| I'm hungry, feed me a Viper! |
[Apr. 13th, 2008|12:00 pm] |
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After agonizing whether I should trade in the hotrod for something else I've decided to keep it. So to cement the deal I dropped a supercharger into the blue devil. Yummmm!
Next up, a trip to Alice's via Skyline Rd. |
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| The Olympics come to San Francisco! |
[Apr. 9th, 2008|05:21 pm] |
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OK not really but the torch made a brief appearance today then disappeared again. You'd have to be pretty much brain-dead to not know this year's summer Olympics in Beijing is big news. It seems that some people aren't too happy about China promoting peace and unity while being a totalitarian government and claiming Tibet and Taiwan as dependent states.
"Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles."
Olympic Charter, Fundamental principles, paragraph 2
The main protesters of the Chinese Olympics are people interested in freedom for Tibet.
For those of you living in a hole Tibet is a little mountainous area on the China side of the Himalaya mountains with Nepal and India on the other side of Mt. Everest to the southwest. In a nutshell Tibet is one of those 'contested' places that has been a separate nation and a conquered province of Chinese emperors, Mongols, and local warlords since... oh say the dawn of civilization. Tibet declared independence from China after the fall of an emperor you don't care about in 1911 but China apparently wanted it back because it invaded in 1950, killed off or ran off everyone in power and set up shop trying to 'integrate' Tibet by destroying nearly all of the monastaries, setting up a puppet government, and dividing up all of the land and giving it to any Chinese immigrant that wanted to live there. Naturally the Tibetans don't care much for this and are using the Beijing Olympics as a good tool to give the Chinese government a nice global "poke in the eye."
Fast forward to today where the glorious Olympic torch makes a brief appearance in San Francisco and is greeted by lots of protesters of China's human rights policies and its crushing oppression of Tibet.
 
But lets not forget about all the Chinese in the bay area as well. They also turned out in a massive counter-protest, er, I mean in support of the Beijing Olympics.
 
Want to know the funniest thing I saw all day? That was the hoards of Chinese people on the BART heading back to where we all live in Fremont and both sides were happily chatting each other up, talking about... stuff, their little Chinese flags, anti-Olympic signs, pro-Olympic signs tucked away in backpacks. Only in America! |
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| Quote of day... |
[Apr. 4th, 2008|08:00 pm] |
Me, to Cinnamon and Orin on our adventures in baking:
Hmmm, I do believe that these chocolate chip cookies could do with a good deal more bacon.
Apparently when making bacon and chocolate chip cookies, you really need a good deal of bacon. |
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