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harry potter book three: done.

i finally got around to putting up the pictures of dan and my trip down to bishop to see joe. feel free to check them out.

posted 22:53 - id:10255154

2002-02-27

jeanne jo loaned me the third harry potter book the other night. spent some time reading today and i'm half way through it.now i know it's a kids book and all but if that cat turns out to be sirus black i'll be pretty annoyed.

posted 15:44 - id:10201201

chris and matt, my friends from burning man, came up from the bay area monday night.i hung out with them yesterday, had quite a bit of fun hitting golf balls at the hilton and drinking a the casino. thursday matt leave for thailand where he's presenting at a conversation. that son of a bitch is stoked.

tonight dan, his brother steve, little bob and i go to san francisco to see the faint. it's going to be an awesome show, i'm ready do do some dancing and screaming along.

posted 08:10 - id:10186756

2002-02-25

i mentioned it once but it looks like occidental is going to get bush to give the colombians money to protect their corporate profit.

posted 08:49 - id:10105969

in the nytimes there's a piece about the homeless that recycle bottles and cans for the deposit. the city is trying to change the rules so that the deposit becomes a tax with no redemption in the city.

posted 08:30 - id:10105366

2002-02-24

i've got a deep fascination with iran, any time i see an article about it i'll read it no matter how mundane. today the nytimes magazine has a great piece on the iranian satellite tv stations broadcasting from the states and their role in moving the people there towards democracy.

it's no wonder that most americans don't trust the republicans with the environment. little bush is trying to shift payment for superfund cleanups from corporations to taxpayers. instead of a system that forces the companies that create the pollution to clean it up everyone has to pay for the actions of companies more concerned with profit than the people who have to drink their polluted water.

posted 14:28 - id:10077847

dude, so i went to dinner with my uncle, aunt and family, had a nice time and then went looking for my friends. they weren't at the park street show but jenny anderson said that dan had gone up to megan's house. i got on the phone and found out that not only was it true but that i'd missed a ride with bob and james.

so i pedaled my ass up the hill to megan and natalie's house off keystone. hanging out up there was was fun, except natalie's poodle sammi kept trying to hump me. it had a stuffed monkey that it'd been humping but natalie took it away because she was embarrassed by it. the poor dog was left with nothing to channel it's sexual frustration into but my poor innocent arm.

and channel it did, i was taking to raj explaining how hannah is an anagram (it's really a palindrome) and next thing i know her dog is humping the shit out of my arm. i shake the horny bastard off but never could shake off the feeling of violation. shortly thereafter i was able to convince james to give me a ride home. i've been showering like i was staring in the crying game ever since.

posted 02:27 - id:10063348

2002-02-23

delat should really look at doing a comercials with a more urban feel

posted 16:03 - id:10050948

looks like bush's starwars isn't going as well as hoped. not that it's feasability is any more important to bush than it was to regan. at least regan seemed to undertand it was part of an elaborate poker game with the soviets, bush actually seems to think it's going to be protect americans. i sure the defense industry doesn't mind either way.

i get done talking shit about john ashcroft and then pat roberts goes and does him one better saying, with no hint of irony, that islam is "not a peaceful religion".

posted 12:28 - id:10045550

2002-02-21

apparently i was on the receiving end of what is known as giving shit. thanks girls.

dan keeps talking about the mongoloids but until he showed me this site i had no idea what he was talking about.

posted 09:36 - id:9967709

2002-02-20

i'd like to make a correction, 66% of the cute girls at the stock exchange tuesday night were the ones we went over with. in my haste to belittle the stock exchange i made it sound like natalie, megan and their roommate who's name i still can't remember, dropped us off and left. not only did they give us a ride but i hanging out and playing connect four with them was the only enjoyable part of an otherwise boring night. apologies all around.

posted 23:07 - id:9954341

man i really hate john ashcroft. i keep thinking he's finally reached his peak as a jack ass and then he one ups himself.

posted 21:29 - id:9951838

the news

the supreme court is going to take a look at web copyrights
i keep wondering if the palestinians have trouble finding new policemen... i guess there aren't really any other jobs though.

posted 08:28 - id:9924831

2002-02-19

dan and i got a ride over to the stock exchange with natalie, megan and their roommate who's name i can never remember. two words ghost town. i mean to be charitable i guess the strippers all show up after 23:00 but man the beer wasn't that cheap and there was no one there. the hour there consisted of playing connect four and talking to jeremy (matt with one t's old roommate who also dated natalie). while there were a couple of cute girls there it wasn't quite worth shaving for.

posted 23:33 - id:9913393

the weekly standard asks who lost china's internet? the unfortunate answer is we did.

