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Upgrade Yourself
12 Emerging Technologies For Voluntary Cyborgs
By Akela Talamasca on July 15, 2009
Science moves forward, and takes with it the human body. Over the centuries humans have adapted to live longer, healthier lives. And as the pace of scientific advancement continues, so with it does our ability to modify and improve ourselves to deal with the changing circumstances of our world. Some of these advancements are necessary for the continuation of life, others are for the specialization and longevity of the human body, while still others are to make us better, faster, and stronger organisms that can achieve the impossible. The following are thirteen advances in science that have taken us from “mere human” to “super human”.
Bionic Vision
Ever wanted night vision? Or double the visual abilities of “perfect”? Well, the bionic eye will be able to help. Currently it’s being developed to help blind people regain vision, but the field of adaptive optics is moving closer and closer to perfecting night vision and helping those with perfect vision go even farther. So, completely blind or with perfect sight, the bionic eye can help you see beyond the capacities of any normal human.
The C-Leg
The C-Leg is a military grade prosthetic limb with an intelligent system that measure’s your gait 50 times per second for real time adjustments. One of the strongest and most advanced prosthetic limbs in the world, it is the U.S. military’s choice for a prosthetic leg for its soldiers. Made primarily from titanium, this leg gives you more strength and durability than any human leg could. If you’re not in the military, it will set you back $30,000 to $40,000 though.
The XOS Exoskeleton
If you ever saw “Iron Man”, you probably said exactly the same thing everyone else did; “Where can I get one of those?!” From Raytheon Company of course. The XOS Exoskeleton can be put on like an overcoat, but once on the wearer can easily lift 200 lbs. with one arm. 500 times in a row. Without breaking a sweat. Minus the ability to fly and the lack of weapons attached, this is the “Iron Man” suit.
The Rocket Belt
Since the 1960’s, various forms of jet packs and rocket belts have been successfully tested and used. If you have $125,000 lying around, you can own your own rocket belt and fly for up to 30 seconds at a time. Or you can spring for the more advanced T-73 Jet pack and fly for a full nine minutes, and up to 11 miles. At the very least, you can have one hell of a morning commute.
The Bionic Ear
Currently the most advanced bionic ear system involves an implant, software, a processor, and a wearable earpiece. The system allows you to hear the world more accurately and gives you much better audio acuity than any human ear can offer. It’s used with the hearing impaired to improve hearing, and can be used to increase general hearing with a healthy ear.
The Bullet Stopping T-Shirt
Lightweight, comfortable, but definitely not cotton. This brand new nano-technology involves spinning a fabric constructed out of carbon nanotubes. It’s seventeen times tougher than Kevlar and four times tougher than spider’s silk (which is five times tougher than steel). The bullet may still leave a mark, but rest assured, the bruise will fade.
Cybernetics
How about controlling a machine with your mind that reacts faster than your body possibly could? Or watching a monkey control a robot walking on a treadmill with its mind halfway across the world? One of these has already happened, and the other is quickly approaching. The ability to control a machine with your mind is one that’s created villains and fueled fantasies. Cybernetics research is quickly evolving to the point where, “if you can dream it, you can do it” isn’t just for Disney anymore.
Neural Implants
Neurotechnology is an emerging field that implants a device into your brain, allowing you to control an external device through thinking. Currently a quadriplegic man with one of these devices can control a machine the size of a room with only his mind. So, depending on the device you’re controlling, “superhuman” is a bit of an understatement.
Regeneration
The Holy Grail, or “Cup of Life” has been a quest of many, and obsession of few, and become a possibility with modern technology. Scientists are currently developing methods of regenerating limbs, organs, and body systems with the help of stem cells and current natural technologies found in other organisms. Because who wouldn’t want a fresh heart when they’re sixty.
Mind Reading
Ever wanted to know what someone was thing, or tell if they were lying? Well, now you can. At least, you can if you’re a scientist with a neural imager. By measuring a variety of neural activities, scientists have begun to read people spatial memories. If they can tell where you are (or have been), it’s just a matter of time until you can hold a device up to someone and know if he/she is, in fact, just not that into you.
Teleporting
“Beam me up, Scotty” isn’t just a famous line from television and the movies, it’s the idea of teleporting someone instantly from one place to another. Any who wouldn’t want that? You could go anywhere, anytime, at a moments notice. While science hasn’t gotten quite to that point, scientists are exploring the real possibility of teleporting matter beyond atoms (which has been done, incidentally) between locations. So if you can’t send yourself somewhere, maybe at the very least you could send a camera, or a monkey.
Breathe Underwater
If you’re a diver, you know how arduous a process it is to go diving. You must make sure all your gear is ready, re-check everything, and have a very short time while underwater because of the small amount of oxygen you can take. Now at least, time is no object. With the creation of an underwater breathing vest that filters oxygen out of the water around you, feel free to stay underwater as long as you want.
By Akela Talamasca on July 15, 2009
Science moves forward, and takes with it the human body. Over the centuries humans have adapted to live longer, healthier lives. And as the pace of scientific advancement continues, so with it does our ability to modify and improve ourselves to deal with the changing circumstances of our world. Some of these advancements are necessary for the continuation of life, others are for the specialization and longevity of the human body, while still others are to make us better, faster, and stronger organisms that can achieve the impossible. The following are thirteen advances in science that have taken us from “mere human” to “super human”.
