This isn't a Songs for Saturday. It's important, it's political, it's inspiring, and you ought to go watch A Message to All Police Officers From Occupy Wall Street, delivered in an extremely powerful speech by an LAPD officer.
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pocketnaomi
A good day. I'm not sure why, and probably shouldn't analyze it too much, but on the way home from my "Avoid Avoiding" group I suddenly realized that I was feeling better about myself. No idea how long that's been going on, either, or how long it's going to last.
I wonder whether I would even have noticed, a couple of years and 30mg/day of citalopram ago.
Took a nice walk; somewhere upwards of 3 miles. Decided to call the new netbook Cygnus (mainly because of the Cygnus X1 black hole, but also because of the association with black swans). Hopefully it will be shipping soon.
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pocketnaomi's lead, I ordered a
bunch of mylar emergency blankets to take down to Occupy San Jose. The
weather has gotten distinctly cold, especially at night.
Lots of links, mainly about the Occupy movement and the recent raids. Especially, check out Dorli Rainey, octagenarian pepper-sprayed by police at Occupy Seattle, on "the importance of activism" (video) "I feel great. I feel so energized. It's so amazing the effect a little pepper spray can have on you." She's right.
( raw notes )A pretty good day at work yesterday. Pretty good day in general, though I forgot to turn my alarm back on and ended up sleeping until 8:15. Do Not Like. I really need that extra hour or two in the morning before work. I can't deny that it feels good to get the extra sleep, but still... Grump. Need a 28-hour day.
I spent some time following the twitter stream from #occupywallst, #occupyoakland, and #occupyseattle, which were hit by coordinated police actions. We're now well into the "then they fight you" phase.
I don't believe I mentioned it in my previous post, but Monday evening I ordered a Thinkpad X120e from Welcome to Abe's of Maine (which is located in New Jersey -- go figure). They called while I was at work to verify the shipping address, and I let myself get talked into an extra 4GB of RAM and a 4-year warranty extension.
I spent much of the afternoon happily googling up the answers to three of the items on my to-do list from the morning's group meeting (all three were of the form "figure out how to do X and tell Y", so I didn't have to actually write any code for them. The rest of the items will involve real work.
Looks like almost all the notes below are links, mostly about the early morning police raids on the Occupy camps.
( raw notes ) A short one today. In honor of Bank Transfer Day -
Wikipedia and the Move
Your Money Project, I'm posting a couple of recent protest songs.
Very recent. The first is catsittingstill's "Getting Out Of
Hand", which is so new it doesn't have music posted yet. But it has
footnotes! I'm a sucker for songs with footnotes.
And for the global Occupy movement that Bank Transfer Day sprang out of, here's Zander Nyrond's Occupy The Earth. You'll find the lyrics here, in his LJ.
You also need to listen to talis_kimberley's The Steps of St Paul's (lyrics here, download here)
