the reality tunnel

05.30.2002 – songs, e-mail, emo, tysonbrow, weakerthans originally written 05.30.2002 song ideas for my still ephemeral project with tim: “special interest” a song about special interest class in elementary school. the most optimistic time of my life. also, want to write a song about the library. about bibliophilia. more tim’s department than mine, really, but [...]

05.31.2002 – baldness, world cup, weakerthans, making a fist so … last night i shaved my head. not with the plastic electric razor length gaurd. not even with the bare metal clippers. i’m talking bic razor, to the skin, mr. clean shaved head. why? you might ask. well, the first reason is for my personal [...]

05.30.2002 – collectors, old people and animals, desaperecidos orignially written 05.30.2002 soundtrack: butterfly, the last track on what is still weezer’s best record. well, the book i’m reading now isn’t exactly like the song, but it is about a working-class guy who collects butterflies and who comes into a fortune and kidnaps a young art [...]

05.29.2002 – day originally written 05.29.2002 bright yellow cups of coffee. i’ll find you by hundred reasons playing in my headphones (and beach boys on the cafe sound system – a million times better than brennan’s muzak). the guy with his girlfriend in the corner booth with the thick glasses, dress shirt, and good haircut [...]

05.29.2002 – day originally written 05.29.2002 bright yellow cups of coffee. i’ll find you by hundred reasons playing in my headphones (and beach boys on the cafe sound system – a million times better than brennan’s muzak). the guy with his girlfriend in the corner booth with the thick glasses, dress shirt, and good haircut [...]

free trade? from a salon article describing ethiopia’s prime minister’s diss on the us over agricultural protectionism: Removing subsidies and tariffs is far more important to Africa’s development than aid, Meles said. The problem, he said, is that wealthy nations extend “enormous subsidies” to their own agribusinesses while placing taxes on the very products Africans [...]

activism software some guy posted about some interesting software for activists. posting it here so i don’t forget about it 1)Mailman hacked to work encrypted mailist lists. I wrote a patch for mailman to work with encrypted mailing lists. I’ve seen a number of attempts at this but all use the model of creating a [...]

05.27.2002 – dream Originally written . the normal exam-time anxiety dream. did really poorly on a distributed systems examination and got upset about it. woke up all nervous until logic kicked in and told me that i had already taken the distributed systems exam and didn’t do too shabilly (at least by my recollection). 05.27.2002 [...]

05.26.2002 – day Originally written 05.26.2002. media check. peter told me to check out if on a winter’s night a traveler by italo calvino. the library didn’t have it in translation, but it did have invisible cities, so i’m reading that instead. the framework of the book is that marco polo is describing cities that [...]

hactivismo news site Originally written 05.25.2002. ex-CoDC kids @ hactivismo have a new website “dedicated to reporting on the convergence of technology and human rights”. it’s at http://www.hactivismo.com/news. 05.25.2002 – day Originally written . watched the premier of the new season of big brother last night. that should give some indication of how far i’m [...]