Category Archives: Rants, Raves, and Whines

Perhaps this week’s third (near) all-nighter

Posted on June 7, 2007 by Matt

Never has 11 days seemed so long. 10:25pm: Home from practice & dinner 2:15am: Finished paper 4:25am: Halfway done with Frankenstein 5:15am: Three-quarters. The birds just started chirping. 6:02am: Boo-frickin-ya.

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This week is not my friend

Posted on June 6, 2007 by Matt

Not a good day. My FTP program freaked out and deleted an entire program–the only copy I have of it. It was almost finished, and I was going to post it up here within the next few days. Now, it’s … Continue reading →

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About the word “race”

Posted on April 30, 2007 by Matt

How can we get away using a term like “race”? It has no meaning. Ethnicity? Culture? Sure. Skin color? Area of origin? Language? Sure. Not that we should be divided along those borders; exactly the opposite. However, how is it … Continue reading →

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Xanga as simulacra

Posted on December 11, 2006 by Matt

Here’s something fun. Jean Baudrillard, a French philosopher, founded a lot of his theories on the idea of simulacra. It’s quite complicated, but the general concept is that a simulacrum is a simulation that so effectively represented the original (often … Continue reading →

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