Day 40: Where is going to be the best place to live in 2050?

Yeah, I think
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Day 30: What nonfiction that you have read recently would you review/recommend?I don't read a ton of nonfiction -- I used to; I used to read lots of marxist theory and commentary... Marx, Engels, a little Lenin though his prose is boring as shit, Luxemburg, Mandel, Norman Geras, Michael Löwy, etc. But now I tend to read biographies and memoirs and ( Read more... )

What would your life be like now without the internet?That icon is me before the internet. Way before the internet. It's a good question. I don't think my students can even imagine it. I can remember it, as an adult, even. I didn't really even think about the internet much until graduate school, in 1990. So I was already twenty-four years old ( Read more... )

What skill would you like to pick up or improve in the next few years?Wait -- first, I am in Lake Geneva, for my pretty much annual visit. I have been being extraordinarily more lazy than usual, even, partly due to the sweltering heat and humidity -- though it was just grey and cool when I got here, so that wasn't my excuse then ( Read more... )

Day 15: If you could go back and correct one big mistake, would you, or are you content with where it's led you? Are the good times generally worth the bad?Hm. Big mistakes ( Read more... )

Day 14: What did you expect to be doing at this age, when you were young? How does it compare with the actuality?But first: what the fuck is wrong with Facebook? Everything is taking a bazillion years to do, look at individual pages (including my own), load more wall items, upload a photo... ugh ( Read more... )

Day 12: How can we reestablish poverty as an evil to be combated in US society?Part of me wants to say by creating a Marvel comics (or whomever; I am not an aficionado, here) superhero aimed at that, with a movie series. Convert IronMan or something; those movies are snarky enough ( Read more... )

Day 8: What behaviors do you think will kill a relationship?I don't really know. In two of my serious relationships, I did the breaking up, and in those cases, there were a lot of different things... in the second of them, I felt undervalued, misused, emotionally abused, and ... I don't know, it was so bad that the list could go on a depressingly ( Read more... )

Day 7: What do you think are the most important things to make a relationship work?First of all, this was more or less in that other meme, and I don't have anything else to say about it, really. I hope that thing I used to have well-meaning friends tell me all the time is true, that "it happens once you stop looking for it", because I am not ( Read more... )

Day 6: How is your life now different from what you expected as a child? How is it similar?I guess it depends at which point(s) I look at my expectations. When I was little I could not really imagine an adult future at all. I think I've written here before that one of the clearer memories I have of such a projection was when I was five or so and ( Read more... )