I was bored on the train to chicago, so I wrote a bunch of stuff, cut & pasted here for your enjoyment. I’ve broken it up into a few topical sections for your ease of perusal. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Ran back to Tom’s place to pick up a cd full of mp3s that Jason
\nChalecki burned for me back in 98 or 99 when I still believed I wanted
\nto be a programmer (Hi, Donovan \ud83d\ude09 [looking at the dates on the
\nfiles, it seems it was 98. Damn I’m old]. 650MB of mp3s will cover a
\nvery long train ride. Thank you so much, Jason. <\/p>\n
So, my train was a little late, but that’s no biggy. I got a few
\nnewspapers: Pittsburgh Tribune Review, New York Times, USA Today, and
\nPittsburgh City Paper. Read most of the Tribune Review (this is a
\nvirtual first for me. I rarely even skim the newspaper, but I’m
\ntrying to stay better informed. Part of being a better citizen, I
\nfigure.) I’ve justified it for years with my distaste for propaganda,
\nbut that’s a rationalization for avoiding the unfamiliar, and
\navoiding acceptance that I’m part of the game, whether I like it or
\nnot. <\/p>\n
I turned the laptop on and put in the cd, cursing myself because I was I avoided reading the paper for maybe 10-15 minutes, but pretty much Apparently cmu’s Prez is involved in an examination of the water It took me like an hour and 45 minutes to read the interesting parts I was bored on the train to chicago, so I wrote a bunch of stuff, cut & pasted here for your enjoyment. I’ve broken it up into a few topical sections for your ease of perusal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nsure that I hadn’t installed sonique, and I was correct, I hadn’t.
\nBut it seems windows media player
\nJason put the Winamp player on the cd. I used to think that was lame,
\nbut now I recognize Jason’s genius, and send my profuse thanks =)<\/p>\n
\nread all the news I cared about (if I ever take an interest in the
\nsports page, I will feel ready for the 1984-ending-esque bullet) in
\nthe Tribune Review before hitting cleveland. Conclusion: The world is
\nnuts, and violent. Justice is only dispensed in conflicts between
\npeople of the same socioeconomic class, and then almost never by the
\npeople involved in the conflict. Though I’m not sure that this is
\nanything new. Nor am I sure that this is truly representative of
\nreality, even if it’s all the papers report.<\/p>\n
\ndistribution infrastructure for the Greater Pittsburgh area. I’ve
\nactually met Jared Cohon (aforementioned Prez) and he struck me as
\npretty cool (for a straight old white guy ;). He’s been a driving
\nforce in getting domestic partner benefits at cmu. He asks sensible
\nquestions and seems to listen to the answers. Reminds me of a pretty
\ncool guy I know in the east bay also working on civic water
\ndistribution. But I digress.<\/p>\n
\nof one weekday paper, and I know it was incomplete and politically
\nslanted. I don’t understand how anyone has the time to read multiple
\nsources to cull out political bias in their information and get
\nbalanced information. At least, not if they want to do anything else,
\nincluding act on said information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"