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This will be Thread 3 of the S3summit
17 May 2008|03:06pm
[ mood | :) awake ]
[ music | The Beatles - Rain ]
I just need a static link so I can update/link to it. (More details to come here)website on wscsd
official website
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(Previous post is too big) S3 Summit Thread 2
16 May 2008|02:10am
[ mood | :z exhausted ]
[ music | REM - It's the end of the world as I know it ]
(thread 1)
Where did my week go?
To one of the most wonderful experiences of my life, that's where
Today I actually made my class (woo hoo), and quickly sprinted (with food in hand) to the Connexus Centre for presentations of photos, posters and a few words from(what I now recognize as) the lovely president of Oikos. (I also helped her install ClamAV on her mac, which seemed to work ok for the most part).
Meka(regina), the s3 organizer has really done an amazing job. Between him, his wife, marie(utokyo), and the 2 or 3 other members of their community, they've created an international success, and have moved us all further towards international peace, prosperity and sustained peace and prosperity.
I finally "broke through" with (both of the) kosovans(sp?). Something about them just radiated unhappiness to not only my obviously biased and mal-functioning perspective, but also another one of the delegates (originally from Tehran). But once in conversation we found that she wasn't really unhappy at us; the whole thing was a cultural thing that we just were misreading. Inside they are both sweet, intelligent young ladies, who have just as much enjoyment out of a deep conversation on social issues as we did.
It's striking how different the result of my telling (not-marie?) about my sterility, compared to the delegate from india. In uTokyo culture, my activity would be weird and perhaps uniquely western, but at least it seems to make sense. In the culture of (christian?) new delhi, it's a deep act of incivillity, a mistake in the eyes of god, etc etc. Fascinating.
I spent quite abit of time with Mai(Thailand), today. Sometimes there weren't words; only admiration.
I taught almost a dozen people how to play pool; Not that I'm all that good, but everyone seemed to enjoy it. The music was too loud, so we often found ourselves outside; the smokers smoking, the drinkers drinking, and everyone discussing the issues of the day in broken and drunken english in the cool mist of newborn night.
I wish I could remember everyone's name, and country, but I just can't. There's too many for such a short time. I'm getting decent with faces, and events/history, but I'm confusing people with eachother still.
( The green party just sent me a 'news' email today, so I responded with this: )
In closing(while I try to figure out how I'm going to find pants for tomorrow, and go to sleep), I'd like to say that although money is always an issue, it seems, at least I have somewhere to celebrate, all over the world, for my birthday. From kenya to delhi, from tokyo to rural thailand; I am a citizen of the world, and a friend of the world. It is with a heavy heart that I face the problems of tomorrow, but it's also with a newfound conviction that the problems of tomorrow are surmountable.
And to top it all off, I have a job offer that may rival the tarsands. We'll see about that one though.
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Student Sustainability Summit S3 Regina 2008
13 May 2008|06:28am
[ mood | :| ]
[ music | Laurie Anderson - Big Science ]
I've been selected to be a delegate for the University of Regina Science Department at the 2008 Student Sustainability Summit. This is the first time this event has been hosted in Canada, and there aren't many people from Canada who are attending.
( the events )
( Day 2 I am exhausted already, and there's lot's left. )
( Day 3: Dialogue, and Eco-Farming, and a Detour )
Thread 2
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Jeff: Posterchild of Canadian Sovereignty and Legal Marijuana
11 May 2008|05:34pm
[ mood | :) happy ]
[ music | Lords of Acid - Marijuana in My Brain ]
Jeff as Peaceful Protester made the prairie dog, a local Regina paper.
I Made page 1. There is a large picture of me and an article containing quotations from me.
One correction: Technically, Marc Emery is not going to prison for *life* but the length of his prison stay is immaterial to the cause. He should not be imprisoned, period. Any capitulation to the States on that issue is a loss of sovereignty.
That and marijuana should definitely be legal, just like oranges, coffee and sugar should be legal. (I can tell the reporter didn't follow my logic on this one, because it is not in the article).
The point is though, that there's going to be thousands of people in Regina who will encounter the pro-marijuana march last week(since they weren't there) as it was portrayed by me, as a conservatively dressed square-like authority figure. I know it's illogical to appeal to authority but sometimes you have to do so to get your point across. I'm hoping that this approach will be marginally more successful than the standard dreadlocks-and-tool-T-shirt pothead's approach.
We'll need all the help we can get.
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Librarything Meme
05 May 2008|06:52am
[ mood | :z zzzz ]
[ music | Sean Kennedy - Brainwashing #20 ]
Memery contracted from the [LJ]the_iron_troll
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Not really news, but I passed CS327
01 May 2008|07:40am
[ mood | :/ groggy ]
[ music | DarkMateria - the picard song ]
With an 85%. This is perhaps my best mark in any class so far(can't tell--my transcripts are locked until I pay the university some money). Granted, I think the marker for the class was playing WoW or something, because the mark distribution is screwy, but I think I earned something at least *near* this mark. This means that today I will stroll down to campus and try to sign up for a summer reading class in audio pattern recognition or something.
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30 Apr 2008|10:05am
[ mood | too much liquid!!!! ]
[ music | Sean Kennedy - Radio ]
A Protest in regina Against marijuana prohibition; May 3rd. I`ll post more details as I get `em! But it`s not just in regina -- It`s happening all over the world. It might be a good idea to come out and get all your local potheads to show up in support. Again, Saturday May 3rd 2008
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Finished Winter Semester 2008!
23 Apr 2008|01:07pm
[ mood | :Delusions of Godlike Grandeur ]
[ music | Apoptygma Berzerk - Eclipse ]
Summary of today
1) It was very long. Lots of coffee, lots of theorems.
2) I *passed* Astronomy 101, with a 70%. Not bad, it's enough to qualify me for Ast202, where I suspect I'll clean up.
3) Our CS327 project went well. Very well. Not perfect, by any stretch, but really only one known bug(!) in a massive tangled heirarchical sphagetti-code mess, and it performs very accurately. And despite it's appearances it is modular.
4) Our presentation was a bomb. Of 3 Laptops/computers available, none of them would work to the point where we could even run our program, nevermind test it. We ended up presenting in the closet in front of the prof, which should be ok, although not great.
5) Otherwise the class went *extremely* well. Learned lots, read lots, kept up with a grad student more or less, and really did accomplish something with my program. I suspect I may very well have qualified for the summer class, although I may not qualify after all for the ICMC trip(I bet the table group will get that).
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