The Major

Author: FourMajor

  • Question of the Year

    I was walking home the other night – I think it was after class – and a woman, standing on the sidewalk with her baby, asked me “Do you know where the…” and I started to think “restaurant…store…street…bus line?” But she continued “…moon is?” This took me completely by surprise. This was the night that there was a lunar eclipse. I took a quick look around. No, I didn’t know where the moon was. I feel like I should have known, though. How disconnected am I, are we, when I don’t know where in the sky the moon is?

    I think I need to go on survival training or something.

  • Relaxation

    Friday, nay, tomorrow night can’t come soon enough. I guess 24 hours isn’t too bad to have to wait for a killer drum and bass show. And then my first “do nothing” day in a few years. (My definition of do-nothing day is simply to not plan anything and then do whatever I want that day, no work of any sort.)

    I have taken off of work on Friday. And even though I’m not officially planning anything, I have some ideas of what to do. I can imagine my day right now and it sounds awesome…wake up at around 11am. Eat something. Play basketball. Go to the sports bar from 5pm to 10pm to watch some killer basketball games (while eating something else), and then World of Warcraft. But like I said, no official plans! I haven’t promised anyone, including myself, that I will be somewhere at a certain time, so I might end up doing something completely different than this. Maybe fall asleep in Golden Gate Park. Maybe drive to Sausalito and look out on the bay. Maybe a giant game of Civ. Maybe World of Warcraft ALL DAY (probably not – I’d end up viewing my day of freedom as wasted). The possibilities are basically without limit for a whole 24 hours, and it feels awesome just thinking about it.

  • Startled

    Imagine you’re sitting in a dead quiet library. And it is 30 minutes before closing. All of a sudden, the GODDAMN FIRE ALARM GOES OFF for about 5 seconds. Is there a fire? No. This is how they get your attention to announce that the library is closing in 30 minutes.

    I haven’t written a letter in a long time, but I think the SFSU library may be getting one.

  • McCain Now Pro-torture

    The one thing I used to like about John McCain was that he was strongly anti-torture. Why then has he voted in favor of torture? My theory is that he is desperately trying to win over the conservative voters that he evidently doesn’t have the support of. I knew he would do this on some issues, but torture seemed to be one issue that he wouldn’t change his mind on.

    I am more and more scared of John McCain every day.

  • Martin Luther

    Sorry for all the quotes recently. Part of my study strategy this semester is to look up on Wikipedia everything that I highlight (for my History classes). I found this information on Martin Luther to be fascinating:

    Much scholarly debate has concentrated on Luther’s writings about the Jews. His statements that Jews’ homes should be destroyed, their synagogues burned, money confiscated and liberty curtailed were revived and used in propaganda by the Nazis in 1933–45. As a result of this and his revolutionary theological views, his legacy remains controversial.

  • Barack Obama

    From an article on antiwar.com, a nice snippet that nicely sums up my view of Barack Obama:

    Barack Obama, an Iraq war opponent who otherwise has found no foreign intervention he opposes.

  • Cosimo de’ Medici

    Cosimo de’ Medici sums up the attitudes of those in credit card debt:

    …it became clear that spending money gives me greater pleasure than earning it

    Of course, he didn’t have to be in debt to spend money.

  • Random Update

    I know I haven’t written on here for a bit. School has started, and with three classes, plus work, plus activism stuff, plus trying to lose weight, plus trying to have a social life at least once or twice per week, that has left blogging on the back burner.

    Good news is that all of the above, besides blogging, is going pretty well. Hopefully I’ll have time to write more later. But for this morning I just wanted to say that, oh my, organic apples have so much more flavor than conventionally grown apples. I try to keep apples and bananas at my place all the time, but when I don’t get home until late the grocery store is already closed. So I stopped by a corner store on the way to work for an apple this morning. It was certainly bigger than the organic apples, but it wasn’t as firm, and it tasted a lot more watery. Less flavor per cubic centimeter, you might say.

  • Poll: Should I Grow My Goatee Back?

    Update 2: Neck and neck with 4.5 hours to go!
    Update: Just a few days left, with Huge Goatee in the lead by a 2:1 margin!

    Clean shaven:
    Clean shaven thumb

    With huge goatee:
    Goatee thumb

    [poll=2]

  • San Francisco Murders

    The murders in San Francisco last year were NIMBY.