Bionic Vision
Ever wanted night vision? Or double the visual abilities of “perfect”? Well, the bionic eye will be able to help. Currently it’s being developed to help blind people regain vision, but the field of adaptive optics is moving closer and closer to perfecting night vision and helping those with perfect vision go even farther. So, completely blind or with perfect sight, the bionic eye can help you see beyond the capacities of any normal human.
The C-Leg
The C-Leg is a military grade prosthetic limb with an intelligent system that measure’s your gait 50 times per second for real time adjustments. One of the strongest and most advanced prosthetic limbs in the world, it is the U.S. military’s choice for a prosthetic leg for its soldiers. Made primarily from titanium, this leg gives you more strength and durability than any human leg could. If you’re not in the military, it will set you back $30,000 to $40,000 though.
The XOS Exoskeleton
If you ever saw “Iron Man”, you probably said exactly the same thing everyone else did; “Where can I get one of those?!” From Raytheon Company of course. The XOS Exoskeleton can be put on like an overcoat, but once on the wearer can easily lift 200 lbs. with one arm. 500 times in a row. Without breaking a sweat. Minus the ability to fly and the lack of weapons attached, this is the “Iron Man” suit.
The Rocket Belt
Since the 1960’s, various forms of jet packs and rocket belts have been successfully tested and used. If you have $125,000 lying around, you can own your own rocket belt and fly for up to 30 seconds at a time. Or you can spring for the more advanced T-73 Jet pack and fly for a full nine minutes, and up to 11 miles. At the very least, you can have one hell of a morning commute.
The Bionic Ear
Currently the most advanced bionic ear system involves an implant, software, a processor, and a wearable earpiece. The system allows you to hear the world more accurately and gives you much better audio acuity than any human ear can offer. It’s used with the hearing impaired to improve hearing, and can be used to increase general hearing with a healthy ear.
The Bullet Stopping T-Shirt
Lightweight, comfortable, but definitely not cotton. This brand new nano-technology involves spinning a fabric constructed out of carbon nanotubes. It’s seventeen times tougher than Kevlar and four times tougher than spider’s silk (which is five times tougher than steel). The bullet may still leave a mark, but rest assured, the bruise will fade.
Cybernetics
How about controlling a machine with your mind that reacts faster than your body possibly could? Or watching a monkey control a robot walking on a treadmill with its mind halfway across the world? One of these has already happened, and the other is quickly approaching. The ability to control a machine with your mind is one that’s created villains and fueled fantasies. Cybernetics research is quickly evolving to the point where, “if you can dream it, you can do it” isn’t just for Disney anymore.
Neural Implants
Neurotechnology is an emerging field that implants a device into your brain, allowing you to control an external device through thinking. Currently a quadriplegic man with one of these devices can control a machine the size of a room with only his mind. So, depending on the device you’re controlling, “superhuman” is a bit of an understatement.
Regeneration
The Holy Grail, or “Cup of Life” has been a quest of many, and obsession of few, and become a possibility with modern technology. Scientists are currently developing methods of regenerating limbs, organs, and body systems with the help of stem cells and current natural technologies found in other organisms. Because who wouldn’t want a fresh heart when they’re sixty.
Mind Reading
Ever wanted to know what someone was thing, or tell if they were lying? Well, now you can. At least, you can if you’re a scientist with a neural imager. By measuring a variety of neural activities, scientists have begun to read people spatial memories. If they can tell where you are (or have been), it’s just a matter of time until you can hold a device up to someone and know if he/she is, in fact, just not that into you.
Teleporting
“Beam me up, Scotty” isn’t just a famous line from television and the movies, it’s the idea of teleporting someone instantly from one place to another. Any who wouldn’t want that? You could go anywhere, anytime, at a moments notice. While science hasn’t gotten quite to that point, scientists are exploring the real possibility of teleporting matter beyond atoms (which has been done, incidentally) between locations. So if you can’t send yourself somewhere, maybe at the very least you could send a camera, or a monkey.
Breathe Underwater
If you’re a diver, you know how arduous a process it is to go diving. You must make sure all your gear is ready, re-check everything, and have a very short time while underwater because of the small amount of oxygen you can take. Now at least, time is no object. With the creation of an underwater breathing vest that filters oxygen out of the water around you, feel free to stay underwater as long as you want.
Researcher says white folks are fleeing MySpace for Facebook
By Lauren Gard of SF Weekly
Last week, a study showing that older folks have flocked to Facebook was all over the news. But word of an even more provocative trend waits in the wings: white flight from MySpace to Facebook.
That's according to self-styled social media pundit Danah Boyd, who earned a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley's School of Information in 2008. After four years of quizzing teenagers across the country, she contends that white kids are more likely than their nonwhite counterparts to abandon MySpace for its rival, or to choose Facebook in the first place. MySpace has become the "'ghetto' of the digital landscape," she said in a talk at the recent annual conference of the Personal Democracy Forum, an organization that explores how technology influences politics.
She compared the exodus of whites from MySpace to Facebook to the exodus of white city-dwellers to the suburbs over the past 50 years. As Boyd (who is white, by the way) put it, "Many of us have habitually crossed the street to avoid what is seen as the riff-raff."
