Archive - Feb 12, 2008
Recently discovered Connecticut Activist Websites
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 22:42www.citizenselections.org. Okay, this isn’t all that recent a discovery. I just haven’t written much about it yet. It is tied to Common Cause, where Kim is now working.
http://ct.teachagainstgenocide.org/. Today, I got an email from Tim Salem. Tim is the teacher at Danbury High School that helped a group of students produce The Promise, a video about Genocide in the Sudan.
Both of these sites provide ways for people to get involved here in Connecticut.
1983 Journal: Jan 23-25
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 22:32I continue to post journal entries from my journal twenty-five years ago. Back then, I was leaving my job as a computer consultant to travel. Not all of the entries are all that coherent, but I’m posting most of them as is.
January 23, 1983: Gone is the intensity I once had. Gone too is that religiosity. Looking in the eyes of people whose approach to Christianity is the starting point of what I detest. Live a complicated life so that those who don’t live can live through you. Story: Hacker breaks security, discovers industrial espionage. Cynical Resolution.
January 24, 1983: Vacation day. Have I burnt myself out? Striving for relaxation and intensity. Blood pressures seemed higher. Is private space possible? Roommates next door, friends in the mind. Victim of the aesthetic realists. Soho Chainsaw Massacre. Puking on a gallery window. Am I burnt out? Spent? Wasted? Dead? Or merely silent? I’ll not write more now due to my spaciness.
January 25, 1983: Freakdom and Scotch on Robert Burns Birthday. Jimbo called during party. Sounded like Doug. Steve Wilson: Chaz and Steve here. Joys of Decadence. The women I’m interested in. Riding the train as an outlaw. Goodnight.
Random Potomac Primary Notes
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 10:03Andy Carvin is voting! Get the play by play at Twitter and Flickr.
Debbie McCormick, et al, of the Behavioural Studies Department, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University is doing a survey about “people’s attitudes toward law and order in Second Life”. If you spend time in Second Life, please fill it out here.
The John Edwards blog goes offline today. Various online supporters have set up different sites to stay in touch with one another. JRE Grassroots was created back in 2004 and is alive and well. It is joined by The Edwardians Meeting Place, We Choose John, and several other spreadsheets, Google groups and so on.
