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Requiem for a Dell
07.03.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Requiem for a DellMy laptop has died and gone to computer heaven. All emails, calendar items, and address books have been lost. (Fortunately, ‘My Documents’ was backed up. And I can do without the mp3s.) It will be rebuilt from the inside out Monday afternoon: system board, processor, CD-ROM and memory. Yikes. Until then, blogging will be light. […]
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My green credentials
07.03.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on My green credentialsFor what it’s worth, in response to a (cut-and-pasted) comment to my interest in Howard Dean, here are my Green Party credentials, for what it’s worth. (The occasion was Nader-ween.)
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Oh my, irony!
07.01.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Oh my, irony!This weekend the wife made Bisquick pancakes, as she’s won to do on weekend afternoons. Upon returning from the kitchen I said, “Everything’s better with Blue Bonnet on it.” Now what — if anything — is ironic in my statement above? Perhaps I’m being sincere, and attempts to assign irony only smack of cynicism. (I […]
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Dear underpants gnomes,
06.30.03 | Permalink | 3 CommentsTo the underpants gnomes who took my Randolph Bourne reader, Please give it back. Sincerely, chutney
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So is it important to think?
06.27.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on So is it important to think?Arete provides a helpful Foucault quote on the relationship between social critique and social transformation. And so I offer this Foucault quote, drawn from his lecture notes, with perhaps a nod to Aristotle: Thought is the form of action.
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On the way back from Mt. Sinai
06.27.03 | Permalink | 5 CommentsThe Happy Tutor asks, “In the name of what does one speak against the golden calf?” From the burning bush, Moses’s god sent him to lead a liberation armed with a name: Yhwh. One translation of Yhwh is “I am who I am,” which translated yet again turns out to mean, “Shut up. My name […]
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