"MySpace is a little ghetto, a little wilder, a lot more diverse in terms of my interactions with people of different backgrounds," concurs Jonell Stooksberry, a 36-year-old white Bay Area legal assistant who still checks her MySpace account every month but scratches her newer Facebook itch daily. She prefers the user-friendly layout of the latter, and has reconnected with far more friends there than on MySpace. But Stooksberry kind of misses the "ghetto." Back in her MySpace days, she was often contacted by guys she didn't know in hopes of connecting — and they were rarely white.
Sunset resident Kellye Denton says she stopped using her MySpace account in 2008 when the other volunteers she met during a Peace Corps stint in Morocco encouraged her to join Facebook, which they all belonged to. In the year since, she's witnessed most of her other friends — who, she says, come from a variety of ethnic backgrounds — follow suit. She'd never thought about her leap as a social statement at all, and she'd never been all that big on MySpace to begin with.
"MySpace was just a little too much for me, a little too cluttered," she says. "There was too much going on. And Facebook was newer, which was a draw."
San Francisco–based social media consultant Adrian Chan questions whether there are other explanations for Boyd's findings. "I'm uncomfortable with class arguments," he says. "It could just be a matter of teenage style, that kids start with MySpace and when they go off to school, Facebook is what they move to."
Boyd said she didn't have time to comment for this story. We did notice, though, that she has 250 more friends on her Facebook account than on her MySpace account.
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Pink Pussy Gets Stole Off Of
After hearing the weakest shit ever come out of 3 peoples mouths I enjoyed seeing this nigga get stole off of...Wicked
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Till Death Do Us Part
This semester I am in a US Constitution class with hands-down the best professor I've ever had in my college career; Professor Ira Carmen. He's a genius, pushes me to develop my own opinions about the constitution, and motivates me to do my best work. Being in his class has made me realize how exceptionally mediocre all of my other professors are.
Recently, both Iowa (last Friday) and Vermont (today) legalized same-sex marriage. The Iowa Supreme Court voided a law banning gay marriage, and Vermont legislature overrode their governors veto of a bill allowing gay couples to marry. Yesterday Professor Carmen expressed his disapproval specifically of Iowa's Supreme Court action, on the grounds that a judges responsibility is not to "create" rights, which is reminiscent of substantive due process. Highlighting the fact that "heterosexual", "homosexual", nor "marriage" is mentioned in the Constitution of the United States, he said that legislatures are there for a reason, and the people should elect representatives to pass laws that reflect their interests.
My personal stance on the issue is that same sex marriage should be legalized through the legislative process, however his points were a new line of thought that I had never considered, the notion that marriage itself is not even a fundamental right. What do you think?
Amerykhan Promise
Among other things (exposed brick, industrial sinks), these are the types of kitschy cool accents I would like to have in my first mansion/apartment/shack/house. I wonder if I'll still be able to get one when that time comes..
via NewbornRodeo
Vespanomics
I'm trying to recall when my Vespa obsession first started...I think it was in 2007 when they came out with a striped Gap special edition one for xmas. I would have given my left arm to own that thing. Anyway, I'm sure I will in the very near future. In the meantime, check out their website and the very cool environmentally friendly benefits of owning one. I'm talking reduced consumption, increased gas mileage, and reduced CO2 emissions. Yay!
Monday, April 6, 2009
Things I hate about working in an office
If you never worked in an office you may not have heard these, but I am certain they are common in any workplace. Personally I have worked in three or four different offices and these phrases drive me crazy
1."Shoot you an email" and "touch base" ---Really? "shoot" the email? With a cannon? some sort of advanced rifle? And which base? first? third? home plate?
2.Circle Back--You know what? Let's table this and circle back to it after we've clarified our other objectives."
3. In Concert--"Yes, we are in concert with that date","We are in concert with that concept", "I'm in concert with that point of view"
4.With pleasure-"It doesn't pleasure me to tell you this, but..."---that shit is creepy
5. Drill Down-- Would you "drill down" on this issue?
6.In the weeds--You're "in the weeds."
7."Are we on the same page?"--If we're having this conversation clearly we are not on the same page, so why do you ask
8. Or a cunt will mess around and say something like this-- "We need to leverage our technology to create synergy that will capture the white space in the marketplace while capturing the loyalty of our existing customer-base with cross-sell opportunities."--This means nothing, I dont know what your talking about
9. Paradigm-- Paradigm Shift---does anyone know what this is, have you ever seen one--can a paradigm just get up and shift
10. Let's keep that on our radar
11. "Bandwidth", when used to refer to anything but technology
12. "Wearing hats"-- Let me put my manger hat on, etc, etc
13. "What can I say its a monday"/"Sound's like someone has a case of the Monday's" and "Happy Friday."- are by far the most annoying and are typically used by the most purposeless person in the office, i dont know how to respond to either and I usually just walk away
Other include:
"Batten down the hatches"
"Circle the wagons"
"Hit the ground running"
"Brainstorm"
"Lets get our ducks in a row"
something like this-- "Ok I want you to de-prioritize your current items and make this your primary action"
"pick your brain"
"Working hard or hardly working?"--this is actually one of the most annoying ones
"for your f.y.i."
