various

Filed under:re-blog tidbits, technology, news and politics — posted by nathaniel on 30 April 2003 @ 11:24 pm

If you ever read one edition of The
Note,
read today’s. The archives are here,
and the date to which I am referring is, obviously, above (if you don’t see this
blog and follow through immediately). Lots of stuff about my favorite primary
dude, Dean.
And my latest bit of advice: if you do not have a Mac,
get one. If you are not running OS
X,
do so. Once you are there, GET
SAFARI.
It is the best and fastest browser I have ever worked with. Fan-bloody-tastic.
That’s it for today. I’m exhausted. Lecturing to art grad students on Object Oriented
Programming, and then trying to deal with South Africa’s horrible (but only) telecommunications
company can do that to, well, anyone…


truthout

Filed under:news and politics — posted by nathaniel on 29 April 2003 @ 5:08 pm

OOOOH! AAAAH! Wonderful Op-Ed about Bush’s support of Senator Santorum, written by none other than my fave Dem hopeful, Howard Dean!


derridean logic

Filed under:re-blog tidbits, art, news and politics, art and tech, uncategorical — posted by nathaniel on @ 4:51 pm

I spent several hours at the studio this morning, working on my lecture for tomorrow
(and still have a ways to go). My wife and I have had many conversations about
how thinking actually happens in writing and speaking, rather than before it,
as many people assume. Granted, this is a very structuralist/post-structuralist
idea, but there is some truth to it. You know how they say that the best way to
learn something is to teach it? I’ve never understand pseudocode for programming
multimedia art better :)
But I can’t resist, and I digress to the primaries. My father seems to think that
Lieberman is a good choice,
and it makes me feel all gross inside. Sigh. Why is it that a man with a Masters
Degree, who has been teaching at a University for several decades, is completely
unaware of all the other candidates? It’s not his fault. It’s the ever elusive,
but always present, "media."
Again, I have to thank The
Note
today, this time, for starting The
Notepad
- a "please submit your statement to the true left in under 200
words" for all nominee hopefuls’ campaigns. Check
it.

Some of those candidates *might* be better than I thought. But I doubt it. The
real find of the day? This
Blog
(finally! nathaniel
stern
has featured a blog that was not taken directly from the blogger
main page!).


X

Filed under:technology, uncategorical — posted by nathaniel on 28 April 2003 @ 11:25 pm

too much going on and i am super beat. quickly: finally upgraded to OS X and i am loving it (though having issues installing/getting all the software i need). nicole, my better half, is working feverishly on a paper she is meant to give as part of a conference on AIDS (the conference, and her topic, are much more complex than that, obviously, but my brain is struggling to keep up with her) on may 6th; it will also be a chapter in her long-awaited dissertation, and i am more than thrilled to see her writing it again… i must get to work on a four hour lecture i have to give to 12 artists on object oriented programming on wednesday, for the digital media MA at Wits (there should be a link to the University of the Witwatersrand below somewhere; i am feeling lazy just now). gonna relate it all to Macromedia Director, but want them to understand the basics of high-level programming before they get started. it really does make it easier “to make things happen” in the long run. just ask Dan O’Sullivan.
don’t you just love scott westerfeld’s writing?


can americans do irony?

Filed under:pop culture, news and politics — posted by nathaniel on 27 April 2003 @ 1:40 pm

As CNN begins to look more and
more like Fox news (whose
CEO is none other than Bush’s cousin), I’m beginning to think there has
to be some irony in all of this. I mean, they can’t actually expect the American
people to buy into this crap, right? And even if they do, do we really have that
much selective amnesia about recent history/politics? Unless other Americans are
either laughing, or as angry, as I am (it seems most aren’t), I guess we do.
Here’s
an article
about Ties
between Iraq and al Qaeda.
It claims to have found a document, in some Iraqi
headquarters, that had bin Laden’s name on it, which means he may have been at
a meeting with their "intelligence people." Interesting. Now, how does
this compare to the fact the US trained, and put in power, both Hussein and bin
Laden? How does it compare to the actual PICTURES we have of our leaders meeting
with them (including Rumsfeld)? There’re pictures of us training them, too. This
is common knowledge; why do we ignore it so liberally when pointing blame? In
the US public eye this
new "amazing find"
is going to justify the war (which was supposedly
for Weapons of Mass Destruction no one is yet to see), and yet it won’t stop the
US from making the same mistakes again - training and putting in a leader that
will help its short-term goals (the new world order) and hurt them (and more importantly,
the Iraqi people) in the long run.
"We have seen a dictator defy the world, and we have seen a coalition of
free nations give its answer," Bush is quoted saying in this
article. Bush, and most Americans that support him, believe he is talking about
Hussein. The rest of the world believes Bush is the dictator defying them.
Bush believes he is the leader of free nations, giving answer, and winning. The
rest of the world sees itself giving answer to Bush, and losing. So, which is
it?