posted 00:50 - id:9878753

2002-02-18

there's a disturbing article about how ollie north's partner in the iran contra affair is back in a high government office. this time he's in-charge of the new information awarness office who's mission is to spy on americans.

posted 21:04 - id:9873630

2002-02-17

patriot registration - the scary part is i could see this administration trying to carry this out.

posted 15:22 - id:9827099

man this trip down to bishop has gone pretty well. we did a bit of bouldering at the happys yesterday with joe and some of the people he works with. real rock is so much nicer to climb on than plastic.

that night we had a group falafel feed and the a bunch of us went to mammoth to see spearhead (some kind of reggae funk band with hippy sauce seasoning). dan and i didn't have tickets and were planning to find an alternative means of entry. after examining several doors and getting told that sneaking in was impossible i was ready to give up, but not dan. he ended up talking to the guitar player of saul williams, the band that had just finished up. dan asked him if he could get us in and the guy said he didn't think so but along came the tour manager and told the band that if they wanted to come up and bring their friends he'd lead the way. long walk short: dan and i end up in the hospitality area drinking their free beer and watching the show. dan started talking to all the other people backstage telling them all kinds of crazy stuff about how he was doing video documentary work for geroge lucas. he had some marketing agent from a watch company convinced that he climbed with chris sharma all the time, she started talking about sponsoring him.

i wasn't expecting much from spearhead but they did a pretty decent job and the price was right. i got to dancing with this girl and was going to get ride with her so i could stay for the end of the show. i couldn't find her after the show so i started asking around. the best i could do was rovana about 12 miles north of bishop. i got up at 8 this morning and started walking, i picked up a ride into bishop and then started the 4 mile walk out to the research station where joe is living. i made pretty good time, i was actually back before everyone woke up.

crap it's started raining so this might turn into drinking not climbing day.

posted 11:49 - id:9821155

2002-02-14

funerals, weddings, new babies. all the milestones make you realize how old you really are. seeing relatives you grew up with's kids who are now an age you remember. it makes the older relatives seem a little younger.

seeing what went into my grandpa's funeral i'm ready to write down a few guidelines for my own. first no talking about god. i'm dead, that's it stop trying to say i've gone to a better place. second i want a wake not a funeral, cremate that body and put the mayonnaise jar with the ashes and a photo up on a table, and open up the bar. offer up a toast and anyone that starts crying should be shown the door. relate some stories of the stupid stuff i've done. my grandpa did his 4 years in the army air core and 20 in the army reserve so he got a 21 gun salute and taps. taps i liked, that song gets me a bit choked up even with out someone dying.

my uncles and their friends are going to be coming up to reno next weekend. i'm looking forward to spending a night out hitting all the slummy bars in downtown with them.

posted 23:10 - id:9749317

2002-02-13

driving down i thought about how cliche it is to start a movie returning home for a funeral. i wasn't exactly returning home but for the purposes of mentally casting yourself in the role it was close enough. seeing my cousin that's two months older with her two daughters. drinking beers with my uncle. seeing my grandfather looking like a wax model at the funeral home. it still hasn't hit me but when i see other people crying it gets to me. watching my grandmother working through it, that hurts. when i think about it, the death of my brother is probably the only thing that hit me immediately. almost everyone else i'm pretty detached from. it'd be an abstract concept, just another person that i haven't seen in a while.

i've been given my grandfather's truck. at first i wasn't really into it but as i've been thinking about it it works out really well. i want to move up to portland after school lets out. this will make getting up there doable and the really great thing is that in oregon you can register a vehicle on a month to month basis. so drive it on road trips all summer and then let it sit parked all winter. this is the first time i've been stoked about having a car in a few years but it's a shitty way to get one.

posted 23:02 - id:9749142

2002-02-12

i think that the fight between percy schmeiser and monsanto is one of the most important warnings of what patenting genetic code will lead to. monsanto is suing him for patent infringement after his fields were found to be growing plants that contained their patented dna. schmeiser claims wind blow pollen from neighboring fields is to blame, monsanto says it doesn't matter how it got there he needs to pay for it.

dan pointed out that the canadians have siezed a tanker in the ariabian gulf.

posted 20:45 - id:9670021

one more call for a unilateral peace in palestine

posted 09:33 - id:9647910

2002-02-11

i hate to say that the level palestinian/israli conflict has gone up a notch, it's easy to see this a business as ususal.

highlights

Two employees in the office of Terje Roed-Larsen, the United Nations special coordinator for the Middle East, were hurt by flying glass when windows in the building were blown out, a United Nations spokesman said. Mr. Roed-Larsen expressed outrage at the use of heavy bombs near civilian areas and United Nations offices, and emphasized that "Israel's security needs will not be met by hitting civilian targets or by destroying the Palestinians' ability to police and maintain order," a statement from his office said.

