I’m still reading Mike Davis’ Late Victorian Holocausts. It’s a really amazing book, essential reading about how imperialism and colonization turned the great El Niños of the late 19th century into famines and bouts of pestilence that claimed the lives of around fifty million people. Hopefully I will gather my thoughts together to write a [...]
View This Video on You Tube “Salty tentacles shrink in the sun, But the red tide is over. The mollusks they have won.” OH NOES!!! NEKO CASE HAS JOINED FORCES WITH TEH CUTTLEFISH!!1! Seriously though, her new album Middle Cyclone is great. Highly recommended
A torrential downpour has started here, and it’s foretold that it will last all week — I’m lucky indeed to work (well, “work”) from home. Here are a couple things I’m enjoying while the storm rages outside: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 8, episode 5, “The Chain”: Zhang Er’s poetry: A Bridge Under Construction When [...]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 8: If you thought that this TV show ended after season 7 finished five years ago, you’re right. “Season 8″ is a comic book series — currently at 22 issues (or “episodes” if you prefer) and counting, though I understand it’s going to run out to around 40 altogether. I’m [...]
Back in a post before Turkey’n’Genocide Day, I mentioned Dave Fernbach’s The Spiral Path and described it as a Maoist-inspired book dealing with queer liberation. Commenting on that, Isaac wrote: So anyway, I’m curious. What’s the connection between Maoism and queer liberation? … [M]y only prior knowledge was that the maoist program promised free reeducation [...]
InField is over, and with Lauren willing to put in eight hours on the road in one day, we were able to move everything up from Santa Barbara and back to Santa Cruz by dinnertime yesterday. Just in time to read about the firebombs thrown at the home and car of UCSC researchers on Saturday [...]
So now in a slightly more serious vein, one thing I’ve come to appreciate more from my experience here at InField is the serious amount of organization and discipline that a field worker needs to bring to bear on their work — and the major investment of time you need to make in order to [...]
View This Video on You Tube Definitely one of the best Yukatek Maya rap cartoons on Youtube.
I’ve been reading up on cryptography and computer network architecture lately. The math is all over my head and I can’t claim to have a really solid grasp on even the basic concepts. But I can say with confidence that the terminology in these fields is a goldmine of excellent band names / album names, [...]
As I mentioned last week, on Thursday Lauren and I went to see Mirah at the Rio. I thought about bringing my camera but then I realized I can just let the internet be my camera. Sure enough, there was a sea of digital cameras and cameraphones snapping away all night, and they started going [...]
