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sanJose++ today for having a simply wonderful sunset, wish i had watched more of it tonight
i realized today that i've paid over $3000 in taxes this summer... that almost makes me sad, but then i realize that i'm earning money in SJ that will likely be spent in PGH, which somehow makes me feel slightly better
on the brighter side, i've now worked for both the Man and Science and i can safely say it was worth finding out how they function, if only to keep me from ever working for either again
current goal is to try and figure out what to do next summer, i want to save-the-world somehow, but i'm not sure how. maybe some hydrogen-economy firm needs a cs-person? i can only hope
i talked with my sister this weekend... found out a lot of things about my family that i couldn't have even imagined (not good things necessarily)... but somehow it still doesn't phase me. it makes me remember coming home the night of prom to find two policemen in my kitchen, they told me my grandma had died, all i could say [and felt] was 'oh, thanks, well, i have to go to prom now'.
i decided to put down Alternatives to Globalization for a bit while i read Silent Spring... it seems like it's going to be a quick read, and maybe because it deals with pesticides, it somehow pacifies me more than angers me... i still feel like crying when i realize that absolutely everything is tainted with poison, it's funny how symbolic the polution of breast milk is [and yet how sad]
on friday i went to see manufactured landscapes with my sister Edward Burtynsky was there, and he talked a little about the movie and why he decided to make it. it reminded me a lot of Baraka, but the imagery was far more shocking and thought provoking. i'm really hoping China doesn't crash, but i simply can't see them fulfilling the reckless goals set before them. I remember hearing about them planning to divert rivers to supply Beijing's ailing water systems, does anyone know if that's still going to happen?
anoushka shankar was simply amazing on sunday, i can't remember ever being moved so much by music... am looking forward to daft punk on friday, and especially to tiesto on saturday. i've never heard him live before, but i feel like he's simply phenomenal as an artist
i realized today that i've paid over $3000 in taxes this summer... that almost makes me sad, but then i realize that i'm earning money in SJ that will likely be spent in PGH, which somehow makes me feel slightly better
on the brighter side, i've now worked for both the Man and Science and i can safely say it was worth finding out how they function, if only to keep me from ever working for either again
current goal is to try and figure out what to do next summer, i want to save-the-world somehow, but i'm not sure how. maybe some hydrogen-economy firm needs a cs-person? i can only hope
i talked with my sister this weekend... found out a lot of things about my family that i couldn't have even imagined (not good things necessarily)... but somehow it still doesn't phase me. it makes me remember coming home the night of prom to find two policemen in my kitchen, they told me my grandma had died, all i could say [and felt] was 'oh, thanks, well, i have to go to prom now'.
i decided to put down Alternatives to Globalization for a bit while i read Silent Spring... it seems like it's going to be a quick read, and maybe because it deals with pesticides, it somehow pacifies me more than angers me... i still feel like crying when i realize that absolutely everything is tainted with poison, it's funny how symbolic the polution of breast milk is [and yet how sad]
on friday i went to see manufactured landscapes with my sister Edward Burtynsky was there, and he talked a little about the movie and why he decided to make it. it reminded me a lot of Baraka, but the imagery was far more shocking and thought provoking. i'm really hoping China doesn't crash, but i simply can't see them fulfilling the reckless goals set before them. I remember hearing about them planning to divert rivers to supply Beijing's ailing water systems, does anyone know if that's still going to happen?
anoushka shankar was simply amazing on sunday, i can't remember ever being moved so much by music... am looking forward to daft punk on friday, and especially to tiesto on saturday. i've never heard him live before, but i feel like he's simply phenomenal as an artist