Archive for January, 2007
Photo Update
27Jan07My computer is not importing photos lately, so I always end up saving them up and then posting them all at once from school. And then I have to write a big, rambly blog entry. But whatever.
Last week it was Kaya’s birthday and I made Falafel for her birthday dinner. Everything from [...]
Is love a feeling or a process? Is being crazy about someone love? Or is love something that grows out of an ongoing relationship… an ongoing material entaglement? Does true love come from things you feel and know or things you’ve done and lived?
New Dance Video
22Jan07Among the many things which came of my trip to Punta Banda, Mexico this weekend:
Dancing in Punta Banda
Researchers at the University of Alberta have found that an old drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), causes regression in several cancers, including lung, breast, and brain tumors. They’ve tried it in test tubes with human tumors, and in animals. Now they need to run clinical trials in real people. DCA has been used for [...]
Feminism or Chivalry?
17Jan07Over the last, probably 5 years or so, I’ve been becoming increasingly aware of the way that conversations get dominated by men. It doesn’t take much… I’ve seen in happen in groups with fifteen women and two men. I’ve seen it happen in groups of three men and one woman.
And I’ve been learning [...]
Le Grand Content
16Jan07Video: Le Grand Content
Source: Clemens Kogler
Weekend
16Jan07Here’s a bit of a recap, with photos.
Dinner tonight: Aloo Gobi
It was quite a weekend. Friday was the Cognitive Science Happy Hour, wherein we stood outside in the freezing cold making small talk. Met some new folks from Sociology I think. These things run together…
Saturday morning woke up at 5:00am, Paul picked [...]
There was a pretty shocking story on Google News today: A 28-year old mother of three died just after a radio show promotional event, called “Wee for a Wii” in which she and other contestants competed to see who could hold out the longest without peeing, while drinking gallons of water.
Jennifer Lea Strange died of [...]
One of our best
15Jan07O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath–
America will be!
That’s Langston Hughes, quoted in this speech of Martin Luther King Jr.’s.
I’ve got a post about my weekend queued up, waiting for me to add some photos. But right now I’m spending the last little bit of Martin [...]
