Month: June 2004

When I was about seventeen years old and had my first girlfriend, for some reason, I started getting interested in Buddhism. I’ve always read and learned a lot about religions in general, and was brought up Catholic until I was at least sixteen. Even now I just finished a class on Islam, and may minor…

I encountered Chris from Steelwerks at Indigo briefly before arriving home, where I will now proceed to spend the entire evening writing a paper that is already very late – almost as late as possible, in fact. I attempted to chat him up in casually, but he seemed unamused, though still polite. “Where is my…

Wow, sitting at work here during a session of usage with Internet Explorer, it is starting to blow my mind just how many popups there are all over the web. I mean, I heard it was bad, but I never went through those years of use with a PC and IE; I went straight to…

So my iam.bmezine.com membership has expired officially as of today. For now, it’s just suspended, so it isn’t gone or anything. I just haven’t renewed it. I’ve been on that site for over 5 years now, and it’s stupidly addictive during certain periods. Essentially, the less you have to do with your life, the more…

Thank you, Mark, for the delectable title of your recent entry: “Learning Mandarin is hard for native English speakers.” If I may: I live in a city where you’re basically considered retarded if you can’t speak two languages. People struggle with learning French or English every day. It isn’t Paris, mind you, where I’ve heard…

Ha – as it turns out Xeni Jardin was among the Burning Man virgins last year, a group which I was also part of. Not that there was any chance of us meeting had I even known who she was (nor do I still), but it’s interesting to know that all these people show up.…