I’ve been wanting to write for so long but I’ve been so busy. This past weekend felt so incredibly long because so many changes happened. I’ll get into it all gradually. To start, the concert was awesome! Our tickets had said “zz” on them so we figured, “oh, we’re way in the back.”...
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Apparently, like millions of other Americans, you spend an inordinate amount of time getting your information about the world in the form of one-sided opinion delivered by marginally educated conservative entertainers who pose as journalists. These hucksters fill the media with their jaundiced,...
Ramblings of the Mad Greece, 400 B.C. Modern politics, our education system and much of today’s society is a outgrowth of a philosophy that can be directly traced to the Greek philosophers Aristotle and Plato, both of whom were students of Socrates during the 4th Century B.C. Fundamentally...
Terms Used by Narratology and Film TheoryFollow this link to original page (at University of Purdue) AAnalepsis and Prolepsis: What is commonly referred to in film as "flashback" and "flashforward." In other words, these are ways in which a narrative's discourse re-order's a given story: by...
Some effects of white guilt. For those of us who dare to face real reality. I urge you to read the following and pass it along. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Takuan Seiyo - Postcard from Zinnlandia I am on the MAX Red Line light rail car going from...
For the uninitiated, “sitrep” is a military communications abbreviation for “situation report.” This, then, is a situation report concerning the United States of America, as observed and reconnoitered during seventy-two years of living here, serving in its military, and having survived...
I think my human centric philosophy can best be summed up by the humanist position. Wikipedia describes it thus: Humanism is a democratic and ethical life stance, which affirms that human beings have the right and responsibility to give meaning and shape to their own lives. It stands for the...
State Sanctioned I swipe my hand past the scanner. The mechanized box-- plugged into the wall, the wall into a grid, the grid into the network-- lights up from black. White light shines on my hand and a spinning gear whirs. With a click, the door opens. My door. To my house. Mine and everyone...
The illusion of choice is something we value so very much. It doesn't matter if there isn't really one, so long we think we have one. Mom's been really into Korean dramas lately, for some reason. I think it has something to do with Jewel In The Palace, that epic period drama series about Dae Jang...
For nearly 30 years, Janis Winehouse was plagued with illness, but refused to acknowledge the mysterious symptoms that appeared from nowhere then vanished. Then, seven years ago, she suffered a total collapse and after a barrage of tests was finally diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. By her own...
Lec #1 Introduction With the arrival of what we now refer to as the Age of Reason, humanity was expected to apply its powers of analysis and logic to understand the world in all its complexity. It was therefore the most natural thing for the young discipline of cultural anthropology in the 19th...
It is often said in Business parlance that ‘Change is the only constant’. With rapid changes in business environment, customer desires, technology and organization structures and strategies, the need for organizations to constantly innovate has become of paramount importance. What is innovation?...
It's Friday night and a few buddies gather at one of their apartments. They throw a poker table top with green felt on top of a round dining room table. They got all the supplies in hand: plastic chips consisting of three colors(red, white, and blue), a deck of cards, and a dealer button. The fridge...
So there's this weird guy at our local park. He comes there almost every day with this 90-year-old lady (I'm guessing that's her age) in a wheelchair and he pushes her around slowly, walking on the sidewalk that circles the playground, then moving back in the nature-walk area. I used to talk to him,...
Originally published at Highly Ticked in a High Tech World. You can comment here or there. Michelle sees the boys horsing around. Tony embraces Maxxie as he smokes. The intimacy is too much for her and she walks up and socks him. Jal asks Tony what he's done this time. Nobody knows. Jal runs after...
A couple things: I was reading a magazine called Psychology Today and I stumbled upon something quite interesting about meself. The article starts by mentioning a guy named Tom Hodgkinson who created a magazine called The Idler. He's basically a guy who loaths the normal lifestyle of being a...
A life of lonliness Feels like its been a century All the implications Cant shake it if even for a day Not allowed the luxury of self anything A walking shell of an existence When you know to much to live without intrusion And dont know enough to remove yourself from harm Breathing becomes a burdon...
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shit happens. while I just copy & paste a full list of everybody knows shit happens into another blog of chinese version facebook..and then typed a paragraph in vox..but after copying the definiation of deja vu back into this input box it got stuck, what I've written has all gone. Okay, never mind....
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