joey is republican

Filed under:pop culture, news and politics — posted by nathaniel on 26 April 2003 @ 12:00 pm

This is too funny.
I’ve been posting this
link
for Joseph Lieberman’s presidential campaign. This
is his real site,
and that
one is a parody. The funniest bit is that the politics look the same to me…
Thanks to whoever is in charge at www.joseph2004.org! You made my day.


all polly tykes all the time

Filed under:news and politics — posted by nathaniel on @ 11:49 am

Referenced from The
Note,
check out The
Bush Chronology
(pdf document - need acrobat reader). Biased but not opinionated,
and all too true, timeline of Dubyah’s Doings.
I’m feeling better today, thanks to Dr. Charmers (not a pun; that’s really my
doctor’s - fitting - name!).
Here’s
a well-versed, and unfortunately dead-on, article about Bush Jr’s advantages over
his father - why he’ll likely get reelected where daddy failed.
Haven’t had a chance to take pix of some great new work from the studio yet, which
I am thinking of adding to The
Blair Bush Project
. This week, I hope. You’ll like it.
Super-duper big ups to Howard
Dean
this week! I was wondering if he would play up, or play down, his civil
unions law (giving the same rights to gay partnerships as straight, married couples
in Vermont) in his race for the presidency. This
article
explains it all - his actions, and responses from most other hopefuls.
I’m hoping the gay vote (and usual non-voters who might make it out to the polls
just for Dean) will balance
out the backlash of Republicans’ votes against equal rights. Honestly, I doubt
it, but Dean moved up
yet another notch in my book. Regardless of whether or not they balance, Dean
has lately been looked at as someone whose campaign is lost with "Mr. Hussein"
now out of the picture, since his antiwar stance was what put him in the spotlight
in the first place. The anniversary of his signing the civil unions law, in direct
contrast to Senator
Rick Santorum’s recent remarks
(can you believe this guy? What a Neanderthal!),
is getting him back in the press. "I want my country back!"
Juxtapose something arty here, to contrast with politics.
My take: the only way to beat Bush in the 2004 election is to put him up against
a solid Democrat (Dean,
Edwards or Kucinich).
Then we’ll get some voters out. The problem: most Dems that go to the primaries,
which decide which Dem is going to be on the bill, are fairly moderate, and will
likely put a more middle-based Dem against Bush (like Kerry
or Lieberman). Mark my
words, they’re gonna lose. And besides, they suck.
Enjoy your weekend!


bug fix

Filed under:technology — posted by nathaniel on 25 April 2003 @ 6:02 pm

correction and apology
It was internet explorer, and not a blogger
template error, that was disallowing the resize on my blog frame(mentioned below).
I found a bug fix, and the page is now "all good." SO, I can still,
in very good conscience, highly recommend blogger
for all your daily posting needs. I am, however, still having email
issues.


i hate them

Filed under:technology — posted by nathaniel on @ 5:53 pm

today, technology is not my friend.
first off, blogger is totally
acting up; they weirded up my weblog template so that this frame is not resizing.
I’m hoping this, too, will pass. in the meanwhile, sorry to those of you viewing
my site on small screens. this is the second time i’ve had to say "blogger
is usually great." hmmmmm…
second, the internet broke at our place in Joburg; it took me all day to get online.
and third, now that i am online, my email, which has not been answered
in days and is already as clogged as my body (getting over the flu and
a stomach virus), is refusing to download new messages into my email app.
Sigh.
Won’t
somebody please remind me why i like these bloody machines?



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