’t really the government doing this, but individual lawmakers who have very religious upbringings (ill let you guess which religion I am referring to).

As someone said to me the other day “The Bible is like Google for Catholics. They can find anything inside of it that they want to.”

For those of you who want to read the rest of the article

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October 01, 2003

The Benefits of being unemployed

The Surprising Benefits of Being Unemployed

The great ebb and flow of the marketplace has recently forced me to try to convince myself of the benefits of being unemployed.

Some of those benefits are obvious, and I could have anticipated them even before a supervisor tapped me on the shoulder and said he needed to talk to me about something. ("Do you have a minute?" he asked. What would have happened if I'd said no, that I was too busy?)

try reading the rest of the article

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Playlist

Today's playlist on my IPod:

Something Corporate Konstantine
Gary Jules Mad World (from Donnie Darko)
Goove Coverage Moonlight Shadow
Tiesto Southern Sun
Kevin Groob This Moment
Fountains of Wayne Stacy's Mom
Lyala Time To Fly

Well thats all im going to type. I know that there is some way to export playlists to html, but im too unmotivated to figure out how tonight.

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