December 6, 2003

Erik and Morocco's Excellent Adventure

This is me, filling time while I listen to one of those Anth 210 videos I need to, er, watch. Fortunately he's not putting anything worthwhile on the screen.

Busy life. In between the Anth videos, which is going to take like, 5-6 more hours, there's going to be me studying at the library with Jean in a couple hours, me revising my Jacksonian democracy paper which fortunately isn't due until monday, me working on my combined 17 pages of stuff for 20th century science, and me watching Pirates of the Carribean tonight with Tali and Laurent, which is only fair because I sort of skipped out on them last night to crash for 10 hours.

And this video, for the record, is along the lines of:

"...and thanks to great leaders such as Julius Caesar, Muhammad, and Spanish Inquisition, Morocco is FULL of great history!"

Argh.

Anyway. So I'm reading the New York Times, and I hit this article about Howard Dean's Internet campaign[1]. Interesting stuff. Some of it is true for all political campaigns, some is uniquely Internet. Take, frex:

'' 'Friend' is an odd word,'' she says slowly. ''I mean, these are the people who populate my imagination.'' She mentions one blogger, a frequent poster from San Francisco. ''Sally in SF,'' Teachout says, ''is as much a part of my life as my sister.''

Truth. It's something a lot of people have a hard time getting their minds around, but you don't necessarily have to see somebody in front of you to be friends with them, have a meaningful relationship. But of course you lot all understand that. Still, it's funny how hard that concept is to some people.

[1] - How many of you can actually read these NYT links I put up, anyway?

Posted by Dwip at December 6, 2003 1:40 PM
Comments

I can read the NYT links. This is because in our house we are snobs and refuse to read the Philly Inquirer, except on weekends. So we had to make a Times account for the purpose of e-mailing articles we'd read.

My mom, too, draws that distinction between friends you see face-to-face and those you only know through the computer. But for me, there's no difference.

Posted by: Regina at December 6, 2003 2:12 PM

I can't. And I won't. So nah.

Posted by: Whir at December 6, 2003 6:50 PM

I can read them, fwiw.

Posted by: Griselda at December 11, 2003 9:54 PM