memorial day

May 29, 2006 at 9:49 pm · Filed under entropy, america

Pedro Vera posts about Memorial Day.

Every year I am subjected to a creepy custom. There are certain people that forget the meaning of specific holidays in this country, to them a holiday means a long weekend, food, maybe a party, and bullshit e-mail greeting cards. Read the full post.

His full post is about Memorial Day, but it is applicable to the way Americans celebrate a number of other (all?) holidays as well.

How do beers and barbecues memorialize those who have given their lives in service of this country?

What really does the resurrection of Christ have to do with bunnies delivering candy to kids?

Does it make Jesus happy that we spend absurd amounts of money for his ‘birthday’?

Without an effort to remember why one celebrates, it is easy to forget why one celebrates.
Entropy increases. Be careful.

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same song. same dance. intro to idc.

May 29, 2006 at 9:19 pm · Filed under 2008 elections, web 2.0, idc, politics

I had a bunch of words typed about unity08.com. It is a quasi-party using the intarwebs (I hope they got the web 2.0 memo) to influence the election/get someone elected. Fortunately, I remembered that idc, selected those few paragraphs, and pressed delete. Life is easier with this philosophy.

idc, it’s like nihilism, but not exhausting at all.

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undernet ethnography

May 21, 2006 at 9:16 am · Filed under irc, school

I began writing this ethnography of the undernet IRC network on Monday, June 13, 2005, 10:12:34 PM and finished just over two hours later. This effort was made to complete an assignment that was due on June 14, 2005.

I was thinking about this the other day and decided to share.

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