Friday, June 28, 2002
decent link, for the time being
William Saletan's Slate article on the effect of the Supreme Court school voucher decision.
Thursday, June 27, 2002
scientists and engineers
A lot of people don't seem to get the difference between scientists and engineers. This quote seems to capture a little bit of that difference: "He believes Everglades restoration is on a path to failure -- because it's led by engineers instead of scientists, it's a multipurpose water project instead of a clear restoration project and it tightens human control of nature instead of letting nature heal itself." (from the Washington Post series on the Everglades restoration project)
Another good quote from the series: "'[The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Project] isn't brain surgery,' Appelbaum likes to say. 'It's much more complicated.'"
pretty good quote
The best thing for being sad...is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake listening to the disorder in your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then—to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.
(from T.H. White, The Once and Future King)
Wednesday, June 26, 2002
hmmm
I have no idea how I ended up being such a social-calendared person. I really don't think of myself as one, yet there are always these different events to go to. This is so different from my last year in Memphis, which was incredibly nonsocial. Though, given that I was living with my parents, this shouldn't be so surprising.
scratches
I bought a new home for my iguana yesterday. While moving him from one cage to another, I got covered with scratches. So now I have to wear long sleeves for awhile, because although I think the scratches look lovely, I'm sure other people would be freaked out. Sigh. It's hot.
Tuesday, June 25, 2002
applying some of the thoughts from watchtower v. village of stratton, 536 u.s. ____
So I'm pretty psyched about the outcome of this case, right? One of the things the Court does is reemphasize the rationale for viewing the First Amendment as protecting the rights of speakers to remain anonymous. As the Court stated, "The decision to favor anonymity may be motivated by fear of economic or official retaliation, by concern about social ostracism, or merely be a desire to preserve as much of one's privacy as possible." Slip Op. 14-15 (citing another decision, McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Comm'n, 514 U.S. at 341-342).
I totally agree that these are valid reasons to want to engage in anonymous speech, and I'm completely psyched that there are people out there who do assert their rights to remain anonymous.
At the same time, though, the Court recognized the rights of the listener to choose not to listen. "[I]t seems clear that Section 107 of the ordinance, which provides for the posting of 'No Solicitation' signs and which is not challenged in this case, coupled with the resident's unquestioned right to refuse to engage in conversation with unwelcome visitors, provides ample protection for the unwilling listener." Slip Op. at 17 (emphasis added).
That right of refusal is what I've decided to exercise here. My page--this page--is kind of like my home in many ways. I try to make it pretty not for the viewers but for me. I store a lot of information here, my web-presence is here, all that. I even bought the domain name thinking that chances are I won't own a real physical home in quite a long time. And yeah, I view the comments (mostly from friends, but some anonymous, some pseudonymous) as a sort of hybrid between visitors to and graffiti in my home.
I've been tolerant of anonymous posts because I was interested in seeing how comment systems work. And for the most part, it works fine--certainly it helps for keeping in touch with friends, and even for meeting some new people with similar interests.
But I don't like the anonymity and pseudonymity, much as I like and respect people's right to assert it, because it means I can't interact with those people except through this page, which would end up distorting my preferred role for this page. Thus from now on, I'm asking people to leave their email addresses, or some form of valid contact information, when they post comments. If they don't, then I might delete the comment. And, what with me being just a person and not the government or anything, I might even do so arbitrarily and capriciously, based on the whims of whether or not I happen to be annoyed.
I do, however, believe in providing notice. Hence this post.
whee!
Some spare time. Closing cases! Moving case files out of my office! Ooooh!
quote
"A novel is a mirror carried down the middle of a road." (Stendhal)
Friday, June 21, 2002
oh yes
I heart Tammy Ealom.
weird
In this movie, Bad Company, Anthony Hopkins's character has some romantic thing going on with the character of Brooke Smith. The weird thing is that Brooke Smith played the kidnapped girl in Silence of the Lambs. I bet the actrons got a kick out of that.
Wednesday, June 19, 2002
underground
I want to go here. It reminds me of college.
changing comments systems
I've moved on to enetation, a blog-comment system with many more features, such as being able to design my own comment template and being able to delete comments.
This means all the old comments have been wiped out. Sorry.
Tuesday, June 18, 2002
whoa
A Scientific American article entitled A Way with Words: Do languages help mold the way we think? (I play around with these ideas in that thing I'm writing, so this article amuses me to no end.)
Monday, June 17, 2002
oh man
I have to admit, I'm a regular Slate reader, despite its MSN connections. I started because I so liked Today's Papers, which summarizes the news stories from five major newspapers. I'm a busy gal, you know. So I'm sad about the recent diving death of Scott Shuger, who founded that column. Wow.
Wednesday, June 12, 2002
it's up
My first fan site, hopefully not too creepy.
Tuesday, June 11, 2002
wow
Larry Thompson, our Deputy Attorney General, is going to speak at our Department of Justice pride celebration. I'm actually impressed.
