++ Webster's dictionary defines the word housewarming:
"\House"warm`ing\, n. A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises."
i wonder what is the origin of this word. is it to do with the social network of people invited to the housewarming? is it to do with something even more primordial such as actually having to do with inviting people over to the house for the purpose of warming the temperature of the space to a sufficient temperature? is it to do with establishing a meaning of place or to bring or introduce validity as a built environement or homeplace? is it to do with establishing social and community and personal ties to the building as a means of establishing identity? perhaps its just an excuse to party.
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perhaps a better term would be homewarming. although i don't think i've ever heard of a homewarming party. always a housewarming party. this could have something to do with the house not yet being a home. although this brings infinite or questions and debates such as what is the difference between house and home. when does a house become a home? is a home always a house, but a house not always a home? ++
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
DEMOCRACY
++ RON OLEVSKY ON racism..
"i do blame human nature and ignorance. too many of our citizens believe we live in a democracy. two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch is a democracy. we live (in theory) in a constitutional democratic republic where even minorities have rights, but people in a strong majority tend to get self-righteous and sanctimonious. The climbing community is not exempt from such behavior."
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really? two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch is a democracy? thats quite the democracy afforded only to the bourgeoisie elite. is it possible for everyone to live in a democracy where they are wolves? how would this affect the dynamics of the social hierarchies in institutions such as the government, the university, your family? Perhaps this is already the democracy we live in now.
..house of representatives, the senate, and the white house. majority rules.
..the faculty dictate to students what is due and when it will be due. the faculty respond to the deans who respond to provosts who respond to the president.
..children obey their parents, where in 'normal' families, the majority rule. whoever holds the bigger stake in the family (i.e.larger paycheck contributions) holds the larger making of decisions.
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its almost a corporate bureucratic decmocracy where the bigger beat up the smaller, the larger win out over the smaller, the rich get richer, the poor poorer. how do you combat this so-called democracy where atrocities like this can occur with consequence? perhaps a return to grass-roots or a return to the small, mom and pop establishments. anything which can close the great divide. perhaps its not a return. if large corporate institutions are boycotted, what is to become of these global fixtures. this world, this society is one of an ever-widening globalization. this is the future. everything will eventually become one in the same some might argue. you cannot deny the existance of institutions. they are here to stay. so a mitigation or a regulation has to be in order to maintain this order.
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"i do blame human nature and ignorance. too many of our citizens believe we live in a democracy. two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch is a democracy. we live (in theory) in a constitutional democratic republic where even minorities have rights, but people in a strong majority tend to get self-righteous and sanctimonious. The climbing community is not exempt from such behavior."
..
really? two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch is a democracy? thats quite the democracy afforded only to the bourgeoisie elite. is it possible for everyone to live in a democracy where they are wolves? how would this affect the dynamics of the social hierarchies in institutions such as the government, the university, your family? Perhaps this is already the democracy we live in now.
..house of representatives, the senate, and the white house. majority rules.
..the faculty dictate to students what is due and when it will be due. the faculty respond to the deans who respond to provosts who respond to the president.
..children obey their parents, where in 'normal' families, the majority rule. whoever holds the bigger stake in the family (i.e.larger paycheck contributions) holds the larger making of decisions.
..
its almost a corporate bureucratic decmocracy where the bigger beat up the smaller, the larger win out over the smaller, the rich get richer, the poor poorer. how do you combat this so-called democracy where atrocities like this can occur with consequence? perhaps a return to grass-roots or a return to the small, mom and pop establishments. anything which can close the great divide. perhaps its not a return. if large corporate institutions are boycotted, what is to become of these global fixtures. this world, this society is one of an ever-widening globalization. this is the future. everything will eventually become one in the same some might argue. you cannot deny the existance of institutions. they are here to stay. so a mitigation or a regulation has to be in order to maintain this order.
++
Monday, April 19, 2004
MICROWAVE POPCORN STANDINGS
++ MICROWAVE POPCORN STANDINGS
01. Kettle Mania
02. Movie Theater Butter
03. Blast O Butter
04. Butter·Licious
05. White & Buttery
06. Crispy 'n White
07. Cheese Flavor
08. Healthy Pop Kettle Corn
09. Blast O Butter Light
10. Butter·Licious Light
11. Crispy 'n White Light
12. Sugar Corn
13. Healthy Pop
14. American's Best
15. Poly Bag Pop Corn ++
01. Kettle Mania
02. Movie Theater Butter
03. Blast O Butter
04. Butter·Licious
05. White & Buttery
06. Crispy 'n White
07. Cheese Flavor
08. Healthy Pop Kettle Corn
09. Blast O Butter Light
10. Butter·Licious Light
11. Crispy 'n White Light
12. Sugar Corn
13. Healthy Pop
14. American's Best
15. Poly Bag Pop Corn ++
Sunday, April 18, 2004
PURGATORY FOR FOOD.
++ PURGATORY FOR FOOD has to be that place in the middle of your throat (as oppossed to the side of your throat?) so how exactly does food get lodged in the middle of your throat? so far i've found at least three ways for that to happen.
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1. you swallow something to big for your throat and then try to quickly eat some food. for example, you think one of thsoe plastic colored eggs should be small enough to fit down your esophagus. you shove it down your throat only to find it gets lodged right around where your adam's apple should be. quickly you run to your firdge and root through the shelves to find a real boiled egg in the side door. you crack it open and throw the egg down the hatch. nothing. it gets stuck in your throat, above the plastic egg. three whoopsies. for one, you have a plastic egg stuck in your throat, second the plastic egg is now dirty with real egg on it, and third you are wasting food. most likely if you haven't swallowed the plastic egg by now, its not going down and will have to eventually come back up, thus wasting a perfectly good egg (assuming you catch it in your hands to save).
