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Monday, June 9th, 2008
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8:08 pm - Benevolent Leadership
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"To position yourself for success, create success for others. To advance your career, seek to advance the careers of others. Take the most blame, give the most credit, set ambitious objectives, and let your people strive to realize them, holding people accountable. Excel in giving direct feedback and hands-on mentoring and you will reap the rewards of consistently better teams and consistently higher performance levels from team members. Over time you will create a virtual army of professionals willing to fight in your corner. Follow htis pattern of benevolent leadership and you'll be well on your way to creating success and satisfaction, for yourself and others".
-- The Five Patterns of Extraordinary Careers by James Citrin & Richard Smith
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| Thursday, January 24th, 2008
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5:45 pm - Photos from Japan
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Osaka - inspiration for Blade Runner.
Click on the image for slide show.
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| Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
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10:55 am - A day outside of New York City
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| Monday, March 19th, 2007
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12:37 am - Pics from Mexico
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| Thursday, January 25th, 2007
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12:00 am - Black and White photos
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| Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
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12:16 am - Fake Tourist Tourism Day
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| Sunday, September 10th, 2006
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11:41 pm - old photos
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| Saturday, September 2nd, 2006
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3:09 pm - Photos of Bre
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Bre is from Kansas City and was chilling on my floor last week, because she's dating one of my residents. She would sit in the lounge and watch TV all day long waiting for her boyfriend to come back from grueling football practice. I started talking to her while watching "Project Runway", and she showed me her modeling porfolio. Then Arseny and I had tea with her the next day, with some chocolate... and I asked her if she wanted to do a photoshoot. She agreed out of nothing better to do. So voila! She was actually a fantastic, experienced model. This was great practice for both her and me! She said she needed to get back into the groove of being in front of the camera.
River Side park was our location. We checked out the soccer field, the skate park, and the hooping beach. Xena showed me some photo editing techniques; it's about time I learned!
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current music: The Midnight Hours
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| Monday, August 28th, 2006
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2:47 pm
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"We can never know what we want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. Was it better to be with Tereza or to remain alone? There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite the word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture. Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all"
-- Milan Kundera "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
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| Monday, August 14th, 2006
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10:34 pm
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| Friday, August 11th, 2006
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3:35 pm
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 "The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. Even when weapons of war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labor power without producing anything that can be consumed... In principle the war effort is always so planned as to eat up any surplus that might exist after meeting the bare needs of the population. In practice the needs of the population are always underestimated, with the result that there is a chronic shortage of half the necessities of life; but this is looked on as an advantage. It is deliberate policy to keep hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another. The social atmosphere is that of a besieged city, where the possession of a lump of horseflesh makes the difference between wealth and poverty. And at the same time the consequences of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival". -- George Orwell, 1984
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| Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
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2:45 pm
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| Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
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10:27 am - road trip with Mike G
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The road trip that was in the works for the past 8 months finally took place. Mike and I actually managed to get together and drive up to Long Island and then Connecticut.
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| Friday, August 4th, 2006
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11:43 am
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Speaking of other parts of the world, here's an excerpt from a book I'm reading as part of my R.A. training about Hmong refugees in California.
 "We didn't know anything so our relatives had to show us everything. Our relatives told us about electricity and said the children shouldn't touch those plugs in the wall because they could get hurt. They told us that the refrigerator is a cold box where you put meat. They showed us how to open the TV so we could see it. We had never seen a toilet before and we thought maybe the water in it was to drink or cook with. Then our relatives told us what it was, but we didn't know whether we should sit or whether we should stand on it. Our relatives took us to the store but we didn't know that the cans and packages had food in them. We could tell what the meat was, but the chickens and cows and pigs were all cut up in little pieces and had plastic on them. Our relatives told us the stove is for cooking the food, but I was afraid to use it because it might explode. Our relatives said in America the food you don't eat you just throw away. In Laos we always fed it to the animals and it was strange to waste it like that. In this country there were a lot of strange things and even now I don't know a lot of things and my children have to help me, and it still seems like a strange country," says Foua Yang in "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down".
