June 2006 Archives
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
Or in this case, the eye of the owner. Last night E and I were suppose to go see Neko Case perform at Bimbo's 365. I left work, walked to the bus, and as I was crossing the street, the wind picked up. Next thing I knew I had something stuck in my eye. I tried all the usual tricks on the two bus rides home - blinking a lot, rubbing, pulling my eyelid over the lower lid. Nothing worked. I even tried looking into the side mirror of a parked truck while I waited for the 19 bus to
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
This time it was an article from CNN's sister site, Money.com: "The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times reported that the records were examined under a series of broad U.S. subpoenas, with the Times reporting that Treasury officials did not seek individual court-approved warrants or subpoenas to examine specific transactions. "Public dissemination of our sources and methods of fighting terrorists not only harms national security, but also degrades the government's efforts to prevent terrorist activity in the future," he said. "If there are people sending money to help al Qaeda, then we need to know about it. We
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
I feel like I've been talking to everyone I see about sf0. It's about time I mention it here. E and I have started playing a game called San Francisco Zero. It's an online game that you play in real life. It's fun, addictive, cool, and E and I are both jealous that they thought of it first (though thank goodness they did 'cause it's just so much dang fun). The basic idea is that as a player in the game, you have certain tasks that you must accomplish. The tasks vary from the innocent (upload a photo of your
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"Police don't have to knock on residence doors before barging in to seize evidence, the Supreme Court decided Thursday. A warrant's good enough to get them in. The justices' 5-4 split was a victory for President Bush's new high court appointees and signaled the body's conservative shift following the departure of moderate Sandra Day O'Connor. Earlier rulings found such action would have been running afoul of the U.S. Constitution." Full story I don't even know where to begin with this one. ARUGH!!!! Isn't there someway to stop it? At this rate we aren't going to last until 2008. USA sitting
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
I just read an article at CNN. "Two high school seniors picked quotations from Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" to appear under their high school yearbook pictures, prompting school officials to apologize. The quotes were picked by Christopher Koulermos and Philip Compton, both 18. Koulermos' read "Strength lies not in defense, but in attack." Compton chose "The great masses of people ... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."" Full text here. This article makes me mad. Very mad. Yes, Hitler was an evil man that did way more harm than most people
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This is a recording of the birds in my backyard singing. This is for an sf0 task (I'm having trouble with their file upload, hense the posting here). Recording of birds singing (mp3: 117 kb)
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
Usually I reserve these kind of things to just posting on LiveJournal, but this one was interesting enough that I thought I'd post it here. Your Linguistic Profile:: 45% General American English30% Yankee 10% Dixie 10% Upper Midwestern0% Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak? This should not surprise anyone. You can take the girl out of New England...