Update: The Washington Post now has an article on it.
Monday, June 10, 2002
more on the politicality (or non) of blogs
here.
If you only count blogs, then I am relatively new, starting only a month before the warbloggers. But my webjournaling has been going on since, egad, 95 or 96 or so. Wish I'd kept track of the date, but there ya go. So my approach to it is still more old-school (that is, with its inward bent) than new. And yeah, I guess to that extent it feels a little bit like someone crashed my party. And livejournal and metafilter make me feel like there are all these other parties going on that I don't even really know about.
Ah, but there's never the time...
omg
puffyamiyumi in DC. Sooooooo excited.
Meeyoosic, everysing is mee-yoo-sic! Bash! Boom! Crash!
for now
Something about my Boston weekend soon. Well, maybe not that soon, because I've got a bunch of work to do. For now, some Julio Cortazar, because he says everything I've always wanted to say:
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What does Van Gogh care for your admiration? What he wanted was your complicity, the effort to see as he saw, with eyes scorched by a Heraclitean fire. When Saint-Exupery sensed that to love is not to gaze into each other's eyes but to gather together in the same direction, he went beyond the love of a couple, because all true love goes beyond the couple; and I spit in the face of anyone who comes to tell me he loves Michaelangelo or e.e. cummings without showing that at least once, in one extreme moment, he knew that love, he was the other, he looked in the same direction with him rather than merely at him, and he learned to see with him into the infinite opening that waits and beckons.
----
from "Morelliana Forever," in Around the Day in Eighty Worlds, by Julio Cortazar
Friday, June 07, 2002
oh wow
I want.
bye bye!
Off for the weekend. Cambridge. Ten-year college reunion. Whoo. Names off the attendee list I recognize and like: Derrick, Ben, Ona. Mursaleena and Jill sound familiar, too, but I don't remember so well. Wow, is that all? Well, it's not like it's the longest list of attendees (around 100 out of our class of over a thousand. But that's MIT for ya.) It'll be amusing anyway--I know enough people in the town (including other MIT alums from my year who happen to be skipping the reunion.)
Thursday, June 06, 2002
why i love my roommate
Because she, too, loves the gross-out film.
mmm
Finally made it to the Chaos drag king show. The video of the act to "Personal Jesus" gave me the chills. The act for "Kiss the Girl" (set on a Metro train) was hilarious. Whoever did Michael Jackson in Billy Jean looked like a young John Cusack. Loved Johnny Kat. Oh, and talked to some girl Beth from Vassar who runs a mag called Squirm.
Tuesday, June 04, 2002
birding
We went birding! Oh yes we did. And it was fun and relaxing. Grackles, herons, egrets, geese, swallows, killdeer--all in purty colors. So cute! On the nonbird side, muskrats and a beaver and more frogs and turtles than we could count! I could see going again, if someone gave me a ride.
Afterwards, Polynesian drinks at some tiki place called Honolulu.
Monday, June 03, 2002
hmm
Dntel sounds pretty awesome.
reminder to myself
Pastoral electronica sounds pretty swell.
a line that sticks out
From this article on eating disorders: "Stephanie Rose's illness had such a strong 'personality' that she named it 'Ed.'"
Feels like a Lorrie Moore story, doesn't it?
Sunday, June 02, 2002
hunh
I know, I'm about to be oblique, but hey--did that just happen? If so, go them. But what is the etiquette in those situations?
The stuff I will talk about: I am amazed that Trader Joe's does not hold the same allure for me as it once did. I bought stuff, sure, but not nearly so much as I would've, once upon a time. Food does not hold for me the novelty that it once did.
The free concert was pretty good, though not amazing. G Love and Special Sauce were fun to dance to and all that, but the others weren't much to speak of. And the silly Jimmy Hendrixey rendition of the Star Spangled Banner, by some Baltimore band called something Colors, was lame. Oh, but it was fun to watch that girl hit on the policeman. She really did use almost every trick in the book besides pouring water down her chest. Oh, and there was that other cop, who had the Emperor's March as his cell phone ringer, an ironic cop, how funny. Oh, the other really random cool thing is that I ran into Stacy, whom I hadn't seen since graduation! She just happened to be down here for the weekend.
Beer and desserts and snackey things after. A gorgeous spot outside Gordon Biersch, watching the pretty and not so pretty people walk past.
Afterwards, some interesting events on the mall (in front of the Capitol building, which is just beautiful at 3am in the morning). Me, I was just an observer. But ohmygod, it makes me so happy! Not awful voyeuristic happy, but wonderful glad-two-great-people-have-hooked-up happy!
Happy!
Saturday, June 01, 2002
this is going to drive me crazy
I've just started reading 53 Days, by Georges Perec, which I found at a used bookstore. First of all, what I've read so far is really good. Second of all, it's a weird postmodern detective story. Third of all (and this is why it's going to drive me crazy), Perec died in the middle of writing this, leaving nothing but notes for the rest of it. You see the problem. Why am I torturing myself like this? Beats me.
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