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Friday, January 04, 2002
3:49 PM      

Hello, 2k2
Four days into the new year already. It always amazes me, how New Year's Day really feels like it's a full year later than December 31—as if we collectively turned a corner.

For the first few days, you can't help but remeber it's a new year, then there are those days where you start to slip. I started to write a date today, and found myself writing "12/..." instead of "1/..." Some time in the next few days, I expect to write the year as "01", perhaps more than once, until I finally get it in my bones that this is a new year; with its own dates, and its own events.

I like writing the dates of the first few days of the new year: 1/2, 1/3, 1/4... Reminds me of grade school, and learning fractions. March 4 is another day that brings back old memories. And 4/4 reminds me of music lessons.

It's hard not to turn another milestone without referencing September 11. There's a certain poetry in the fact that Christmas and New Year's Day fell on Tuesdays this year, with New Years falling precisely 16 weeks after one of the greatest man-made disasters ever. There a kind of temporal geometry that forms perfect little crystals out of the spaces between events.

New York got a new Mayor, sworn in for the seemingly umpteenth time. He hit the pavement running, demonstrating a brand new style:

  • Emphasizing that City Hall has to be run in a nonpartizan fashion
  • Opening up the grounds in front of City Hall—even allowing protestors on the steps again
  • Circulating publicity photos showing the Mayor ensconsed in his open-plan office space
  • Immediately calling for cost cuts around the city, and shrugging off the suggestion of new ballparks for the Mets and Yankees

Mr Bloomburg actually seems to be off to a good start. Considering that he seems to be a change agent, he's got an uphill battle ahead of him.

Check out Bloomberg plots collision course with city's heroes [from Independent.co.uk - sometimes the outsiders have a little less tunnel vision]

Meanwhile, India and Pakistan are starting to scare me. It seems they've taken a lesson in ultimatum and grandstanding from our very own president. Wouldn't it be weird, if this administration went down in history as starting the chain reaction that led to World War III?

I was a bit grossed-out this morning, hearing Pat Buchanan on the Today Show, stumping for his new book . It seems that "The Death of America" promotes a kind of separatist agorophobic hype about how "they" are out-breeding America. His solution is to lock out the immigrants, delete the naysayers, get a big arsenal together, and get to work in the bedroom. His interview was a jingoistic tour de force. Never mind the thinly-veiled racism in his message. I was impressed that Matt Lauer actually hit him with some hard questions. Pat seemed a bit agitated by the end, but then James Carville always gets worked up in an interview, too.

I went looking for material about Pat's book, and came across this page. While you read the page, think "WWF Smack-Down"...

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Little kid jokes
I heard these from two kids (ages 4 and 8) riding the bus with their mother last night.

Why did the chickien cross the road?

Why do cows give milk?

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This just in: Guardian.co.uk has published a piece on the 7 Wonders of the Web, and Blogger made the list! Too cool.



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