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People, in general, seem unsatisfied with their social lives. They are bored with doing the same old thing. This is true of my friends and me. So, tonight, in a somewhat irrational decision, we drove two and a half hours to see Steve play with his band at a tiny venue in […]

“Dust of Snow”
The way a crowShook down on meThe dust of snowFrom a hemlock treeHas given my heartA change of moodAnd saved some partOf a day I had rued.
�0�5Robert Frost

The Dead ProtesterA protester was shot dead after throwing a fire extinguisher at a police van at the G8 summit in Genoa, Italy (pictures, article, discussion).From the leftist perspective of the protesters, this incident is further evidence that the Group of 8, “the riches seven countries and Russia”, are tyrants. For them, it proves that […]

The Streets of San FrancicoThe San Francisco Project has launched. Over spring break, I went on a road trip with three friends around California. We spent two days at Donny’s (my future apartment mate’s) house in San Francisco. The San Francisco Project began when I walked around downtown, spontaneously taking photographs.

Degrees of Separation RevisitedI now know Rahat. Rahat knows Elisha and David.Small world,eh?

Degrees of SeparationHi, from State College, PA. I’m having a fun time with Elisha and her boyfriend, Adam. Adam and I have one degree of separation because we both know Elisha. We also are connected by two degrees of separation by two other paths.Adam met Jesse Struck, a Northwesten student, at a […]

Today, I’m going to Penn State to visit Elisha.
Also, my good friend Ari just got a weblog: NewBornGiraffe.com. The name comes from the nickname we gave him in high school. This summer, Ari is doing biology research and taking Greek at Cornell. Ari is a quirky guy, but he’s also really smart, […]

Yea America!Today, we give pause to honor those things we hold dear in our collective national consciousness, while happily thinking that we have a collective national consciousness; things such as Freedom, Privacy, and the American Way. Let us remember our independence from functional federal programs.
But what we are most thankful for is our outstanding […]

Ahh…One of life’s little joys is the zen-like serenity one finds while watching one’s hard disk defragment. Only a computer, with its infinitesimal consciousness, can truly arrange all that it knows into defragmented sectors of information.
Hmm. Never mind.

Did you hear that?I thought I heard something.It was probably nothing.
This is a whimsical post following my more serious and introspective post. But perhaps I�0�9ll wax contemplative�0�7
Here�0�9s a quote from Kubrick�0�9s Full Metal Jacket:
COLONEL Marine, what is that button on your body armor?
JOKER A peace symbol, sir.
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COLONEL What is that you’ve got written on your […]

Happily ever afterVirtually ever story ends with �0�8happily ever after�0�9. These happily ending stories shape many of our real-life hopes and dreams. Don�0�9t you want to have a tumultuous relationship, full of poignant irony, with your significant other, then realize you truly love him or her and live happily ever after? Or maybe you have […]