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Weekly Wrapup #75 – Saving Your Life

1. Describe how much you agree or disagree with the idea that journals and blogs are a way to “save” your life?
   I think it depends very much on the blog. I’ve read some blogs that are VERY much that – opportunities to chronicle someone’s life… Others are opportunites to provide others with information and less personal.. And some are a little of both. I think the thing that journals have over blogs is journals are much more private and I’d be much more inclined to document EVERYTHING of importance in my life if others weren’t reading it. As it stands I censor myself because I know the people I might write about could possibly read it.

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Friday Five

1. Name five things in your refrigerator:
   Anchor Steam Beer, Chocolate Syrup and Maraschino Cherries from Sundays we had last night, Curry Catsup from the German Deli in Noe Valley, and Milk for my Morning Cereal.

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Unconscious Mutterings – Week 37

I say … and you think … ?

1. Country:: Bumkin
2. G:: Rated
3. Offer:: Recieve
4. Connection:: Broken
5. Quest:: Johnny
6. Lighthouse:: North Carolina
7. Sycamore:: Climbing
8. Inhumane:: Dog Kennel
9. Sneer:: Snarl
10. Weapon:: Mass Destruction

( whats this? Look here )

Self Respect

I just found this while reading the Southern California Law Blog:

FIJI Faces Hazing Lawsuit

Before anyone smacks me – I KNOW that this is an exception not the rule and that not all greek houses do this. probably just a very small percentage these days and probably even fewer that do it on this scale. But JEEEEZZZZ. I think a house that pulls this kind of shit should NEVER be let back on campus and that the members responsible be held PERSONALLY accountable. But my real question is what personal issues are going on here that would cause an individual to go through ALL of that before just telling the the actives to piss off. Is joining that house really worth that kind of humiliation and abuse? A little self respect goes a long way and keeps ya out of some bad situations..

On Joy and Trauma

This morning while I was waiting for my shower water water to heat up I was leafing through a book I just bought called “A Patriot’s Handbook”. The book was put together by Caroline Kenedy and is an interesting collection of speeches, poems, and songs that represent interesting and important points in American History – everything from Dr. Martin Luthor King’s “I have a Dream” speech to excerpts from “The Grapes of Wrath” to the words to “Brother Can you Spare a Dime”. Leafing through this sparked my mind wandering to some of the important and memorable things that have happened in my life and the vivid memory I have of where I was and what I was doing when important things happened to me and around me.

(read on if you care/dare)
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It just keeps coming

So Apple’s got yet MORE fun stuff… For you windows folks that were feeling left out:

iTunes for Windows

And for you OS Junkies:

Mac OS X Panther available October 24th

And for you bean counters:

Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
… the Company posted a net profit of $44 million, or $.12 per diluted share ….

What really kills me is with ALL of this Apple Stock went DOWN today… The stock market can just eat my shorts…