Other thing I hate are:
-Inspirational messages used in an email signature
-Email stationaries--they usually freeze my outlook
-Any type of acronym
-Unnecessary hand gestures
-Office cliques
-Someone walking up and just standing next/or over me and saying nothing until I say whats up
-Getting trapped outside the office with someone you particularly can't stand, say on a walk to the train station, etc
-Someone trying to be a hero with the thermostat
-Being forced to look at a photo of someones ugly child
-Having your named shortened--typically by a white person
The degree to which these thing annoy is usually dependent on who is saying/doing them
1."Shoot you an email" and "touch base" ---Really? "shoot" the email? With a cannon? some sort of advanced rifle? And which base? first? third? home plate?
2.Circle Back--You know what? Let's table this and circle back to it after we've clarified our other objectives."
3. In Concert--"Yes, we are in concert with that date","We are in concert with that concept", "I'm in concert with that point of view"
4.With pleasure-"It doesn't pleasure me to tell you this, but..."---that shit is creepy
5. Drill Down-- Would you "drill down" on this issue?
6.In the weeds--You're "in the weeds."
7."Are we on the same page?"--If we're having this conversation clearly we are not on the same page, so why do you ask
8. Or a cunt will mess around and say something like this-- "We need to leverage our technology to create synergy that will capture the white space in the marketplace while capturing the loyalty of our existing customer-base with cross-sell opportunities."--This means nothing, I dont know what your talking about
9. Paradigm-- Paradigm Shift---does anyone know what this is, have you ever seen one--can a paradigm just get up and shift
10. Let's keep that on our radar
11. "Bandwidth", when used to refer to anything but technology
12. "Wearing hats"-- Let me put my manger hat on, etc, etc
13. "What can I say its a monday"/"Sound's like someone has a case of the Monday's" and "Happy Friday."- are by far the most annoying and are typically used by the most purposeless person in the office, i dont know how to respond to either and I usually just walk away
Other include:
"Batten down the hatches"
"Circle the wagons"
"Hit the ground running"
"Brainstorm"
"Lets get our ducks in a row"
something like this-- "Ok I want you to de-prioritize your current items and make this your primary action"
"pick your brain"
"Working hard or hardly working?"--this is actually one of the most annoying ones
"for your f.y.i."
Other thing I hate are:
-Inspirational messages used in an email signature
-Email stationaries--they usually freeze my outlook
-Any type of acronym
-Unnecessary hand gestures
-Office cliques
-Someone walking up and just standing next/or over me and saying nothing until I say whats up
-Getting trapped outside the office with someone you particularly can't stand, say on a walk to the train station, etc
-Someone trying to be a hero with the thermostat
-Being forced to look at a photo of someones ugly child
-Having your named shortened--typically by a white person
The degree to which these thing annoy is usually dependent on who is saying/doing them
Etheridge Knight
Dark Prophecy: I Sing Of Shine
And, yeah brothers
while white America sings about the unsinkable molly brown
(who was hustling the titanic
when it went down)
I sing to thee of Shine
the stoker who was hip enough to flee the fucking ship
and let the white folks drown
with screams on their lips
(jumped his black ass into the dark sea, Shine did,
broke free from the straining steel).
Yeah, I sing to thee of Shine
and how the millionaire banker stood on the deck
and pulled from his pockets a million dollar check
saying Shine Shine save poor me
and I'll give you all the money a black boy needs—
how Shine looked at the money and then at the sea
and said jump in muthafucka and swim like me—
and Shine swam on—Shine swam on—
and how the banker's daughter ran naked on the deck
with her pink tits trembling and her pants roun her neck
screaming Shine Shine save poor me
and I'll give you all the pussy a black boy needs—
how Shine said now pussy is good and that's no jive
but you got to swim not fuck to stay alive—
And Shine swam on Shine Swam on—
How Shine swam past a preacher afloating on a board
crying save me nigger Shine in the name of the Lord—
and how the preacher grabbed Shine's arm and broke his stroke—
how Shine pulled his shank and cut the preacher's throat—
And Shine swam on—Shine swam on—
And when news hit shore that the titanic had sunk
Shine was up in Harlem damn near drunk
Feeling Fucked Up
Lord she's gone done left me done packed / up and split
and I with no way to make her
come back and everywhere the world is bare
bright bone white crystal sand glistens
dope death dead dying and jiving drove
her away made her take her laughter and her smiles
and her softness and her midnight sighs--
Fuck Coltrane and music and clouds drifting in the sky
fuck the sea and trees and the sky and birds
and alligators and all the animals that roam the earth
fuck marx and mao fuck fidel and nkrumah and
democracy and communism fuck smack and pot
and red ripe tomatoes fuck joseph fuck mary fuck
god jesus and all the disciples fuck fanon nixon
and malcom fuck the revolution fuck freedom fuck
the whole muthafucking thing
all i want now is my woman back
so my soul can sing
The Idea of Ancestry
1
Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures: 47 black
faces: my father, mother, grandmothers (1 dead), grand-
fathers (both dead), brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts,
cousins (1st and 2nd), nieces, and nephews. They stare
across the space at me sprawling on my bunk. I know
their dark eyes, they know mine. I know their style,
they know mine. I am all of them, they are all of me;
they are farmers, I am a thief, I am me, they are thee.
I have at one time or another been in love with my mother,
1 grandmother, 2 sisters, 2 aunts (1 went to the asylum),
and 5 cousins. I am now in love with a 7-yr-old niece
(she sends me letters in large block print, and
her picture is the only one that smiles at me).
