Posted by E190 on July 29, 2005
Instead of heeding the customs of my people or getting drunk like my other people, I have been surfing the net and I came across a very strange thing. I am, apparently, worth $5,836.86 and 10 shares of me were, unbeknownst to me, recently purchased by a Mr Alexander Maier. How could I have missed it when I went on the market?
What’s more, I had apparently suffered a dramatic tumble in value (how horrible!) until said purchase of various parts of me by Mr Maier, as can be seen in the graph thingy above. I understand nothing of this, but I extend my hearty and heartfelt gratitude to Mr Maier, whoever he may be, for maintaining and enhancing my value.
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Posted by E190 on July 28, 2005
Yesterday evening, I attended the volunteer appreciation party at the HIV/AIDS organisation where I volunteer (as opposed to the one where I work). There were hundreds of cute boys, drinks (although I don’t drink), nibbles, hundreds of cute boys, a singer who was very popular in the 80s and has since dropped of the face of the Earth. There were also door prizes: certificates for massages, for manicures, for pedicures, for expensive restaurants.
And two air tickets to anywhere in North America. Guess which prize I won.
I found myself suddenly surrounded by cute boys, for some reason. But being unboyfriendable these day, I will forced to test the strength of my relationship with my good friend AlefAlef and take him instead of those opportunistic beauties. And already we’re fighting, he and I: AlefAlef wants to go to a beach and get skin cancer, whereas I want to hike in the wilderness and get eaten alive by blood-sucking, pestilence-spreading insects. The compromise may be the Yucatan, where he can ruin is complexion and I can wander through Mayan ruins.
My elation lasted right up until this morning when I read about the subject of the following post. Then it slumped dramatically.
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Posted by E190 on July 28, 2005
Two gay Iranian teenagers — one 18, the other believed to be 16 or 17, were executed this week for the “crime” of homosexuality, Irangay_teens the Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) reported on July 19 [ . . . ] The two youths — identified only by their initials as M.A. and A.M., were hanged on July 19 in Edalat (Justice) Square in the city of Mashhad in north-eastern Iran, on the orders of Court No. 19.
I live in one of the countries that leads the world in human rights while on the other side of the world, teenagers are hanged for loving whom they love. Pakistan makes headlines for the horrific legalised gang rape of a young woman, yet the hanging of two teenagers makes nary a blip in the world.
I haven’t been able to get the image of the young boy weeping minutes before his death out of my mind. I hope I have troubles sleeping tonight.
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Posted by E190 on July 27, 2005
In Greenland, it’s being called an unjustified occupation, while Canadian diplomats won’t even deign to call it an irritant. [...] “When someone unfairly tries to exercise their influence on the island, which is claimed by both Greenland/Denmark and Canada, I can’t interpret the action as anything but occupation,” Josef Motzfeldt, deputy leader of Greenland’s home rule government, was quoted as saying on a Danish Internet site. And while Mr. Motzfeldt was dialing up the outrage, another newspaper, Berlingske Tidende, was reporting that a Danish inspection ship might be heading to Hans Island next month.
When the Danes try to reclaim Newfoundland, then the world will be in trouble.
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Posted by E190 on July 21, 2005
The ashes of Star Trek actor James Doohan, who died on Wednesday, are to be sent into space at his request … The Space Services Inc company said Doohan’s ashes could be on a Falcon 1 rocket launching from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base, tentatively scheduled for launch in September.
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Posted by E190 on July 19, 2005
Canadian diver who won a gold medal today at the World Aquatic Games in Montreal, Alexandre Despatie
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Posted by E190 on July 17, 2005
Separately blown off by two friends and cancelled on three times on two days by the same cute boy (now not so cute), I have spent the entire weekend in complete isolation. My inescapable conclusion: people are better in theory than in reality, even people I already know.
I will fade into the much more pleasant fantasy world of the new Harry Potter. I hear someone close to the main character of the work dies.
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