Year: 2007

5:18 pm-Again, before leaving for home-off Monday. Last night-dinner, kids bed, dinner, bed. Salem is getting a cold. Boys went to the Dr’s-colds, otherwise OK. Up today, work, mySpace contact with an old music collaborator at the studio, libriVox recordings. Time to go home.

Listening to: Schubert, U2, Morcheeba, Randi Rhodes, DN!

Page 25, Sentence 5 (p23 was a title page…): “”I don’t talk to journalists anymore,” says the strained voice at the other end of the phone.” The Shock Doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism

5:16 pm-Jam this in before going home. Busy working on icons, icons, icons. For several dev teams. Plus the not work stuff. I added Google AdSense here. Hope it helps some. Yesterday-dinner, bed-Matt had trouble getting to sleep. Up this morning, to work, lunch, here. Updating things.

Bhutto got killed-no big surprise-sad, though. Still listening to lib radio-I skipped to 12/19…

Listening to: SRV, Alaistair Galbraith, Portishead, Gordon Hempton, Byrne interviews, Radiohead, Rhodes, DN!, Hartmann, Rhodes, Fiona Apple, Polyphonic Spree, Jeff Harrington

5:23 pm-Getting ready to leave. Been at home since last week-Christmas and all. So, recapping. I have no idea what I did last week-shopping for Christmas, work, school, t’ai chi. Cleaned up the house for simplicity, kid’s concert, Erika’s mom and my parents came down. Kids had a great Christmas. Back to work-I’m tired.

Listening to: Fripp, DN!, Hartmann, Rhodes, Byrne interviews

In an effort to combat the endless blather about celebrities, I present Story Corps.

Basically they go around the country recording people’s stories. This is a cool thing-they say “listening is an act of love”
Good for them.

3:47 pm-I’ve been neglecting this-posting the political stuff over at mySpace… OK.

Listening to: DN!, Thom Hartmann, Randi Rhodes

I’m spreading this around. In a world that doesn’t give much to be hopeful about,
here are a few books that will spread a little of it. Enjoy

Jonathan Schell
The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People

Aung San Suu Kyi
The Voice of Hope

Adam Hochschild
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves

Charles Wilkinson
Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations

Richard Walker
The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area

Alan Weisman
The World Without Us

William Morris
News from Nowhere

News from Nowhere Collective
We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anticapitalism

Marina Sitrin
Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina

Subcommandante Insurgente Marcos
The Speed of Dreams: Selected Writings 2001-2007

Peter Linebaugh
The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All

Jonathan Isham and Sissel Waage, editors (introduction Bill McKibben)
Ignition: What You Can Do to Fight Global Warming and Spark a Movement

Listening to: Burroughs, Thom Hartmann, Randi Rhodes, Kim John Payne, DN!

I’m SO behind-so I just heard this: “Firefighters in major cities are being trained to take on a new role as lookouts for terrorism, raising concerns of eroding their standing as American icons and infringing on people’s privacy.”

And this is the bad part: “they are told to be alert for a person who is hostile, uncooperative or expressing hate or discontent with the United States”
DISCONTENT????? Aargh! If you’re not discontent with what’s going on in America, you’re not paying attention!

They’re looking at books-ooooo-thoughtcrime.

The Senate 1959 and House 1955 are similar bills in this same area (they’re calling them the “ThoughtCrime” bills) The House bill passed, the Senate one is in but nothing has happened yet. I read it and it seems SO innocuous. Those are the worst kinds. Just like the Patriot Act.

There’s an omnibus spending bill coming up for a vote in the house tomorrow.

We need to call and get them to stop the nuclear energy part of it.

Mukasey has blocked a probe into the CIA tape destruction thing.

And Trent Lott has quit to evade a ban on lobbying.

Turkey is bombing Kurds.

Not to mention the Senate giving immunity to telecom companies for wiretaps and letting the White House spy on us.

What messes we’ve created. And this is just a sampling. call, Call, CALL your representatives-we need to take action.

Listening to: Burroughs, Thom Hartmann, Randi Rhodes, DN, Thom Hartmann, Burroughs

Page 23, Sentence 5: “We need much better solutions, and the only way that will happen is if millions of people take on the pieces of the puzzle and try creating their own version.” Worldchanging

In addition to the Kucinich bill, Robert Wexler (D-FL), who’s on the House Judiciary Committee, is calling for hearings.

