of course i procrastinated this entire weekend. i've got too much to read and too much to write in too little time. the first summer session ends in three and a half weeks... and then i go right into the last session.

the flames lost tonight... but they put up quite a battle... one goal was the difference between a 3-1 series lead and a 2-2 series tie. maybe they'll win on thur in tampa... and win the series back home for game 6.

lots of people are supposedly coming home for july 4th weekend... i'm pretty excited about that. hmmm... what else... i'm ready for anchorman to come out. will ferrell is such a funny person... he goes all out and over the top... how can you not laugh? the incredibles should be funny too.

i think i'll plan on a trip to new york in august after chem's over with. i'll be able to stay a bit longer this time... maybe a week or so.

so my linux drive in my linux box died... i can't recover the files that are on it. it took my beos install with it. i put in a spare drive, and want to run solaris x86 on it just for fun. the install wouldn't let me get into the x-win portion of the install. so... i'm going to recheck the requirements... and if that doesn't work... it's back to linux i guess. anyone know what the advantages of reiserfs over ext3 are? or reiserfs over any other file systems are?

all my guesses have been wrong so far... but the list is definitely shortened. who are you mystery person? when i find out... i will get you back =].

ok... i seriously have to read now... maybe get through more than 10 pages every 3 hours or so.

this story... here's a quote that needs to get out there.

"But then, suddenly, Hull beats Hasek, the red light goes on, they rush the Cup out to mid-ice for a fast presentation and then everyone runs for the bus. Everyone except Kelley. He's looking at replays. There's a foot in the crease. This should not count. This is not right. Buffalo's getting cheated!"

now that call was BS... and you KNOW it too bettman.

the flames dismantled the lighting 3-0. the pace was fast and the game was physical, but it didn't break down quite like game 2 did. just seeing the crowd on tv... it was really something. they're just so excited... i think all of canada... is just excited that one of their teams is back in the finals. it is kinda nice to see a team like calgary in it... one that just goes out and works hard and scraps for everything. i'm not saying that the lighting don't deserve to be in the final... they ARE a good team... but they have a couple big name people whereas the only "star" the flames had at the start of the season was inginla. calgary is a classic team of role-players who've meshed together very nicely. i mean you gotta love a team that rolls 4 lines and 3 pairings of defense. you also have to love a coach who plays his third pair d-men against a line of the top three offensive skaters of the opposing team... sutter certainly has got some balls.

another thing i enjoy about playoff hockey in the US... barry melrose (hockey mullet and all). melrose never be don cherry... like espn/abc hockey coverage will never be cbc's hockey night in canada... but i think he's a really good and insightful analyst.

so i went to the iroquis national wildlife refuge. i highly recommend it. i did some walking on their trails and i saw some eagles... it was pretty amazing. unfortunately i couldn't find the digital camera... so i took my normal camera... which refused to work at some points. i did get some pictures of them off in the distance and in flight *fingers crossed*. hopefully they'll came out and i'll be able to scan and post them somewhere.

i think i'm gonna sleep now... but before i sign off... i wanna give a shout out to cmh.

nightenED!

vietnam deja vu? a group in canada is lobbying the government in ottawa to grant refugee status to US soldiers opposed to fighting the war in iraq. in the present they are directed at two soldiers who arrived in canada after serving in afghanistan and then were called up to serve in iraq. both soldiers objected to the reasons the US had for going into iraq and instead slipped into canada. i do hope (and i think they will) allow US soldiers refugee status. canada's good like that... they'll come through.

here's a link about stem cell research from t.c. it's a pretty thought out article. i found it quite interesting. at times i struggle with when life actually begins... i'm kinda going back and forth on the issue. i am pro-choice to the extent that i think it is a person's decision to decide (much like with any decision)... though my personal feelings are that abortion is bad.

cali is the first state to regulate wireless service. it could be good... it could be bad. it's a fine line for government to get involved in regulating industries. some industries do need to be watched... especially ones where complaints are frequent. however... sometimes government holds on for too long which also hurts development and emergence of new technologies. it'll probably be a good thing in the short run, happier customers probably.

so i helped leng move today... and then i came home to pack stuff for jon. he's so lucky... i already bought all the stuff that he needs... he doesn't even have to lug anything home. now if i move to an apartment... i'll need to buy everything all over again.