I have the same name as 1 grandfather, 3 cousins, 3 nephews,
and 1 uncle. The uncle disappeared when he was 15, just took
off and caught a freight (they say). He's discussed each year
when the family has a reunion, he causes uneasiness in
the clan, he is an empty space. My father's mother, who is 93
and who keeps the Family Bible with everbody's birth dates
(and death dates) in it, always mentions him. There is no
place in her Bible for "whereabouts unknown."
2
Each fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown
hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric
messages, galvanizing my genes. Last yr/like a salmon quitting
the cold ocean-leaping and bucking up his birth stream/I
hitchhiked my way from LA with 16 caps in my pocket and a
monkey on my back. And I almost kicked it with the kinfolks.
I walked barefooted in my grandmother's backyard/I smelled the
old
land and the woods/I sipped cornwhiskey from fruit jars with the
men/
I flirted with the women/I had a ball till the caps ran out
and my habit came down. That night I looked at my grandmother
and split/my guts were screaming for junk/but I was almost
contented/I had almost caught up with me.
(The next day in Memphis I cracked a croaker's crib for a fix.)
This yr there is a gray stone wall damming my stream, and when
the falling leaves stir my genes, I pace my cell or flop on my bunk
and stare at 47 black faces across the space. I am all of them,
they are all of me, I am me, they are thee, and I have no children
to float in the space between.
And, yeah brothers
while white America sings about the unsinkable molly brown
(who was hustling the titanic
when it went down)
I sing to thee of Shine
the stoker who was hip enough to flee the fucking ship
and let the white folks drown
with screams on their lips
(jumped his black ass into the dark sea, Shine did,
broke free from the straining steel).
Yeah, I sing to thee of Shine
and how the millionaire banker stood on the deck
and pulled from his pockets a million dollar check
saying Shine Shine save poor me
and I'll give you all the money a black boy needs—
how Shine looked at the money and then at the sea
and said jump in muthafucka and swim like me—
and Shine swam on—Shine swam on—
and how the banker's daughter ran naked on the deck
with her pink tits trembling and her pants roun her neck
screaming Shine Shine save poor me
and I'll give you all the pussy a black boy needs—
how Shine said now pussy is good and that's no jive
but you got to swim not fuck to stay alive—
And Shine swam on Shine Swam on—
How Shine swam past a preacher afloating on a board
crying save me nigger Shine in the name of the Lord—
and how the preacher grabbed Shine's arm and broke his stroke—
how Shine pulled his shank and cut the preacher's throat—
And Shine swam on—Shine swam on—
And when news hit shore that the titanic had sunk
Shine was up in Harlem damn near drunk
Feeling Fucked Up
Lord she's gone done left me done packed / up and split
and I with no way to make her
come back and everywhere the world is bare
bright bone white crystal sand glistens
dope death dead dying and jiving drove
her away made her take her laughter and her smiles
and her softness and her midnight sighs--
Fuck Coltrane and music and clouds drifting in the sky
fuck the sea and trees and the sky and birds
and alligators and all the animals that roam the earth
fuck marx and mao fuck fidel and nkrumah and
democracy and communism fuck smack and pot
and red ripe tomatoes fuck joseph fuck mary fuck
god jesus and all the disciples fuck fanon nixon
and malcom fuck the revolution fuck freedom fuck
the whole muthafucking thing
all i want now is my woman back
so my soul can sing
The Idea of Ancestry
1
Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures: 47 black
faces: my father, mother, grandmothers (1 dead), grand-
fathers (both dead), brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts,
cousins (1st and 2nd), nieces, and nephews. They stare
across the space at me sprawling on my bunk. I know
their dark eyes, they know mine. I know their style,
they know mine. I am all of them, they are all of me;
they are farmers, I am a thief, I am me, they are thee.
I have at one time or another been in love with my mother,
1 grandmother, 2 sisters, 2 aunts (1 went to the asylum),
and 5 cousins. I am now in love with a 7-yr-old niece
(she sends me letters in large block print, and
her picture is the only one that smiles at me).
I have the same name as 1 grandfather, 3 cousins, 3 nephews,
and 1 uncle. The uncle disappeared when he was 15, just took
off and caught a freight (they say). He's discussed each year
when the family has a reunion, he causes uneasiness in
the clan, he is an empty space. My father's mother, who is 93
and who keeps the Family Bible with everbody's birth dates
(and death dates) in it, always mentions him. There is no
place in her Bible for "whereabouts unknown."
2
Each fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown
hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric
messages, galvanizing my genes. Last yr/like a salmon quitting
the cold ocean-leaping and bucking up his birth stream/I
hitchhiked my way from LA with 16 caps in my pocket and a
monkey on my back. And I almost kicked it with the kinfolks.
I walked barefooted in my grandmother's backyard/I smelled the
old
land and the woods/I sipped cornwhiskey from fruit jars with the
men/
I flirted with the women/I had a ball till the caps ran out
and my habit came down. That night I looked at my grandmother
and split/my guts were screaming for junk/but I was almost
contented/I had almost caught up with me.
(The next day in Memphis I cracked a croaker's crib for a fix.)
