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About Me

i grew up in a quiet and unassuming corner of the third world , still i'm ethnically challenged . i love the city , though los angeles ain't exactly the template . i like new york , and i like san francisco . i hate hate hate suburbia , sprawl , SUVs , indoor malls , vast parking lots , 20 ft front yards , asphalt shingles and windows flush with the exterior . i love music , perhaps like no one you know . every now and then i futz about with garage band . i think a lot like a green , but i vote democrat . i like art . sometimes i'll doodle with eyes closed and see what i can salvage with eyes open . i like thrift stores . i like coffee houses (but i'm off caffeine now) . i like reading . i like color and i like abstract images , and sometimes i make some .
i do empathy . i don't do religion . i like it every four years when the world cup comes around . i'm for thinking , feeling , loving . i don't do belief . i like yoga - the body likes it when the mind shuts up . i like food . i love bread , cheese , olive oil . i like technology . i like macs . i like the web . i like rain , i like green . i have it in my head that i want to adopt an ethiopian child , or something . i don't mind cold . i think more clearly after 4 . i like evenings ... my background is in architecture . the last five years i've been working mostly on low income housing - perhaps i like to feel useful , these days (what a difference a decade makes) .
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I'd like to meet:

* georges bataille . ok , maybe not , he was probably a freak . ok , you're right , he was french , too
* someone who speaks a language understood by less than a million people (you're cool)
* someone who'll keep interrupting with something about deleuze when i'm talking bataille (and you wonder why i talk about de landa instead)

My Blog

making a police state

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has officially declined to launch an inquiry into the behavior of US telephone companies after September 11. Extensive news reports have claimed that AT&T, BellSouth (now par...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:14:00 GMT

taking on bill g

For more than two years, a large group of engineers at Google has been working in secret on a mobile phone project. [...] Google wants to extend its dominance of online advertising to the mobile Inter...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:18:00 GMT

the cuban health experiment

The latest figures from the United Nations show Cubans have slightly longer life expectancy that Americans do. They do have free universal health care down there. But a new study suggests it may be po...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:06:00 GMT

the iPod works in mysterious ways

So on Regan's birthday, her mom drove her to the second Target. Inside, they explained what had happened and asked whether they could open the box before making the purchase. An employee said they wou...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:24:00 GMT

the great ZFS controversy

Sneeringly implying that HFS+ is sufficient. Sure, HFS+ administration is simple, but it's also inflexible. It locks you into what I call the "big floppy" model of storage. This only gets more and mor...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:49:00 GMT

the view from the other side

Some even less informed articles rant on about Vista's high memory useevidence of masses of bloat, they say, when in reality it's little more than Microsoft's SuperFetch memory system in action. Comp...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:03:00 GMT

so-called democracy

More surprising than these eruptions of republican sentiment, however, has been the ferocity with which the Spanish government has sought to suppress them. Within hours after the Jueves cartoon was pu...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 23:40:00 GMT

exhuming the past

Not long after he took office in March 2004, Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero created a commission charged with the treacherous task of figuring out a way for Spain to come to terms...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 22:38:00 GMT

controling your own destiny

Ecuador plans to propose to oil companies a new type of contract in which the state would keep all the crude produced and pay firms a service fee to extract it, President Rafael Correa said on Saturda...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:50:00 GMT

colonialism dies hard

A senior member of the Basque separatist movement said Spain's government had effectively declared war by arresting most of his outlawed party's leadership while thousands demonstrated Saturday to dem...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:46:00 GMT