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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

College is not for everyone. That seems to included Benjamin, pictured in the previous posting with City Supervisors David Chu and Carmen Chiu. He actually asked me to write a blog saying that he is really unhappy at City College (of San Francisco). Particularly after he bombed his latest test.

I don't really know where to go with this. Just that Benjamin is one of those types that don't do well on academic tests, but has genius in skills that are not tested in school, like he knows every civic event and who's who in city government, things like that. In high school, he won the Jefferson Award for volunteering on a lot of projects. He turned 18 in September, and sure enough registered to vote in time to vote in November's puny election with 5 city propositions and a city attorney not running against anyone.

I'm predicting that he'll eventually end up working at a non-profit or as an aide to a politician or for city government in some capacity. I've also been thinking if there is some vocational school or non-academic program for him. But it is clear from his first term that academic college has not been good to him, and that is what he wanted me to say.

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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Pictured is Benjamin with two members of San Francisco's City/County Board of Supervisors.

<img src="http://x78.xanga.com click to choose

/614f207030531255216143/m202928923.jpg" alt="Benjamin" style="width:433px" />

Benjamin volunteered for all 5 of San Francisco "Sunday Streets" events. These were great events where the city closed dozens of city streets to car traffic to allow bikers, hikers, skaters, family with kids, all types to wander the streets without cars. I volunteered for three of the events, and enjoyed doing so a lot.

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(I really hate you Xanga for making it ridiculous at best and impossible at worst to simply download a freaking picture or video. For some reason, when I click "choose photo" it does not choose the photo. It did let me drag it. It's not even letting me use xanga code, so xanga, I have better things to do than trying to figure out why something that should be so basic to blogging and used to be easy has to be made so hard.)

<img src="http://x78.xanga.com/614f207030531255216143/m202928923.jpg"alt="Benjamin"style="width:433px"/>

OK, like after trying ten different things, I opened it up as a URL in a separate window and just copied. That still doesn't exculpate Xanga from me not being able to download and share videos.

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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Hawaii 5-0

http://trueslant.com/ryansager/2009/08/12/birther-fail/

I'm missing out on seeing the birther fun live in real time, but thanks to FARK, I can get a clue to what people are saying while I am away. This story does not surprise me.

Aug. 12 2009 - 9:37 am | 5,158 views | 1 recommendations | 2 comments

Birther FAIL

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Do all birthers believe President Obama was born in Kenya? Well, maybe a fewbelieve this:

According to Public Policy Polling (PPP), a North Carolina polling firm, only 24%of self-identified Republican voters in the state believe Barack Obama was born in the United States. 47% do not believe that Obama is American born, and 29% of Republicans aren’t sure.
One part of PPP’s data might reassure sentient readers somewhat: 7% of those who voted for John McCain do not believe Hawaii to be a part of the United States. Now perhaps this is just another irrational expression of Obama hatred. But, it may also be older voters who never quite absorbed the news that our 50th state is indeed our 50th state. (I laughed out loud and decided to blog it when I read that --- Kevin)

Got that? Maybe Obama wasn’t born in America because Hawaii isn’t part of America. That would explain a couple percentage points worth of the birther movement. Now, what about the rest of them?

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Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Flirting with Disaster

FARK has photoshop contests all the time. But I only post them on Xanga when there's at least 4 that are absolutely top quality. This one was to photoshop "Flirting with Disaster". So here's four. My favorite one is the last one: it wasn't a photoshop at all, it was the real deal, but absolutely fit the theme of flirting with the disaster. To see all of the photoshops, here is the link.

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Friday, June 19, 2009

World's oldest man

The worlds's oldest man, Tomoji Tanabe of Japan (1895-2009) has just died. The new oldest man is now 113 year old Henry Allingham of Brighton, England, the last surviving veteran of World War I.

Henry Allingham celebrates 113th birthday

The oldest surviving first world war veteran Henry Allingham, now the world's oldest man, celebrates his 113th birthday with his great-great grandson Erik Carlson. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

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