so i met emily and ellany... who leng moved in with. ellany is 6 months old... and she's so cute. she's got the cutest smile... and she likes to bounce. we went to carmine's for dinner... and she was jumping on my lap for awhile... and she has ittle hands and ittle feet... and cheeks... and an ittle nose.

tomorrow i'm planning on going to the iroquis national wildlife refuge if i can get up early enough. i need to go make observations or something for a paper for my bio class... it's such a freshman thing to do... i feel stupid doing it. hopefully it'll be interesting though... maybe i'll forget that i need to do a paper and actually just enjoy being out there.

leng and jay mentioned a possible trip to toronto this weekend... hopefully i'll get enough reading done so i can go... if they decide to go. it's been awhile since i've been up there.

hmmmm... so... here's an article about the cup finals and how the flames and lightning are developing a distaste for each other. nothing like hockey to stir up the emotions. i hope the flames develop a home-rink advantage in this series as they haven't been doing well in the playoffs in calgary.

three fun links for you... the first two brought to you by tansal... and the third by leng.
-exorcist in 30 secs with bunnies
-shining in 30 secs with bunnies
-super mario reloaded

and to the person who sent me the "so what you suck" card... gimme another clue... i still have no clue who you are.

ok... i'm delirious... g'nite.

you know... people are dumb. yeah... no crap if your diet consists of high-fat meat as an appetizer, followed by a meat entree, sandwiched in between a meat dessert (want a meat shake with that?), your blood will become thicker than crude oil or bush's skull.

Jody Gorran of Delray Beach said he believes the Atkins diet books and products should contain a warning label that one-third of the population is at risk for developing health problems when they eat meats and other foods endorsed by the diet that are high in saturated fat.

what a total douche... did he really NEED a label? does ANYONE need a label? sit your fat ass down mr. gorran... and don't waste the people of florida's money by taking this to court.

speaking of food... this is one of those weird things where you wonder if it'll work. $50 is a pretty big incentive... if you're outta work and you're up in new hampshire if this bill goes through... just drive around and start reporting people. the question i ask though... how much parenting of parents should the government do? a couple get togethers for their children's friends shouldn't be punished... at least they're supervised.

and more food... i don't really like krispy kreme all that much... i'm more of a tim hortons kinda guy. anyways... LOW SUGAR DOUGHNUT? what's a low carb doughnut?! a doughnut is a giant thing of carb if you haven't yet noticed... that's preposterous... that's ridiculous... why would you want to take away the yummy goodness like that? pretty soon we won't be able to eat anything... cause everything will be bad... we'll be left chewing on celery ("fat abbott... you need to looooose weight").

one last food link... damn... i feel like jody gorran. so using the internet to buy groceries is expanding... unfortunetely for me... i never got to try fresh direct cause i think they didn't deliver to brooklyn until i was about to move or something. i do remember getting food through priceline though... that was pretty cool... made grocery shopping on a college student's budget in manhattan a lot nicer. too bad that service got shut down. i also remember kozmo... i miss kozmo... they didn't have groceries... but they did bring snacky munchy stuff and movies =]... with their cool orange kozmo bags. there's one thing in nyc you can develop really quickly... an attachment to your food guys. there's my bagel cart guy on 14th and university... kumar @ the waverly diner... dolip @ the food emporium @ union sq... the chicken man up in murray hill... and the pizza guys @ mercato... it sure has been a long time.

go flames GO!

Surely there's a lad somewhere in Tampa, Fla., residing in a home with a broken air conditioner, who thinks that playing in the National Hockey League would, quite literally, be a cool thing to do.
Conversely, there are thousands of boys throughout Western New York for whom making it to the NHL is a 24-hour, 365-day obsession. They skate on frozen creeks and ponds or take their game to the streets, time and again scoring the goal or making the save that engraves their names on the Stanley Cup. To them, there's no worse feeling than being cut from the travel team, because being cut from the travel team usually means becoming a doctor, a lawyer, or a sportswriter.

