City Year Speech
I've been absent from here for a while, but there are a few good posts in the work, so stay tuned. First is a piece of wisdom from City Year. It is from City Year's book of idealism, Putting Idealism to Work, by one of our…
R.I.V.E.R. v0.1.2
R.I.V.E.R. v0.1.2 is now available. It is the first public version available on Sourceforge. Head on over there and download it. It marks a major change in the development structure of the project. We now have a live and developer version running at all…
The American Age by Walter LaFeber
In preparation for the Foreign Service Written Examination a couple of weeks ago, I reread one of my textbooks that covered American Foreign Policy since 1896. While it did not cover much of what was on the exam, I did jot down some thoughts as I went. I decided to…
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community by Martin Luther King Jr.
After taking a week-long hiatus from the book, I finally finished Dr. King''s Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0807005711/]. In the end, I found it to be a worthwhile read. There are large sections that only…
R.I.V.E.R. on Sourceforge
After much internal debate, R.I.V.E.R. is now listed on Sourceforge.net. I decided upon this open source route rather than venturing after a grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service as a way to maintain control over the project into the future... perhaps I…
My Life Now
For a while, I wanted to outline some of the excitement in my life. This post should enumerate these things. Let's begin with Public Radio Documentaries... I love This American Life with Ira Glass. For the longest time, I despised this gem of public radio. Recently, it grew…
National Youth Service Day in the KLB Neighborhood
I spent ten hours this past Saturday helping to coordinate City Year Columbus' efforts in the King-Lincoln-Bronzeville neighborhood. CYCO, the local neighborhood association, and half-a-dozen other groups joined together in efforts to clean and revitalize a local historic neighborhood. The King-Lincoln-Bronzeville neighborhood once served as the cradle of jazz…
Ma Vie En Rose and Liberals
This evening, a group of us from work converged to watch Ma Vie en Rose with a discussion afterward. The movie centers around the trials of a young boy who tries his best to become a girl. He does not fit into his gender role and his parents are speechless.…