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Re: Watch Lars Ulrich’s UC Berkley Panel Get Interrupted by Student Protesters

jackjuly — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 16:12:41 -0000

To everyone who is voicing an opinion on these protestors without actually knowing what they were protesting, take a deep breath. *Not taking any sides*, but I was at the event, and the protest was over employment policies at UC, which dictate that events like this one are not available to lower-tier (ie non-academic) staff, and that therefore public money is being used to bring elite (their words, not mine) speakers and educators in, but not actually giving the "public" access to them. This isn't a one-off, but is instead one in a whole series of protests on this topic, all of which have been summarily ignored. As this post points out, Lars Ulrich did a great job trying to defuse this by giving the mic to one of the protestors, and his sentiment was followed up by some of his speakers, who noted that they had no idea that access had been denied to UC staff.

Re: http://jackjuly.tumblr.com/post/14572620342

jackjuly — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:57:36 -0000

ha!!!!!! so few exclamations can be made with my limited symbols! Oh, Ben, this has made me so happy!

How are you? Have you left already?

Re: http://jackjuly.tumblr.com/post/2755146760

jackjuly — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:41:37 -0000

Yes, those are Purkinje cells. Beautiful, aren't they?

Re: http://jackjuly.tumblr.com/post/4585253825

jackjuly — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:43:33 -0000

Birds and turtles have the same coincidence-detector: coincidence?

Re: http://jackjuly.tumblr.com/post/2870264658

jackjuly — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 22:44:46 -0000

ha! Give me all that you have.

Re: 西双版纳之行

jackjuly — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:33:04 -0000

hey,

This was the trip with Mills and co. I had been to Yunnan before
(Xishuangbanna is in southern Yunnan), but on that trip didn't go to the
south.

Xishuangbanna is a border region in Asia, which makes it likely to be a
place where you will find sex tourists, although this is mitigated by how
difficult it is to be a tourist of any kind in China, especially outside of
major populations centers or where standard Mandarin is not in use. If
there was sex tourism there, I didn't see any of it. It is much more
prominent in two places nearby: across the Laotian border, it is such a
problem that Laotian-foreigner romantic relations are illegal; and elsewhere
in Yunnan province, such as close to the border with Burma, where the
terrain and the extent of other (esp. human) trafficking operations are
overwhelming. Sex tourism is rampant in many places in Asia, and most of
them are easier to get to and easier to get by in.

What made the area memorable is that, like the rest of Yunnan province, it
is a place where minority cultures are still thriving. I forget the
numbers, but there may be as many Dai people as Han, not to mention a dozen
or so other groups. Unlike much of Yunnan, however, foreign tourists don't
seem to have really found it yet (as opposed to Dali, Lijiang, and Zhongdian
elsewhere in Yunnan), which for me makes it worth traveling.

Besides that, the people were very friendly, the scenery was striking, there
was plenty of tea (being close to Pu'er), and the Dai food was pretty
exciting. Pineapples stuffed with sticky rice and then chargrilled are
probably the most delicious thing I have ever eaten. One thing that
detracted from the area is that at the time, foreigners there were not
permitted to use the internet, something it took a while to work out of the
locals.

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Re: 西双版纳之行

jackjuly — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:30:09 -0000

Nice. Xishuangbanna is one of my favorite places in the world. Ahh, the internet, we love the way that it never forgets.

Re: http://petitchou.tumblr.com/post/2370828969

jackjuly — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:37:56 -0000

I don't see a half-marathon on that link...am I missing it? Just a marathon, then 21 or 10.6...

Re: "How Mariah Carey Makes Goats Produce More Milk"

jackjuly — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:17:26 -0000

I would like to point out that there were no control experiments performed here. Was it Mariah they liked? Or just music? Or perhaps the milkmaids, while listening to Mariah, tended to milk with a renewed vigor?

Just sayin...

Re: http://sexpigeon.org/post/2317930268

jackjuly — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:16:38 -0000

Could be a starfruit, though I don't know if it is usually used in savory dishes in (Vietnam?).