There are a dozen legitimate reasons to root for the Tampa Bay Lightning over the Calgary Flames in these finals. And there's one overwhelming reason to root against them. Buffalo has never won a Stanley Cup, and it'll be a slap shot to the naked shins if the contrived hockey town of Tampa wins one first.

this is an old link from last week... about how hastert lectured mccain on military service and sacrifice. i just thought it was funny given that he was directing it towards mccain... who served in vietnam and was a pow. john mccain is one of only a couple people that identify with the republican party that i truly admire. not much else to say about the article... just thought it was funny... not in a "ha-ha" way... more in an "oh... ummm... riiight" way.

my friend tina sent this to me awhile ago too. it's michael berg writing about his son nick who was murdered a couple weeks ago in iraq. i hope everyone in the bush administration read every word of it. i hope everyone that wants this occupation to continue with no changes in the structure of our organization have read this. how can we at this point with everything that's gone wrong not realize that we're not doing things correctly? how many more people do we have to give reasons to hate us? how many is enough mr. rumsfeld? 10,000? 90,000? 500,000? if this keeps up, it'll be far more than that. we really need to let other countries in to at least defuse and mediate the situation a bit. we have no credibility... how are we going to stabalize a country that doesn't trust us? gotta stop hoarding that oil and let people help... it's not ours anyways.

interesting article on convergence and the possibility of deregulation of the telecommunications industry. eventually i think deregulation would be beneficial... but i think we have to wait a bit for these converged technologies to develop. i do think though, for the present, we need to provide a level playing field for the telcos as they're going up against deregulated cable. if one industry dies out, it will not only affect our economy... but an entire infrastructure that's been built out already will be wasted. hopefully the telcos will catch up... verizon has big plans, but i'm not at all confident that they'll be able to acheive their goals to the satisfaction of their customers.

in other telecom news... at&t is jumping back into wireless after at&t wireless was acquired by cingular. doesn't say a lot for the division you spun off that bears your name if you wanted to get back into wireless but didn't want to just reacquire the division. it's unfortunate qualcomm wants licensing fees for their cdma technology (which in my opinion has features that are better than gsm)... cause that limits people willing to use it. if you have a gsm phone, you can pretty much use it anywhere in the world (most of the world's cell phones are gsm)... all you need to do is buy a sim card in the country that you're in. why does this country LOVE to do things back assward?

the world health organization makes me laugh... especially after seeing ben and jeff do their bit... even though the stories involving the organization aren't funny... the headlines are... cause they're always questions... about someone... hehehehehe... eh... shyuddup.

WHO Confirms 19 Cases of Ebola in Southern Sudan

this here is pretty cool... it's so interesting that you can go around and dig and find things that were "lost". the university's pretty big... i guess they took their edu-macation seriously.

and i guess some of you whiteys were right... you ARE losing the country. yup... we're gonna take your women and children. this is intersting... perhaps i'll use this article for my sociology paper. i wouldn't have guessed that immigrants would've lived longer on average given how supposedly medicine in the US is "better" and more advanced than other countries. the difference isn't too much, though they didn't say what the life expectancy of immigrants were... i'd have at least thought it'd be lower or the same for someone moving into the US from another country.

ah... all caught up... now i can clear out a bunch of links that i've saved and was just keeping so i could write about em.

anyone have any interesting plans for the long weekend?

done with bio lab til next wed. so as i mentioned before my parents are going to the city to move some stuff into jon's new place. unfortunetely for me... i have a book to read and 2 papers to write. this would've been a good weekend to go to the city too... i'd have been able to leave thur afternoon and get back mon. oh well.

i'm not going to be escaping the moving though... i'm helping leng move on friday. i hope it's sunny and good weather... so when i'm done with all my work i can hang out and play.

i still don't know who sent me that e-card. frickin jerk.

i hate bio essays... there's too much to know... we don't have multiple-choice tests... sucks for me.

Nostalgia, Cracker

And here's Ivanovich
in his rocket ship
Spinning helplessly
up above the earth

While his heart is splintered,
All the girls of winter
are buried in their coats anonymous

While winter girls are waiting,
Ivanovich in high rotation
is just another star
up in the sky.

And while the world was waiting,
We're overwhelmed by some sensation
of something long ago and far away

Like General Jackson's arm
it's buried on some farm
While the fever
pushes words from his lips

And by the drunken river
where the soldiers shiver
We rest beneath the shade of the trees

While winter girls are saying
each of us a tiny nation,
You're just another star
but so am I.

And while the world was waiting
We're overwhelmed by some sensation
of something long ago and far away

passed on by my friend bern... full of poems and goodness (title of post is link... me likes blogspot!). i'd recommend checking out the ones by Pablo Neruda.

here's one that i immediately liked by Richard Brautigan... kinda playful and light.

