Entries from March 2006

podcast #1

March 18th, 2006 by Geoffrey Hing | 2 Comments

podcast #1

So I decided that I would try to make a little podcast radio show. This is the first attempt. The idea is to pick songs that kind of follow the things I’ve been doing and thinking about. The first show is songs that I discovered or thought of from my most recent trip out of [...]


Things I learned today

March 18th, 2006 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

Things I learned today

The domestic chicken evolved from the Red Jungle Fowl, originally found in south Asia.
hospedaje = hosting (web) in castellano


prison issues articles

March 17th, 2006 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

prison issues articles

I made a couple of posts to the blog at pagestoprisoners.org about media that I came across or that Megan e-mailed to me from spring break:

Powerful Video on Incarcerated Immigrants
Iowa’s Residency Rules Drive Sex Offenders Underground
Boot camp death not natural, second autopsy finds


awake, misguided

March 17th, 2006 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

awake, misguided

“One of the great liabilities of history is that all to many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of the status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. But today our very survival depends on our [...]


Transom Shows: Voice of Youth: The Night I Met Cornel West

March 16th, 2006 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

Transom Shows: Voice of Youth: The Night I Met Cornel West

This radio piece is pretty awesome and its pretty interesting to hear someone articulate pretty reasonable ambivalence to someone that me, and most of the folks that I know go kind of gahgah over. 
Transom Shows: Voice of Youth: The Night I Met Cornel West:
19-year-old Laquoia Simmons had a big night a while back: she [...]


CAIR Coalition video on immigrant detention

March 16th, 2006 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

CAIR Coalition video on immigrant detention

http://www.ailfvideo1.org/2006video/cair2006.ram


game

March 16th, 2006 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

game

I stumbled across this random blog post when I googled for “triffling” because I was curious about the spelling.  My friend once told me, half jokingly, that she thinks everyone is looking for a hustle.  Reading this piece of someone’s life, like a voyeur, I realize that I’m seriously outclassed when it comes to deviousness.  [...]


Boxcar Inventory Development Notes

March 15th, 2006 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

Boxcar Inventory Development Notes

Feature Request

Books from Nebraska Book Company and MBS should always show up as used when entered into the inventory. (Also, I need to create a query to fix the existing entries.)  The reason why this needs to be done is because currently, the inventory automatically enters all books from distributors as new, but with textbooks [...]


disaster song descriptions

March 15th, 2006 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

disaster song descriptions

For Kevey, initially, for some kind of demo liner notes, eventually.
Research
This song is about skateboarding, place, ownership, and memory.
Who owns a place?  Is it the person who holds the deed, title, or monetary investments, or is it those who occupy the place, us it, redefine it, develop an intimate relationship with it and invest their [...]


potshots

March 14th, 2006 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

potshots

When my friend Leanne was passing through town last month, we went for a short hike around Lake Griffey.  While we were hiking, she mentioned that she really liked a comic called Potshots and that she was disappointed that her local paper had stopped carrying the comic.  Luckily, the comics are available on the web.  [...]