October 2011
5 posts
So this Vegan activist lectured in my sociology class today. He was an intense speaker, but not to the point where I totally disregarded him as insane.
Here’s his website: http://adaptt.org/
More coverage from NPR, asking protestors in Manhattan, will these protests become a movement? http://www.npr.org/2011/10/04/141033126/wall-street-protesters-gain-momentum
NPR is finally covering occupy Wall Street: http://www.npr.org/2011/10/03/141019162/wall-street-protests-spread-to-other-cities
Denmark introduces a fat tax, check it~ →
September 2011
3 posts
Women and Children Fans only Soccer Game →
“Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succor of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.” -Gandalf
When I read this I was surprised. Maybe I shouldn’t have been, because...
January 2011
3 posts
Pandora Radio
I finally got my own Pandora account. I was using Williams without realizing it for the past few weeks… Sorry for burning up your Pandora time.
Anyways. Pandora presented me with this message, which was horrifying:
“Hi Colin. Pandora is using Facebook to personalize your experience.”
I know I used the same email address, but now it knows which of my friends likes whatever...
I'm a person who needs to be in motion.
I experience the best streams of thought while I’m walking back to my apartment. This can be a 10 minute walk depending where I’m coming from. Going somewhere, and having a clear idea what my destination is, is thrilling. Not even being where I’m going is truly as fulfilling as the experience of arriving.
I think the act of traveling, or even walking from one place to...
Well...
Facebook is down. I have no idea what to do with myself.
December 2010
1 post
Positive Procrastination
My name is Colin Shannon and I engage in positive procrastination.
I recognize this as a problem and the reason for the cleanliness of my kitchen.
When I am punching out a major program I go through a process of writing one to two pages, then eating. I usually have to cook something during this process. I usually have to check whether the food I am about to eat has expired or not.
The first...
November 2010
2 posts
North Korea
To me, North Korea is the kid in class who is acting out because he isn’t getting the attention he desires elsewhere. If the US is going to send aid to the far east I would support food going to North Korea, I hear they’re hungry. I would not support military action to resolve this conflict, in any way. I doubt the US would go down that route for two reasons: North Korea...
Coal Mining.
I read an article this morning on how China’s economy has been growing. (This statement was intentionally obvious to illicit humor.)
This article focused on China’s use of coal: “half of the six billion tons of coal used globally every year.”
Cue environmentalist and business interests. A lot of countries including the US are starting to make mad money on exports, but...