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2006 15 November :: 2.42am
:: Music: Niyaz - Ghazal
Dear Hero,
I found a picture of you accidentally on my computer today, and spent the majority of my computer graphics class making an illustration of you. It was fitting that soon after, we were asked to think of a poem and I thought of one of yours. We had a small typography assignment where we used text to visually represent a poem. You know how it is, practice your spacing, your apple tools and your colour coordination. Use the hierarchy. This is training for commercialization, how to make something show something even though all you have are words.
I thought it was very contradictory, Hero. How can they expect us to NOT be expressive with words? Aren't words the fundamental forms of expression? In our critical viewing of even images, our responses are always in words. Aren't words just that important?
So I decided to make my photography final about something to do with words. I made contact sheets of myself writing backwards on a pane of glass and used a long shutter speed so that you could see the motion. I wrote things like "Hello" and "Bloop" and "Fajer", then I wiped it all off and wrote Shakespeare quotes. "I am a man more sinn'd against than sinning." "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow." "What a piece of work is man! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?"
So you see, Hero, you live on through your words, and your words are beautiful, and my words are going to grow up to be just as beautiful someday. Until then, I need images to help me along.
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2006 9 November :: 6.14pm
does anyone know why we have like vivid dreams? or why we remember some and not others? or why we can go for weeks not remembering our dreams and then go a week straight remembering every detail?
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moana
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2006 8 November :: 4.37pm
:: Music: Garbage - random playlist
I think that the culmination of all our greatest victories can be summed up in one or two songs. Name them.
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2006 7 November :: 8.35pm
thought you might find this interesting
NYC to Change ID Rules for Transgendered
New York City seeks to ease rules for official documents reflecting gender change
NEW YORK, Nov. 7, 2006
By DAVID B. CARUSO Associated Press Writer
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(AP) The city wants to make it easier for transgender New Yorkers to switch the sex listed on their birth certificate even without undergoing sex-change surgery, putting the city at the forefront of efforts to redefine gender.
Under present city rules, only people who can show proof of surgery qualify for getting a revised birth certificate. Even then, the only change made is the elimination of any reference to gender on the document.
The new plan, unveiled in September, would let birth records reflect the new gender. It would also allow changes for people who hadn't had genital surgery, but could show substantial proof that they have undertaken other steps to irrevocably alter their gender-identity _ like undergoing hormone therapy.
The policy change is one that advocates for New York's sizable transgender community have requested for years, but which has taken on greater significance in a post-Sept. 11 world of increased security.
New Yorkers need to show picture ID to enter office towers, air terminals, public monuments and all sorts of government buildings. They need them to apply for a job too, or buy beer at a neighborhood deli.
The trouble comes when someone inspects those documents, and notices that a person's listed gender doesn't appear to match the way they look and dress.
"That can be a very dangerous situation for a transgender person," said Cole Thaler, transgender rights attorney for the national legal aid group Lambda Legal.
Thaler said having a birth certificate with a gender that matches a person's appearance will ease the way to getting other government records, including passports, drivers' licenses and Social Security records.
Lorna Thorpe, Deputy Commissioner of New York's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, called the current system "outdated."
"A lot of transgender persons use different techniques to switch genders," she said. Some try hormones. A smaller number undergo surgery _ in part because not everyone is medically capable of undergoing the procedure.
All but three states now allow people who have had a sex change to get a new birth certificate and New York City has done so since 1971. The city now issues about a dozen of the revised birth certificates a year.
Of the states that allow similar changes of birth certificates, almost all currently require proof of a gender-reassignment surgery.
Tennessee has a law expressly prohibiting a change of gender on a birth certificate. Ohio and Idaho also won't allow the change because of court rulings or as a matter of administrative policy.
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2006 28 October :: 2.04pm
A pretty good series of articles written for non-scientists on where we're at with stem cell research:
Read more..
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2006 23 October :: 12.43am
alright this is a fun one guys
Google Image search the answer to these questions. Then either post the first picture you find for each question or include a link to it. No cheating: the picture MUST be the first one shown. You need not disclose the actual answer.
1. Your age on your next b-day
2. Your Favorite color
3. Your middle name
4. The last meal you ate
5. your bad habit
6. Your favorite fruit or vegetable
7. your favorite animal
8.the town you live in
9. the name of your pet or past pet (pick one)
10.your first name (or nickname)
11. your last name
heres my answers
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2006 20 October :: 11.38pm
asdfsuayfhaisjfnaslkfnaspfifhjpas!!!!!!!
thats how i feel right now
why is my mom so cool about everything else??????
