Analysis

Our Perimeters Were Secured by Police in Case Rioting Broke Out

If we stepped outside of our allocated protest area, we were arrested.


Occasionally, helicopters flew low over the crowds.


I bought an organic muffin.


"Grassroots Gathering against Genetic Engineering: Resistance and Solutions to the Comodification of Life"


Soldiers trained by the United States killed 800 civilians.



They were carrying hawk kites.


The police video taped us, in case rioting broke out.

(Pictures from Saturday November 17, the School of Americas Protest in Columbus, GA. Organized by the School of Americas Watch.)

I Have Many Things On My Mind

I was walking around the campus yesterday, and I heard a girl say to her friend, "...so I just bought a bottle of whiskey and spent the night drinking by myself".  My heart skipped a beat, and I wondered if I had fallen in love.

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 A horrible, awesome proposal for future instant messaging services:

All conversations should involve at least 3 users.  When a user chooses to send an instant message to a person, the IM service will choose another user at random from their online guest list, and create a three person chat.

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Still sick.  It was fun over the weekend, but I'm getting pretty tired of it.  I stopped taking anti-flu/cold medicine; I'm pretty sure my germs will die before I do.

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In class this morning, the teacher proposed a problem in which an infinite number of guests were each assigned to an infinite number of rooms.  At a signal from the hotel's manager, each of the infinite guests was to step out of their room and shift one room to the right, leaving the first room unoccupied.  

I said, "I think I see a logical fallacy in this problem", the teacher said "yes?"  I said, "if there's an infinite amount of rooms, and the Earth only has a finite area, so wouldn't the hotel have to be in space?  And, if the hotel was in space, wouldn't the guests all asphyxiate from lack of oxygen as soon as they stepped out of their rooms?"

This approach can also be used to solve the Necktie Paradox or Monte Hall Problem.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide Trilogy makes great sick-reading.  Douglas Adam's has a brilliant sense of comic timing - interestingly, his dialogue and description have different, but equally comic, tempos.  I might start read The Golden Compass if I'm still sick tonight.

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I hate how shiny and clean modern cgi effects makes everything.  

There's a moment right before Daedalus goes to repent for sleeping with prostitutes.  He washes his face before leaving the house, and looks at bowl of soup next to a candle sitting at his family's table.  I'm reminded of that scene whenever I watch 300 or another one of those artificially clean movies.  It's interesting to compare style differences between Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly.

14 Minutes of Awesome

Nick Cave - Babe, I'm On Fire