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Twitter is great for horizontal networking and stuff.

I use both - facebook and twitter - but facebook is more of a messaging/chat service.

Good point.
Nice photos!

Nice Gopher!

I found this while looking through The Atlantic's NYC archives from the early 20th Century. There are some great ones here, but this one made my day, especially with May Day coming up.

Painters on working on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1914.

Claude Levi-Strauss is on my reading list for the summer. I hope to get to him.

It depends on the sociologist.

Finishing up a gluttony of library books.
Urban America Reconsidered: Alternatives for Governance and Policy by David L. Imbroscio
La Calle: Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City by Lydia R. Otero.

I've been looking forward to the latter for weeks. It's an urban ethnography of Tuscon. I kind of got into reading ethnographies this year, even if some of them come to the wrong conclusion, because they are light reading rather enjoyable. Villa Victoria by Mario Louis Small is really good; although the conclusion he has is sort of odd, and the neighbourhood he documented is now a gentrified gay-district in Boston. Sociologists are funny.

Hi Russ. I'm hanging in there, but I need to start looking for employment. Starting to focus more on graduate school stuff now. I suppose this was inevitable.

Oh my....

Oh. Ok.
Yeah, I doubt I will head that way anytime soon. Whatcom County drives me insane. But I'm not a fan of border regions in general. The people in Whatcom County rarely - if ever - go north into Canada, and the Vancouverites I know rarely go to Whatcom County except for gas in Blaine. Stupid imaginary lines. Two little worlds existing in one world.

Scary.

Leaving, Gopher? Oh, wait.

Nope. Half of a day. Back now.

Nice, Gopher!
Heading south of the border tomorrow.

Vancouver girls (and apparently guys as well) in this town are wafflers.

So in the past 5 weeks I've had coffee with a different girl at this cafe at the same time on the same day and at the same table. My roommate was the first one to suggest that the barista staff might think I'm some kind of player. lol

Dunno...