I left work early today at around 1:30 PM. I’m off for the rest of the week! The week will probably go by quicker than I want, but at least I will be well rested — I hope I would be anyway.
So here’s to longer breaks from work, and Merry Christmas everyone!
Stanley Aronowitz discusses his latest book Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future on the radio show Against the Grain. He talks about the lack of a real left party in the US and about capitalism.
I just read a very disturbing article about a Dutch diplomat and his wife giving up a South Korean girl to social workers, after they had adopted her seven years earlier. The reason the couple gave for giving up the child was “culture shock.” How can culture shock even be an issue when you’ve raised the kid since she was a baby! Furthermore, people should be adopting kids because they want to provide them with a good home, not because they want the kids to make them happy. There’s no such thing as “not working out” when it comes to raising children. I think the Dutch diplomat and his wife are probably racist since the South Korean girl doesn’t fit in with their other children (in terms of looks), and they are also very selfish for only thinking about themselves and not the girl.
I was checking out the new themes added to the iGoogle page. For those of you who don’t know what iGoogle is, it’s a personalized version of Google which you can add widgets and choose themes.
Anyway, the theme I’m using right now is called Seasonal Landscape. It’s quite cute, and for some reason the ladybug and the frog reminds me of Ams and I. The frog would be me and the ladybug would be Ams. Look at the screen shot below. :P
I remember this one time at Bramalea City Centre with Ams. We were eating lunch at the food court, and this guy was trying to shake his bottle of iced tea by hitting it. However, instead of hitting the bottle from the bottom, like you’re supposed to, he hit it from the top. The result? The bottle shattered instantly at the bottom.
Today I came across this page talking about how to blow the bottom of a beer bottle. Apparently the pressure from the rushing liquid is enough to break the bottom completely off. I guess when you hit the bottle from the bottom, the metal lid at the top prevents the bottom from breaking?
I finished making a new layout for my fiancee last night. I’m really proud of it, and apparently she likes it too — which is what matters. Since I’ve been working at the Globe, there has definitely been an improvement to my skills working with CSS, especially the understanding of rendering quirks in IE6. *cough* IE6 sucks *cough*
US presidential candidate Tom Tancredo has approved a TV ad talking about “[securing] the borders, deporting those who don’t belong, and make sure they never come back.” This ad comes after another that says the US needs to close up the borders to immigrants that has “come to take our jobs” and to “kill.”
Does anyone actually take this guy seriously? Why the hell would you have someone like that running for president? This all reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Mayor Quinby blamed Springfield’s woes on the immigrants.
I also read an article on MSNBC, which quoted Tancredo saying, “If we are serious about achieving the goal of a colorblind society, Congress should lead by example and end these divisive, race-based caucuses.” Excuse me? who said anything about wanting a color-blind society. As long as racism exists (and it is very alive right now) we will need race-based laymakers because they are the ones who will speak for the oppressed. Even though the concept of race is only a social-construct, it is also a social reality and we need treat it as such.
Mr. Tancredo is sounding wackier and wackier the more I read about him.
My name is Jack Hsu. I'm engaged to Ams. I graduated from the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. I enjoy playing video games. I'm a web developer at The Globe and Mail. You can reach me through email at jack.hsu[at]gmail[dot]com.
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