is Iraq's moment of decision. For those confused that January 30 is supposed to be voting day. Either you jest or you live in a bubble. That Iraq is 12 hours ahead of Pacific time (-08:00 GMT) is a proof that the earth is not flat. I am cautiously excited about the Iraqi election. I want it to be successful, even if it is only a symbolic representation of democracy, and not a surefire start

The kind of person I like is the one is easily dismissed. Therefore, when I went to class today to see a TA, I was surprised, amused, and delighted to see someone exactly like that. He says things like "If you want to go to the other class upstair, my feeling won't be hurt." "Sorry about my bad handwriting" when his handwriting is perfectly legible and legibly perfect, moreso than even the

About Google Video: "Google Video will search the closed captioning text of all the programs in our archive for relevant results." Oh, wow. That's nice. So if people want to be listed, they have to hire good captioner. We may see a marked increase in the quality of captioning, especially on the news. I'm so surprised that Google is actually putting closed captioning to good use beyond its

He's a worldbeater, all right: "That was what Bush accomplished so superbly in his speech: the idealistic position -- spreading liberty -- is now also the realist one: If you don't spread it, in the end your own liberty will be jeopardized." Exactly. A superpower doesn't work against terrorism, because all that is necessary is to create a bomb and explode it somewhere in the cities. What is

How awful! Makes me look at Loony Tunes character in a new light. No wonder. If you can distinguish sounds, you can hear the horror of this beast.

It will get worse before it gets better. All our lives now are focused symbolically on the Iraqi election that most likely will only settle on electing an assembly that will elect the council that will choose the President (I got the info from the Daily Show, which presents much better information than I could have gotten anywhere else).

F our days from now, the Iraqi election will begin. When it is night time here, it is a new day in Iraq, when the citizens will take up the mantle of the ballots and vote. It will be the first election, and I hope it will not be the last. Together with the rule of law, people will begin the first step toward a new democratic republic. I hope the new Iraq left behind will not be a failed

I thought I had forgotten my PIN number, and when I requested it from FAFSA, I didn't get it in the e-mail. But when I went to change my email address and had to submit my PIN, I put down what I vaguely thought was the number and it was the right one. Amazing how human memory can be, so uncertain as life, yet more capable than a computer--because computers, once you've put a magnet on it, put it

Something to based on BitTorrent but better, apparently.

TIME is covering the stealth attack on evolution using intelligent design. Beautiful though the idea of Intelligent Design is, it does not fit any criterion of scientific theory and cannot be easily subject to rigorous scientific method. In fact, I think Intelligent Design is ugly. It just raises doubt, but cannot prove itself. It appeals only to emotion, not to answer the true understanding of

Federal Stem-Cell Lines cannot be used. Therefore, Charles Krauthammer, that wheelchair-confined Republican guy, was a total idiot. And he claims to be a doctor! President Bush may have been the first to approve federal funding for stem cell research, but he certainly has not pushed for allowing experimentations on embryos that would be thrown away anyway. Now we know with certainty that these

over no WMDs in Iraq. You can find the outrage and my post is linked to on January 22, 2004.

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at 79 in a peaceful slumber. Farewell, eclipsed is television's greater power.

The Terror Chief has declared war on democracy. So he and his insurgents will do their best to make the worst of Iraqi election day. It's probably a retaliatory remark against Bush's speech stating that he would do everything possible to bring liberty and democracy to the world. It's unfortunate, but true: America is one of the very few places that can truly claim to be a melting pot of

Ésa es la vida sorda. It's the deaf life. Once in a while, I learn something new, incorporate it, and express my opinion on it. That moment occurred just minutes ago, and involved something I've experienced so often that once I actually stopped and analyzed it, makes life so ridiculously difficult. When someone mentioned the name Jeffrey, I thought I heard Jennifer, but I heard wrong. Then

If you ever have doubt, anger, and fear about America, this should alleviate that doubt. Right now, there is a whole generation of Chinese people who know little to nothing about the Tiananmen Square protest, nor about Zhao Ziyang's role in fomenting dissidents and protests against government control. America was the first country to pass the first bill of rights, one of which stated that

250 million years ago. Global warming, huh? There was also a catastrophic climate shift 65 million years ago that, with an asteroid impact, killed all the dinosaurs. This is why we must, for the sake of our lives, stop pollution and raise gas mileage. We care so much for our livelihoods. Let us join together to encourage greater efficiency, reduced energy consumption, for a better tomorrow.

I don't know about this, does it really mean bullshit? I know the ASL sign for bullshit, but does having a closed fist with the index and pinkie fingers sticking out also mean bullshit? I'd have thought they were referring to the devil, or to some silly heavy metal music (the kiind where people nod their head up and down violently, and long hair tend to fly up and down). It's possible that some