Archive for March, 2004
::SIGH:: the sequel
Monday, March 29th, 2004Red Bull does a body good. And its commercials are hott.
Tonight brings a 4-page paper and studying for an exam in the morning. I would not say that I have poor time management skills because I am too busy to procrastinate. My problem is that I’m in too much demand and I’m a perfectionist.
::sigh::
Monday, March 29th, 2004It’s 5:30 AM. I’m still working on my Honors paper.
Links
Saturday, March 27th, 2004Slashdot: World’s Largest Scale Model Solar System?
News.com.com.com: House letter: Windows issue ‘not a concern’ for EU
What it really meant to say was: As members of the House International Relations Committee, the United States feels that since its Justice Department was impotent in dealing with Microsoft, the EU should not try to rape Microsoft in the same way the corporation rapes the industry. We like imperialism here in America and we will write letters to anyone in order to let U.S. corporations rule your governments in the same way the corporations rule our government.
BBC News: Broad approval for Microsoft fine
Consumer groups have applauded the European Commission’s decision to hit Microsoft with a 497million euro fine and force it to disclose software secrets.
Wired News: iPods Beat in Heart of the CityIn a similar vein, there are several ads offering services in exchange for an iPod. A cute 19-year-old says,
I need $100 to buy an iPod and I’m horny. Simple as that.
MacMinute: Mac OS X turns three
Bush Introduces Homo Alert System
Web Cam
Saturday, March 27th, 2004
The Alpha Male
Saturday, March 27th, 2004I finished the first day of shooting for The Sacred Covenant of the Wingman around eight. Now, I’m listening to the LiveWire: Rewired and in the chatroom. Good times like old times.
Sunday is going to be rough. I have to finish the 10 page draft of my Honors research paper.
Urban Legends About Girls and the Women Who Rewrite Them
Friday, March 26th, 2004As part of HERstory Month, I attended this event tonight. Just wow. Seren Divine and the SisterHoodExpression Collective were incredible. To quote the flier, They are women spoken-word artists from the New England area who aren’t afraid of dirty words like feminist.
Granted, many feminists piss me off. But this was different. These were women just proud to be themselves without having to fight the man, not because they couldn’t, but because being themselves is so much more important.
An audience participation game ended the event. The game was called Wouldn’t It Be Cool and involved anyone yelling out what would be cool to a drum beat. I think the game was more group therapy than anything else. A few of my favorites: Wouldn’t it be cool if the administration of the school would listen and give straight answers instead of flashing me a pretty smile and avoiding the questions? (Asked out of frustration with the school administration’s handling of professor contract negotiations.) Wouldn’t it be cool if we could all smoke outside the Little Building? (Asked in humor and hate for the people who smoke in front of the entrance to Emerson’s main building.) Wouldn’t it be cool if we didn’t have to fight to love whomever we wanted? (Asked out of frustration with the Massachusetts Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage.) Wouldn’t it be cool when there was no need for Herstory Month?
And mine: Wouldn’t it be cool if people of my faith would love like Jesus taught instead of discriminating? (Asked out of frustration with people of my own faith who forget Galatians 5:14.)
That’d be cool.
Artificial Pork
Friday, March 26th, 2004Why must Emerson’s security staff be asses? Is it that they are bored of making $$$ an hour to do nothing but sit and read magazines at desks throughout campus? Is it that their skill set is limited to swiping student identification cards after 6 PM? Is it that they are embittered as they watch a bunch of rich
white kids get a college education that they lack?
The incompetency that started this story was the loss of the EVVY office key. I am putting the final preparations on New Media Night and some intelligent being loses the only key to the office. I have $6 in my bank account. I cannot afford to be making all of the calls necessary on my cell phone. Calls should be made from the EVVY office. Forunately, my phone access code works anywhere in campus, but I did not know where an on-campus phone was located outside of the EVVY office. So I ask the security guard in the Little Building. He tells me that there are two upstairs but I cannot go upstairs because I am not a student. His keen judgement helped him make this observation. Apparently I pay thousands of dollars to not be a student. He smugly demands that I show him my student identification card when I tell him that I am student. I could have just walked up the staircase. It would have taken him a good thirty seconds to get from behind his security desk and catch me, not that he would be motivated enough to actually chase a potential security threat. Anyhoo, I make my calls in the echo chamber outside the dining hall.
But that was yesterday. This morning, I left my dorm 45-minutes early to make follow-up calls from the EVVY office. Surely the key would have been found by now. But as I get into the elevator, the elevator refuses to go to the 10th floor. I step out of the elevator, slightly bewildered, and ask the security guard why the 10th floor was not accessible. He immediately assumes that I am a terrorist. The expected demanding of my student identification card and close suspicious inspection ensues. He asks me what my business is wanting to be on the 10th floor. I tell him that I work for the EVVY Awards. He searches his list. I don’t see no EVVY Awards on my approved list,
he refutes. Strange. I could have sworn they had an office on the 10th floor. Ass. I later find out that the 10th floor does not open until noon. How much more difficult would telling me this information have been instead of verbally frisking me?
On the bright side, I did confirm two more speakers and get official rejection from Adobe after my honors classes.
Fun Stats
Thursday, March 25th, 2004A small sampling of JeremiahLee.com:
- Approximately 305 unique visitors a day via web browsers
- Macintosh users represent 41.8% of my daily web browser traffic. Linux users account for 1%. Windows for 35.1%.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer is used by 31.4% of my daily web browser traffic. However, the much more elite 35.1% use Safari or Mozilla (7.4%) or Firebird (.2%) or Opera (.1%).
- Most people spend less than 15 minutes on my site per visit, however, 12.8% spend 30-60 minutes on each visit. People, people… get a life.
- Most people access my site between 3 PM and midnight.
- Appropriately 310 unique subscribers to my XML feeds.
- Approximately 180 people are subscribed (consistent IP when checking for updates at least once every 3 hours) to my RSS feed.
- Approximately 130 people are subscribed to my Atom feed. This is most interesting since I just added the Atom feed a week ago. I prefer Atom XML myself (not that I am subscribed to my own site).
- NetNewsWire is the most popular aggregator of the XML feeds.
- Variations of my name comprise 45% of my search engine referrals and almost all of the searches are through Google.
Presidential Dinner
Thursday, March 25th, 2004President Bush lands in Boston and suddenly, the evil storm clouds come out and taught me with rain on this beautiful Spring day. Coincidence? I think not. From the Emerson E-Campus:
Due to a visit by President Bush at the Park Plaza Hotel today/tonight, traffic in the immediate area of Emerson College will be severely impacted. Scheduled Street closings are: Arlington Street between Boylston St and Marginal Rd – 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM. Park Plaza from Charles Street South to St. James Ave. 2:00 – 9:00 PM Columbus Ave. between Berkeley and Charles St. South 2:00 – 9:00 PM Stuart St. between Berkeley and Charles St. South. 2:00 – 9:00 PM St. James Ave between Arlington And Berkeley Streets 2:00 – 9:00 PM In addition to the above, changing conditions regarding the Presidents security could result in additional closings that cannot be forewarned. The resulting traffic diversions will severely impact on the schools ability to maintain a bus schedule. Students should plan accordingly.
Smoking is bad for you because it annoys me.
Thursday, March 25th, 2004With Spring in my steps, I inhaled the first strong smell of warm weather.
And then I gaged on the plume of cancer tars being exhaled outside of the Little Building.