It's Raining in Love

I don't know what it is,
but I distrust myself
when I start to like a girl
a lot.

It makes me nervous.
I don't say the right things
or perhaps I start
to examine,
evaluate,
compute
what I am saying.

If I say, "Do you think it's going to rain?"
and she says, "I don't know,"
I start thinking: Does she really like me?

In other words
I get a little creepy.

A friend of mine once said,
"It's twenty times better to be friends
with someone
than it is to be in love with them."

I think he's right and besides,
it's raining somewhere, progamming flowers
and keeping snails happy.
That's all taken care of.

BUT
if a girl likes me a lot
and starts getting real nervous
and suddenly begins asking me funny questions
and looks sad if I give the wrong answers
and she says things like,
"Do you think it's going to rain?"
and I say, "It beats me,"
and she says, "Oh,"
and looks a little sad
at the clear blue California sky,
I think: Thank God, it's you, baby, this time
instead of me.

i hope to be back in a bit... gotta plow through some bio first.

so... i really don't know who sent this. i have a couple guesses... but it could be a number of people... not too many clues that would point out who exactly it is... especially cause it could be people i haven't talked to in a long time. so... if you're reading this and it's you... and i haven't guessed if it's you yet after a couple weeks. frickin send me a normal email... cause this is gonna bother me =p.

oh... and for those of you just dropping in... check out the site. it's got some really funny cards.

and i know i didn't update like i planned on this weekend... eh... oh well. maybe this weekend. my parents are going to nyc to move some stuff into my bro's (jon) apt. i need to go to some wildlife refuge and make observations for bio class or something. more studying... lates!

oh this is so cool... had to take a break from bio studying to get an update on the flames-sharks game. CONGRATS CANADIAN HOCKEY FANS! you have a team back in the cup finals after an all too long hiatus. i'm rooting for you guys! win one before the lockout... you'll be celebrating for 2 years!

hate to cut it short... but need to get back to studying... more this weekend... promise.

so today was my first day of class for the first summer session. i'm taking evolutionary bio (my stupid ap credit from 8 years ago doesn't count for some programs cause it's been too long). so my prof is a total dick too. he's one of those guys who's always got his panties in a bunch. it's gonna be a tough class... just like ap in high school, but worse cause the prof is a bitch. the class itself is full of people who are retaking the course cause they messed up during the normal school year... so lots of immature brats from long island who are just annoying.

my soc class is gonna be pretty cool though. the prof did part of his education @ the new school. since it's a summer class, there's only 6 weeks of classes... he decided to take the topic of new york city immigration and use that as a basis for topics in sociology instead of going through a whole intro course from a textbook in 6 week. i like doing applications of topic so much more... it makes dry subjects more interesting. the only downside of soc... lots of reading and a couple papers. i haven't done either in awhile.

i walked home today after classes... it was so nice... 70 degrees... blue skies. took the bike path and cut through the some office parks and back onto the path in walton woods in audubon. i need to find a good bike... preferably used and in good shape... i'm gonna start riding again.

big happenings in the buffalo entertainment scene for the summer. i'll have to get into details later.

here're some cool sites about history, preservation, commentary, and development of buffalo that i've been reading up on lately.

Preservation Coalition of Erie County
Downtown Buffalo 2002
The Shrinking City

onto a subject that'll probably interest more of you than my shameless buffalo promotion. i certainly hope that people our age are starting to wake up and start taking responsibility. we need to stand up and fight our current leaders and take the power back. we can change things... but first we need to put people that will listen into office. i really hope america wakes up and really sees how tragic this all is. people are DYING! we need to build international consensus and put in a multinational force so we have a system of checks and balances. if we impose it on our own government between the judicial, executive, and legislative brances so no one branch has all the power, why did we not use it when we went in and stayed in iraq? we need to encourage dialogue... cause as long as there is talking, there is hope for less violence. we need to mobilize against bush.

finally... before i head off to bed... this article is just good. the flames are up 3 games to 2... they just need to finish off the sharks... just win one on frickin home ice already!

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moving over from tblog... which was nice for awhile, but i like the interface here better... simple... smooth... elegant.

i'll be updating more in the next couple days... 'fore i have to startup school again.