that's the truth but the israils don't seem to hear it

Dore Gold, an adviser to Mr. Sharon, called the introduction of the Qassam 2 an escalation. "Israel has said many times that if these rockets were used, it would change the rules of the game," he said.

okay as long as you're throwing rocks and we can strike back with our $14 million attack helicopter, there's no problem. however if you're going to start shooting missles made in a machine shop and we'll have to use our tanks and $9 million jets to maintain the status quo.

posted 08:08 - id:9609364

2002-02-09

of the four grandparents i stared out with, as of today i've only got one left. my mom's father died today, the good news was that my mom went down to see him yesterday. i don't know when the funeral will be but i'll probably be going down there.

posted 16:38 - id:9560567

2002-02-08

dude if someone wanted to get me a cheap early birthday present here's a hint

we called him money bin laden

posted 14:56 - id:9530236

being sick i don't feel guilty about posting this many links.

here's a good article about the unmanned aerial vehicles that were operating over afghanistan. one quote that illustrates why the air force is slow to replace pilots: [i guess i lost the link to this article]

Is this really "combat?" asks one long-time member of the manned aircraft community. "If the president is asked to help somebody and you send a couple of robots, have you really answered the call?"

uhmm, hey isn't the goal of a military action to achieve your goals with a minimum number of casualties? so if you can "answer the call" and not get anyone killed, it the means is less important.

posted 12:54 - id:9526545

for the last couple of days i've been meaning to post links to some of the commentary about the effects bush's speech has had on the reform movement in iran. what from here looks like standard right-wing lets restart the cold war so i can get my missile defense (legacy?) rhetoric is take completely differently in iran and korea. it seem more than singling out sponsors of terrorism bush has singled out countries that are capable of and have shown an interest in developing long range missiles.

yesterday on npr they had a piece on the change of our support of columbia's military. now instead of the "war on drugs" we're going to start paying for the columbian military to protect occidental petroleum's 500 mile long pipeline. god it must be great to be an oil man now, that million bucks you put toward w's campaign is coming back to you to the tune of $98 million.

as for my comments the other day about being okay with the cold, well i think i'm pretty much sick now. sore throat and fever last night. feeling a little better tonight but not going to do any drinking for a couple of days.

posted 12:12 - id:9525225

2002-02-07

preliminary thumbnails are up for everything but krabi (the upload crashed out) i'll add titles to the rest of the photos and get them updated as i go.

posted 07:21 - id:9478479

2002-02-06

libya, china and syria form an axis of just as evil

posted 10:57 - id:9446194

2002-02-05

rc3 had a link to a story about the guy in the levis comercial that played durring the superbowl.

riding back from rocksport tonight i realized that i'm finally comfortable with the cold again. it helps that the weather has gotten better in the last week but either way i don't really mind riding around at night anymore.

posted 23:42 - id:9431023

2002-02-04

tim stopped by and dropped off a couple of links:

posted 22:52 - id:9391628

i haven't even finished this article but reveals the palestinian perspective better than any other article i've read.

posted 09:24 - id:9366401

2002-02-03

i just finished reading this essay in parameters, the us army war college quarterly and it's probably one of the most insightful assesments of us foreign policy. i'd recommend that everyone take the time to read it.

i watched the superbowl with my mom, i watched the play offs with james and ended up rooting for the patriots so i was really glad i got to see them win. as for the commercials that the levis' one with the dancing ganster was probably my favorite.

posted 19:10 - id:9347198

yasir arafat details the palestinian vision of peace in the new york times.

posted 15:39 - id:9341141

2002-02-02

why is cheney stalling?

posted 20:52 - id:9320676

i'm helping my dad get a website setup for deford bailey, the musician he wrote a book about. it's really rough right now but coming together. this morning i got a chuckle when i open a letter from him and found printouts of ten different websites.

last night i went out to the bar with hee and jeff from my work. we went to the pub and sub, it was a real trip because i hadn't been there since i was 18 or so. we hungout talking to some lamo sorority girls for a couple of hours and then went up to the flowing tide. jeff is some kind of regular there, all the waitresses knew him by name. i met this really cool girl who works at java jungle and i ran into some people that i hadn't seen in a while. played a little pool with shawndor (i have no idea if that's how he spells his name) and talked to kelsey tannor. she's got a kid and husband now and strangely enough is looking a whole lot hotter than when we were in high school together. i got way too drunk and the guy who was going to give me a ride home got too drunk to and gave me 10 bucks for a cab. i woke up with my shoes on this morning, needless to say it wasn't a pleasant day.

posted 14:01 - id:9311145

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