Cyclone Fund!
Friday, May 16, 2008 - 9:30:23 am PST
Posted by :: Aaron
I wanted to take a quick second and give everyone a super thanks for their donations to the Burma Cyclone Nargis fund. We alone raised $500 and all told we pulled in just under $2,000! That shit is amazing, and it will go a long way once we get it across the border. Hsan's uncle works for the UNHCR inside Burma, and here was his message back to all of us:
I am really appreciate all you and your friends effort for the donation. This is noble job for you and all donators...I want to repeat job job As Well done, well done and well done.
We'll be getting updates about where the money is going, and I'll be passing them along here. Again, thanks so much everyone! Every little bit of your generosity helped!
Here's a link I saw today, and eyewitness account in English of what's going on in Burma.
I met with a guy yesterday from Bogale which was the most destroyed area. He had seen a sea of dead people in the river, no water to drink and no food to eat. Many families were killed and there were children bodies all over. People started to have affected diarrhea.
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Roll That Up In Your Bigotry And Smoke It!
Friday, May 16, 2008 - 8:06:26 am PST
Posted by :: Aaron
Yeah, we rule. Now all we have to do is beat their little referendum, and freedom will have won another victory against the tyrants, and self-serving proponents of bigotry and hatred.
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Seen/Haven't Seen
Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 7:15:46 am PDT
Posted by :: Aaron
Things I've Seen This Week:
Cats shitting in our garden.
Three inch layer of dust in a 5 year old computer.
The process of capping one's own Ethernet cables.
A cursing tug-of-war between a shopkeeper and a shoplifter ending in a foot chase.
A yelling, near fist fight on MUNI.
A baby's first language, "Bababababa".
A San Francisco heatwave.85 95 100 degrees, oh noes!
A Mac Daddy playa, drunk in the early hours of morning, getting shot down on MUNI by a married 29 year old Latina.
Things I've Not Seen This Week:
The inside of the gym.
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It Was A Lot Like Legos
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 8:29:54 pm PST
Posted by :: Aaron
So I just kept doing it. See what I made.
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Burma Fund Reminder, Weird/Interesting Shit
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 7:27:12 am PDT
Posted by :: Aaron
Hsan will be sending the money on the 15th. I've had a lot of people get in touch with me off line, and at this point we're still taking donations. If you want to send me a note pledging some cash, feel free to do so and I will front it if your money doesn't arrive in time. Super thanks to everyone who already put up some cash, it's awesome to see some of the good parts of humanity come out in tragedy. Are you confused about what's going on? Check out this entry.
Weird shit of the day:
A blog dedicated to photos of father's and their children's heads swapped. Seriously.
A song made entirely of Call of Duty 4 weapon sounds.
Things younger than John McCain.
Interesting stuff:
A new book coming out about closeted homosexuality in rap music.
The last bit is an article from the New York Times on the recent indictment of General Vang Pao, who led our Hmong Laotian allies against the North Vietnamese during the war. Pao is being tried on trumped up terrorism charges for continuing the fight which is simply the last in a long line of betrayals by our government toward the Hmong. It's amazing that anyone will be our allies at this point. Modern history of Laos. Hmong people who live almost silently among us, most of them from simple hunter/gatherer animist stock, ripped from their homes because of our war.
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Surprise, Obama Has Experience AND Character
Monday, May 12, 2008 - 10:22:37 am PST
Posted by :: Aaron
A good article on some of Obama's legislative achievements.
Consider a bill into which Obama clearly put his heart and soul. The problem he wanted to address was that too many confessions, rather than being voluntary, were coerced -- by beating the daylights out of the accused.
Obama proposed requiring that interrogations and confessions be videotaped.
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Linoleum Knife!
Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 9:17:37 pm PST
Posted by :: Aaron
If they put this in front of every movie, I would actually go to the theater.
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River Of Gods
Friday, May 09, 2008 - 12:26:42 pm PST
Posted by :: Aaron
If you like Sci-Fi even a little bit, you should read River of Gods
. I finished it last night...WOW. It's a sprint to the finish, full of nutered humans, outlaw AI's, Krishna Cops, photo journalists, assassinations, philosophy, and on to the creation of the Universe.
Also, support Burma.