Re: http://mills.tumblr.com/post/530998863

jackjuly — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:53:53 -0000

This is true: on the way up to BR for the St. Patty's parade, Twitch, Brennan, and I saw a roadkilled peacock--feathers unfurled and body flattened like a beautiful shipwreck, its target not sufficiently impressed to avoid killing it. Sad, sad, sad.

Re: http://billydalto.tumblr.com/post/498969079

jackjuly — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:48:02 -0000

from the text: "Scholars and therapists agree on the existence of a sort of second law of thermodynamics for sentimental relationships. Effort is required to sustain them. Love is not enough."

This is so, so fucking good. Mills, you son of a bitch, when will you realize that we are trying to save you?

Re: http://billydalto.tumblr.com/post/414167231

jackjuly — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:35:23 -0000

Yes, when I went on the road trip down there w/ D. Dykes (I actually thought it was 'quitlacoche'). Ladies that bring corn to the market sometimes bring this as well, though mostly I had it as the protein component of tacos at restaurants. It was usually prepared as a black paste, and had a complexity and flavor to it that was somewhere between tempeh and ricotta cheese. Yum.

Re: http://billydalto.tumblr.com/post/414167231

jackjuly — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:07:36 -0000

If you haven't had this stuff over to burrito night at the Manor, you're wasting your life. It's fucking amazing.

Re: Jack July - Jack Burden, the protagonist in R.P. Warren’s All...

jackjuly — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:14:11 -0000

We've never had rabbits, and anyone who says otherwise is anti-Dalton! We must not only liquidate anti-Daltons, but those that may become anti-Dalton or even Dalton-neutral.

Sweet? I'm certain, 100% certain, that I have never heard anything about rabbit milk.

Re: Jack July - Jack Burden, the protagonist in R.P. Warren’s All...

jackjuly — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:11:04 -0000

yes! Thanks for the rec. I have found this subject really endlessly fascinating, though, not being a historian or plugged in with their people, I lack direction..

Re: Jack July - Jack Burden, the protagonist in R.P. Warren’s All...

jackjuly — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:09:51 -0000

Hey,

I have not been eaten, just tied up with school applications. I thus reemerge.

This is why I like Soviet history as well--for as depraved as each character is, you know that they will all fall the way they cause others to. Stalin had to survive it all; it makes it all about Stalin.

Re: mills baker - Ills Manor, Est. 2008 (larger) I got many nice...

jackjuly — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:39:28 -0000

Mills: We move now to our own manor, and, god and Ills willing, we will decorate it with your wonderful photographs. How can I get them in high picture quality? Can I run through your flickr set and choose a few?

Re: billy dalto

jackjuly — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:32:59 -0000

Did you think that I wouldn't find this? Consider all future plans foiled!

Re: noosphere

jackjuly — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:59:55 -0000

I can't believe that you found this before I did. Did you hear how they mapped this? Very neat..

Re: I could be lying about all of this since there is no photographic proof.

jackjuly — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:55:06 -0000

Note: the following rebuttal contains graphic and gratuitous use of business terminology.

Ngan, do you hate free enterprise? Do you hate America? I am simply busting your monopoly, which in some circles would make me a pretty stand-up guy. Maybe someone else will actually set up a blind date service for billy, and we'll both be out of a job. Whatever! Welcome to the marketplace. A.B.C.!

Re: I could be lying about all of this since there is no photographic proof.

jackjuly — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:42:49 -0000

I am offering the phone number of billydalto, plus promising details, for 1/2 of this price. Consider it. We grew up together. I have the information you want...

Re: noosphere

jackjuly — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:58:43 -0000

1) This is bizarre and awesome. Robotic bees are the culmination of all research to date.

2) Check out Michael Dickinson, from Caltech. He studies how flies fly and has built flight simulators for flies as well as a giant flapping fly contraption in an oil tank to study flight fluid dynamics.

3) This is awesome.

Re: billy dalto

jackjuly — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:38:58 -0000

hoot!

Re: noosphere - neural information processing systems meeting (& skiing)

jackjuly — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:26:00 -0000

This actually looks pretty cool, lots of big ideas. I wonder if I can get work to pay for this. It is, after all, enriching, no?

Snowboarding AND neuroscience? How could such a perfect event exist? Resolve THAT dilemma, cruel world...