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thoughts on “innovating away from aid”

February 16, 2010

Some background… this started because of a lengthy comment i made to a NPR piece on aid to Haiti:
This is a really specific example, and definitely an issue on which i feel pretty conflicted. I know a lot of folks who are doing good work in long term positions in other countries, or through projects […]

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race - the teachable moment

July 29, 2009

So of all the crazy coverage and ruminations about the Cambridge Police/Prof. Gates situation, I truly do love the Daily Show’s commentary on what we can learn about all this:
“Don’t forget your #@$*&$ keys.”

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scrapple and spam

July 17, 2009

Normally I do not give my spam folder a second thought aside from “Maybe I should actively rather than passively delete this stuff.”  Today I actually paused to look at the titles of the spam messages.  Promises of amazing enlargements, much words of wisdom on the best way to spend my money on weight loss, […]

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of mice and fetuses

October 9, 2008

Ok, first off I’m going to give you a disclaimer… if you are grossed out by mice and dead things and you don’t have a curiosity for poking at things, you should probably stop reading this post because that’s where this is going.

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words from the past… war

October 1, 2008

While listening to On The Media this week, I found myself amused and disheartened by the current economic crisis as well as the presidential race.  Sometimes it seems like we too easily get away from the things that are important in terms of values, in terms of issues to support, and it seems most people […]

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sustainability… meh

September 24, 2008

I just rolled my eyes really hard after reading an email, and I feel bad about it.
So Gore is coming to speak at Harvard at the launch of the greenhouse gas reduction program on October 22.  I should be excited, right?  I mean, this is the kind of stuff I want to work on, and […]

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sometimes i am kinda domestic

August 20, 2008

… and i find this to be absolutely hysterical because it is very far outside my nature.
Yesterday I scored some fabric off of freecycle. It was right down the street from work, and i made it a lunchtime project to retrieve. I went through the stash making a mental list of what i […]

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projects projects projects

April 14, 2008

This weekend was a lot of projects on top of scul betamission. I got really wet riding in the rain on Saturday, but I still had a lot of fun.
I mounted a wire on the back of bunny boogie and dropped it off at the somerville museum for the artist’s choice show for somerville […]

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hope

April 10, 2008

you may remember i wrote about why Happy Feet makes me sad, how i get frustrated by the movie because it implies that all we need to do to save the world is make people see what’s wrong. I don’t believe that, because people look at what’s wrong right in the face and don’t […]

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occupational frustration

April 9, 2008

Ever listen to This American Life?  I highly recommend it, or at least pick through for show themes that pique your interest.  Today I feel somewhat assuaged over any kind of occupational frustrations I might have.  Why?  Because I’m not an astronaut.  Episode #329 “Nice Work if You Can Get It” opens with a conversation […]

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