| life: serendipity |
[Sep. 24th, 2003|08:30 am] |
two meetings today with completely different people on the same subject. the first one for lunch, the other one for dinner :)
i think i understand the subject of the discussions "through and through", just like a haiku. |
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| scratchpad |
[Sep. 24th, 2003|08:55 am] |
the vast majority of people don't really know what and how they want (smth) beyond common cliches. organized religion used to fill the gap, making it easier to choose relatively well defined needs and goals. now we have the whole "understanding" industry, including mass media, that is driven by the very same people who don't have a clue. therefore the emphasis is being put on "the quality of experience", which adds even more mess into the brains, because there's no structure behind it. the new knowledge obtained through media experience is not instrumental, or not instrumental enough to build relevant mental models of life events, which relate to things outside of "what do I buy today to be happy".
By the way, I'm going to start using caps, because writing without them makes it difficult to conciously separate sentences. Everything becomes an endless rant, rather then a coherent set of thoughts. |
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| California elections. |
[Sep. 24th, 2003|08:19 pm] |
Today I happen to turn on the radio and found out that according to the latest traffic data the Bay area congestion became less of a problem. Sure, I can see that. But the most interesting detail came from our Governor Davis, who claimed this as the direct result of his administration's infrastructure investment policy. What a fuck! The unemployment rate in the valley is about 10%, 30% of offices are vacant, of course you are going to get fewer people commuting back and forth!
Very similar to his another clam that the recent gains in school tests were the result of the class size reduction program. Well, the improvement in scores came mostly from the higher grade students, whose class sizes were completely unaffected. The money he spent on building new classrooms were mostly wasted, because in the end there were not enough qualified teachers to teach there. Moreover, because of the lack of good teachers, the quality of education actually went down.
Man, what a freaking blatant liar. |
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| senryu |
[Sep. 24th, 2003|11:27 pm] |
ah, hot chocolate --
my teeth aching
for the early days |
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