for those too lazy to hit up the video store...

an inconvenient truth Part 1 and Part 2. get it while it's there, money. send your friends here if they're lazy, too.

the death of a martyr, a monster, and a man

for any who are the least interested in a non-mainstream western account of saddam hussein's execution, written by a rather (read: very) good writer, read this article by robert fisk, in the independent.

then read chomsky's 'hegemony or survival', just for good measure. it's amazing what the american government has done over the decades.

[sarcasm] way to go, america. [/sarcasm]

i've really outdone myself this time; it's 10:20am and i have yet to sleep. but i did do a rather impressive amount of reading up on teaching english in japan, and moreover i managed to replace the broken hard drive in my mp3 player with a compact flash card. it was far more complex and involved than my last mp3 player's inner workings, but after some dismantling and reconstructing (repeated a few times) i figured it all out.

so now i have an mp3 player again, and i even have a memento in the form of a small part that came loose from the circuit board and wouldn't go back in properly. it works, it's faster than ever, and best yet the battery should last even longer than before.

ipod nano eat your heart out. i rocks the flash microphoto 8Gb now, batch.

"the unexamined life is not worth living" - plato

if you're at all interested in good books about the incredible things humans are capable of, then you might like born on a blue day and if you're a thinker, then you might like the philosophy of religion.

if you haven't seen them, rent who killed the electric car?, an inconvenient truth, and the corporation. educate yourselves. don't take the films at face value either, but watch them and then start questioning things for yourself. it's your world, you may as well be involved in it.

plato was on some real with that quote; question everything. question your parents, question science, question your teachers, question religion, question philosophy. most certainly question your leaders, and as importantly question your followers. question your peers, your elders, and those younger. it doesn't mean that you need to disagree with everything; that's just not possible. but learn as much as you can, and do your thinking for yourself. don't be afraid to be critical. it's the only way that progress is ever made, and it may be the only way to truly learn anything about the world you live in, and about yourself.

don't take my word for it, try it yourself.
jh..

every exam period ends like this

i'm done.

i'm exhausted.

i'm going to sleep for a week.

(i also bought a film scanner, so i'm going to be posting some new ish.)

to bed!

late late late

it's late.

but on a fun note, the photoblog now has "labels" attached to the posts. they're categories, really. so you can peep all of the water-themed photos on one page, for example. peep it here.

and i bought a banjo. it's hella fun, but way harder to play than i'd thought it would be. big ups to ian pregitzer for hooking me up with it. it's a beauty.


here's to everyone getting through the coming dates when things are due,
jh..