Entries from April 2009

Masculinity and Sexual Assault Awareness Month

April 21st, 2009 by Geoffrey Hing | View Comments

This is a first draft of an op-ed for a group called ManUp! that I’m working with in Bloomington.  I’d appreciate any comments or feedback: April, sexual assault awareness month makes me tired.  I am tired of seeing women that I respect and care about exhausted as they do the challenging, important, but also extremely [...]


Graffiti Panic

April 21st, 2009 by Geoffrey Hing | View Comments

This is a letter to the editor that I just submitted in response to an editorial in today’s H-T, Graffiti not art; it is vandalism: I was disappointed by today’s editorial condemning graffiti.  Rather than fostering a nuanced and frank dialog about complicated issues like the state of public and private spaces in Bloomington, the [...]


Django: Querying data from the Python shell

April 13th, 2009 by Geoffrey Hing | View Comments

I needed to get some stats for some research that we’re doing and was happy to see that you can use Django and the python shell to query testament data in a way that’s database independent.  It’s a little unintuitive if you’re thinking in SQL mode, but it is usable and super-helpful.  I wanted to [...]


Defiance, Ohio Northwest Tour Day 1

April 4th, 2009 by Geoffrey Hing | View Comments

I’m going to try to write about tour this time.  It comes and goes so fast that sometimes all I feel is left are these “remember when …” snippets that come up between people I’ve been on tour with that are nice to remember but alienating to everyone else in the conversation. I told Florence [...]


TODO

I've made a calendar of Chicago events I think are interesting. You can view the calendar here or load the ical in your calendar application.

DIY Chicago and the Chicago Radicalendar have a more comprehensive list of things going on.

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