I’ve been reading Malcolm X’s The Ballot or The Bullet speech. It’s an incredible speech, which changed my mind about many things.
X addresses the failure of the legislature to follow through on campaign promises made to black Americans:
In this present administration they have in the House of Representatives 257 Democrats to only 177 Republicans. [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Malcolm X
27Dec07Release Early, Release Often
23Dec07I often have a hard time putting enough energy into papers early in the writing process. I end up doing all the work as late as possible, and the quality of my writing suffers. I recently had a thought:
I could just set early finishing deadlines. Like, if I have 4 weeks to write a seminar [...]
Happiness, Part One
23Dec07Over the last year or two I’ve really been thinking about my happiness. I find myself falling in love with people who just seem indefatigably happy… not the forced “grin and bear it” kind of happiness, or the naive “tra la la la I’m not listening” kind of happiness, but people who are dealing [...]
Meetup Sucks
23Dec07I couldn’t find any way to send feedback to Meetup, so I figured I’d just write it here and let their P.R. people find it.
I just deleted my Meetup.com account because I continued to get emails from the newintown-45-announce@meetup.com mailing list, despite unchecking everything on my email preferences page. I’ve looked at that page three [...]
The Naked Chef
23Dec07I’m at home, so I watch T.V. That seems to be the natural order of things. I’ve seen Jamie Oliver pull a tray of roast veg out of an outdoor oven about 20 times, each time just as super excited as the last.
Note to self: it doesn’t so much matter what you’re doing, [...]
prayer
13Dec07dear whomever,
please grant me the serenity to make it through this day with grace.
love, erik
Boy Scout camp. 13 years old. Cutting open the individual serving size box with a knife. Slicing through the wax paper. Pouring milk out of the ancient yellow plastic pitcher. Crunch crunch. My mom never lets us eat Cap’n Crunch! Mmm. Crunch crunch.
Ecstasy.
