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Monthly Archives: November 2004

Reflections on (the middle-eastern side of) this mote of dust

26-Nov-04

My brother’s back in Texas from Iraq for a while, and I finally got to talk to him today. We talked about the family, thanksgiving, and I found that we now have something in common… we both see the world in a more global way. Me because I’ve been to another country and [...]

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Damn the Alliance!!

23-Nov-04

Taken from whedonesque.com, allegedly a reliable source:
Are you guys starting to hear that fanfare? Those distant drums? Are you slapping on your side-arms, pulling on your long brownish-colored coats and thumbing your crisp new bills in anticipation of the cinematic event of the year? Well, it’s official: on April 22nd you, the true the blue [...]

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seminar paper

18-Nov-04

I’ve just realized that there is a great danger in thinking that this paper needs to be a culmination of everything I’ve ever learned and everything I ever will learn.
I can’t expect myself to be a Scholar now. I’m still a student, and immaturity is not a crime… :)

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thoughts from my notebook (1)

11-Nov-04

I have a little cloth notebook that I bought in Japan… and I’ve been using it to kinda log ideas, thoughts, rants, research topics, and anything else I feel like writing down.
I’ve realized now that there’s a certain value in posting some of this stuff in my journal. The whole public[private(public)] thing has many [...]

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