This yr there is a gray stone wall damming my stream, and when
the falling leaves stir my genes, I pace my cell or flop on my bunk
and stare at 47 black faces across the space. I am all of them,
they are all of me, I am me, they are thee, and I have no children
to float in the space between.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Farewell Old Friend
Chicago's Sears Tower to get new tenant, new name
CHICAGO (AP) — For Chicagoans it may be the architectural equivalent of having to watch Michael Jordan finish his career in a Washington Wizards uniform: The Sears Tower is turning into something called the Willis Tower.
That's right, the tallest building in the United States is getting a new name later this year, building management said Thursday.
"It just doesn't work," said Robin O'Sullivan, a tourist from Cork, Ireland, as he walked into the Sears Tower's Skydeck entrance on Thursday. "It's known worldwide. Everyone in Ireland knows it's the Sears Tower."
It's all part of a deal with the London-based Willis Group Holdings. Along with moving 500 employees into 140,000 square feet on multiple floors of the 110-story building this summer, the Willis Group gets the naming rights as part of its lease agreement with the real estate investment group that owns Sears Tower.
The name change isn't the first in recent years for Chicago. In 2006, the city's State Street shopping district saw Marshall Field's department store become Macy's and in 2003 the White Sox started playing baseball at U.S. Cellular Field instead of Comiskey Park.
"We certainly appreciate and understand the sentimental attraction to the Sears Tower name, and it's certainly a Chicago icon," said Will Thoretz, a spokesman in New York for Willis Holdings Group. "Our move into Chicago is a good thing for the city. We're bringing hundreds of jobs into the city."
The company requested the change and isn't paying extra for naming rights to the tower, Thoretz said.
The insurance broker will occupy more than 140,000 square feet at $14.50 a square foot. Willis is moving six local offices into the building. The move is expected to be completed by late summer.
The question, though, is if people will popularly refer to the building as anything other than the Sears Tower, said Tim Samuelson, the city of Chicago's cultural historian.
"I have a feeling that the name 'Sears' is going to be hard to lose," Samuelson said. "Not necessarily that anyone is actively fighting it. It's just that people are so used to that building with that distinctive presence being called the Sears Tower."
Even the building's owners are aware of the challenge that lies ahead.
"Like any change, it may take some time for Chicagoans to get used to this, but in the end, this is a great thing for the building, and for the city of Chicago," said Mike Kazmierczak, senior vice president for U.S. Equities Realty.
Joan Fredricks, 64, brought her granddaughters to the Sears Tower on Thursday as the family made their way to Washington D.C. from their home in Mason City, Iowa. She said it was suggested they go visit the Sears Tower.
"If they said, 'You have to go to the Willis Tower, we would have said, `What's that?'" Fredricks said, crinkling her face. "That's not what I've known it as after all these years."
Sears Tower first opened in 1973, designed by the architecture firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill — the same firm that designed the John Hancock Tower on the city's North Side. Sears Roebuck and Co. was the building's original tenant before the department store moved its headquarters to the Chicago suburb of Hoffman Estates in 1992. A real estate investment group formed in 2004 now owns the 1,451-foot skyscraper.
"We're saddened," Kim Freely, a spokeswoman for Sears Holdings Corp., said Thursday. "We believe that Chicagoans will continue to refer to the building as Sears Tower."
Dennis Pacyga, a history professor at Columbia College in Chicago, said he sees the Sears Tower name change as Chicago growing to fit the new global economy.
"Chicago is shifting and changing and taking a bigger standing in the world economy," he said. "This would be part of that adjustment."
The Sears Tower name will likely stick because that's what the building was called when it reigned as the tallest building in the world, Samuelson said.
"People driving into Chicago from far away, out in cornfields," he said. "The first sight of this hazy image of this stepped building, you look and it's the Sears Tower. It's the only thing you see. You call it out."
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Why He So Dumb??
As silly as did kid is, and he's very, the FL Studio joint is the strongest thing going in bedroom studio's across america. i've personally been in dozen or so and even had my own for a period of time
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Wifey in training...
Let me start by saying that I actually hate the word "wifey" and hearing people use it irks me. But it just seemed so fitting for the title of this post...
Is it strange that I feel like right now in my life is the perfect time to prepare for being a wife and mother? I actually think my body releases endorphins when I perform domestic duties. Something about the smell of pine-sol and the gloss of a newly cleaned surface puts me in this happy place. And don't get me started on cooking. I feel really accomplished when my dishes are washed within an hour of me eating what I've just cooked. I don't mind accepting traditional gender rolls as long as I know it's an option. I mean when I'm married I WANT to be able to have food on the table for my husband when he gets home from work in the evening and I WANT to keep a clean a house. But there needs to be a mutual understanding that I don't HAVE to do these things and at any time the duties can become a shared responsibility.
The idea of being a wife and mother really excites me. Like more than any career or job I want to be a wife and mother, but not necessarily a stay at home mother. I feel like some feminist women would frown upon such views. But I think it's all about options and this just happens to be one option I would take!
-Nai
Inspirational! He liked it and he put a RING on it...clearly not that one cause it's on the wrong finger...but you get the idea.