Please visit here and sign the petition.

Also here, here, here, and here. And call your representatives too.

Do you think the momentum is growing? I didn’t even begin to list all of them. Google cheney impeachment petition.

Let’s kick them out of office. Now. The hearings will be huge, big ratings. Just like the Watergate ones and the Monicagate ones.

We all need to watch C-SPAN all the time. The more we see of how our government works the better. Get active!

4:51 pm-I need to toss this in-prolly won’t get another chance. Working through the many icons-the dev person likes what I’ve done so far. OK. mySpace is updated, Journey School is almost updated, need to finish Lassu updates. There’s a big project there too. One other project is moribund.

Recap: Tues-work, pick up the kids, home, Erika came home late. Weds-kids to school, work, Erika had to go to Long Beach, pick up kids early, home. Thurs-to school, t’ai chi-I let the kids run around some and they were more manageable with motivation, meeting, work-I was late for a school thing and Erika was pissed. Concert, IHOP, home, kids up late. Today-sleep in, shower, kids stayed home, work, lunch.

The baby is growing, fat and really cute. I shaved today, I prefer to wear hats when I go out. How mundane is that? I’m thinking about more topics for music. I enjoy drinking tea in the afternoon. Erika is listening to a thing about simplicity and wants me to too. OK. I’ve been there for a long time now, I have simplicity lists. The question is: how much of our stuff do we get rid of? We’ll see…

Listening to: Burroughs, Thom Hartmann, NAIS lecture, Randi Rhodes, DN!

Listening to: Tom Tom Club, Randi Rhodes

Page 23, Sentence 5: “Those it did acquire, like Alberto, were often formidably serious.” Spook Country

10:11 am-Sitting in a meeting, again. Whoopee-I was late, because of t’ai chi. Anyways. Last night-work, home, kids to bed, Erika shop, dinner, bed. It’s been cold. Up late, late to school, t’ai chi-the kids were not interested and passing kids distracted them. I got irritated and gave up. Erika went to Long Beach to be with her mom during surgery.

Listening to: Tom Tom Club

2:06 pm-In a meeting, waiting for things to get started-connection issues. The Recap: Friday-Erika felt sick, but regained herself to go to the pajama party/potluck/book fair. One of the 7th graders loves Salem. Sat.-cleaning, went to a friend’s to help her with computer stuff, Erika and kids went to a Christmas “party”, they were bored and came to see me, Ruby’s afterwards. Sunday-no church, more cleaning, I smashed my thumb taking out the trash and Erika made me go to the doctor’s-thumb is fine, got a tetanus shot. Starbuck’s, Home Goods, Ralph’s, Goodwill, Fresh and Easy, home, Salem was barfing a lot. Up late today, kids too-we got to school pretty much ontime, though. To work, work, lunch, this meeting. Colin melted down at school-he wasn’t allowed to go to a Christmas shopping thing. It took 3! people to hold him down…

Not much else-working through lib radio archives. Rainy on and off this weekend. Two church shootings, and a mall shooting last week. Snow in the local mountains. Erika’s mom is going in for thyroid surgery-cancer. Connected with Diane Guettler on Facebook. She’s engaged. Voyager 2 is past the termination shock. The CIA destroyed some interrogation tapes. Australia got a more liberal prime minister-looks like the trend given the shrub’s popularity slide. I have no idea what the Annapolis meeting meant, other than a photo op. The Canadian pig farmer murderer got convicted.

I enjoy the FaceBook and mySpace stuff-updating my status, easy blogging, books and albums and movies and restaurants. It would be nice to connect with people of like mind-one of the promises of the ‘net was to link with people in affinity groups-making that bit smoother is one of the things that needs to happen. Usenet, bulletin boards, the we’ll, mailing lists, etc. Most of us have multiple interest areas, and having all that stuff in one place would be nice, making it trivially easy is crucial. The same thing applies to sign-ons, storage, profiles, etc. I want to only have one sign-on to any website, one profile with all my stuff, one place to go for my files, music, everything. A terabyte sized thumbnail drive might be the optimal solution. You could store your OS, apps, and everything else and take it to any machine.

Listening to: Police, Thom Hartmann, Randi Rhodes, DN!