Oct 13 2006
Headline of the week
Ignoring the rather scary and unflattering columnist photo, this is a gem: “If you feel a commotion beneath your feet today, that’ll be gazillions of unbaptised children moving out of Limbo“
Oct 11 2006
There’s some sort of anxiety tapping going on here in the coffeeshop…
Not only did they steal my chair while I was outside on the cell phone, they also then proceeded to replace my chair at my table *then* sit in it. I had to crawl under the table to retrieve my shit.
Now, they’re all (15) saying “even though I crave this, and it smells so good, and I want to eat it so bad…” and tapping their “meridians” to relieve the stress and cravings…I suppose as a treatment for addiction? This is just after they watched a movie on their mac laptop that sounded like an infomercial on the tapping procedure. And then they go around asking each other what their stress level is on a scale from 1 to 5. Need I say that they’re all caucasian-looking? Then they ask each other whether they want to take a bite of the cookie they’re looking at, then encourage them not to eat it, then ask one another if it tastes as good as they expected if they go ahead and eat it.
Perhaps Tap, tap, tapping our way to health would enlighten me. Actually, nope. Here’s a sample comment from the article: “We are water beings living on a water planet.”
Oct 09 2006
Post-Oregon
Portland’s pretty nice, though not as pretty as Seattle. It just may be a weird mix of Durham (housing, more diversity, some tasty tacos) and Seattle (cold, rain, bicycles, vegetarians). Pies were super cool – nothing like a mac and cheese pie with puff pasty, or a great pear pie. I feel slightly iffy at the moment, which I think is more due to the lunch the day after than the pies.
Side note: I need to remember to read “Letters from Birmingham Jail”.
Oct 03 2006
The pie has been decided!
I will make…empanadas!
Causal pathway:
Fried pies (at least in the South) are most definitely pies. Empanadas are fried pies, albeit with meat and other goodies. Empanadas are also from the South, just moreso. Therefore, empanadas are pies that count. Bwahahaha…and with a shortening crust, only the bravest shall dare consume them! Despite their wonderful tastiness.
As a side note, while my laptop mostly works, I have discovered that its coffee immersion has also messed up the network/modem port on the back such that it doesn’t work (but wifi, more safely interiorized, does) and that my speakers don’t either (although headphones do). Professional advice: don’t spill liquids near electronics. In case you didn’t read the warning label.
Oct 02 2006
Another forgotten link
Highly recommended – it really frames the issue of international health, data/IT, and spiffy people from Denmark: Hans Rosling video at TED
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