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Friday, May 16, 2008 - 9:30:23 am PST
Posted by :: Aaron
I wanted to take a quick second and give everyone a super thanks for their donations to the Burma Cyclone Nargis fund. We alone raised $500 and all told we pulled in just under $2,000! That shit is amazing, and it will go a long way once we get it across the border. Hsan's uncle works for the UNHCR inside Burma, and here was his message back to all of us:
I am really appreciate all you and your friends effort for the donation. This is noble job for you and all donators...I want to repeat job job As Well done, well done and well done.
We'll be getting updates about where the money is going, and I'll be passing them along here. Again, thanks so much everyone! Every little bit of your generosity helped!
Here's a link I saw today, and eyewitness account in English of what's going on in Burma.
I met with a guy yesterday from Bogale which was the most destroyed area. He had seen a sea of dead people in the river, no water to drink and no food to eat. Many families were killed and there were children bodies all over. People started to have affected diarrhea.
Comments - [0] Permanent link
Roll That Up In Your Bigotry And Smoke It!
Friday, May 16, 2008 - 8:06:26 am PST
Posted by :: Aaron
Yeah, we rule. Now all we have to do is beat their little referendum, and freedom will have won another victory against the tyrants, and self-serving proponents of bigotry and hatred.
Comments - [0] Permanent link
Seen/Haven't Seen
Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 7:15:46 am PDT
Posted by :: Aaron
Things I've Seen This Week:
Cats shitting in our garden.
Three inch layer of dust in a 5 year old computer.
The process of capping one's own Ethernet cables.
A cursing tug-of-war between a shopkeeper and a shoplifter ending in a foot chase.
A yelling, near fist fight on MUNI.
A baby's first language, "Bababababa".
A San Francisco heatwave.
A Mac Daddy playa, drunk in the early hours of morning, getting shot down on MUNI by a married 29 year old Latina.
Things I've Not Seen This Week:
The inside of the gym.
Comments - [0] Permanent link
It Was A Lot Like Legos
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 8:29:54 pm PST
Posted by :: Aaron
So I just kept doing it. See what I made.
Comments - [2] Permanent link
Burma Fund Reminder, Weird/Interesting Shit
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 7:27:12 am PDT
Posted by :: Aaron
Hsan will be sending the money on the 15th. I've had a lot of people get in touch with me off line, and at this point we're still taking donations. If you want to send me a note pledging some cash, feel free to do so and I will front it if your money doesn't arrive in time. Super thanks to everyone who already put up some cash, it's awesome to see some of the good parts of humanity come out in tragedy. Are you confused about what's going on? Check out this entry.
Weird shit of the day:
A blog dedicated to photos of father's and their children's heads swapped. Seriously.
A song made entirely of Call of Duty 4 weapon sounds.
Things younger than John McCain.
Interesting stuff:
A new book coming out about closeted homosexuality in rap music.
The last bit is an article from the New York Times on the recent indictment of General Vang Pao, who led our Hmong Laotian allies against the North Vietnamese during the war. Pao is being tried on trumped up terrorism charges for continuing the fight which is simply the last in a long line of betrayals by our government toward the Hmong. It's amazing that anyone will be our allies at this point. Modern history of Laos. Hmong people who live almost silently among us, most of them from simple hunter/gatherer animist stock, ripped from their homes because of our war.
Comments - [0] Permanent link
Surprise, Obama Has Experience AND Character
Monday, May 12, 2008 - 10:22:37 am PST
Posted by :: Aaron
A good article on some of Obama's legislative achievements.
Consider a bill into which Obama clearly put his heart and soul. The problem he wanted to address was that too many confessions, rather than being voluntary, were coerced -- by beating the daylights out of the accused.
Obama proposed requiring that interrogations and confessions be videotaped.
Comments - [0] Permanent link
Linoleum Knife!
Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 9:17:37 pm PST
Posted by :: Aaron
If they put this in front of every movie, I would actually go to the theater.
Comments - [0] Permanent link
River Of Gods
Friday, May 09, 2008 - 12:26:42 pm PST
Posted by :: Aaron
If you like Sci-Fi even a little bit, you should read River of Gods
. I finished it last night...WOW. It's a sprint to the finish, full of nutered humans, outlaw AI's, Krishna Cops, photo journalists, assassinations, philosophy, and on to the creation of the Universe.Also, support Burma.
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