I've given up on updating this regularly. I'm too busy in the real world to keep up an active internet presence. If you really want to know what's going on in my life or what I'm thinking about you're going to have to be more proactive. Invite yourself over for dinner - I swear! (Or better yet invite me over!). Set up a game of softball or ultimate frisbee or volleyball or soccer or basketball or a bike ride or a trip to the beach or just a walk in the park or else come watch me play hockey or softball. Stop by and borrow a book or a CD or a movie or lend me one of the same. Stick around and we can listen to the CD or watch the movie or talk about all three.
Actually now I'm taking it a step further and not planning to update this at all anymore. I'm in the process (as of today, 18-Jul-04) of unplugging. I figure if my dad can live without a cell phone and a computer I should be able to as well, so I'm giving it a shot... When the internet is disconnected at the Mayor's Office at the end of the month I'm not planning to hook it back up anywhere and I'll be checking my email less and less frequently. But, I decided I'd leave all this stuff up for as long as the U decides to keep hosting it for free then it too will be gone...
See ya in the real world! :)
Check out these pictures of our baby (due August 5th) or the site that Tonia made.
I've been saying for a while that our diet should be a hunter-gatherer diet, now some smarty-pants doctor agrees! Here's the entire article.
I put my old Ecuador page back up. Maybe one day I'll add more stuff/re-do it some but I wouldn't hold your breath!
"We're in such a hurry most of the time that we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone."
--Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcylcle Maintenance
"Here is the real lesson of the story of Jesus, the main myth of our Christian culture: oppose us and we will kill you, speak to us of love and we will nail you to a cross. We will deify your image and ignore your words. Within the span of three generations, your precious people will be killing each other in your name."
--Derrick Jensen, A Language Older than Words
"For example, in the United States the marked increase in school violence, the decline of literacy, the great increase in the suicide rate of children, the cancer epidemic, the high divorce rate, and large-scale unemployment are more important indicators of the quality of life than the number of automobiles or television sets per family, the per capita income, the length of the average work week, the kilowatt hours of electricity consumed per household, the number of vacation hours taken, or the frequency of regular medical examinations. The latter are just statistics - bits of causes and secondary effects that have no meaning by themselves. The former are primary, final effects - they tell us what's happening in our lives. Being able to differentiate between the two is essential for anyone trying to fathom the arrogance and destructiveness of humanism."
--David Ehrenfeld, The Arrogance of Humanism
"The process of making, say, and aeroplane are so complex as to be only possible in a planned, centralized society, with all the repressive apparatus that that implies. Unless there is some unpredictable change in human nature, liberty and efficiency must pull in opposite directions."
--George Orwell
"Let your life be a friction against the machine."
--Henry David Thoreau
"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."
--Mario Savio