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9:02 am - Easiest ways YOU can help the environment
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These are pretty obvious, but people forget!
- CAR: if you have a car, drive it as little as possible (helps if your car is a piece of junk!) Combine trips, carpool, take public transportation, bike. Live in a city, be urban chic. Friends don't let friends drive sport utility vehicles. Use a fuel-efficient car.
- LAUNDRY: wash only full loads of laundry, avoid using hot water, wash your clothes when they need washing, not necessarily every time you wear them. Get an energey efficient front-loader rather than a top-loader. If you're really up to it, try using a clothesline instead of dryer. Buy and sell clothes at thrift clothing stores. Look for organic and undyed cotton.
- COMPUTER: turn off your monitor when you're not using it, or the whole computer. Buy a laptop over a desktop.
- PAPER: Print less, use the other side of paper you've printed on before. Read news online instead of paper newspapers. Look for totally chlorine free (TCF) paper.
- FOOD: eat less beef. Almost any kind of farm-raised meat is an inefficient use of resources, but red meat (pork and beef) is most wasteful. Buy products made locally instead of supporting long-distance transportation.
- DRINKS: get organic shade-grown coffee (otherwise thousands of acres of land are sprayed with pesticides that kill flora and fauna). Drink less soda (production of the can is a killer to the environment).
- OTHER: support activist groups and push elected officials to make agriculture environmentally friendly and to stop subsidizing irrigation, support human rights orgs.
 From "Stuff: the secret lives of everyday things", a Northwest Environment Watch book Arseny gave me.
PS: also, why the hell do some landlords include your electric bill in your rent? I'm sure they charge you way more than you actually use, but if everyone had to pay for their electricity the honest way, people would use less of it!
North America's consumption is out of control. If the whole world was consuming at the same rate, we would need 4 Earths to provide enough resources. Luckily there are parts of the world where people consume very little, however, everyone aspires to become more like America (=wasteful).
Don't you just wanna become a monk?
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| Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
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3:58 pm - Hula amazingness!!!
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Yesterday I went to a belly dancing lesson with Felix. He brought 2 hula hoops. We hooped first in some park in Williamsburg, and then on the intersection of Bedford ave and N.8 in front of the L subway stop. The street was closed off for construction and we took over. I was wearing short shorts. We were both quite a spectacle. First we wanted to make money, but we didn't have a hat or a bag for people to put money in. So we just did it for fun. I learned how to keep it going for quite a while: our record was 9 minutes straight! Felix actually got them to get into shape - it's really good for your abs. While hulaing, 2 photographers snapped photos of us, and we got a gazillion pedestrians to talk to us. We engaged them in this "performance" by letting them try hooping too. Not as easy as it looks! It was fun!
Watch this Cirque du Soleil hula hoop performance by a beautiful contortionist.
History of the hula hoop
Today the hula hoop is known as the biggest and most profitable fad of the 1950s.
The current record is held by Rosann Rose of the US, who went 90 hours between April 2 and April 6, 1987.
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3:52 pm - Mrs. Luntey
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I just read an obituary for some lady whose husband is the former chancellor of Long Island University and the chairman of its board of trustees. They have a foundation together: the Mr. and Mrs. Luntey Foundation. It bears her name. He must be a really great guy. What did she do? They said in the obituary, “Mrs. Luntey was an extraordinary woman and wife of Mr. Luntey”. Great.
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| Monday, July 31st, 2006
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9:42 pm - Dacha
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| Friday, July 28th, 2006
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12:10 pm - NEW HAIR!!!
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11:38 am - Rrrrrrrrumble on the Rrrrrrrrrriver!!
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Photos from last night's amateur boxing match at pier 54 in Hudson River Park:
I find this shot very lyrical. I'm in love with it. You really identify with the boxer. He's alone; out in the ring he has to fight on his own.
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