Patricia Pearson: “What interests White [...] is how 'key' the character of the slut is to girls' sexual coming of age. The dynamic is played out between girls, with boys as peripheral characters in the drama. 'Girls,' White argues, 'manifest a verbal and physical hostility toward the slut that is remarkable in its focused intensity.
"All aboud the E & N" Globe and Mail editorial
"An Ode to Managers" by Michael Kingsley
"The Price of Protectionism" by George F. Will
"Will the Tiger Change His Stripes?" by June Thomas
Brief article on the Tamil Tigers, a terrorist group based in Sri Lanka which is credited with inventing suicide bombing.
Ethan Gutmann: “Americans make dreams, and every generation carries new ones to China. Since 1979 that dream has been the fall of the Chinese Communist party and the rise of the world's largest market, an event that U.S. businessmen and China hands keep predicting is on the horizon or even imminent. Yet Michael was not naive. He understood the self-serving nature of much of the democracy-is-just-around-the-corner rhetoric.
Norman Doidge: “"The student of human nature who seems best to have recognized the importance of this bizarre dynamic, in which a conscientious hero proves unable to finish off a foe he knows to be evil, was Shakespeare. He was obsessed with understanding the phenomenon. Hamlet hesitated to bring Claudius to justice, and he paid with his life and the lives of those he loved.
Instead of doing homework this morning, I chatted on ICQ with another 'random girl', and installed the Movable Type 1.3 upgrade. So far it's very cool, especially the Blogger-like easy HTML formatting.
I just imported all the posts from Blogger to Movable Type. In the process, it seems that the first entries using Movable Type were "lost", at least in the MT database.
Mutual pity sex: (n) intercourse that occurs when each participant feels sorry for the other participant(s), for whatever reason (but usually because of lack of sex).
I had my first extremely attractive trainee today. I wasn't quite sure what to do. Here was this pretty, outgoing, and fun Asian girl. Beautiful eyes, thin but clearly in shape, and the best thing about her: she took off her sandals and sat cross legged in her chair. It was a "this-is-the-way-I-sit-in-a-computer-chair" sit. About twenty minutes in, she mentioned her boyfriend, matter-of-factly, so for about thirty-seconds I felt sucky, because I wasn't going to get a phone number off her. But after that my brain shut off and had fun instead.
J'ai decouvert un site à propos de la musique anglais et francais. Le site prends la forme d'un 'blog'. Je pense que je vais le visiter souvent. Donc, je vais le mettre dans ma rotation regulaire.
Il y a longtemps que j'ai parlé francais. Il faut que je m'inscris dans un cours bientôt.
Anybody wanting to get a sense of the diversity of Vancouver should take the 160 bus from downtown to either Coquitlam or Port Coquitlam. Most buses I go on involve going to or from SFU, which means diverse, but rich. On the 160, you get everything. Black, white, Asian, Latino, French, etc. Poor, rich, young old, abled, disabled, noisy, quiet, whiney, bratty. Some people have concealed cell phones, some just have theirs in their hand (ostensibly because it will ring at any second, or because they're in their work—i.e.
I just discovered Blogger the other day, and I think I will use it to document my randomly occurring random thoughts. If you want, you can read about my trip to China, what I think about my credibility at raves [link's dead, therefore removed], incomplete thoughts on music I like [link's dead, therefore removed] and a little ditty on my attraction to Asian women. Otherwise, I'll document my thoughts, if I have any I wish sharing, here.