I was watching this video of Mitt Romney being asked whether he thinks of himself as a “politician” or a “statesman”. Romney cites President Clinton as an example of a politician, describing the his decision making strategy:
“We think often times of Bill Clinton as somebody who looked at the polls. He was polling in the [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Populism
30Jul07Non-Symbolic Programming
28Jul07I’m trying to start blogging more about the work that I’m doing. Here’s a short essay I wrote yesterday introducing the idea of non-symbolic programming. The essay is below the fold.
Daudz baltu dieniņu
28Jul07Today is my little sister’s birthday, and we’re celebrating here in Boulder, Colorado with my brother and sister in law. Dad mailed out a kliņģeris, the eggy saffron-flavored traditional Latvian birthday cake.
We sang Daudz baltu dieninu:
Daudz baltu dieniņu Laimiņa lemi,
Diženi, raženi dzīvojoti!
Diženi, raženi dzīvojoti!
Daudz baltu dieniņu Laimiņa, lemi,
Diženi, raženi strÄdÄjoti!
Diženi, raženi strÄdÄjoti!
Daudz baltu dieniņu [...]
Dancing the time away
18Jul07I found this video recently (link), and have been really enjoying it. It was a favorite of Jillian Meyers, one of my new favorite dancers. Check her out in this video… what killer style!
The sad side of this story, is that I spent more time this week watching dance videos on YouTube than I [...]
The limits of poor writing
15Jul07I just reread the post I wrote about privilege checklists yesterday. When I wrote it I was rushing out the door to get crepes with Camille (in honor of Bastille Day!) and I just didn’t have the time to properly edit it. Hell, I didn’t have the time to properly write it in [...]
Privilege
14Jul07The reality of social movements is that they tend to be populated by the people who are most effected by the movement. The civil rights movement of the 50’s and 60’s was predominantly African American. The feminist movement is driven by women. I’ve found myself more and more interested in participating in [...]
Here it is
11Jul07I just posted a video of a journalist refusing to read a story about Paris Hilton, a story which said journalist felt was not fit to be a lead story, despite the feelings of that journalist’s producer.
I didn’t know where to start, but I watched the clip again, and now I know exactly where to [...]
Where to start?
11Jul07Found on Just Dreadful.
Oooooh
10Jul07
I’m not a Harry Potter nerd.
I am currently selling off all of my books because I don’t want to lug around metric assloads of paper that I’ll never read again.
There are journal articles I have read multiple times and taken copious notes on, yet I refuse to print them out.
I am a firm believer in [...]