2. you eat some good grilled fish and miss a bone, thus swallowing a fish bone and lodging it in your throat. you proceed with either more fish or corn on the cob or inevitably some other really good food and none of it goes down, because some fish decided he wasn't good enough to be a whale, so he grew small bones. its now in your throat and preventing you from eating anything else. the nerve of fish.
3. you actually somehow swallow food down your windpipe. this is a really bad one, because not only is it not going to be digested, but its going to eventually come back up your windpipe and it most likely hurts right now, will hurt as its coming back up, and hurt after the fact. and you've wasted food. again. idiot.
4. the food which once went down your throat nicely as good nice food should, has decided its not ready to be digested, so it takes a little detour and starts its return trip ticket option. your brain realizes it before its come to its final destination and for a split second is unsure what to to for the shock of food returning to its original point of departure is rare once you reach a certain age and are able to realize this. suddenly your brain kicks in and knows that the food hasn't passed customs and is being screened and fingerprinted because its definately a foreigner and tells the food to go back to its 'home'. for that one split second where its not quite here or there. that is the pinnacle of food purgatory. ++
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1. you swallow something to big for your throat and then try to quickly eat some food. for example, you think one of thsoe plastic colored eggs should be small enough to fit down your esophagus. you shove it down your throat only to find it gets lodged right around where your adam's apple should be. quickly you run to your firdge and root through the shelves to find a real boiled egg in the side door. you crack it open and throw the egg down the hatch. nothing. it gets stuck in your throat, above the plastic egg. three whoopsies. for one, you have a plastic egg stuck in your throat, second the plastic egg is now dirty with real egg on it, and third you are wasting food. most likely if you haven't swallowed the plastic egg by now, its not going down and will have to eventually come back up, thus wasting a perfectly good egg (assuming you catch it in your hands to save).
2. you eat some good grilled fish and miss a bone, thus swallowing a fish bone and lodging it in your throat. you proceed with either more fish or corn on the cob or inevitably some other really good food and none of it goes down, because some fish decided he wasn't good enough to be a whale, so he grew small bones. its now in your throat and preventing you from eating anything else. the nerve of fish.
3. you actually somehow swallow food down your windpipe. this is a really bad one, because not only is it not going to be digested, but its going to eventually come back up your windpipe and it most likely hurts right now, will hurt as its coming back up, and hurt after the fact. and you've wasted food. again. idiot.
4. the food which once went down your throat nicely as good nice food should, has decided its not ready to be digested, so it takes a little detour and starts its return trip ticket option. your brain realizes it before its come to its final destination and for a split second is unsure what to to for the shock of food returning to its original point of departure is rare once you reach a certain age and are able to realize this. suddenly your brain kicks in and knows that the food hasn't passed customs and is being screened and fingerprinted because its definately a foreigner and tells the food to go back to its 'home'. for that one split second where its not quite here or there. that is the pinnacle of food purgatory. ++
Thursday, April 15, 2004
++ GARY AND TOM
have infiltrated my blog. perhaps we should create another blog so they can post. however i'm afraid if i make another blog specifically so they can post, then no one will visit my blog, thus reducing my target crowd to me. .. which i suppose wouldn't be all that bad. losing gary and tom? nooooo. really?
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pros: life would still go on. .. without gary and tom. i can write anything and not have it made fun of or sarcastically commented on (by gary or tom). i could not update it for lengthy periods of time and no one would notice (especially gary or tom). i could make fun of gary and tom.
cons: gary could be missed. tom, well, thats a different story, i'm not sure there is a con there, except for tom himself, a master of cons.
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this one's for gary to give to tom.
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perhaps a title for the new blog would be needing some suggestions in order to get it set up. and also a short description of the new blog. and also a suggestion of what the web address should be. (and if anyone else, samee, or any of jay's other friends would like to be included in this blog, they should comment on how much they would enjoy the screwed up sarcastic mentality of this insane crowd and i'll include them. but if they aren't going to contribute anything, its probably not worth their time to be included. i don't think. nor do i think it would be a good idea.) ++
have infiltrated my blog. perhaps we should create another blog so they can post. however i'm afraid if i make another blog specifically so they can post, then no one will visit my blog, thus reducing my target crowd to me. .. which i suppose wouldn't be all that bad. losing gary and tom? nooooo. really?
..
pros: life would still go on. .. without gary and tom. i can write anything and not have it made fun of or sarcastically commented on (by gary or tom). i could not update it for lengthy periods of time and no one would notice (especially gary or tom). i could make fun of gary and tom.
cons: gary could be missed. tom, well, thats a different story, i'm not sure there is a con there, except for tom himself, a master of cons.
..
this one's for gary to give to tom.
..
perhaps a title for the new blog would be needing some suggestions in order to get it set up. and also a short description of the new blog. and also a suggestion of what the web address should be. (and if anyone else, samee, or any of jay's other friends would like to be included in this blog, they should comment on how much they would enjoy the screwed up sarcastic mentality of this insane crowd and i'll include them. but if they aren't going to contribute anything, its probably not worth their time to be included. i don't think. nor do i think it would be a good idea.) ++
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