Saturday, April 12, 2003
Just hitting 2 am, and I'm installing "The Longest Journey" on my laptop, a really good adventure game I never finished. I have a feeling that the longest thing about this journey is the god damn install, which has taken me half an hour so far on this laptop.
Did I mention my motherboard on my desktop is dead? Ugh, the wonders of moving it to a new case were too much, and it kicked it.
Did I mention my motherboard on my desktop is dead? Ugh, the wonders of moving it to a new case were too much, and it kicked it.
Tuesday, April 08, 2003
You’re in the next room sleeping
And I’m shouting out a song for you
I shouldn’t wake you over the furnace
But I just wrote a song
One you would love, I really know
So dream a good one, tonight
I listen to the bad ones when they come
Giving my ear till I hear the word
With every turn of your tongue
I will tighten my grip
And no one can tell even if I fell
100 stories down, down, down
No one can tell even if I fell
100 stories down
Alkaline Trio - 100 Stories
Just got the whole cd 'Good Mourning' on mp3, it's freakin' awesome.
And I’m shouting out a song for you
I shouldn’t wake you over the furnace
But I just wrote a song
One you would love, I really know
So dream a good one, tonight
I listen to the bad ones when they come
Giving my ear till I hear the word
With every turn of your tongue
I will tighten my grip
And no one can tell even if I fell
100 stories down, down, down
No one can tell even if I fell
100 stories down
Alkaline Trio - 100 Stories
Just got the whole cd 'Good Mourning' on mp3, it's freakin' awesome.
Sunday, April 06, 2003
Q: So you say genocide happens when certain acts happen, and you can say that those acts have happened in Rwanda. So why can't you say that genocide has happened?
Ms. Christine Shelley, State Department spokeswoman: Because, Alan, there is a reason for the selection of words that we have made, and I have--perhaps I have--I'm not a lawyer. I don't approach this from the international legal and scholarly point of view. We try, best as we can, to accurately reflect a discription in particularly addressing that issue. It's--the issue is out there. People have obviously been looking at it.
Shelley was a bit more to the point when she rejected the denomination of genocide, because, she said, "there are obligations which arise in connection with the use of the term." She meant that if it was a genocide, the Convention of 1948 required the contracting parties to act. Washington didn't want to act. So Washington pretended that it wasn't a genocide. Still, assuming that the above exchange took about two minutes, an average of eleven Tutsis were exterminated in Rwanda while it transpired.
---Excerpt from We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories From Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch.
Ms. Christine Shelley, State Department spokeswoman: Because, Alan, there is a reason for the selection of words that we have made, and I have--perhaps I have--I'm not a lawyer. I don't approach this from the international legal and scholarly point of view. We try, best as we can, to accurately reflect a discription in particularly addressing that issue. It's--the issue is out there. People have obviously been looking at it.
Shelley was a bit more to the point when she rejected the denomination of genocide, because, she said, "there are obligations which arise in connection with the use of the term." She meant that if it was a genocide, the Convention of 1948 required the contracting parties to act. Washington didn't want to act. So Washington pretended that it wasn't a genocide. Still, assuming that the above exchange took about two minutes, an average of eleven Tutsis were exterminated in Rwanda while it transpired.
---Excerpt from We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories From Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch.
