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Archive for April, 2005
Why, oh why, does this make me pine for fantastical times with a nintendo console and a viking ship?
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Lileks has the quote of the day:
…if Orville Redenbacher is in hell, he will gargle old maids for a century while a demon tamps kernels down his gullet before he sees more corn than I did.
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“Second year of college over… time for a nap.” -CHO
Oh, that simple little phrase just captures so much.
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Here in a few weeks a conference will be held on blogging at Belmont. Known as BlogNashville, it’s supposed to be the largest blogging event held this year, and is apparently going to cover topics ranging from anonymous blogging under repressive governments to making money with your blog. Ah, sounds interesting, but with finals surrounding that conference, I just hope to slip into watch a few sessions. Namely just the ones featuring Glenn Reynolds, fellow Knoxvillian and author of the number one blog. It’s a free event open to the public, but they ask that you register. Oh well, I hope they don’t mind if I peer over the balcony into the Beaman Student Life Center and Maddox Grand Atrium.
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There was a thrilling discovery today on campus. We’re now a real college.
A girl came into MicroEconomics eating a hot Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich. How can that be when the closest one is a good 11 miles away? Friends, the evil which inhabits our cafeteria and all campus eateries has finally succumb to that which pleases my tummy. We now have Chick-fil-A on campus–well, the sandwiches at least. For now… But as the representative from Chick-fil-A told me, they’ll be here to stay if we like them. Which, by the massive line I was in to get one as I passed him, sounds like a sure deal. All rejoice.
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If you haven’t found the addiction known as thefacebook.com yet, perhaps you’re school will be the unfortunate next victim. In the meantime, take a look at the saddest thing ever. Parties can be created on thefacebook to invite others and plan out the thing and such. Today while browsing the parties, I came across this:
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So Apple won’t refund opened software. Okay, fine. That’s lovely.
If anyone’s looking to buy iWork ‘05, you should just buy it from me instead of the Apple Store. I give better hugs anyway.
(Edit: SOLD!)
Next mission: Find out how to get Apple to give me a free upgrade to Tiger.
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Okay, so the goins on yesterday may not have been as bad as expected. Sure Belmont comes out looking like a bully, but as Bill Hobbs reports, it wasn’t by students who only thought they knew what they were talking about. In fact, one student is a Sudanese refugee who lived down the hall from me last year. The student, Amr Ali, stood up and confronted the ambassador, and Hobbs notes one of Amr’s comments:
I want you to look at me. This is the future. The people that you have oppressed, the people that your government has kicked out of the country will go back and make a better Sudan. We will make the country greater than it has ever been since you have raped it since 1989.
*Photo credited to News@Belmont
The Tennessean also picked it up. (The full Tennesseean article is here.) Not suprisingly to most bloggers, Hobbs did a much more thorough job covering the story, but the newspaper did mention one more thing, however, in naming the professor who led the walkout. Professor Daniel Schafer, my history professor last semester, spoke before Kabeir got up.
Given that situation, Schafer said, students would be better served to leave the room and take part in a letter-writing campaign in the next room. ”He is not here to listen to our concerns, but to pretend to listen to our concerns,” Schafer said.
With that, about 70 students got up and left.
I have to admit, perhaps I should have gone. It would have been interesting to see. And it certainly would have been interesting to see my buddy Amr lambast the Sudanese representative. Let’s just hope the little disclaimer in all the news outlets, such as this snippet from WVLT in Knoxville, is taken into consideration before judging Belmont too harshly:
Belmont officials who organized the event with deputy chief of mission Abdelbagi Kabeir say they warned him the audience would be strongly opposed to his government.
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On a weird note in Nashville.
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