May 2008
2 posts
Closing up this shop
Well, I got sick of Tumblr’s problems and lack of comments and e’ything, so now we’re back at the original home of the ‘Napse. Our RSS feed is back at: http://www.fbesp.org/blog/atom.xml Sorry for the confusion.
Something Real Quick
I gotta get to school, but I wanted to hip you all to yesterday’s Democracy Now!, which featured a very interesting discussion about Rev. Wright. I had a TYFST (“Thank you for saying that”) moment after reading this comment from Melissa Harris-Lacewell: [Obama] has built a national, multiracial, intergenerational coalition of men and women, working class and wealthy people. That...
April 2008
3 posts
Two Important Things About Rev. Wright's GDA...
I keep hearing the noise about Jeremiah Wright – who’s been speaking out against imperialism and racism and feeding hungry people at the Trinity United Chuch in Chicago since 1972 but only recently gotten any attention as a result of knowing Barack Obama and saying “God Damn America” – but I’ve had trouble getting more than “I like English” soundbytes.* *Ask...
Indecision is so.. how should I put it?
I’m glad everyone is so happy about me losing my close friend the XBox. Now I can blather on here about nothing. Only.. I don’t know if I want to keep using this for blathering. At first I really liked the quick and easy way of adding pictures. But the commenting jerry-rig I came up with is pretty unsatisfying. (Am I supposed to just let the comments build up forever? Or delete them...
Bill Gates is Satan
Well, you’ll be happy to know that I’ve no choice but to start blogging more regularly for the next two weeks or so. For you see, my XBox 360 has died. Yes, I have been victimized by the red ring of death. Although apparently I can still try unplugging everything and then trying it again, I don’t have much hope that this will work. So I come to my point: Bill Gates is Satan. He...
March 2008
13 posts
Another Great Teacher from a Movie Not About...
Part Two in a Series of Five: Yoda (The Empire Strikes Back) This one’s obvious, but it’s worth noting: For all of the Dooku-butt-whipping he dishes out in the prequels, Yoda is more than anything a teacher. He was Lao-Tzu and Sun-Tzu together in one. Winning wars without violence, like Hopha said in Slam. Luke is a nice archetypal student, like Daniel-San – too impatient to sit down...
A Great Teacher from a Movie Not About Classroom...
Part One in a Series of Five: Mister Miyagi (The Karate Kid) Mister Miyagi is a superb teacher because he trains his student in what he needs to know, without him knowing it. (Spoiler alert!) Daniel-San thinks he’s just waxing the car and painting the fence. He’s all like “This has nothing to do with karate! When am I ever going to need to know how to do this crap?” But...
Movin' On Up
I’m the 37th Google result for “esp”. Nifty!
Best Laid Schemes
I thought this Tumblr thing was perfect for blogging, since it automatically duplicates any linked images, and posts them to a data.tumblr.com directory. But then I realized it only does that when you post an image by itself. Grrr! So now we’re nearly back to square one – if I want to post an image within the text of my post, I have to upload it to Tumblr, then copy that URL and paste it in...
Ten Reasons XBox360 Owners Should Subscribe to...
You can virtually hang out with your friends that you don’t see often in real life. It’s actually easier to quit playing a Live game. There are no checkpoints, no game to save, no boss to kill. It’s a new chapter in video game history. See this post of mine from 2006. Dude, come on. Stop being a hoser. You can listen to angry drunk idiots threaten each other, sometimes going so...
WatchDiebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early This is actually the first Onion News Network video I’ve seen. I’m very impressed with the quality. (Though I can’t imagine why. Did I expect less from The Mighty O?)
Let's see if I can maintain a dedication to THIS...
Well, thanks a lot, Madsimian! (What should I use as your main link page? You’re all over the freakin’ place!) You’ve gotten me into yet another online .. thing. (You, meanwhile, have way too many things. Pick two or three and stick with them! Soon you’ll need a website to keep track of all the websites keeping track of the things you post to different websites.) First,...
“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
– Oscar Wilde