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2006 17 October :: 11.30pm
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/43128/
"condi rice and laura bush swore in the new global aids coordinator mark dybul with his partner and coni rice refers to his partners mother as his mother in law. so we know that condi rice and laura bush have no problem with gay marriage"
i dont understand how that consensus can be reached from someone refering to someone's partner's mother as their mother in law....but whatever...i guess if youre reaching to make that point it works. im not saying that they dont, i dont really know what they think... i just think its kinda weird that they drew that conclusion from one phrase...and that phrase wasnt "i have no problem with gay marriage"
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2006 17 October :: 3.57pm
I wish, just once, that when Georgie Boy says one of his dumbass, made-up words or phrases to a foreign diplomat (or anyone for that matter, as long as there are cameras there to catch it), that he or she look at him with a dumbfounded, puzzled expression and say, 'Huh?'
"And I suspect that what you'll see, Toby, is there will be a momentum, momentum will be gathered. Houses will begat jobs, jobs will begat houses." —Speaking with reporters along the Gulf Coast, Gulfport, Miss., Aug. 28, 2006
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2006 10 October :: 7.35pm
Letterman is usually good for a laugh
David Letterman's Top Ten New York Yankees excuses (from CBS.com)
10. Wanted Columbus Day off to get to all the sales
9. Thought series was best 6 out of 11
8. We've already missed the first three episodes of "Grey's Anatomy" -- enough is enough
7. Thought Joe Torre told us to give 10 percent
6. Players distracted by erotic text messages from Mark Foley
5. Shouldn't have switched to the cheaper generic steroids
4. Clubhouse caterer replaced E. coli-tainted spinach with E. coli-tainted lettuce
3. Uh, global warming?
2. More focused on how they're going to get by on a lousy $16 million a year
1. What's the point? North Korea's gonna nuke us at any moment
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2006 10 October :: 5.16pm
just for laurence
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0869951/
you better realize why i posted this and reply to it with why its here
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2006 5 October :: 10.39pm
some more craziness
well since i havent really had any memorable dreams lately that i feel like sharing i'll go back to when i was a child.....sorry laurence youve heard this one before..
so i used to have this reoccuring dream....
i would be in the middle of my parents bed, with my dad on one side of me and mom on the other. Then the bed would split in half and fall over so that it was like a triangle shape with a gap in the middle and my parents would both disapear, and i would roll to the left and be between the wall and the bed.
then from the center would come this human size cat...it had the body of a cat but walked like a human and its limbs were attached like a human, and it had a cat head and wore a blue police style hat.
the cat would look at me, then walk out of the room and into the bathroom where my mom was sitting in the vanity and blow drying her hair. the cat had a big sword/knife thing and would be in the swing toward killing my mom and i would wake up before he hit her.....every time. and every time it scared the shit out of me.
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2006 5 October :: 1.58pm
ok kiddies, so lets take this lull in the postings and use it to:
post a story about the craziest dream you've ever had, or some funny story....i think we can all use some comedy in our lives....i dont know about you guys, but at albion its mid terms time
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2006 3 October :: 10.28am
soooooooo on a lighter note.....
WHO IS EXCITED FOR SATURDAY!?
this kid is (and you know damn well craignos is)
however, i dont have any good will gear here at school :(
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moana
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2006 2 October :: 10.33pm
:: Music: Nelly Furtado - Childhood Dreams
Haunted
There's something haunting about a face found completely at random. I had searched "stars" for a background, looking for - and expecting - an astrological chart or two, and some beautiful pictures of the night sky. Incidentally, I stumbled upon Snehprabha Pradhan.
All I know about her is she was an Indian actress from the silverscreen era. There is virtually no information on her anywhere on the internet and this is the only photo I could find. She was a starlett with "star quality" all around, and traditional to boot according to a story written by her "husband in everything but law":
When, while she was doing a shoot, she kicked off her sandals (the scene required her barefoot) and left them by this 'husband', he picked them up and carried them closer to the set to watch her up close. When she caught a glimpse of him out of the corner of her eye, she stopped, cried out, ran to him and immediately dropped the sandals. She returned to the set, apoligizing to the camera crew and the director. Later in the car, she scolded him, assuring him "you shouldn't have humiliated yourself by bringing my sandals. What am I to do with you?"
And now I'm obsessed.
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