Ongoing Events

Unexcused Behaviour
   Tuesday's opinion section in the Cal Aggie had some lulz, with a guest opinion from Kai saying the Aggie blew the altercation out of proportion on one side, and an editorial from the Aggie editorial board saying Kai's behaviour was totally inappropriate ("Juvenile Behaviour Unacceptable" specifically) on the other side.
   Incidently, if Kai's editorial was supposed to be the apology he promised the Aggie he'd make, I'm not sure he ever got around to saying he was sorry. I can't double check, because for some reason it isn't on the webpage anymore, but from my recollection it was much more of a justification of his actions and an attack against all who would say otherwise than anything resembling an apology. At the very least, it smacked of attrition (regret that one was caught or punished) rather than contrition (regret because one realizes ones actions were wrong).


Court Today
   Anyway, two Court cases were filed on Monday morning. They have been designated Case 33 & Case 34. But I don't like people to get all in a dither over the very act of filing a case so I'm not going to go into any further detail on the cases until we've decided whether to accept them or not.
   Agenda for tonight's Court meeting (8pm, ASUCD Conference Rm) includes, provisionally in this order: Case 33, Case 34, Judicial Proposal 7, Other Proposal 1*, fieldtrip to Berkeley right after our meeting?, election of an Inter-Collegiate Judicial Federation Liaison, & Judicial Directive 13.
   *OP1 = the proposed change of Senate agenda item "announcement of new ASUCD Court cases and reading of prior week’s verdict(s)" to "announcement of new ASUCD Court cases and reading of prior week’s verdict(s) and Court announcements." Personally I think as long as we don't have "Controller Report & announcement of any new financial decisions" on the agenda we shouldn't have a sentence telling us exactly what to tell the Senate either. But since Internal Affairs Commission Chairman Rivera's question to me about that was only rhetorical he didn't want to hear that from me I guess, jerk. (=
   Tomorrow at Senate I will be making my farewell speech, and the Senate will be discussing JP7 & OP1 (which will both be assigned an SB# by then).

   In other news, the impeachment of Chief Justice Banerjee is scheduled for tonight down in Berkeley. As I mentioned, a bunch of us are thinking about going down. I'd like to laud Beetlebeat's excellent coverage of their Senate's antics: Vice President Gupta claims Senate can use powers constitution reserves for Court; Former Defendant Gupta Denies Conflict of Interest in Chairing Impeachment

In Other News
   After extensive research and testing, I have determined that any kind of soup tastes better with graded cheese added, and the vast majority of them also benefit from the addition of sour cream.
   On that note, my food selection has improved. When I was first released from the dorms to become a feral undergraduate student, I lived on ramen and macaroni & cheese. After like two years of that I settled on a steady diet of salami-sandwiches. Lately, however, I've been getting a selection of canned soups, & chili. Also some hot dogs which I cook in the toaster oven (boiled hotdogs are kind of a travesty). And most shocking of all, I got a big back of lettuce & some italian dressing last time I was at the store and have been devouring salad with my dinner! So long scurvy!!


Picture of the Day

   This is one of my favourite pictures. Its not recent, and in fact its buried deep in the 1,069 pictures I have on flickr now. And so, so that thtose pictures I consider "must sees" are easily accessible, I made a album of just my favourite of my pictures. And so, you should check it out asap


   Oh and there's an ASUCD election on at the moment. Vote at asucd.ucdavis.edu.