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I have a paper that I am working on that demands that I use a good amount of research material from the internet and I think that cueing it here will be a good way for me to access it all. So…

I have been playing with Friendster and I don’t know quite what I think. It is a network that supposes to link friends with people who are friends of their friends in order that every one can make new friends. I theory it seems like a good idea but I still have not made any new friends. MAybe this is my problem you should sign up and see what you think.

For the past two weeks I have have not been checking the news with any sort of regularity. From my perspective everything in the world is looking rosy. Right now I am reading a few books that I think are all quite good, Rules for Radicals (excerpt), Redesigning the American dream, and American Apartheid

I am trying to get a job. Oh how I want a job.

Whom do I know in this world who can’t breath thanks to allergy based asthma? a few people at least, all of them, and particualrly one of them, should be very interested to hear that there is a new vaccine that promises to change your lives. better liveing through modern chemistry. gtli

I am always on the look out for what will be the next wheel, and I really think that 802.16 wireless could be it. The fact that there is now WiMaz, which has just about all of the IT industry united behind it, means that it is virtually certain it will be addopted in a widespread manner. 31 miles of coverage at at 70mbs is something I would put my money behind.

The fact that the Iraq National Museum Treasures were pludered is sad. People in a state of nature seem to be pretty damn rotten. damn war.

I am afraid that the worst is yet to come. The U.S. issued a STRONG warning to syria saying that the war will move on to them if the US thinks that iraqi WMD are being hidden by them. I just knew that once that much milatary was in the region bushy could not stop at just one. GD! I am so pissed off. I HATE the fact that the world is going to hell in a hand basket and I am only interested in being a cook. COULD it be that I am a wuss. I need to take the LSAT and join the peace corps and then the FS or get my shit in line and get the job in chicago. So frustrated with the world right now I am. My class is going really well though I think. AHHHHHHHH. Stupid war, stupid culture of fear, stupid real life.

I am currently in a class that is teaching me about class. Reading the headlines this morning I found that the homes of Iraq’s top class have been laid open for the first time. What sturck me was that apperent simalarity between there homes and the homes of upperclass americans. Seemingly the same thing. shoot. it is late, gotta go, don’t want to not be a part of my class.

aside from the fact that I am endlessly irked by the fact that the NY times web page demands a log-in, I think that this article on why wine is expensive is particulary interesting. It says to me that the reasons wine in America tend to cost so much is in large part due to the fact that the people who produce it have an exagerated sense of their own importance and consequnetly are extreamly ineffecent in the way they put a product on the market and then drive the price even higher than it already would be to create the illusion that their wine is better than it really is. I think that this quotation pretty much sums it up: “If I made the best wine in the world and charged $1 for it,” he said, “no one would believe it was the best. They’d say it’s a great bottle of $1 wine.” Quite frankly I would be quite happy to have a great bottle of 1$ wine.

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