| a poem |
[Aug. 27th, 2009|09:54 am] |
the flowers
the breeze
the trees
the hum
the hummingbird
seeks
the tasty plum |
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| wedding chateau |
[Jul. 21st, 2009|04:18 pm] |
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She's telling me a story that she's making up as she is looking through a picture book. It's the kind of book inside of which you put pictures or photos. This picture book consists of photos of people from her life from when she was about 1 and 2 years old. As she's telling the story she gets to a photo of Nina and Marc; friends who live in Brooklyn. It's a picture from their wedding in France (he's French). She incorporates this photo into the story by describing the wedding as being held at "Shatoh Barwah". She also describes and elaborate banquet consisting of pastries, notably croissants. I ask where she got the name from. She says she just made it up. I asked if she knew what the words meant and she says they are made up words. I tell her "Chateau" is kind of like a large cottage or country house or a small castle in France and perfectly appropriate place to have a wedding. She responds with "Look at me with French words! I rock!" |
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[Mar. 31st, 2009|02:37 pm] |
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My original Ipod is dead (It was 30 gig Ipod photo). In looking to replace it, I've decided that I want an Ipod Touch. I don't want an Iphone. Do any of you have experiences with them? Like them? love them? meh? |
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| wimax tracking 6 |
[Mar. 20th, 2009|06:34 pm] |
Location: Near the back of the Bagdad waiting in line for BSG screening.
SE 37th and Clay
Pretty good signal (10 bars).
Download Speed: 6853 kbps (856.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 497 kbps (62.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
A shame it's not like this in other parts of inner southeast Portland. They say it will get better. |
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| wimax tracking 5 |
[Mar. 20th, 2009|07:47 am] |
downtown portland on Max train (Pioneer Mall stop)
Download Speed: 3572 kbps (446.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 411 kbps (51.4 KB/sec transfer rate) |
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| wimax tracking 4 |
[Mar. 20th, 2009|07:33 am] |
ON Bus 14 at SE 20th and Hawthorne
Download Speed: 6806 kbps (850.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 502 kbps (62.8 KB/sec transfer rate) |
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| wimax tracking 3 |
[Mar. 18th, 2009|03:33 pm] |
location: SW Barnes at HW 217.
Download Speed: 3661 kbps (457.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 516 kbps (64.5 KB/sec transfer rate) |
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| wimax tracking 2 |
[Mar. 17th, 2009|01:19 pm] |
Location: SW 3rd and Pine (Stumptown)
BW: 1742 kbps down 101 kbps up
interestingly my signal varies from 2 bars 7 (out 10 total). Haven't figured the trick to getting access to stats from the dongle yet. |
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| wimax tracking 1 |
[Mar. 17th, 2009|01:17 pm] |
Location: Bus 15 heading west near SE Morrison and 20th.
BW: 4200 kbps down/375 up |
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| race (xposted to fb) |
[Feb. 20th, 2009|04:10 am] |
Living in Portland I am not often exposed to deliberate acts of racism or hatred. I can say that I am not often exposed to subtle attacks thuogh they are relatively more frequent. What is frequent yet largely difficult to detect are acts of racism concealed so deeply that even the person behaving in this manner remains unawares. As far as they are concerned they may either believe they are not racist or just know how that its not acceptable to behave that way. The former category tend to be largely ignorant of the minority experience for better or for worse.
I think Portland suffers from this type of racism. It goes largely undiscussed and when people do bring it up it make people, Portlanders in general defensive. I think I even get defensive at time. [The sun is now rising here over the DCA airport here in Washington and the sky is that beautiful rosy dawn color] This is a discussion that needs to happen. Especially now given the kinds of crap I've seen on networked news media. Things like "Is racism dead."
That sort of question is complete bullshit and that is so not the discussion we need to have. I don't know what the conversation should look like but I think it needs to start with creating a space for minorities to speak frankly. I don't see this happening much and the fault belongs to all. It's my fault as a minority to not speak out about these things. Its the fault of minorities for ignoring their voice in this issue. It's the majority culture's fault for either not creating the space in cooperation with minorities or when they do for not letting us take the space ourselves by speaking for us (however well intentioned it may be) . It's the media's fault. It's the fault of the vacuum in cultural leadership. We are all to blame.
What made me think about this is my interaction with a store employee here in DCA. I'm waiting for my flight back home to Portland. I was buying some souvenirs in the gift shop.The clerk (whose race I will omit) spoke abruptly to me using unusual language ("I'm listening...") with deliberate lack of eye contact. He took obvious pains to have no physical contact with me in the handling of items bought. I was reminded of how I might behave when I am taking out my garbage. This contrasted greatly to his behaviour with other patrons. I'm obviously Latino. The other patrons where white and black. Its rare that I experience deliberate racism. But it still happens. |
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