the reality tunnel

DIY Punk Show with Disaster, Auryn, and Ox-Eye
Saturday, May 3
110 N. Maple (near intersection of Kirkwood and Maple)
$3
All-ages
Disaster
Bloomington hardcore punk with songs about skateboarding and social justice.  Songs for download at http://disaster.terrorware.com/audio/demo
Auryn
Playing songs that are pretty and heavy, Auryn comes on tour from Pittsburgh, PA and features members of many well-known Pennsylvania-based hardcore bands.  They [...]

I’ve been interested in Michael Eric Dyson since seeing him speak at IU over the winter.  An NPR news blog wrote this about a recent interview where MED linked Obama and his pastor with the different phases of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life:
Obama is the pre-1965 King. The one the holiday is named for, said [...]

I’ve been blogging about my experience applying for Indiana’s state subsidized health insurance for low-income folks.
Last week, I received a very formal letter that I had been accepted and  a bill for the first month’s payment into my POWER (a medical expense) account.
Here are the letters so others know what to expect. Click on the [...]

Recession Diet Just One Way to Tighten Belt – New York Times:
Home prices are sliding, wages are stagnant, job losses are growing and the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index, a broad measure of stock performance, is down 6 percent in the last year. So consumers are going on a recession diet.

This just seems so glib.  [...]

Saturday, May 3, 2008
Free
A New Jail?!: Exploring Alternatives to Incarceration in Monroe County
Events At:
Boxcar Books
310A S. Washington St.
Bloomington, IN 47401
(812) 339-8710
http://www.boxcarbooks.org
The Cinemat
123 S. Walnut St.
(812) 333-4700
Bloomington, IN 47401
http://www.thecinemat.com
A day of popular education that will explore alternatives to the current proposal of building new adult and youth jails in Bloomington. Through interactive workshops featuring community [...]

I was responding to a friend who asked me about balancing my work life and my involvement in community activism.  As I wrote my response, I realized that it was something that I wanted to save as a reminder to myself:
Although I only work 20 hours a week or so, having a job that now [...]

k3b didn’t work, so

  growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/hdd=movies/unknown_passage.iso

I don’t know if this is an official project of the Obama campaign, but it’s pretty annoying to get spam like this:
Ciao,
Is everything great? How are you?
I saw those open videos on Barack Obama video exploits
Obama yes we can power
Watch them carefully belive in the dream, Vote Obama

CI

Researching with Communities: Grounded perspectives on engaging communities in research Edited by Andy Williamson and Ruth DeSouza
Networked neighbourhoods : the connected community in context / Patrick Purcell (ed.).
Community informatics : shaping computer-mediated social relations / edited by Leigh Keeble and Brian D.
Loader.
Social and community informatics : humans on the Net / Gunilla Bradley.

Math

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This is a response to Patrick’s response to my posting of this analysis of the Stuff White People Like blog.
I think that the language in the blog post is strong and frustrated and I’ll grant that the statements about the heftiness of the book deal probably don’t have much statistical [...]