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    Question of the week

    1/27/2005 /

    My professor (disappointingly) couldn’t answer this without going into Cold War rhetoric (albeit thoughtful rhetoric): what makes Fidel Castro a bad person/the enemy? Better yet, is he a bad person? Even moving away from him as a person, why is his government bad? It is because the people under him have fewer political freedoms than we [think we?] do? It’d be nice to hear an answer from someone in my generation that hasn’t merely imported popular belief.

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    Got it covered, Cap’n.

    1/27/2005 /

    The entity that is Bluke Starlein was quoted in a local newspaper article. Yay Bluke! I was nominated for EIC at the Thorn meeting. I will have a staff of unknowns. I will have to work hella hard to get everyone together and enthusiastic and learning and working productively enough to keep me from needing to clean up behind them so much that I might as well be doing the original work myself. And I haven’t had the business aspects put on me yet. One thing makes it better, though: our contact at the printing company is a very nice guy. His advice for me on Tuesday was that “If…

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    Yes!

    1/25/2005 /

    The Fuck-Me-in-the-Ass assignment previously due tomorrow at 08:00 in my Fuck-Me-in-the-Ass-Class is now due on Monday at noon. I honestly had to choke back tears, right there in class. This class is killing me, but a weekend will be nice, since the full design of our team project is due to review on Friday. *whimper*.

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    F-cookies for everyone.

    1/24/2005 /

    Way before I heard of that lame “in bed” joke about fortune cookies, I had “f-cookies.” Pronounced “fuh-cookies”. One word. Back in ninth or tenth grade, when I was taking programming with the awesome and hilarious storyteller Alex, [dred-]locked Maurice, and Dan-the-Man, when life was simple and life was Turbo Pascal, when coding was about goofily writing unmaintainable code in as many languages as we knew, when Alex was allowed to dominate the class for half a period during coding time to have us giggling too hard to be able to see the monitors… … back then we had f-cookies. The assignment was simple: write a fortune cookie generator using…

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