Monthly Archives: June 2010
May 2003: True Talent is Hard to Hide
It was the 2nd month at the awful place where I copied CDs and paper documents. There was a Windows web application that needed some fixing. It was a silly encoding issue which I identified pretty quickly. After that fix … Continue reading
April 2003: Alienation
It’s ironic that the month I lose all my real life college friends, and then some, I get an invite to Friendster: “It’s hotter than yam…. cooler than icb. Check it out. How are you? What’s up? Do you still … Continue reading
March 2003: Iraq Invasion and Friends Lost
If you’ve wondered why I don’t hang out with friends from my alma mater, UC Santa Cruz (or rather why they don’t hang out with me), the Iraq War and the disagreements with alumni is why. I won’t recant my … Continue reading
February 2003: Nothing Like the Coast
Nothing like the coast To tie the land and the sea, To manage the soil’s daily greed… To greet the pounding the sounding The rush, crush, crash and fall for every wave. Far away from the coast There is no … Continue reading
January 2003: Who stops partying after New Year’s Eve?
The first weeks of 2003 are a blur to me. We didn’t stop partying for quite a few weeks. This was a party invite typical of the time because not everybody was using Evite yet: Friends, A VERY happy new … Continue reading
December 2002: Reductionism is Monochromatic
I wrote this in my journal on Christmas: ‘Hegel is more poet than philosopher. He calls reductionism thought that “culminates in a style of painting that is absolutely monochromatic.” (Phenomenology of Spirit, 31) Reductionism has lifeless determinations, but the universe … Continue reading
November 2002: Opera
Music: Die Meistersinger Book: Aristotle’s Ethics The first opera I saw was not my favorite opera. I was hoping to get some sort of ecstatic experience out of it, but the whole time I was listening to “Die Meistersinger” in … Continue reading
October 2002: Planning for Travel
Reverse culture shock hit me. I was so happy to be back home, but now I was starting to see things I didn’t like. Unemployment sucked, especially since I didn’t qualify for any. Also, the wonderful social life I was … Continue reading
September 2002: 10 Year Critical Mass Anniversary
Things that happened in September of 2002: The 10 year anniversary of Critical Mass 1 year after 9/11 Benjamin Hollander reads his “film noir” poem, “Levinas and the Police,” on the 22nd. I don’t recall exactly what the turn of … Continue reading
August 2002: A Mentor Dies
It was really hard for me to right this one. It was a busy month. I started dating again. I started working again doing Perl work for $15 an hour. Yes, the web industry crashed that bad. A mentor of … Continue reading