time [Liam]

-When I'm working, I find myself thinking a lot about my own grubby version of subjective time. Apparently the official theory is called "Eternalism" or "Block Time" (wiki). All I know is this: regardless of what anyone says, the hours of the workday are NOT proportioned equally by a damn sight. Here is my impression of an average weekday, painstakingly reconstructed in MS Paint:

Each of the above segments is labelled for the beginning time of that hour. I'm currently in the 800th "Subjective Liam Minute" of the 3:00-4:00 block. Clocks are bullshit.

ok really this time [Liam]

This week at brog2.com:
-The harrowing tale of my half marathon
-An account of my final afternoons on Taraval island
-Some other stuff I should have posted

In the meantime, in honor of the Academy Awards here's my voiceover picks for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie:
LEONARDO:

Adam Brody

DONATELLO:

Kal Penn

MICHELANGELO:

Sean William Scott

RAPHAEL:

Justin Timberlake

BRB I SWEAR

quick bulletin, actual content later [Liam]

to the brog2 folk: i got ambushed tonight after a couple scotches and some kind of thuggish applet cornered me and told me that we were going over to the "new blogger" before i could do anything else with this site... apparently some kind of dot-com gangster shit on the hojillion dollar level has trickled down into my/our corner of the internet and from now on you'll be logging in with a gmail/google ID. technologically speaking i try to be the most static and reactionary type of guy, but apparently blogger is under new management. sorry for the inconvenience. i assume everyone has a gmail account anyway. if not lemme know, i have like 8 million invites (not that people need them anymore... do they?).

letter [amy]

This letter is from April of 2003

I just found it this weekend, it's kind of spooky how dated it sounds, it was only about four years ago. In a way, there's a tiny (like microscopic tiny) bit of comfort to have a bit of hard evidence that the story has changed over the past four years. No one talks about WMDs any more. And no one has said much about Saddam Hussein's "support for terrorism" in a really long time either, even while he was alive. (If you don't count what he did to his own people, but I get the feeling that's not what the President was talking about in the letter.)

I don't have an opinion about what we ought to do about Iraq anymore. I don't know enough about the situation there to know what needs to be done to get life back to "normal" for the average Iraqi citizen. It seems like there are a lot of people who are informed who believe that we simply don't have enough people to accomplish lasting stability. And was that goal ever our power, as an foreign occupying force? And does sending more troops only mean more casualties, without significant change? On the other hand, we created this mess, a dicatorship has been replaced with a collapse of infrastructure and violence. Those who are able to are fleeing the country. Suicide bombings where there were none before the arrival of the U.S. We are responsible for this state of affairs, but what's the "right" thing to do at this point?

Four years later, this letter seems more hollow than ever. It's really depressing. I don't know what ought to happen, but things need to change.



Though one part of that letter is still relevant... I hope everyone comes home safe too.