Is it strange that I feel like right now in my life is the perfect time to prepare for being a wife and mother? I actually think my body releases endorphins when I perform domestic duties. Something about the smell of pine-sol and the gloss of a newly cleaned surface puts me in this happy place. And don't get me started on cooking. I feel really accomplished when my dishes are washed within an hour of me eating what I've just cooked. I don't mind accepting traditional gender rolls as long as I know it's an option. I mean when I'm married I WANT to be able to have food on the table for my husband when he gets home from work in the evening and I WANT to keep a clean a house. But there needs to be a mutual understanding that I don't HAVE to do these things and at any time the duties can become a shared responsibility.
The idea of being a wife and mother really excites me. Like more than any career or job I want to be a wife and mother, but not necessarily a stay at home mother. I feel like some feminist women would frown upon such views. But I think it's all about options and this just happens to be one option I would take!
-Nai
Inspirational! He liked it and he put a RING on it...clearly not that one cause it's on the wrong finger...but you get the idea.
Monday, March 9, 2009
CIA Awkwardly Debriefs Obama On Creation Of Crack Cocaine
WASHINGTON—In his first meeting with President Barack Obama, CIA crime and counternarcotics analyst Timothy R. McIntire haltingly explained to the nation's first African-American commander in chief the highly classified origin of crack cocaine and the resultant epidemic that swept across U.S. inner cities. "Well, you see, sir...thing is, we needed money to help those Contras back in '85, and we never really expected...so we distributed it, and...shortsighted...and, ha, well, Christ—is it hot in here?" McIntire said between exaggerated coughs. "Yikes, okay. See, it was a very tense time—not that that makes it right—and, uh, bottom line is, we're a different agency now."
McIntire went on to disclose several other secret CIA operations, including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and the recruitment, four years earlier, of a Kenyan grad student for a clandestine program at the University of Hawaii.
Immma get one of these for Badge
By Saskia Diez
The bags are made out of synthetic paper, super light and very tearproof and also waterproof and recyclable.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
The boat shoe jawns
I first saw the shits on hypebeast, then Im watchin VH1 Storytellers and they just had to make sure they got him wearin them shits on camera. Shits is cold.
Grandiose!
Ye's LV Jawns
I really like them low top boat shoe jawns, but I'll j down on them pink souls tho.
Wiickeeddd!
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Im fallin back into my sneakerhead ways
Here’s the official copy and pasted press release from Nikepedia. But if you’re too lazy to read, scroll to the very bottom for release info.
Nike Sportswear and Grammy award winning recording artist Kanye West present the highly anticipated Nike Air Yeezy sneaker in Spring 2009.
The shoe, which takes West’s nickname Yeezy, draws upon the innovations from Nike’s rich sporting history and fuses them with original lines, materials, and design elements that reflect West’s unique style.
The Air Yeezy was developed from a strong relationship between West and Nike. Partnering with Nike Creative Director, Mark Smith, Kanye was taken through the product creation process, the same way athletes have with Nike Design for the past 37 years. This creative partnership of Smith and West’s talents as designers yielded a unique Nike Sportswear sneaker worth the wait. “Kanye is a truly creative talent,” said Smith. “He’s a natural designer—partnerships like this always enhance the creative experience and the end product.” West agrees that the partnership with Nike has been exciting. “Nike is such an important brand to me,” said West. “Whether you are on the court, in the street, in the club, at school, Nike represents excellence, the standard in design. Growing up, we looked forward to the release of new Nike’s the way we would an album by our favorite artist. So the opportunity to collaborate on a design with Mark Smith and Nike Design has been a dream come true, and a great experience.”
From the start, West and Nike’s shared vision was clear: to create a modern classic. An original Nike footwear style, that reflects elements of Nike’s sporting past, and remixes them with Nike innovation to deliver a unique shoe.
The creative process of the Air Yeezy began with the discussion around ideas and inspirations. The shoe began to take shape through a series of drawings and samples, each pulling inspiration and reference from some of Nike’s iconic innovations and rich design history, across both Basketball and Sportswear styles.
A careful balance was sought, each time new elements were added, with existing elements being taken away - a design process Smith refers to as “reductionism”. “Nike shoes need to function and always be innovative,” said Smith. “So the first thing we did was to make sure the design process that Kanye and Nike Design went through, mirrored that of our athletes.” “I’ve been designing Nike’s in my sketch pad since the fourth grade,” said West. “So to say I’ve been prepared for this would be an understatement. The really fun and challenging part for me was learning about Nike’s design process, learning more about fabrics and functions and colorways, and all of the details that go into designing a shoe of this quality.”
Following the fabled tradition of Nike’s design process, West and Smith went through a series of one-on-one design sessions. At Nike the ultimate test is one of performance, where the design meets the athlete’s movements. “Kanye could wear and perform in these shoes and really identify how we could make the shoes perform better.” Supplanting center court with center stage, West provided critical feedback on how the shoe performed throughout the course of his 2-3 hour performance sets, where the first prototypes of the Nike Air Yeezy were seen outside of Nike’s World Headquarters in Beaverton, OR.
*THE NIKE AIR YEEZY: NEW SCHOOL OF COMFORT.*
Born from Kanye West’s creative passion, built with Nike design and performance innovation, The Air Yeezy was fine-tuned on stages around the globe, challenging convention by remixing the past to create something uniquely new, as only Nike Sportswear can.
