It’s a few minutes shy of midnight, just barely hanging on to Friday night. I’ve had a few tasitas de Don Julio and feel like rambling so bear with me.
Four of the past six books I’ve read have been by Don DeLillo. A constant theme through them all is the limit of human capability. How [...]

While I intended to spend most of this morning sending out resumes and looking through job sites, instead I burned through about 4 hours at the La Jolla Public Library looking through articles on Photo Album programs. After about the first hour I narrowed my choices down to Adobe Photo Album, Picasa, and Exifer.
They each [...]

… is progressivism. Call this an aboslutism versus relativism redux. I didn’t intend to get into this mess again. I didn’t intend to post my thoughts on the movie Los Diarios Motocicletas. I didn’t intend to talk about utopias or ideals or equality or nihilism. That’s Abogado’s department.
But in the end I lost. The impetus [...]

…is long and painful. Most of us have been raised on values and beliefs, consciously or not, that compel us to act in accordance with tenets of morality and purpose. But what happens when we lose our faith? What happens when those values no longer mean anything? What can we fall back on to satisfy [...]

Via Culture Kitchen via Daily Texican.

Dear Reader,
Please read a blog of someone living in Iraq, a place that you’ve never been to but still haunts you everyday.
Monday, October 25, 2004
American Elections 2004…
Warning- the following post is an open letter of sorts to Americans.
So elections are being held in America. We’re watching curiously here. Previously, Iraqis didn’t really take a very [...]

In making a website you can separate content from design. I wish the same were true with people.
This blog uses CSS stylesheets – sets of rules that define how content should be presented. You can test it out by clicking here. See? Same content but different design. What’s important though is that the exact same [...]

So here’s my idea for a documentary. Consider it The Yes Men meets The Motorcycle Diaries meets You Shall Know our Velocity. I’m going to get a job at Starbucks and work there for two or three months. I’ll be the model employee and offer advice as to how – using ethically questionable tactics – [...]

That question has been circulating around my head for a long while and lately I’ve been finding more and more evidence that the answer is probably yes.