Survived!

   I am done, I have survived! My power is still out so I'm huddled in the cold and dark, but somehow I'm survived. A friend didn't recognize me in the library the other day, she explained it with "oh, you look like a grad student now!" d=

(1) THIS is the most brilliant research you will come across. No excuses, you will follow that link asap.

(2) Beetlebeat brought an interesting news item to my attention. UC Berkeley police cited a protestor who had been sitting in a tree to protest its planned removal -- for leaving the tree! "Earlier today, RunningWolf repeatedly 'kept coming up and down and in and out of the tree,' [UCPD Sgt. Lou Milani] said. The officers told him that he was subject to arrest, saying, 'If your cause is important, you need to stay up there,' Milani said."
   This reminds me of the time a few years ago some guy in Davis went on a hunger strike to demand the name of Sutter Place --the street that essentially is only the driveway into the Sutter Hospital-- be changed. It shortly made front-page news that he had been seen eating. He even came to an ASUCD Senate meeting to explain himself, giving us such brilliant insights into human biology as "if I hadn't eaten I would have died!" What he failed to understand is that the point of a hunger strike is that one's opponents should be deeply impressed with your willingness to put your life on the line, and feel a sense of urgency and responsibility in that if they do not capitulate you will die -- if they know you're just gonna make a fuss and slink off to munch on something its completely pointless.

(3) Slander the Salamander - An absolutely brilliant Encyclopedia Dramatica entry!


   Party on Saturday!


   If someone has room in their refridgerator, I need to evacuate mine so that everything doesn't go bad before we get power again on Monday )=