West is known for his non-stop energy both on the stage and off so the Air Yeezy had to support and sustain West from start to finish. An almost obsessive focus was put on delivering supreme comfort throughout the development of the shoe. Equipped with debossed ankle collar pods for added support and protection, extra-thick sock liners, a forefoot support strap, original functional tension lace loops, and Phylon tooling taken from the 1987 Nike Air Assault for added performance and comfort—all developed and integrated with one goal in mind: to keep Kanye on lock down in cushioned comfort during his performances during his many notoriously strenuous artistic live performances.
These performance attributes have been meticulously wrapped in premium full grain leather uppers and adorned with original design details that are uniquely Kanye and identifiably Nike. The remastered Nike Air Assault outsole is treated to glow-in-the-dark properties and will illuminate when the light is low. The forefoot support strap is premium grade patent leather and is of no-stitch construction. Clean seams are used throughout except for a premium suede toe wrap feature with visible stitch detail. Emblazoned across the Air Yeezy is an exclusive “Y” repeat pattern, as either a debossed or lasered detail, which takes inspiration from the Jordan brands iconic Elephant print material. This graphic treatment was developed by West and Smith to pay tribute not only to the name of the shoe and it’s co-creator, but also to the various moments in history that spurred West’s initial inspiration for the Nike Air Yeezy.
The Nike Air Yeezy will release in Spring 2009. Three colorways will be available. The first in April 2009 will be the Zen Grey/LT Charcoal color way, followed this will be followed in May by a Black/Black version, and in June with the final Net/Net color way.
Fuxs wit' em
Stamp’d LA 2009 Spring/Summer Sneakers
A minimalistic take on footwear creation, Chris Stamp’s self-titled Stamp’d LA label has seen its 2009 spring/summer collection hit select retailers. The premise of this season is simple, nice clean silhouettes with a numberd theme. The white canvas upper is marked with numbers ranging from 0-9 and make for an easy to wear sneaker. The toe-cap is constructed of calfskin with molded footbeds and metal aglets. Available now at Roden Gray with a suggested retail price of $168 CAD (approximately $130 USD).
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
Naima's 21
Wikipedia says: March 2 is the 61st day of the year (62nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 304 days remaining until the end of the year.EVENTS:
- 986 - Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
- 1127 - Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders.
- 1717 - The Loves of Mars and Venus becomes the first ballet performed in England.
- 1791 - Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
- 1807 - The U.S. Congress passes an act to "prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of theUnited States... from any foreign kingdom, place, or country."
- 1808 - The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
- 1815 - Signing of Kandyan treaty by British invaders and Sri Lankan King.
- 1836 - Texas Revolution: Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico.
- 1842 - The Grand National steeplechase at Aintree near Liverpool England is won by Gaylad, ridden by Tom Olliver.
- 1855 - Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.
- 1861 - The Nevada Territory and Dakota Territory are organized as political divisions of the United States.
- 1861 - Emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia: Tsar Alexander II signs the emancipation reform into law, abolishing Russian serfdom.
- 1863 - The U.S. Congress authorizes track width of 4 ft 8½ in (1,435 mm) for Union Pacific Railroad
- 1865 - East Cape War: The Volkner Incident in New Zealand.
- 1867 - The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act
- 1877 - U.S. presidential election, 1876: Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
- 1888 - The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
- 1896 - Ethiopia defeats Italy in the Battle of Adwa, marking the first victory of an African nation over a colonial power.
- 1899 - In the state of Washington, USA, Mount Rainier National Park is established.
- 1901 - The U.S. Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.
- 1903 - In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
- 1917 - The enactment of the Jones-Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
- 1917 - (Old Style) - Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Michael II of Russia.
- 1919 - The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
- 1933 - The film King Kong opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
- 1937 - The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a surprise collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
- 1939 - Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII.
- 1941 - World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact.
- 1943 - World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea - United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
- 1943 - 173 people die in the Bethnal Green Tube Disaster, London, the worst British civilian disaster of World War 2.
- 1946 - Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
- 1949 - Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-worldairplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
- 1949 - The first automatic street light is installed in New Milford, Conn..
- 1953 - The Academy Awards are first broadcast on television by NBC.
- 1955 - King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates the throne in favor of his father, King Norodom Suramarit.
- 1956 - Morocco declares its independence from France.
- 1962 - In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d’état.
- 1962 - Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
- 1969 - In Toulouse, France the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.
- 1969 - Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.
- 1970 - Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
- 1972 - The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
- 1978 - Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
- 1989 - Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
- 1990 - Nelson Mandela elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
- 1991 - Battle at Rumaila Oil Field brings an end to the 1991 Gulf War.
- 1992 - Moldova joins the United Nations.
- 1998 - Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
- 2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, (ending on March 19 after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, with 11 Western troop fatalities).
- 2003 - The first International Symposium on Taiwan Sign Language Linguistics is held at Chung Cheng University.
- 2004 - Voters in the U.S. state of Georgia vote on a referendum concerning its Confederacy-derived flag.
- 2004 - War in Iraq: Al Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.
- 2008 - Riots in Yerevan, Armenia concerning the Armenian presidential election, 2008 come to a fatal end, with police forces clashing with civilians in their peaceful protest, resulting in 8 deaths.
5 Births
1942 - Kwang Jo Choi, the founder of Choi Kwang- do and is one of the twelve original Masters of Taekwon-Do.
And geuss what...it's Texas Independence DAY!!
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